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https://hackaday.com/2023/03/24/sheepshaver-a-cross-platform-tool-for-retro-enthusiasts/ | SheepShaver: A Cross-Platform Tool For Retro Enthusiasts | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"application",
"BeOS",
"compatibility",
"cross-platform",
"emulator",
"linux",
"macOS",
"retro",
"run-time environment",
"sheepshaver",
"windows"
] | The world of desktop computing has coalesced into what is essentially a duopoly, with Windows machines making up the bulk of the market share and Apple carving out a dedicated minority. This relatively stable state hasn’t always existed, though, as the computing scene even as late as the 90s was awash with all kinds of... | 20 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6621957",
"author": "KD",
"timestamp": "2023-03-24T13:26:10",
"content": "This has been around for decades“Yes, SheepShaver originally appeared for BeOS in 1998 as a commercial application (first as shareware, then via the now long-defunct BeDepot). Due to the demise of Be, it has b... | 1,760,372,356.680904 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/23/who-needs-gasoline-when-youve-got-sodium/ | Who Needs Gasoline When You’ve Got Sodium? | Dave Rowntree | [
"chemistry hacks",
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"fuel",
"Fuel injection",
"NaK",
"sodium-potassium alloy"
] | YouTuber and serial debunker [Thunderf00t] was thinking about the use of sodium to counteract global warming. The theory is that
sodium can be used as a fuel when combusted with air
, producing a cloud of sodium hydroxide which apparently can have a cooling effect if enough of it is kicking around the upper atmosphere.... | 58 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "6621124",
"author": "Norbert",
"timestamp": "2023-03-23T15:38:30",
"content": "There is a more meaningful usage of sodium: In rechargeable batteries!It’s crazy what ideas are born just to give the combustion engine a right to exist in the 21st century…",
"parent_id": null,
"... | 1,760,372,356.617818 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/23/working-with-bgas-soldering-reballing-and-rework/ | Working With BGAs: Soldering, Reballing, And Rework | Robin Kearey | [
"Engineering",
"Featured",
"how-to",
"Parts",
"Slider"
] | [
"BGA soldering",
"hot air rework",
"hot plate",
"smd components",
"smd stencil"
] | In our
previous article
on Ball Grid Arrays (BGAs), we explored how to design circuit boards and how to route the signals coming out of a BGA package. But designing a board is one thing – soldering those chips onto the board is quite another. If you’ve got some experience with SMD soldering, you’ll find that any SOIC, ... | 31 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6621091",
"author": "Bil Herd",
"timestamp": "2023-03-23T14:07:06",
"content": "Nice work",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6621119",
"author": "aninOI",
"timestamp": "2023-03-23T15:21:04",
"content": "Missed opportuni... | 1,760,372,356.502976 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/23/creating-a-game-boy-rom-from-pictures/ | Creating A Game Boy ROM From Pictures | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Nintendo Game Boy Hacks",
"Reverse Engineering"
] | [
"cad",
"chip",
"data",
"decapping",
"game boy",
"photographs",
"rom",
"vias"
] | There are very few legal ways of obtaining ROM files for video games, and Nintendo’s lawyers are extremely keen on at least reminding you of the fact that you need to own the game cart before obtaining the ROM. With cart in hand, though, most will grab a cart reader to download the game files. While this is a tried-and... | 22 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6621063",
"author": "Jonathan Wilson",
"timestamp": "2023-03-23T11:54:07",
"content": "Other than “because you can” why exactly would you do this rather than dumping either via the cartridge edge connector or by desoldering the chip and reading it out in a reader? If its something l... | 1,760,372,357.011464 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/23/smart-occupancy-sensor-knows-all/ | Smart Occupancy Sensor Knows All | Bryan Cockfield | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"home automation",
"mmwave",
"occupancy",
"PIR senor",
"radar",
"Room",
"security",
"sensor",
"tracking"
] | In the last few decades, building engineers and architects have made tremendous strides in improving the efficiency of various buildings and the devices that keep them safe and comfortable to live in. The addition of new technology like heat pumps is a major factor, as well as improvements on existing things like insul... | 32 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6621024",
"author": "gman",
"timestamp": "2023-03-23T08:26:43",
"content": "Looks very much like “The Everything Presence One”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6623627",
"author": "Sam",
"timestamp": "2023-03-25... | 1,760,372,357.081191 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/22/commodore-64-reports-the-news/ | Commodore 64 Reports The News | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"commodore",
"feed",
"journalism",
"modem",
"mystery",
"news",
"newspaper",
"newsroom",
"print",
"retro",
"software",
"wire service"
] | In the late 80s and into the 90s, [Cameron Kaiser] aka [ClassicHasClass] was an aspiring journalist, first becoming interested in the career in elementary school and then working on various publications into university. At some point, he started using a piece of software for laying out newspapers called The Newsroom wh... | 13 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6621017",
"author": "zoobab",
"timestamp": "2023-03-23T07:49:19",
"content": "Looks like the First Bitcoin block:“The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []... | 1,760,372,356.399266 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/22/combining-acoustic-bioprinting-with-raman-spectroscopy-for-high-throughput-identification-of-bacteria/ | Combining Acoustic Bioprinting With Raman Spectroscopy For High-Throughput Identification Of Bacteria | Maya Posch | [
"Machine Learning",
"News",
"Science"
] | [
"bacteria",
"machine learning",
"raman spectroscopy"
] | Rapidly analyzing samples for the presence of bacteria and similar organic structures is generally quite a time-intensive process, with often the requirement of a cell culture being developed. Proposed by Fareeha Safir and colleagues in
Nano Letters
is a method
to use an acoustic droplet printer combined with
Raman spe... | 6 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6621185",
"author": "PRN",
"timestamp": "2023-03-23T18:35:57",
"content": "Y’all left out the part about gold nanorods. In the right size (10-100 nm) and shape (greatly simplified, rods > spheres) the plasmon in the nanorod can couple with Raman modes in the analyte and greatly inc... | 1,760,372,356.303083 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/22/optimize-your-paper-planes-with-this-cardboard-wind-tunnel/ | Optimize Your Paper Planes With This Cardboard Wind Tunnel | Robin Kearey | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Science"
] | [
"aerodynamics",
"drag",
"lift",
"wind tunnel"
] | We at Hackaday are great fans of hands-on classroom projects promoting science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects – after all, inspiring kids with technology at a young age will help ensure a new generation of hardware hackers in the future. If you’re looking for an interesting project to keep a full cla... | 6 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6620910",
"author": "Hirudinea",
"timestamp": "2023-03-22T23:35:02",
"content": "Can you put smoke in it?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6620930",
"author": "some guy",
"timestamp": "2023-03-23T01:16:09",
... | 1,760,372,356.791428 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/22/homebrew-tire-inflator-pushes-the-limits-of-pvc-construction/ | Homebrew Tire Inflator Pushes The Limits Of PVC Construction | Dan Maloney | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"air compressor",
"modeling",
"piston",
"pump",
"PVC",
"Schrader valve",
"tire",
"tire inflator"
] | Let’s just clear something up right from the start with this one: there’s literally no reason to
build your own tire inflator from scratch
, especially when you can buy a perfectly serviceable one for not a lot of money. But that’s missing the point of this build entirely, and thinking that way risks passing up yet ano... | 23 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6620836",
"author": "srgnio",
"timestamp": "2023-03-22T20:27:20",
"content": "Less than 30 seconds and I’ve already paused the video. Obvious clickbait, just like all those “amazing restoration” videos that pop up in recommended after watching anything technical.",
"parent_id": ... | 1,760,372,356.744295 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/22/vintage-tektronix-virtual-graticule/ | Vintage Tektronix Virtual Graticule | Al Williams | [
"classic hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"history",
"oscilloscope",
"test equipment"
] | Oscilloscopes are great for measuring the time and voltage information of a signal. Some old scopes don’t have much in the way of markings on the CRT, although eventually, we started seeing scales that allowed you to count squares easily. Early scopes had marks on the glass or plastic over the CRT,
but as [Vintage TEK ... | 5 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6620846",
"author": "IIVQ",
"timestamp": "2023-03-22T20:45:25",
"content": "Interesting idea, useful if you want to make a fixed mark or division on top of an OLED screen.The D1=D2 is not perfect if you’re working with different materials, as you have angles of refraction to combat.... | 1,760,372,356.943748 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/22/glove80-keyboard-sure-fits-like-one/ | Glove80 Keyboard Sure Fits Like One | Kristina Panos | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Reviews",
"Slider"
] | [
"curved key wells",
"ergonomic keyboard",
"ergonomics",
"Glove80",
"Kailh chocs",
"keyboard review",
"Kinesis Advantage",
"thumb cluster"
] | If you’re what one might call unlucky, there comes a point in your life when you need to switch to a keyboard that’s more ergonomic than your average rectangle. A little prevention goes a long way, though, and there’s no time like the present to go ergo. Why not? You have everything to gain, from long-lasting comfort t... | 30 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6620815",
"author": "Stephen",
"timestamp": "2023-03-22T19:12:14",
"content": "Thank you Kristina for this very comprehensive review. Glad you really dig Glove80.A quick note about “The Glove80 is meant for all hands, but especially small hands.”. Actually Glove80 is not especially ... | 1,760,372,357.167502 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/22/one-method-for-removing-future-space-junk/ | One Method For Removing Future Space Junk | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Space"
] | [
"aa batteries",
"arduino",
"Brown",
"cubesat",
"drag",
"research",
"sail",
"satellite",
"space"
] | When sending satellites into space, the idea is to place them into as stable an orbit as possible in order to maximize both the time the satellite is useful and the economics of sending it there in the first place. This tends to become rather untenable as the amount of space junk continues to pile up for all but the lo... | 18 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6620763",
"author": "socksbot",
"timestamp": "2023-03-22T16:08:35",
"content": "Aw, I was hoping for detail about the release mechanism. Ideally it’d be something very simple, self-timed, like a pressurized bag that holds the mechanism locked while it leaks through a pore.",
"pa... | 1,760,372,357.224445 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/22/why-llama-is-a-big-deal/ | Why LLaMa Is A Big Deal | Matthew Carlson | [
"Artificial Intelligence",
"Featured",
"Slider"
] | [
"artifical intelligence",
"ChatGPT",
"GPT-3",
"inference",
"llama",
"LLM"
] | You might have heard about LLaMa or maybe you haven’t. Either way, what’s the big deal? It’s just some AI thing. In a nutshell, LLaMa is important because it allows you to run
large language models (LLM)
like GPT-3 on commodity hardware. In many ways, this is a bit like Stable Diffusion, which similarly allowed normal ... | 27 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6620735",
"author": "limroh",
"timestamp": "2023-03-22T15:17:49",
"content": "Winamp, it really whips the llama’s ass!(sorry but with this title image I couldn’t resist.)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6620764",
"auth... | 1,760,372,357.29688 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/22/a-studio-condenser-microphone-for-a-constrained-budget/ | A Studio Condenser Microphone For A Constrained Budget | Jenny List | [
"digital audio hacks"
] | [
"condenser microphone",
"microphone",
"phantom power"
