Weaving With Light: An OLED Fibre Fabric Display
If you think of wearable electronic projects, in many cases what may come to mind are the use of addressable LEDs, perhaps on strips or on sewable PCBs like the Neopixel and similar products. They make...
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Teardown: What’s Inside a Christmas Laser Projector?
In the world of big-box retail, December 26th is a very special day. The Christmas music playing on the overhead speakers switches back to the family friendly Top 40, the store’s decorations get tossed...
View ArticleShah Selbe: Science in the World’s Wildest Places
When we think of building research hardware, lab coats and pristine workbenches come to mind. Shah Selbe used to do something kind of like that when he was engineering satellite propulsion systems. But...
View ArticleReverse Engineering the TEC-06 Battery Tester
[Syonyk] read that you could solder a few wires to a TEC-06 battery capacity tester, connect it to a TTL serial adapter, and it would interface with some Windows software via a serial port. You can buy...
View ArticleTiny Programming Langauge in 25 Lines of Code
There are certain kinds of programs that fascinate certain kinds of software hackers. Maybe you are into number crunching, chess programs, operating systems, or artificial intelligence. However, on any...
View ArticleRunning Programs On Paper
It’s a simple fact that most programs created for the personal computer involve the same methods of interaction, almost regardless of purpose. Word processors, graphics utilities, even games – the vast...
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Build an Excellent Coffee Roaster With a Satisfyingly Low Price Tag
There’s a lot of mysticism around coffee roasting, but in the end it couldn’t be simpler. Take a bunch of beans, heat them up evenly, and stop before they get burned. The rest is details. And the same...
View Article3D Printed Desk Harnesses the Power of Fusion 360 and McMaster-Carr
Black pipe furniture is all the rage now, and for good reason — it has a nice industrial aesthetic, it’s sturdy, and the threaded fittings make it a snap to put together. But if you’ve priced out the...
View ArticleDIY Graphene Putty Makes Super Sensitive Sensor
It is sort of an electronics rule 34 that if something occurs, someone needs to sense it. [Bblorgggg], for reasons that aren’t immediately obvious, needs to sense ants moving over trees. No kidding....
View ArticleRetro Flip Clock Gets A Retrofit
Retro tech is almost always ripe for the hacking — be it nostalgia, an educational teardown, or acknowledging and preserving the shoulders upon which we stand. Coming across an old West-German built...
View ArticleMaking Prints More Resilient With Fibre-Filled Filament
For all that we love 3D printers, sometimes the final print doesn’t turn out as durable as we might want it to be. Aiming to mimic the properties of natural structures such as wood, bone, and shells, a...
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Road Apology/Gratitude Emitter Car LED Sign
Sometimes, when you’re driving, a simple wave when someone lets you in can go unnoticed and sometimes you make a mistake and a simple wave just isn’t enough. [Noapparentfunction] came up with a nice...
View ArticleThis Tiny Motor is Built into a PCB
Mounting a motor on a PCB is nothing new, right? But how about making the PCB itself part of the motor? That’s what [Carl Bugeja] has done with his brushless DC motor in a PCB project, and we think...
View ArticleGiving Stranger Things For Christmas
[rudolph] was at a loss on what to get his niece for Christmas. It turns out she’s a huge fan of Stranger Things, so the answer was obvious: make her an alphabet wall she can control! Downsizing the...
View ArticleAn Indoor Garden? That’s Arduino-licious
Gardening is a rewarding endeavour, and easily automated for the maker with a green thumb. With simplicity at its focus, Hackaday.io user [MEGA DAS] has whipped up a automated planter to provide the...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi Zero Drives Tiny RC Truck
We’re not sure which is more fun – putting together a little RC truck with parts laying around on your workbench, or driving it around through a Linux terminal. We’ll take the easy road and say they’re...
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Shmoocon: Advanced Low Power Techniques And A Watch
Real quick question: how do you increase productivity at work? The greatest (highest paid) minds would just say: do agile or scrum or something. What’s scrum? That’s where you gather ’round every...
View ArticleUsing Lasagna to Make Cost-Saving Molds
Building a one-off prototype is usually pretty straightforward. Find some perfboard and start soldering, weld up some scrap metal, or break out the 3D printer. But if you’re going to do a production...
View ArticleThree Ways to Etch Snazzy Brass Nameplates
It’s the little touches that make a project, and a nice nameplate can really tie a retro build together. Such badges are easy enough to make with a CNC machine, but if you don’t have access to machine...
View ArticleSearch for Military Satellite Finds One NASA Lost Instead
[Scott Tilley] was searching for radio signals from the Air Force’s top-secret ZUMA satellite. He found something that is — we think — much more interesting. He found NASA’s lost satellite called...
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