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https://hackaday.com/2023/06/05/increasing-system-memory-with-the-flick-of-a-switch/ | Increasing System Memory With The Flick Of A Switch | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"apple",
"mac",
"macintosh",
"macintosh 128k",
"macintosh 512k",
"memory",
"retrocomputing",
"switch",
"upgrade"
] | There’s an apocryphal quote floating around the internet that “640K ought to be enough memory for anybody” but it does seem unlikely that this was ever actually said by any famous computer moguls of the 1980s. What is true, however, is that in general more computer memory tends to be better than less. In fact, this was... | 17 | 8 | [
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"comment_id": "6650008",
"author": "wert3w4e34",
"timestamp": "2023-06-05T18:58:03",
"content": "I would ethernet and wifi as mac network and normal usb mouse and keyboard",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6650012",
"author": "Dan Julio",
... | 1,760,372,277.435525 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/05/microsculptures-3d-printed-with-advanced-macromolecular-inks/ | Microsculptures 3D Printed With Advanced Macromolecular “Inks” | Lewin Day | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Science"
] | [
"3d printing",
"buckyball",
"buckyballs",
"two-photon laser printing"
] | When we think about 3D printing, our mind often jumps to hot nozzles squirting out molten plastic. Other popular techniques include flashing bright light into resin, or using lasers to fuse together metal powders. All these techniques are great at producing parts with complicated geometries at desktop scales.
However, ... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6649982",
"author": "Frenchgeek",
"timestamp": "2023-06-05T17:58:13",
"content": "So the world smallest violin can now be made even smaller?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6649986",
"author": "scott_tx",
"timestamp": "2... | 1,760,372,277.381022 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/05/getting-started-in-ham-hack-chat/ | Getting Started In Ham Hack Chat | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Slider"
] | [
"Hack Chat"
] | Join us on Wednesday, June 7 at noon Pacific for the
Getting Started in Ham Hack Chat
with
Mark Hughes
and
Beau Ambur
!
If you were to scratch any random hacker from the last 100 years, chances are pretty good you’d find an amateur radio operator just beneath the surface. Radio is the first and foremost discipline wher... | 41 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "6649956",
"author": "Michelle Thompson",
"timestamp": "2023-06-05T16:44:00",
"content": "There are other options besides legacy or traditional clubs in the US, the membership of which is almost always white men older than 70 who are primarily interested in socializing with each othe... | 1,760,372,277.787911 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/05/motion-canvas-helps-get-your-point-across/ | Motion Canvas Helps Get Your Point Across | Matthew Carlson | [
"Software Development"
] | [
"documentation",
"open source software",
"typescript",
"video"
] | Generating videos for projects can be difficult. Not only do you have to create the thing, but you film the process and cut it together in a story that a viewer can follow. Explaining complex topics to the viewer often involves a whiteboard of some sort, but as we all know, it’s not always a perfect solution. [Jacob] w... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6649966",
"author": "come2",
"timestamp": "2023-06-05T17:11:29",
"content": "Is it similar to the 3blue1brown python library that can be used to generate animations ? The average videast doesn’t need it, but when they do, it’s very powerful.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,372,277.252802 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/05/why-did-the-home-assistant-future-not-quite-work-the-way-it-was-supposed-to/ | Why Did The Home Assistant Future Not Quite Work The Way It Was Supposed To? | Jenny List | [
"Artificial Intelligence",
"Featured",
"Original Art",
"Rants",
"Slider"
] | [
"ai",
"alexa",
"amazon",
"virtual assistant"
] | The future, as seen in the popular culture of half a century or more ago, was usually depicted as quite rosy. Technology would have rendered every possible convenience at our fingertips, and we’d all live in futuristic automated homes — no doubt while wearing silver clothing and dreaming about our next vacation on Mars... | 121 | 36 | [
{
"comment_id": "6649852",
"author": "Joe S",
"timestamp": "2023-06-05T14:16:01",
"content": "We went from having Google Homes and Hue bulbs in every room to having zero of either. All it took was moving into a house that had reasonable built in lighting and sensible light switch-controlled outlets.... | 1,760,372,278.034687 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/05/navy-program-pumps-up-hopes-for-magnetic-propulsion/ | Navy Program PUMPs Up Hopes For Magnetic Propulsion | Navarre Bartz | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"caterpillar",
"Magnetohydrodynamic",
"marine",
"submarine"
] | The “caterpillar drive” in
The Hunt for Red October
allowed the sub to travel virtually undetected through the ocean, but real examples of magnetohydrodynamic drives (MHDs) are rare. The US Navy’s recently announced
Principles of Undersea Magnetohydrodynamic Pumps
(PUMP) intends to jump-start the technology for a new e... | 43 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6649754",
"author": "Garth Bock",
"timestamp": "2023-06-05T11:22:39",
"content": "I remember an article in Popular Science back in the 80s about using MHD as a more efficient way to generate electricity with lower emissions. Finely pulverized coal or natural gas would be ignited and... | 1,760,372,277.578986 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/05/protect-vintage-gear-with-easy-capacitor-reforming/ | Protect Vintage Gear With Easy Capacitor Reforming | Dave Rowntree | [
"classic hacks",
"Repair Hacks"
] | [
"capacitor",
"electrolytic capacitor",
"reforming",
"voltage rating"
] | Having acquired some piece of old electronic equipment, be it a computer, radio, or some test gear, the temptation is there to plug it in as soon as you’ve lugged it into the ‘shop. Don’t be so hasty. Those power supplies and analog circuits often have a number of old aluminium electrolytic capacitors of unknown condit... | 28 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6649691",
"author": "macsimski",
"timestamp": "2023-06-05T09:10:59",
"content": "well…to save your milliamp meter, i suggest taking it out of the loop altogether and just measure the voltage across the resistor. so in case your capacitor develops a short, it will not hurt your meter... | 1,760,372,277.858515 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/04/3d-printing-safety-according-to-the-ul/ | 3D Printing Safety (According To The UL) | Al Williams | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Science"
] | [
"3d printing",
"safety"
] | If you want to start a heated discussion in 3D printing circles, ask people about the requirements to print safely. Is ABS safe to print without ventilation? Can you drink out of a PLA cup? How nasty is that photo resin if you spill it on yourself? If you are at home, it’s more or less up to you. But if you are buildin... | 17 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6649710",
"author": "Daid",
"timestamp": "2023-06-05T09:46:18",
"content": "> although it is quick to point out that PLA with additives may not be as safe as plain PLAThere is no plain PLA. Plain PLA is unprintable as it is as brittle as toasted bread, you cannot get it off a spool ... | 1,760,372,277.317045 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/04/victorian-train-tunnel-turned-test-track/ | Victorian Train Tunnel Turned Test Track | Danie Conradie | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"aerodynamics",
"tunnel",
"wind tunnel"
] | Characterizing the aerodynamic performance of a vehicle usually requires a wind tunnel since it’s difficult to control all variables when actually driving. Unless you had some kind of perfectly straight, environmentally controlled, and precision-graded section of road, anyway. Turns out the
Catesby Tunnel
in the UK mee... | 28 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6649435",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-06-05T02:08:51",
"content": "Using a literal tunnel As a wind tunnel, I wouldn’t have thought of that!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6649437",
"... | 1,760,372,277.502075 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/04/hackaday-links-june-4-2023/ | Hackaday Links: June 4, 2023 | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackaday links",
"Slider"
] | [
"amateur radio",
"cryptography",
"Dark Side of the Moon",
"Decode",
"fcc",
"hackaday links",
"HAKUTO-R",
"ham",
"Ingenuity",
"interference",
"Jezero",
"mars",
"optics",
"Perserverance",
"physics",
"pink floyd",
"prism",
"refractive index",
"SETI"
] | A report released this week suggests that 50 flights into its five-flight schedule, the Mars helicopter might be starting to show its age. The report details
a protracted communications outage
Ingenuity’s
flight controllers struggled with for six sols after flight 49 back in April. At first attributed to a “communicati... | 9 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6649335",
"author": "Pwalsh",
"timestamp": "2023-06-04T23:39:30",
"content": "I do this a lot for movies. Thinking about the Star Wars universe, after having recently seen the Boba Fett and Mandalorian series:1) The technology is completely uniform and saturated everywhere – you can... | 1,760,372,277.70976 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/04/it-turns-out-parrots-love-videoconferencing/ | It Turns Out Parrots Love Videoconferencing | Donald Papp | [
"home hacks",
"Tablet Hacks"
] | [
"birds",
"parrot",
"pets",
"video calling",
"videoconferencing",
"wholesome"
] | A recent experiment showed that parrots seem
considerably enriched by the ability to video call other parrots
. It’s important that the activity be done in a healthy and ethical way, so researchers do not recommend bird caretakers immediately slap a spare tablet in front of every bird — but the results are as heartwarm... | 18 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6649293",
"author": "Unochepassa",
"timestamp": "2023-06-04T20:57:19",
"content": "This experiment makes me think of “the planet of the apes” movie (the good one)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6649294",
"author": "Dan (No,... | 1,760,372,278.135131 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/04/make-yourself-a-megamind-with-a-hypercentric-camera/ | Make Yourself A Megamind With A Hypercentric Camera | Dan Maloney | [
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"camera",
"fresnel",
"hypercentric",
"lens",
"perspective",
"telecentric"
] | Sometimes, all it takes to learn something new is a fresh perspective on things. But what’s to be learned from
reversing your perspective completely with a hypercentric lens
? For one thing, that you can make humans look really, really weird.
