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PC And Console Gaming United Courtesy Of Origin
When folk at Origin PCs realized that their company was about to celebrate its 10th anniversary of making custom (gaming) PCs, they knew that they had to do something special. Since one thing they did...
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HDMI From Your Arduino
Creating a video signal from a computer, a job that once required significant extra hardware, is now a done deal with a typical modern microcontroller. We’ve shown you more NTSC, PAL, and VGA projects...
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Installing Android On Your Nintendo Switch, Because Why Not?
In a continuing trend of ‘but does it run Android?’, enterprising folk over at the XDA-Developers forum have found a way to get LineageOS (the successor to CyanogenMod) installed and running on the...
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Building DIY Acoustic Panels To Cut Down On Echoes
Plenty of hackers and makers are passionate about content creation. In the dog-eat-ice-bucket-challenge world of online video, production value is everything. If you want to improve your audio quality...
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Add Scripting To Your C++ Programs With ChaiScript
If you are writing a program that has a technical user base, it is a nice touch to make the program scriptable. In fact, you might want to do the hard work in a programming language and then use your...
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Jazzberry Bakes The Pi Into A Mechanical Keyboard
If you hang around Hackaday long enough, pretty soon you’ll start to see some patterns emerging. As the nexus of all things awesome in the hacking world, our front page offers a unique vantage point by...
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A Capacitive Soil Sensor Hack For Lower Voltage Supplies
A frequent beginner project involves measuring soil moisture levels by measuring its resistance with a couple of electrodes. These electrodes are available ready-made as PCBs, but suffer badly from...
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Familiar Parts Make Interfacing Weather Station Easy
Hackers love to measure things, and enjoy monitoring the world around them. Weather stations are a big part of this, and many tinkerers have tried to interface such hardware with varying levels of...
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Building a Safe ESP32 Home Energy Monitor
The first step to reducing the energy consumption of your home is figuring out how much you actually use in the first place. After all, you need a baseline to compare against when you start making...
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Build Your Own LED Glow Poi
Spinning poi is an entertaining pastime, and LEDs can make a great addition to the experience. [MilanDer] built some LED poi of their very own, using a few maker staples along the way. A 3D printed...
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Lack Of Space Is No Longer An Excuse For Not Having A Pen Plotter
Pen plotters, those mechanical X-Y drawing machines that have in many cases been superseded by inkjet and other printer technologies, exert a fascination from a section of our community. Both analogue...
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3D Printing A NAS Server Case
It’s good to back up, and despite that, few of us do. [Brian] we suspect is of the more diligent persuasion, given his strong enthusiasm for network attached storage. Recently, he found himself...
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Russian eBike Goes Everywhere, Possibly Legal
Electric bikes may be taking the world by storm, but the world itself doesn’t have a single way of regulating ebikes’ use on public roads. Whether or not your ebike is legal to ride on the street or...
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Hackaday Links: July 28, 2019
It looks like Apple is interested in buying Intel’s modem chip business. Seriously interested; a deal worth $1 billion could be announced as early as this week. That might look like a small potato...
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ESP8266 Sound Machine Soothes Baby Remotely
[Zack] had trouble getting his six-month-old to sleep through the night. That was before he found out about ‘shh’ videos on YouTube. These are exactly what they sound like: eight hours of someone...
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Fail of the Week: The Arduino Walkie That Won’t Talkie
There’s something seriously wrong with the Arduino walkie-talkie that [GreatScott!] built. The idea is simple: build a wireless intercom so a group of motor scooter riders can talk in real-time. Yes,...
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A New KiCAD Tutorial Hits the Scene
KiCAD has a rightfully earned image problem regarding beginners. The shiny new version 5 has improved things (and we’re very excited for v6!) but the tool is a bit obtuse even when coming from a...
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Taking a Peek Inside Amazon’s Latest Dot
Like a million or so other people, [Brian Dorey] picked up a third generation Echo Dot during Amazon’s big sale a couple weeks ago. Going for less than half its normal retail price, he figured it was...
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A Simple Way To Analyze Guitar Pickups
To the uninitiated an electric guitar seems fairly simple: you pluck a string and the electronics send the corresponding audio signal on the 6.3 mm jack output, all ready for for the amplifier to work...
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Where The Work Is Really Done – Casual Profiling
Once a program has been debugged and works properly, it might be time to start optimizing it. A common way of doing this is a method called profiling – watching a program execute and counting the...
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