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https://hackaday.com/2024/05/09/introducing-the-swiss-army-tool/ | Introducing The Swiss Army… Tool? | Kristina Panos | [
"News",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"multitool",
"multitools",
"swiss army knife"
] | You’ve probably used one for everything from opening packages to stripping wires in a pinch (because you know better than to use your teeth). We’re talking about the blade of the iconic Swiss Army knife. And while there are many different models out there, they all feature at least one knife among their utensils. Until... | 152 | 39 | [
{
"comment_id": "6757411",
"author": "Ben Garrison",
"timestamp": "2024-05-09T23:08:15",
"content": "Ridiculous, somebody can just use a kitchen knife. I’m glad I live in a country where people have the fundamental human right to keep and bare arms so they can protect themselves from individual thre... | 1,760,371,922.686312 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/09/pov-digital-clock-is-the-literal-sands-of-time/ | POV Digital Clock Is The Literal Sands Of Time | Dan Maloney | [
"clock hacks"
] | [
"clock",
"hopper",
"led",
"persistence of vision",
"pic18f4550",
"POV",
"sand",
"solenoid"
] | Sand has been used to keep track of the passage of time since antiquity. But using
sand to make a persistence of vision digital clock
(
English translation
) is something altogether new. And it’s pretty cool, too.
The idea behind the timepiece that [Álvaro Gómez Giménez] built is pretty simple drop a tiny slug of fine ... | 9 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6757374",
"author": "chuck",
"timestamp": "2024-05-09T20:54:52",
"content": "Not a single time piece of footage with real original sound of it working.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6757377",
"author": "ThoriumBR",
... | 1,760,371,921.884555 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/09/fully-3d-printed-case-is-stacked-high-with-mini-pcs/ | Fully 3D Printed Case Is Stacked High With Mini PCs | Tom Nardi | [
"computer hacks"
] | [
"3D printed enclosure",
"cluster",
"mini pc",
"N100"
] | Over the years we’ve seen no shortage of 3D printed cases designed to hold several Raspberry Pi computers, often with the intent to use them as convenient desktop-sized platforms for experimenting with concepts such as server load balancing and redundancy.
The reason the Pi was always the star of the show is simple eno... | 9 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6757333",
"author": "ytrewq",
"timestamp": "2024-05-09T19:04:04",
"content": "Nice design, and very useful. I’ve swapped all my Raspberry Pi boards with mini PCs and am not looking back, but having two of them stacked plus a USB controller for 8 SATA disks (plus switch, router etc) ... | 1,760,371,921.840544 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/09/ask-hackaday-do-you-calibrate-your-instruments/ | Ask Hackaday: Do You Calibrate Your Instruments? | Jenny List | [
"Ask Hackaday",
"Hackaday Columns",
"hardware",
"Slider"
] | [
"bench instruments",
"calibration",
"measurement"
] | Like many of you, I have a bench full of electronic instruments. The newest is my Rigol oscilloscope, only a few years old, while the oldest is probably my RF signal generator that dates from some time in the early 1950s. Some of those instruments have been with me for decades, and have been crucial in the gestation of... | 54 | 31 | [
{
"comment_id": "6757287",
"author": "Clovis Fritzen",
"timestamp": "2024-05-09T17:12:19",
"content": "No I don’t send my instruments to calibration. But I do know that errors may sum to each other to a point where mains 220V is represented by some instrument as 212V; is that a problem? for a hobbyi... | 1,760,371,921.792186 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/09/raspberry-pi-narrates-and-tattles-on-your-cat-nature-documentary-style/ | Raspberry Pi Narrates (And Tattles On) Your Cat, Nature Documentary Style | Donald Papp | [
"Artificial Intelligence",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"cat",
"cat detector",
"nature documentary",
"raspberry pi"
] | Detecting a cat with a raspberry pi and camera is one thing, but [Yoko Li]’s
AI Raspberry Pi Cat Detection
brings things entirely to another level by
narrating
your feline’s activities, nature documentary style.
The project is ostensibly aimed at tattling on the housecats by detecting forbidden behavior such as trespas... | 10 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6757288",
"author": "GameboyRMH",
"timestamp": "2024-05-09T17:18:14",
"content": "The voice sounds more like Jeremy Clarkson than David Attenborough.“Here resting on this seat we have a domesticated short-haired tabby cat. But it’s not just any cat. It’s the laziest cat…IN THE WORLD... | 1,760,371,922.05023 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/09/the-great-green-wall-africas-ambitious-attempt-to-fight-desertification/ | The Great Green Wall: Africa’s Ambitious Attempt To Fight Desertification | Lewin Day | [
"Current Events",
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Original Art",
"Science",
"Slider"
] | [
"africa",
"desertification",
"great green wall",
"un",
"world food program"
] | As our climate changes, we fear that warmer temperatures and drier conditions could make life hard for us. In most locations, it’s a future concern that feels uncomfortably near, but for some locations, it’s already very real. Take the Sahara desert, for example, and the degraded landscapes to the south in the Sahel. T... | 61 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6757241",
"author": "Jon H",
"timestamp": "2024-05-09T14:26:14",
"content": "It’d be interesting to know the rate of reclamation over the last 17 years. I’d expect it to have probably been somewhat slow going at first, with later acceleration, especially as the results and benefits ... | 1,760,371,922.155792 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/09/the-moondrop-miad-01-a-smartphone-with-balanced-audio-output/ | The Moondrop MIAD 01: A Smartphone With Balanced Audio Output | Maya Posch | [
"Android Hacks",
"Cellphone Hacks"
] | [
"mp3 player",
"smartphone"
] | Over the past several years we have seen smartphones regrettably lose features which were once standard, such as FM radios, IR blasters, status LEDs, physical buttons, micro SD card slots, and of course headphone jacks. An interesting counterpoint here regarding the latter is the
newly released Moondrop MIAD 01 smartph... | 21 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6757215",
"author": "Gareth",
"timestamp": "2024-05-09T11:46:53",
"content": "I’m still waiting for a phone that has better speakers than my Black Shark 5 and eagerly clicked on this. Disappointed.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id":... | 1,760,371,922.005396 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/09/matchbox-transceiver-pushes-the-spy-radio-concept-to-its-limits/ | Matchbox Transceiver Pushes The Spy Radio Concept To Its Limits | Dan Maloney | [
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"80-meter",
"amateur radio",
"cw",
"dead bug",
"dipole",
"ham",
"matchbox",
"mixer",
"morse",
"NE5532",
"sidetone",
"transceiver"
] | The Altoids tin has long been the enclosure of choice for those seeking to show off their miniaturization chops. This is especially true for amateur radio homebrewers — you really have to know what you’re doing to stuff a complete radio in a tiny tin. But when you can build
an entire 80-meter transceiver in a matchbox
... | 23 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6757193",
"author": "Joshua",
"timestamp": "2024-05-09T09:01:55",
"content": "Ugh, morse. An oscillator, essentially.Why not do AM? Crystal sets and spy bugs used to be installed in matchboxes.Why not make it a real walkie-talkie, thus. :D80m used to be a local area band, too. Like ... | 1,760,371,921.943278 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/08/ardeeg-lowers-the-cost-of-brain-computer-interfaces/ | ArdEEG Lowers The Cost Of Brain-Computer Interfaces | Tom Nardi | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Science"
] | [
"bci",
"brain-computer interface",
"eeg"
] | Considering the incredible potential offered by brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), it’s no wonder there are so many companies scrambling to make their mark in the field. Some see it as an assistive technology, while others imagine it as the future of interactive entertainment. Regardless of the application, the technolo... | 22 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6757171",
"author": "shinsukke",
"timestamp": "2024-05-09T06:05:37",
"content": "Tell me, what are some cool things I can do with EEG?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6757186",
"author": "JT",
"timestamp": "202... | 1,760,371,921.651573 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/08/how-we-got-the-scanning-electron-microscope/ | How We Got The Scanning Electron Microscope | Al Williams | [
"History",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"scanning electron microscope"
] | According to [Asianometry], no one believed in the
scanning electron microscope
. No one, that is, except [Charles Oatley].The video below tells the whole story.
The Cambridge graduate built radios during World War II and then joined Cambridge as a lecturer once the conflict was over. [Hans Busch] demonstrated using ma... | 11 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6757210",
"author": "pelrun",
"timestamp": "2024-05-09T11:15:47",
"content": "“SEMs don’t require sample preparation, but they really don’t”Was that supposed to be “really do”?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6757521",
... | 1,760,371,921.698666 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/08/floss-weekly-episode-782-nitric-in-search-of-the-right-knob/ | FLOSS Weekly Episode 782: Nitric — In Search Of The Right Knob | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Podcasts"
] | [
"FLOSS Weekly",
"Infrastructure as Code",
"Nitric"
] | This week Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles chat with Rak Siva and Steve Demchuck to talk about
Nitric
! That’s the Infrastructure from Code framework that makes it easy to use a cloud back-end in your code, using any of multiple providers, in multiple programming languages.