] | As the Internet has turned so many of us into content creators, we’ve seen the quality of webcams and microphones steadily increase to the point at which even a fairly modestly-equipped YouTuber now captures their wisdom at a quality far exceeding that you might have found in some broadcast studios not so long ago. Sti... | 22 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6620669",
"author": "Spirit(the author)",
"timestamp": "2023-03-22T12:00:30",
"content": "Hey, author here. Small correction: the circuit *uses* phantom power, it doesn’t just tack it on there “for good measure”, the circuit is fed via 48V phantom provided by the audio interface :)"... | 1,760,372,358.019399 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/22/icicle-patterns-with-custom-gantry/ | Icicle Patterns With Custom Gantry | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"arm",
"bearing",
"belt drive",
"gantry",
"icicles",
"linear"
] | [Cranktown City] uses a number of custom-built linear rails used as gantries for various tools in the shop. The first is on a plasma cutter, which is precise but difficult to set up or repair. Another is for mounting a camera, and while it is extremely durable, it’s not the most precise tool in the shop. Hoping to brid... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6620615",
"author": "Adjustinthings",
"timestamp": "2023-03-22T08:30:31",
"content": "This man IS hackaday.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6620693",
"author": "Ben",
"timestamp": "2023-03-22T13:11:04",
"content": "T... | 1,760,372,357.727489 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/21/fresh-pcbs-for-the-quickshot-ii-and-ii-plus-joysticks/ | Fresh PCBs For The Quickshot II And II Plus Joysticks | Maya Posch | [
"Repair Hacks",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"Joystick",
"Quickshot"
] | The Quickshot II was released by Spectravideo in 1983 for the Commodore 64 and compatible systems, with the Quickshot II Plus following the next year. After decades of regular use, it’s quite understandable that these old-timers may be having some functional issues, but as long as the plastic parts are still good, [Ste... | 13 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6620555",
"author": "irox",
"timestamp": "2023-03-22T05:41:43",
"content": "Wow! Nice work. The QuickShot II was the joystick everybody wanted when I was a kid!The tear down is interesting. I didn’t realize the first QuickShot II version was so, erm, primitive.For those intereste... | 1,760,372,357.683721 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/21/bittorrent-for-language-models/ | BitTorrent For Language Models | Al Williams | [
"Artificial Intelligence"
] | [
"ChatGPT",
"large language model"
] | In the old days of the Internet, FTP was sufficient for downloading the occasional file. But with the widespread use of computer audio and video, it was easy to swamp an FTP server so — eventually — BitTorrent was born. The idea was you would download bits and pieces of a file from different places and, in theory, peop... | 6 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6620676",
"author": "Bob",
"timestamp": "2023-03-22T12:15:18",
"content": "I think there’s a market for annoying chatbots. E.g.:Hackaday: Do you know about hackaday.com?AI: Yes, of course.Hackaday: What is it?AI: A genderless pronoun.Hackaday: No, Hackaday.AI: What about it?Hackaday... | 1,760,372,357.822488 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/21/dispense-60-bolts-in-2-3-seconds/ | Dispense 60 Bolts In 2.3 Seconds | Michael Shaub | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"hardware",
"News"
] | [
"3d print",
"3D printed gears",
"dispenser",
"herringbone",
"kitting",
"modular hardware",
"sorting machine"
] | We’ve covered a number of projects that assist makers who need to fill orders for their small businesses, or kitting. [Helmke] has sorted thousands of pieces of hardware that they include with 3D printed parts sold online. They have been developing an alternative,
a modular system for sorting and packaging specific qua... | 26 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6620468",
"author": "Misterlaneous",
"timestamp": "2023-03-22T00:41:51",
"content": "Similar disc with suction that smaller pill counters use.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6620482",
"author": "hello",
"timestamp": "20... | 1,760,372,357.947334 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/21/3d-printed-parts-dont-slow-down-this-speedy-printer/ | 3D-Printed Parts Don’t Slow Down This Speedy Printer | Dan Maloney | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d printer",
"Benchy",
"CoreXY",
"speed",
"speedboat"
] | Truth be told, we generally find speed sports to be a little boring. Whether it’s cars going around in circles for hours on end or swimmers competing to be a few milliseconds faster than everyone else, we just don’t feel the need for speed. Unless, of course, you’re talking about
speedy 3D printers like “The 100”
, whi... | 7 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6620385",
"author": "chango",
"timestamp": "2023-03-21T20:45:07",
"content": "It’s like Tantillus but without the janky XY mechanism.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6620519",
"author": "MacAttack",
"timestamp": "2023-03... | 1,760,372,357.873656 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/21/info-sought-on-a-forgotten-cuban-radio/ | Info Sought On A Forgotten Cuban Radio | Jenny List | [
"History",
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"Cuba",
"ham radio",
"islander"
] | Some of the daily normalities of life in the Cold War seem a little surreal from our perspective in 2023, when nuclear bombers no longer come in to land just down the road and you can head off to Poland or Czechia on a whim. Radio amateurs were one of the few groups of civilians whose activities crossed the geopolitica... | 11 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6620381",
"author": "Sodor",
"timestamp": "2023-03-21T20:40:43",
"content": "Esperemos que algún día USA le quite las sanciones a Cuba.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6620469",
"author": "Robert",
"timestamp":... | 1,760,372,357.779763 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/21/hands-on-nvidia-jetson-orin-nano-developer-kit/ | Hands-On: NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit | Tom Nardi | [
"Artificial Intelligence",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Reviews",
"Slider"
] | [
"artificial intelligence",
"computer vision",
"Jetson",
"Jetson Nano",
"machine learning"
] | NVIDIA’s Jetson line of single-board computers are doing something different in a vast sea of relatively similar Linux SBCs. Designed for edge computing applications, such as a robot that needs to perform high-speed computer vision while out in the field, they provide exceptional performance in a board that’s of compar... | 35 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "6620320",
"author": "Daniel",
"timestamp": "2023-03-21T18:49:59",
"content": "Had to use a Jetson for a project in university. Can confirm that it runs dolphin emulator very well 🤣",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6690711",
... | 1,760,372,358.104675 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/21/wireless-charging-on-a-massive-scale/ | Wireless Charging On A Massive Scale | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Transportation Hacks",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"busses",
"charging",
"ev",
"ferries",
"high power",
"semiconductor",
"Vehicles",
"wireless"
] | Despite the increasing popularity of various electric vehicles, the limits of battery technology continue to be a bottleneck in their day-to-day use. They don’t behave well in extreme temperatures, they can wear out quickly, and, perhaps most obviously, charging them is often burdensome. Larger batteries take longer to... | 26 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6620194",
"author": "TG",
"timestamp": "2023-03-21T15:45:55",
"content": "Half a megawatt through the air? Yeah if you need me I’ll be standing wayyyy over here",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6620448",
"author": "Hiru... | 1,760,372,359.003368 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/24/cnc-intaglio-esque-engraving/ | CNC Intaglio-Esque Engraving | Dave Rowntree | [
"Art"
] | [
"carving",
"CNC engraving",
"gem stones",
"hardness",
"intaglio",
"mohs scale"
] | Intaglio is an ancient carving technique for adding details to a workpiece, by manually removing material from a surface with only basic hand tools. If enough material depth is removed, the resulting piece can be used as a stamp, as was the case with rings, used to stamp the wax seals of verified letters. [Nicolas Tran... | 3 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6621780",
"author": "Then",
"timestamp": "2023-03-24T10:13:35",
"content": "What a cute cnc!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6622236",
"author": "Rumble_in_the_Jungle",
"timestamp": "2023-03-24T18:08:45",
... | 1,760,372,358.153081 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/23/enormous-metal-sculpture-becomes-an-antenna/ | Enormous Metal Sculpture Becomes An Antenna | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"amateur",
"art",
"club",
"FT8",
"ham",
"metal",
"radio",
"rit",
"rochester institute of technology",
"sculpture",
"statue",
"university"
] | Those who have worked with high voltage know well enough that anything can be a conductor at high enough voltages. Similarly, amateur radio operators will jump at any chance to turn a random object into an antenna. Flag poles, gutters, and even streams of water can be turned into radiating elements for a transmitter, b... | 16 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6621597",
"author": "Chris Maple",
"timestamp": "2023-03-24T06:34:10",
"content": "If the sculpture is isolated from the ground, it’s close to the right height for a quarter wave antenna on the 80 meter band.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"c... | 1,760,372,358.661414 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/23/grow-your-own-brain-electrodes/ | Grow Your Own Brain Electrodes | Navarre Bartz | [
"Medical Hacks"
] | [
"bci",
"bioelectrical",
"biology",
"brain",
"Brain controlled interface",
"brain hacks",
"brain implants",
"electrodes"
] | Bioelectronics has been making great strides in recent years, but interfacing rigid electrical components with biological systems that are anything but can prove tricky. Researchers at the Laboratory for Organic Electronics (LOE) have found a way to
bridge the gap with conductive gels
. (via
Linköping University
)
Outs... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,372,358.495479 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/23/ondol-korean-underfloor-heating/ | Ondol: Korean Underfloor Heating | Dave Rowntree | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"heating",
"hypocaust",
"ondol",
"underfloor"
] | One of the many aspects of the modern world we often take for granted is the very technology that keeps our accommodation at a habitable temperature. Examples of this include centralized heating systems using hot-water circulation, or blown air ducted to multiple rooms from a central furnace. Certainly in Europe, once ... | 49 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6621308",
"author": "𐂀 𐂅",
"timestamp": "2023-03-23T23:36:01",
"content": "The trick is to get the airflow even. One modern method uses a small number of cast block types that work together in a 3D Truchet tile like method to allow you to build an airflow tree, actually is is more... | 1,760,372,358.756038 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/23/isa-over-tpm-to-your-pc/ | ISA Over TPM To Your PC | Navarre Bartz | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"doom",
"isa",
"ISA cards",
"SoundBlaster"
] | Sometimes you really want to use your legacy SoundBlaster instead of emulating it for classic games. While modern PCs don’t have ISA slots, [TheRasteri] is fixing this shortcoming with his
dISAppointment board
. (via
Adafruit
)
ISA
was the standard card bus for PCs during the golden age of DOS gaming, and many of these... | 27 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6621228",
"author": "IIVQ",
"timestamp": "2023-03-23T20:33:10",
"content": "So you can attach a 5½” floppy drive to your TPM socket?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6621371",
"author": "CH",
"timestamp": "2023-... | 1,760,372,358.941501 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/23/a-little-chess-with-your-timepiece/ | A Little Chess With Your Timepiece | Navarre Bartz | [
"clock hacks"
] | [
"chess",
"machining",
"micromachining",
"watch",
"wrist watch"
] | Some things remain classics, even after centuries, and chess and watches have certainly stood the test of time. [W&M Levsha] decided to
combine them both in this “Chess Club” watch
containing a miniature chess game frozen in time.
