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https://hackaday.com/2023/09/19/e-paper-news-feed-illustrates-the-headlines-with-ai-generated-images/ | E-Paper News Feed Illustrates The Headlines With AI-Generated Images | Dan Maloney | [
"Artificial Intelligence"
] | [
"ai",
"cnn",
"e-ink",
"e-paper",
"generative",
"headline",
"news",
"news feed",
"prompt",
"raspberry pi",
"stable diffusion"
] | It’s hard to read the headlines today without feeling like the world couldn’t possibly get much worse. And then tomorrow rolls around, and a fresh set of headlines puts the lie to that thought. On a macro level, there’s not much that you can do about that, but on a personal level,
illustrating your news feed with mostl... | 7 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6684388",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2023-09-20T00:15:46",
"content": "Nice to see color e-ink as reasonable priced.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6684637",
"author": "Unochepassa",
"timestamp": "202... | 1,760,372,164.889942 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/19/powerful-nerf-blaster-aims-to-fire-100-darts-per-second/ | Powerful Nerf Blaster Aims To Fire 100 Darts Per Second | Lewin Day | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Toy Hacks"
] | [
"nerf",
"nerf blaster"
] | Nerf has made plenty of fully-automatic blasters over the years, but their toys typically lack punch, precision, and fire rate. [3DprintedLife] set about building a blaster to rectify that last shortcoming,
aiming for design that could fire 100 darts per second.
The design uses half length darts which tend to fly a lit... | 14 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6684354",
"author": "Hirudinea",
"timestamp": "2023-09-19T21:16:57",
"content": "Ol’ Painless, by NERF.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6685140",
"author": "chip munk horde",
"timestamp": "2023-09-21T18:29:36",... | 1,760,372,164.789813 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/19/implementing-megatextures-on-real-nintendo-64-hardware/ | Implementing MegaTextures On Real Nintendo 64 Hardware | Maya Posch | [
"Games",
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"mipmapping",
"nintendo 64"
] | As amazing and groundbreaking as the Nintendo 64 was, over the years it has also become synonymous with blurry textures and liberal use of Gouraud shading as its most strongly defining visual features.
In a recent video
, [James Lambert] covers how the system’s minuscule 4 kB texture memory (
TMEM
) can be circumvented... | 20 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6684314",
"author": "steelman",
"timestamp": "2023-09-19T19:01:07",
"content": "I wonder m, how this would work with procedurally generated textures?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6684450",
"author": "devl547",
... | 1,760,372,165.244177 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/19/hello-halloween-hackfest/ | Hello, Halloween Hackfest! | Elliot Williams | [
"contests",
"Hackaday Columns",
"News",
"Slider"
] | [
"contest",
"halloween",
"Halloween Hackfest",
"seasonal"
] | Halloween is possibly the hackiest of holidays. Think about it: when else do you get to add animatronic eyes to everyday objects, or break out the CNC machine to cut into squashes? Labor day? Nope. Proximity-sensing jump-scare devices for Christmas? We think not. But for Halloween, you can let your imagination run wild... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6685280",
"author": "Rob",
"timestamp": "2023-09-22T01:33:33",
"content": "Yes. I had my project as a feature and “runner up” in the special categories. But did not get news of a tindie coupon. Don’t know if I got that wrong. Besides, the contests page was never updated.",
"pa... | 1,760,372,165.28979 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/19/time-and-tide-are-one-thing/ | Time And Tide Are One Thing | Kristina Panos | [
"clock hacks",
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"3D printed fascinator",
"3D printed hat",
"clock",
"sea urchin",
"sea urchin hats",
"tide clock"
] | The rise of 3D printing has given us incredible things, from awesome tchotchkes to intricate chocolates to useful things like spare body parts. But none has been so vital to comedy as say, printing hats for sea urchins. That’s right, sea urchins like to cover up with various things and will happily don, say, a 3D print... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6684271",
"author": "Tony Robinson",
"timestamp": "2023-09-19T16:27:30",
"content": "I’m writing a tide clock for wasp-os right now. It’s a lot of fun writing in micropython for your watch. I’m deep in the (quite hairy) signal processing so that it doesn’t need an IP connection or... | 1,760,372,164.946332 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/19/scientists-call-out-apollo-17-after-investigating-moonquakes-past/ | Scientists Call Out Apollo 17 After Investigating Moonquakes Past | Lewin Day | [
"Current Events",
"Featured",
"Original Art",
"Science",
"Space"
] | [
"earthquake",
"earthquakes",
"moon",
"moonquake",
"moonquakes",
"seismic",
"seismic activity"
] | In the vast realm of space exploration, new discoveries often emerge from old data. Thanks to advanced algorithms and keen observers, the seismic activities of our closest celestial neighbor, the Moon, have recently been thrust back into the limelight.
Thanks to the effort of the NASA crew involved in the Apollo 17 mis... | 35 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6684218",
"author": "Adam",
"timestamp": "2023-09-19T14:20:15",
"content": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Moon",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6684254",
"author": "Doctor Who fan",
"timestamp": "2023-09-... | 1,760,372,165.180141 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/19/normal-users-dont-code-on-their-mac-but-apple-keeps-trying/ | Normal Users Don’t Code On Their Mac, But Apple Keeps Trying | Jenny List | [
"Mac Hacks",
"Software Development"
] | [
"apple",
"applescript",
"programming"
] | Most people use their computer to run pre-packaged programs: usually a web browser, games, or office applications. Whether the machine is a PC or a Mac, they don’t generally write their own software. For them, the computer is an appliance, and they do what their computer allows them to do.
It shouldn’t have to be that ... | 93 | 34 | [
{
"comment_id": "6684122",
"author": "Jason",
"timestamp": "2023-09-19T11:15:52",
"content": "Nice click bait.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6684123",
"author": "Tom",
"timestamp": "2023-09-19T11:16:47",
"content": "It wouldn’t be ... | 1,760,372,165.096083 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/17/hackaday-links-september-17-2023/ | Hackaday Links: September 17, 2023 | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackaday links",
"Slider"
] | [
"Aeolus",
"Alaska",
"bear",
"cruise",
"hackaday links",
"hiker",
"iphone",
"luddism",
"recall",
"robotaxi",
"san francisco",
"self-driving",
"simulator",
"snuff film",
"z80"
] | OK, it’s official — everyone hates San Francisco’s self-driving taxi fleet. Or at least so it seems, if
this video of someone vandalizing a Cruise robotaxi
is an accurate reflection of the public’s sentiment. We’ve been covering the increasingly fraught relationship between Cruise and San Franciscans for a while now — ... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6683453",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-09-18T02:06:31",
"content": "Thankfully the wildlife camera didn’t show a bear mouthing “that was a great meal!”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "66834... | 1,760,372,164.841967 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/17/the-end-of-basic/ | The End Of Basic? | Al Williams | [
"Software Development",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"basic"
] | Many people, one way or another, got started programming computers using some kind of Basic. The language was developed at Dartmouth specifically so people could write simple programs without much training. However, Basic found roots in small computers and grew to where it is today, virtually unrecognizable. Writing th... | 101 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "6683376",
"author": "Bob A.",
"timestamp": "2023-09-17T20:18:45",
"content": "No disrespect to EndBasic, but I too prefer my BASIC the old fashioned way: buck naked on a beach running BASIC-8 on a PDP-8 emulator.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,372,165.436718 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/17/chromebooks-now-get-ten-years-of-software-updates/ | Chromebooks Now Get Ten Years Of Software Updates | Jenny List | [
"computer hacks",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"chromebook",
"ChromeOS",
"google"
] | It’s an acknowledged problem with the mobile phone industry and particularly within the Android ecosystem, that the operating system support on a typical device can persist for far too short a time, leaving the user without critical security updates. With the rise of the Chromebook, this has moved into larger devices, ... | 48 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "6683329",
"author": "HaHa",
"timestamp": "2023-09-17T17:24:40",
"content": "Chromebooks…lasting more than a couple of years?Where is this hardware?In the hands of kids?I don’t believe it.I’ll grant that the newest Chromebook I’ve seen has two charging jacks, should last about two ye... | 1,760,372,165.526096 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/17/pyobd-gets-python3-upgrades/ | PyOBD Gets Python3 Upgrades | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"elm327",
"library",
"OBD",
"open source",
"pyobd",
"python",
"python-obd",
"python2",
"python3",
"software",
"vehicle"
] | One of the best things about open source software is that, instead of being lost to the ravages of time like older proprietary software, anyone can dust off an old open source program and bring it up to the modern era. PyOBD, a python tool for interfacing with the OBD system in modern vehicles, was in just such a state... | 19 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6683291",
"author": "Sword",
"timestamp": "2023-09-17T14:26:31",
"content": "OOOOH very nice! I thought I had one of these, but turns out I have the ELM 327 (bluetooth version). Booo",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6683292",
... | 1,760,372,165.58911 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/17/helping-robots-learn-by-letting-them-fail/ | Helping Robots Learn By Letting Them Fail | Richard Baguley | [
"Machine Learning",
"News",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"machine learning",
"robots"
] | The [MIT Technology Review] has just released its
annual list of the top innovators under the age of 35
, and there are some interesting people on this list of the annoyingly accomplished at a young age.
Like [Lerrel Pinto]
, an
associate professor of computer science at NY University.