The group chatted about the role and form o... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,371,923.234205 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/08/robotic-platform-turns-shop-vac-into-roomba/ | Robotic Platform Turns Shop Vac Into Roomba | Bryan Cockfield | [
"News"
] | [
"autonomous",
"ebike",
"ebike battery",
"inverter",
"robot",
"roomba",
"shop vac",
"vacuum",
"windshield wiper motor"
] | The robotic revolution is currently happening, although for the time being it seems as though most of the robots are still being generally helpful to humanity, whether that help is on an assembly line, help growing food, or help transporting us from place to place. They’ve even showed up in our homes, although it’s not... | 14 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6757105",
"author": "Tricon",
"timestamp": "2024-05-08T21:34:31",
"content": "I’m interested in understanding how vacuum power is calculated. Four horsepower seems incredible. I can see that significantly higher power shop vacuums are sold in the Bauer range.",
"parent_id": null... | 1,760,371,922.292865 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/08/much-faster-cold-brew-through-cavitation/ | Much Faster Cold Brew Through Cavitation | Kristina Panos | [
"cooking hacks"
] | [
"coffee",
"cold brew",
"cold brew coffee",
"transducer",
"ultrasonic"
] | Some coffee snobs might call this sacrilege. Cold brew is supposed to take a long time — that’s part of how it gets its characteristic smoothness. But a group of engineers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) have
figured out a way to cut the time down from several hours to a mere three minutes
, using ... | 27 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6757070",
"author": "Steve",
"timestamp": "2024-05-08T18:56:08",
"content": "I wonder if you could put a mason jar of coffee and ice water in an ultrasonic cleaner and get any results? May have to do some experiments!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{... | 1,760,371,922.888362 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/08/displays-we-love-hacking-lvds-and-edp/ | Displays We Love Hacking: LVDS And EDP | Arya Voronova | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"how-to",
"Peripherals Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"displayport",
"DPI",
"DPI666",
"eDP",
"fpd-link",
"lvds",
"parallel rgb"
] | There are times when tiny displays no longer cut it. Whether you want to build a tablet or reuse some laptop displays, you will eventually deal with LVDS and eDP displays. To be more exact, these are displays that want you to use either LVDS or eDP signaling to send a picture.
Of the two, LVDS is the older standard for... | 23 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6757044",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2024-05-08T17:23:58",
"content": "You’ve packed a lot of info into one post!Thanks!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6757075",
"author": "Arya Vor... | 1,760,371,922.813101 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/08/ai-helps-make-web-scraping-faster-and-easier/ | AI Helps Make Web Scraping Faster And Easier | Donald Papp | [
"Artificial Intelligence",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"ai",
"api",
"LLM",
"local LLM",
"web scraping"
] | Web scraping is usually only a first step towards extracting meaningful data. Once you’ve got everything pulled down, you’ve still got to process it into something useful. Here to assist with that is
Scrapegraph-ai
, a Python tool that promises to automate the process using a selection of large language models (LLMs).
... | 12 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6757027",
"author": "shinsukke",
"timestamp": "2024-05-08T16:19:06",
"content": "This is a pretty cool use of LLMs although its not really web scrapping, its basically making sense of the text data on a page, which is a quite valid use case for LLMs.Web scraping is all about efficie... | 1,760,371,922.957719 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/08/your-open-source-client-options-in-the-non-mastodon-fediverse/ | Your Open-Source Client Options In The Non-Mastodon Fediverse | Lewin Day | [
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"Fediverse",
"phanpy",
"rodent",
"trunks.social",
"tusky"
] | When things started getting iffy over at Twitter, Mastodon rose as a popular alternative to the traditional microblogging platfrom. In contrast to the walled gardens of other social media channels, it uses an open protocol that runs on distributed servers that loosely join together, forming the “Fediverse”.
The beauty ... | 22 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756995",
"author": "shinsukke",
"timestamp": "2024-05-08T14:11:47",
"content": "There is no way the “fed” in fediverse means anything other than “federal”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6757003",
"author": "ArcReacto... | 1,760,371,923.027099 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/08/remembering-dick-rutan-and-his-non-stop-flight-around-the-world/ | Remembering Dick Rutan And His Non-Stop Flight Around The World | Maya Posch | [
"News"
] | [
"Burt Rutan",
"Dick Rutan",
"Rutan Voyager"
] | On December 23, 1986, an airplane landed at Edwards AFB. This by itself wouldn’t mean much, but this
particular
airplane had just written history. Piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, the Rutan Model 76 Voyager had just completed its non-stop flight around the world after taking off from that very same runway just o... | 5 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6757021",
"author": "gregg4",
"timestamp": "2024-05-08T16:01:42",
"content": "He will be missed.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6757081",
"author": "Antron Argaiv",
"timestamp": "2024-05-08T19:41:16",
"content": "Ah... | 1,760,371,922.734743 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/08/3d-printed-fidget-knife-snaps-back-and-forth-all-day-long/ | 3D Printed Fidget Knife Snaps Back And Forth All Day Long | Donald Papp | [
"Parts"
] | [
"3d printed",
"fidget mechanism",
"spring",
"toggle mechanism"
] | Fidget toys all have a satisfying mechanical action to engage with, and [uhltimate]’s OTF (out the front)
“fidget knife” model
provides that in spades. The model snaps open and closed thanks to a clever arrangement of springs and latches contained in only three printed pieces.
Here’s how it works: at rest, the mock bla... | 31 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756922",
"author": "biuro",
"timestamp": "2024-05-08T08:11:40",
"content": "That’s enough to get you arrested in the UK.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6756924",
"author": "BadAngel",
"timestamp": "2024-05-08... | 1,760,371,923.145822 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/07/mostly-printed-cnc-gets-a-few-upgrades/ | Mostly Printed CNC Gets A Few Upgrades | Dan Maloney | [
"cnc hacks"
] | [
"backlash",
"cnc",
"jackpot",
"linear rail",
"MPCNC",
"raspberry pi",
"VEVOR"
] | The Mostly Printed CNC is famous for two things. First, being made mostly from 3D printed parts and commonly available steel tubing. Second, because of the materials used, its rigidity isn’t fantastic. But any CNC router is better than no CNC router, and [Alan Reiner]’s
“Mostly Mostly Printed CNC”
upgrades the base MPC... | 9 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756915",
"author": "Jouni",
"timestamp": "2024-05-08T07:16:01",
"content": "For some reason the machines that are capable of milling aluminium or other hard materials are heavy and stiff.The tiny resonance, slack, or softness in machine body causes the end mill to vibrate which aga... | 1,760,371,923.075199 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/07/mitre-wants-the-feds-to-play-in-its-sandbox/ | Mitre Wants The Feds To Play In Its Sandbox | Al Williams | [
"Artificial Intelligence"
] | [
"artificial intellegence",
"mitre"
] | If you haven’t worked with the US government, you might not know Mitre, a non-profit government research organization. Formed in 1958 by the U.S. Air Force as a company to guide the SAGE computer, they are often research experts who oversee government contracts or evaluate proposals. Now they are building a $20 millon ... | 18 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756884",
"author": "ben",
"timestamp": "2024-05-08T02:26:42",
"content": "They’ll probably pull Dr. Sbaitso out of retirement for psychological profiling on automated background checks.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6756886",... | 1,760,371,923.197574 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/07/your-pi-from-anywhere/ | Your Pi, From Anywhere | Jenny List | [
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"raspberry pi connect",
"remote access",
"remote desktop"
] | The Raspberry Pi finds a use in a huge variety of applications, and in almost any location you could imagine. Sadly those who use those machines might not be in the same place as the machines themselves, and thus there’s the question of providing a remote connection between the two. This may not be a huge challenge to ... | 21 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756892",
"author": "Erle Czar Mantos",
"timestamp": "2024-05-08T03:44:26",
"content": "It would be nice to have this service but for SSH. And yes, I know cloudflare tunnels and ngrok exist.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "675... | 1,760,371,923.288428 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/07/z80s-from-the-80s-had-futuristic-design/ | Z80s From The ’80s Had Futuristic Design | Al Williams | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"CP/M",
"Z-80"
] | Ever heard of a Dutch company called Holborn (literally, born in Holland)? We hadn’t either, but [Bryan Lunduke]
showed us these computers from the early 1980s
, and we wondered if they might have appeared in some science fiction movies. They definitely look like something from a 1970s movie space station.
The company ... | 26 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756829",
"author": "TG",
"timestamp": "2024-05-07T20:25:59",
"content": "Dang, look at that thing! High quality zeerust.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6756958",
"author": "Stephen",
"timestamp": "2024-05-08T... | 1,760,371,923.984006 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/07/bluepad32-brings-all-the-controllers-to-your-mcu/ | Bluepad32 Brings All The Controllers To Your MCU | Tom Nardi | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"bluetooth",
"bluetooth gamepad"
] | As much as we enjoy spinning up our own solutions, there are times when you’ve got to look at what’s on the market and realize you might be out of your league. For example, take Bluetooth game controllers. Sure, you could make your own with a microcontroller, some buttons, and a couple joysticks. But between the major ... | 14 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756804",
"author": "M_B",
"timestamp": "2024-05-07T18:36:39",
"content": "Nice was thinking about looking for something like this.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6756833",
"author": "Ben",
"timestamp": "2024-05-07T20:3... | 1,760,371,923.642613 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/07/the-2024-business-card-challenge-starts-now/ | The 2024 Business Card Challenge Starts Now | Elliot Williams | [
"contests",
"Hackaday Columns",
"News"
] | [
"2024 Business Card Challenge",
"contest"
] | If you want to make circuits for a living, what better way to impress a future employer than to hand them a piece of your work to take home? But even if you’re just hacking for fun, you can still turn your calling into your calling card.
We are inviting you to submit your coolest business card hacks for us all to admir... | 22 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756794",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2024-05-07T18:00:53",
"content": "Looking forward to seeing all the entries!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6756806",
"author": "Ostracus",
... | 1,760,371,923.81468 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/07/256-core-risc-v-megacluster/ | 256-Core RISC-V Megacluster | Julian Scheffers | [
"computer hacks"
] | [
"CH32V003",
"cluster computing",
"RISC-V"
] | Supercomputers are always an impressive sight to behold, but also completely unobtainable for the ordinary person. But what if that wasn’t the case? [bitluni] shows us how it’s done with his
256-core RISC-V megacluster
.