[W&M Levsha] used an off-the-shelf wristwatch for the mechanism and case, but rearranged ... | 12 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6621199",
"author": "craig",
"timestamp": "2023-03-23T19:05:01",
"content": "Looks awesome but I was sorta hoping it was going to be some kind of automata build where an ESP or something (this is still HaD right?) moving those little pieces around.",
"parent_id": null,
"dep... | 1,760,372,358.872994 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/23/pcie-for-hackers-link-anatomy/ | PCIe For Hackers: Link Anatomy | Arya Voronova | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"hardware",
"Slider"
] | [
"pci express",
"PCI-E",
"PCIe"
] | Last time,
we looked over diffpairs, their basics, routing rules and the notorious tolerances of PCIe when it comes to diffpairs. Now, let’s take a look at the exact signals that make PCIe tick, as well as give you an overview of which sockets you can get PCIe on.
I separate PCIe sockets into two categories – desktop s... | 17 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6621171",
"author": "Sailingfree",
"timestamp": "2023-03-23T18:03:14",
"content": "Thanks for this series, despite having used PCIe cards and servers in products we developed over many years, PCIe was still a bit of a secret world. One thing, in practice backwards compatibility is n... | 1,760,372,358.826434 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/21/vinyl-sales-ran-circles-around-cds-in-2022/ | Vinyl Sales Ran Circles Around CDs In 2022 | Kristina Panos | [
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Musical Hacks",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"CdS",
"compact discs",
"record sales",
"records",
"tangibility",
"vinyl",
"vinyl records"
] | How do you take your music these days? For those in Camp Tangible, it seems our ranks are certainly growing, and in the analog direction.
For the first time since 1987, vinyl record sales have outperformed CD sales in the US
, according to a new report. The CD, which saved us all from the cassette, was a digital revolu... | 108 | 26 | [
{
"comment_id": "6620125",
"author": "Anonymous",
"timestamp": "2023-03-21T14:16:26",
"content": "I don’t buy vinyl because PVC is an awful material.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6620170",
"author": "Matt",
"timestamp": "202... | 1,760,372,359.714198 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/21/new-part-day-ti-jumps-in-to-the-cheap-mcu-market/ | New Part Day: TI Jumps In To The Cheap MCU Market | Jenny List | [
"Parts"
] | [
"arm cortex m0",
"microcontroller",
"MSPM0",
"ti"
] | One of the interesting areas in the world of new parts recently has been at the lower end of the microcontroller market. Not because the devices there have new capabilities or are especially fast, but because they are cheap. There are now quite a few parts from China under 10 cents apiece, but have the Western manufact... | 75 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "6620014",
"author": "Marcus",
"timestamp": "2023-03-21T11:23:58",
"content": "Honest question for the author/editor, not an attack:Hackaday isn’t really targetting mass-producing vendors, is it? So, the 1k-unit price of an MCU is much less relevant than the single-unit price to most... | 1,760,372,359.167066 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/21/building-the-worlds-largest-nintendo-3ds/ | Building The World’s Largest Nintendo 3DS | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Games"
] | [
"3d",
"3ds",
"citra",
"emulator",
"large",
"nintendo",
"touchscreen"
] | While the Nintendo 3DS was capable of fairly impressive graphics (at least for a portable system) back in its heyday, there’s little challenge in emulating the now discontinued handheld on a modern computer or even smartphone. One thing that’s still difficult to replicate though is the stereoscopic 3D display the syste... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6619972",
"author": "Arya Voronova",
"timestamp": "2023-03-21T10:21:32",
"content": "damn he really just went and made thehuge Nintendo DSreal",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6620446",
"author": "Hirudinea",
"timestamp":... | 1,760,372,359.044462 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/20/live2d-silently-subverting-threat-models/ | Live2D: Silently Subverting Threat Models | Arya Voronova | [
"Reverse Engineering",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"live2d",
"vtuber",
"youtube"
] | In online spaces, VTubers have been steadily growing in popularity in the past few years – they are entertainers using motion capture tech to animate a special-sauce 2D or 3D model, typically livestreaming it as their avatar to an audience. The tech in question is pretty fun, lively communities tend to form around the ... | 10 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6619834",
"author": "M",
"timestamp": "2023-03-21T05:47:33",
"content": "+1 for Inochi2D. Truly astounding work that needs more support.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6620089",
"author": "Gravis",
"timestamp": "2023-03... | 1,760,372,359.214302 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/20/cold-war-listening-post-antennas/ | Cold War Listening Post Antennas | Al Williams | [
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"antenna",
"cold war"
] | With a UHF antenna, it is easy to rotate a directional antenna to find the bearing to a transmitter. But at HF, it is more common to use an array of antennas that you can electrically switch as well as analyze the phase information between the elements. [Ringway Manchester] has a look at the “
elephant cage
” antenna u... | 32 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6619737",
"author": "Eric",
"timestamp": "2023-03-21T02:58:14",
"content": "Not sure if I missed something but:1.5 to 6 MHz is band A.6 to 18 MHz is band B.18 to 10 MHz is band C.The way it’s written, it seems like band B and C overlaps by a lot?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth"... | 1,760,372,359.286579 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/20/modifying-artwork-with-glaze-to-interfere-with-art-generating-algorithms/ | Modifying Artwork With Glaze To Interfere With Art Generating Algorithms | Maya Posch | [
"Art",
"Artificial Intelligence",
"Machine Learning"
] | [
"ai",
"algorithmic art",
"glaze"
] | With the rise of machine-generated art we have also seen a major discussion begin about the ethics of using existing, human-made art to train these art models. Their defenders will often claim that the original art cannot be reproduced by the generator, but this is belied by the fact that one possible query to these ge... | 48 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6619596",
"author": "Comedicles",
"timestamp": "2023-03-20T23:49:25",
"content": "Don’t they use real art to train human artists?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6619674",
"author": "Obvious SAR chasm",
"timest... | 1,760,372,359.382231 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/20/working-artificial-horizon-built-into-a-single-lego-brick/ | Working Artificial Horizon Built Into A Single LEGO Brick | Lewin Day | [
"Toy Hacks"
] | [
"artificial horizon",
"lego",
"rp2040"
] | Back in the day, LEGO spaceship sets used to come with these little wedge blocks painted with fake gauges on them. [James “Ancient” Brown] decided that wasn’t good enough. Thus, he took everything he needed for a functional artificial horizon, and stuffed it inside a single LEGO brick.
Yes, it’s real, and it’s spectacu... | 16 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6619524",
"author": "Mystick",
"timestamp": "2023-03-20T21:58:21",
"content": "“The artificial horizon is even better than the actual horizon.”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6619559",
"author": "ono",
"timest... | 1,760,372,360.010486 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/20/dreamcast-linux-looking-back-at-linux-on-a-superh-based-gaming-console/ | Dreamcast Linux: Looking Back At Linux On A SuperH-based Gaming Console | Maya Posch | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"dreamcast",
"linux",
"SuperH"
] | The Dreamcast is probably best known as the swansong of Sega’s ambitions as a gaming console manufacturer, but perhaps lesser known is the fact that you can run Linux on it. In
a deep-dive
by [Cameron Kaiser] over at the Old VCR blog, it is demonstrated what it takes to make this feat even work in 2023, and what one ca... | 12 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6619437",
"author": "abzman2000",
"timestamp": "2023-03-20T20:13:00",
"content": "It’s got an IDE bus, give it a hard drive (there eas a zip drive for it)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6619665",
"author": "Josiah Gou... | 1,760,372,359.861758 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/20/another-room-temperature-superconductivity-claim-and-questions-of-scientific-integrity/ | Another Room-Temperature Superconductivity Claim And Questions Of Scientific Integrity | Maya Posch | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Science",
"Slider"
] | [
"cold fusion",
"measurement",
"science",
"skepticism",
"superconductivity"
] | In early March of 2023, a paper was
published
in
Nature
, with the researchers claiming that they had observed superconductivity at room temperature in a conductive alloy, at near-ambient pressure. While normally this would be cause for excitement, what mars this occasion is that this is not the first time that such cl... | 46 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "6619312",
"author": "C. Scott Ananian",
"timestamp": "2023-03-20T17:21:29",
"content": "An interesting thought experiment might be to imagine the sorts of end-user devices/packaging that would go along with a high-pressure-but-room-temperature superconductor. It’s easy to imagine a... | 1,760,372,359.958169 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/20/haptick-the-strain-gauge-based-6dof-controller/ | Haptick: The Strain Gauge Based 6DoF Controller | Matthew Carlson | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"6dof",
"spacemice",
"strain gauge"
] | Six degrees of freedom (6DoF) controllers are used for manipulating an object in a CAD or 3d modeling program and are often called spacemice. You can twist it, push it, and even bop it. Most work with optical encoders, shining an LED through a slit to some form of photodetector on the other side. [Matthew Schubert] wan... | 16 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6619286",
"author": "holysnippet",
"timestamp": "2023-03-20T16:42:36",
"content": "It wouldn’t have even occurred to me to use an SMD resistor as a strain gauge. One of the best posts on HaD.It may not be suitable for its purpose, but the author of the hack went through with it. It’... | 1,760,372,360.061262 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/20/the-rise-and-eventual-fall-of-the-sim-card/ | The Rise And (Eventual) Fall Of The SIM Card | Tom Nardi | [
"Cellphone Hacks",
"Current Events",
"Featured",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"eSIM",
"iSIM",
"mobile device",
"mobile phone",
"sim",
"sim card"
] | There are few devices that better exemplify the breakneck pace of modern technical advancement than the mobile phone. In the span of just a decade, we went from flip phones and polyphonic ringtones to full-fledged mobile computers with quad-core processors and gigabytes of memory.