To be fair, there’s a lot to the optical story here, which [volzo] goes over ... | 4 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6649561",
"author": "P. Duff",
"timestamp": "2023-06-05T05:03:54",
"content": "Aper’ture not a’perture",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6650091",
"author": "Rob",
"timestamp": "2023-06-05T23:55:35",
"con... | 1,760,372,278.173612 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/04/a-real-world-experience-in-pcb-dye-sub-printing/ | A Real-World Experience In PCB Dye-Sub Printing | Jenny List | [
"Parts"
] | [
"color pcb",
"dye sublimation",
"pcb printing"
] | We all love PCB artwork, but those who create it work under the restriction of having a limited color palette to work with. If it’s not some combination of board, plating, solder mask, and silk screen, then it can’t easily be rendered on a conventional PCB. That’s not the end of the story though, because it’s technical... | 8 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6649222",
"author": "Jan",
"timestamp": "2023-06-04T14:18:16",
"content": "Cool! Very informative, must keep this one in mind.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6649234",
"author": "arcdoom",
"timestamp": "2023-06-04T15:58... | 1,760,372,278.074933 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/04/c17s-useful-features-for-embedded-systems/ | C++17’s Useful Features For Embedded Systems | Maya Posch | [
"Microcontrollers",
"Software Development"
] | [
"c++",
"c++17",
"embedded software"
] | Although the world of embedded software development languages seem to span somewhere between ASM and C89 all the way to MicroPython, there is a lot to be said for a happy medium between ease of development and features that makes the software more robust without adding overhead or bloat to the final firmware image.
Thi... | 42 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6649191",
"author": "Jouni",
"timestamp": "2023-06-04T12:51:56",
"content": "Good tips. C++ is great for embedded code.And now, let the C++ and C hate begin. If you don’t know where to start, you can start telling how horrible pointers are for example. Then you can continue to topic... | 1,760,372,278.523242 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/04/the-most-ornate-birdbath-youve-ever-seen/ | The Most Ornate Birdbath You’ve Ever Seen | Danie Conradie | [
"Art"
] | [
"automaton",
"kinetic art",
"kinetic sculpture"
] | When one thinks of art, a birdbath may not be the first thing that comes to mind. However, there is no denying that the
La Fontaine aux Oiseaux
(The Bird Fountain) is a true work of art. This automaton, created by automaton maker [François Junod] in collaboration with 20 different workshops and craftsmen, represents th... | 8 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6649162",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2023-06-04T08:41:25",
"content": "Do you have the STL?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6649166",
"author": "Jan",
"timestamp": "2023-06-04T08:51:15",
"content": "Wow! Beaut... | 1,760,372,278.622908 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/03/a-fresnel-lens-without-the-pain/ | A Fresnel Lens Without The Pain | Jenny List | [
"green hacks"
] | [
"fresnel",
"lens",
"optics",
"Robert Murray-Smith"
] | Making a traditional glass lens requires a lot of experience, skill, and patience grinding a piece of glass to the required shape, and is not for the casual experimenter. Making a glass Fresnel lens with its concentric rings requires even more work, but as the ever-resourceful [Robert Murray-Smith] shows us, a Fresnel ... | 21 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648963",
"author": "Murray",
"timestamp": "2023-06-03T08:16:04",
"content": "Looks more like a diffuser with interference patterns.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6648964",
"author": "Joshua Ellis",
"timestamp": "2023-... | 1,760,372,278.680197 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/02/c64-gets-chatgpt-access-via-bbs/ | C64 Gets ChatGPT Access Via BBS | Lewin Day | [
"Machine Learning"
] | [
"ai",
"ChatGPT",
"large language model"
] | ChatGPT, powered by GPT 3.5 and GPT 4, has become one of the most popular Large Language Models (LLM), due to its ability to hold passable conversations and generate large tracts of text. Now,
that very tool is available on the Commodore 64 via the Internet.
Obviously, a 6502 CPU with just 64 kilobytes of RAM can barel... | 4 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6649010",
"author": "Steven Goldsmith",
"timestamp": "2023-06-03T16:16:43",
"content": "Why? Try to get it to generate Z80 code. It makes up operands and opcodes.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6649109",
"author": "Jo... | 1,760,372,278.388923 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/02/perovskite-sensor-array-emulates-human-retina-for-panchromatic-imaging/ | Perovskite Sensor Array Emulates Human Retina For Panchromatic Imaging | Maya Posch | [
"News",
"Science"
] | [
"artificial retina",
"panchromatic imaging",
"perovskite"
] | The mammalian retina is a complex system consisting out of cones (for color) and rods (for peripheral monochrome) that provide the raw image data which is then processed into successive layers of neurons before this preprocessed data is sent via the optical nerve to the brain’s visual cortex. In order to emulate this s... | 13 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648922",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2023-06-03T02:08:46",
"content": "Two for one. Power generation and image sensor.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6648926",
"author": "Chris",
"timestamp": "2023-06-03T02:32:... | 1,760,372,278.444107 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/02/sma-connector-footprint-design-for-open-source-rf-projects/ | SMA Connector Footprint Design For Open Source RF Projects | Dave Rowntree | [
"hardware"
] | [
"characteristic impedance",
"design",
"pcb",
"qucs",
"RF",
"S-params",
"simulation",
"sma",
"stack up"
] | When you first start out in the PCB layout game and know just enough to be dangerous, you simply plop down a connector, run a trace or two, and call it a hack. As you learn more about the finer points of inconveniencing electrons, dipping toes into the waters of higher performance, little details like via size, count, ... | 10 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648890",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-06-02T23:34:08",
"content": "I wish there were cheap bandpass filters for the cheap 2 meter handheld transceivers.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6... | 1,760,372,278.572371 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/02/what-makes-wedge-coils-better-than-round-for-pcb-motors/ | What Makes Wedge Coils Better Than Round For PCB Motors? | Lewin Day | [
"Engine Hacks"
] | [
"motor",
"motor design",
"pcb motor",
"python"
] | PCB motors are useful things. With coils printed right on the board, you don’t need to worry about fussy winding jobs, and it’s possible to make very compact, self contained motors. [atomic14] has been doing some work in this area, and decided to explore
why wedge coils perform better than round coils in PCB motor desi... | 11 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648856",
"author": "Andy",
"timestamp": "2023-06-02T21:00:26",
"content": "Can these be stacked on a single armature? Diminishing returns on track width?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6648945",
"author": "TacticalNi... | 1,760,372,278.867608 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/02/hackaday-prize-2023-lask4-watches-those-finger-wiggles/ | Hackaday Prize 2023: LASK4 Watches Those Finger Wiggles | Matthew Carlson | [
"Medical Hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2023 Hackaday Prize",
"ESP32",
"machine learning",
"muscle sensor"
] | What do you get when you combine an ESP32-S2, a machine-learning model, some Hall effect sensors, and a grip exercise toy? [Turfptax]
did just that and created LASK4
. The four springs push down pistons with tiny magnets on them. Hall effect sensors determine the piston’s position, and since the springs are linear, the... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,372,278.71603 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/02/chatting-about-the-state-of-hacker-friendly-ar-gear/ | Chatting About The State Of Hacker-Friendly AR Gear | Tom Nardi | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Wearable Hacks"
] | [
"augmented reality",
"Hack Chat",
"smart glasses",
"wearable display"
] | There are many in the hacker community who would love to experiment with augmented reality (AR), but the hardware landscape isn’t exactly overflowing with options that align with our goals and priorities. Commercial offerings, from Google’s Glass to the Microsoft HoloLens and Magic Leap 2 are largely targeting medical ... | 13 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648825",
"author": "David",
"timestamp": "2023-06-02T18:07:48",
"content": "https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/02/tech/apple-mixed-reality-headset-challenges/index.htmlComing soon … WiFi connected players in a real world MMORPG staged in a forest or park. The ultimate cosplay.",
"par... | 1,760,372,278.921256 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/03/an-almost-invisible-desktop/ | AnAlmostInvisible Desktop | Dave Rowntree | [
"computer hacks"
] | [
"desktop",
"floating display",
"hid",
"laptop",
"machine learning"
] | When you’re putting together a computer workstation, what would you say is the
cleanest
setup? Wireless mouse and keyboard? Super-discrete cable management? How about no visible keeb, no visible mouse, and no obvious display?
That’s what
[Basically Homeless] was going for
. Utilizing a Flexispot E7 electronically raisa... | 28 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6649136",
"author": "BrightBlueJim",
"timestamp": "2023-06-04T05:26:20",
"content": "The keyboard is epic, the nanoparticle projection screen is inSANE, but that mouse was a step too far. There are many, many capacitive touchpads that can operate through 3mm of wood with no trouble... | 1,760,372,278.99276 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/03/the-glitch-that-brought-down-japans-lunar-lander/ | The Glitch That Brought Down Japan’s Lunar Lander | Matthew Carlson | [
"Software Development",
"Space"
] | [
"lunar lander",
"software bug",
"software bugs"
] | When a computer crashes, it usually doesn’t leave debris. But when a computer happens to be descending towards the lunar surface and glitches out, that’s a very different story. Turns out that’s what happened on April 26th, as the Japanese Hakuto-R Lunar lander made its mark on the Moon…by crashing into it. [Scott Manl... | 36 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6649119",
"author": "J",
"timestamp": "2023-06-04T02:21:40",
"content": "Change management is hard",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6649120",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2023-06-04T02:28:38",
"content": "“I wond... | 1,760,372,279.065884 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/03/bike-rides-played-back-via-aircraft-altitude-indicator/ | Bike Rides Played Back Via Aircraft Altitude Indicator | Lewin Day | [
"Microcontrollers",
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [] | Any good bike ride should have a big climb to push your fitness, and a nice descent for the joy of careening down at high speed. [Glen Akins] has been recording his altitude during his mountain biking expeditions, and has now built a way
to play them back on an aircraft altitude indicator.