While the CH32V family of microcontrollers it’s based on aren’t nearly as powerful as what you’d tr... | 16 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756779",
"author": "haaad",
"timestamp": "2024-05-07T17:04:49",
"content": "As cool as it is – it is not mega – this is not even kilo.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6756788",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp... | 1,760,371,923.695019 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/07/supercon-2023-makeithackin-automates-the-tindie-workflow/ | Supercon 2023: MakeItHackin Automates The Tindie Workflow | Arya Voronova | [
"cons",
"Featured",
"how-to"
] | [
"2023 Hackaday Supercon",
"automation",
"Tindie"
] | Selling your hardware hacks is a great way to multiply your project’s impact, get your creations into others’ hands, and contribute to your hacking-related budget while at it. If you’re good at it, your store begins to grow. From receiving a couple orders a year, to getting one almost every day – if you don’t optimize ... | 2 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6757036",
"author": "L-One-L-One",
"timestamp": "2024-05-08T16:53:59",
"content": "Nice work! Time to create a JSON standard for orders and fulfilment APIs so that we can speak to all these platforms the same way (queue inhttps://xkcd.com/927/).Just to note a typo: it’s “lectronz” n... | 1,760,371,923.7475 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/07/imperva-report-claims-that-50-of-the-world-wide-web-is-now-bots/ | Imperva Report Claims That 50% Of The World Wide Web Is Now Bots | Maya Posch | [
"internet hacks"
] | [
"bots",
"cyber security",
"report"
] | Automation has been a part of the Internet since long before the appearance of the World Wide Web and the first web browsers, but it’s become a significantly larger part of total traffic the past decade. A recent
report by cyber security services company Imperva
pins the level of automated traffic (‘bots’) at roughly f... | 50 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756706",
"author": "Ale",
"timestamp": "2024-05-07T11:14:02",
"content": "Here we welcome our new overlord Bot !",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6756709",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2024-05-07T11:33:04",
"c... | 1,760,371,924.071489 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/07/reptrap-keeps-watch-over-our-cold-blooded-friends/ | RepTrap Keeps Watch Over Our Cold-Blooded Friends | Dan Maloney | [
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"camera",
"game",
"pir",
"sensor",
"TOF",
"trail"
] | Wait a second, read that title again. This isn’t a throwback 3D printing project at all.
That’s “RepTrap” as in reptile trap
, and it’s a pretty clever way to study our cold-blooded friends in their natural habitat.
Now, game cameras — or trail cameras, if you’re less interested in eating what you see — are pretty much... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756977",
"author": "Anon",
"timestamp": "2024-05-08T13:01:14",
"content": "Clever mechanism and beautiful design!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,371,924.109926 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/tokyo-atacama-observatory-opens-as-worlds-highest-altitude-infrared-telescope/ | Tokyo Atacama Observatory Opens As World’s Highest Altitude Infrared Telescope | Maya Posch | [
"Space"
] | [
"astronomy",
"telescope"
] | Cerro Chajnantor, site of TAO
Although we have a gaggle of space telescopes floating around these days, there is still a lot of value in ground-based telescopes. These generally operate in the visible light spectrum, but infrared ground-based telescopes can also work on Earth, assuming that you put them somewhere high ... | 5 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756713",
"author": "make piece not war",
"timestamp": "2024-05-07T11:44:24",
"content": "Excellent place for a suntan and losing some wheight – moslty water, and it comes with a breathless view of the desert.Did I mentioned the sushi place?Jockes aside, I can’t wait for what will b... | 1,760,371,924.153929 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/peering-inside-the-tang-fpga/ | Peering Inside The Tang FPGA | Al Williams | [
"FPGA"
] | [
"fpga",
"integrated logic analyzer"
] | [Grug] has been working with the Tang Nano 9K FPGA board. He wanted to use the Gowin Analysis Oscilloscope (GAO) to build an internal monitor into the device for probing internal points. The problem is that the documentation is a bit lacking, so he made a video
showing how to make it work
to help us all out.
The idea f... | 14 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756696",
"author": "Harvie.CZ",
"timestamp": "2024-05-07T10:42:42",
"content": "I’d also like to mention Project Apicula 🐝: bitstream documentation for Gowin FPGAshttps://github.com/YosysHQ/apicula",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id... | 1,760,371,924.209625 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/retrotechtacular-how-not-to-use-hand-tools/ | Retrotechtacular: How Not To Use Hand Tools | Dan Maloney | [
"Retrotechtacular",
"Slider"
] | [
"army",
"military",
"pliers",
"retrotechtacular",
"screwdrivers",
"tools"
] | Whatever you’re doing with your hand tools, by the US Army’s lights, you’re probably doing it wrong. That seems to be the “Green Machine’s” attitude on pliers and screwdrivers, at least, the main stars of
this 1943 War Department training film
on the horrors of tool abuse.
As kitschy as the film might be, they weren’t ... | 48 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756620",
"author": "Jon H",
"timestamp": "2024-05-06T23:05:14",
"content": "I figure there could be lots of tools “any idiot can use” that seem to be self-explanatory, for which there may actually be a “best practice” way to use them that isn’t self-evident.",
"parent_id": null... | 1,760,371,924.291274 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/upgrading-a-cheap-lx-2bups-ups-board-to-fix-fatal-flaws/ | Upgrading A Cheap LX-2BUPS UPS Board To Fix Fatal Flaws | Maya Posch | [
"Battery Hacks"
] | [
"Li-ion",
"powerbank",
"Uninterruptible Power Supply",
"ups"
] | Cheap uninterruptable power supply (UPS) boards that take Li-ion cells of some description seem to have cropped up everywhere the past years. Finding use in applications such as keeping single-board computers ticking along in the case of a power failure, they would seem to be a panacea. Unfortunately most of these boar... | 30 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756590",
"author": "jawnhenry",
"timestamp": "2024-05-06T20:52:40",
"content": "“…What is your go-to solution for these boards?”Easy–don’t use them under any set of circumstances.…Unless you have a death wish…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
... | 1,760,371,924.361688 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/non-contact-scope-probe-costs-nearly-nothing/ | Non Contact Scope Probe Costs Nearly Nothing | Al Williams | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"oscilloscope probe",
"test equipment"
] | [IMSAI Guy] wants you to build
a non-contact scope probe
. The cost? Assuming you have a bit of wire and a regular scope probe, it won’t cost you anything. Why do you want such a thing? You can see what he does with it in the video below.
The probe is really just a coil with little slip-over coils that grab it. You can... | 2 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756604",
"author": "H Hack",
"timestamp": "2024-05-06T21:26:40",
"content": "I have my special Ouija scope for contactless probing. Just ask the magic smoke of old for the values.It’s always wrong though so I wouldn’t recommend it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"repl... | 1,760,371,924.400286 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/retrogadgets-the-ageia-physx-card/ | Retrogadgets: The Ageia PhysX Card | Al Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Retrocomputing",
"Slider"
] | [
"gpu",
"physx"
] | Old computers meant for big jobs often had an external unit to crunch data in specific ways. A computer doing weather prediction, for example, might have an SIMD (single instruction multiple data) vector unit that could multiply a bunch of numbers by a constant in one swoop. These days, there are many computers crunchi... | 27 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756497",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2024-05-06T17:16:29",
"content": "Physics still is one of those underused things compared to everything else. And most likely AI will be the thing that gets preferential treatment.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": ... | 1,760,371,924.643827 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/spend-an-hour-in-the-virtual-radio-museum/ | Spend An Hour In The Virtual Radio Museum | Al Williams | [
"History",
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"museums",
"vintage electronics"
] | You have an hour to kill, and you like old communication technology. If you happen to be in Windsor, Connecticut, you could nip over to the
Vintage Radio and Communication Museum
. If you aren’t in Windsor, you could watch [WG7D’s] video tour, which you can see below.
The museum is a volunteer organization and is mostl... | 5 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756453",
"author": "Steven Clark",
"timestamp": "2024-05-06T16:19:23",
"content": "It’s interesting how much it looks like the Pavek radio museum in Minneapolis. There must be something about the use case.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"co... | 1,760,371,924.528709 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/the-computers-of-voyager/ | The Computers Of Voyager | Dan Maloney | [
"Featured",
"History",
"Interest",
"Original Art",
"Slider",
"Space"
] | [] | After more than four decades in space and having traveled a combined 44 billion kilometers, it’s no secret that the Voyager spacecraft are closing in on the end of their extended interstellar mission. Battered and worn, the twin spacecraft are speeding along through the void, far outside the Sun’s influence now, their ... | 71 | 27 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756415",
"author": "Pat",
"timestamp": "2024-05-06T14:24:22",
"content": "The risk in using CMOS memory was well-founded, as it turns out. As far as I know, the CCS/AACS have been happily running for nearly 50 years without a hiccup, whereas *both* Voyagers have lost portions of th... | 1,760,371,924.764899 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/midi-bookmark-marks-the-spot-where-work-and-play-intersect/ | MIDI Bookmark Marks The Spot Where Work And Play Intersect | Kristina Panos | [
"Microcontrollers",
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"bookmark",
"capacitive touch",
"ESP32",
"midi"
] | Have you ever wanted to take a break from reading or studying to just rock out for a few blissful minutes? If you’re anything like us, you like to rock out most of the time and take the occasional break to do your reading. Either way, you really can’t go wrong with this
MIDI bookmark from [Misfit Maker].