While rapid advancements in computatio... | 109 | 26 | [
{
"comment_id": "6619158",
"author": "limroh",
"timestamp": "2023-03-20T14:18:32",
"content": "… and you left out the original SIM card in ~credit card format in the article’s main image. :-(> In fact, if you don’t mind trimming a bit of unnecessary plastic away, you could pull the SIM out of the Ra... | 1,760,372,360.243506 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/20/remote-water-quality-monitoring/ | Remote Water Quality Monitoring | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Arduino Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"data",
"logging",
"pH",
"sd card",
"sensor",
"TDS",
"temperature",
"turbidity",
"water",
"water quality"
] | While it can be straightforward to distill water to high purity, this is rarely the best method for producing water for useful purposes. Even drinking water typically needs certain minerals in it, plants may need a certain pH, and wastewater systems have a whole host of other qualities that need to be measured. Measuri... | 8 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6619069",
"author": "Bruce",
"timestamp": "2023-03-20T12:12:14",
"content": "“Even drinking water typically needs certain minerals in it” Really? Why?When my wife (then fiancee) & a friend figured out simply putting a glass of water in my hand would fix a lot of problems, and... | 1,760,372,360.353406 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/20/a-feature-rich-amplifier-module-for-3-way-speaker-builds/ | A Feature-Rich Amplifier Module For 3-Way Speaker Builds | Lewin Day | [
"digital audio hacks"
] | [
"amplifier",
"amplifier module",
"audio",
"dsp",
"speakers"
] | There’s something rewarding about building your own DIY audio hardware. Knowing you put it together yourself gives you faith in the construction, and psychosomatically makes the music sound all that much sweeter. If you’re into that kind of thing, you might like to give
[Eric Sorensen’s] Denmark amplifier module
a look... | 22 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6618969",
"author": "macsimski",
"timestamp": "2023-03-20T09:32:08",
"content": "1000watts? What kind of watts are that?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6619160",
"author": "Felix",
"timestamp": "2023-03-20T14:... | 1,760,372,360.306685 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/19/rp2040-runs-linux-through-risc-v-emulation/ | RP2040 Runs Linux Through RISC-V Emulation | Arya Voronova | [
"Linux Hacks",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"GNU/Linux",
"linux",
"Raspberry Pi Pico",
"rp2040"
] | We’re used to running Linux on CPUs where it belongs, and the consensus is that RP2040 just isn’t up for the task – no memory controller, and nowhere near enough RAM, to boot. At least, that’s what you might believe until you see [tvlad1234]’s
Linux-on-RP2040 project,
reminding us there’s more than one way to boot Linu... | 27 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6618887",
"author": "Feinfinger (M-x totally-tame-mode)",
"timestamp": "2023-03-20T07:18:32",
"content": "Someone had to do it…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6618903",
"author": "zoobab",
"timestamp": "2023-03-20T07:57... | 1,760,372,360.416644 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/19/a-look-at-zweikanalton-stereo-audio-and-comparison-with-nicam/ | A Look At Zweikanalton Stereo Audio And Comparison With NICAM | Maya Posch | [
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [
"NICAM",
"stereo",
"tv",
"Zweikanalton"
] | With how we take stereo sound for granted, there was a very long period where broadcast audio and television with accompanying audio track were in mono. Over the decades, multiple standards were developed that provide a way to transmit and receive two mono tracks, as a proper stereo transmission.
In a recent video
, [M... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6619918",
"author": "rasz_pl",
"timestamp": "2023-03-21T08:45:05",
"content": "Quite surprisingly to me in Poland cable TV providers decided to cover all bases and standardized (1997) transmitting both NICAM and A2Stereo (1,2) simultaneouslyhttps://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polski_stand... | 1,760,372,360.457288 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/19/hackaday-links-march-19-2023/ | Hackaday Links: March 19, 2023 | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackaday links",
"Slider"
] | [
"am radio",
"animatronics",
"chuck e. cheese",
"ev",
"exoplanet",
"floppy",
"ford",
"hackaday links",
"infotainment",
"Vulcan 40 Eridani A",
"Wordle"
] | We get results! Well, sort of. You may recall that in this space
last week
we discussed Ford’s plans to exclude AM reception on the infotainment systems of certain of their cars starting in 2024. We decried the decision, not for the loss of the sweet, sweet content that AM stations tend to carry — although we always en... | 11 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6618628",
"author": "Hirudinea",
"timestamp": "2023-03-19T23:52:46",
"content": "Sounds to me like it’s time for Charles Edward Cheese to upgrade to Floppy Emus.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6618744",
"author": "Har... | 1,760,372,360.503665 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/19/the-50-pen-plotter/ | The $50 Pen Plotter | Chris Lott | [
"cnc hacks",
"Tech Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"CoreXY",
"grbl",
"low cost",
"pen plotter"
] | [Arca] sets out to build himself a
low-cost pen plotter
that doesn’t require access to a 3D printer. The plotter uses a coreXY arrangement, powered by 28BYJ-48 stepper motors, which he overdrives with +12 VDC to increase the torque. Pen up and down control is done using a stepper motor salvaged from a DVD reader. The f... | 23 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6618508",
"author": "mrehorst",
"timestamp": "2023-03-19T21:08:15",
"content": "Great work for a very low cost plotter!I have a zero cost suggestion that should improve its performance a little, depending on what you’re trying to draw: rearrange the pulleys to keep the belts parall... | 1,760,372,360.981045 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/19/the-intricacies-of-starting-a-rocket-engine/ | The Intricacies Of Starting A Rocket Engine | Maya Posch | [
"Science",
"Space"
] | [
"ignition",
"rocket",
"rocket engine"
] | Rockets are conceptually rather simple: you put the pointy bit upwards and make sure that the bit that will go flamey points downwards before starting the engine(s). Yet how to start each rocket engine type in a way that’s both safe and effective? Unlike in the Wile E. Coyote cartoons, real-life rocket engines do not h... | 11 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6618433",
"author": "chango",
"timestamp": "2023-03-19T19:44:50",
"content": "Obligatory recommendation to read “Ignition!” by John D. Clark.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6618486",
"author": "Giin",
"timesta... | 1,760,372,360.814589 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/19/3d-printed-shredder-eats-lettuce-for-brekkast/ | 3D-Printed Shredder Eats Lettuce For Breakfast | Lewin Day | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"3d printed",
"shredder"
] | Shredding things isn’t just good for efficiently and securely disposing of them. It’s also very fun, as well. [Joonas] of [Let’s Print] didn’t have a shredder,
so set about 3D printing one of their very own.
The design apes that of the big metal trash shredders you’ve probably seen in videos all over the internet. They... | 15 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6618245",
"author": "Jan Praegert",
"timestamp": "2023-03-19T15:34:09",
"content": "At least in Germany, such a working and cheap tool is the nightmare of every waste management company.We pay garbage mostly by volume. You get a certain sized waste container, pay for the size and ar... | 1,760,372,360.915759 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/19/customizing-the-start-up-chime-on-a-1999-g3-imac/ | Customizing The Start-Up Chime On A 1999 G3 IMac | Maya Posch | [
"Mac Hacks",
"Reverse Engineering"
] | [
"imac",
"powerpc"
] | The start-up chime on Macs is probably as recognizable as the default Nokia ringtone in this day and age. Yet much like a ringtone, so too one might want to change the start-up chime on a Mac. This is something which [Doug Brown] has done in the past already on a Power Mac G3 in 2012, which made him instantly an expert... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6618616",
"author": "Sheff",
"timestamp": "2023-03-19T23:41:38",
"content": "Ok, just copied that old tone as an .mp3 to use as a notification on my Android phone 😁",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6618824",
"author": "kaaaa... | 1,760,372,360.762727 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/19/tiny-pcb-piezopiano-plays-just-one-octave/ | Tiny PCB PiezoPiano Plays Just One Octave | Lewin Day | [
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"ATMega4809",
"piano",
"piezo"
] | Grand pianos are beautiful instruments, but take up altogether too much space. Upright pianos are smaller, but still fairly hefty. When it comes to the PiezoPiano, though, we suspect nobody could complain about its diminutive size.
It’s a tiny thing with just one buzzy little octave for your playing pleasure.