A Python script is used to pa... | 7 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6649092",
"author": "misrhop",
"timestamp": "2023-06-03T23:14:04",
"content": "“a big climb to push your fitness”to rapidly decrease chain life“a nice descent for the joy of careening down at high speed”to rapidly wear out wheel bearings",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,372,279.110659 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/03/the-apple-silicon-that-never-was/ | The Apple Silicon That Never Was | Bryan Cockfield | [
"computer hacks",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"80's",
"apple",
"Apple Silicon",
"aquarius",
"arm",
"cray",
"development",
"powerpc",
"risc",
"supercomputer"
] | Over Apple’s decades-long history, they have been quick to adapt to new processor technology when they see an opportunity. Their switch from PowerPC to Intel in the early 2000s made Apple machines more accessible to the wider PC world who was already accustomed to using x86 processors, and a decade earlier they moved f... | 22 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6649070",
"author": "Alphatek",
"timestamp": "2023-06-03T21:01:50",
"content": "Didn’t realise that Apple went into ARM having failed to develop their own processor. Seems like they’ve a long history of over-rating their own ability.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"rep... | 1,760,372,279.168184 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/03/adata-ssd-gets-liquid-cooling-but-not-everyones-convinced/ | ADATA SSD Gets Liquid Cooling, But Not Everyone’s Convinced | Lewin Day | [
"computer hacks",
"Parts"
] | [
"liquid cooling",
"ssd",
"ssds",
"storage",
"water cooling"
] | Solid-state drives (SSDs) were a step change in performance when it came to computer storage. They offered incredibly fast seek times by virtue of dispensing with solid rust for silicon instead. Now, some companies have started pushing the limits to the extent that their drives supposedly need liquid cooling,
as report... | 19 | 5 | [
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"comment_id": "6649026",
"author": "fuzzyfuzzyfungus",
"timestamp": "2023-06-03T17:35:04",
"content": "Color me skeptical.The m.2 slot just doesn’t provide all that much bus power(numbers seem to vary slightly; but the highest one I’ve found is in OCP m.2 carrier card specs; which are aimed at lea... | 1,760,372,279.225121 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/03/software-driving-hardware/ | Software Driving Hardware | Elliot Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Microcontrollers",
"Rants"
] | [
"microcontrollers",
"micropython",
"newsletter"
] | We were talking about [Christopher Barnatt]’s very insightful analysis of
what the future holds for the Raspberry Pi single board computers
on the
Podcast
. On the one hand, they’re becoming such competent computers that they are beginning to compete with lightweight desktop machines, instead of just being a hacker cur... | 69 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648997",
"author": "al177",
"timestamp": "2023-06-03T14:19:39",
"content": "I’ve used MicroPython on ESP32 in a 6 hour intro to electronics class. We had them use Thonny as the IDE, which makes connectivity for terminal and file copying seamless. None of them had any embedded exper... | 1,760,372,279.524561 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/03/zelda-guardian-sculpture-tracks-humans-and-pets-via-camera/ | ZeldaGuardian Sculpture Tracks Humans And Pets Via Camera | Lewin Day | [
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"nintendo",
"raspberry pi",
"sentry",
"zelda"
] | In
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Guardians are a primitive form of sentry turret that tracks the player with a watchful eye. Inspired by this,
[npentrel] decided to whip up one of her own in the real world.
The build relies on a Raspberry Pi kitted out with its usual camera for machine vision purposes. It use... | 3 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6649007",
"author": "Dan",
"timestamp": "2023-06-03T16:10:18",
"content": "Was going to whinge that you’d just put a game screenshot as the image instead of a photo of the model, but eventually realised that is the model… wow…!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies":... | 1,760,372,279.263099 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/02/hackaday-podcast-221-the-future-of-the-raspberry-pi-sniffing-a-toothbrush-your-tactical-tool-threshold/ | Hackaday Podcast 221: The Future Of The Raspberry Pi, Sniffing A Toothbrush, Your Tactical Tool Threshold | Tom Nardi | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Podcasts"
] | [
"Hackaday Podcast"
] | Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi are back in the (virtual) podcast studio to talk the latest phase of the 2023 Hackaday Prize, the past, present, and future of single-board computers, and a modern reincarnation of the Blackberry designed by hardware hackers. They’ll also cover the current state of toothbrush NFC h... | 2 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6649115",
"author": "Foley Matthews",
"timestamp": "2023-06-04T02:07:48",
"content": "i tried dialling the number which censored the reveal of the answer but i couldn’t get through.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6650174",
... | 1,760,372,279.409091 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/02/ai-camera-imagines-a-photo-of-what-you-point-it-at/ | AI Camera Imagines A Photo Of What You Point It At | Lewin Day | [
"Artificial Intelligence",
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"ai",
"AI image generation",
"ai image generator",
"camera",
"not-a-camera"
] | These days, every phone has a camera, and few of us are ever without one. [Bjørn Karmann] has built an altogether not-camera, though, in the form of
the Paragraphica, powered by artificial intelligence.
The Paragraphica doesn’t actually take photographs at all. Instead, it uses GPS to determine the user’s current posit... | 20 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648778",
"author": "Abe",
"timestamp": "2023-06-02T15:42:58",
"content": "Thanks, I hate it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6648794",
"author": "Sean",
"timestamp": "2023-06-02T16:16:31",
"content": "... | 1,760,372,279.585054 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/02/this-week-in-security-barracuda-zyxel-and-the-backdoor/ | This Week In Security: Barracuda, Zyxel, And The Backdoor | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Featured",
"Hackaday Columns",
"News",
"Security Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"Gigabyte",
"libreoffice",
"This Week in Security"
] | Barracuda’s Email Security Gateway (ESG)
has had a vulnerability in it for years
. Tracked as CVE-2023-2868, this one was introduced back in version 5.1.3.001, and only got patched during the 9.2 development cycle. Specific build information on patched firmware has not been made available, but
a firmware build containi... | 12 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648781",
"author": "xeon",
"timestamp": "2023-06-02T15:47:53",
"content": "the isp i worked for supplied zyxel, the problems never ended as we constantly got hit with ransomware.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6648903",
... | 1,760,372,279.636555 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/02/is-minix-dead-and-does-it-matter/ | Is MINIX Dead? And Does It Matter? | Jenny List | [
"computer hacks"
] | [
"minix",
"operating system",
"unix"
] | Is MINIX dead?
OSnews is sounding its death-knell
, citing evidence from the operating system’s git log that its last updates happened as long ago as 2018. Given that
the last news story on the MINIX website is from 2016
and the last release version, 3.3, came out in 2014, it appears they they may have a point. But per... | 51 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648705",
"author": "segm2",
"timestamp": "2023-06-02T11:03:38",
"content": "Who cares? But I’ll shed a tear after RTEMS.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6648709",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2023-06-02T11:09:34",
... | 1,760,372,279.72635 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/02/wii-xl-is-twice-as-nice/ | Wii XL Is Twice As Nice | Navarre Bartz | [
"Nintendo Wii Hacks"
] | [
"Case mods",
"console hack",
"nintendo",
"nintendo wii"
] | The Wii was a relatively small console when it released, but it packed a big punch when it came to its game library and the impact it had on the industry. [Bringus Studios] wanted a Wii that physically matched the grandeur of one of Nintendo’s greatest successes, and
built the Wii XL
.
Basing the scale of this console ... | 17 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648674",
"author": "ono",
"timestamp": "2023-06-02T08:31:26",
"content": "Cool. I guess you can even store frozenhot-dogs in it. Very useful.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6649478",
"author": "Tyler Hovanec",
... | 1,760,372,280.10987 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/01/commodore-64-web-server-brings-8-bit-into-the-future/ | Commodore 64 Web Server Brings 8-Bit Into The Future | Lewin Day | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"c64",
"commodore 64",
"retrocomputer",
"retrocomputing",
"web server"
] | These days, most webservers are big hefty rackmount rigs with roaring fans in giant datacenters. [naDDan]’s webserver is altogether more humble,
as it runs on a single Commodore 64.
The C64 is running Contiki OS, an operating system for 6502-based computers. It’s built with an eye to networking, requiring ethernet hard... | 28 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648642",
"author": "Derek Tombrello",
"timestamp": "2023-06-02T05:13:36",
"content": "I have several c64s. I would love to use one to run the web server for my shop. It’s a simple small engine shop, so it’s a simple site, currently running on a libre (pi-like) single board computer... | 1,760,372,279.791921 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/01/watch-out-sic-diamond-power-semiconductors-are-coming-for-you/ | Watch Out SiC, Diamond Power Semiconductors Are Coming For You! | Dave Rowntree | [
"Science"
] | [
"Diamfab",
"diamond",
"GaN",
"power electronics",
"semiconductor",
"SiC"
] | The vast majority of semiconductors products we use every day are primarily constructed on a silicon process, using wafers of pure silicon. But whilst the economics are known, and processes mature, there are still some weaknesses. Especially for power applications. gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide (SiC) are ma... | 24 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648622",
"author": "jenningsthecat",
"timestamp": "2023-06-02T02:25:12",
"content": "You might want to correct the title. It took me a few beats to realize that the substance in question is “SiC”, (silicon carbide), and not “SIC”.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"repli... | 1,760,372,279.848054 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/01/ir-camera-is-excellent-hacking-platform/ | IR Camera Is Excellent Hacking Platform | Bryan Cockfield | [
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"camera",
"doom",
"Imaging",
"lens",
"linux",
"modifications",
"serial port",
"SoC",
"temperature",
"Thermal",
"webcam"
] | While there have been hiccups here and there, the general trend of electronics is to decrease in cost or increase in performance. This can be seen in fairly obvious ways like more powerful and affordable computers but it also often means that more powerful software can be used in other devices without needing expensive... | 14 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648587",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2023-06-01T23:34:50",
"content": "Resolution seems to be the issue with most cheap IR cams.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6648594",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp... | 1,760,372,279.996643 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/01/flexible-actuator-flaps-for-100000000-cycles-without-failure/ | Flexible Actuator Flaps For 100,000,000 Cycles Without Failure | Lewin Day | [
"hardware"
] | [
"flex PCB",
"flexible actuator",
"flexled"
] | Flexible PCBs are super-useful things, but they can have a limited fatigue life. [Carl Bugeja] has been using them to create flexible actuators, though,
and he’s getting an amazing 100,000,000 cycles out of them after some rigorous development.