His work focuses on teaching robo... | 12 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6683268",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2023-09-17T12:27:25",
"content": "I don’t think your paper link works. Anyway failure is fine to a degree. Depends upon the consequences of failure.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": ... | 1,760,372,165.777313 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/17/multi-year-doorbell-project/ | Multi-Year Doorbell Project | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"computer vision",
"design",
"doorbell",
"image recognition",
"intercom",
"pi zero",
"raspberry pi",
"touch screen"
] | Camera modules for the Raspberry Pi became available shortly after its release in the early ’10s. Since then there has been about a decade of projects eschewing traditional USB webcams in favor of this more affordable, versatile option. Despite the amount of time available there are still some hurdles to overcome, and ... | 5 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6683246",
"author": "Lee",
"timestamp": "2023-09-17T10:13:25",
"content": "I made my own video doorbell once. Used a metal case to house it all. With my background with Access Control and CCTV I was able to do this easily. The box had a mic, RFID reader, PIR and a Camera. Ran off th... | 1,760,372,165.820489 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/16/dalibor-farnys-enormous-nixies-light-up-contemporary-art-museum/ | [Dalibor Farný]’s Enormous Nixies Light Up Contemporary Art Museum | Robin Kearey | [
"Art",
"Science"
] | [
"art installation",
"Dalibor Farny",
"Hiroshima",
"nixie tube"
] | Nixie tubes come in many shapes and sizes, but in only one color: the warm orange glow that makes them so desirable. They don’t usually come in large numbers, either: a typical clock has four or six; a frequency counter perhaps eight or nine. But some projects go bigger – a lot bigger in [Dalibor Farný]’s case. He buil... | 31 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6683188",
"author": "Jon H",
"timestamp": "2023-09-17T05:39:59",
"content": "I’d like to see nixie tubes made with different gases to make different colors like blue or green.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6683212",
... | 1,760,372,165.900433 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/15/preserving-floppy-disks/ | Preserving Floppy Disks | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"5.25\"",
"antique",
"audio",
"computer",
"court",
"data recovery",
"DEC PDP-11",
"floppy disk",
"investigation",
"police",
"raspberry pi",
"retro",
"stenography"
] | Time is almost up for magnetic storage from the 80s and 90s. Various physical limitations in storage methods from this era are conspiring to slowly degrade the data stored on things like tape, floppy disks, and hard disk drives, and after several decades data may not be recoverable anymore. It’s always worth trying to ... | 36 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682969",
"author": "cnlohr",
"timestamp": "2023-09-16T09:00:46",
"content": "The bloop museum is pretty cool place to check out if you’re ever in the Baltimore area!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6682985",
"author":... | 1,760,372,166.147414 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/15/coning-cars-for-fun-and-non-profit/ | Coning Cars For Fun And Non-Profit | Navarre Bartz | [
"Artificial Intelligence",
"News"
] | [
"hacktivism",
"self-driving cars",
"traffic"
] | Self-driving cars are being heralded as the wave of the future, but there have been many hiccups along the way. The newest is activists showing how autonomous vehicles are easy to hack with a
simple traffic cone
.
As we’ve discussed before, self-driving cars
aren’t actually that great at driving
, and there are a numbe... | 61 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682912",
"author": "PEBKAC",
"timestamp": "2023-09-16T02:26:26",
"content": "Kinda malicious, kinda hilarious.I love it! Reminds me of the trick with jumpering train tracks.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6682917",
"... | 1,760,372,166.074052 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/15/infinite-z-axis-printer-aims-to-print-itself-someday/ | Infinite Z-Axis Printer Aims To Print Itself Someday | Dan Maloney | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"build volume",
"buttress thread",
"CoreXY",
"extruder",
"gantry",
"printer",
"self-replicating"
] | “The lathe is the only machine tool that can make copies of itself,” or so the saying goes. The reality is more like, “A skilled machinist can use a lathe to make many of the parts needed to assemble another lathe,” which is still saying quite a lot by is pretty far off the implication that lathes are self-replicating ... | 27 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682892",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-09-15T23:54:58",
"content": "“We’re eager to see where this goes.”Upwards?B^)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6682904",
"author": "Mike",
"tim... | 1,760,372,165.96942 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/15/backyard-led-sculpture-inspired-by-las-vegas-sphere/ | Backyard LED Sculpture Inspired By Las Vegas Sphere | Lewin Day | [
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"led",
"LED sphere",
"sphere"
] | The Las Vegas Sphere is a large building. It stands 112 meters high and 157 meters wide, and is covered in a full 54,000 square meters of LED displays. That’s a little difficult to recreate at home for the typical maker.
A scaled-down version is altogether more achievable though, as demonstrated by [DrZzs & GrZzs].
The... | 19 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682858",
"author": "kluge",
"timestamp": "2023-09-15T21:59:58",
"content": "So what’s the “much lower price”?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6682861",
"author": "John Christensen",
"timestamp": "2023-09-15T22... | 1,760,372,166.303413 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/15/hackaday-prize-2023-autoduct-smart-air-duct/ | Hackaday Prize 2023: AutoDuct Smart Air Duct | Bryan Cockfield | [
"green hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2023 Hackaday Prize",
"cooling",
"duct",
"fan",
"green",
"heating",
"home",
"hvac",
"shutter",
"vent",
"ventilation"
] | Modern building techniques are relying more and more on passive elements to improve heating and cooling efficiencies, from placing windows in ways to either absorb sunlight or shade it out to using high R-value insulation to completely sealing the living space to prevent airflow in or out of the structure. One downside... | 13 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682832",
"author": "hartl",
"timestamp": "2023-09-15T20:11:48",
"content": "If you’re about to get new windows, consider ordering them with an automatic vent like this one:https://www.regel-air.com/These air valves don’t cost much, but should be factory fitted for best results.",
... | 1,760,372,166.248797 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/15/supercon-2022-alex-whittemore-on-treating-your-sensor-data-well/ | Supercon 2022: [Alex Whittemore] On Treating Your Sensor Data Well | Arya Voronova | [
"cons",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Slider",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"2022 Superconference",
"grafana",
"homeassistant",
"sensor data",
"Supercon 2022",
"tasmota"
] | If you build your own devices or hack on devices that someone else has built, you know the feeling of opening a serial terminal and seeing a stream of sensor data coming from your device. However, looking at scrolling numbers gets old fast, and you will soon want to visualize them and store them – which is why experien... | 4 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682829",
"author": "Brian Wyld",
"timestamp": "2023-09-15T20:03:07",
"content": "+1 on the greatness of granadaA good companion is influxdb to store the data…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6682921",
"author": "The C... | 1,760,372,166.191913 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/15/hackaday-podcast-236-the-car-episode-building-leonardos-water-mill-reviving-radio-shack/ | Hackaday Podcast 236: The Car Episode, Building Leonardo’s Water Mill, Reviving Radio Shack | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Podcasts"
] | [
"Hackaday Podcast"
] | Elliot and Dan got together this time around to recap the week in hacks, and it looks like the Hackaday writing crew very much had cars on their minds. We both took the bait, with tales of privacy-violating cars and taillights that can both cripple a pickup and financially cripple its owner. We went medieval — OK, more... | 13 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682792",
"author": "Mayor of Chemistry",
"timestamp": "2023-09-15T16:57:06",
"content": "The What’s that sound link is expired.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6682812",
"author": "a_do_z",
"timestamp": "2023-... | 1,760,372,166.667655 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/16/a-die-cast-car-subframe-pushing-the-limit-too-far/ | A Die-Cast Car Subframe, Pushing The Limit Too Far? | Jenny List | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"die casting",
"manufacturing",
"tesla"
] | A piece of manufacturing news from Tesla Motors caught our eye, that Elon Musk’s car company
plans to die-cast major underbody structures — in effect the chassis — for its cars
. All the ingredients beloved of the popular tech press are there, a crazy new manufacturing technology coupled with the Musk pixie dust. It’s ... | 81 | 19 | [
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"comment_id": "6683161",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2023-09-17T02:04:55",
"content": "Grown up version of a Hot Wheels car.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6683368",
"author": "YoDrTentacles",
"timestamp": "2023-09-1... | 1,760,372,166.55967 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/16/spinning-crt-makes-a-360-degree-audio-oscilloscope/ | Spinning CRT Makes A 360 Degree Audio Oscilloscope | Dan Maloney | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"crt",
"oscilloscope",
"persistence of vision",
"POV",
"tachyscope"
] | A question for you: if the cathode ray tube had never been invented, what would an oscilloscope look like? We’re not sure ourselves, but it seems like something similar to
this mechanical tachyscope display
might worked, at least up to a point.
What’s ironic about this scenario is that the tachyscope [Daniel Ross] buil... | 9 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6683138",
"author": "Joshua",
"timestamp": "2023-09-16T23:49:26",
"content": "“A question for you: if the cathode ray tube had never been invented, what would an oscilloscope look like?”Like a mechanical oscillograph?Here in ol’ Germany, we used to casually call the oscilloscope an ... | 1,760,372,166.441626 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/16/the-science-behind-the-majesty-of-dancing-raisins/ | The Science Behind The Majesty Of Dancing Raisins | Lewin Day | [
"Science"
] | [
"beer",
"carbonation",
"peanuts",
"raisins",
"sparkling water",
"water"
] | Have you ever thrown a handful of raisins into a tub of sparkling water? Or peanuts into beer? It seems like an altogether strange thing to do, but if you’ve tried it, you’ll have seen the way the raisins dance and tumble in the fluid. As it turns out, there’s some really interesting science at play when you dive into ... | 18 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6683092",
"author": "Chris Maple",
"timestamp": "2023-09-16T21:09:07",
"content": "When I was young, we used mothballs instead of raisins, citric acid and baking soda in water to make the bubbles.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id"... | 1,760,372,166.614966 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/16/open-source-rover-gets-an-update-for-easier-building/ | Open Source Rover Gets An Update For Easier Building | Lewin Day | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"jpl",
"mars rover",
"nasa-jpl",
"rocker-bogie",
"rover"
] | Once upon a time, NASA-JPL put out a design for an open-source rocker-bogie rover. It was an impressive and capable thing, albeit a little expensive and difficult to build. Now, the open source community has dived in and refreshed the design,
making it cheaper and more accessible than ever before.
