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https://hackaday.com/2023/11/10/utah-nuke-reactors-canceled-due-to-lack-of-interest/ | Utah NuScale Nuclear Plant Project Canceled Due To Lack Of Interest From Utilities | Maya Posch | [
"News"
] | [
"nuscale",
"Small Modular Reactor"
] | Intended to be the first 6-unit deployment of NuScale’s 77 MW VOYGR small modular reactors (SMRs), the Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP) in Utah was scheduled to begin construction by 2025 on the grounds of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), yet it has now been
canceled by NuScale
(
press release
) after not finding e... | 59 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6697782",
"author": "Dude",
"timestamp": "2023-11-10T12:20:49",
"content": "The issue is that renewable power is both less expensive and more expensive. An utility can get a power purchasing agreement (PPA) out of a solar array or a wind farm for $20-30 per MWh because the taxpayers... | 1,760,372,110.616279 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/09/the-eyes-of-the-basilisk-are-watching-you/ | The Eyes Of The Basilisk Are Watching You | Richard Baguley | [
"Art"
] | [
"ESP32",
"LCD matrix",
"thermal camera"
] | MIT student [Anhad Sawhney] built an interesting decoration for his dorm room corridor called
The Eyes of the Basilisk
. Named after the mythical creature with a deadly gaze, the project monitors passers-by using thermal cameras and an LED matrix.
The project uses a thermal camera and a 64 by 64 LCD panel, with an ESP3... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6697817",
"author": "Laps",
"timestamp": "2023-11-10T14:38:00",
"content": "LCD matrix?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,372,110.218542 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/09/fastest-semiconductor-may-also-be-most-expensive/ | Fastest Semiconductor May Also Be Most Expensive | Al Williams | [
"News",
"Science"
] | [
"rhenium",
"semiconductor"
] | Scientists have found what they think may be the
fastest known semiconductor
. Sounds great, right? But it happens to made from one of the rarest elements: rhenium. That rare element combines with selenium and chlorine to form a “superatom.” Unlike conventional semiconductor material, the superatom causes phonons to bi... | 26 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6697717",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2023-11-10T03:07:19",
"content": "Possibly, or it may be reserved for electronics that need it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6697722",
"author": "Charles Springer",
"times... | 1,760,372,110.678257 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/09/the-height-of-1960s-dental-electronic-technology/ | The Height Of 1960s Dental Electronic Technology | Jenny List | [
"classic hacks",
"Teardown"
] | [
"dental",
"medical device",
"teardown",
"vacuum tube"
] | If you’ve ever been to the dental surgery and found yourself requiring some gum surgery, the chances are you’ll have found your dentist wielding an electronic probe to cauterise the flesh. It’s evidently some form of RF device because you are usually required to hold one of the electrodes while it’s being used, but ann... | 9 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6697679",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-11-10T00:08:30",
"content": "I remember our dentist back in the 1960s had a large multi function machine next to the dental chair. It was a sickly color green, had a motorized door to hide the instruments... | 1,760,372,110.335158 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/09/hack-a-soda-can-into-jewelry/ | Hack A Soda Can Into Jewelry | Al Williams | [
"green hacks"
] | [
"aluminium",
"aluminum",
"jewelry",
"recycling"
] | If you’ve ever needed some aluminum for a project, you might have noticed you have easy access to aluminum cans. If you need a cylinder, fine. But what if you don’t? [ThescientistformerlyknownasNaegeli] shows how to
create an attractive necklace from two soda cans
, and we think the techniques might be usable for other... | 11 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6697592",
"author": "JNA",
"timestamp": "2023-11-09T21:08:04",
"content": "The other cool thing I accidentally find out that works pretty well is using a can opener to take the top off of aluminum cans. Mount it along the top seal, leaves a smooth edge that won’t cut your lip. I h... | 1,760,372,110.387073 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/09/does-getting-into-your-garage-really-need-to-be-difficult/ | Does Getting Into Your Garage Really Need To Be Difficult? | Dan Maloney | [
"home hacks",
"Rants"
] | [
"api",
"Chamberlain",
"garage door",
"home-assistant",
"smart home",
"third party"
] | Probably the last thing anyone wants when coming home from a long day at work or a trip is to be hassled at the last possible moment — gaining entrance to your house. But for some home automation enthusiasts, that’s just what happened when they suddenly learned that
their own garage doors had betrayed them
.
The story ... | 78 | 21 | [
{
"comment_id": "6697542",
"author": "Gregg Eshelman",
"timestamp": "2023-11-09T19:54:42",
"content": "Replace the Chamberlain opener’s electronics with something open source which will always work with Home Assistant. At some point in there the door opener just connects the motor to power. Anything... | 1,760,372,110.952757 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/09/mining-and-refining-graphite/ | Mining And Refining: Graphite | Dan Maloney | [
"Engineering",
"Featured",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"carbon",
"elements",
"graphite",
"mining",
"raw materials"
] | In my teenage years I worked for a couple of summers at a small amusement park as a ride operator. Looking back on it, the whole experience was a lot of fun, although with the minimum wage at $3.37 an hour and being subjected to the fickle New England weather that ranged from freezing rains to heat stroke-inducing trop... | 26 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6697520",
"author": "jawnhenry",
"timestamp": "2023-11-09T19:03:11",
"content": "Great article–thanks much!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6698741",
"author": "Dan Maloney",
"timestamp": "2023-11-14T21:53:47",... | 1,760,372,110.825018 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/09/programming-1949-style/ | Programming 1949 Style! | Al Williams | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"api",
"edsac",
"eniac"
] | What was it like to program an early digital computer? [Woven Memories] wanted to know and
wants you to know,
too. [Maurice Wilkes] and his team wrote a book about their EDSAC and the 18 instructions that it used. These days, you can even run an EDSAC program on a number of emulators.
It is hard to realize how things w... | 28 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6697478",
"author": "Joshua",
"timestamp": "2023-11-09T16:51:26",
"content": "Was the ENIAC a real computer in the conventional sense, even?It didn’t use binary yet, like the Z3 did. 🤷♂️It’s more like a big calculator/cash register to me.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,372,110.281629 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/09/continental-europes-first-spaceport-and-its-above-the-arctic-circle/ | Continental Europe’s First Spaceport – And It’s Above The Arctic Circle! | Jenny List | [
"Space"
] | [
"Norway",
"polar orbit",
"spaceport"
] | When we think of a space launch it’s likely our minds might turn to the lush swampland of Florida’s Cape Canaveral, or the jungle of Kourou in Guyana. These are both in the tropical regions on sites as close to the Equator as the governments who built them could find, because the higher rotational speed of the planet a... | 28 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6697366",
"author": "Sweeney",
"timestamp": "2023-11-09T12:16:58",
"content": "Erm, what about the SaxaVord spaceport in the Shetlands?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6697377",
"author": "Phil Ashby",
"timesta... | 1,760,372,110.520855 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/09/virginia-cave-is-the-largest-musical-instrument-in-the-world/ | Virginia Cave Is The Largest Musical Instrument In The World | Richard Baguley | [
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"cavern",
"organ",
"solenoid"
] | Hit something with a hammer, and it makes a sound. If you’re lucky, it might even make a pleasant sound, which is the idea behind the
Great Stalacpipe Organ
in
Luray Caverns, Virginia
. The organ was created in 1954 by [Leland W. Sprinkle], who noticed that some stalactites (the ones that come down from the ceiling of ... | 23 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6697311",
"author": "Andy Pugh",
"timestamp": "2023-11-09T09:21:34",
"content": "Conflicted about this one. My caver ethics discourage even touching the “pretties” but at the same time it’s quite a cool thing.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,372,110.452588 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/08/apple-system-7-on-solaris/ | Apple System 7… On Solaris? | Bryan Cockfield | [
"News"
] | [
"68000",
"68k",
"apple",
"compatibility",
"emulator",
"hp-ux",
"mac",
"macintosh application environment",
"mae",
"operating system",
"solaris",
"unix",
"virtualization"
] | While the Unix operating systems Solaris and HP-UX are still in active development, they’re not particularly popular anymore and are mostly relegated to some enterprise and data center environments They did enjoy a peak of popularity in the 90s during the “wild west” era of windowed operating systems, though. This was ... | 17 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6697268",
"author": "avics",
"timestamp": "2023-11-09T06:19:36",
"content": "There was a similar product for emulating a PC called SoftPC for HP-UX emulating a 80286.I have an old HP9000/433T with a 68040 running HP-UX 9.10. It still boots…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,372,111.012198 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/08/lunar-gateways-advanced-solar-electric-propulsion-engine-passes-initial-qualification-tests/ | Lunar Gateway’s Advanced Solar Electric Propulsion Engine Passes Initial Qualification Tests | Maya Posch | [
"Space"
] | [
"ion propulsion",
"Lunar Gateway"
] | Recently NASA
announced earlier this month
that the 12 kW Advanced Electric Propulsion System (
AEPS
) — which is scheduled to form an integral part of the
Lunar Gateway when it is launched
— has passed a number of qualification tests, after a rather tumultuous number of years during its development.