The Piezo... | 11 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6617970",
"author": "steves",
"timestamp": "2023-03-19T09:05:17",
"content": "I guess that if pianos were to replace their strings with electronics then they could take up much less space.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "66180... | 1,760,372,360.861491 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/18/doom-ported-to-a-single-lego-brick/ | DOOMPorted To A Single LEGO Brick | Lewin Day | [
"classic hacks",
"Toy Hacks"
] | [
"accelerometer",
"brick",
"doom",
"doom port",
"lego",
"lego brick",
"oled",
"rp2040",
"rp2040 doom",
"silicone"
] | By now you’ve all seen the tiny LEGO brick with a working screen in it. The work of one [James “Ancient” Brown], it was truly a masterpiece of miniaturization and creativity. Since then, [James] hasn’t stopped innovating. Now, he’s demoing a playable version of
DOOM
running on a single plastic brick.
We’ve covered the ... | 18 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6616917",
"author": "70sjukebox",
"timestamp": "2023-03-18T08:24:55",
"content": "As someone who now uses glasses for fine soldiering and computer use, well played :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6616922",
"author":... | 1,760,372,362.901908 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/17/hp-3488a-teardown-dismantled-for-parts/ | HP 3488A Teardown, Dismantled For Parts | Chris Lott | [
"Teardown"
] | [
"gpib",
"HP 3488A",
"programmable relay",
"test equipment"
] | [IMSAI Guy] has
an old HP 3488A Switch Control Unit that he wants to dismantle for parts
( see video below the break ). The 3488A is pretty simple as far as HP test equipment goes — a chassis that can hold various types of relay cards and is programmable over GPIB. He notes up front that these are plentiful and inexpen... | 10 | 5 | [
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"comment_id": "6617264",
"author": "PinheadBE",
"timestamp": "2023-03-18T16:14:38",
"content": "What’s the point to dismantle it for pieces if he cannot determine what the parts are, since they are labelled with HP codes….. ???",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,372,362.62443 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/17/the-blue-soup-saga-is-one-beefy-mystery/ | The Blue Soup Saga Is One Beefy Mystery | Lewin Day | [
"Science"
] | [
"beef soup",
"biology",
"blue soup",
"bluesoup",
"microbiology",
"science"
] | Beef soup! You’d normally expect it to be somewhere from reddish-brown to grey, depending on how well it was cooked and prepared. However, strangely, an assistant professor found the beef soup in their fridge had mysteriously turned blue.
That spawned an investigation into the cause which is still ongoing.
[Dr. Elinne ... | 38 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "6616638",
"author": "craig",
"timestamp": "2023-03-18T02:05:04",
"content": "Pseudomonas smells fruity and is instantly recognizable by smell alone. No advanced culture or sequencing work necessary.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_i... | 1,760,372,363.225873 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/17/broken-pocket-watch-becomes-pocket-sundial/ | Broken Pocket Watch Becomes Pocket Sundial | Lewin Day | [
"clock hacks"
] | [
"clock",
"sundial"
] | Pocket watches are all well and good, but they have some caveats. They either need regular rewinding, or they need batteries. Sundials on the other hand need only the light from our One True Sun. [JGJMatt] has just the project to convert your broken or disused pocket watches
to the solar way of telling the time.
The ke... | 9 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6616578",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2023-03-18T00:54:46",
"content": "Broken pocket watch becomes right twice a day.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6616698",
"author": "Thovthe",
"timestamp": "2023-03-18T03:17:3... | 1,760,372,363.273979 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/17/finessing-a-soldering-iron-to-remove-large-connectors/ | Finessing A Soldering Iron To Remove Large Connectors | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"blob",
"connector",
"desoldering",
"pcb",
"solder",
"soldering iron",
"tools",
"wire"
] | One of the first tools that is added to a toolbox when working on electronics, perhaps besides a multimeter, is a soldering iron. From there, soldering tools can be added as needed such as a hot air gun, reflow oven, soldering gun, or desoldering pump.
But often a soldering iron is all that’s needed
even for some speci... | 32 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "6616334",
"author": "macsimski",
"timestamp": "2023-03-17T20:09:35",
"content": "This is were the desolder needles come in: heat a single pin, push the stainless steel needle over the pin though the pcb, rinse and repeat.Protip: buy several boxes as the thinner ones for dil packages... | 1,760,372,363.14516 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/17/advanced-3d-printing-tips/ | Advanced 3D Printing Tips | Al Williams | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d printing",
"gears",
"print in place",
"printed threads"
] | One of the best things about hanging around with other hackers is you hear about the little tricks they use for things like 3D printing. But with the Internet, you can overhear tips from people you’ll probably never meet, like [3D Printer Academy]. His recent video has a little bit of a click-bait title (“
10 Secret 3D... | 23 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6616286",
"author": "JanW",
"timestamp": "2023-03-17T19:13:05",
"content": "Yeah, that video is an ad for: 1) Fusion 360 2) his extendes course.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6616305",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": ... | 1,760,372,362.84712 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/17/the-singularity-isnt-here-yet/ | The Singularity Isn’t Here… Yet | Jenny List | [
"Artificial Intelligence",
"Featured",
"Rants",
"Slider"
] | [
"ai",
"GPT",
"GPT-4",
"Intelligence",
"knowledge",
"learning"
] | So, GPT-4 is out, and it’s all over for us meatbags. Hype has reached fever pitch, here in the latest and greatest of AI chatbots we finally have something that can surpass us. The singularity has happened, and personally I welcome our new AI overlords.
Hang on a minute though, I smell a rat, and it comes in defining j... | 112 | 26 | [
{
"comment_id": "6616193",
"author": "Chris",
"timestamp": "2023-03-17T17:22:38",
"content": "These newest chatbots really are incredible feats of computer science and technology, don’t get me wrong.Something about all AI related discussion just makes me feel sorta weird. As engineers and hackers we... | 1,760,372,363.065021 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/18/annoying-cicada-magnet-is-nonetheless-authentic/ | Annoying Cicada Magnet Is Nonetheless Authentic | Lewin Day | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"annoying noise",
"attiny85",
"cicada",
"mp3",
"mp3 module"
] | We’ve all heard of those chirper devices that randomly make annoying noises for no other reason than sending people insane.
This project from [Kousuke Saito] brings altogether more art to this idea
, while still being quite annoying indeed.
The build is essentially a replica cicada. [Saito] was inspired to build the de... | 17 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6617812",
"author": "Jeff Brown",
"timestamp": "2023-03-19T05:11:34",
"content": "This is beautiful and wonderful and I dearly hope no one ever hides one in my house!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6617831",
"author": "Adju... | 1,760,372,362.67772 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/18/building-a-truss-braced-model-airplane-sense-or-nonsense/ | Building A Truss-Braced Model Airplane: Sense Or Nonsense? | Maya Posch | [
"Science"
] | [
"model aircraft",
"truss-brace"
] | Following NASA’s recent results with truss-braced wing airplanes and the benefits this could bring to full-sized airplanes, [Think Flight] figured that if it helps with those airplanes, perhaps it may also be a boon for model airplanes. With the recent
construction of a carrier airplane
for smaller drones, he decided t... | 13 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6617818",
"author": "dudefromthenorth",
"timestamp": "2023-03-19T05:26:51",
"content": "Is that what inland California looks like after some serious rain? Wow…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6618272",
"author": "Peter Goetz... | 1,760,372,362.783922 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/18/calibrating-thermal-cameras-with-hot-patterned-objects/ | Calibrating Thermal Cameras With Hot Patterned Objects | Lewin Day | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"thermal camera",
"thermography"
] | Thermal cameras are great if you want to get an idea of what’s hot and what’s not. If you want to use a thermal camera for certain machine vision tasks, though, you generally need to do a geometric calibration to understand what the camera is seeing and correct for lens distortion.
[Henry Zhang] has shared various meth... | 7 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6617607",
"author": "seth kreitinger",
"timestamp": "2023-03-19T00:12:04",
"content": "Good ideas! We made a checkerboard target out of a powder coated aluminum plate and some metallic duct tape. The powder coat and shiny tape have very different emissivities so simply make the enti... | 1,760,372,362.729901 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/18/its-a-486-computer-on-a-breadboard/ | It’s A 486 Computer, On A Breadboard | Jenny List | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"486",
"80486",
"breadboard",
"i486"
] | Ever since the 1970s, a frequent project has been to take a microprocessor and construct a computer system on a breadboard or stripboard. Usually these machines feature a familiar 8-bit processor such as a 6502 or a Z80 because of their breadboard-friendly DIP packages, but there is surprisingly little reason why some ... | 53 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "6617458",
"author": "P",
"timestamp": "2023-03-18T20:57:17",
"content": "I happen to have the same chip, as well as a pentium w/mmx… I wonder if this is worth doing…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6713273",
"author": ... | 1,760,372,363.371653 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/18/compact-mouse-jiggler-keeps-boss-off-your-back/ | Compact Mouse Jiggler Keeps Boss Off Your Back | Lewin Day | [
"ATtiny Hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"attiny85",
"maus",
"mouse",
"mouse jiggler"
] | The work-from-home revolution enabled many workers to break free from the shackles of the office. Some employers didn’t like the loss of perceived control though, and saddled workers with all kinds of odious spyware to monitor their computer activity. Often, this involves monitoring mouse movement to determine if worke... | 68 | 21 | [
{
"comment_id": "6617310",
"author": "Todd",
"timestamp": "2023-03-18T17:05:47",
"content": "Isn’t easier to just put the mouse cord under one side of an optical mouse? My cursor moves all over the place in that configuration.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,372,363.475975 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/18/study-hacker-history-and-update-it/ | Study Hacker History, And Update It | Elliot Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Rants"
] | [
"/var/log",
"3d",
"ideas",
"newsletter",
"wiimote"
] | Looking through past hacks is a great source of inspiration. This week, we saw [Russ Maschmeyer]
re-visiting a classic
hack by [Jonny Lee] that
made use of a Wiimote’s IR camera to fake 3D
, or at least provide a compelling parallax effect that’ll fool your brain, without any expensive custom hardware.