This slick lit... | 3 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756370",
"author": "Jan",
"timestamp": "2024-05-06T11:37:17",
"content": "This is a catch 22.If you bookmark a page you cant play the keyboard?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6756499",
"author": "echodelta",
"timestamp... | 1,760,371,924.577599 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/06/the-history-of-the-worlds-first-planetarium/ | The History Of The World’s First Planetarium | Al Williams | [
"Space"
] | [
"optics",
"planetarium"
] | It shouldn’t be a surprise that the
idea of a planetarium
originated with an electrical engineer, [Oskar von Miller] from the Deutsches Museum in Munich. According to [Allison Marsh] in IEEE Spectrum, he thought about the invention in 1912 as a way to demonstrate astronomical principles to the general public. While it ... | 14 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756341",
"author": "Kalten",
"timestamp": "2024-05-06T08:19:11",
"content": "Typo, should that not be “plane-arium”?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6756343",
"author": "gde",
"timestamp": "2024-05-06T08:44:12... | 1,760,371,925.00129 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/05/a-portable-dlna-server-hack-helps-you-tame-openwrt/ | A Portable DLNA Server Hack Helps You Tame OpenWRT | Arya Voronova | [
"home entertainment hacks",
"how-to",
"Software Hacks",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"gl-inet",
"GL-MT300Nv2",
"MiniDLNA",
"openwrt"
] | A good amount of hacks can be done with off-the-shelf hardware – what’s more, it’s usually available all over the world, which means your hacks are easier to build for others, too. Say, you’ve built something around a commonly available portable router, through the magic of open-source software. How do you make the fru... | 12 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756334",
"author": "IsRadioKill",
"timestamp": "2024-05-06T07:08:33",
"content": "Gli.net makes some cool hardware. I know the Beryl model (sp?) Has an SD card slot that you can use for the same purpose, plus you can then plug a USB cellular modem into the USB port and share that w... | 1,760,371,924.908359 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/05/poking-atomic-nuclei-with-lasers-for-atomic-clocks-and-energy-storage/ | Poking Atomic Nuclei With Lasers For Atomic Clocks And Energy Storage | Maya Posch | [
"Science"
] | [
"atomic clock",
"energy storage",
"nuclear isomer"
] | Although most people are probably familiar with the different energy levels that the electron shells of atoms can be in and how electrons shedding excess energy as they return to a lower state emit for example photons, the protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei can also occupy an excited state. This nuclear isomer (meta... | 5 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756304",
"author": "Truth",
"timestamp": "2024-05-06T04:21:10",
"content": "So shine light (of the correct energy) on unstable atoms can split some atoms?I have not clicked on the link yet.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "675... | 1,760,371,924.949017 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/05/hackaday-links-may-5-2024/ | Hackaday Links: May 5, 2024 | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackaday links",
"Slider"
] | [
"aspen",
"basic",
"cartoon",
"chrome",
"clone",
"experimenting",
"firefox",
"hackaday links",
"hope",
"hydrophone",
"kit",
"languages",
"programming",
"quaking",
"radio shack"
] | It may be hard to believe, but
BASIC turned 60 this week
. Opinions about the computer language vary, of course, but one thing everyone can agree on is that Professors Kemeny and Kurtz really stretched things with the acronym: “Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code” is pretty tortured, after all. BASIC seems... | 16 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756336",
"author": "Gérald",
"timestamp": "2024-05-06T07:43:49",
"content": "Well… I have currently 4290 tabs in Firefox/macOS (without counting a few thousands i lost with a Firefox crash a few years ago). When i work an a project or make research about a subject, i can open a few... | 1,760,371,925.139258 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/05/this-windows-installer-installs-linux/ | This Windows Installer Installs Linux | Jenny List | [
"Linux Hacks",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"linux",
"OS install",
"windows"
] | It may be a very long time since some readers have installed a copy of Windows, but it appears at one point during the installation there’s a step that asks you which OS version you would like to install. Normally this is populated by whichever Windows flavours come on the install medium, but [Naman Sood] has other ide... | 15 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756250",
"author": "Andrew Singleton",
"timestamp": "2024-05-05T20:37:53",
"content": "Some good old fashioned tomfoolery. I love it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6756255",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2024-05... | 1,760,371,925.188704 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/05/building-a-rocket-engine-from-scratch/ | Building A Rocket Engine From Scratch | Al Williams | [
"Space"
] | [
"rocket engine"
] | There is a reason building a rocket engine is harder than most things you want to build. If you are building, say, a car, your goal is to not have it explode. If you are building a bomb, you want that to explode. But a rocket engine needs to explode just enough and not a bit more. That’s tough,
as [Ryan Kuhn] discovere... | 14 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756220",
"author": "Paul",
"timestamp": "2024-05-05T17:31:16",
"content": "And at the other end of the scale is Homer Hickam’sRocket boysaka October Sky, (not to be confused by other more recent things of the same names). Good book, decent movie.",
"parent_id": null,
"dept... | 1,760,371,925.236274 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/05/hive-monitor-is-the-bees-knees/ | Hive Monitor Is The Bee’s Knees | Kristina Panos | [
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"bee hive",
"beehive",
"bees",
"ESP32",
"hive monitoring",
"strain gauge"
] | Beekeeping is quite the rewarding hobby. There’s delicious honey and useful wax to be had, plus you get the honor of knowing that you’re helping to keep the bee population surviving and thriving. [Ben Brooks] likes to keep tabs on the hive, but doesn’t like the idea of opening it up more often than necessary. After a c... | 11 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756197",
"author": "Rey",
"timestamp": "2024-05-05T15:04:04",
"content": "WiFi near bees? Such a bad idea…https://ehtrust.org/new-study-wi-fi-frequency-harms-honeybee/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6756207",
"author... | 1,760,371,925.291605 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/05/this-robot-picks-locks-if-youre-very-patient/ | This Robot Picks Locks, If You’re Very Patient | Dan Maloney | [
"lockpicking hacks",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"cylinder",
"key",
"lock",
"locksport",
"picking",
"pin",
"security",
"stepper"
] | We all know the Hollywood trope of picking a lock with a paperclip, and while it certainly is doable, most reputable locks require slightly more sophisticated tools to pick effectively. That’s not to say that wire is off the table for locksports, though, as
this cool lock-picking robot
demonstrates.
The basics behind [... | 17 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756176",
"author": "H Hack",
"timestamp": "2024-05-05T12:33:34",
"content": "Also, if you don’t know the lockpicking lawyer, this is your lucky day (a la xkcd.com/1053)https://www.youtube.com/@lockpickinglawyer/videos",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
... | 1,760,371,925.342778 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/05/dune-3d-open-source-3d-parametric-modeler-from-the-maker-of-horizon-eda/ | Dune 3D: Open Source 3D Parametric Modeler From The Maker Of Horizon EDA | Maya Posch | [
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"3D CAD",
"Dune3D",
"Horizon EDA"
] | When coming from the world of Autodesk and kin’s proprietary CAD solutions, figuring out which FOSS 3D CAD solution is the right one can be a real chore, as none of them are on the same level. This is what the author of the Horizon EDA software – [Lukas K.] – struggled with as well when he decided to make his own 3D CA... | 52 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756130",
"author": "mista4a",
"timestamp": "2024-05-05T09:12:18",
"content": "> it remains to be seen where Dune 3D lands compared to FreeCADIt would take a large amount of conscious effort to make the former even approach the levels of flaming garbageness of freecad",
"parent_... | 1,760,371,925.431406 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/04/risc-os-gets-an-update/ | RISC OS Gets An Update | Jenny List | [
"Raspberry Pi",
"Retrocomputing",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"archimedes",
"arm",
"raspberry pi",
"RiscOS"
] | There should be rejoicing among fans of the original ARM operating system this week, as
the venerable RISC OS received its version 5.30 update
. It contains up-to-date versions of the bundled software as well as for the first time, out-of-the-box WiFi support, and best of all, it can run on all Raspberry Pi models exce... | 12 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756122",
"author": "Rob",
"timestamp": "2024-05-05T08:38:40",
"content": "Make sure you have the drivers installed from herehttps://www.riscosopen.org/content/downloads/raspberry-piThen configure the drivers in networking with a tick select DHCP save reset, it will appear on the i... | 1,760,371,925.47676 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/04/giving-your-kicad-pcb-repository-pretty-pictures/ | Giving Your KiCad PCB Repository Pretty Pictures | Arya Voronova | [
"PCB Hacks",
"Software Development"
] | [
"github",
"Github Actions",
"gitlab",
"KiCAD",
"kicad integration"
] | Publishing your boards on GitHub or GitLab is a must, and leads to wonderful outcomes in the hacker world. On their own, however, your board files might have the repo look a bit barren; having a picture or two in the README is the best. Making them yourself takes time – what if you could have it happen automatically? E... | 25 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756086",
"author": "paulvdh",
"timestamp": "2024-05-05T02:33:44",
"content": "But before you can show a project, you have to find it…The “KiCad Project Explorer” is a little search engine to find KiCad projects (and more)https://forum.kicad.info/t/kicad-project-explorer/44440https:... | 1,760,371,925.737235 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/04/ham-radio-paddles-cost-virtually-nothing/ | Ham Radio Paddles Cost Virtually Nothing | Al Williams | [
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"ham radio",
"morse code"
] | If you don’t know Morse code, you probably think of a radio operator using a “key” to send Morse code. These were — and still are — used. They are little more than a switch built to be comfortable in your hand and spring loaded so the switch makes when you push down and breaks when you let up. Many modern operators pre... | 22 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756063",
"author": "Joshua",
"timestamp": "2024-05-04T23:58:12",
"content": "Reminds me of my “telepgraph key” that I had built with a cake fork about ten years ago! :DBtw, to those of you looking for a nice elbug.. ETM-3 or ETM-4 used to be popular.They’re heavy (nice! doesn’t mov... | 1,760,371,925.603729 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/04/3d-printing-in-custom-pla-with-a-tpu-core/ | 3D Printing In Custom PLA With A TPU Core | Donald Papp | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"composite filament",