Top-Level PPE Conc... | 8 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6697277",
"author": "Olaf",
"timestamp": "2023-11-09T07:31:11",
"content": "I’m still a bit reserved regarding this “AEPS”. The input power (12kW) gets mentioned quite often, but iirc the output was 600mN. Has that really been achieved?🤔",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,372,111.062492 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/08/getting-pcie-working-on-the-new-pi-5/ | Getting PCIe Working On The New Pi 5 | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"bus",
"communication",
"expansion",
"gen 1",
"PCIe",
"Pi 5",
"port",
"raspberry pi",
"Raspberry Pi 5"
] | After the Pi 4 released, a discovery was quickly made that the internals of the popular single-board computer use PCIe to communicate with each other. This wasn’t an accessible PCIe bus normally available in things like desktop computers for expansion cards, though; this seemed to be done entirely internally. But a few... | 36 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6697212",
"author": "Mike",
"timestamp": "2023-11-09T01:04:20",
"content": "Definitely interesting but I’ll wait for an official expansion board personally. Jeff Geerling has done some tests with a test one that he was able to borrow from the Raspberry Pi folks and that can get up t... | 1,760,372,111.138193 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/08/an-open-source-ebike-motor-controller/ | An Open-Source Ebike Motor Controller | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"bicycle",
"controller",
"ebike",
"open source",
"stealth",
"vesc"
] | DIY e-bikes are often easy to spot. If they’re not built out of something insane like an old washing machine motor, the more subtle kits that are generally used still stand out when compared to a non-assisted bike. The motors tend to be hub- or mid-drive systems with visible wires leading to a bulky battery, all of whi... | 18 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6697151",
"author": "Bill",
"timestamp": "2023-11-08T21:09:02",
"content": "Nice!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6697191",
"author": "Kyle",
"timestamp": "2023-11-08T23:44:47",
"content": "Given that the whole batte... | 1,760,372,111.189855 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/08/forever-writing-on-monofilament-fishing-line/ | Forever Writing On Monofilament Fishing Line | Dan Maloney | [
"Tech Hacks"
] | [
"ASCII",
"fishing line",
"fluorcarbon",
"fluoropolymer",
"medium",
"monofilament",
"solenoid"
] | Collectively, we have a long-term memory problem. Paper turns to mulch, dyes in optical disks degrade, iron oxides don’t last forever, and flash memories will eventually fade away. So what do you do when you want to write something down and make sure it’s around a couple of thousand years from now? Easy — just use some... | 50 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6697110",
"author": "Twisty Plastic",
"timestamp": "2023-11-08T19:37:03",
"content": "mmmm….. plastic molecules don’t break down for thousands of years but that doesn’t mean that plastic objects don’t. They embrittle and turn into little pieces of microplasitcs that no longer carry ... | 1,760,372,111.278826 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/08/2g-or-not-2g-that-is-the-question/ | 2G Or Not 2G, That Is The Question | Jenny List | [
"Cellphone Hacks",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Slider"
] | [
"2g",
"3g",
"cell phone",
"switchoff"
] | Since the very early 1990s, we have become used to ubiquitous digital mobile phone coverage for both voice and data. Such has been their success that they have for many users entirely supplanted the landline phone, and increasingly their voice functionality has become secondary to their provision of an always-on intern... | 66 | 28 | [
{
"comment_id": "6697076",
"author": "Bill",
"timestamp": "2023-11-08T18:06:43",
"content": "2G has been dead in the USA for years. A lot of vehicle telematic systems have stopped working.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6697104",
"aut... | 1,760,372,111.556332 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/08/reliving-the-authentic-90s-linux-experience/ | Reliving The Authentic 90s Linux Experience | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Linux Hacks",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"90's",
"floppy disk",
"installation",
"linux",
"manual",
"red hat",
"retro",
"retrocomputing"
] | Installing Linux on a modern PC has never been easier. There are tons of tools available that will nearly-automatically download your Linux distribution of choice, image a USB drive, and make it bootable so you can finally ditch your bloated, privacy-violating operating system and get the free performance boost that co... | 65 | 32 | [
{
"comment_id": "6697046",
"author": "The Gwen",
"timestamp": "2023-11-08T16:46:52",
"content": "Next we need someone to show what the 1992 vintage MCC Interim was like.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6697094",
"author": "mkomarinski"... | 1,760,372,111.666297 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/08/jennys-daily-drivers-riscos-5-28/ | Jenny’s Daily Drivers: RiscOS 5.28 | Jenny List | [
"computer hacks",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Slider",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"acorn archimedes",
"arm",
"raspberry pi",
"RiscOS"
] | On a mundane day at some point in late 1987, though I didn’t grasp exactly what it would become at the time, I sat in front of the future. My school had a lab full of BBC Micros which I’d spent the previous few years getting to know, but on that day there was a new machine in one corner. It was a brand-new Acorn Archim... | 35 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6697014",
"author": "Daid",
"timestamp": "2023-11-08T15:18:13",
"content": "> My windows pc’s can boot to my login and desktop In about 5 secondsActually, are you sure that is a fresh boot? Windows defaults to something with is more like a recovery from hibernation per default.",
... | 1,760,372,111.746646 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/08/the-golden-age-of-gadget-catalogs/ | The Golden Age Of Gadget Catalogs | Jenny List | [
"classic hacks",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"catalog",
"retrocomputer",
"retrotechnology"
] | Among Hackaday’s readership are likely to be many gadget enthusiasts who live for the latest electronics and who have obsessively followed gadget trends for most of their lives. You possess elite AliExpress-fu, and like the hipsters, you were into everything long before it was cool. It’s safe to say the Internet has re... | 22 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696980",
"author": "SoonToRetireEngineer",
"timestamp": "2023-11-08T13:10:42",
"content": "I have a few DAK products that I’m still using to this day. Loved getting that catalog :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6697079",
... | 1,760,372,111.443697 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/08/3d-printing-improves-passive-pixel-water-gauge/ | 3D Printing Improves Passive Pixel Water Gauge | Dan Maloney | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"flip-dot",
"float",
"gauge",
"magnet",
"sensor",
"water level"
] | Here at Hackaday, we feature all kinds of projects, and we love them all the same. But some projects are a little easier to love than others, especially those that get the job done in as simple a way as possible, with nothing extra to get in the way.
This completely electronics-free water gauge
is a great example of do... | 9 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696985",
"author": "Michael",
"timestamp": "2023-11-08T13:19:48",
"content": "Very cool, as long as you live where it will never get below freezing.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6696992",
"author": "Brad",
... | 1,760,372,112.134042 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/07/50-year-old-program-gets-speed-boost/ | 50-Year-Old Program Gets Speed Boost | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"4004",
"4040",
"algorithm",
"assembly",
"bellard",
"eniac",
"intel",
"mathematics",
"optimization",
"Pi",
"speed"
] | At first glance, getting a computer program to run faster than the first electronic computers might seem trivial. After all, most of us carry enormously powerful processors in our pockets every day as if that’s normal. But [Mark] isn’t trying to beat computers like the ENIAC with a mobile ARM processor or other modern ... | 19 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696928",
"author": "RÖB",
"timestamp": "2023-11-08T07:10:35",
"content": "Cheating! These spigot algorithms weren’t discovered back then. The only Spigot I remember was for square root and even that needed to start at the base set.It would have been far more impressive if he had im... | 1,760,372,111.898797 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/07/using-gravitational-lensing-to-transmit-power-and-detect-aliens/ | Using Gravitational Lensing To Transmit Power And Detect Aliens | Richard Baguley | [
"Space"
] | [
"aliens",
"laser",
"SETI"
] | Most of us will have at some point have bought a long power cable to charge the bike on the deck, but [Slava G. Turyshev] has a slightly more ambitious idea. In
this recent paper
, he outlines how an advanced civilization could use a star or two to transmit power or send signals over an interstellar distance. And his i... | 18 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696910",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-11-08T04:29:57",
"content": "Power transmission?Even with gravitational lensing, square law would have its say.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6697... | 1,760,372,111.950847 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/07/we-like-big-keyboards-and-we-cannot-lie/ | We Like Big Keyboards And We Cannot Lie | Kristina Panos | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"keyboard",
"scale model",
"world record"
] | So, let’s say you’re good at DOTA. Like, world-class good. How good do you think you’d be on a keyboard that’s 16 feet long, with a space bar the size of a person? Well, you’d need the rest of your team, that’s for sure.
Alienware have created the world’s largest mechanical keyboard and mouse
, which are working, 14:1 ... | 13 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696884",
"author": "Hirudinea",
"timestamp": "2023-11-08T00:10:22",
"content": "Look on my Works, ye Touch Typists, and despair!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8112094",
"author": "PCBoi",
"timestamp": "2025-... | 1,760,372,112.087857 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/07/trouble-brewing-for-risc-v-as-issue-of-technology-transfer-is-questioned/ | Trouble Brewing For RISC-V As Issue Of Technology Transfer Is Questioned | Maya Posch | [
"News"
] | [
"microprocessors",
"RISC-V",
"RISC-V ISA"
] | Within the messy world of international politics, a major consideration by governments concerns which types of kn0w-how and technology can be transferred and sold to other nations, with each type facing restrictions depending on how friendly the political relations are with the target country at that point in time. Ami... | 42 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696862",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2023-11-07T22:17:04",
"content": "So basically, this is why the US can’t have nice things.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6696890",
"author": "Charles Springer",
"... | 1,760,372,112.033286 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/07/hackaday-prize-2023-ending-10-years-on-a-high-note/ | Hackaday Prize 2023: Ending 10 Years On A High Note | Tom Nardi | [
"Featured",
"Slider",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2023 Hackaday Prize",
"2023 Hackaday Supercon"
] | It’s a fact of life — all good things must eventually come to an end. The trick is not to focus so much on the chapter that’s closing, but look ahead to what comes next. This is precisely how the Hackaday Prize ended its incredible ten-year run on Saturday during Supercon.