Many parts of the ori... | 9 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6683052",
"author": "Mr Roboto",
"timestamp": "2023-09-16T17:48:59",
"content": "My kids and I built an equally capable one for ~$100. I bought a few broken used hover boards for $50. Most broken hoverboards are just cracked at the plastic central pivot or charger port connection.... | 1,760,372,166.71434 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/16/inspiration/ | Inspiration | Elliot Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Rants"
] | [] | While we were debating about
whether it even makes any sense to reboot RadioShack
, or indeed any brick-and-mortar electronics store in the modern era,
Dan Maloney and I
stumbled on what probably is the real source of all of our greybeard nostalgia for the store chain: inspiration.
For both of us, the appeal of a store... | 55 | 27 | [
{
"comment_id": "6683011",
"author": "paulvdh",
"timestamp": "2023-09-16T14:06:53",
"content": "If there is any problem with inspiration these days, then it’s probably because of being overwhelmed by so many possible projects that it’s nearly impossible to make any choice at all.",
"parent_id": ... | 1,760,372,166.930339 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/16/toy-bulldozer-becomes-epic-terrifying-lawnmower/ | Toy Bulldozer Becomes Epic Terrifying Lawnmower | Lewin Day | [
"home hacks",
"Toy Hacks"
] | [
"bulldozer",
"mower"
] | Regular lawnmowers are a perfectly fine way to mow your lawn, but they can be a bit boring. They’re also not always the best at tackling thick brush and bushes. [rctestflight] has a solution to both of those problems,
in the form of a plant-munching bulldozer.
The concept is simple — it starts with a hefty miniature RC... | 13 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682989",
"author": "No one of consequence",
"timestamp": "2023-09-16T11:44:05",
"content": "Oh, boy. Don’t let anyone in Granby, CO see this…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6683009",
"author": "KomatsuD355A",
... | 1,760,372,166.838212 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/16/kinetic-sculpture-intermittently-lights-up-the-night/ | Kinetic Sculpture Intermittently Lights Up The Night | Kristina Panos | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Art"
] | [
"arduino",
"Arduino Nano Every",
"kinetic sculpture"
] | We absolutely love the impetus of this project, as it definitely sounds like something a Hackaday reader would go through. After finally deciding between a CNC router and a laser cutter, [Eirik Brandal] was planning to “Hello, World” the CNC with something quick and simple, like maybe a few acrylic plates with curves a... | 4 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6683004",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-09-16T13:10:43",
"content": "I think it could do without the audio augmentation.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6683112",
"author": "Andrew",
... | 1,760,372,167.104432 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/15/tricks-for-mass-producing-laser-etched-art/ | Tricks For Mass-Producing Laser-Etched Art | Lewin Day | [
"Laser Hacks"
] | [
"maker",
"production",
"small business"
] | Art is a funny thing. Sometimes, it’s best done in a one-off fashion and sold for a hugely inflated price. Othertimes, it’s more accessible, and it becomes desirable to sell it in great quantity. [Wesley Treat] has been doing just that,
and he’s shared some of his tricks of the trade on YouTube
.
The video concerns som... | 26 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682803",
"author": "OG",
"timestamp": "2023-09-15T17:44:58",
"content": "“Hugely inflated” price? If it’s one of a kind, what is the price inflated from?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6682808",
"author": "Jeff Koons... | 1,760,372,166.991342 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/15/this-week-in-security-blastpass-mgm-heist-and-killer-themes/ | This Week In Security: Blastpass, MGM Heist, And Killer Themes | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"News",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"Blastpass",
"Honeypots",
"ransomware"
] | There’s
yet another 0-day exploit chain discovered as part of NSO Group’s Pegasus malware suite
. This one is known as BLASTPASS, and it’s a nasty one. There’s no user interaction required, just receiving an iMessage containing a malicious PassKit attachment.
We have two CVEs issued so far. CVE-2023-41064 is a classic ... | 7 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682759",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2023-09-15T14:35:09",
"content": "Slots and ATMs should be on separate networks.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6682879",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
... | 1,760,372,167.053793 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/15/new-lora-distance-record-830-miles/ | New LoRA Distance Record: 830 Miles! | Jenny List | [
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"distance record",
"LoRa",
"radio propagation"
] | The LoRa radio communication system is useful for low-bandwidth communication, and as many readers will be aware its special skill lies in delivering long range. For most of us that range tops out at a few miles, but pushing the limits of what is possible for LoRa has resulted in some significant records falling. Most ... | 49 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682719",
"author": "Bob",
"timestamp": "2023-09-15T11:34:39",
"content": "The American mile in this case. Otherwise it would be 721 miles if nautical.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6682728",
"author": "SillyGooseNot... | 1,760,372,167.200655 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/15/reverse-engineering-the-milwaukee-m18-redlink-protocol/ | Reverse-engineering The Milwaukee M18 Redlink Protocol | Maya Posch | [
"Reverse Engineering",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"logic analyzer",
"Milwaukee M18",
"power tool battery"
] | In an ideal world, every single battery pack for power tools would use the same physical interface and speak a clearly documented protocol with chargers. Since we live in a decidedly less-than-ideal world, we get to enjoy the fun pastime of reverse-engineering the interfaces and protocols of said battery packs.
Hooking... | 20 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682703",
"author": "C",
"timestamp": "2023-09-15T08:46:32",
"content": "I wonder why they chose 2000 baud and not a standard baudrate such as 9600 (1800 and 2400 are pretty close to 2000). Maybe it’s all clocked very low so it’s to avoid rounding issues?",
"parent_id": null,
... | 1,760,372,167.357009 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/14/building-ram-expansions-for-the-dec-rainbow-100/ | Building RAM Expansions For The DEC Rainbow 100 | Lewin Day | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"DEC",
"dec rainbow 100",
"rainbow",
"rainbow 100",
"retrocomputing"
] | It’s hard enough to get your hands on a forgotten computer from yesteryear. It’s even more difficult to get accessories like RAM expansions and graphics cards, because half the time they’re just discarded as random e-waste when they’re outside of their original context. [na103] has solved this problem for the DEC Rainb... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682684",
"author": "M",
"timestamp": "2023-09-15T05:39:57",
"content": "That usagi electric guy’d probably find this nifty.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6682705",
"author": "Joshua",
"timestamp": "2023-09-15T08:55:09... | 1,760,372,167.240444 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/14/find-that-obscure-function-with-this-interactive-map-of-the-linux-kernel/ | Find That Obscure Function With This Interactive Map Of The Linux Kernel | Julian Scheffers | [
"Linux Hacks"
] | [
"linux",
"linux kernel",
"visualization"
] | Linux has become one of the largest operating systems on the servers that run large websites, and hopefully, one day, it will be big in the desktop market too. Some of you may know how Linux as an operating system is structured, but have you ever wondered how the kernel itself is structured? Maybe you’ll find
this colo... | 12 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682686",
"author": "Jan",
"timestamp": "2023-09-15T06:17:57",
"content": "“.. and hopefully, one day, it will be big in the desktop market too.”I hope not.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6682697",
"author": "volt-k",... | 1,760,372,167.292204 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/14/bare-bones-vacuum-forming-just-add-plastic-plates/ | Bare Bones Vacuum Forming, Just Add Plastic Plates | Donald Papp | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"diy",
"dollar store",
"economical",
"thermoforming",
"vacuum forming"
] | Vacuum forming is a handy thing to be able to do, and [3DSage] demonstrates
how to do a bare-bones system
that can form anything smaller than a dinner plate with little more than a 3D printed fitting to a vacuum cleaner, a heat gun, and a trip to the dollar store.
Plastic plates from the dollar store make excellent for... | 16 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682626",
"author": "Tony M",
"timestamp": "2023-09-14T23:14:37",
"content": "I know someone is gonna say it anyway so:That sucks! but it’s hot tho.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6682631",
"author": "michaelryangreer",
... | 1,760,372,167.552009 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/14/building-a-rotating-display-plate-from-a-lazy-susan/ | Building A Rotating Display Plate From A Lazy Susan | Lewin Day | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"lazy susan",
"rotating table"
] | A rotating table is a super nifty tool for all kinds of photography and videography purposes. [Handy Bear] built a super simple example
using some parts from IKEA.
The build starts with a Snudda, which is IKEA’s version of a Lazy Susan. It’s fitted with a 3D-printed gear to allow it to be easily driven. The platter is ... | 9 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682601",
"author": "Ack210",
"timestamp": "2023-09-14T21:10:45",
"content": "The one time I needed to do this I went to the store and bought one of those cheap wind-up turntables meant for microwave ovens. Wound it up, set the camera to take a picture every 5 seconds, edited it int... | 1,760,372,167.40208 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/14/machine-learning-robot-runs-arduino-uno/ | Machine Learning Robot Runs Arduino Uno | Lewin Day | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"lidar",
"machine learning"
] | When we think about machine learning, our minds often jump to datacenters full of sweating, overheating GPUs. However, lighter-weight hardware can also be used to these ends,
as demonstrated by [Nikodem Bartnik] and his latest robot.
The robot is charged with autonomously navigating a simple racetrack delineated by car... | 7 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682572",
"author": "M",
"timestamp": "2023-09-14T19:02:11",
"content": "Was the model actually trained on-board though? The article seems to imply that, but it’s not specific.I find it rather more likely the data was beamed off the robot and trained elsewhere, even if *maybe* some ... | 1,760,372,167.800238 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/14/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-death-metal-macro-pad/ | Keebin’ With Kristina: The One With The Death Metal Macro Pad | Kristina Panos | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"cube keyboard",
"death metal macropad",
"deathpad",
"macro pad",
"macropad",
"raspberry pi",
"raspberry pi typewriter"
] | At “the size of three 60% keyboards (put together)” or approximately one Cannibal Corpse record on vinyl,
this beautifully-executed death metal font-inspired macro pad
by [zyumbik] may be better off hanging on the wall than hanging out on the desktop.