"custom filament",
"PLA",
"resizing",
"TPU"
] | [Stefan] from CNC Kitchen explored an unusual approach to a multi-material print by
making custom PLA filament with a TPU core
to make it super-tough. TPU is a flexible filament whereas PLA is hard almost to the point of being brittle. The combo results in a filament with some unusual properties, inviting some thoughts... | 11 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756044",
"author": "paulvdh",
"timestamp": "2024-05-04T22:04:35",
"content": "The test used is called Charpy impact testhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charpy_impact_testAnd I’m not sure whether it’s result are very representative in this case. My first guess is that the PLA breaks f... | 1,760,371,925.859555 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/04/almost-making-a-camera-sensor-from-scratch/ | Almost Making A Camera Sensor From Scratch | Jenny List | [
"chemistry hacks"
] | [
"Copper Oxide",
"schottky diode",
"semiconductor"
] | On our travels round the hardware world we’ve encountered more than one group pursuing the goal of making their own silicon integrated circuits, and indeed we’ve seen [Sam Zeloof] producing some of the first practical home-made devices. But silicon is simply one of many different semiconductor materials, and it’s possi... | 5 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756002",
"author": "echodelta",
"timestamp": "2024-05-04T18:10:31",
"content": "What about a bunch of photo diodes and a sheet of pref-board? A not quite homebrew way but good for a science fair project. You will need a big lens, save that box projection TV you find at the curb.I’v... | 1,760,371,927.412525 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/04/tool-building-mammals/ | Tool-Building Mammals | Elliot Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Rants",
"Slider"
] | [
"diy or buy",
"newsletter",
"probes",
"tools"
] | It’s often said of us humans that we’re the only “tool-using mammals”. While not exclusive to the hacker community, a bunch of us are also “tool-building mammals” when we have the need or get the free time. I initially wanted to try to draw some distinction between the two modes, but honestly I think all good hackers d... | 15 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755969",
"author": "Reluctant Cannibal",
"timestamp": "2024-05-04T14:34:13",
"content": "‘humans that we’re the only “tool-using mammals”’ …… What about the chimpanzees, elephants, dolphins, otters and beavers that use tools?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies":... | 1,760,371,927.466032 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/04/how-does-the-raspberry-pi-rack-up-against-a-mini-pc/ | How Does The Raspberry Pi Rack Up Against A Mini PC? | Jenny List | [
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"intel",
"N100",
"Pi 5"
] | When the first Raspberry Pi came out back in 2012 it was groundbreaking because it offered a usable little Linux machine with the proud boast of a $25 dollar price tag. Sure it wasn’t the fastest kid on the block, but there was almost nothing at that price which could do what it did. Three leap years later though it’s ... | 61 | 25 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755930",
"author": "James Honey",
"timestamp": "2024-05-04T11:12:29",
"content": "I bought an N100 based pc to dual boot windows and Linux. It was a nightmare. I struggled with audio over HDMI support amongst other issues. That, coupled with a lack of GPIO, I don’t think we’re quit... | 1,760,371,927.848729 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/04/rog-ally-sd-card-slot-fix-shines-light-on-ptc-fuse-failure-modes/ | ROG Ally SD Card Slot Fix Shines Light On PTC Fuse Failure Modes | Arya Voronova | [
"Games",
"handhelds hacks"
] | [
"fuse",
"micro sd",
"rog ally"
] | The Asus ROG Ally is a handheld that, to our pleasant surprise, has attracted a decently sized modding community. Recently, we’ve stumbled upon
a Reddit post
investigating a somewhat common failure mode of this handheld — the microSD card slot going out of order, where an inserted card fails to be recognized, pretty ir... | 9 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755917",
"author": "MushiMasterGinko",
"timestamp": "2024-05-04T08:45:10",
"content": "Please don’t jumper a fuse meant for protection. You can simply apply solder to both sides of the jumpered fuse. The heat or solder will reset it. Mine and others works perfectly fine now",
"... | 1,760,371,927.5064 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/03/heres-how-that-disney-360-treadmill-works/ | Here’s How That Disney 360° Treadmill Works | Donald Papp | [
"Robots Hacks",
"Virtual Reality"
] | [
"omnidirectional",
"treadmill",
"vr"
] | One thing going slightly viral lately is footage of Disney’s “HoloTile” infinite floor, an experimental sort of 360° treadmill developed by [Lanny Smoot]. But how exactly does it work? Details about
that
are less common, but [Marques Brownlee] got first-hand experience with HoloTile and has
a video all about the detail... | 19 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755861",
"author": "Ryan Timothy Vasquez",
"timestamp": "2024-05-04T05:18:17",
"content": "how? I would like to see schematics and motor specs.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6755888",
"author": "WonkoTheSaneUK",
... | 1,760,371,927.997393 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/03/google-removes-risc-v-support-from-android/ | Google Removes RISC-V Support From Android | Maya Posch | [
"News"
] | [
"google android",
"RISC-V"
] | Last year the introduction of RISC-V support to the Android-specific, Linux-derived Android Common Kernel (ACK) made it seem that before long Android devices might be using SoCs based around the RISC-V ISA, but it would seem that these hopes are now dashed. As
reported by Android Authority
, with a series of recently ... | 20 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755848",
"author": "Jon Mayo",
"timestamp": "2024-05-04T03:10:54",
"content": "I consider this anti-competitive behavior. As it is an intentional action designed to help Google’s partners and harm RISC-V vendors that do not have a close relationship with Google.I’m not a lawyer, an... | 1,760,371,928.053831 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/03/a-vernier-take-on-a-3d-printer-extruder-indicator/ | A Vernier Take On A 3D Printer Extruder Indicator | Donald Papp | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d printed",
"diy",
"extruder",
"indicator",
"Vernier"
] | A common way to visualize that a 3D printer’s extruder motor — which feeds the filament into the hot end — is moving is to attach a small indicator to the exposed end of the motor’s shaft. As the shaft turns, so does the attached indicator.
Small movements of the motor are therefore turned into larger movements of some... | 6 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755850",
"author": "KDawg",
"timestamp": "2024-05-04T03:20:33",
"content": "I just used a dot from a paint pen, and its on a idler pully driven by the filament I don’t really care that much, besides the motor is going to move whether the filament does or not.I am not really here t... | 1,760,371,927.649486 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/03/follow-the-red-ball-wobble-disk-roaster-to-coffee-excellence/ | Follow The Red Ball Wobble Disk Roaster To Coffee Excellence | Kristina Panos | [
"cooking hacks"
] | [
"coffee roaster",
"wobble disk",
"wobble disk roaster"
] | If you’ve never considered roasting your own coffee at home, you may be surprised to learn that it can be done in a few minutes with a regular popcorn popper and not much else. After all, you only really need two things to roast coffee: heat, and constant agitation to distribute that heat evenly. While the popcorn popp... | 9 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755767",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2024-05-03T20:13:27",
"content": "I assume an air fryer wouldn’t generate enough heat?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6755773",
"author": "Greg Taranto",
"timestam... | 1,760,371,927.933441 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/03/plasma-cutter-gets-cnc-treatment-at-low-cost/ | Plasma Cutter Gets CNC Treatment At Low Cost | Bryan Cockfield | [
"cnc hacks"
] | [
"3d printed",
"budget",
"cnc",
"modification",
"plasma cutter",
"torch",
"welding",
"yeswelder"
] | [Daniel] has been metalworking on a budget for a while now. Originally doing things like plasma cutting on old bricks, he used his original plasma cutter to make an appropriate plasma cutting table complete with a water bath which we presume was not only safer but better for his back. Since then he’s stepped up a littl... | 8 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755786",
"author": "Logan Hopkins",
"timestamp": "2024-05-03T20:59:19",
"content": "So I work with 10 CNC grinding machines at my part of the factory. Does someone have an answer for what CNC stands for? This question comes from my previous experience in PLC robot arms and never he... | 1,760,371,927.892419 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/03/my-space/ | My Space | Jenny List | [
"Featured",
"Hackerspaces",
"Slider"
] | [
"hacker culture",
"hackerspace",
"hackerspaces"
] | If I could name one thing which has been the most transformative for our community over the last couple of decades, it would have to be the proliferation of hackerspaces. Ostensibly a place which provides access to tools and machinery, these organisations have become so much more. They bring together like-minded people... | 29 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755737",
"author": "Saint Aardvark the cCarpeted",
"timestamp": "2024-05-03T17:33:32",
"content": "Well put!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6755745",
"author": "Bob",
"timestamp": "2024-05-03T18:03:48",
"content": ... | 1,760,371,927.582871 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/03/hackaday-podcast-episode-269-3d-printed-flexure-whegs-el-cheapo-bullet-time-and-a-diy-cell-phone-sniffer/ | Hackaday Podcast Episode 269: 3D Printed Flexure Whegs, El Cheapo Bullet Time, And A DIY Cell Phone Sniffer | Kristina Panos | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Podcasts"
] | [
"Hackaday Podcast"
] | This week, it was Kristina’s turn in the hot seat with Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams. First up in the news —
the results are in for the 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation contest!
First and second place went to some really gnarly, well-documented hacks, and third went to the cutest pill-dispensing robot you’ll probably ... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756093",
"author": "Taper",
"timestamp": "2024-05-05T05:09:45",
"content": "I have two of those Radio Shack probe tip wallets; I think I got one in the big going out of business sales, but the first I got when they still seemed like they were a business. The alligator clip and plu... | 1,760,371,928.096817 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/03/put-more-korry-in-your-flight-sim-switches/ | Put More Korry In Your Flight Sim Switches | Dan Maloney | [
"LED Hacks",
"Parts"
] | [
"annunciator",
"cockpit",
"flight simulator",
"indicator light"
] | Never underestimate how far some flight simulator aficionados will go with their builds. No detail is too small, and every aspect of the look and feel has to accurately reflect the real cockpit. As a case in point, check out
these very realistic Korry buttons
that [Santi Luib III] built for an Airbus A320 simulator.