This final year of the competition saw some of... | 18 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696822",
"author": "ScubaBearLA",
"timestamp": "2023-11-07T20:18:24",
"content": "I’m sad to see the Hackaday Prize sunset… will you continue to have Supercon?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6696901",
"author": "Elli... | 1,760,372,112.194234 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/07/flipped-transformer-powers-budget-friendly-vacuum-tube-amp/ | Flipped Transformer Powers Budget-Friendly Vacuum Tube Amp | Dan Maloney | [
"classic hacks",
"Parts"
] | [
"amplifier",
"filament",
"Isolation",
"power",
"primary",
"secondary",
"transformer",
"vacuum tube",
"valve"
] | If you’ve ever wondered why something like a radio or a TV could command a hefty fraction of a family’s yearly income back in the day, a likely culprit is the collection of power transformers needed to run all those hungry, hungry tubes. Now fast-forward a half-century or more, and affordable, good-quality power transf... | 31 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696781",
"author": "Twisty Plastic",
"timestamp": "2023-11-07T17:34:30",
"content": "Are HaD readers too much for triadmagnetics.com’s webserver?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6696786",
"author": "Lee Hart",
"timestam... | 1,760,372,112.263627 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/07/all-about-cats-and-what-ethernet-classifications-mean-beyond-bigger-number-better/ | All About Cats, And What Ethernet Classifications Mean Beyond ‘Bigger Number Better’ | Maya Posch | [
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Science",
"Slider"
] | [
"ethernet",
"line code",
"spectral bandwidth"
] | Although it probably feels like forever to many of us since Category 5 Ethernet cabling became prevalent, now that 2.5 and even 5 Gbit Ethernet has trickled into the mainstream, a pertinent question that many probably end up asking, is when you should replace Cat-5e wiring with Cat-6, or even Cat-7. Since most of us ar... | 48 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696772",
"author": "NurseBobIsRetired",
"timestamp": "2023-11-07T16:32:38",
"content": "This home I bought three years ago was one of the first Model Homes for the development and is fully wired with CAT5 cabling and multiple ports per room, even in the garage. Given what it would ... | 1,760,372,112.423576 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/07/intel-v-nec-the-case-of-the-v20s-microcode/ | Intel V. NEC : The Case Of The V20’s Microcode | Maya Posch | [
"computer hacks",
"Reverse Engineering"
] | [
"Intel 8086",
"intel 8088",
"microcode",
"nec v20"
] | Back in the last century, Intel saw itself faced with a need to have ‘second source’ suppliers of its 8088 and 8086 processors, which saw NEC being roped in to be one of those alternative suppliers to keep Intel’s customers happy with the μPD 8086 and μPD 8088 offerings. Yet rather than using the Intel provided design ... | 18 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696726",
"author": "PinheadBE",
"timestamp": "2023-11-07T13:03:22",
"content": "My first PC got a V20 implant, and I gained about 10% on the benchmarks of those times. It looked like a miracle in those days……",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
... | 1,760,372,112.322539 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/07/nixie-tube-rpn-calculator-project/ | Nixie Tube RPN Calculator Project | Chris Lott | [
"classic hacks",
"Retrocomputing",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"70's calculators",
"calculator hack",
"hp calculator",
"nonpareil"
] | If you like Nixie tubes and/or DIY calculators,
checkout this interesting talk from the HP Handheld Conference
in Orlando last month by [Eric Smith] from
Brouhaha
and [John Doran] from
Time Fracture
. For 20-some years, [Eric] and the late [Richard Ottosen] have been incrementally developing various DIY calculators —
t... | 12 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696689",
"author": "TG",
"timestamp": "2023-11-07T09:26:53",
"content": "Really good aesthetic on this one, feels like the real deal",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6696692",
"author": "Carl Foxmarten",
"timestamp": "20... | 1,760,372,112.817484 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/06/browsing-the-www-on-a-1980s-ibm-pc-using-microweb/ | Browsing The WWW On A 1980s IBM PC Using MicroWeb | Maya Posch | [
"internet hacks",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"IBM PC",
"MicroWeb"
] | Do you ever sit at your 1981 vintage IBM PC and get the urge to pop onto that newfangled ‘WWW’ to stay up to date on all the goings-on in the world? Fret not, because [Al’s Geek Lab] has you covered with
a new video
(also embedded below), which you will unfortunately have to watch on a device that was made at the very ... | 13 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696674",
"author": "aa",
"timestamp": "2023-11-07T08:10:42",
"content": "I have agreed with myself not to watch any youtube video that contains a surprised face in the thumbnail… (So that’d be 90% of youtube nowadays i think. *surpised face* o.o)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth... | 1,760,372,112.705113 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/06/tiny-forth-could-be-the-smallest/ | Tiny Forth Could Be The Smallest | Al Williams | [
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"boot sector",
"forth"
] | When you think of a programming language, you probably think of a hefty compiler or interpreter. Maybe its on a bunch of floppies, a CD, or even an EEPROM. But what about a language that fits in a single disk sector? A language like that would — in theory — be used to help bootstrap a computer system and that was the i... | 29 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696651",
"author": "Bobtato",
"timestamp": "2023-11-07T03:37:19",
"content": "That github readme actually claims it’s the smallest ever at /380/ bytes (and says sectorFORTH is 436).Maybe it shrunk in the minutes since this article was posted?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1... | 1,760,372,112.770451 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/06/3d-printed-led-wall-clock-does-lots-with-little/ | 3D-Printed LED Wall Clock Does Lots With Little | Richard Baguley | [
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"clock",
"led",
"neopixel ring"
] | This
wall clock
built by [Alf Müller] is lovely, using two NeoPixel rings to mark the time by casting light onto a 3D-printed ring. The blue shows the minutes, made more discrete by a grid inside the ring. The green shows the hours. [Alf] has provided the code so you can rework the color scheme. It might be interesti... | 14 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696619",
"author": "LookAtDaShinyShiny",
"timestamp": "2023-11-07T00:43:55",
"content": "Nice, looks like the one I made using wled and my own 3d printed design to hold the leds (only one strip of 60 that shines outward), with wled you get a clock, a wake light, IoT triggers, your... | 1,760,372,112.895989 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/06/open-brain-surgery-for-ebikes-and-escooters/ | Open Brain Surgery For EBikes And EScooters | Navarre Bartz | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"bike",
"CircuitPython",
"electric bike",
"electric scooter",
"electric skateboard",
"electric vehicle",
"ESP32",
"ev",
"micromobility",
"Personal Electric Vehicle",
"PEVs"
] | Personal Electric Vehicles (PEVs) all contain the same basic set of parts: a motor, a battery, a motor controller, some sensors, and a display to parse the information. This simplicity allowed [casainho] to develop a
custom controller setup
for their own PEVs.
Built around the venerable
VESC motor controller
, [casainh... | 7 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696567",
"author": "TG",
"timestamp": "2023-11-06T21:52:01",
"content": "Ah, yes, very useful for certain uh… very legal and fun activities concerning particular bits of sidewalk garbage.I’ll take three.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"com... | 1,760,372,112.939916 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/06/smart-ring-measures-blood-pressure/ | Smart Ring Measures Blood Pressure | Orlando Hoilett | [
"Medical Hacks",
"News"
] | [
"biohacking",
"blood pressure",
"blood pressure monitor",
"kelvin cell"
] | Continuous blood pressure monitoring has always been a major challenge for the biohacking community. Those giant arm cuffs aren’t exactly the kind of thing you want to wear all day and the wrist monitors aren’t super great either. So, [Kaan] and his research team set out to create a better continuous blood pressure mon... | 17 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696546",
"author": "Rudranand Sahu",
"timestamp": "2023-11-06T20:04:22",
"content": "How does it works around the difference in impedance caused by sweating?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6696568",
"author": "Jace",... | 1,760,372,113.413368 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/06/virginia-to-get-large-scale-wind-farm/ | Virginia To Get Large-Scale Wind Farm | Al Williams | [
"green hacks",
"News"
] | [
"offshore",
"wind power",
"windmill"
] | If you go about 27 miles off the coast of Virginia, you’ll find two windmills jutting up out of the sea. Two windmills aren’t particularly interesting until you realize that these two are on the edge of a 2,100-acre lease that Dominion Energy is placing in Federal water. According to the company, those two will be
join... | 89 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696480",
"author": "Severe Tire Damage",
"timestamp": "2023-11-06T16:40:41",
"content": "Ah, yes — but what about the poor birds.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6696481",
"author": "Climate Forward",
"timesta... | 1,760,372,113.247183 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/06/its-a-marble-clock-but-not-as-we-know-it/ | It’s A Marble Clock, But Not As We Know It | Donald Papp | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"clock hacks"
] | [
"3d printed",
"clock",
"ir sensor",
"marble",
"solenoid"
] | [Ivan Miranda] is taking a very interesting approach to a marble clock.
His design is a huge assembly
that uses black and white marbles to create a (sort of) dot matrix display. It’s part kinetic art and part digital clock, all driven by marbles.