But let’s say you did have room for the 9-key Deathpad on your deskt... | 7 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682611",
"author": "deshipu",
"timestamp": "2023-09-14T21:58:33",
"content": "Are you sure it’s not Blickensderfer that was the inspiration for Selectric? It had much simpler mechanism, closer to the one used in the IBM machine, and even had an electric version!https://www.antikeyc... | 1,760,372,167.850754 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/14/students-set-ev-acceleration-world-record/ | Students Set EV Acceleration World Record | Navarre Bartz | [
"car hacks",
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"acceleration",
"electric car",
"evs",
"speed",
"world record"
] | Humans have a need for speed, and students from the Academic Motorsports Club Zurich (AMZ) have set a
new acceleration record
for an electric vehicle with a 0 to 100 km/h (0 to 62 mph) time of 0.956 seconds.
The
mythen
features four custom electric hub motors with a total output of 240 kW and a vehicle weight of 140 kg... | 29 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682515",
"author": "Tom",
"timestamp": "2023-09-14T15:35:40",
"content": "For reference, the acceleration due to gravity produces a 0-100km/h time of 2.83s. So this thing is approaching 3g on a level, straight line.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{... | 1,760,372,167.697378 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/14/rocker-bogie-suspension-the-beloved-solution-to-extra-planetary-rovers/ | Rocker Bogie Suspension: The Beloved Solution To Extra-Planetary Rovers | Lewin Day | [
"Engineering",
"Featured",
"Misc Hacks",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"engineering",
"mars rover",
"rocker-bogie",
"rover"
] | When navigating the vast and unpredictable expanses of outer space, particularly on the alien terrains of distant planets, smart engineering often underlies every major achievement. A paramount example of this is the rocker bogie suspension system. It’s an integral component of NASA’s Mars rovers and has become an icon... | 18 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682540",
"author": "Reluctant Cannibal",
"timestamp": "2023-09-14T16:47:26",
"content": "How about an 8 or even 10 wheeled version?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6682933",
"author": "PEBKAC",
"timestamp": "2... | 1,760,372,167.760265 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/14/homebrew-probe-tip-etcher-makes-amazingly-sharp-needles/ | Homebrew Probe Tip Etcher Makes Amazingly Sharp Needles | Robin Kearey | [
"chemistry hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"etching",
"probe etching",
"scanning tunneling microscope",
"tungsten probe"
] | There’s a simple reason why high-tech gadgets like PCs, TVs and smartphones are so cheap: they’re mass-produced. By spreading out huge engineering costs over equally huge production volumes, the cost per item can remain quite low. The flipside to this is that devices with only a small niche market can be extremely expe... | 17 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682463",
"author": "leather suit",
"timestamp": "2023-09-14T11:39:50",
"content": "I need something like that to sharpen TIG electrodes.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6682600",
"author": "Baird Bankovic",
"t... | 1,760,372,167.9127 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/14/esp32-drives-tiny-fm-radio/ | ESP32 Drives Tiny FM Radio | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Microcontrollers",
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"audio",
"display",
"ESP32",
"fm",
"radio",
"stereo",
"TEA5767",
"TTGO"
] | Even as music streaming services and podcast apps dominate most of our listening time, it’s still a great idea to keep a radio on hand, if for nothing else than in emergency situations. After all, blizzards, hurricanes, and other natural disasters can quickly take out both home and mobile Internet access. If you’d like... | 21 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682417",
"author": "JPRDL",
"timestamp": "2023-09-14T08:44:16",
"content": "Radio? It’s like browsing Internet without uBlock.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6682482",
"author": "bart",
"timestamp": "2023-09-... | 1,760,372,168.232591 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/12/a-virus-for-the-bbc-micro/ | A Virus For The BBC Micro | Jenny List | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"8 bit",
"BBC Micro",
"virus"
] | If you work at all with British software or hardware engineers, you’ll find that there’s an entire generation perhaps now somewhere between their mid-40s and mid-50s, who stand slightly apart from their peers in their background and experience. These were the lucky teenagers who benefited from the British government’s ... | 11 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681921",
"author": "Josh Bensadon",
"timestamp": "2023-09-12T19:19:20",
"content": "Very cool! Wish there were a few more pictures in this article.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6681925",
"author": "Dean",
"timestamp... | 1,760,372,168.068287 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/12/book8088-slows-down-to-join-the-demoscene/ | Book8088 Slows Down To Join The Demoscene | Dan Maloney | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"8088",
"bodge",
"cga",
"demoscene",
"dma",
"dram",
"IBM Model 5150",
"netbook",
"retrocomputing",
"V20"
] | As obsolete as the original IBM Model 5150 PC may appear, it’s pretty much the proverbial giant’s shoulders upon which we all stand today. That makes the machine worth celebrating, so much so that we now have machines like the Book8088, a diminutive clamshell-style machine made from period-correct PC chips; sort of a “... | 9 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681870",
"author": "0xDEADBEEF",
"timestamp": "2023-09-12T16:08:29",
"content": "Well, it shipped with NEC V20 which is too fast for some demos, but they worked almost fine with D8088 (AMD made copy). Also, holy shit, 8087 is toasty even when not in use.Sadly my BOOK8088 has some w... | 1,760,372,168.117467 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/12/logic-analyzers-capabilities-and-limitations/ | Logic Analyzers: Capabilities And Limitations | Arya Voronova | [
"Featured",
"News",
"Skills",
"Slider"
] | [
"limitations",
"logic analyzer",
"protocol decoder",
"reverse engineering",
"workarounds"
] | Last time
, we’ve used a logic analyzer to investigate the
ID_SD
and
ID_SC
pins on a Raspberry Pi, which turned out to be regular I2C, and then we hacked hotplug into the Raspberry Pi camera code with an external MCU. Such an exercise makes logic analyzers look easy, and that’s because they are! If you have a logic ana... | 12 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681860",
"author": "deshipu",
"timestamp": "2023-09-12T15:39:13",
"content": "In case you didn’t figure it out, for the screen orientation you need the highest three bits of the MADCTL register (0x36), which is well documented in the ST7735 datasheet, and for the offset you just ne... | 1,760,372,168.173291 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/12/your-car-is-a-privacy-nightmare-on-wheels/ | Your Car Is A Privacy Nightmare On Wheels | Jenny List | [
"Security Hacks",
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"automotive privacy",
"car manufacturers",
"privacy"
] | There was a time when a car was a machine, one which only came to life when its key was turned, and functioned simply as a way to get its occupants from point A to B. For most consumers that remains the case, but unfortunately in the last decade its function has changed from the point of view of a car manufacturer. Mot... | 116 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681771",
"author": "WereCatf",
"timestamp": "2023-09-12T11:05:34",
"content": "Pfft, I’m safe from all this: I can’t afford to buy a recent enough car to have any of this privacy-invading junk!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": ... | 1,760,372,168.40511 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/12/clock-hack-gives-dec-rainbow-a-new-lease-on-life/ | Clock Hack Gives DEC Rainbow A New Lease On Life | Dan Maloney | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Parts",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"arduino",
"clock",
"DEC",
"oscillator",
"pacemaker",
"Rainbow 100-B",
"retrocomputing",
"SI5351"
] | In retrocomputing circles, it’s often the case that the weirder and rarer the machine, the more likely it is to attract attention. And machines don’t get much weirder than the DEC Rainbow 100-B, sporting as it does both Z80 and 8088 microprocessors and usable as either a VT100 terminal or as a PC with either CP/M or MS... | 21 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681766",
"author": "CJay",
"timestamp": "2023-09-12T10:50:29",
"content": "I love some of these old retro machines and back in the day I got to briefly play with and repair a DEC rainbow as well as many other weird n wonderful machines that were around at the time of the 8088 IBM P... | 1,760,372,168.465191 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/11/exploring-hidden-lyrics-on-1990s-dcc-audio-tapes/ | Exploring Hidden Lyrics On 1990s DCC Audio Tapes | Chris Lott | [
"digital audio hacks",
"home entertainment hacks",
"Reverse Engineering"
] | [
"audio",
"dcc",
"digital audio",
"ITTS",
"lyrics",
"metadata"
] | Having a fondness for old and obscure audio and video media formats,
[Techmoan] recently revisited the Philips Digital Compact Cassette (DCC)
format introduced in 1992. Despite being billed as the successor to Philips’ original analog Compact Cassette format from 1963, DCC was short-lived and slipped away after only fo... | 18 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681717",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2023-09-12T06:26:05",
"content": "From:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette#Technology“This backward compatibility was intended to allow users to adopt digital recording without rendering their existing tape collections... | 1,760,372,168.642346 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/11/out-with-the-circus-animals-in-with-the-holograms/ | Out With The Circus Animals, In With The Holograms | Maya Posch | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"Holography",
"volumetric display"
] | As futuristic as holographic technology may sound, in a sense it’s actually already in widespread commercial use. Concerts and similar events already use volumetric projection, with a fine mesh (hologram mesh or gauze) acting as the medium on which the image is projected to give the illusion of a 3D image. The widespre... | 25 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681674",
"author": "Brian",
"timestamp": "2023-09-12T02:14:39",
"content": "And so much less poop to clean up afterwards.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6681680",
"author": "AggregatVier",
"timestamp": "2023-09-12T02:5... | 1,760,372,168.580085 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/fpga-runs-ibm-5151-mda-display/ | FPGA Runs IBM 5151 MDA Display | Lewin Day | [
"FPGA"
] | [
"5151",
"fpga",
"ibm",
"monitor"
] | When it comes to driving a display, you can do all kinds of fancy tricks with microcontrollers to get an image up. Really, though, FPGAs are the weapon of choice for playing with these kinds of signals. [Ted Fried] put one to great work driving an ancient IBM 5151 MDA display,
and shared his results on Hackaday.io.
