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The Benefits And Pitfalls Of Using PCBs As An Enclosure
[Mastro Gippo] found himself in a pickle recently, with the development of an enclosure for the Prism electric vehicle charger. The body had been sorted out, but the front cover needed work. It had to...
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Software Defined Radio Hack Chat
Join us on Wednesday, September 18 at noon Pacific for the Software Defined Radio Hack Chat with Corrosive! If you’ve been into hobby electronics for even a short time, chances are you’ve got at least...
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Trill: Easy Positional Touch Sensors for Your Projects
Creating capacitive touch-sensitive buttons is easy these days; many microcontrollers have cap-sense hardware built-in. This will work for simple on/off control, but what if you want a linear,...
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Building Video Pong With Discrete Components
Pong is a classic from the very dawn of the video game era. Recreating it remains a popular exercise for those new to coding. However, its simple logic makes this game particularly suited to an...
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Speed Up Filming With This Jawdropping 8-Axis Camera Crane
These days, it can feel like a project doesn’t exist unless you’ve posted a video on the Internet about it. [mingul] was in the process of producing his own videos, but found having to repeatedly move...
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India’s Moon Mission is Far from Over
India’s Chandrayaan-2 mission to the Moon was, in a word, ambitious. Lifting off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on July 22nd, the mission hoped to simultaneously deliver an orbiter, lander, and...
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Arduino Bot Rocks A PS2 Controller
As far as controlling robots goes, makers today are spoilt for choice. WiFi and Bluetooth enabled microcontrollers are a dime a dozen, and integration with smartphone apps is a cinch. Despite this,...
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Linux Fu: Shell Scripts in C, C++, and Others
At first glance, it might not seem to make sense to write shell scripts in C/C++. After all, the whole point to a shell script is to knock out something quick and dirty. However, there are cases where...
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Pizza Oven Build Exercises Forgotten Gym Ball
See, this is what happens when pizza lovers follow their dreams. It probably started innocently enough for [phammy57]—he got a pizza stone, then maybe one of those big rocking pizza cutters. Maybe he...
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Arduino, Accelerometer, and TensorFlow Make You a Real-World Street Fighter
A question: if you’re controlling the classic video game Street Fighter with gestures, aren’t you just, you know, street fighting? That’s a question [Charlie Gerard] is going to have to tackle should...
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What’s in a Name? Tales of Python, Perl, and The GIMP
In the older days of open source software, major projects tended to have their Benevolent Dictators For Life who made all the final decisions, and some mature projects still operate that way. Guido van...
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Superbly Synchronized Servos Swaying Softly
LEDs and blinky projects are great, and will likely never fade from our favor. But would you look at this sweeping beauty? This mesmerizing display is made from 36 micro servos with partial Popsicle...
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Tool Rolls, The Fabric Design Challenge That Can Tidy Up Any Workshop
You’ve designed PCBs. You’ve cut, drilled, Dremeled, and blow-torched various objects into project enclosurehood. You’ve dreamed up some object in three dimensions and marveled as the machine stacked...
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That Game Cartridge Isn’t As Straightforward As You’d Think
Classic games consoles played their games from cartridges, plastic bricks that held a PCB with the game code on it ready to be run by the console hardware. You might therefore expect them to be an...
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How Would You Like Your Steak Printed?
An Israeli start-up company, Redefine Meat recently raisedabout $6 million to perfect and commercialize its technology to 3D print meat alternatives, sometimes called alt-meat. The company claims that...
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Solar System Wars: Walmart versus Tesla
It seems like hardly a day goes by that doesn’t see some news story splashed across our feeds that has something to do with Elon Musk and one or another of his myriad companies. The news is often...
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3D Print A Complete Wind Generator
For many of us our landscapes are dotted with wind turbines, the vast majority of which are horizontally aligned as if they were giant aircraft propellers. A much rarer sight is the vertical wind...
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Pictorial Guide to the Unofficial Electronic Badges of DEF CON 27
DEF CON has become the de facto showplace of the #Badgelife movement. It’s a pageant for clever tricks that transform traditional green rectangular circuit boards into something beautiful, unique, and...
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British Cops Catch Shooter-Printing Villain
It’s a perennial of breathless British tabloid scare reporting that 3D printers will unleash a tide of weapons upon the streets. But perhaps it might actually be time for Brits lock up their children,...
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3D Printed VirtuScope is a Raspberry Pi 4 Cyberdeck with a Purpose
William Gibson might have come up with the idea for the cyberdeck in 1984, but it’s only recently that technology like desktop 3D printing and powerful single board computers have enabled hackers and...
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