Here’s how it works: black and white marbles feed into a big elevator. Th... | 28 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696445",
"author": "Andy Pugh",
"timestamp": "2023-11-06T12:59:53",
"content": "There are _very_ high quality balls available, but not glass. And probably out of budget:https://simplybearings.co.uk/shop/Loose-Balls-&-Rollers/c23/index.htmlA combination of alumina and silcon nitride... | 1,760,372,113.01079 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/06/reduce-the-pi-5s-power-consumption-at-a-stroke/ | Reduce The Pi 5’s Power Consumption At A Stroke | Jenny List | [
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"Pi 5",
"power consumption",
"power hack",
"Raspberry Pi 5"
] | The Raspberry Pi 5 is the new wunderkind single-board computer on the block, so new in fact that users are still finding out its quirks. One of those quirks is a surprisingly high power consumption when powered down, despite halting the SoC, it leaves the power on and consumes over a watt even in standby. [Jeff Geerlin... | 18 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696431",
"author": "LED Blastard",
"timestamp": "2023-11-06T10:37:25",
"content": "Is this also a problem with Pi 4? If so, does the same fix apply? I’d fancy the LED off at very least when powered off.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"commen... | 1,760,372,113.357375 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/05/adding-temperature-sensor-functionality-to-the-ch32v003-mcu/ | Adding Temperature Sensor Functionality To The CH32V003 MCU | Maya Posch | [
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"CH32V003",
"MCU",
"microcontroller",
"RISC-V",
"temperature"
] | As cheap as the WCH CH32V003 MCU is, its approximately $0.10 price tag looks far less attractive when you need to start adding on external ICs for missing basic features, such as temperature measurement. This is a feature that’s commonly found on even basic STM32 MCUs. Fear not though, as [eeucalyptus] shows, you can i... | 15 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696399",
"author": "jpa",
"timestamp": "2023-11-06T06:14:28",
"content": "Even the STM32 built-in temperature sensor has really poor accuracy, like +- 5°C. Adding NTC resistor to ADC pin costs 2 cents and gets you to +-1°C or better.Still a cool hack, though, and useful if you can’... | 1,760,372,113.307484 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/05/what-parts-should-you-desolder/ | What Parts Should You Desolder? | Jenny List | [
"Parts",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"desolder",
"junk",
"junkbox",
"scrap",
"stock parts"
] | A rite of passage for a young electronics enthusiast used to be collecting an array of surplus boards from whatever could be found, and using them as sources of parts to desolder. It was possible with a bit of work and searching to build all manner of electronic projects without spending much at all. Many hardware hac... | 28 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696370",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-11-06T03:27:52",
"content": "“We’re surprised that he advocates holding on to electrolytic capacitors as a kit of many values is now pretty cheap,”If they are in expensive gear, they might be better qualit... | 1,760,372,113.48109 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/05/hackaday-links-november-5-2023/ | Hackaday Links: November 5, 2023 | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackaday links",
"Slider"
] | [
"Cherenkov",
"factory tour",
"hackaday links",
"half-life",
"nuclear power",
"nuclear waste",
"Open Hardware Summit",
"osh",
"radiation",
"Raspberry Pi 5",
"Solar Cycle 25",
"solar max",
"sunspot",
"Supercon 2023"
] | As I write this, Supercon 2023 is in full swing down in Pasadena — 80 degrees and sunny at the moment, as opposed to 50 and pouring rain where I am, not that I’m bitter. Luckily, though, we can all follow along with the proceedings thanks to the
livestreams on the Hackaday channel
, which of course will all be availabl... | 5 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696355",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-11-06T00:33:12",
"content": "“not that I’m bitter. ”Because they saved one of the cool badges for you?B^)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6696539",
... | 1,760,372,113.570841 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/05/servo-claw-game-puts-your-muscles-to-the-test/ | Servo Claw Game Puts Your Muscles To The Test | Kristina Panos | [
"Android Hacks",
"Arduino Hacks"
] | [
"9G servo",
"arduino",
"Arduino Uno",
"claw game"
] | As fun as claw games are, the jaws are always disappointingly weak, and you usually end up with bupkis. What if the jaws were completely within your control?
That’s the idea behind [Upside Down Labs]’ muscle-controlled servo claw game
.
While electromyography (EMG) is great for identifying neuro-muscular abnormalities... | 5 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696348",
"author": "Jabberwock",
"timestamp": "2023-11-05T23:17:25",
"content": "To be exact, the claws are configured to be disappointingly weak in a predefined number of cases in order to make the claw games profitable. It is a game of chance pretending to be a game of skill.",
... | 1,760,372,113.523913 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/05/reducing-poop-on-multicolor-prints/ | Reducing Poop On Multicolor Prints | Bob Baddeley | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d print",
"3d printer extruder",
"Bambu",
"filament extruder",
"plastic recycling",
"poop",
"printer waste",
"purge",
"recycling",
"waste"
] | While multicolor printing eliminates painting steps and produces vibrant objects, there are two significant downsides; filament consumption and print time. A single-nozzle filament printer needs to switch from one color to another, and doing so involves switching to the other filament and then purging the transition fi... | 25 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696317",
"author": "Jan",
"timestamp": "2023-11-05T20:22:36",
"content": "Well, reducing this waste is easy – if you don’t want the waste, don’t do multicolor prints with many color changes on a machine that has a single extruder and has to change filaments – like the Bambulab ones... | 1,760,372,113.630132 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/05/oh-the-places-youll-go-with-stop-motion-animation/ | Oh, The Places You’ll Go With Stop Motion Animation | Adam Fabio | [
"Art",
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"animation",
"bionicle",
"I Fight Dragons",
"robots",
"stop motion"
] | Robots made of broken toy parts, stop-motion animation, and a great song to tie it all together were not on our bingo card for 2023,
but the results are perfect
. [Mootroidxproductions] recently released the
official music video for I Fight Dragons 2019 song “Oh the Places You’ll Go”
.
The song was written by lead voca... | 5 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696327",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-11-05T21:00:43",
"content": "Touching!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6696346",
"author": "GarthVader",
"timestamp": "2023-11-05T22:39:11",
... | 1,760,372,113.674897 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/05/perfect-dark-recompiled/ | Perfect Dark: Recompiled | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Games",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"nintendo",
"perfect dark",
"recompile",
"retrogaming"
] | There’s an interesting renaissance of Nintendo 64 gaming, powered by the ability to decompile N64 ROMs back into C code using Ghidra. There are projects around multiple classic games, taking the Ghidra output and renaming the generic function and variable names. There are two approaches to these projects, sometimes hap... | 55 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696229",
"author": "solipso",
"timestamp": "2023-11-05T12:16:22",
"content": "A wild Nintedo lawyer will appear in 3, 2, …",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6696232",
"author": "mt23",
"timestamp": "2023-11-05T1... | 1,760,372,113.973214 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/05/flash-programmer-shows-some-nifty-tricks/ | Flash Programmer Shows Some Nifty Tricks | Jenny List | [
"hardware",
"Peripherals Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"CH341A",
"i2c",
"usb"
] | A handy tool to have on the bench is a Flash chip programmer, and the ones based around the CH341A USB bus converter chip are readily available. But the chip is capable of so much more than simply programming nonvolatile memory, so [Tomasz Ostrowski]
has created a utility program that expands its capabilities
. The sof... | 13 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696214",
"author": "zoobab",
"timestamp": "2023-11-05T08:50:45",
"content": "Still hunting for libusb examples to pilot the all the GPIOs, here it’s only one:https://github.com/sarim/ch341a-bitbang-userland",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"... | 1,760,372,114.028903 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/04/lessons-in-printer-poop-recycling/ | Lessons In Printer Poop Recycling | Dan Maloney | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"Bambu",
"extruder",
"PLA",
"poop",
"purge",
"recycling",
"waste"
] | The fundamental problem with multi-color 3D printing using a single hotend is that they poop an awful lot. Every time they change filaments, they’ve got to purge the single nozzle, which results in a huge number of technicolor “purge poops” which on some machines are even ejected out a chute at the back of the printer.... | 33 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696183",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2023-11-05T05:48:03",
"content": "Wouldn’t jam the printer?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6696296",
"author": "Charles the Impaler",
"timestamp": "2023-11-05T18:02:... | 1,760,372,114.391764 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/04/looking-at-how-pyramids-were-built-using-their-casing-stones/ | Looking At How Pyramids Were Built Using Their Casing Stones | Maya Posch | [
"History"
] | [
"historical construction",
"pyramid"
] | As one of the most famous Ancient Egyptian pyramids, the Pyramid of Khafre on the plateau of Giza has been a true wonder of the Ancient World ever since its construction around 2570 BCE. Today, well over 4,500 years later, we are still as puzzled as our ancestors over the past hundreds of years how exactly this and oth... | 23 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696186",
"author": "Rob Ward",
"timestamp": "2023-11-05T06:39:33",
"content": "My bet would be that the limestone covering was carefully made to fit the underlying “rough bricks” and after that the rough hewn outer shape was cleaned up after the pyramid was totally covered.So it wa... | 1,760,372,114.182941 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/04/an-intel-8008-on-a-single-board-computer/ | An Intel 8008 On A Single-Board Computer | Julian Scheffers | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"8008",
"single board computer"
] | The last time we covered [Dr. Scott M. Baker], he made his Heathkit H8 run on a considerably older processor than it was made for. This time, apparently still not satisfied with the number of 8008 computers, he made
an Intel 8008-based single-board computer
.
The Mini-08, as [Scott] calls it, is based on his previous e... | 9 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696161",
"author": "Doug Leppard",
"timestamp": "2023-11-05T00:02:25",
"content": "8008 was my first computer wire rapped it from scratch my own design. I learned so much from that computer. It was so slow but worked. Next was the z80. Those the days but never going back.",
"... | 1,760,372,114.227758 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/04/custom-aluminum-monitor-stand-for-the-home-office/ | Custom Aluminum Monitor Stand For The Home Office | Matthew Carlson | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"cantilever",
"extruded rail",
"monitor stand"
] | Monitor stands vary wildly in price, from a few cents for a pile of books from a thrift store to hundreds of dollars. One trendy style, as [Steven Bennett] puts it, is the “General Grievous,” with adjustable arms splayed around a central pole. While effective, it is not particularly aesthetically pleasing. [Steven] set... | 11 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696163",
"author": "Paul",
"timestamp": "2023-11-05T00:11:37",
"content": "under a grand? *cough* *choke* srsly?Thanks. I’ll put up with the scrap of 2×4 screwed to my wall. Bonus: zero desk footprint.And almost a grand left over to spend on a monitor too.",
"parent_id": n... | 1,760,372,114.11661 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/04/beaglev-catches-fire/ | BeagleV Catches Fire With The BeagleV-Fire | Richard Baguley | [
"computer hacks"
] | [
"beagleboard",
"BeagleBoard.org",
"BeagleV",
"fpga",
"RISC-V"
] | A new BeagleBoard is on the way, full of FPGA hotness: the
BeagleV-Fire
has been announced. The new $150 Single-Board Computer (SBC) from the pioneering open source BeagleBoard company is built around a RISC-V chip that has FPGA features built in. The BeagleV-Fire is built around the snappily named
Microchip PolarFire ... | 35 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696113",
"author": "willmore",
"timestamp": "2023-11-04T17:28:34",
"content": "The only people this is going to burn are those foolish enough to pay $150 for it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6696116",
"author": "M"... | 1,760,372,114.459993 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/04/supercon-2023-is-on-live/ | Supercon 2023 Is On: Live | Elliot Williams | [
"cons",
"News"
] | [
"2023 Hackaday Supercon",
"2023 Hackaday Superconference"
] | Supercon is in full swing! If you weren’t able to join us in person, we’re streaming the main stage and you should absolutely check out the talks as they happen.
The full schedule is here
, and you’ll find all the streams over on our
YouTube channel
. Come join in the fun.