[Lee]’s original... | 8 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6617665",
"author": "Oliver",
"timestamp": "2023-03-19T01:36:59",
"content": "Not sure how to feel about this … I still use a note2 (12? Years old now, android 12l though:p) as my daily driver. My desktop is a motherboard with a 790 and chipset, I think 13 years on that. CPU is newe... | 1,760,372,364.035764 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/18/meet-the-new-moteus-bldc-controller-board-the-n1/ | Meet The New Moteus BLDC Controller Board, The N1 | Chris Lott | [
"Robots Hacks",
"Tech Hacks"
] | [
"BLDC controller",
"mjbots",
"moteus"
] | [Josh] over at mjbots just released a
new version of the moteus controller board, dubbed the
moteus-n1
. One change is that the volume and footprint size has been reduced. Considering many people, [Josh] included, use these controllers to operate robotic dogs, smaller is better. The previous moteus controller maxed out... | 4 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6617118",
"author": "FU",
"timestamp": "2023-03-18T12:56:39",
"content": "Quite the rabbit hole, if you missed it, and nothing else here takes your interest:https://hackaday.com/2020/01/15/automate-your-life-with-node-red-plus-a-dash-of-mqtt/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,... | 1,760,372,364.213796 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/17/hackaday-podcast-210-living-in-the-future-flipper-mayhem-and-samsung-moons-the-world/ | Hackaday Podcast 210: Living In The Future, Flipper Mayhem, And Samsung Moons The World | Tom Nardi | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Podcasts"
] | [
"Hackaday Podcast"
] | Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams is joined this week by newly minted Development Editor (and definitely not brother) Al Williams to bring you the weekly highlights from our little corner of the Internet. Between the rapidly approaching deadline for the Low-Power Challenge to Samsung creating a fake Moon with artificial ... | 8 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6616169",
"author": "Tom Nardi",
"timestamp": "2023-03-17T16:54:30",
"content": "For those who might need some context, here is the noisemaker in question:",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6616175",
"author": "Elliot Wi... | 1,760,372,364.266913 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/17/creating-gifs-for-the-channels-between-channels/ | Creating GIFs For The Channels Between Channels | Matthew Carlson | [
"classic hacks",
"Video Hacks"
] | [
"analog tv",
"composite video",
"ESP32"
] | In the United States, analog TV broadcasting officially ended in 2009. While the transition wasn’t without hiccups, we did lose something along the way. For [Emily Velasco], she misses the channels between channels — where an analog TV isn’t quite tuned right and the image is smeared and distorted. A recent bug in one ... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6616106",
"author": "smellsofbikes",
"timestamp": "2023-03-17T15:41:25",
"content": "I love the look and implementation of this, from repurposing old hardware to the design of the video and its 1980’s late night advertising feel.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies... | 1,760,372,363.93334 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/17/this-week-in-security-kali-purple-malicious-notifications-and-cybersecurity-strategy/ | This Week In Security: Kali Purple, Malicious Notifications, And Cybersecurity Strategy | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"News",
"Security Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"Kali",
"Outlook",
"This Week in Security"
] | After a one-week hiatus, we’re back. It’s been a busy couple weeks, and up first is the release of
Kali Purple
. This new tool from Kali Linux is billed as an SOC-in-a-box, that follows the NIST CSF structure. That is a veritable alphabet soup of abbreviated jargon, so let’s break this down a bit. First up, SOC IAB or ... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6616414",
"author": "william payne (@william45994166)",
"timestamp": "2023-03-17T21:35:02",
"content": "Adding more code going to solve computer security?The National Security Agency software guidelines in the 1980 specified that nobinaries shall be in their apps system other than ... | 1,760,372,364.120622 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/17/virgin-orbit-pauses-operations-seeks-funding/ | Virgin Orbit Pauses Operations, Seeks Funding | Tom Nardi | [
"News",
"Space"
] | [
"commercial space",
"LauncherOne",
"low earth orbit",
"SmallSat",
"Virgin Galactic",
"Virgin Orbit"
] | It looks as though things may have gone from bad to worse at Virgin Orbit, the satellite carrying spin-off of Richard Branson’s space tourism company Virgin Galactic. After a disappointing launch failure earlier in the year,
CNBC is now reporting the company will halt operations and furlough most employees
for at least... | 6 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6615995",
"author": "Gravis",
"timestamp": "2023-03-17T13:26:17",
"content": "Someone else had pointed out that it appears that Richard Branson ticked off “go to space” from his bucket list and thus abandoned the company.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
... | 1,760,372,364.166624 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/17/fish-tank-dosing-pump-built-using-pi-pico/ | Fish Tank Dosing Pump Built Using Pi Pico | Lewin Day | [
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"dosing pump",
"fish",
"fish tank",
"peristaltic pump",
"pump"
] | When you’re maintaining a fish tank, it’s actually quite important to get all your basic chemistry right. Mismanage things, and you’ll kill all the helpful bacteria in the tank, or kill your fish when things get too alkaline or too acidic. To help him get things just right,
[yojoebosolo] built a custom dosing pump to m... | 5 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6616021",
"author": "Notsrry",
"timestamp": "2023-03-17T13:58:40",
"content": "calcium hydroxide you mean",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6616077",
"author": "Ben",
"timestamp": "2023-03-17T15:02:22",
"content": "As ... | 1,760,372,364.077175 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/16/coffee-grinder-gets-bluetooth-weighing/ | Coffee Grinder Gets Bluetooth Weighing | Al Williams | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"app inventor",
"coffee grinder",
"load cell"
] | Some people take their coffee grinding seriously. So what do you do when the hot new grinders automatically weigh coffee, and yours doesn’t? Well, if you are like [Tech Dregs] and the rest of us, you
hack your existing grinder
, of course. The link is to the source code, but for a quick overview, check out the video be... | 7 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6616188",
"author": "craig",
"timestamp": "2023-03-17T17:18:08",
"content": "“Some people take their coffee grinding seriously”Then there are the monsters and degenerates.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6617129",
"aut... | 1,760,372,363.978628 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/16/8086-multiply-algorithm-gets-reverse-engineered/ | 8086 Multiply Algorithm Gets Reverse Engineered | Lewin Day | [
"computer hacks"
] | [
"8086",
"cpu",
"Intel 8086",
"microcode"
] | The 8086 has been around since 1978, so it’s pretty well understood. As the namesake of the prevalent x86 architecture, it’s often studied by those looking to learn more about microprocessors in general. To this end, [Ken Shirriff]
set about reverse engineering the 8086’s multiplication algorithm.
[Ken]’s efforts were ... | 10 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6615552",
"author": "DerAxeman",
"timestamp": "2023-03-17T02:14:27",
"content": "Now lets compare it to a V20/V30",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6615554",
"author": "Slincolne",
"timestamp": "2023-03-17T02:18:38",
"... | 1,760,372,364.374924 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/16/wooden-itx-pc-case-smacks-of-sophistication/ | Wooden ITX PC Case Smacks Of Sophistication | Matthew Carlson | [
"computer hacks"
] | [
"itx",
"MiniITX",
"woodworking"
] | Computer cases have come a long way from the ugly beige boxes of the early 2000s. Still, if it was going to sit on his desk, [MXC Builds] wanted something with a little more class. His
custom Ironbark ITX PC
seems to fit the aesthetic nicely.
The case’s outer shell is ironbark wood cut at 45 degrees and joined for a be... | 15 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6615249",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2023-03-16T08:56:36",
"content": "Mitred. The expression you need is “mitred”.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6615262",
"author": "sjw",
"timestamp": "2023-03-16T10:49:48",
... | 1,760,372,364.323664 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/15/raspberry-pi-adds-second-laptop-monitor/ | Raspberry Pi Adds Second Laptop Monitor | Al Williams | [
"computer hacks",
"Linux Hacks"
] | [
"raspberry pi",
"virtual monitor"
] | If you have a cheap laptop and you realize you can’t connect a second monitor to it, what do you do? Well, if you are [Pierre Couy], you grab a Raspberry Pi and put together
a virtual screen solution
.
Like all good projects, this one started with some goals and requirements:
Low latency
Redable text
At least 10 frames... | 17 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6615217",
"author": "Jonathan Bennett",
"timestamp": "2023-03-16T05:15:32",
"content": "Pretty sure there’s a kernel module since 5.13 to do this over USB:https://github.com/notro/gud/wikiBut over Ethernet has its own advantages, of course.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,372,364.53086 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/15/unconventional-computing-laboratory-grows-its-own-electronics/ | Unconventional Computing Laboratory Grows Its Own Electronics | Navarre Bartz | [
"computer hacks",
"hardware"
] | [
"electronics",
"fungi",
"fungus",
"mushroom",
"myceliotronics",
"mycelium"
] | While some might say we’re living in a cyberpunk future already, one technology that’s conspicuously absent is wetware. The Unconventional Computing Laboratory is
working to change that
.
Previous work with slime molds has shown useful for spatial and network optimization, but mycelial networks add the feature of elect... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6615204",
"author": "philosiraptor117",
"timestamp": "2023-03-16T03:31:08",
"content": "fungal math!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6615208",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2023-03-16T04:09:06",
"content": "Wel... | 1,760,372,364.923928 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/15/e-paper-wall-paper/ | E-Paper Wall Paper | Matthew Carlson | [
"Art",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"8051",
"e-ink",
"e-paper",
"e-paper display",
"SEM9110",
"ZBS243",
"zigbee"
] | Just like the clock clock of old, there’s something magical about a giant wall of smaller pieces working together to make a larger version of that thing. The
E-Paper Wall 2.0
by [Aaron Christophel] is no exception as it has now upgraded from 2.9″ to 7.4″ screens.