The... | 11 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682403",
"author": "rnjacobs",
"timestamp": "2023-09-14T07:28:53",
"content": "Next step: live conversion from DVI input into a signal suitable for the 5151 :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6682472",
"author": "Garth Bock... | 1,760,372,168.514304 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/mistranslation-of-newtons-first-law-discovered-after-nearly-300-years/ | Mistranslation Of Newton’s First Law Discovered After Nearly 300 Years | Maya Posch | [
"Science"
] | [
"Isaac Newton",
"natural philosphy"
] | For hundreds of years, we have been told what Newton’s First Law of Motion supposedly says, but recently a paper
published in
Philosophy of Science
(
preprint
) by [Daniel Hoek] argues that it is based on a mistranslation of the original Latin text. As
noted by [Stephanie Pappas]
in Scientific American, this would seem... | 57 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682360",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-09-14T02:32:09",
"content": "He also made a tasty fig pastry!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6682384",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.3",
"t... | 1,760,372,170.400187 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/paper-punching-machine-looks-like-cute-piece-of-computer-history-past/ | Paper Punching Machine Looks Like Cute Piece Of Computer History Past | Lewin Day | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"machine",
"mechanism",
"paper tape",
"punch card"
] | Computing used to run on punch cards. Great stacks of cards would run middling programs, with data output onto more punched cards in turn.
[Nii] has built a machine in this vein, capable of punching binary into paper tape.
The machine is run by a stepper motor, which is charged with feeding the paper tape through the m... | 23 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682326",
"author": "[Todd]",
"timestamp": "2023-09-13T23:05:04",
"content": "I wonder if this is to make tape for some old machine (cnc, textile loom, etc) to keep it running.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6682328",
... | 1,760,372,170.466399 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/its-time-you-built-a-smart-pocket-watch/ | It’s Time You Built A Smart Pocket Watch | Kristina Panos | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"diy smart watch",
"pocket watch",
"smart pocket watch",
"smart watch"
] | There’s just something about a pocket watch that screams class compared to the barbaric act of bending your arm, or the no-fun way of looking at your phone.
But smartwatches are dumb, analog things that mostly look pretty. Or are they? [JGJMatt] proves otherwise with their stunning
DIY smart pocket watch
. It is essent... | 39 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682285",
"author": "Dan D.",
"timestamp": "2023-09-13T20:34:16",
"content": "Oh please. If there is indeed something that “screams class” about a pocket watch its an old one that still winds and tells time. Not a DRM-controlled digital analogue with slow IQ iconography.And yes, I k... | 1,760,372,170.6307 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/3d-printed-rc-car-is-geared-for-speed/ | 3D Printed RC Car Is Geared For Speed | Lewin Day | [
"Toy Hacks"
] | [
"3d printing",
"R/C car",
"radio control"
] | You can always go out and buy an RC car off the shelf. However, it’s readily achievable to print your own design that has many of the features of off-the-shelf models,
as demonstrated by [Jinan]
.
[Jinan] set about creating a rear-wheel-drive design with a low center of gravity for good handling. Two large 5.2 Ah batte... | 7 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682402",
"author": "NFM",
"timestamp": "2023-09-14T07:17:06",
"content": "The wide rear tyres are interesting.Wider tyres don’t directly translate to more traction as one would think.The only two real parameters that affect traction (on a solid road surface) is tyre compound and co... | 1,760,372,170.296316 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/youve-got-mail-automatic-for-the-people/ | You’ve Got Mail: Automatic For The People | Kristina Panos | [
"Featured",
"History",
"Interest",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"automated post office",
"automation",
"Project Gateway",
"Project Turnkey",
"USPS"
] | When we last left the post office,
I told you all about various kinds of machinery the USPS uses to move mail around
. Today I’m going to tell you about the time they thought they could automate nearly every function inside the standard post office — and no, it wasn’t anytime recently.
By 1953, the post office badly ne... | 15 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682231",
"author": "spaceminions",
"timestamp": "2023-09-13T18:26:38",
"content": "Throughout the “30s and 40s, the USPS had done absolutely no spending beyond the necessary, with little to no investment in the future.”Well that doesn’t sound familiar at all!",
"parent_id": nul... | 1,760,372,170.877109 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/how-three-letters-brought-down-uk-air-traffic-control/ | How Three Letters Brought Down UK Air Traffic Control | Jenny List | [
"News",
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"air traffic control",
"air transport",
"software bugs"
] | The UK bank holiday weekend at the end of August is a national holiday in which it sometimes seems the entire country ups sticks and makes for somewhere with a beach. This year though, many of them couldn’t, because the country’s
NATS air traffic system went down
and stranded many to grumble in the heat of a crowded te... | 51 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682193",
"author": "paulvdh",
"timestamp": "2023-09-13T15:51:39",
"content": "I wonder if they are still searching for that drone flying around their airport.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6682204",
"author": "James... | 1,760,372,170.818571 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/11/this-keyboard-doesnt-work-without-game-boy-cartridges/ | This Keyboard Doesn’t Work Without Game Boy Cartridges | Kristina Panos | [
"how-to",
"Microcontrollers",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"Gameboy Advance",
"gameboy cartridge",
"keyboard",
"typeboy",
"typepak"
] | Just when we though we’d seen it all when it comes to custom keyboards (or most of it, anyway),
along comes [Stu] with the TypeBoy and TypePak
. Like the title implies, TypeBoy and TypePak are inseparable.
Let’s talk about TypePak first. Somehow, some way, [Stu] managed to fit the following into an aftermarket Game Boy... | 9 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681659",
"author": "Scarlett",
"timestamp": "2023-09-12T00:24:09",
"content": "Those aren’t gameboy cartridges",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6681660",
"author": "Scarlett",
"timestamp": "2023-09-12T00:25:36"... | 1,760,372,170.732174 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/11/this-arduino-debugger-uses-the-ch552/ | This Arduino Debugger Uses The CH552 | Al Williams | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"arduino",
"debug",
"debugging"
] | One of the things missing from the “classic” Arduino experience is debugging. That’s a shame, too, because the chips used have that capability. However, the latest IDE has the ability to work with external debuggers and if you want to get started with a classic ATMega Arduino, [deqing] shows you how to get started with... | 16 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681602",
"author": "paulvdh",
"timestamp": "2023-09-11T20:36:50",
"content": "Gosh, I thought the ATMEGA328 did not have debugging hardware on board, but I just checked the datasheet and it does have debugwire.Now why does this Hackaday article not mention debugwire? Debugwire is m... | 1,760,372,170.683414 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/11/flip-the-switch-on-this-i2c-controlled-usb-hub/ | Flip The Switch On This I2C Controlled USB Hub | Tom Nardi | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"digital switch",
"i2c",
"USB hub"
] | You’ve probably seen USB hubs with physical switches for each port, they provide a handy way to cut the power to individual devices, but only if you’re close enough to flip them. They won’t do you much good if you want to pull the plug on a USB gadget remotely.
That’s why
[Jim Heaney] created the I2C-USB-Hub
. The devi... | 13 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681581",
"author": "dqd",
"timestamp": "2023-09-11T19:12:06",
"content": "That is the time to use a Per-Port Power Switching hub.https://github.com/mvp/uhubctl",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6681900",
"author": "Andr... | 1,760,372,170.237905 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/11/cheap-lcd-uses-usb-serial/ | Cheap LCD Uses USB Serial | Al Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Microcontrollers",
"Slider",
"Teardown"
] | [
"CH552",
"lcd",
"python"
] | Browsing the Asian marketplaces online is always an experience. Sometimes, you see things at ridiculously low prices. Other times, you see things and wonder who is buying them and why — a shrimp pillow? But sometimes, you see something that probably could have a more useful purpose than the proposed use case.
That’s th... | 20 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681531",
"author": "david moloney",
"timestamp": "2023-09-11T17:08:18",
"content": "Is this the kind of panel you mean?https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/04/29/turing-smart-screen-a-low-cost-3-5-inch-usb-type-c-information-display/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"repli... | 1,760,372,170.942512 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/11/balloon-eye-view-via-ham-radio/ | Balloon-Eye View Via Ham Radio | Al Williams | [
"Radio Hacks",
"Raspberry Pi",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"balloon",
"high altitude balloon",
"video streaming"
] | If you’ve ever thought about launching a high-altitude balloon, there’s much to consider. One of the things is how do you stream video down so that you — and others — can enjoy the fruits of your labor? You’ll find
advice on that and more
in a recent post from [scd31]. You’ll at least enjoy the real-time video recorded... | 22 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681496",
"author": "Piotrsko",
"timestamp": "2023-09-11T15:35:20",
"content": "Hmmm nothing at all about putting stuff at high altitudes from an aviation hazard standpoint.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6681499",
"a... | 1,760,372,171.002915 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/11/wi-fi-7-the-next-big-leap-or-a-whole-lotta-nothing/ | Wi-Fi 7: The Next Big Leap Or A Whole Lotta Nothing? | Lewin Day | [
"Current Events",
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Original Art",
"Slider",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"802.11be",
"Wi-Fi 7"
] | For most people, the Wi-Fi hardware of today provides a perfectly satisfactory user experience. However, technology is ever-evolving, and as always, the next advancement is already around the corner. Enter Wi-Fi 7: a new standard that is set to redefine the boundaries of speed, efficiency, and connection reliability.
W... | 52 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681466",
"author": "WereCatf",
"timestamp": "2023-09-11T14:29:57",
"content": "Oh well, I may be able to use WiFi 7 in 15-20 years once support for some routers begins to finally land in OpenWrt.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id"... | 1,760,372,172.11912 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/11/atari-introduces-a-new-old-console/ | Atari Introduces A New Old Console | Tom Nardi | [
"Games",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"atari",
"atari 2600",
"retro",
"Rockchip"
] | Readers of a certain age no doubt remember the Atari 2600 — released in 1977, the 8-bit system helped establish the ground rules for gaming consoles as we know them today, all while sporting a swanky faux wood front panel designed to make the system look at home in contemporary living rooms.