For those of you
are
here with us in Pasadena,... | 3 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696110",
"author": "Orzel",
"timestamp": "2023-11-04T16:45:49",
"content": "The link “over on our youtube channel” brings me to a login screen.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6696111",
"author": "Orzel",
"tim... | 1,760,372,115.989278 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/04/saving-apollo-by-decoding-core-rope/ | Saving Apollo By Decoding Core Rope | Jonathan Bennett | [
"History",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"agc",
"Apollo Guidance Computer",
"core memory",
"Core rope memory"
] | One of our favorite retro hardware enthusiasts, [CuriousMarc], is back with the outstanding tale of
preserving Apollo Program software
, and building a core rope reader from scratch to do it. We’ve talked about [Marc]’s
previous efforts to get real Apollo hardware working again
, and one of the by-products of this effo... | 7 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696088",
"author": "Joshua",
"timestamp": "2023-11-04T14:52:21",
"content": "I’m speechless. Kudos to them!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6696093",
"author": "CMH62",
"timestamp": "2023-11-04T15:12:54",
"content":... | 1,760,372,116.538059 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/02/random-number-generator-is-a-blast-from-the-past/ | Random Number Generator Is A Blast From The Past | Tom Nardi | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"555",
"linear feedback shift register",
"nixie",
"nixie tube",
"prng",
"rng"
] | Hackers love random numbers, or more accurately, the pursuit of them. It turns out that computers are so good at following our exacting instructions that they are largely incapable of doing anything that would fit the strict definition of randomness — which has lead to some elaborate methods of generating the unexpecte... | 16 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695735",
"author": "SETH",
"timestamp": "2023-11-02T22:50:47",
"content": "Using a LFSR, with 99 possible states represented by 8 bits, would make the periodicity quite small. It wouldn’t be suitable for Monte Carlo simulations. However this device could maintain form factor and ... | 1,760,372,116.155495 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/02/pocketable-yagi-antenna-really-shoots-for-distance/ | Pocketable Yagi Antenna Really Shoots For Distance | Dan Maloney | [
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"2 meter",
"amateur radio",
"antenna",
"copper foil",
"ham",
"tyvek",
"yagi",
"yagi-uda"
] | For amateur radio operators, the quest for the perfect antenna never seems to end. Perhaps that’s because our requirements are always changing. We never quite seem to get to one design that can do everything.
This copper-foil Yagi antenna
might not do
everything
, but it really seems to tick off the boxes for gain and ... | 45 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695696",
"author": "andarb",
"timestamp": "2023-11-02T18:41:05",
"content": "I was imagining something that unfurls like an umbrella. I guess that’d be the next generation of the concept. Cool work, just not quite as cool as I thought at first.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth":... | 1,760,372,116.336304 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/02/2000-year-old-charred-manuscripts-reveal-their-secrets/ | 2000-Year Old Charred Manuscripts Reveal Their Secrets | Lewin Day | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Misc Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"CT Scan",
"papyrus",
"scroll",
"sroll",
"vesuvius challenge",
"x-ray",
"xray"
] | Imagine trying to read a 2000-year old scroll from an ancient civilization. Now imagine that scroll is rolled up, and in a delicate, charred, carbonized form, having been engulfed by the fiery eruption of a volcano. The task would seem virtually impossible, and the information in the scroll lost forever. Right?|
As it ... | 38 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695676",
"author": "YoDrTentacles",
"timestamp": "2023-11-02T17:07:25",
"content": "Utterly fascinating. This reminds me of those lost Picasso paintings that they found existing as other parts of his work after X-raying them, whether it was reusing canvas or whatever.The only conce... | 1,760,372,116.494853 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/02/the-best-sounding-walnut-youll-hear-today/ | The Best-Sounding Walnut You’ll Hear Today | Kristina Panos | [
"digital audio hacks"
] | [
"bluetooth",
"bluetooth speaker",
"dead bug",
"dead bug construction",
"walnut"
] | Do you ever find yourself eating walnuts and think, this would make a great enclosure for something like a Bluetooth speaker? That seems to be exactly what happened to [Penguin DIY].
In the
mesmerizing video after the break
, you’ll see [Penguin DIY] do what seems to be impossible. They start with a tiny 5 V power bank... | 17 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695663",
"author": "Tidy Hobo",
"timestamp": "2023-11-02T15:35:04",
"content": "I bet the sound is nuts!!!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6695664",
"author": "PinheadBE",
"timestamp": "2023-11-02T16:13:25",
"conten... | 1,760,372,116.091997 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/02/homebrew-tem-cell-lets-you-emc-test-your-own-devices/ | Homebrew TEM Cell Lets You EMC Test Your Own Devices | Dan Maloney | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"copper",
"electromagnetic compatibility",
"emc",
"fr4",
"impedance",
"line impedance stabilization network",
"LISN",
"spactrum analyzer",
"TEM",
"testing",
"transvere electromagnetic cell"
] | Submitting a new device for electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) testing seems a little like showing up for the final exam after skipping all the lectures. You might get lucky and pass, but it really would have been smarter to take a few of the quizzes to see how things were going during the semester. Similarly, it woul... | 14 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695617",
"author": "abjq",
"timestamp": "2023-11-02T12:03:52",
"content": "I’ve been through this a few times and helped our hardware engineers (mainly by driving engineering versions of software, but also, with some radio knowledge).What would be interesting is whether the TEM cel... | 1,760,372,116.040835 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/02/a-network-adapter-thinks-its-a-cd-rom-restore-its-true-calling/ | A Network Adapter Thinks It’s A CD-ROM. Restore Its True Calling! | Jenny List | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"network card",
"usb",
"USB mode"
] | A mildly annoying trend over recent years has been for USB hardware devices to expose a CD-ROM drive containing their drivers for Windows users. Of course there’s no real CD in there, instead the software lives on a piece of flash memory. It’s usually not a problem as they also appear on the USB bus as their true calli... | 32 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695555",
"author": "Carl Foxmarten",
"timestamp": "2023-11-02T08:30:12",
"content": "If you’re using Linux, I’d recommend trying “usb_modeswitch”. This is a common tactic for USB WiFi adapters (which I found out the hard way) to include their Windows (and rubbish Linux) drivers wit... | 1,760,372,116.412704 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/01/toy-gaming-controller-makes-the-big-leagues/ | Toy Gaming Controller Makes The Big Leagues | Bryan Cockfield | [
"News",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"controller",
"ESP32",
"game controller",
"internet of things",
"IoT",
"mqtt",
"peripherial",
"toy",
"wemos d1 mini"
] | Some of the off-brand video game consoles and even accessories for the major brands can leave a lot to be desired. Whether it’s poor build quality or a general lack of support or updates, there are quite a few things on the market not worth anyone’s time or money. [Jonathan] was recently handed just such a peripheral, ... | 5 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695656",
"author": "Baird Bankovic",
"timestamp": "2023-11-02T15:00:07",
"content": "Always cool to see up-cycling of kids toys!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6695678",
"author": "Rush",
"timestamp": "2023-11-02T17:08... | 1,760,372,116.241616 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/03/this-week-in-security-cvss-4-oauth-and-activemq/ | This Week In Security: CVSS 4, OAuth, And ActiveMQ | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"News",
"Security Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"ActiveMQ",
"CVSS",
"oauth"
] | We’ve talked a few times here about the issues with the CVSS system. We’ve seen CVE farming, where a moderate issue, or even a non-issue, gets assigned a ridiculously high CVSS score. There are times a minor problem in a library is a major problem in certain use cases, and not an issue at all in others. And with some o... | 4 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695913",
"author": "bemusedHorseman",
"timestamp": "2023-11-03T16:44:12",
"content": ">wrench decryption methodI’m partial to “Lead Pipe Legilimency”, myself. Either way, it’s great to see another botnet invoking __AvadaKedavra(self);, for once.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth"... | 1,760,372,116.200211 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/03/machine-teaches-morse-code/ | Machine Teaches Morse Code | Al Williams | [
"classic hacks",
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"ham radio",
"instructograph",
"morse code",
"paper tape"
] | If you are a ham radio operator of a certain age, you probably remember ads for “The Instructograph,” a mechanical device for learning Morse code. [Our Own Devices] has
an ancient specimen of the machine
and shows us how it works in the video below. The machine is a model of simplicity. You wind up a spring-driven moto... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695912",
"author": "SteveS",
"timestamp": "2023-11-03T16:41:00",
"content": "In this format the tape also has the advantage of being easily readable (and writable) by eye, which was probably a nice feature.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"co... | 1,760,372,116.650291 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/03/partial-relay-based-calculator-puts-the-click-where-it-counts/ | Partial Relay-Based Calculator Puts The Click Where It Counts | Dan Maloney | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"ALU",
"and",
"boolean",
"calculator",
"logic",
"nor",
"OR",
"relay"
] | It looks like [Michal Zalewski] is raising the next generation the right way. First, his eldest son asks for help building a one-bit computer from discrete transistors. Not to be left behind, his little brother then asked for help with an even more retro project, which resulted in
this partially relay-based calculator
... | 15 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695848",
"author": "craig",
"timestamp": "2023-11-03T13:00:07",
"content": "gorgeous. the design and implementation is fantastic. even without knowing anything about it, you can practically see where information is coming from and to where it flows. You don’t even have to know what... | 1,760,372,116.704142 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/03/robot-sunflower-follows-the-sun/ | Robot Sunflower Follows The Sun | Al Williams | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Solar Hacks"
] | [
"servo",
"sun tracker",
"sunflower"
] | Real flowers do it, and even the Beatles did it. [Robo Hub] now has a
plastic sunflower that tracks the sun
using, of course, an Arduino. It may not qualify as a real robot, but it does mimic a real sunflower. The electronics aren’t earth-shattering, of course. An Arduino, a light sensor, and a servo motor are all you ... | 15 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695825",
"author": "Menno",
"timestamp": "2023-11-03T10:53:56",
"content": "Challenge: implement this with 555 timers.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6695855",
"author": "Paul",
"timestamp": "2023-11-03T13:18... | 1,760,372,116.752002 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/02/pour-one-out-for-this-bottle-playing-robot/ | Pour One Out For This Bottle-Playing Robot | Kristina Panos | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"midi",
"solenoid",
"wine bottle"
] | If you have an iota of musicality, you’ve no doubt noticed that you can play music using glass bottles, especially if you have several of different sizes and fill them with varying levels of water. But what if you wanted to accompany yourself on the bottles? Well, then you’d need to
build a bottle-playing robot
.