No... | 20 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755719",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2024-05-03T15:39:50",
"content": "“No detail is too small, and every aspect of the look and feel has to accurately reflect the real cockpit.”Bumpable controls.https://uk.news.yahoo.com/boeing-787-nosedive-caused-flight-223200715.html",
... | 1,760,371,928.315328 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/03/this-week-in-security-default-passwords-lock-slapping-and-mastodown/ | This Week In Security: Default Passwords, Lock Slapping, And Mastodown | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"News",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"fuzzing",
"linux",
"lockpickinglawyer",
"This Week in Security"
] | The UK has the answer to all our IoT problems:
banning bad default passwords
. Additionally, the new UK law requires device makers to provide contact info for vulnerability disclosures, as well as a requirement to advertise vulnerability fix schedules. Is this going to help the security of routers, cameras, and other d... | 8 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755703",
"author": "limroh",
"timestamp": "2024-05-03T14:23:54",
"content": "> Just a good smack in the right place uses the inertia of the locking pin to compress the springs and slip the shackle.“just” put another mechanism in the lock where when the shackle is lowered into the l... | 1,760,371,928.258871 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/03/dual-screen-mod-for-the-rog-ally-handheld/ | Dual-Screen Mod For The ROG Ally Handheld | Arya Voronova | [
"handhelds hacks"
] | [
"gaming console",
"handheld gaming console",
"rog ally",
"screen upgrade"
] | In our continuing coverage of the ROG Ally modding community, we would be amiss to not mention a seriously impressive mod — a
dual screen project for the x86 gaming handheld by [YesItsKira]
! Single screen devices can feel cramped, and this mod is a prime example of a dedicated hacker taking things into her own hands. ... | 10 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755678",
"author": "Jan",
"timestamp": "2024-05-03T11:17:44",
"content": "“Single screen devices can feel cramped…”That sentence made me smile. As a kid of the 80’s I am pleased and amazed with everything that has a build in screen bigger then 320×200 and weighs less then 10kg. Now... | 1,760,371,928.364094 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/03/mudlink-is-making-uart-data-links-more-reliable/ | MUDLink Is Making UART Data Links More Reliable | Lewin Day | [
"Software Hacks",
"Tech Hacks"
] | [
"serial",
"uart"
] | Many of us have used UARTs to spit data from one system or chip to another. Normally, for quick and dirty maker projects, this is good enough. However, you’ll always get the odd dropped transmission or glitch that can throw a spanner in the works if you’re not careful. [Jake Read] decided to work on a system that could... | 20 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755660",
"author": "First",
"timestamp": "2024-05-03T09:25:35",
"content": "@Lewin Day“Video after the break.” – A copy past error?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6755704",
"author": "Al Williams",
"timestamp... | 1,760,371,928.214081 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/02/diyotaku-gives-old-devices-a-new-life/ | [DiyOtaku] Gives Old Devices A New Life | Arya Voronova | [
"handhelds hacks",
"Nintendo DS Hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks",
"Phone Hacks",
"Playstation Hacks",
"Repair Hacks"
] | [
"Nintendo DS",
"restoration"
] | Sometimes we get sent a tip that isn’t just a single article or video, but an entire blog or YouTube channel. Today’s
channel, [Diy Otaku],
is absolutely worth a watch if you want someone see giving a second life to legendary handheld devices, and our creator has been going at it for a while. A common theme in most of ... | 5 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755687",
"author": "Gordon M Shephard",
"timestamp": "2024-05-03T12:07:36",
"content": "While I applaud any effort to reduce the electronic waste stream, the emphasis on gaming (here and elsewhere) makes me wonder if we aren’t already in Wall-E’s world.",
"parent_id": null,
... | 1,760,371,928.637765 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/02/dont-object-to-python-objects/ | Don’t Object To Python Objects | Al Williams | [
"Software Development"
] | [
"object oriented",
"python"
] | There’s the old joke about 10 kinds of programmers, but the truth is when it comes to programming, there are often people who make tools and people who use tools. The Arduino system is a good example of this. Most people use it like a C compiler. However, it really uses C++, and if you want to provide “things” to the t... | 24 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755603",
"author": "CMH62",
"timestamp": "2024-05-03T03:05:40",
"content": "I object to objects being an object in that title! 😆",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6755604",
"author": "Al Williams",
"timestamp": "2024-05... | 1,760,371,928.779729 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/02/start-your-creepy-jack-o-lantern-project-early-this-year-with-gourdan/ | Start Your Creepy Jack-O-Lantern Project Early This Year With Gourdan | Lewin Day | [
"Holiday Hacks"
] | [
"animated",
"eyes",
"following eyes",
"halloween",
"holiday hacks",
"jack-o-lanterns"
] | For a lot of us, projects take time, and they have to be squeezed in around the regular chores of real life. Thus, if you’re starting your Halloween builds
after
the holiday displays have already hit the stores, you’re probably too late. We’re here to implore you to start building early this year—and you can take inspi... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755769",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2024-05-03T20:15:32",
"content": "Might be something they show on the Vegas Sphere.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,371,928.673206 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/02/bypass-poe-and-power-your-starlink-terminal-directly/ | Bypass PoE And Power Your Starlink Terminal Directly | Arya Voronova | [
"how-to",
"Reverse Engineering"
] | [
"PoE",
"psu hack",
"Starlink"
] | Sometimes, you will want to power a device in a way it wasn’t designed for, and you might find that the device in question is way too tailored to the original power source. Today, [Oleg Kutkov] is here to
give us a master class
on excising unnecessary power conversion out of your devices, with the Starlink terminal as ... | 8 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755564",
"author": "Jason",
"timestamp": "2024-05-02T22:15:32",
"content": "How many years have costumers been asking for a vehicle solution from starlink?Right now seems that with the version 3 residential kit you can actually buy an off the shelf power supply to feed the router b... | 1,760,371,928.598202 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/02/cute-solar-power-gauge-brightens-the-day/ | Cute Solar Power Gauge Brightens The Day | Kristina Panos | [
"green hacks",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"esp32c3",
"h-bridge",
"solar",
"solar gauge",
"solar monitoring",
"stepper"
] | What’s the first thing you want after installing solar? All the sunshine you can get, of course. Especially if you did it in the wintertime. And what would be more fun than monitoring your power generation, especially leading up to the equinox, or start of spring? Probably not much, especially if you built
a cute solar... | 5 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755538",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2024-05-02T20:06:50",
"content": "Those steppers do not need an H-bridge. They can be driven directly from microcontroller GPIO pins. Or there is a custom driver chip if you must. In regards to documentation, there is quite a lot out there... | 1,760,371,928.962358 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/02/3d-printed-wheels-passively-transform-to-climb-obstacles/ | 3D Printed Wheels Passively Transform To Climb Obstacles | Lewin Day | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"robot",
"wheel",
"wheg"
] | Wheels do a great job at rolling over all kinds of terrain, particularly if you pair them with compliant tires. However, they’re not perfect, and can get stumbled by things like large vertical steps. Enter the PaTS-Wheel — a compliant mechanism
that can tackle such obstacles with ease.
The PaTS-Wheel takes advantage of... | 15 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755465",
"author": "Foldi-One",
"timestamp": "2024-05-02T16:08:51",
"content": "I’d had a similar thought a while ago, nice to see it tested, and in this case it working better than I’d expected it to.Though I do wonder if it will really prove fit for much use in the real world – a... | 1,760,371,928.719146 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/02/nasa-is-now-tasked-with-developing-a-lunar-time-standard-relativity-or-not/ | NASA Is Now Tasked With Developing A Lunar Time Standard, Relativity Or Not | Lewin Day | [
"Current Events",
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"coordinated lunar time",
"ltc",
"lunar",
"lunar time",
"moon",
"nasa",
"The Moon"
] | A little while ago, we talked about the concept of timezones and the Moon. It’s a complicated issue, because on Earth, time is all about the Sun and our local relationship with it. The Moon and the Sun have their own weird thing going on, so time there doesn’t really line up well with our terrestrial conception of it.
... | 82 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755406",
"author": "Clovis Fritzen",
"timestamp": "2024-05-02T14:12:48",
"content": "Such a simple concept spirals into such complicated (necessary) ways to get solved. This is what is beautiful about science, it is not always in front of our eyes, it is not always intuitive.",
... | 1,760,371,929.229563 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/02/1-tinyml-board-for-your-ai-sensor-swarm/ | $1 TinyML Board For Your “AI” Sensor Swarm | Arya Voronova | [
"Machine Learning",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"machine learning",
"neural network"
] | You might be under the impression that machine learning costs thousands of dollars to work with. That might be true in many cases, but there’s more to machine learning than you might think. For instance, what if you could shower anything with a network of cheap machine-learning-enabled sensors? The
1 dollar TinyML proj... | 23 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755378",
"author": "Clovis Fritzen",
"timestamp": "2024-05-02T12:07:49",
"content": "US$1 in BOM with a STM32 and BLE? hardly believe it. Nevertheless, neat project, might give it a try.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "675538... | 1,760,371,929.027468 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/02/building-a-mechanical-keyboard-as-a-learning-project/ | Building A Mechanical Keyboard As A Learning Project | Lewin Day | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"keyboard",
"mechanical keyboard",
"peripherals",
"Raspberry Pi Pico"
] | [Thomas Rinsma] wanted to learn about designing PCBs. Thus, he set about a nifty project that would both teach him those lessons and net him something useful in the process.
The result was kb1, a mechanical keyboard of his own design!
You might think [Thomas] would have started with a basic, barebones design, but he di... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755362",
"author": "Cheese Whiz",
"timestamp": "2024-05-02T11:19:39",
"content": "That’s a nice-looking build, cheers!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6755367",
"author": "Rudy vK",
"timestamp": "2024-05-02T11:33:25",
... | 1,760,371,929.30727 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/01/t3rminal-cyberdeck-has-looks-to-die-for/ | T3rminal Cyberdeck Has Looks To Die For | Kristina Panos | [
"Cyberdecks",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"18650 battery",
"18650 cell",
"cyberdeck",
"pisugar",
"raspberry pi"
] | One of the greatest things about the hacker ecosystem is that whole standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants thing. Somebody makes something and shares it, and then someone else takes that thing and remixes it, sometimes making it objectively better. For their
T3rminal cyberdeck
, [calebholloway08] was inspired by a number ... | 7 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755370",
"author": "Foldi-One",
"timestamp": "2024-05-02T11:43:54",
"content": "Really love the way they made the case look, simple but it gives it a bit of style, and will help it stand out if (or more likely) when it gets buried in the in the charging pile on the corner of the de... | 1,760,371,929.270793 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/01/a-primer-on-optical-storage-data-preservation/ | A Primer On Optical Storage Data Preservation | Arya Voronova | [
"Reviews"
] | [
"cd",
"data preservation",
"dvd"
] | Picking a storage medium for data preservation can be a conflicting time. Sure, they say optical storage tends to last, but it can’t be as straightforward as just burning everything onto Blu-Rays, right?