On the 1.0 version, the bezels made it harder to make ou... | 7 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6615182",
"author": "Victor Martelli",
"timestamp": "2023-03-16T00:11:02",
"content": "I plan to build one of these as soon as my bank allows me to withdraw my savings. Meanwhile, a new Samsung 65″ Class 4K Crystal UHD LED TV will get me through these dark days for well under $500... | 1,760,372,365.444746 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/15/spin-up-to-speed-with-this-stroboscope/ | Spin Up To Speed With This Stroboscope | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"ATtiny1614",
"duty-cycle",
"frequency",
"led",
"pwm",
"stroboscope",
"timing",
"timing light"
] | A stroboscope is not the most common tool, and while they can be purchased fairly inexpensively from various online stores, they are straightforward enough tools that plenty of us could build our own mostly from parts laying around. The basic idea is to shine a flashing light on a spinning object, and when it appears s... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6615140",
"author": "Paul",
"timestamp": "2023-03-15T21:14:44",
"content": "Kinda neat that the PT4115 constant-current driver will apparently go fast enough for this to work, with its 2 us rise/fall time and minimum pulse width of 10 us (the maker uses a leisurely 200 us pulse widt... | 1,760,372,364.816014 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/15/voice-without-sound/ | Voice Without Sound | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Machine Learning"
] | [
"alexa",
"machine learning",
"neural network",
"recognition",
"speech",
"voice"
] | Voice recognition is becoming more and more common, but anyone who’s ever used a smart device can attest that they aren’t exactly fool-proof. They can activate seemingly at random, don’t activate when called or, most annoyingly, completely fail to understand the voice commands. Thankfully, researchers from the Universi... | 14 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6615101",
"author": "dlcarrier",
"timestamp": "2023-03-15T18:44:33",
"content": "The Enders Game series had these, as well as tablet computers. Now all we need is faster-than-light communications and relativistic travel speeds.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies"... | 1,760,372,365.050499 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/15/retrotechtacular-military-graphics-in-the-1960s/ | Retrotechtacular: Military Graphics In The 1960s | Al Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Retrocomputing",
"Retrotechtacular",
"Slider"
] | [
"MOBIDIC",
"Retrotechtacluar"
] | While you might think the military doesn’t have a sense of humor with names. Take the
AN/MSQ-19
“automated tactical operations central” for example. (Video, embedded below.) But then, when you find out that the truck-sized computer at the heart of it was MOBIDIC — yes, that’s pronounced Moby Dick — you know someone had... | 28 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "6615105",
"author": "Ken de AC3DH",
"timestamp": "2023-03-15T19:08:42",
"content": "From someone who still works in this field, we are still working on these requirements… The Army is always looking for something better.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
... | 1,760,372,364.882989 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/16/replacing-a-clock-ics-battery/ | Replacing A Clock IC’s Battery | Al Williams | [
"Repair Hacks",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"DS12885",
"DS12887",
"real time clock battery"
] | You can find a lot of strange things inside IC packages. For example, the Dallas DS12885 and DS12887 real time clock “chips” were available in a large package with an internal battery. The problem, of course, is that batteries die. [New Old Computer Show] wanted to restore a machine that used one of these devices and
w... | 23 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "6615479",
"author": "Sam",
"timestamp": "2023-03-17T00:01:35",
"content": "I did this some years back just with a carving knife since my Dremel had broken, sloppily soldered a couple wires and a cr2032 holder. Rather…inconvenient when it’s still soldered to the board lol.",
"pa... | 1,760,372,364.997337 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/16/taking-apart-ikeas-latest-air-quality-sensor/ | Taking Apart IKEA’s Latest Air Quality Sensor | Tom Nardi | [
"home hacks",
"Teardown"
] | [
"air quality sensor",
"ikea",
"particle sensor",
"VINDSTYRKA",
"zigbee"
] | Whether it’s because they’re concerned about worsening pollution or the now endemic variants of COVID-19, a whole lot of people have found themselves in the market for a home air quality monitor thee last couple of years. IKEA noted this trend awhile back, and released the VINDRIKTNING sensor to capitalize on the trend... | 30 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6615395",
"author": "Martin",
"timestamp": "2023-03-16T20:45:05",
"content": "This sensor is a normal Zigbee device and works without IKEA’s own home automation ecosystem. Naturally. It is already supported by Zigbee2MQTT. So there is no need to modify it to get the readings via MQT... | 1,760,372,365.140067 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/16/robot-hand-looks-and-acts-like-the-real-thing/ | Robot Hand Looks And Acts Like The Real Thing | Al Williams | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"artificial muscle",
"hydraulics",
"robotic hand"
] | Throughout history, visions of the future included human-looking robots. These days we have plenty of robots, but they don’t look like people. They look like disembodied arms, cars, and over-sized hockey pucks concealing a vacuum cleaner. Of course there’s still demand for humanoid robots like Commander Data, but there... | 26 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "6615367",
"author": "Dude",
"timestamp": "2023-03-16T18:40:01",
"content": "It looks like a person who’s suffering from cramps induced by a TENS machine.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6615370",
"author": "MmmDee",
"tim... | 1,760,372,365.329283 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/16/hackaday-berlin-final-schedule-last-call-for-tickets-and-more/ | Hackaday Berlin: Final Schedule, Last Call For Tickets, And More | Elliot Williams | [
"cons",
"News"
] | [
"Bring A Hack",
"Hackaday Berlin",
"Hackaday Berlin 2023",
"lightning talks"
] | Hackaday Berlin is just about a week away, and we’ve just put the finishing touches on our preparations. And that includes
a snazzy landing page
, the full schedule, details on the Friday night meetup, and more.
We’ll be meeting up Friday the 24th at 19:00 at DogTap / Brew Dog, Im Marienpark 23 for an ice breaker. This... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6615393",
"author": "Mary",
"timestamp": "2023-03-16T20:41:02",
"content": "For those of us nowhere near Berlin, and perhaps even in timezones where Berlin daytime isn’t convenient for us, how do we watch all the lecture videos AFTER the conference at convenient time schedules. Stil... | 1,760,372,365.176828 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/16/dobsonian-telescope-adds-plate-solver/ | Dobsonian Telescope Adds Plate Solver | Bryan Cockfield | [
"digital cameras hacks",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"alt-azimuth",
"dobsonian",
"plate solver",
"raspberry pi",
"telescope"
] | The amateur astronomy world got a tremendous boost during the 1960s when John Dobson invented what is now called the Dobsonian telescope. Made from commonly-sourced materials and mechanically much simpler than what was otherwise available at the time, the telescope dramatically reduced the barrier to entry for larger t... | 27 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6615318",
"author": "PupuPipi",
"timestamp": "2023-03-16T15:44:07",
"content": "Great read!This has me thinking, what would be the opposite of a plate solver? Like an automated version of low-tech “guided by stars positioning system”. There probably has been at least one hacker out ... | 1,760,372,365.401035 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/16/the-x-macro-a-historic-preprocessor-hack/ | The X Macro: A Historic Preprocessor Hack | Al Williams | [
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Slider",
"Software Development",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"preprocessor",
"x macro"
] | If we told you that a C preprocessor hack dated back to 1968, you’d be within your rights to remind us that C didn’t exist in 1968. However, assemblers with preprocessors did, and where there is a preprocessor, there is an opportunity to do clever things. One of those things is the so-called X macro, which saw a lot of... | 45 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "6615289",
"author": "steelman",
"timestamp": "2023-03-16T14:18:26",
"content": "#define X=32Should be#define X 32",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6615323",
"author": "g",
"timestamp": "2023-03-16T15:53:31",
... | 1,760,372,365.532295 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/16/laser-and-webcam-team-up-for-micron-resolution-flatness-measurements/ | Laser And Webcam Team Up For Micron-Resolution Flatness Measurements | Dan Maloney | [
"Laser Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"CCD",
"cnc",
"flatness",
"gantry",
"image sensor",
"laser",
"linear bearing",
"micron",
"surface"
] | When you want to measure the length, breadth, or depth of an object, there are plenty of instruments for the job. You can start with a tape measure, move up to calipers if you need more precision, or maybe even a micrometer if it’s a really critical dimension. But what if you want to know how flat something is? Is ther... | 36 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "6615280",
"author": "Paul",
"timestamp": "2023-03-16T13:20:22",
"content": "I guess you’re really trusting the quality of that cylindrical lens in the laser. How would you verify *it* is good and correct?I’ve got a similar setup that uses a molded glass lens, and it’s frankly garba... | 1,760,372,365.92365 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/15/take-a-ride-through-the-development-of-a-custom-bldc-motor-controller/ | Take A Ride Through The Development Of A Custom BLDC Motor Controller | Abe Connelly | [
"hardware",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"BLDC",
"BLDC controller",
"bldc motor",
"brushless esc",
"MOSFETS",
"open source hardware",
"stm32"
] | The folks over at the [Barkhausen Institut] are doing research into controlling autonomous fleets of RC cars and had been using off the shelf electronic speed controllers (ESCs) to control the car motors. Unfortunately they required more reliable feedback for closed loop control of the motors, so they created their own... | 6 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6615073",
"author": "Jared",
"timestamp": "2023-03-15T16:53:51",
"content": "I’ve been interested in building my own BLDC controller just to become more familiar with the concepts… but if you are building a product I’m unsure why you wouldn’t go for an existing IC likehttps://www.mo... | 1,760,372,365.649251 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/15/review-xhdata-d-219-short-wave-radio-receiver/ | Review: XHDATA D-219 Short Wave Radio Receiver | Jenny List | [
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Radio Hacks",
"Reviews",
"Slider"
] | [
"radio",
"sdr",
"Silicon Labs",
"swl",
"XHDATA"
] | As any radio amateur will tell you, the world of radio abounds with exciting possibilities. Probably the simplest pursuit of them all is that of the SWL, or short wave listener, who scours the airwaves in search of interesting stations. SWLs will often have fully-featured setups with high-end general-coverage communica... | 112 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "6615034",
"author": "Stephen Walters",
"timestamp": "2023-03-15T14:43:39",
"content": "Save your money, and build your own. You will learn more and it is more satisfying.I decide recently, not purchase a lot of this read-made ewaste. Especially as there is good chance that it might ... | 1,760,372,365.837547 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/15/the-international-space-station-is-always-up-there/ | The International Space Station Is Always Up There | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Microcontrollers",
"Space"
] | [
"3d printed",
"ESP32",
"Feather",
"international space station",
"iss",
"programming",
"tracker"
] | Thanks to its high orbital inclination, the International Space Station (ISS) eventually passes over most inhabited parts of the Earth. Like other artificial satellites, though, it’s typically only visible overhead during passes at sunrise and sunset. If you’d like to have an idea of where it is beyond the times that i... | 9 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6614975",
"author": "Klaws",
"timestamp": "2023-03-15T11:26:53",
"content": "WTF?“THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION IS ALWAYS UP THERE”No, it’s not. The pedestal actually shows the correct position even if the ISS is down there.Then again, perhaps the pedestal is just another gadget f... | 1,760,372,365.603464 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/15/a-smart-home-that-can-do-it-all/ | A Smart Home That CAN Do It All | Matthew Carlson | [
"home hacks",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"CAN",
"home automation",
"pi pico",
"raspberry pi home automation"
] | In an ideal smart home, the explosion of cheap WiFi and Bluetooth chips has allowed hundreds of small wireless devices to control the switches, lights, and everything else required for a “smart home” at a relatively low price. But what if you don’t want hundreds of internet-connected devices in your home polluting the ... | 41 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "6614955",
"author": "Gambrius",
"timestamp": "2023-03-15T09:26:10",
"content": "Nice work done, but I am not sure if it is worth the effort.There is a well known and long time established standard called KNX, where these kind of modules can be procured from several independent manuf... | 1,760,372,366.112508 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/14/a-pi-calculating-pi-for-pi-day/ | A Pi Calculating Pi For Pi Day | Dan Maloney | [
"Art"
] | [
"Pi",
"Pi day",
"Raspberry Pi Pico"
] | What is it about pi that we humans — at least some of us — find so endlessly fascinating? Maybe that’s just it — it’s endless, an eternal march of digits that tempts us with the thought that if we just calculate one more digit, something interesting will happen. Spoiler alert: it never does.