First... | 5 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695934",
"author": "echodelta",
"timestamp": "2023-11-03T18:44:55",
"content": "Glad you knew servos wouldn’t work. The solenoids are being used backwards, maybe the first type used were pull only but these can strike when pulsed. Though these may not move past energized state to s... | 1,760,372,117.350027 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/02/proposed-european-electronic-id-law-raises-concerns/ | Proposed European Electronic ID Law Raises Concerns | Jenny List | [
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"eIDAS",
"eu",
"root certificate"
] | The harmonisation of standards for electronic identification across the EU should normally be soporific enough to send even the most Club-Mate-hyped hacker straight to sleep, but
as Computer Weekly reports
, discussion of this reform in the EU corridors of power has caused significant unrest among cyber security expert... | 39 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695769",
"author": "Kevin",
"timestamp": "2023-11-03T02:38:28",
"content": "How , technically, does controlling the trusted certs open “the potential for state actors to snoop on all encrypted online traffic”? And if it really does, a bunch of private companies already have this po... | 1,760,372,117.298264 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/02/the-avon-computer-goth-challenge/ | The Avon Computer Goth Challenge | Bil Herd | [
"computer hacks",
"News"
] | [
"Avon",
"jeri ellsworth",
"LGR",
"mydrunksiblings",
"Taylor and Amy",
"tiltfive",
"VCF Midwest",
"Veronica Explains"
] | Hot off the heels of their musical debut
6502 song
the good folk at the
Taylor and Amy Show
are at it again. This time instead of assaulting our auditory senses, they play with our perception of color all while keeping the spirit of retro computing alive.
To back up a bit, I had the pleasure of witnessing the discovery... | 9 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695743",
"author": "AlyssonR",
"timestamp": "2023-11-02T23:36:46",
"content": "I remember being subjected to the indignity of one of those machines.It wanted me to wear blues and golds. For the first and only time I was ever thankful for having allergies, I was able to honestly cry... | 1,760,372,117.487469 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/01/raspberry-pi-os-in-place-upgrades-not-for-the-faint-hearted/ | Raspberry Pi OS In-Place Upgrades, Not For The Faint Hearted | Jenny List | [
"Raspberry Pi",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"debian",
"raspberry pi",
"Raspberry Pi OS",
"Raspbian"
] | The Raspberry Pi series of boards are noted for their good software support, with a continuous flow of operating system upgrades such that an original Pi from 2012 will still boot the latest Pi OS. But these upgrades are best done by writing a fresh SD card, so oddly, the Pi remains surprisingly difficult in many cases... | 33 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695531",
"author": "Mike",
"timestamp": "2023-11-02T03:46:11",
"content": "I’ve run Debian on my home machines for almost two decades now, and Raspbian / Raspberry Pi OS for about a decade.I found, fairly early on, that while upgrading Debian from one major release to the next is t... | 1,760,372,117.105063 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/01/2023-halloween-hackfest-spooky-noise-maker-is-self-contained/ | 2023 Halloween Hackfest: Spooky Noise Maker Is Self-Contained | Kristina Panos | [
"Holiday Hacks",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"2023 Halloween Hack Fest",
"halloween",
"raspberry pi"
] | We just love it when y’all build off of each other’s projects.
This spooky Halloween noise maker
from [C.M. Herron] is no exception. But while the projects we’ve seen lately rely on external computers and/or guitar pedals to create the effects part of the build, this one has everything running on a Raspberry Pi that si... | 4 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695515",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-11-02T00:37:40",
"content": "So why is the screwdriver 🪛 on top of the box?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6695939",
"author": "CMH62",
... | 1,760,372,117.434799 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/01/this-oshw-trackball-is-ready-to-be-customized/ | This OSHW Trackball Is Ready To Be Customized | Tom Nardi | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"input device",
"oshw",
"Ploopy",
"trackball"
] | Oh sure, Amazon can deliver any number of Logitech peripherals to your door in 48 hours, but where’s the fun in that? With open source hardware (OSHW) input devices like the
Ploopy Adept Trackball
, you not only get to say you built the thing yourself, but there’s also an opportunity to tune the gadget to your exacting... | 25 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695458",
"author": "Animal717",
"timestamp": "2023-11-01T20:33:17",
"content": "track ball is the only way to go.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6695586",
"author": "Rick",
"timestamp": "2023-11-02T09:05:43",... | 1,760,372,117.555365 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/01/digital-photography-comes-to-the-apple-ii/ | Digital Photography Comes To The Apple II | Jenny List | [
"digital cameras hacks",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"Apple 2",
"Apple QuickTake",
"quicktake"
] | Back in the very early days of consumer digital photography, one of the first stars of the new medium came from Apple. The QuickTake 100 used a novel flat form factor and at its highest resolution could only shoot 640×480 images, but at the time it was a genuine object of desire. It came in Windows and Apple versions, ... | 8 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695440",
"author": "Joshua",
"timestamp": "2023-11-01T19:12:22",
"content": "QuickTake 100 was released 1994, it sems.By that time, 640×480 was full VGA/NTSC resolution and nothing to be ashamed about. For comparison, CD-i/Video CD players used less than that, too.Okay, Kodak Photo... | 1,760,372,117.392382 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/01/fancy-gyroscopes-are-key-to-radio-free-navigation/ | Fancy Gyroscopes Are Key To Radio-Free Navigation | Lewin Day | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Misc Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"dead reckoning",
"gyroscope",
"IMU",
"inertial navigation",
"ins",
"navigation"
] | Back in the old days, finding out your location on Earth was a pretty involved endeavor. You had to look at stars, use fancy gimballed equipment to track your motion, or simply be able to track your steps really really well. Eventually, GPS would come along and make all that a bit redundant for a lot of use cases. That... | 49 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695418",
"author": "Howard",
"timestamp": "2023-11-01T17:32:20",
"content": "It would have been great if you also referred to future directions – e.g. Quantum Sensorshttps://www.advancednavigation.com/tech-articles/the-future-of-inertial-navigation-is-classical-quantum-sensor-fusio... | 1,760,372,117.710433 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/01/only-one-hacker-at-the-keyboard-amateurs/ | Only One Hacker At The Keyboard? Amateurs! | Jenny List | [
"Peripherals Hacks",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"keyboard",
"Meme",
"NCIS"
] | We imagine many of you have seen the ridiculous scene from the TV series
NCIS
in which a network intrusion is combated by two people working at the same keyboard at once. It’s become a meme in our community, and it’s certainly quite funny. But could there be a little truth behind the unintentional joke?
[Tedu] present... | 19 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695400",
"author": "maxzillian",
"timestamp": "2023-11-01T16:30:45",
"content": "Two idiots, one keyboard.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6695408",
"author": "Beatsmith",
"timestamp": "2023-11-01T17:00:59",
... | 1,760,372,117.615204 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/01/what-the-artisan-3-in-1-cnc-offers-if-one-has-the-table-space/ | What TheArtisan3-in-1 CNC Offers (If One Has The Table Space) | Donald Papp | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"cnc hacks",
"Featured",
"Laser Hacks",
"Slider",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"3-in-1",
"3d printer",
"cnc",
"desktop manufacturing",
"diode laser",
"dual extruder",
"laser",
"prototyping",
"review",
"snapmaker artisan"
] | I never feel like I have enough space in my workshop. The promise of consolidating tools to make the most of limited space drew me to the
Snapmaker Artisan
, a plus-sized 3-in-1 tool combining 3D printer, laser engraver, and CNC machine.
Smaller than three separate tools, but still big.
Jacks of all trades may be maste... | 34 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695368",
"author": "Foldi-One",
"timestamp": "2023-11-01T14:33:29",
"content": "The quality and potency of diode lasers now really is fun, and it seems like this isn’t a bad platform to expand on either. Though I would have liked to see some better shots of the frame structure and ... | 1,760,372,117.799122 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/01/android-coming-soon-to-a-risc-v-processor-near-you/ | Android: Coming Soon To A RISC-V Processor Near You | Jenny List | [
"Android Hacks"
] | [
"android",
"mobile",
"RISC-V",
"SoC"
] | In the roughly decade and a half since the Android mobile operating system appeared on the scene it has been primarily sold on devices with an ARM core at their heart, but along the way it has also appeared for other architectures. If you had a MIPS Android phone you may have been in the minority, but Intel phones enjo... | 7 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695361",
"author": "Inhibit",
"timestamp": "2023-11-01T14:18:53",
"content": "I’ve still got at least one MIPS Android device around here somewhere. It’ll be good to see another contender again in the low power space.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
... | 1,760,372,117.859253 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/01/making-a-solder-paste-stencil-from-what-you-have-on-hand/ | Making A Solder Paste Stencil From What You Have On Hand | Jenny List | [
"cons",
"PCB Hacks"
] | [
"lasercut",
"solder paste",
"stencil"
] | Sometimes there are moments when an engineer has to use whatever materials they have to hand in order to complete the job on time. Such a situation arose at the RevSpace hacker space in Den Haag, Netherlands, as they were the assembly venue for a conference badge.