[Carl] explores all manner of optimizations to his flippy actuators in the ... | 23 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648550",
"author": "Mr Beniz",
"timestamp": "2023-06-01T21:44:14",
"content": "With proper magl-ev bearing and powerful enough solenoids it should be possible to create a toilet seat that can toggle between “open” and “closed” states with frequency of 100 kHz or more. It may create... | 1,760,372,280.055332 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/01/hackaday-prize-2023-building-a-relay-alu/ | Hackaday Prize 2023: Building A Relay ALU | Dave Rowntree | [
"computer hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2023 Hackaday Prize",
"adder",
"ALU",
"arduino",
"computer",
"logic",
"relay"
] | There’s much truth in the advice that, to truly understand something, you need to build it yourself from the ground up. That’s the idea behind [Christian]’s entry for the
Re-engineering Education
category of the 2023 Hackaday Prize. Built as an educational demonstrator, this is
a complete arithmetic-logic unit (ALU) us... | 9 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648528",
"author": "spaceminions",
"timestamp": "2023-06-01T19:43:42",
"content": "I like the 4-relay-per-bit thing. It’s so nice to try and make logic when you can manage to get the inputs and their complements at full strength as well as at least some of the other operations.At o... | 1,760,372,280.165266 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/01/books-you-should-read-red-team-blues/ | Books You Should Read:Red Team Blues | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Reviews"
] | [
"books you should read",
"cory doctorow",
"cryptocurrency"
] | Martin Hench really likes playing on the Red Team — being on the attack. He’s a financial geek, understands cryptocurrency, understands how money is moved around to keep it hidden, and is really good at mining data from social media. He puts those skills together as a forensic accountant. Put simply, Martin finds money... | 12 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648484",
"author": "KDawg",
"timestamp": "2023-06-01T17:45:10",
"content": "I never learned to read you insensitive clod",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6648525",
"author": "Paul",
"timestamp": "2023-06-01T19:... | 1,760,372,280.252294 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/01/old-clock-transformed-into-mesmerizing-light-display/ | Old Clock Transformed Into Mesmerizing Light Display | Lewin Day | [
"clock hacks"
] | [
"cd",
"clock",
"Compact Disc"
] | It’s easy to find a cheap clock at any dollar store that will manage to tell the time, but chances are that the plastic-fantastic construction won’t do you any aesthetic favors. Fear not, though, for [ROBO HUB]’s upcycled design
turns a humble clock into a mesmerizing horological display of beauty.
The build starts by ... | 4 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648476",
"author": "ono",
"timestamp": "2023-06-01T17:30:12",
"content": "Looks really nice, + minimalist approach, really cool!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6648582",
"author": "Staple_nutz",
"timestamp": "2023-06-0... | 1,760,372,280.206316 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/01/farewell-american-computer-magazines/ | Farewell American Computer Magazines | Al Williams | [
"Current Events",
"Featured",
"Original Art",
"Rants",
"Slider"
] | [
"magazine",
"Rant"
] | I grew up in a small town with a small library. The next town over had what I thought at the time was a big library, but it was actually more like my town had a tiny library, and the next one over had an actual small library. When I left to go to University, I found out what a real library looked like, and I was mesmer... | 80 | 30 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648427",
"author": "Nico Verduin",
"timestamp": "2023-06-01T14:32:43",
"content": "This sounds familiar.. I bought a KIM-1 sometime around 1976/77 here in Holland. And I found a PC store (well PC store? eh-m) that sold US magazines. I spent a fortune on magazines and books in thos... | 1,760,372,280.452447 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/01/getting-a-close-up-view-of-chip-formation-with-an-sem/ | Getting A Close-Up View Of Chip Formation With An SEM | Dan Maloney | [
"Science"
] | [
"Carbide",
"chip formation",
"chips",
"electron microscope",
"metalwork",
"sem",
"shear zone"
] | When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And when you’ve got a scanning electron microscope, everything must look like a sample that would be really, really interesting to see enlarged in all its 3D glory. And this is what [Zachary Tong] delivers with
this up close and personal look at the chip fo... | 16 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648389",
"author": "C",
"timestamp": "2023-06-01T11:35:35",
"content": "I wonder if you can make a mechanical clock like system that moves it automatically in small increments or continuously (without too much vibration). That way you don’t have to open the chamber to take snapshot... | 1,760,372,280.618815 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/01/tinytendo-is-a-miniscule-yet-real-nes/ | TinyTendo Is A Miniscule Yet Real NES | Lewin Day | [
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"nes",
"nintendo",
"tinytendo"
] | These days, it’s possible to get a single-board computer the size of a stick of gum. This will give you the power to emulate thousands of games and you can run one off batteries inside a handheld of your own devising. [Redherring32] took an altogether more creative and old-school approach with the TinyTendo, however.
T... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648457",
"author": "Hobo Lobo",
"timestamp": "2023-06-01T16:00:38",
"content": "> why the original NES was so bigas a unit, the original NES was so big because the designers wanted it to be taken seriously by the American market and designed it to look and work like something that ... | 1,760,372,280.551327 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/31/a-simple-guide-to-cams/ | A Simple Guide To Cams | Danie Conradie | [
"Parts"
] | [
"automata",
"cams",
"camshaft"
] | With the availability of precision controllable actuators, it’s easy to overlook the simple but versatile mechanisms that got us here. In the video after the break, [Teaching Tech] explores the
basics of cams
and how to use them in your projects.
Cams are used to convert rotation into linear motion, and are probably be... | 10 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648354",
"author": "YGDES",
"timestamp": "2023-06-01T05:15:15",
"content": "So it’s not the end of the cam era ?…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6648373",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2023-06-01T09:37:25... | 1,760,372,280.499947 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/31/neural-network-helps-with-radar-pipeline-diagnostics/ | Neural Network Helps With Radar Pipeline Diagnostics | Lewin Day | [
"Machine Learning"
] | [
"ai",
"mmwave",
"neural network",
"pipeline",
"radar"
] | Diagnosing pipeline problems is important in industry to avoid costly or dangerous failures from cracked, broken, or damaged pipes. [Kutluhan Aktar] has built an system
that uses AI to assist in this difficult task
.
The core of the system is a MR60BHA1 60 GHz mmWave radar module, which is most typically used for breat... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648411",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2023-06-01T12:53:20",
"content": "Same idea for roads (which need it coming out of winter).https://www.cyclomedia.com/us/producten/data-insights/road-surface-analysis",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
... | 1,760,372,280.886387 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/31/more-ideas-for-setting-up-an-electronics-workbench/ | More Ideas For Setting Up An Electronics Workbench | Dave Rowntree | [
"hardware",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"bench equipment",
"electronics",
"organisation",
"solder fume extractor",
"workarea"
] | Setting up an electronics work area is a highly personal and situational affair, with many interesting problems to be solved, and for many of us, significant budget constraints. The requirements for electronics development vary wildly depending upon the sort of work to be undertaken, but there is core equipment that ma... | 37 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648306",
"author": "DerAxeman",
"timestamp": "2023-05-31T23:28:04",
"content": "A built-in mini fridge is a must for me.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6649175",
"author": "Tracy A Scott",
"timestamp": "2023-... | 1,760,372,280.719576 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/31/can-hobbyists-bring-sgis-irix-os-back-to-life/ | Can Hobbyists Bring SGI’s IRIX OS Back To Life? | Lewin Day | [
"News",
"Retrocomputing",
"Reverse Engineering"
] | [
"irix",
"operating system",
"sgi",
"silicon graphics"
] | Irix was the operating system developed by Silicon Graphics from 1988 to 1998. The OS supported the company’s high-end workstations and served in many serious roles. The company cut off support for the UNIX-based OS in 2006,
but now a diehard community is looking to bring the ancient codebase back to life.
SGI workstat... | 33 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648260",
"author": "Julian Skidmore",
"timestamp": "2023-05-31T20:23:13",
"content": "Cool, maybe I can run it on my Indy (64-bit computer from the mid 1990s!!!) :-)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6648263",
"author": "Seve... | 1,760,372,280.845842 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/31/hackaday-prize-2023-low-cost-braille-embosser-from-3d-printer-parts/ | Hackaday Prize 2023: Low Cost Braille Embosser From 3D Printer Parts | Danie Conradie | [
"Tech Hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2023 Hackaday Prize",
"assistive device",
"braille",
"braille printer"
] | The limited availability of texts transcribed to Braille and the required embossing equipment is a challenge world wide, but especially in poorer countries. To alleviate this problem, a team makers from in Cameroon have been developing
BrailleRAP
, an open source Braille embosser.
BrailleRAP is built built using common... | 8 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648231",
"author": "Jason O'Donnell",
"timestamp": "2023-05-31T18:45:55",
"content": "Nice!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6648264",
"author": "CRJEEA",
"timestamp": "2023-05-31T20:37:36",
"content": ... | 1,760,372,280.928057 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/31/hackaday-prize-2023-this-challenge-makes-it-so-easy-being-green/ | Hackaday Prize 2023: This Challenge Makes It So Easy Being Green | Elliot Williams | [
"contests",
"green hacks",
"Hackaday Columns"
] | [
"2023 Hackaday Prize",
"environmental",
"prize"
] | This year’s
Hackaday Prize
is our first nice round number – number ten! We thought it would be great to look back on the history of the Prize and cherry-pick our favorite themes from the past. Last year’s entire theme was sustainable hacking, and we challenged you to come up with ways to generate or save power, keep ex... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648299",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-05-31T23:04:32",
"content": "The thumbnail photo is different than the Title Photo.I can’t make out what it is.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "666555... | 1,760,372,280.771814 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/31/moon-phase-lamp-uses-rotating-shade/ | Moon Phase Lamp Uses Rotating Shade | Lewin Day | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"lamp",
"moon",
"moon lamp"
] | The Moon has fascinated humanity for centuries. These days, though, it’s a trial and a bore to go outside and stare upwards to check on the natural satellite. Instead, why not bring the Moon to your bedside
with this rotating phase lamp?
