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The Fine Art of Restoring Matchbox Cars
Did you have anything planned for the next hour or so? No? That’s good because if you’re anything like us, watching even one of the restorations performed on [Marty’s Matchbox Makeovers] is likely to...
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From A Dead Laptop To A Portable KVM And PiTop
An essential tool of many sysadmins is a portable terminal ready to plug into an ailing rack-mounted server to administer first aid. At their simplest, they are simply a monitor and keyboard on a...
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Hackaday Links: March 10, 2019
Do you like hamburgers? Everyone likes hamburgers. Inspired by a phone you could buy at Spencers in 1991, [Love Hulten] built a Game Burger Advance. The guts are a Raspberry Pi Zero, a standard LCD...
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Quadcopter Uses Bare Metal STM32
[Tim Schumacher] got a Crazepony Mini quadcopter and has been reprogramming it “bare metal” — that is to say he’s programming the STM32 without using an operating system or do-it-all environment. His...
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Learning Through Play Hack Chat with Greg Zumwalt
Join us Wednesday at noon Pacific time for the Learning Through Play Hack Chat! You may think you’ve never heard of Greg Zumwalt, but if you’ve spent any time on Instructables or Thingiverse, chances...
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What Hardware Lies Beneath? Companies Swear They Never Meant to Violate Your...
“Don’t Be Evil” was the mantra of Google from years before even Gmail was created. While certainly less vague than their replacement slogan “Do the Right Thing”, there has been a lot of criticism...
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Engine Turning Aluminum The Easy Way
Engine turning, or jeweling, or guilloché, or a whole host of other names, is the art of polishing a pattern of circles on a piece of metal. You see it on fine watches, and you’ll see it on art-deco...
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Painting With Light And A Little G-Code
Most photographs are made in the fraction of a second that the camera’s shutter is gathering reflected light from the scene. But there’s fun to be had by leaving the shutter open and directing light...
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Do You Know Where Your Drone is Headed? HJWYDK Article Explores Limits of...
Knowing in what absolute direction your robot is pointed can be crucial, and expensive systems like those used by NASA on Mars are capable of calculating this six-dimensional heading vector to within...
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Omni Wheels Move This CNC Plotter
We’ve always had a soft spot for omni wheels and the bots that move around somewhat bumpily on them. Likewise, CNC pen plotters are always a welcome sight in our tip line. But a CNC plotter using omni...
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Old Meets New In 3D Printed Telegraph
We often think of 3D printing as a way to create specific components in our builds, everything from some hard-to-find little sprocket to a custom enclosure. More and more of the projects that grace the...
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A DIY Slip Roll On The Cheap
When you need to roll sheet or thin flat bar stock into an arc, you need a rolling machine, also known as a slip roll. If you’ve priced these lately, you’ll know that they can be rather expensive,...
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Hackaday Meetup: Vietnam
Hackaday is hosting a meetup in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on Sunday, March 24th. We’d love to see you there! Sean Boyce lives in HCMC — you’ve likely enjoyed several of his articles detailing some of...
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3D-Printed Rotary Dial Keypad Is Wonderfully Useless
Right up front, let us stipulate that we are not making fun of this project. Even its maker admits that it has no practical purpose. But this 3D-printed Commodore-style rotary dial keypad fails to be...
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Proposed NASA Budget Signals Changes To Space Launch System
The White House’s proposed budget for 2020 is out, and with it comes cuts to NASA. The most important item of note in the proposed budget is a delay of the Space Launch System, the SLS, a super-heavy...
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Become the Next Fabergé With a Rose Engine Lathe
The basics of a skill may take a long time to master, but there is always something else to learn about regardless of the craft. Building a piece of fine furniture out of hardwood or being able to...
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Do-It-Yourself Scratch Cards
The lottery is to some a potential bonanza, to others a tax on the poor and the stupid. The only sure-fire way to win a huge fortune in the lottery does remain to start with an even bigger fortune....
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3D Scanning Via DIY Photogrammetry
For those with 3D printers, taking a 3D model and spitting out a physical object is so routine as to be blasé. The reverse is something a little different. There are many ways to create a digital 3D...
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[Ben Krasnow] Drills Really Small Holes with Electricity
Drilling holes is easy; humans have been doing it in one form or another for almost 40,000 years. Drilling really tiny holes in hard materials is more challenging, but still doable. Drilling deep,...
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Expert Says Don’t Teach Kids to Code
I was a little surprised to see a news report about Andreas Schleicher, the director of education and skills at OECD — the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Speaking at the World...
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