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Dual Screen Laptop Is A Slick DIY Build
Laptops are great for portable productivity, but ergonomically they can leave something to be desired. They tend to force the user to look down, creating neck strain over extended periods. Rather than...
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3D Printing is Transformative Experience for Airgun Shooter
It’s interesting to peek into other scenes and niches and see how they intersect with things that one may find commonplace, like 3D printing. In this case, [NewToOldGuns] wrote a guest blog post for...
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Tiny ESP32 Fits inside USB-A Connector
The ESP32 was introduced a few years ago as an inexpensive way to outfit various microcontrollers with WiFi or Bluetooth. Since then it has been experimented with and developed on, thanks to its...
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Chinese Radio Telescope Hopes to Find Exoplanets FAST
People who enjoy radio are constantly struggling to find a place to erect a bigger and better antenna. Of course it’s a different story and the most hardcore end of the spectrum: radio astronomers....
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DIY Thermal Imager Uses DIY Gaussian Blur
Under the right circumstances, Gaussian blurring can make an image seem more clearly defined. [DZL] demonstrates exactly this with a lightweight and compact Gaussian interpolation routine to make the...
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This Word Clock Has Dirty Alphanumeric Mouth
Clocks which use words to tell the time in place of numbers are an increasingly popular hacker project, but we have to admit that before seeing this gorgeous clock from [Mitch Feig], we didn’t realize...
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The Price of Domestic Just In Time Manufacturing
Hardware is hard, manufacturing only happens in China, accurate pricing is a dark art. Facts which are Known To Be True. And all things which can be hard to conquer as an independent hardware company,...
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Probe the Galaxy on a Shoestring with this DIY Hydrogen-Line Telescope
Foil-lined foam insulation board, scraps of lumber, and a paint-thinner can hardly sound like the tools of a radio astronomer. But when coupled with an SDR, a couple of amplifiers, and a fair amount of...
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What On Earth Is A Pickle Fork And Why Is it Adding to Boeing’s 737 Woes?
It’s fair to say that 2019 has not been a good year for the aircraft manufacturer Boeing, as its new 737 MAX aircraft has been revealed to contain a software fault that could cause the aircraft to...
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The Legacy Of The Floppy Still Looms Over Windows
We no longer use floppy disks on the vast majority of computers, but a recent Old New Thing blog post from Microsoft sheds light on one of their possible unexpected legacies. It seems Windows disk...
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Alternative Photography Hack Chat
Join us on Wednesday, October 2 at noon Pacific for the Alternative Photography Hack Chat with Pierre-Loup Martin! It seems like the physics of silicon long ago replaced the chemistry of silver as the...
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Off-World Cement Tested for the First Time
If the current Administration of the United States has their way, humans will return to the surface of the Moon far sooner than many had expected. But even if NASA can’t meet the aggressive timeline...
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Keeping Kids in School the Smart Way
For institutions with high traffic, such as schools and movie theaters, it can be difficult to keep track of individuals moving in and out, especially without a critical mass of security. For schools...
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A Web API For Your Pi
There are many ways to attach a project to the Internet, and a plethora of Internet-based services that can handle talking to hardware. But probably the most ubiquitous of Internet protocols for the...
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Ask Hackaday: Does Your Car Need an Internet Killswitch?
Back in the good old days of carburetors and distributors, the game was all about busting door locks and hotwiring the ignition to boost a car. Technology rose up to combat this, you may remember the...
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A Useless Tomb of Eternal Doom
It’s officially October, and that means we can start unleashing the Halloween hacks. Take for example this restless skeleton that master automaton maker [Greg Zumwalt] has doomed to spend eternity...
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Fried Desk Lamp Reborn: How to Use ESP8266 to Build Connected Devices
Some hacks are born of genius or necessity, and others from our sheer ham-fisted incompetence. This is not a story about the first kind. But it did give me an excuse to show how easy it is to design...
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A Retro Gaming Console for the New Generation
Ostensibly the ESPboy is an open-source hackable game engine built as an IoT platform for STEM education and play, but there’s no way [RomanS] could have been inspired by anything other than retro...
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Interactive LED Dome Glows With The Best Of Them
With the price and availability of components these days, it’s easier than ever to throw a whole pile of LEDs at a build and get them flashing away. The hard part is doing it well. [Amy Goodchild] is...
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When Does Moving To Resin 3D Printing Make Sense?
An Elegoo Mars DLP resin 3D printer, straight to my doorstep for a few hundred bucks. What a time to be alive. Resin-based 3D printers using stereolithography (SLA) and especially digital light...
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