The build comes to us from [payasa_manandhar], who did a good job of replicating t... | 9 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648180",
"author": "craig",
"timestamp": "2023-05-31T16:20:05",
"content": "I think that is the worst video ever posted to hackaday. Normally I’d say looking at linked videos is a waste of time but, like watching a train wreck, that was so bad it was amusing and actually funny to ... | 1,760,372,283.283298 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/31/ask-hackaday-whats-your-tactical-tool-threshold/ | Ask Hackaday: What’s Your “Tactical Tool” Threshold? | Dan Maloney | [
"Featured",
"Rants",
"Slider",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"automotive",
"diy",
"harbor freight",
"repairs",
"tactical",
"tools"
] | With few exceptions, every field has a pretty modest set of tools that would be considered the minimum for getting most jobs done. A carpenter can make do with tools that would fit in a smallish bag, while a mechanic can handle quite a few repairs with a simple set of socket wrenches and other tools. Even in electronic... | 130 | 48 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648107",
"author": "Ivan",
"timestamp": "2023-05-31T14:20:08",
"content": "I have a simple strategy for this. If I want a tool, I add it to my amazon save for later, then I do without it. I leave it there, and every time I think I want that tool I come back to it and reconsider whe... | 1,760,372,283.238852 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/31/what-next-for-the-sbc-that-has-everything/ | What Next For The SBC That Has Everything? | Jenny List | [
"computer hacks",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"raspberry pi",
"SBC",
"single board computer"
] | In the decade-and-a-bit since the first Raspberry Pi was launched we’ve seen an explosion of affordable single-board computers (SBCs), but as the prices creep up alongside user expectation and bloat, [Christopher Barnatt]
asks where the industry will go next
.
The Pi started with an unbeatable offer, $35 got you someth... | 113 | 37 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648059",
"author": "Gregg Eshelman",
"timestamp": "2023-05-31T11:20:00",
"content": "I’d like for someone to take the H3droid project to the next level, bump it up a few Android versions from 4.x. There are TV boxes with the Allwinner H3 running versions as new as 7 while H3droid i... | 1,760,372,283.064987 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/31/jitx-spits-out-handy-usb-cable-tester/ | JITX Spits Out Handy USB Cable Tester | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"cad",
"jitx",
"led",
"tester",
"testing",
"tools",
"usb",
"USB C"
] | When USB first came on the scene, one of the benefits was that essentially any four conductors could get you to the point where you could send information at 12 Mbps. Of course everything is faster these days, and reaching today’s speeds requires a little bit more fidelity in the cables.
This simple tester makes sure t... | 12 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648044",
"author": "rastersoft",
"timestamp": "2023-05-31T09:57:44",
"content": "But what about a cable with the pins connected in the wrong way? Like the one that fried the laptop of one Google engineer because it swapped the power pins in one of the connectors, IIRC.",
"paren... | 1,760,372,283.32824 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/30/secret-bookshelf-door-uses-hidden-fingerprint-scanner/ | Secret Bookshelf Door Uses Hidden Fingerprint Scanner | Lewin Day | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"door",
"secret door"
] | What is it that compels us about a secret door? It’s almost as if the door itself and the promise of mystery is more exciting than whatever could lay beyond. In any case, [Scott Monaghan] is a lover of the form,
and built his own secret door hidden in a bookshelf
, as all good secret doors should be.
The door is activa... | 4 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648166",
"author": "Greg A",
"timestamp": "2023-05-31T15:56:41",
"content": "i mean, it’s a hack!for something like this, security through obscurity really is more effective imo. the entrance looks like a door frame and seems to be exactly where you’d expect a door to be in a hous... | 1,760,372,282.625504 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/30/simple-cubes-show-off-ai-driven-runtime-changes-in-vr/ | Simple Cubes Show Off AI-Driven Runtime Changes In VR | Donald Papp | [
"Artificial Intelligence",
"Software Development",
"Virtual Reality"
] | [
"ai",
"ar",
"proof of concept",
"prototype",
"speech interface",
"unity",
"vr"
] | AR and VR developer [Skarredghost] got pretty excited about a virtual blue cube, and for a very good reason. It marked a successful prototype of an augmented reality experience in which the logic underlying the cube as a virtual object was
changed by AI in response to verbal direction by the user
. Saying “make it blue... | 6 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6648026",
"author": "Butt Licker",
"timestamp": "2023-05-31T07:28:39",
"content": "Given some of the stuff I’ve seen lately, this is just a nice project he put together.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6648029",
"author": "s... | 1,760,372,282.673486 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/30/pretty-small-robot-is-capable-nonetheless/ | Pretty Small Robot Is Capable, Nonetheless | Lewin Day | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"ESP32",
"mqtt",
"robot",
"robots"
] | When science fiction authors imagined robots in the 20th century, many of them were huge imposing steel automatons. [Shane]’s designs for the Pretty Small Robot are quite contrary to that,
being tiny in stature and cute in affect
.
The whole robot is an exploration in nifty engineering. It uses an easy clip-together st... | 5 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647946",
"author": "Mike",
"timestamp": "2023-05-31T00:59:01",
"content": "I think it could pass the butter..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6647958",
"author": "Dan (No, the OTHER one)",
"timestamp": "2023-05-31T03:0... | 1,760,372,282.719818 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/28/bbc-master-128-revealed/ | BBC Master 128 Revealed | Al Williams | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"6502",
"acorn bbc master",
"bbc",
"corrosion",
"repair"
] | [Adrian] comments that the
BBC Master 128
is a rare 8-bit computer, and we agree — we couldn’t remember hearing about that particular machine, although the BBC series is quite familiar. The machine has a whopping 128 K of RAM, quite a bit for those days. It also had a 6502 variant known as the 65C12, which has an extra... | 12 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647340",
"author": "sgerjk",
"timestamp": "2023-05-28T20:32:33",
"content": "Honestly not that rare, it was mostly built for export to Poland, Czech Republic, Albania and other members of the USSR. It was sold in the so called “behind yellow curtains” shops, and for USD only. One o... | 1,760,372,282.765248 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/28/mangle-videos-with-recurboy-and-a-raspberry-pi-zero/ | Mangle Videos With RecurBOY And A Raspberry Pi Zero | Elliot Williams | [
"Raspberry Pi",
"Video Hacks"
] | [
"raspberry pi",
"synthesizer",
"video"
] | You used to need a lot of equipment to be a video DJ. Now you can do it all with a Raspberry Pi Zero and
[cyberboy666]’s recurBOY
. And if you missed out on the 1970’s video-editing psychedelia, now’s your chance to catch up – recurBOY is a modern video synth with all of the bells and whistles, and it’ll fit in your po... | 6 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647369",
"author": "ehrichweiss",
"timestamp": "2023-05-28T23:41:39",
"content": "I’m going to have to study this some once I get the PCB in so I can see how easy it will be to output HDMI. I have several uses for this, just not as analog.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,372,282.81315 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/28/ai-creates-killer-drug/ | AI Creates Killer Drug | Al Williams | [
"Artificial Intelligence",
"Machine Learning",
"Medical Hacks"
] | [
"antibiotic",
"bacteria",
"machine learning"
] | Researchers in Canada and the United States have used deep learning to derive an antibiotic that can attack a resistant microbe, acinetobacter baumannii, which can infect wounds and cause pneumonia. According to the
BBC
, a paper in
Nature Chemical Biology
describes how the researchers used training data that measured ... | 60 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647253",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2023-05-28T14:04:51",
"content": "“While doing lab tests on 240 compounds sounds like a lot of work, it is better than testing nearly 6,700.”I imagine with the other buzzword (robots) that can be a manageable task.https://aabme.asme.org/... | 1,760,372,282.907984 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/28/math-reveals-how-many-shuffles-randomizes-a-deck/ | Math Reveals How Many Shuffles Randomizes A Deck | Donald Papp | [
"Games"
] | [
"cards",
"math",
"random",
"randomizing",
"shuffling"
] | Math — and some clever simulations — have revealed
how many shuffles are required to randomize a deck
of 52 cards, but there’s a bit more to it than that. There are different shuffling methods, and dealing methods can matter, too. [Jason Fulman] and [Persi Diaconis] are behind the research that will be detailed in an u... | 52 | 21 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647225",
"author": "Todd",
"timestamp": "2023-05-28T11:23:45",
"content": "“If even two cards have remained in the same relative positions (next to one another, for example) after shuffling, then a deck has not yet been randomized. ”If the two cards moved relative to each other at ... | 1,760,372,283.423324 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/28/3d-printing-bores-without-support/ | 3D Printing Bores Without Support | Danie Conradie | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d printing",
"3d printing techniques",
"maker's muse"
] | If you’ve done even a small amount of 3D printing, you probably ran into the challenge of printing a small hole on top of a larger hole. The conventional solution is just to add support, but in the video after the break, [Angus] of Maker’s Muse demonstrates an
alternative solution
you can implement in CAD, without havi... | 14 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647207",
"author": "mkarliner",
"timestamp": "2023-05-28T08:04:31",
"content": "I just use a fillet for this.Much quicker to do.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6694747",
"author": "Daniel Robert Betzold",
"ti... | 1,760,372,283.471977 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/27/hacking-a-smart-electric-toothbrush-to-reset-its-usage-counter/ | Hacking A “Smart” Electric Toothbrush To Reset Its Usage Counter | Maya Posch | [
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"electric toothbrush",
"NFC"
] | The visible circuitry inside the brush head.