Here’s a paper from Canadian Conservation Institute,
teaching you the basics of using compact disks for data storage... | 18 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755276",
"author": "rclark",
"timestamp": "2024-05-02T03:08:03",
"content": "Thanks for the link. Good info.At least here at home, I am swimming in disk space, so there is no need for a ‘Data Preservation’ plan in the sense of having a ‘set of optical disks’ or ‘tapes’ of old data... | 1,760,371,929.359773 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/01/floss-weekly-episode-781-resistant-to-the-wrath-of-god/ | FLOSS Weekly Episode 781: Resistant To The Wrath Of God | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Podcasts"
] | [
"FLOSS Weekly",
"Holepunch",
"open source",
"peer-to-peer"
] | This week Jonathan Bennett and
Doc Searls
sit down with
Mathias Buus Madsen
and
Paolo Ardoino
of Holepunch, to talk about the Pear Runtime and the Keet serverless peer-to-peer platform. What happens when you take the technology built for BitTorrent, and apply it to a messaging app? What else does that allow you to do? ... | 9 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755302",
"author": "Dude",
"timestamp": "2024-05-02T05:50:22",
"content": ">What happens when you take the technology built for BitTorrent, and apply it to a messaging app?Everyone gets the message – except for one word in the middle since the original sender went offline.",
"p... | 1,760,371,929.410161 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/01/tiny-prisms-let-you-see-what-lies-beneath-a-bga-chip/ | Tiny Prisms Let You See What Lies Beneath A BGA Chip | Dan Maloney | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"acrylic",
"bga",
"inspection",
"optics",
"PMMA",
"prism",
"total internal reflection"
] | Compared to through-hole construction, inspecting SMD construction is a whole other game. Things you thought were small before are almost invisible now, and making sure solder got where it’s supposed to go can be a real chore. Add some ball grid array (BGA) chips into the mix, where the solder joints are not visible by... | 16 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755193",
"author": "Ward",
"timestamp": "2024-05-01T20:05:14",
"content": "Clever! I have also used a piece of reflective material (front surface mirror, mylar, chromed steel) held at a 45 degree angle at the edge of the IC to inspect ball compression under a stereo microscope.",
... | 1,760,371,929.463151 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/01/manta-an-open-on-fpga-debug-interface/ | Manta: An Open On-FPGA Debug Interface | Arya Voronova | [
"FPGA",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"amaranth",
"debug interface",
"ethernet",
"fpga",
"logic analyser",
"logic analyzer",
"uart",
"verilog"
] | We always can use more tools for FPGA debugging, and the
Manta project by [Fischer Moseley]
delivers without a shadow of a doubt. Manta lets you add a debug and data transfer channel between your computer and your FPGA, that you can easily access with helpfully included Python libraries.
With
just a short configuration... | 30 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755210",
"author": "paulvdh",
"timestamp": "2024-05-01T20:50:39",
"content": "Logic analyzer projects to poke around inside FPGA’s are fairly common (The Manta project names a few others), but from what I have seen they tend to have a very sparse frontend.I find it quite strange th... | 1,760,371,929.52844 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/01/programming-ada-packages-and-command-line-applications/ | Programming Ada: Packages And Command Line Applications | Maya Posch | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Software Development"
] | [
"ada",
"programming",
"software"
] | In the previous installment in this series
we looked at how to set up an Ada development environment, and how to compile and run a simple Ada application
. Building upon this foundation, we will now look at how to create more complex applications, along with how to parse and use arguments passed to Ada applications on ... | 5 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755182",
"author": "BT",
"timestamp": "2024-05-01T19:40:57",
"content": "“Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Text_IO.put_line(…”Thank goodness they didn’t think of calling the language Lovelace instead of Ada. The irony of such as verbose language having such a short name!",
"parent_id": nu... | 1,760,371,929.576555 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/01/this-arduino-is-feeding-the-fishes-2/ | This Arduino Is Feeding The Fishes | Lewin Day | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"home hacks"
] | [
"fish",
"fish feeder"
] | Depending on the species, a fish can be a fairly low-maintenance pet. But of course even the most laid back of creatures needs to eat, so you’ll have to make sure to feed them regularly. If you’re a fish owner who would like to simplify tending to your creatures, you might find value
in this project from [CrazyScience]... | 7 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755120",
"author": "captnmike",
"timestamp": "2024-05-01T16:43:14",
"content": "Building a timer into a stock UNO is easy to do and the food could be dispensed on a regular basis",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6755260",
"a... | 1,760,371,929.619891 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/01/supercon-2023-jose-angel-torres-on-building-a-junkyard-secure-phone/ | Supercon 2023: Jose Angel Torres On Building A Junkyard Secure Phone | Arya Voronova | [
"cons",
"Hackaday Columns"
] | [
"2023 Hackaday Supercon",
"cell phone",
"china",
"reverse engineering"
] | If you ever wondered just what it takes to build a modern device like a phone, you should have come to last year’s Supercon and
talked with [Jose Angel Torres].
He’s an engineer whose passion into investigating what makes modern devices tick is undeniable, and he tells us all about where his forays have led so far – di... | 10 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755101",
"author": "Jouni",
"timestamp": "2024-05-01T15:15:57",
"content": "I would like to have a totally open source smart phone with such ICs that we can trust that doesn’t do trickery behind curtains (such as the modem).Also I would like to see single Git repo for ALL the code.... | 1,760,371,929.665426 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/01/pssst-wanna-buy-an-old-supercomputer/ | Pssst… Wanna Buy An Old Supercomputer? | Jenny List | [
"computer hacks",
"News"
] | [
"auction",
"sgi",
"supercomputer"
] | If you spend your time plotting evil world domination while stroking your fluffy white cat in your super-villain lair, it’s clear that only the most high-performance in computing is going to help you achieve your dastardly aims. But computers of that scale are expensive, and not even your tame mad scientist can whistle... | 87 | 33 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755046",
"author": "Zoe Nagy",
"timestamp": "2024-05-01T11:32:22",
"content": "You mean the one used for the Stargate? Sign me up!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6755094",
"author": "Jace",
"timestamp": "2024... | 1,760,371,930.055357 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/01/cheap-musical-tesla-coil-put-through-its-paces/ | Cheap Musical Tesla Coil Put Through Its Paces | Lewin Day | [
"High Voltage"
] | [
"musical tesla coil",
"review",
"Singing Tesla coil",
"tesla coil"
] | Once upon a time, musical Tesla coils were something you primarily saw at high-voltage hobby meets. They’ve become more popular in recent years, and now you can even buy cheap examples online.
[mircemk] decided to buy one and gave it a whirl.
The device comes with a power supply capable of delivering 2 amps at 48 V. I... | 4 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6755222",
"author": "rclark",
"timestamp": "2024-05-01T21:44:56",
"content": "I like! I have a plasma ball already, but this looks a little more interesting as it snaps and pops in a ‘small’ area out in the open so to speak. Fit in a home/office environment perfectly :D Going to ... | 1,760,371,929.86106 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/30/simplest-speaker-oscillator-now-even-simpler/ | Simplest Speaker Oscillator, Now Even Simpler | Dan Maloney | [
"Parts"
] | [
"audio",
"diaphragm",
"oscillator",
"speaker"
] | It never fails. Lay down some kind of superlative — fastest, cheapest, smallest — around this place and someone out there says, “Hold my beer” and gets to work. In this case, it’s
another, even simpler audio oscillator
, this time with just a loudspeaker and a battery.
Attentive readers will recall
the previous title h... | 21 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6754975",
"author": "Miles",
"timestamp": "2024-05-01T05:48:33",
"content": "I’d argue a bimetallic circuit breaker, AKA turn signal flasher is technically one.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6754978",
"author": "ono",
... | 1,760,371,929.927027 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/30/making-beer-like-its-1574-for-science-and-heritage/ | Making Beer Like It’s 1574, For Science And Heritage | Donald Papp | [
"Beer Hacks"
] | [
"beer",
"brewing",
"heritage",
"historical"
] | Are you interested in the history of beer, food science, or just a fan of gathering “um, actually” details about things? Well you’re in for a treat because FoodCult (exploring Food, Culture, and Identity in early modern Ireland) has a fantastic exhibition showcasing their
recreation of beer last brewed in the sixteenth... | 14 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6754973",
"author": "shinsukke",
"timestamp": "2024-05-01T05:43:08",
"content": "Anyone noticed, young people these days are drinking a lot less?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6754980",
"author": "ono",
"time... | 1,760,371,930.155153 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/30/3d-printed-macro-pad-plate-is-lego-compatible/ | 3D-Printed Macro Pad Plate Is LEGO-Compatible | Kristina Panos | [
"Peripherals Hacks",
"Toy Hacks"
] | [
"3D printed lego sort of",
"keyboard",
"keyboard plate",
"lego",
"LEGO-compatible",
"macro pad"
] | We love LEGO, we love keyboards, and when the two join forces, we’re usually looking at a versatile peripheral that’s practically indestructible. Such seems to be the case with [joshmarinacci]’s
LEGO-compatible 3D-printed plate for a three-key macro pad.
For a first foray into scratch-built keyboard construction, we th... | 2 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6754946",
"author": "Daniel F. Larrosa",
"timestamp": "2024-05-01T02:31:42",
"content": "It is a great idea, for prototyping or building special “one of a kind” keyboards, for example for use by the handicapped.I have done something similar, with laser cut wooden “modules” with LEGO... | 1,760,371,930.524696 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/30/the-cheapest-usb-blaster-ever-thanks-to-ch552/ | The Cheapest USB Blaster Ever, Thanks To CH552 | Arya Voronova | [
"Microcontrollers",
"Parts",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"CH552",
"USB blaster"
] | Here’s
a CH552G-based USB Blaster project
from [
nickchen
] in case you needed more CH552G in your life, which you absolutely do. It gives you the expected IDC-10 header ready for JTAG, AS, and PS modes. What’s cool, it fits into the plastic shell of a typical USB Blaster, too!