That doesn’t stop people fr... | 12 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6614912",
"author": "MmmDee",
"timestamp": "2023-03-15T06:09:13",
"content": "Arggh, we don’t get to see the first 8 decimal digits… very cool, I was obsessed with pi in high school and once had it memorized to about 100 digits. But that was many brain cells ago.",
"parent_id": ... | 1,760,372,366.028025 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/14/mice-play-in-vr/ | Mice Play In VR | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Virtual Reality"
] | [
"behavior",
"cornell",
"display",
"mice",
"mouse",
"neuroscience",
"raspberry pi",
"research",
"spi",
"virtual reality",
"vr"
] | Virtual Reality always seemed like a technology just out of reach, much like nuclear fusion, the flying car, or Linux on the desktop. It seems to be gaining steam in the last five years or so, though, with successful video games from a number of companies as well as plenty of other virtual reality adjacent technology t... | 9 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6614902",
"author": "harry",
"timestamp": "2023-03-15T04:49:35",
"content": "Fusion, flying cars, desktop linux and VR are not in the same category. Fusion has been “20 years away” for >60 years – it should work but they haven’t worked out how yet, flying cars are already possible b... | 1,760,372,365.975306 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/14/solar-powered-split-wireless-mechanically-keyboard/ | Solar Powered Split Wireless Mechanical Keyboard | Matthew Carlson | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"3D printed mechanical keyboard",
"adjustable keyboard",
"mechanical keyboard",
"solar power",
"split keyboard"
] | When thinking about a perfect keyboard, some of us have a veritable laundry list: split, hot-swapping, wireless, 3d printed, encoders, and a custom layout. The
Aloidia keyboard
by [Nguyen Vincent] has all that and more.
One of the first things to notice is a row of solar panels on the top, which trickle charge the keyb... | 22 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6614859",
"author": "Myself",
"timestamp": "2023-03-14T23:25:50",
"content": "This…… this may be the sexiest thing I have ever seen.Absolutely exquisite in every detail. I aspire for any of my own projects to be so well executed.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies... | 1,760,372,366.182143 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/13/the-curious-etymology-of-the-elements/ | The Curious Etymology Of The Elements | Jenny List | [
"Interest",
"Science"
] | [
"Chemistry",
"etymology",
"language",
"lexicography"
] | It’s not often that the worlds of lexicography and technology collide, but in a video by the etymologist [RobWords] we may have found a rare example. In a fascinating 16-minute video
he takes us through the origins of the names you’ll find in the periodic table
. Here’s a word video you don’t have to be on the staff of... | 34 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6614627",
"author": "Mystick",
"timestamp": "2023-03-14T09:00:29",
"content": "Aluminum.Can we really trust a nation that lost a global empire to bureaucratic decay to dictate the correct pronunciation of a word? Have you been to Hackney? Two out of three words are gibberish… even t... | 1,760,372,366.262285 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/13/building-a-communications-grid-with-loratype/ | Building A Communications Grid With LoRaType | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"chat",
"commuications",
"e-paper",
"LoRa",
"mesh",
"network",
"off grid",
"radio",
"text"
] | Almost all of modern society is built around various infrastructure, whether that’s for electricity, water and sewer, transportation, or even communication. These vast networks aren’t immune from failure though, and at least as far as communication goes, plenty will reach for a radio of some sort to communicate when In... | 33 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6614556",
"author": "whatevenisthis",
"timestamp": "2023-03-14T02:05:37",
"content": "“We have gone through several important stages of product development, which is very important.”Did they have ChatGPT write their github page ?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies... | 1,760,372,366.431762 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/13/the-nixie-clock-from-outer-space/ | The Nixie Clock From Outer Space | Al Williams | [
"clock hacks",
"Space"
] | [
"apollo",
"CuriousMarc",
"nixie clock"
] | Nixie clocks are nothing new. But [CuriousMarc] has one with a unique pedigree: the Apollo Program. While restoring the Apollo’s Central Timing Equipment box, [Marc] decided to
throw together a nixie-based clock
. The avionics unit in question sent timing pulses and a mission elapsed time signal to the rest of the spac... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,372,366.469137 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/13/low-power-challenge-lcd-solar-creatures-live-on-sunlight-sleep-at-night/ | Low Power Challenge: LCD Solar Creatures Live On Sunlight, Sleep At Night | Robin Kearey | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"attiny85",
"game of life",
"lcd"
] | With all those e-paper based projects doing the rounds these days, including in our Low Power Challenge, you’d almost forget that monochrome LCDs were the original ultra-low-power display. Without them, we wouldn’t have had watches, calculators and handheld games operating off button cell batteries or tiny solar panels... | 8 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6614483",
"author": "CRJEEA",
"timestamp": "2023-03-13T21:21:29",
"content": "Those solar led garden spikes seem like a good doner for a power supply. If coupled with a super capacitor, they could be charged relatively quickly. They can charge a relatively low capacity AA size cell.... | 1,760,372,366.524207 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/13/hacking-skis-rules-and-friendships/ | Hacking Skis, Rules, And Friendships | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"bindings",
"birkebeiner",
"cross country",
"rules",
"ski",
"skis",
"tandem"
] | The American
Birkebeiner is the second largest cross-country skiing race in the world and is quite a big deal within that sport. At 55 kilometers it’s not a short event, either, requiring a significant amount of training to even complete, let alone perform well enough to be competitive. Around a decade ago, friends [Jo... | 15 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6614488",
"author": "smellsofbikes",
"timestamp": "2023-03-13T21:30:15",
"content": "If they persisted with this, at least in traditional non-skate-ski categories, they could possibly do very well. Tandem bicycles in largely flat races are measurably faster than singles, and even i... | 1,760,372,366.580138 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/13/supercon-2022-irak-mayer-builds-self-sustainable-outdoor-iot-devices/ | Supercon 2022: Irak Mayer Builds Self-Sustainable Outdoor IoT Devices | Dave Rowntree | [
"cons",
"Hackaday Columns",
"hardware",
"Slider"
] | [
"2022 Hackaday Supercon",
"energy",
"ESP32",
"INA219",
"internet of things",
"LC709203f",
"solar power",
"turbine",
"water power",
"wind power"
] | [Irak Mayer] has been exploring IoT applications for use with remote monitoring of irrigation control systems. As you would expect, the biggest challenges for moving data from the middle of a field to the home or office are with connectivity and power. Obviously, the further away from urbanization you get, the sparser ... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6614486",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2023-03-13T21:23:04",
"content": "Hasn’t this basically been dealt with by LoRaWAN?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6614680",
"author": "Max S.",
"timestamp": "2023-03-14T12:33... | 1,760,372,366.624075 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/13/modded-see-n-say-teaches-the-sounds-of-city-life/ | Modded See ‘N Say Teaches The Sounds Of City Life | Tom Nardi | [
"Microcontrollers",
"Toy Hacks"
] | [
"adafruit",
"I2S",
"See n' Say",
"toy",
"vintage"
] | The Fisher-Price See ‘n Say was introduced back in 1964, and since then has helped teach countless children the different sounds made by farm animals. But what about our urban youth? If they’re going to navigate a concrete jungle, why not prepare them to identify the sound of a jackhammer or the chime that plays before... | 19 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6614364",
"author": "Brian",
"timestamp": "2023-03-13T15:52:11",
"content": "“The mugger says” …..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6614420",
"author": "Dj Biohazard",
"timestamp": "2023-03-13T18:28:19",
... | 1,760,372,366.800195 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/14/pocket-sized-thermal-imager/ | Pocket-Sized Thermal Imager | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"camera",
"ESP32",
"flir",
"Imaging",
"MLX90640",
"pocket",
"small",
"stm32",
"Thermal"
] | Just as the gold standard for multimeters and other instrumentation likely comes in a yellow package of some sort, there is a similar household name for thermal imaging. But, if they’re known for anything other than the highest quality thermal cameras, it’s excessively high price. There are other options around but if ... | 25 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6614818",
"author": "CityZen",
"timestamp": "2023-03-14T20:25:32",
"content": "A problem I’ve noticed with my cheap low-resolution thermal camera is that its design makes it easy to miss small hotspots. The way the image is interpolated over the screen might lead you to believe tha... | 1,760,372,366.737915 |
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