Following the trend of stuffing more electronics in everyday devices, the new Philips Sonicare electric toothbrush that [Cyrill Künzi] purchased ended up having a ‘brush head replacement reminder’ feature that wasn’t simply a timer in the handle or base of the unit, but ende... | 46 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647198",
"author": "William DeRieux",
"timestamp": "2023-05-28T07:15:52",
"content": "It’s nice to go through with all of that I guess……but I was expecting to read that the point of hacking it was because the device would stop working.It is nice to see that, at least one, mfg hadn’... | 1,760,372,283.724611 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/27/ai-image-generation-gets-a-drag-interface/ | AI Image Generation Gets A Drag Interface | Donald Papp | [
"Art",
"Artificial Intelligence"
] | [
"ai art",
"AI image generation",
"art",
"GaN",
"image manipulation",
"SIGGGRAPH",
"siggraph"
] | AI image generators have gained new tools and techniques for not just creating pictures, but modifying them in consistent and sensible ways, and it seems that every week brings a fascinating new development in this area.
One of the latest is
Drag Your GAN
, presented at SIGGRAPH 2023, and it’s pretty wild.
It provides ... | 15 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647183",
"author": "𐂀 𐂅",
"timestamp": "2023-05-28T02:18:21",
"content": "That looks like a useful composition tool particularly when paired with the initial pin the scene method, but can it fix the finger count problem that so many of these systems have?",
"parent_id": null,... | 1,760,372,283.633774 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/30/ultimate-garage-door-control-does-the-job-brilliantly/ | Ultimate Garage Door Control Does The Job Brilliantly | Lewin Day | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"ESP32",
"garage",
"garage door opener",
"home-assistant"
] | [Stephen Carey] had previously relied on an Insteon garage door controller, only to have it perform poorly and fail at integrating with Alexa properly. Thus, he did what any good hacker would do,
and built his own system instead.
The garage door was first outfitted with a pair of reed switches to sense when it was full... | 21 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647898",
"author": "Piotrsko",
"timestamp": "2023-05-30T20:52:29",
"content": "What about the cat under the closing door sensor? Mine knows if it hasnt hit the stop verification switch it better not be drawing more than typical downcurrent else something is stuck underneath and m... | 1,760,372,283.969068 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/30/hackaday-prize-2023-eyebreak-could-be-a-breakthrough/ | Hackaday Prize 2023: EyeBREAK Could Be A Breakthrough | Matthew Carlson | [
"Machine Learning",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"ESP32",
"morse code",
"Tensorflow Lite"
] | For those with strokes or other debilitating conditions, control over one’s eyelid can be one of the last remaining motor functions. Inspired by [Jeremiah Denton] blinking in Morse code on a televised interview, [MBW] designed an
ESP32-based device to decode blinks into words
.
While an ESP32 offers Bluetooth for simul... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647924",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-05-30T22:44:09",
"content": "Wow!Communication only through eye blinks…No speech or sip and puff?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6647938",
"autho... | 1,760,372,283.909063 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/30/supercon-2022-jorvon-moss-gives-his-robots-a-soul/ | Supercon 2022: [Jorvon Moss] Gives His Robots A Soul | Arya Voronova | [
"Art",
"cons",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Robots Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"2022 Superconference",
"robot design"
] | How do you approach your robot designs? Maybe, you do it from a ‘oh, I have these cool parts’ position, or from a ‘I want to make a platform on wheels for my experiments’ perspective. In that case, consider that there’s a different side to robot building – one where you account for your robot’s influence on what other ... | 6 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647869",
"author": "TG",
"timestamp": "2023-05-30T19:16:49",
"content": "The random servo position for twitches and saccades is fun. I wonder what the cheapest, simplest, throw-away version of such a circuit would be, something you could make as a module and plug in all over a prop... | 1,760,372,284.009508 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/30/diy-3d-printed-rain-gauge-connects-to-home-assistant/ | DIY 3D Printed Rain Gauge Connects To Home Assistant | Danie Conradie | [
"home hacks",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"ESP32",
"esphome",
"homeassistant",
"weather station"
] | Measuring local rainfall has real practical uses, especially in agriculture, but most of us will have to admit that it’s at least partly about drawing cool graphs on a screen. Whatever your motivation, you can build this
open source electronic rain gauge
designed by [Sebastian] of
Smart Solutions for Home
, and integra... | 17 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647796",
"author": "Paul d'Aoust",
"timestamp": "2023-05-30T16:03:01",
"content": "Excited to learn more, but the first link in the article goes to a wp-admin link in the guts of the Hackaday blog. Is it just supposed to point to the YouTube page for the embedded video?",
"pare... | 1,760,372,283.856753 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/30/methane-tracking-satellites-hunt-for-nasty-greenhouse-gas-emissions/ | Methane-Tracking Satellites Hunt For Nasty Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Lewin Day | [
"Current Events",
"Featured",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"climate change",
"greenhouse gas",
"greenhouse gases",
"methane",
"pollution",
"satellite",
"Satellites"
] | Much of the reporting around climate change focuses on carbon dioxide. It’s public enemy number one when it comes to gases that warm the atmosphere, as a primary byproduct of fossil fuel combustion.
It’s not the only greenhouse gas out there, though. Methane itself is a particularly potent pollutant, and one that is be... | 41 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647754",
"author": "Skip Flem",
"timestamp": "2023-05-30T14:09:17",
"content": "activated charcoal suppositories for cows?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6647760",
"author": "Joseph Eoff",
"timestamp": "2023-... | 1,760,372,284.265471 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/30/will-electric-tractors-farm-your-food/ | Will Electric Tractors Farm Your Food? | Jenny List | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"electric tractor",
"farming",
"tractor"
] | There are two professions used to driving single-seaters with hundreds of horsepower, one of which is very exclusive and the other of which can be found anywhere the ground is fertile enough to support agriculture. Formula One drivers operate fragile machines pushed to the edges of their performance envelope, while the... | 119 | 24 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647683",
"author": "Psycobob",
"timestamp": "2023-05-30T11:14:40",
"content": "Once electric tractors start using EV scale batteries, DC fast charging will allow them to come closer to the uptime diesel tractors have.Planting and harvest definitely need short recharge times or very... | 1,760,372,284.177689 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/30/south-korea-successfully-sends-satellites-to-orbit/ | South Korea Successfully Sends Satellites To Orbit | Chris Lott | [
"News",
"Space"
] | [
"KLSV",
"Nuri",
"satellite",
"south korea"
] | South Korea’s KARI (
Korea Aerospace Research Institute ) successfully put a commercial satellite into orbit Thursday, achieving another milestone in their domestic space program. The Nuri rocket (aka KLSV-2) left the Naro Space Center launch pad on the southern coast of the peninsula at 18:24 KST, after a communicatio... | 8 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647704",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-05-30T12:26:34",
"content": "“Cairo Space, weather observation and space debris technology demonstration”Aren’t all cubesats space debris?B^)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
... | 1,760,372,284.362004 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/29/mat-boards-are-spendy-so-diy-cnc-tool-to-the-rescue/ | Mat Boards Are Spendy, So DIY CNC Tool To The Rescue | Donald Papp | [
"Art",
"cnc hacks"
] | [
"3d printed",
"cnc tool",
"diy",
"mat board",
"mat cutting"
] | Mats are flat pieces of paper-based material that fill the space between a frame and the art within. They perform a number of aesthetic and practical functions, and they can also be expensive to purchase. Making them by hand is an option, but it’s an exacting process. [wooddragon48] felt that a CNC solution would serve... | 22 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647677",
"author": "dongwaffle",
"timestamp": "2023-05-30T10:24:30",
"content": "They have hand tools that will cut holes yet people buy drills.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6647735",
"author": "ono",
"time... | 1,760,372,284.421646 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/29/your-engineering-pad-in-browser/ | Your Engineering Pad In Browser | Al Williams | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"math",
"mathcad"
] | It was always easy to spot engineering students in college. They had slide rules on their belts (later, calculators) and wrote everything on engineering pads. These were usually a light brown or green and had a light grid on one side, ready to let you sketch a diagram or a math function. These days, you tend to sketch ... | 15 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647636",
"author": "Oikos",
"timestamp": "2023-05-30T04:37:00",
"content": "Nice idea, but what a dreadful user interface.Press “insert cell” and the dialogue box times out after five seconds or so.Seems to dislike the system keyboard on mobile browsers too.What a shame, a terrible... | 1,760,372,284.318246 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/29/google-nest-hub-teardown/ | Google Nest Hub Teardown | Matthew Carlson | [
"Reverse Engineering"
] | [
"DSLogic",
"google hub",
"radar chip",
"teardown"
] | Seeing the guts of devices is a fascination that many hackers share. [Txyz] tore down
a 2nd gen Google Nest Hub
for all of us to enjoy. The video after the break is well produced and relaxing to watch as various heat shields are removed and debug cables are soldered on.
The main SOC is an Amlogic S905D3G, a 4-core A55-... | 16 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647611",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2023-05-29T23:05:28",
"content": "Apparently a Google phone uses the same.https://techtime.news/2019/10/16/radar/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6647628",
"author": "ScubaBearLA... | 1,760,372,284.475053 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/29/automate-handwritten-postcards-with-robots/ | Automate Handwritten Postcards With Robots | Danie Conradie | [
"Robots Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"handwriting",
"pen plotter",
"stuff made here"
] | As someone notorious for not doing things the old-fashioned manual way, we’re not sure by [Shane] of Stuff Made Here was thinking when he promised to send out a few hundred handwritten letters. Predictably he built an
automated production line
for the task. Video after the break.