Now, nearly 50 years later,... | 29 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681426",
"author": "Mike",
"timestamp": "2023-09-11T11:33:05",
"content": "Oh no… this is a ploy to sell the remaining E.T. game carts, isn’t it?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"commen... | 1,760,372,171.659084 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/11/bringing-da-vincis-saw-mill-to-life/ | Bringing Da Vinci’s Saw Mill To Life | Al Williams | [
"History",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"leonardo da vinci",
"Sawmill",
"woodworking"
] | DaVinci’s notebook — the real one, not the band — was full of wonderous inventions, though many were not actually built and probably weren’t even practical with the materials available at the time (or even now). [How To Make Everything] took one of the Master’s drawings from 1478 of a sawmill and
tried to replicate it
... | 30 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681385",
"author": "dnoms",
"timestamp": "2023-09-11T08:41:30",
"content": "Glad I clicked about 14 minutes into the video. Tl;dr machine doesn’t work.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6681434",
"author": "sjm4306",
... | 1,760,372,171.427094 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/10/new-electric-motor-tech-spins-with-no-magnets/ | New Electric Motor Tech Spins With No Magnets | Al Williams | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"AC synchronous motor",
"motor"
] | When you think of electric motors, you usually think of magnets. But magnets are heavy, and good magnets can pose problems when you need lots of them. A technology called SESM (separately excited synchronous motors) requires no magnets, but now ZF — a German company — claims to have a different scheme using
inductive e... | 58 | 21 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681353",
"author": "Mike Massen, Perth, Western Australia",
"timestamp": "2023-09-11T05:11:46",
"content": "Cool, this would work really well for very large setups as in economies of scalesuch as in respect if materials versus utility Eg flywheel energy storage etcThats a good link... | 1,760,372,171.583592 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/10/grannophone-helps-you-stay-in-touch/ | Grannophone Helps You Stay In Touch | Kristina Panos | [
"home hacks",
"Phone Hacks"
] | [
"linux",
"raspberry pi",
"video conferencing",
"videoconferencing",
"vpn"
] | Whether it’s distance, pandemics, or both that separate you from your elderly loved ones, what’s the best idea for communicating with them so they don’t suffer from loneliness on top of issues like dementia? We’d say it’s probably something like [Stefan Baur]’s
Grannophone
.
Back in late 2020, a Twitter user named [Nit... | 20 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681337",
"author": "Dave",
"timestamp": "2023-09-11T03:41:40",
"content": "I really like it! From some of the family members I had, I would skip switching the video to the TV to avoid confusing the person. But if the person can handle that ok, it certainly is a nice touch for poo... | 1,760,372,172.019146 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/10/hackaday-links-september-10-2023/ | Hackaday Links: September 10, 2023 | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackaday links",
"Slider"
] | [
"auction",
"Chandrayaan-3",
"chatbot",
"ChatGPT",
"fungi",
"hackaday links",
"helium",
"iphone",
"luna 25",
"mushroom",
"pants",
"reserve",
"sensor",
"skynet",
"surveillance",
"theft",
"underwear",
"windows"
] | Most of us probably have a vision of how “The Robots” will eventually rise up and deal humanity out of the game. We’ve all seen that movie, of course, and know exactly what will happen when SkyNet becomes self-aware. But for those of you thinking we’ll get off relatively easy with a quick nuclear armageddon, we’re sorr... | 17 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681298",
"author": "Comedicles",
"timestamp": "2023-09-10T23:17:50",
"content": "All of humanity dies over and over and over… Maybe AI noticed and figures it doesn’t matter.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6681299",
"author... | 1,760,372,171.488584 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/10/upgraded-graphics-gremlin-adds-hdmi-video-to-vintage-pcs/ | Upgraded Graphics Gremlin Adds HDMI Video To Vintage PCs | Robin Kearey | [
"Retrocomputing",
"Video Hacks"
] | [
"hdmi",
"isa",
"vga",
"video card"
] | Although new VGA-equipped monitors can still be bought, the old standard is definitely on its way out by now, being replaced by high-speed digital interfaces like HDMI and DisplayPort. It therefore makes sense to prepare for a VGA-less future, as [Yeo Kheng Meng] is doing. He designed an
8-bit ISA display card with an ... | 34 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681253",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-09-10T20:14:09",
"content": "I’m looking forward to the HDMI card for my TimexSinclair-1000!B^)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6681271",
"a... | 1,760,372,171.734144 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/10/open-deck-is-your-window-to-shortcuts/ | Open Deck Is Your Window To Shortcuts | Kristina Panos | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"carbon fiber",
"ESPP8266",
"macro pad",
"macropad"
] | Once in a while, we see projects that could easily pass for commercial products. This is one of those projects: a (surprisingly)
low-cost DIY macro pad
from [Josh R] that was designed to be a cheaper alternative to the various stream decks out there. Between the carbon fiber top plate and the crystal-clear acrylic keyc... | 11 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681234",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-09-10T18:55:41",
"content": "Steam deck, stream deck, I’m confused.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6681235",
"author": "Miles",
"timestamp": ... | 1,760,372,171.955076 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/10/industrial-surge-protector-teardown/ | Industrial Surge Protector Teardown | Al Williams | [
"Teardown"
] | [
"surge protector",
"varistor"
] | Surge protectors are a common item in the modern household, but the
Meanwell unit that [Big Clive] tears apart
was clearly intended for commercial use. In fact, he mentions it was made for outdoor signage. Removing the rear panel didn’t help much — the entire unit was potted in resin — but that didn’t stop [Clive]. Rem... | 12 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681237",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-09-10T19:07:55",
"content": "The manufacturer does “mean well” when supplying products to customers.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6681281",
... | 1,760,372,172.166302 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/10/zinc-air-the-next-contender-in-vehicle-batteries/ | Zinc-Air, The Next Contender In Vehicle Batteries? | Jenny List | [
"chemistry hacks",
"Science"
] | [
"battery",
"rechargeable batteries",
"zinc-air"
] | If you’ve got an interest in technology, it’s inevitable that your feed will feature a constant supply of stories with titles in the vein of “New battery breakthrough offers unlimited life and capacity!”. If we had a pound, dollar, or Euro for each one, we’d be millionaires by now. But while the real science behind the... | 35 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681137",
"author": "Paul",
"timestamp": "2023-09-10T12:34:15",
"content": "If they can realize the double- or triple- the energy density of lithum batteries, that’s great. It will enable lighter, less resource-intensive and lower carbon-footprint EVs.But they still have the issue ... | 1,760,372,171.804178 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/10/pi-pico-becomes-sram-for-1981-educational-computer/ | Pi Pico Becomes SRAM For 1981 Educational Computer | Robin Kearey | [
"Raspberry Pi",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"busch 2090",
"level shifter",
"Raspberry Pi Pico",
"sram",
"sram emulator"
] | Ever since the Raspberry Pi Pico was introduced in early 2021 we’ve seen the tiny Pi being used for an astonishing variety of applications. It has powered countless clocks, gadgets, games, and accessories for all kinds of computers old and new. [Michael Wessel] has recently added an interesting new application in the “... | 18 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681119",
"author": "Andy Pugh",
"timestamp": "2023-09-10T09:49:08",
"content": "Odd to think that this Busch 2090 was launched _after_ the ZX80 and any number of other actually-useful computers.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id":... | 1,760,372,172.222487 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/09/when-tail-lights-lose-touch-with-reality/ | When Tail Lights Lose Touch With Reality | Jenny List | [
"Repair Hacks"
] | [
"automotive design",
"cars",
"ford",
"repair",
"right to repair"
] | To study the history of the automobile is to also be a student of technological progress — as with each decade’s models come new innovations to make them better handling, more corrosion-resistant, faster, more efficient, or whatever the needs of the moment dictate. But sometimes that technological advancement goes awry... | 129 | 33 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681091",
"author": "handyman_jam",
"timestamp": "2023-09-10T05:37:20",
"content": "Perfect opportunity for the hackers and makers of the car community.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6681096",
"author": "bob",
... | 1,760,372,172.511032 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/09/the-webstick-is-a-small-cheap-nas/ | The WebStick Is A Small, Cheap NAS | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Network Hacks"
] | [
"esp12f",
"ESP8266",
"hosting",
"microsd",
"nas",
"networking",
"storage"
] | The ESP8266 was one of the first chips that provided wireless functionality at a cost low enough to be widely popular for small microcontroller projects.
This project uses one to provide rapid, small, and inexpensive network-attached storage (NAS) capabilities
wherever you happen to go.