The PCB is flexible enough, and has all t... | 8 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6754891",
"author": "Elliot White",
"timestamp": "2024-04-30T21:38:05",
"content": "I’ve been using CH55x microcontrollers for a while now and used to put a program button on the PCB like in this project, but realized that the button didn’t have to be on the board so I built a tool ... | 1,760,371,930.102175 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/30/possibly-the-cheapest-way-to-film-in-bullet-time/ | Possibly The Cheapest Way To Film In Bullet Time | Jenny List | [
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"bullet time",
"freeze frame",
"toy camera"
] | When
The Matrix
hit the cinemas back in 1999 it started a minor revolution with its use of so-called “Bullet time” — a freeze-frame technique in which the action could move round a momentarily frozen subject. It’s filmed using an array of cameras in an arc, something which was pretty expensive back then but is now with... | 19 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6754855",
"author": "Mark Topham",
"timestamp": "2024-04-30T18:48:22",
"content": "Nice.I follow an account on tiktok, a studio does a lot of photoshoots with light rigs and bullettime multi-camera shots. Their stuff is pretty cool. Mostly using Canon equipment since everyone else m... | 1,760,371,930.305597 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/30/singleboard-alpha-is-a-very-stylish-computer-on-a-single-pcb/ | Singleboard: Alpha Is A Very Stylish Computer On A Single PCB | Lewin Day | [
"computer hacks",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"ESP32",
"headless",
"single board computer"
] | When we think single-board computers, we normally envision things like the Raspberry Pi. But Arduboy creator [Kevin Bates] has recently come up with his own take on the SBC that’s a bit like a modernized take on the early computers of the 1980s.
Introducing Singleboard: Alpha.
The build has an incredibly pleasing form ... | 34 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6754823",
"author": "Andrew Singleton",
"timestamp": "2024-04-30T16:41:48",
"content": "On the one hand undeniably cool wit hthe batteyr clipped via plug meaning I could theoretically swap out for something that would stow behind it in a printed case, and there is indeed a cool fact... | 1,760,371,930.484393 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/30/2024-home-sweet-home-automation-the-winners-are-in/ | 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: The Winners Are In | Tom Nardi | [
"contests",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Slider"
] | [
"2024 Home Sweet Home Automation",
"Hackaday Contests",
"home automation"
] | Home automation is huge right now in consumer electronics, but despite the wide availability of products on the market, hackers and makers are still spinning up their own solutions. It could be because their situations are unique enough that commercial offerings wouldn’t cut it, or perhaps they know how cheaply many au... | 13 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6754809",
"author": "RunnerPack",
"timestamp": "2024-04-30T15:28:32",
"content": "Was “over the year is over” meant to be “before the year is over” perhaps?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6754828",
"author": "rclark",
"... | 1,760,371,930.362536 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/30/turn-your-qualcomm-phone-or-modem-into-cellular-sniffer/ | Turn Your Qualcomm Phone Or Modem Into Cellular Sniffer | Arya Voronova | [
"Phone Hacks",
"Reverse Engineering",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"2g",
"2G network",
"3g",
"4g",
"5g",
"cellular sniffing",
"qualcomm"
] | If your thought repurposing DVB-T dongles for generic software defined radio (SDR) use was cool, wait until you see QCSuper, a project that
re-purposes phones and modems to capture raw 2G/3G/4G/5G
. You have to have a Qualcomm-based device, it has to either run rooted Android or be a USB modem, but once you find one in... | 16 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6754757",
"author": "Roger from Fulchester Hackerspace",
"timestamp": "2024-04-30T11:52:40",
"content": "Nice …. so I’m guessing I could legally sniff my own unencrypted data from one of my external 4G devices by way of IP address? …. or how would I filter through all the other traf... | 1,760,371,930.413113 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/30/squeeze-another-drive-into-a-full-up-nas/ | Squeeze Another Drive Into A Full-Up NAS | Jenny List | [
"Network Hacks"
] | [
"nas",
"PCI-E",
"ssd"
] | A network-attached storage (NAS) device is a frequent peripheral in home and office networks alike, yet so often these devices come pre-installed with a proprietary OS which does not lend itself to customization. [Codedbearder] had just such a NAS, a Terramaster F2-221, which while it could be persuaded to run a differ... | 14 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6754737",
"author": "lamalas",
"timestamp": "2024-04-30T10:34:09",
"content": "Hats off.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6754738",
"author": "Alphatek",
"timestamp": "2024-04-30T10:36:44",
"content": "Very impressive... | 1,760,371,930.575053 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/29/you-can-use-visual-studio-code-to-write-commodore-64-assembly/ | You Can Use Visual Studio Code To Write Commodore 64 Assembly | Lewin Day | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"c64",
"commodore 64",
"retro"
] | Once upon a time, you might have developed for the Commodore 64 using the very machine itself. You’d use the chunky old keyboard, a tape drive, or the 1541 disk drive if you wanted to work faster. These days, though, we have more modern tools that provide a much more comfortable working environment. [My Developer Thoug... | 18 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6754698",
"author": "Eric",
"timestamp": "2024-04-30T06:33:09",
"content": "“or the 1541 disk drive” and had $400 to spend for one back then. $1200 when adjusted for inflation, that was an expensive drive.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"co... | 1,760,371,930.738359 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/29/sound-and-water-make-weird-vibes-in-microgravity/ | Sound And Water Make Weird Vibes In Microgravity | Donald Papp | [
"Musical Hacks",
"Science"
] | [
"audio",
"microgravity",
"sound waves",
"water"
] | NASA astronaut [Don Pettit] shared a short video from an experiment he performed on the ISS back in 2012, demonstrating
the effects of sound waves on water in space
. Specifically, seeing what happens when a sphere of water surrounding an air bubble perched on a speaker cone is subjected to a variety of acoustic waves.... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6756202",
"author": "soma",
"timestamp": "2024-05-05T15:19:53",
"content": "Water Make Weird Vibeshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymatics",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,371,930.615182 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/29/this-is-how-a-pen-changed-the-world/ | This Is How A Pen Changed The World | Kristina Panos | [
"History",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"ballpoint",
"ballpoint pen",
"bic",
"bic cristal"
] | Look around you. Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ends. Since 1950, it has far outsold the Rubik’s Cube and even the iPhone, and yet,
it’s one of the most unsung and overlooked pieces of technology ever invented.
And weirdly, it hasn’t had the honor of trademark erosion like Xerox or... | 80 | 31 | [
{
"comment_id": "6754612",
"author": "Hirudinea",
"timestamp": "2024-04-30T00:02:34",
"content": "I guess it does take balls to change the world.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6754689",
"author": "hexa6six",
"timestamp": "202... | 1,760,371,930.853899 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/29/tiny-arduino-drone-even-has-an-fpv-camera/ | Tiny Arduino Drone Even Has An FPV Camera | Lewin Day | [
"drone hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"drone",
"multirotor"
] | In the turmoil of today’s world, drones are getting bigger, badder, and angrier. [Max Imagination] has gone the other way with his work, though,
building a teeny Arduino drone that can fit in the palm of your hand.
Even if you have a small hand!
The drone is based around an Arduino Pro Mini, and uses an MPU6050 IMU for... | 15 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6754567",
"author": "Clovis Fritzen",
"timestamp": "2024-04-29T20:11:33",
"content": "Seen this instructable earlier today, seen the buzz in the comments. Did not understand what its differential is.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_... | 1,760,371,930.92338 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/29/a-ch552g-devboard-in-case-you-missed-it/ | A CH552G Devboard In Case You Missed It | Arya Voronova | [
"Microcontrollers",
"Parts"
] | [
"CH552",
"devboard"
] | We might just never get tired of covering cool small cheap MCUs, and CH552G sure fits this description. Just so you know, here’s a Hackaday.io project you should check out –
a CH552G devboard
that’s as simple as it sufficient, in case you needed a tangible reminder that this chip exists, has a lively community, and is ... | 10 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6754536",
"author": "zoobab",
"timestamp": "2024-04-29T18:35:28",
"content": "Otherwise you a breakout board:http://zoobab.com/ch552g-blink",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6754547",
"author": "paulvdh",
"timest... | 1,760,371,930.964629 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/29/upgrade-your-test-probes/ | Upgrade Your Test Probes | Al Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Slider",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"multimeter probes",
"probes"
] | One of the most basic tools for tinkering with electronics is a multimeter. Today, even a cheap meter has capabilities that would have been either very expensive or unobtainable back in the 1970s. Still, even then, a meter was the most affordable way to do various tasks around the shop. Is this cable open? Are these tw... | 23 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6754502",
"author": "Clovis Fritzen",
"timestamp": "2024-04-29T17:22:33",
"content": "This is one of the electrical engineering areas that I feel we are not quite there yet. I mean, different approaches exist because not one is good enough.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,371,931.154963 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/29/make-3d-scenes-with-a-holodeck-like-voice-interface/ | Make 3D Scenes With A Holodeck-Like Voice Interface | Donald Papp | [
"Artificial Intelligence",
"Virtual Reality"
] | [
"3d",
"holodeck",
"voice control",
"vr"
] | The voice interface for the holodeck in
Star Trek
had users create objects by saying things like “create a table” and “now make it a metal table” and so forth, all with immediate feedback. This kind of interface may have been pure fantasy at the time of airing, but with the advent of AI and LLMs (large language models)... | 4 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6754482",
"author": "shinsukke",
"timestamp": "2024-04-29T16:21:39",
"content": "I am thoroughly impressedNow all that remains in my life is to buy a computer which can do this, and an AI TTS engine hooked up to an LLM locally and then become a hermit",
"parent_id": null,
"d... | 1,760,371,931.08661 |
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