With “handwritten” and “automated” not ... | 15 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647557",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-05-29T20:09:38",
"content": "“The weather is here, wish you were beautiful!”B^)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6647573",
"author": "MmmDee",
... | 1,760,372,284.528378 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/29/hackaday-prize-2023-scratch-made-8-bit-educational-computer/ | Hackaday Prize 2023: Scratch Made 8-Bit Educational Computer | Joseph Long | [
"computer hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2023 Hackaday Prize",
"8 bit",
"educational",
"homebrew"
] | To demonstrate the functionality of an 8-bit computer processor at a very basic level, [Mazen Gomaa] assembled a
Homemade 8-Bit Educational Computer
using common CMOS logic chips, a handful of prototyping boards, and an impressive number of carefully connected wires. [Mazen] was inspired by Ben Eater’s
8-bit TTL Bread... | 6 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647554",
"author": "grumbly",
"timestamp": "2023-05-29T19:51:29",
"content": "Ah, the MSI days, when buses were buses, tri-state outputs were our friends, and you didn’t have to have as many multiplexers as everything else combined. Yes, yes, multiple tri-state devices on a bus con... | 1,760,372,284.56904 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/29/all-your-robots-are-belong-to-us-you-just-rent-them/ | All Your Robots Are Belong To Us: You Just Rent Them | Al Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Rants",
"Slider"
] | [
"Rant",
"robotics as s service",
"software as a service"
] | Monthly bills. Everyone has them. Except if you go far enough back, not everyone had them. After all, you might live in a home your family has owned for generations. You might be able to produce all the basic necessities using your homestead: food from a garden, water from a well, textiles, soap, and candles. You might... | 34 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647513",
"author": "Joseph Eoff",
"timestamp": "2023-05-29T17:13:01",
"content": "That’d have to be one more hell of a vacuum cleaner for $1500 per year, every year.For that price, it better come with free electricity, free replacement, and free 24/7 emergency service. It better b... | 1,760,372,284.746024 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/29/open-source-ar-hack-chat/ | Open-Source AR Hack Chat | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Slider"
] | [
"Hack Chat"
] | Join us on Wednesday, May 31 at noon Pacific for the
Open-Source AR Hack Chat
with Raj Nakaraja!
We may live in a soup of electromagnetic waves that range in wavelength from the diameter of Jupiter down to a fraction of the radius of a hydrogen atom, but our eyeballs have evolved to only let us sense a tiny slice of th... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,372,284.786279 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/29/macro-pad-cheap-enough-to-give-away/ | Macro Pad Cheap Enough To Give Away | Matthew Carlson | [
"Microcontrollers",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"CH552",
"macropad",
"makerfaire"
] | Supercon 2022 showed that hackers are starting to come together again in Maker Faires, conventions, and festivals. [Toby Chui] plans to be one of those hackers and wants something to give to fellow attendees. Thus,
the $3 Macro Pad was born
.
We’ve seen our fair share of macro pads, so a simple four-key pad isn’t exact... | 24 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647499",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-05-29T15:34:45",
"content": "Nice!(Though at first thought, upon seeing CH552 in the Title Photo, I thought it was a relative of the 555 B^)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
... | 1,760,372,284.847149 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/29/chatgpt-v-the-legal-system-why-trusting-chatgpt-gets-you-sanctioned/ | ChatGPT V. The Legal System: Why Trusting ChatGPT Gets You Sanctioned | Maya Posch | [
"Artificial Intelligence",
"Current Events",
"Featured",
"Slider"
] | [
"ChatGPT",
"GPT-4",
"large language model",
"LLM"
] | Recently, an amusing anecdote made the news headlines pertaining to the use of ChatGPT by a lawyer. This all started when a Mr. Mata
sued the airline
where years prior he claims a metal serving cart struck his knee. When the airline filed a motion to dismiss the case on the basis of the statute of limitations, the plai... | 67 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647486",
"author": "Not Tragic",
"timestamp": "2023-05-29T14:32:08",
"content": "“Although it is tragic that an attorney stands to lose his job due to ‘AI’”I don’t think so. If he is taking this kind of shortcut in this case, what other clients has he served poorly? If he lacks the... | 1,760,372,285.113238 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/29/musical-robot-lets-you-play-the-recorder-hands-free/ | Musical Robot Lets You Play The Recorder Hands-Free | Robin Kearey | [
"Musical Hacks",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"arduino nano",
"recorder",
"robotic instruments",
"solenoid"
] | Although many people might remember the recorder as just a simple instrument from their introductory music classes, it can nevertheless produce rich and varied melodies in the hands of a virtuoso like Frans Brüggen. [Luis Marx] also took music lessons as a child, but never progressed much beyond an elementary level. In... | 6 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647460",
"author": "imqqmi",
"timestamp": "2023-05-29T11:26:28",
"content": "Nice project! Controlling your breath is also necessary depending on what note you play though. Some soft silicone casts could help with better finger simulates. Some kind of padding for the recoil of the ... | 1,760,372,285.003022 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/29/the-cctv-cameras-that-recorded-the-chernobyl-disaster-and-aftermath/ | The CCTV Cameras That Recorded The Chernobyl Disaster And Aftermath | Maya Posch | [
"Teardown"
] | [
"CCTV",
"Chernobyl",
"Chornobyl",
"vidicon"
] | The Soviet KTP-63-based remote-controlled camera system, including switch and control panel. (Credit: Chernobyl Family on YouTube)
When we picture the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster and its aftermath, we tend to recall just the commonly shared video recorded by television crews, but the unsung heroes were defin... | 9 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647445",
"author": "Lee",
"timestamp": "2023-05-29T09:44:43",
"content": "To think I worked on some odd CCTV cameras, these take the cake.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6647449",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2023... | 1,760,372,285.165473 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/28/the-fascinating-evolution-of-micromouse/ | The Fascinating Evolution Of Micromouse | Danie Conradie | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"autonomous robot",
"maze",
"micromouse"
] | You would think there are only so many ways for a robotic mouse to run a maze, but in its almost 50 year history, competitors in Micromouse events have repeatedly proven this assumption false. In the video after the break, [Veritasium] takes us on a fascinating journey through the
development of Micromouse
competition ... | 15 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647418",
"author": "Jan",
"timestamp": "2023-05-29T05:54:32",
"content": "“You would think there are only so many ways for a robotic mouse to run a maze, but in its almost 50 year history, competitors in Micromouse events have repeatedly proven this assumption false.”The only thing... | 1,760,372,285.265832 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/28/electronic-connect-4-console-doesnt-use-lcd/ | ElectronicConnect 4Console Doesn’t Use LCD | Al Williams | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Games"
] | [
"arduino",
"neopixel",
"ws2812"
] | You might think that making your own electronic games would require some kind of LCD, but lately, [Mirko Pavleski] has been making his using inexpensive 8X8 WS2812B LED panels. This lets even a modest microcontroller easily control a 64-pixel “screen.” In this case, [Mirko] uses an Arduino Nano, 3 switches, and a buzze... | 9 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647388",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-05-29T02:26:03",
"content": "“but our German isn’t up to snuff, and machine translation always leaves something to be desired.”“Paging Mr. Williams!Mr. Elliot Williams! “",
"parent_id": null,
"dept... | 1,760,372,285.213871 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/28/hackaday-links-may-28-2023/ | Hackaday Links: May 28, 2023 | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackaday links",
"Slider"
] | [
"3d scan",
"am radio",
"borked",
"bricked",
"calculator",
"ev",
"firmware",
"ford",
"hackaday links",
"HP",
"HP-15C",
"inkjet",
"RPN",
"shipwreck",
"titanic"
] | The Great Automotive AM Radio War of 2023 rages on, with the news this week that
Ford has capitulated, at least for now
. You’ll recall that the opening salvo came when the US automaker declared that AM radio was unusable in their EV offerings thanks to interference generated by the motor controller. Rather than fixing... | 20 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647365",
"author": "Dan",
"timestamp": "2023-05-28T23:02:41",
"content": "4000 meteres… What is that like 13,000 feet?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6647372",
"author": "scott_tx",
"timestamp": "2023-05-28T2... | 1,760,372,285.3857 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/27/headsets-poor-range-fixed-by-replacing-antenna/ | Headset’s Poor Range Fixed By Replacing Antenna | Donald Papp | [
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"2.4 ghz",
"3d printed",
"antenna",
"corsair",
"enclosure",
"headset",
"range boost",
"usb",
"wireless"
] | [rafii6312]’s Corsair HS80 wireless headset had a big problem: short range. The sound quality was great, but the wireless range wasn’t winning any friends. Fortunately,
the solution was just to swap the small SMT antenna on the USB transmitter for an external one
.
Original SMT antenna (blue component) offers small siz... | 14 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647166",
"author": "Cyna",
"timestamp": "2023-05-27T23:10:11",
"content": "USB transceiver, not only transmitter.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6647167",
"author": "TG",
"timestamp": "2023-05-27T23:25:52",
"conten... | 1,760,372,285.322447 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/27/minecraft-in-minecraft-on-the-chungus-ii/ | Minecraft In Minecraft On The CHUNGUS II | Elliot Williams | [
"Games"
] | [
"computer",
"cpu",
"CPU architecture",
"emulation",
"minecraft",
"redstone"
] | Minecraft is a simple video game. Well, it’s a simple video game that also has within it the ability to create all of the logic components that you’d need to build a computer. And building CPUs in Minecraft is by now a long-standing tradition.
Enter CHUNGUS II. The Computational Humongous Unconventional Number and Grap... | 16 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647155",
"author": "sears",
"timestamp": "2023-05-27T21:56:56",
"content": "Insert Ian Malcolm “You did it, you crazy SOB. You did it” meme here.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6647194",
"author": "ono",
"tim... | 1,760,372,285.487111 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/27/beepberry-brings-memory-lcd-and-a-physical-keyboard-to-your-pi/ | Beepberry Brings Memory LCD And A Physical Keyboard To Your Pi | Navarre Bartz | [
"blackberry hacks",
"handhelds hacks"
] | [
"blackberry",
"keyboard",
"messaging",
"mobile messaging",
"physical keyboard",
"pi zero",
"raspberry pi",
"RPi"
] | As the 2020s are seeing the return of the flip phone, could we see a rebirth of other device form factors from before the slab era? [Eric Migicovsky] and [SQFMI] are working on a new physical keyboard device with
the Beepberry
.