With an ESP12F board at the hear... | 23 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681068",
"author": "WereCatf",
"timestamp": "2023-09-10T02:41:06",
"content": "“While it includes a lot more functionality than is typically included in a NAS”What? A typical NAS includes far more functionality than this! NASes typically include Samba support, iSCSI, a hypervisor, ... | 1,760,372,172.283971 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/09/tape-is-very-very-quiet/ | Tape Is Very, Very Quiet | Al Williams | [
"Science"
] | [
"3m",
"noise dampening",
"tape"
] | If someone stops by and asks you to help them make some noisy thing less noisy, you probably wouldn’t reach for a roll of tape. But [The Action Lab] shows some
3M tape made for exactly that purpose
. For the right kind of noise, it can dampen noise caused by a surface vibrating. You can see how (and why) it works in th... | 19 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681042",
"author": "TG",
"timestamp": "2023-09-09T23:18:46",
"content": "Yeah, people have been using it on drums since duct tape was a thing.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6681046",
"author": "paulvdh",
"timestamp": ... | 1,760,372,172.339555 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/09/clean-water-from-a-plant-based-filter/ | Clean Water, From A Plant-Based Filter | Jenny List | [
"green hacks"
] | [
"filter",
"water",
"xylem"
] | If you’re an outdoors person, one of the earliest things you learned was probably that in-field water sources can’t always be trusted as drinkable. A clear mountain stream could have a dead sheep in it just upstream, for example. Maybe you learned to boil it, or perhaps add chemical tablets. Up-to-date campers have a r... | 20 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681000",
"author": "ono",
"timestamp": "2023-09-09T20:31:18",
"content": "I could take toilet paper and do the same. (But the water would not be taste like pine)Where is the qualitative analysis that is filters anything ? Or is it just a MIT inspiration of anything at all ?",
"... | 1,760,372,173.162084 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/09/rare-arcade-game-teardown-and-mods/ | Rare Arcade Game Teardown And Mods | Al Williams | [
"Games",
"Reverse Engineering",
"Teardown"
] | [
"arcade games"
] | [Video Game Esoterica] loves a 1990s video game called
Operation Tiger
. Apparently, there are only a few of these known to exist in 2023, and he
managed to find one of them
. Well, it is really just a module so he has to figure out how to give it enough input and output to be actually playable. You can see several vid... | 7 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6680975",
"author": "LambdaMikel",
"timestamp": "2023-09-09T17:57:38",
"content": "Nice! Looks like good action!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6680989",
"author": "Cmh62",
"timestamp": "2023-09-09T19:35:33",
"conte... | 1,760,372,172.843092 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/determining-the-size-of-the-new-us-lithium-deposit-amidst-exploding-demand/ | Determining The Size Of The New US Lithium Deposit Amidst Exploding Demand | Maya Posch | [
"Current Events",
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Science",
"Slider"
] | [
"battery",
"lithium",
"lithium iron"
] | With demand for lithium in the world market projected to increase by 2040 to as much as eight times the demand in 2022, finding new deposits of this metal has become a priority. Currently most of the world’s lithium comes from Australia, Chile, China and Argentina, with potential new mining sites under investigation. O... | 22 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682165",
"author": "shod",
"timestamp": "2023-09-13T14:14:14",
"content": "Talking of resources.I heard that one side of the moon has a lot of iron and the other side a lot of aluminium.Now with the moon being so dusty from ground up material does that mean that if we accidentally... | 1,760,372,172.736471 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/binggpt-brings-ai-chat-to-the-desktop/ | BingGPT Brings AI Chat To The Desktop | Lewin Day | [
"Artificial Intelligence",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"bing",
"binggpt",
"browser",
"ChatGPT",
"edge",
"large language model",
"microsoft edge"
] | Interested in AI, but sick of using everything in a browser? Miss clicking on a good old desktop icon to open a local bit of software? In that case,
BingGPT could be just the thing for you.
It’s nothing too crazy—just a desktop application that gives you access to Bing’s AI-powered chatbot. It’s available on a range of... | 28 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682110",
"author": "Paul",
"timestamp": "2023-09-13T11:44:50",
"content": "Really, what’s the difference between this and running it through Edge?It’s not a desktop application if I must sign in with a Microsoft account.It’s not a desktop application if it relies on cloud resources... | 1,760,372,172.904955 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/portrait-of-a-long-wave-station-in-its-twilight-years/ | Portrait Of A Long Wave Station In Its Twilight Years | Jenny List | [
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"am",
"broadscat radio",
"longwave",
"radio"
] | There’s a quirk of broadcasting in Europe left over from the earliest days of the medium, which our American readers may not have encountered. As well as the familiar AM band, Europeans and Africans also have a so-called long wave band, on which you’ll find AM broadcast stations between about 150 and 280 kHz. Long wave... | 25 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682092",
"author": "adrian",
"timestamp": "2023-09-13T10:13:55",
"content": "The 198kHz transmission is also maintained as a frequency reference. There have been disciplined oscillators which lock to it and provide a 10MHz reference for calibration. These also exist for the MSF tra... | 1,760,372,172.800255 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/12/zx-spectrum-gets-a-3d-fps-engine/ | ZX Spectrum Gets A 3D FPS Engine | Lewin Day | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"doom",
"quake",
"ZX Spectrum"
] | The Sony PlayStation and Nintendo 64 are well-known for bringing 3D gaming into the mainstream in a way that preceding consoles just couldn’t. The ZX Spectrum, on the other hand, is known for text adventures and barebones graphics. However, it now has a rudimentary version of a
Quake-
like engine,
as demonstrated by [M... | 21 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682055",
"author": "Joshua",
"timestamp": "2023-09-13T05:15:54",
"content": "Cool, now let’s do that with a Sinclair ZX81/Timex 1000 or compatible! 😁There was “hires” graphics, I remember..Or let’s use graphics features of Laser 100/110 or Laser 200/210 or 310 (aka VZ-300).",
... | 1,760,372,173.220582 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/12/putting-the-magic-smoke-back-into-a-dodgy-spectrum-analyzer/ | Putting The Magic Smoke Back Into A Dodgy Spectrum Analyzer | Dan Maloney | [
"Repair Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"diagnosis",
"front end",
"noise floor",
"PIN diode",
"repair",
"rigol",
"spectrum analyzer",
"test equipment"
] | The trouble with fixing electronics is that most devices are just black boxes — literally. Tear it down, look inside, but it usually doesn’t matter — all you see are black epoxy blobs, taunting you with the fact that one or more of them are dead with no external indication of the culprit.
Sometimes, though, you get luc... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6682025",
"author": "MmmDee",
"timestamp": "2023-09-13T02:30:06",
"content": "Combining this article with the recent discussion of Radio Shack reminds me of a simpler time when the majority of RadioShack electronic equipment came with schematics either in booklet form or affixed to ... | 1,760,372,172.947333 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/12/3d-printing-a-sock-knitting-machine/ | 3D Printing A Sock Knitting Machine | Lewin Day | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"knitting machine",
"sock",
"socks"
] | 3D printing socks isn’t really a thing yet. You’d end up with scratchy plastic garments that irritate your feet no end. You can easily 3D print all kinds of nifty little mechanisms, though, so why not 3D print yourself a machien to knit some socks instead?
That’s precisely what [Joshua De Lisle] did.
The sock knitting ... | 33 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681983",
"author": "AlwaysInterested(notAI)",
"timestamp": "2023-09-12T23:41:57",
"content": "Ok. Now make a pant knitting machine. One leg. Another leg. Put them together. Voilá!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6682170",
... | 1,760,372,173.108494 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/12/building-a-cargo-bike-dream/ | Building A Cargo Bike Dream | Navarre Bartz | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"bicycle",
"bike",
"cargo",
"cargo bike",
"ebike",
"electric bicycle",
"electric bike",
"frame",
"Front Loader",
"long john",
"welding"
] | Cargo bikes can haul an impressive amount of stuff and serve as a car replacement for many folks around the world. While there are more models every year from bike manufacturers, the siren song of a custom build has led [Phil Vandelay] to
build his own dream cargo bike
.
The latest in a number of experiments in hand-bu... | 54 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6681934",
"author": "Bruce Gettel",
"timestamp": "2023-09-12T20:15:09",
"content": "I wanna know what this guy does for his day job. Holy cow what a set up!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6681937",
"author": "Jan Praegert"... | 1,760,372,173.395609 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/08/cerabyte-one-terabyte-per-square-centimeter/ | Cerabyte: One Terabyte Per Square Centimeter | Julian Scheffers | [
"computer hacks",
"News"
] | [
"cerabyte",
"ceramic",
"data storage"
] | Most of us will at one point have run out of storage and either had to buy a larger driver or delete some of those precious files. This problem can happen to data centers, too, with the ever-increasing amount of data stored on servers across the world.
[Cerabyte] aims to fix this
, with their ceramic-based media promis... | 45 | 25 | [
{
"comment_id": "6680636",
"author": "Jan Praegert",
"timestamp": "2023-09-08T18:35:07",
"content": "IBM Millipedenuff said.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6680662",
"author": "BrightBlueJim",
"timestamp": "2023-09-08T19:07:53... | 1,760,372,173.301894 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/08/will-radioshack-return/ | Will RadioShack Return? | Al Williams | [
"Current Events",
"News"
] | [
"radio shack"
] | We suspect that if you want to write a blockbuster movie or novel, the wrong approach is to go to a studio or publisher and say, “I have this totally new idea that is like nothing you’ve ever seen before…” Even Star Trek was pitched to the network as “Wagon Train to the stars.” People with big money tend to want to bet... | 145 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "6680600",
"author": "Steven-X",
"timestamp": "2023-09-08T17:09:20",
"content": "I thought that radio shack got too caught up with the consumer electronics fads (sat tv or cell phones). It felt like they were tyrying to be a mini Circit City. ‘”I thought they should have tried to foc... | 1,760,372,173.589449 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/08/hackaday-podcast-235-licorice-for-lasers-manual-motors-and-reading-resistors/ | Hackaday Podcast 235: Licorice For Lasers, Manual Motors, And Reading Resistors | Al Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Podcasts",
"Slider"
] | [
"Hackaday Podcast"
] | Name one other podcast where you can hear about heavy 3D-printed drones, DIY semiconductors, and using licorice to block laser beams. Throw in homebrew relays, a better mouse trap, and logic analyzers, and you’ll certainly be talking about Elliot Williams and Al Williams on Hackaday Podcast 235.