Their problem was that the badge PCB had no solder past... | 8 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695304",
"author": "Abroad",
"timestamp": "2023-11-01T09:28:08",
"content": "Another option is to build a DIY stencil from…. a beer can like this link shows:https://electroagenda.com/en/remote-control-car-hacking/#PCB",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
... | 1,760,372,117.905707 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/31/2023-halloween-hackfest-converted-proton-pack-lights-up-the-night/ | 2023 Halloween Hackfest: Converted Proton Pack Lights Up The Night | Kristina Panos | [
"Holiday Hacks"
] | [
"18650",
"arduino",
"arduino nano",
"cyclotron",
"ghostbusters",
"proton pack"
] | It’s really quite unfortunate that Hackaday/Supplyframe employees and their families are not allowed to place in the 2023 Halloween Hackfest, because our own [Tom Nardi] has thrown down a costume gauntlet with his
kids’ proton pack conversion
.
Starting with an inert off-the-shelf toy from 2021, [Tom] set out to make t... | 6 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695366",
"author": "Zee",
"timestamp": "2023-11-01T14:28:22",
"content": "You’re right I’m sorry.Police and gun violence aren’t daily, widely documented occurrences.I made must have made it all up in my drug addled brain because of the massive opioid addiction epidemic going on aro... | 1,760,372,118.266755 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/31/need-a-low-mass-antenna-in-space-just-blow-it-up/ | Need A Low-Mass Antenna In Space? Just Blow It Up! | Jenny List | [
"Radio Hacks",
"Space"
] | [
"antennas",
"inflatable",
"nasa",
"parabolic antenna"
] | A parabolic antenna is a simple enough device, a curved reflector designed to focus all the radiation from the direction it’s pointed into a waveguide or antenna at its feedpoint. They’re easy enough to make for a radio amateur, but imagine making one for a spacecraft. It must fold into a minimal space and weigh almost... | 28 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695233",
"author": "GameboyRMH",
"timestamp": "2023-11-01T02:17:06",
"content": "See also: The inflatable reflector cone on the MISTY stealth spy satellites:https://www.space.com/637-anatomy-spy-satellite.html",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
... | 1,760,372,118.329704 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/31/2023-halloween-hackfest-quoth-the-raven-caww/ | 2023 Halloween Hackfest: Quoth The Raven, “Caww!” | Kristina Panos | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Holiday Hacks"
] | [
"arduino nano",
"DF Player Mini",
"PIR sensor",
"power LED",
"raven"
] | Sometimes, projects start in somewhat unlikely places. This one began when [Istvan Raduly] scored a fake raven at a neighbor’s garage sale and decided to
turn it into a thunder-and-lightning decoration
that would frighten even the bravest trick-or-treater.
Get close enough to this raven and you’ll set off the PIR senso... | 5 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695219",
"author": "Bucky McBuckFace",
"timestamp": "2023-11-01T00:07:42",
"content": "The nano is protected from the 12V supply by a boost converter eh?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6695348",
"author": "adrian",
... | 1,760,372,118.108862 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/31/dot-matrix-printer-gets-an-epson-ribbon-transplant/ | Dot Matrix Printer Gets An Epson Ribbon Transplant | Lewin Day | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"dot matrix",
"ink",
"printer",
"printer ribbon",
"ribbon"
] | What do you do when your dot matrix printer’s ribbon is torn to shreds after decades of use, and no new cartridges are available? You might like to attempt a ribbon transplant from another printer’s cartridge,
and that’s just what [Chris Jones] did.
[Chris] was hoping to find a new ribbon for his Canon PW-1080A after t... | 19 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695173",
"author": "Greg Chabala",
"timestamp": "2023-10-31T20:06:56",
"content": "Good to know fresh Epson FX-80 ribbons are available, will have to check if I have a matching printer stowed away.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_i... | 1,760,372,118.169884 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/31/chugging-along-a-steam-powered-sawmill-still-makes-its-mark/ | Chugging Along: A Steam-Powered Sawmill Still Makes Its Mark | Donald Papp | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"bandsaw",
"historical",
"Sawmill",
"steam engine"
] | [Rural Heritage TV] has video of a private tour of
a working, two-story, steam-powered sawmill
at Lake Itasca, Minnesota. This is believed to be one of the only working steam-powered band-sawmills in the country with a shotgun (or reciprocating) feed carriage. The carriage moves back and forth with a log while a monstr... | 11 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695162",
"author": "TG",
"timestamp": "2023-10-31T18:53:43",
"content": "Hey, it’s that blade sharpener thingy from Twin Peaks",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6695169",
"author": "SteveS",
"timestamp": "2023-10-31T19:43... | 1,760,372,118.221989 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/30/william-blake-was-etching-copper-in-1790/ | William Blake Was Etching Copper In 1790 | Kristina Panos | [
"chemistry hacks"
] | [
"copper",
"etching",
"illuminated books",
"nitric acid",
"stopping varnish",
"William Blake"
] | You may know William Blake as a poet, or even as #38 in the BBC’s 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. But did you know that Blake was also an artist and print maker who made illuminated (flourished) books?
Blake sought to marry his art with his poetry and unleash it on the world. To do so,
he created an innovative p... | 11 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6694986",
"author": "BLMac",
"timestamp": "2023-10-30T23:39:50",
"content": "Blake was a genius.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6695000",
"author": "hartl",
"timestamp": "2023-10-31T00:50:19",
"content... | 1,760,372,118.469599 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/30/rotating-necked-guitar-looks-difficult-to-play/ | Rotating Necked Guitar Looks Difficult To Play | Richard Baguley | [
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"guitar",
"musical instrument"
] | Have you ever looked at a guitar and thought “Nah, that’s way too easy to play.”[Mattias Kranz] seems to have done, so he built the
360 Guitar
, a new instrument with a circular, rotating neck. The rotating neck means that it can have more strings than most: we think that it has sixteen, but it’s hard to tell. Anyway, ... | 20 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6694942",
"author": "NoWay",
"timestamp": "2023-10-30T20:19:00",
"content": "a Gatling Guitar?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6694945",
"author": "Horst the horstige",
"timestamp": "2023-10-30T20:29:50",
... | 1,760,372,118.527099 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/30/particle-accelerator-on-a-chip/ | Particle Accelerator… On A Chip | Al Williams | [
"Laser Hacks",
"Science"
] | [
"laser",
"particle accelerator"
] | When you think of a particle accelerator, you usually think of some giant cyclotron with heavy-duty equipment in a massive mad-science lab. But scientists now believe they can create particle accelerators that can fit on a
chip smaller than a penny
. The device uses lasers and dielectrics instead of electric fields and... | 21 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6694919",
"author": "Saint Aardvark the Carpeted",
"timestamp": "2023-10-30T19:06:04",
"content": "When I was a kid, I wanted nothing more than to build my own particle accelerator. Although I didn’t end up working in CERN like I expected, stuff like this is still music to my ears.... | 1,760,372,118.583174 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/30/saving-australias-ants-with-age-of-empires-ii/ | Saving Australia’s Ants With Age Of Empires II | Lewin Day | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Misc Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"ant",
"ants",
"Battle",
"Battlefield",
"combat",
"conservation"
] | Australia’s native meat ants are struggling. Invasive species of foreign ants have a foothold on the continent, and are increasingly outcompeting their native rivals for territory. Beyond simple encroachment, they pose a hazard to native animals and agriculture.
Scientists at the CSIRO have been investigating the probl... | 14 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6694905",
"author": "Jii",
"timestamp": "2023-10-30T17:16:14",
"content": "They should’ve used SimAnt! /jk",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6694940",
"author": "Ian",
"timestamp": "2023-10-30T20:13:20",
"content"... | 1,760,372,118.644511 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/30/tile-based-macro-pad-keeps-getting-better/ | Tile-Based Macro Pad Keeps Getting Better | Kristina Panos | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"Futaba MD",
"macro pad",
"macropad"
] | If there’s one thing we love to see around here, it is the various iterations of a project. If you keep up with Keebin’, you know that [Michael Gardi] created a tile-based macropad after developing a tile system for yet another project. This macro pad would have 3D-printed tiles next to the keys that would not only mak... | 6 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6694888",
"author": "Foldi-One",
"timestamp": "2023-10-30T15:58:55",
"content": "Hmm probably a good quality of life improvement on the original, both more compact and intuitive.Do have to ask if it was really required to put electronics on the keycap at all – I’d have thought you c... | 1,760,372,118.693264 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/30/how-framework-laptop-broke-the-hacker-ceiling/ | How Framework Laptop Broke The Hacker Ceiling | Arya Voronova | [
"computer hacks",
"Current Events",
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"expansion card",
"framework",
"Framework laptop"
] | We’ve been keeping an eye on the Framework laptop over the past two years – back in 2021, they announced
a vision for a repairable and hacker-friendly laptop
based on the x86 architecture. They’re not claiming to be either open-source or libre hardware, but despite that, they have very much delivered on repairability a... | 25 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6694886",
"author": "Scat",
"timestamp": "2023-10-30T15:56:58",
"content": "And the point of this article is…?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6694892",
"author": "Arya Voronova",
"timestamp": "2023-10-30T16:21... | 1,760,372,119.013654 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/30/all-inverters-are-not-created-equal/ | All Inverters Are (Not) Created Equal | Al Williams | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"crystal oscillators",
"crystals"
] | Building a crystal clock source for a CPU used to be a bit of an effort but these days, there’s nothing to it. Even if your CPU or other device needs an external clock, you just slap in an inverter, a crystal, and two capacitors together, and you are done, right? Maybe not. [Dave Collins] got interested in the common c... | 10 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6694820",
"author": "Senile Data Systems",
"timestamp": "2023-10-30T11:16:11",
"content": "Kinda reminds me of the GDR PolyPlay arcade machine, on one, the screen started drifting (H-freq) and the machine started crashing when warm. So I checked the main oscillator and it wasn’t a q... | 1,760,372,118.739057 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/30/creating-a-new-metal-rohde-schwarz-eb200-miniport-receiver-dial-knob/ | Creating A New Metal Rohde & Schwarz EB200 Miniport Receiver Dial Knob | Maya Posch | [
"Repair Hacks"
] | [
"lathe"
] | Recently [Roberto Barrios]
got his hands on
a
Rohde & Schwarz EB200
monitoring and surveillance receiver that, despite its late 90s vintage, was in mint condition. Aside from damage to the main dial, that is, which was very much broken. With no off-the-shelf replacement available in 2023, the obvious answer was to get ... | 6 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6694854",
"author": "Antron Argaiv",
"timestamp": "2023-10-30T13:48:36",
"content": "Wow! Nice catch. That receiver is certainly worth the effort you put into building a new knob!Happy listening!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "... | 1,760,372,118.787706 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/29/real-nes-plays-frame-perfect-for-you-on-twitch/ | Real NES Plays Frame-Perfect For You On Twitch | Julian Scheffers | [
"Games"
] | [
"arduino",
"Nintendo Entertainment System"
] | Have you ever wanted to be the best Super Mario Brothers speedrunner, but you just couldn’t do the frame-perfect inputs? Fear not, because [Gregory Strike] is here to save the day with his
automatic NES controller
!