Featuring a high contrast Sharp Memory LCD and the tried-and-true reliability of a BlackBer... | 9 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647118",
"author": "Maddie",
"timestamp": "2023-05-27T17:32:21",
"content": "Anyone know what the watch is in the picture at the top of the article?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6647124",
"author": "Upgrade pi-top ... | 1,760,372,285.432069 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/27/hack-simple/ | Hack Simple | Elliot Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Rants"
] | [
"diy",
"ESP8266",
"esphome",
"hacks",
"home automation",
"mqtt",
"newsletter",
"simple"
] | Here at Hackaday, we definitely love to celebrate the hard hacks: the insane feats of reverse engineering, the physics-defying flights of fancy, or the abuse of cutting edge technology. But today I’d like to raise a rhetorical glass in tribute of the simple hacks. Because, to be perfectly honest, the
vast
majority of m... | 7 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647093",
"author": "Dan",
"timestamp": "2023-05-27T14:37:45",
"content": "Yay! Agree!Often the simplest things are the best, and the ones that last longest.I’ve got an arduino + Ethernet hat (long predates ESP+WiFi!) linked to my doorbell, to send push notifications to my phone for... | 1,760,372,285.536427 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/27/a-bullet-time-video-booth-you-can-build/ | A Bullet Time Video Booth You Can Build | Dave Rowntree | [
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"bullet",
"bullet time",
"dslr",
"Pico-W",
"video"
] | [Sebastian Staacks] built a video booth for his wedding, and the setup was so popular with family, that it was only fitting to do one better and
make some improvements to the setup
,
Matrix
-style. The “bullet time” video effect was introduced by the classic movie franchise and makes for a splendid video transition eff... | 8 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647075",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2023-05-27T12:51:11",
"content": "A lot of work and expense involved, but impressive results.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6647080",
"author":... | 1,760,372,285.643879 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/27/restoring-dot-matrix-printer-cartridges-for-2023/ | Restoring Dot Matrix Printer Cartridges For 2023 | Jenny List | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"dot matrix printer",
"printer cartridge",
"printer ribon"
] | The noise of a dot matrix printer is probably as synonymous with 1980s computing as the modem handshake would become with the desktop experience a decade or more later. But unlike the computers that would have driven it, a dot matrix printer can still be a very useful device here in 2023. And why not? They’re cheap to ... | 17 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647067",
"author": "Dissy",
"timestamp": "2023-05-27T11:41:30",
"content": "I still have my ImageWritter II from the 2e days. It’s been awhile since I had it out but it was still working enough to show off the thunder scanner.The a2m0077 cartridges are still being produced, both i... | 1,760,372,285.951017 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/26/generating-hydrogen-peroxide-for-disinfecting-water-using-a-solar-driven-catalyst/ | Generating Hydrogen Peroxide For Disinfecting Water Using A Solar-Driven Catalyst | Maya Posch | [
"Science"
] | [
"hydrogen peroxide",
"water purification"
] | Ensuring that water is safe to use and consume can be a real chore, especially for those who live in impoverished areas without access to safe drinking water. Here is where researchers at Stanford University hope that their
recently developed low-cost catalyst
can make a difference. This catalyst comes in the form of n... | 35 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647046",
"author": "Gérald",
"timestamp": "2023-05-27T08:14:14",
"content": "About hydrogen peroxyde, beside microbes/bacteria, can it also kill fungus, especially spores? How long would it take, and what concentration is recommended?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"r... | 1,760,372,285.798169 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/26/where-exactly-did-that-network-packet-come-from/ | Where Exactly Did That Network Packet Come From? | Al Williams | [
"Network Hacks"
] | [
"ip geolocation",
"ipv4",
"IPv6"
] | Have you ever noticed that some websites can figure out, at least roughly, where you are? Sometimes they use it to find you a closer content provider. Or they might block you from seeing certain things while offering you other things specific to your location. This is possible because there are
databases that map IPs t... | 11 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647021",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2023-05-27T02:19:26",
"content": "Considering how leaky browsers are a lot can be found out.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6647061",
"author": "Alexander Wikström",
"timest... | 1,760,372,286.147536 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/26/fly-like-you-drive-with-this-flying-rc-drift-car/ | Fly Like You Drive With This Flying RC Drift Car | Dan Maloney | [
"drone hacks"
] | [
"dRehmFlight",
"drift car",
"drone",
"esc",
"flight controller",
"open source",
"quadcopter",
"rc",
"uav"
] | So it’s 2023, and you really feel like we should have flying cars by now, right? Well, as long as you ignore the problem of scale presented by
[Nick Rehm]’s flying RC drift car
, we pretty much do.
At first glance, [Nick]’s latest build looks pretty much like your typical quadcopter. But the design has subtle differenc... | 9 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647010",
"author": "Ebin Beniz",
"timestamp": "2023-05-27T00:10:29",
"content": "There was a time where they drone manufacturers cared nothing for control theory. When their only experience of flight was a toilet seat, coming at them down a steel corridor.",
"parent_id": null,
... | 1,760,372,286.102429 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/26/nice-try-but-its-not-aperture-synthesis/ | Nice Try, But It’s Not Aperture Synthesis | Jenny List | [
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"antenna array",
"satellite TV",
"tailgater"
] | Some of the world’s largest radio telescopes are not in fact as physically large as they claim to be, but instead are a group of telescopes spread over a wide area whose outputs are combined to produce a virtual telescope equal in size to the maximum distance between the constituents of the array. Can this be done on t... | 17 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6647009",
"author": "12AU76L6GC",
"timestamp": "2023-05-26T23:52:23",
"content": "It might not be synthetic aperture and obviously phase alignment won’t work at all (without special handling) with LEOs and MEOs, one of the methods of improving fairly unreliable Ku and KA band links ... | 1,760,372,286.055596 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/26/nokia-n-gage-qd-becomes-universal-bluetooth-gamepad/ | Nokia N-Gage QD Becomes Universal Bluetooth Gamepad | Donald Papp | [
"Cellphone Hacks",
"Games",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"attiny85",
"bluetooth",
"gamepad",
"HC-06",
"N-Gage",
"nokia"
] | The Nokia N-Gage might not have put up much of a fight against Nintendo’s handheld dynasty, but you can’t say it didn’t have some pretty impressive technology for the time. [BeardoGuy] happens to have a perfectly functional N-Gage QD, which he
turned into a universal Bluetooth gamepad
.
The handheld runs a program that... | 5 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6646967",
"author": "elwing",
"timestamp": "2023-05-26T19:19:39",
"content": "but can you phone with it?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6646987",
"author": "Michael Fitzmayer",
"timestamp": "2023-05-26T21:18:5... | 1,760,372,285.999014 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/26/learning-3d-printing-best-practices-from-a-pro/ | Learning 3D Printing Best Practices From A Pro | Tom Nardi | [
"Engineering",
"Hackaday Columns"
] | [
"3d printing",
"Additive Manufacturing",
"cnc",
"Hack Chat",
"machining",
"metal 3d printing"
] | It might seem like 3D printing is a thoroughly modern technology, but the fact is, it’s been used in the industry for decades. The only thing that’s really new is that the printers have become cheap and small enough for folks like us to buy one and plop it on our workbench. So why not take advantage of all that knowled... | 13 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6646972",
"author": "Conor Stewart",
"timestamp": "2023-05-26T19:53:14",
"content": "If you are going to do a comparison of a standard part and a part designed for 3D printing, you really need to keep the functionality the same or explain why the new model is more suitable. Having t... | 1,760,372,286.254389 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/26/hackaday-podcast-220-transparent-ice-fake-aliens-and-bendy-breadboards/ | Hackaday Podcast 220: Transparent Ice, Fake Aliens, And Bendy Breadboards | Al Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Podcasts"
] | [
"Hackaday Podcast"
] | You can join Elliot and Al as they get together to talk about their favorite hacks of the week. There’s news about current contests, fake alien messages, flexible breadboards, hoverboards, low-tech home automation, and even radioactive batteries that could be a device’s best friend.
We have a winner in the
What’s that ... | 7 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6646943",
"author": "Dude",
"timestamp": "2023-05-26T17:15:42",
"content": "Beer based drinks with ice is no travesty though. Some nice crisp Pilsener topped with lime soda, fresh mint, and crushed ice… mm-mm.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,372,286.201185 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/26/uav-flight-controller-saves-weight/ | UAV Flight Controller Saves Weight | Bryan Cockfield | [
"drone hacks",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"compute module 4",
"fixed-wing",
"flight computer",
"quadcopter",
"raspberry pi",
"sandbox",
"uav",
"unmanned aerial vehicle"
] | When building autonomous airborne vehicles like drones or UAVs, saving a little bit of weight goes a long way, literally. Every gram saved means less energy needed to keep the aircraft aloft and ultimately more time in the air, but unmanned vehicles often need to compromise some on weight in order to carry increased co... | 12 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6646935",
"author": "Myself",
"timestamp": "2023-05-26T16:40:47",
"content": "Wow! This is an impressive piece of work. I’ve had a similar idea tossing around in the back of my head for a while, but now I’m glad I didn’t pursue it yet because they’ve done it so much better!Of course... | 1,760,372,286.30665 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/26/this-week-in-security-gitlab-keypassmini-and-horse/ | This Week In Security: Gitlab, KeyPassMini, And Horse | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"gitlab",
"KeyPass",
"This Week in Security",
"wordpress"
] | There’s
a really nasty CVSS 10.0 severity vulnerability in Gitlab 16.0.0
. The good news is that this is the only vulnerable version, and the fix came a mere two days after the vulnerable release. If you happened to be very quick to go to 16.0.0, then be very quick to get the fix, because CVE-2023-2825 looks like a bad... | 6 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6646917",
"author": "Jan Praegert",
"timestamp": "2023-05-26T14:55:57",
"content": "P-P-P-PowerBook! Those were the times. Still laughing.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6646926",
"author": "asheets",
"timesta... | 1,760,372,286.353498 |
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