There’s also contest ne... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6680797",
"author": "CMH62",
"timestamp": "2023-09-09T02:27:51",
"content": "I loved the “Noise Box” article this week and am so glad that you highlighted it as a quick hack! It was a simple project and yet very creative AND encourage me to go down the learning rabbit hole of new s... | 1,760,372,173.699468 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/08/fitting-3d-prints-in-a-snap/ | Fitting 3D Prints In A Snap | Al Williams | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d printing"
] | The good news is that 3D printing lets you iterate on your design until it is just right. The bad news is that you often have to iterate your design over and over to get things to fit together. It is a little easier if you are designing both parts, but matching sizes and positions on a printed part that fits something ... | 27 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6680582",
"author": "Danno",
"timestamp": "2023-09-08T16:23:27",
"content": "A very simple way to avoid full size “fit test” prints is to start with a to-scale paper print out the most important dimensional slice of your model. Then move to a single layer (or two for stiffness) of t... | 1,760,372,173.656256 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/08/this-week-in-security-lastpass-shoe-drops-keys-lost-and-train-whistles-attack/ | This Week In Security: LastPass Shoe Drops, Keys Lost, And Train Whistles Attack | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"News",
"Security Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"Barracuda",
"lastpass",
"Proton Mail"
] | There has been
a rash of cryptocurrency thefts
targeting some unexpected victims. Over $35 million has been drained from just over 150 individuals, and the list reads like a who’s-who of the least likely to fall for the normal crypto scams. There is a pattern that has been noticed, that almost all of them had a seed ph... | 8 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6680572",
"author": "BillyG",
"timestamp": "2023-09-08T15:02:32",
"content": "Seems like Crypto Wallet addresses would benefit from a check sum/crc as part of the address. Be a way to catch data entry typos….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"... | 1,760,372,173.749147 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/08/wien-bridge-oscillator-drives-distortion-into-the-floor/ | Wien Bridge Oscillator Drives Distortion Into The Floor | Dan Maloney | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"agc",
"attenuator",
"audio frequency",
"distortion",
"Notch filter",
"THD",
"wien bridge"
] | It’s not often that a single photo can tell you pretty much everything you need to know about a project, but the spectrum analyzer screenshot nearby is the perfect summary of
this over-the-top low-distortion audio oscillator build
. But that doesn’t mean there’s not a ton of interesting stuff going on with this one, so... | 12 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6680499",
"author": "Craig Hollabaugh",
"timestamp": "2023-09-08T11:09:41",
"content": "< -115dB is damn impressive. Thanks for the post.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6680520",
"author": "jenningsthecat",
"timestamp":... | 1,760,372,173.850372 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/08/share-your-feelings-like-a-spy/ | Share Your Feelings Like A Spy | Navarre Bartz | [
"Lifehacks"
] | [
"confessional",
"emotions",
"feelings",
"shredder",
"simone giertz"
] | While hackers can deftly navigate their way through circuit diagrams or technical documentation, for many of us, simple social interactions can be challenge. [Simone Giertz] decided to help us all out here by making a device to help us
share our feelings
.
Like an assignment in
Mission: Impossible
, this aluminum box c... | 13 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6680498",
"author": "Garth Bock",
"timestamp": "2023-09-08T10:46:55",
"content": "Now this is techno-cool. Could be used in murder/mystery games or even an escape room.I would have one ready for my untimely end for my relatives…. “The billion dollars in cash is hidden in the… (zzzzz... | 1,760,372,173.796407 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/07/thomas-sanladerers-youtube-channel-goes-in-the-toilet/ | [Thomas Sanladerer]’s YouTube Channel Goes In The Toilet | Al Williams | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d printing",
"3d scanning"
] | We like [Thomas Sanladerer], so when we say his channel has gone in the toilet, we mean that quite literally. He had a broken toilet and wanted to compare options for effecting a 3D printed repair. The mechanism is a wall-mounted flush mechanism with a small broken plastic part. Luckily, he had another identical unit t... | 28 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6680423",
"author": "George Graves",
"timestamp": "2023-09-08T05:12:44",
"content": "One thing about Thomas – he is a really great YouTuber…But I find his “engineering” and 3d printing skills lacking – although these in this video look good. But in the past, he’s said and done thi... | 1,760,372,173.976331 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/07/triso-fuel-and-the-rolls-royce-of-nuclear-reactors/ | Triso Fuel And The Rolls Royce Of Nuclear Reactors | Al Williams | [
"Science"
] | [
"nuclear power",
"triso"
] | Bangor University scientists think that the way to go big with nuclear power is to, in fact,
go small
. Their tiny nuclear fuel pellets called triso fuel are said to be the size of poppy seeds and are meant to power a reactor by Rolls Royce the size of a “small car.” We aren’t sure if that’s a small Rolls Royce or a sm... | 59 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6680394",
"author": "Monsonite",
"timestamp": "2023-09-08T02:24:44",
"content": "Interesting article. I studied electronic engineering at Bangor between 1983 and 1986. My first class B.Sc. degree has served me well over the years.In the mid-1980s, it was a small rural University col... | 1,760,372,174.167452 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/07/how-small-can-the-esp32-get/ | How Small Can The ESP32 Get? | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"challenge",
"dev board",
"development",
"ESP32",
"microcontroller",
"pcb",
"small",
"tiny"
] | At its core, the ESP32 chip is not much more than an integrated circuit, a huge mass of transistors sealed inside an epoxy resin package with some leads. Of course, most of us won’t buy discrete ESP32 chips with no support circuitry since it’s typically easier and often not that much more expensive to get them paired w... | 25 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "6680368",
"author": "ian 42",
"timestamp": "2023-09-07T23:42:04",
"content": "I have to agree, it is a very useful chip even ignoring the wifi…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6680477",
"author": "Torsten Martinsen",
... | 1,760,372,173.913669 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/07/programming-a-poker-game-with-gpt-help/ | Programming A Poker Game With GPT Help | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Artificial Intelligence"
] | [
"amoled",
"artificial intelligence",
"Assistant",
"ChatGPT",
"ESP32",
"game",
"large language model",
"poker",
"programming",
"tool"
] | Although ChatGPT generated a huge amount of hype around replacing white collar workers completely when it was first released to the public, the general consensus now is that it won’t outright replace anyone yet, but rather people who know how to use it as a tool will replace those who don’t. Getting started with it is ... | 10 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6680406",
"author": "edward yagi",
"timestamp": "2023-09-08T03:55:22",
"content": "Beautiful build. Slap a 3d printed case on it, you have the an advanced handheld video poker on the cheap.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "668041... | 1,760,372,174.213804 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/07/2023-cyberdeck-challenge-the-best-decks-on-the-net/ | 2023 Cyberdeck Challenge: The Best Decks On The Net | Tom Nardi | [
"contests",
"Cyberdecks",
"Hackaday Columns"
] | [
"2023 Cyberdeck Challenge"
] | It was an easy decision to run a
Cyberdeck Challenge in 2023
— after all, it was far and away one of our most popular contests from last year. But what was much harder was sorting out the incredible array of bespoke computers that readers have been sending in for the last few months.
Our judges have painstakingly whitt... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6680379",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-09-08T00:32:43",
"content": "(Micro-PC)“In the most basic of terms, it’s a small PC mounted to a plank. More specifically, an Intel Alder Lake N100 NUC bolted to a piece of…”I was disappointed it wasn’t bo... | 1,760,372,174.635518 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/07/transistor-radio-repair-more-complex-than-it-seems/ | Transistor Radio Repair, More Complex Than It Seems | Jenny List | [
"classic hacks",
"Repair Hacks"
] | [
"am",
"germanium transistors",
"repair",
"transistor radio"
] | The humble transistor radio is one of those consumer devices that stubbornly refuses to go away, but it’s fair to say that it’s not the mover and shaker in the world of electronics it might once have been. Thus it’s also not a staple of the repair bench anymore, where fixing a pocket radio might have been all in a day’... | 48 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6680262",
"author": "Marco",
"timestamp": "2023-09-07T16:30:02",
"content": "A ceramic capacitor is unlikely to be “leaky”, and even those resistors usually don’t have problems. I would have focused right away on the autodyne, which is the most common source of problems in these rec... | 1,760,372,174.41309 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/07/where-did-electronic-music-start/ | Where Did Electronic Music Start? | Jenny List | [
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Musical Hacks",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"electronic music",
"player piano",
"synthesiser",
"theremin"
] | A culture in which it’s fair to say the community which Hackaday serves is steeped in, is electronic music. Within these pages you’ll find plenty of synthesisers, chiptune players, and other projects devoted to synthetic sound. Not everyone here is a musician of obsessive listener, but if Hackaday had a soundtrack albu... | 53 | 27 | [
{
"comment_id": "6680219",
"author": "Alx",
"timestamp": "2023-09-07T14:22:15",
"content": "Tomita",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6680238",
"author": "TG",
"timestamp": "2023-09-07T15:12:25",
"content": "The master",
... | 1,760,372,174.316313 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/09/agreeing-by-disagreeing/ | Agreeing By Disagreeing | Elliot Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Rants",
"Slider",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [] | While we were working on the podcast this week, Al Williams and I got into a debate about the utility of logic analyzers. (It’s Hackaday, after all.) He said they’re almost useless these days, and I maintained that they’re more useful than ever. When we got down to it, however, we were actually completely in agreement ... | 35 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "6680916",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2023-09-09T14:08:12",
"content": "The soul of a new machine.https://mdswanson.com/writeup/2015/09/26/the-soul-of-a-new-machine.html",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6680923",
... | 1,760,372,174.584968 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/09/ceiling-mounted-orrery-is-an-excercise-in-simplicity/ | Ceiling-Mounted Orrery Is An Excercise In Simplicity | Robin Kearey | [
"classic hacks",
"Space"
] | [
"CNC machined",
"orrery",
"planetarium",
"planets"
] | Ever since humans figured out that planets move along predetermined paths in the heavens, they have tried to make models that can accurately predict their motion. Watchmakers and astronomers worked together to create
orreries
: mechanical contraptions that illustrate the positions of all planets and the way they move o... | 29 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "6680877",
"author": "illusionmanager",
"timestamp": "2023-09-09T11:21:30",
"content": "Here is an additional picture of the whole mechanisme before putting it togetherhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1ivrrCOzkYd2hoBmX4HOFnLbVnqO79KbN/view?usp=sharing",
"parent_id": null,
"dep... | 1,760,372,174.49871 |
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