In
his previous video
, [Greg] already made an automatic controller that plays a sequence of inputs at t... | 3 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6694864",
"author": "m1ke",
"timestamp": "2023-10-30T14:44:19",
"content": "https://www.instructables.com/NESBot-Arduino-Powered-Robot-beating-Super-Mario-/Similar projects allow you to download and play back the button presses for speedruns. Many games don’t sample the controller e... | 1,760,372,118.902729 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/29/2023-halloween-hackfest-hack-skellington-is-the-life-of-the-party/ | 2023 Halloween Hackfest: Hack Skellington Is The Life Of The Party | Kristina Panos | [
"Holiday Hacks"
] | [
"ChatGPT",
"halloween",
"servo",
"skeleton",
"talking skeleton",
"viam"
] | [Matt Vella] has had a talking, non-posable skeleton knocking around for years. As cool as that sounds, [Matt] is really tired of its three stock phrases. Fast forward to this year — [Matt] got a posable skeleton and decided to go all out on this, the hackiest of all holidays. The result?
Hack Skellington
.
Between the... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,372,118.854139 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/29/hackaday-links-october-29-2023/ | Hackaday Links: October 29, 2023 | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackaday links"
] | [
"42",
"Bennu",
"california",
"cruise",
"Deep Thought",
"hackaday links",
"life the universe and everything",
"MSRP",
"nasa",
"OSIRIS-REx",
"Raspberry Pi 5",
"robotaxi",
"scalper",
"self-driving",
"TAGSAM"
] | “As California goes, so goes the nation.” That adage has been true on and off for the last 100 years or so, and it’s true again now that
GM’s Cruise self-driving car unit has halted operations across the United States
, just a couple of days after
California’s DMV suspended its license
to conduct driverless tests on st... | 22 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6694751",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-10-29T23:38:06",
"content": "Well, I hope that Raspberry will make enough and soon enough Number 5’s that the scalpers will see their inventory lose value and end up looking foolish.",
"parent_id": nul... | 1,760,372,119.186267 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/29/the-uk-online-safety-bill-becomes-law-what-does-it-mean/ | The UK Online Safety Bill Becomes Law, What Does It Mean? | Jenny List | [
"Current Events",
"News",
"Rants"
] | [
"encryption",
"privacy",
"uk"
] | We’ve previously reported from the UK about the Online Safety Bill, a piece of internet safety legislation that contains several concerning provisions relating to online privacy and encryption. UK laws enter the statutes by royal assent after being approved by Parliament, so with the signature of the King, it has now b... | 64 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "6694721",
"author": "whatever",
"timestamp": "2023-10-29T21:08:45",
"content": "all platforms should keep strong encryption… and yes maybe need to relocate their servers :(which might have an negative economic impact on the UK",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": ... | 1,760,372,119.297885 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/29/behold-the-mega-wheelie-a-huge-one-wheeled-electric-skateboard/ | Behold The Mega-Wheelie, A Huge One-Wheeled Electric Skateboard | Donald Papp | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"big wheel",
"diy",
"electric vehicle",
"IMU",
"self balancing",
"skateboard",
"unicycle"
] | DIY electric personal vehicles are a field where even hobbyists can meaningfully innovate, and that’s demonstrated by the
Mega-Wheelie
, a self-balancing one-wheeled skateboard constructed as an experiment in traversing off-road conditions.
[John Dingley] and [Nick Thatcher] have been building and testing self-balancin... | 8 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6694702",
"author": "mr23",
"timestamp": "2023-10-29T18:02:46",
"content": "They really should add a mudguard/cover to the wheel. Sooner or later a sock or a toe or a sole will get stuck in the unprotected wheel and someone will get hurt.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,372,119.121418 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/29/ham-radio-may-speed-up-soon/ | Ham Radio May Speed Up Soon | Al Williams | [
"News",
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"digital modes",
"fcc",
"ham radio",
"vlf"
] | The FCC is circulating a proposal for new rules pertaining to amateur radio in the United States. In particular, they want to
remove certain baud rate restrictions
that have been in place since 1980. It appears the relaxed rules would apply only to some bands, notably some VHF and UHF bands along with the 630 meter and... | 14 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6694678",
"author": "Joshua",
"timestamp": "2023-10-29T14:55:05",
"content": "That new ~3 KHz channel limitation of the SSB era wasn’t very wise to begin with.Back in the AM days, ~5 KHz were being used (carrier+two side bands).Rather than reducing the channel bandwidth, it would ha... | 1,760,372,119.350286 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/04/wooden-game-boy-is-a-challenging-intro-cnc-project/ | Wooden Game Boy Is A Challenging Intro CNC Project | Dan Maloney | [
"classic hacks",
"cnc hacks"
] | [
"blender",
"Case mods",
"cnc",
"game boy",
"walnut"
] | [Sebastian] describes himself as “a total noob” when it comes to CNC, so in an attempt to get to know his new CNC router, he chose about the most complex possible project —
replicating an original Game Boy case in wood
. And spoiler alert: he nailed it.
Of course, he did have a few things going for him. At least from a... | 12 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696069",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-11-04T12:53:59",
"content": "Very nice!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6696108",
"author": "time travel mold",
"timestamp": "2023-1... | 1,760,372,119.403623 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/04/2023-halloween-hackfest-meet-creepsy-the-robotic-people-seeking-ghost/ | 2023 Halloween Hackfest: Meet Creepsy, The Robotic People-Seeking Ghost | Donald Papp | [
"Raspberry Pi",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"2023 Halloween Hack Fest",
"autonomous",
"halloween",
"people-seeking",
"raspberry pi",
"robot"
] | The 2023 Halloween Contest might be over, but we saw some great entries and clever modifications bringing projects into the Halloween spirit. One of them is
Creepsy
by [Hazal Mestci], a Raspberry Pi-based robotic ghost able to autonomously pick people out of a crowd and glide towards them, emitting eerie sounds as it d... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,372,119.438681 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/03/learn-forth-on-the-commodore-vic-20/ | Learn Forth On The Commodore VIC-20 | Maya Posch | [
"Retrocomputing",
"Software Development"
] | [
"forth",
"VIC-20"
] | Although BASIC was most commonly used on home computers like the Commodore VIC-20, it was possible to write programs in other languages, such as Forth. Conveniently, all it took to set up a Forth development system was inserting the cartridge into the VIC-20 and powering it on, with the VIC-FORTH cartridge by [Tom Zimm... | 14 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696052",
"author": "juergenUK",
"timestamp": "2023-11-04T09:43:20",
"content": "What is the oldest system to run Forth on?Nowadays an Arduino is the lowest cost option probably as there are so many around.Have a look and try it outhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/eForth-Arduino-Sketch-extr... | 1,760,372,119.570896 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/03/most-ai-content-is-trash-just-like-everything-else/ | Most AI Content Is Trash, Just Like Everything Else | Donald Papp | [
"Artificial Intelligence",
"Software Development"
] | [
"backlash",
"open source",
"sturgeon's law"
] | [Max Woolf] has been working in the AI space since 2015, and among other work has created numerous useful open-source tools. He also recently wrote a thoughtful blog post that attempts to put into words his feelings on the state of things in the wake of experiencing a bit of an AI backlash-related burnout. Essentially,... | 31 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6696001",
"author": "AZdave",
"timestamp": "2023-11-04T02:30:04",
"content": "Of course AI uses the tons of information it was trained on, but I assume that AI is also programmed to learn from the interactions it has with the people using it. For example, ChatGPT often gives the wr... | 1,760,372,119.642071 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/03/just-how-dodgy-are-cheap-usb-chargers-anyway/ | Just How Dodgy Are Cheap USB Chargers Anyway? | Dan Maloney | [
"Teardown"
] | [
"charger",
"fuse",
"safety",
"smps",
"switched-mode power supply",
"teardown",
"usb",
"wall wart"
] | Aside from apparently having both the ability to reproduce on their own and simultaneously never being around when you need one, USB chargers seem innocuous enough. The specs are simple: convert mains voltage to 5 volts, and don’t kill anyone while doing it. Both specs are typically met by most designs, but judging by
... | 49 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695973",
"author": "AZdave",
"timestamp": "2023-11-03T23:18:11",
"content": "Nice tear down information, but even more useful would be to know some units that are not trash. Unfortunately, price is not a reliable indicator of that.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"rep... | 1,760,372,119.730893 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/03/mini-ddr-cabinet-gets-maximum-upgrade/ | Mini DDR Cabinet Gets Maximum Upgrade | Kristina Panos | [
"Games",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"arcade game",
"ddr",
"raspberry pi",
"Raspberry Pi 4"
] | Those shrunken-down arcade cabinets are a nifty idea, but they sure do suck in practice. At least, the Dance Dance Revolution game is full of empty promises. With the $25 cabinet, all you get are three songs that come out of a crappy little speaker, and a not-great display to match.
[BigRig Creates] endeavored to make ... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6695960",
"author": "LookAtDaShinyShiny",
"timestamp": "2023-11-03T21:29:35",
"content": "A fun mod, just surprised Bigrig Creates didn’t 3d print a boxier back to fit everything into.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6695991",
... | 1,760,372,119.772569 |
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