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Think IN18s Are Cool? Get a Load of This Must-Have Custom Nixie Tube
Us: “I’ll take Retro style displays we absolutely have to have for $200, Alex.” Trebek: “This nixie tube is unlike any conventional tube you’ve seen before, handbuilt and NOT numbers or letters.” Us:...
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Review: The RC2014 Micro Single-Board Z80 Retrocomputer
At the end of August I made the trip to Hebden Bridge to give a talk at OSHCamp 2019, a weekend of interesting stuff in the Yorkshire Dales. Instead of a badge, this event gives each attendee an...
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X-Printer Fits In A Backpack
3D printers are great for rapid prototyping, but they’re not usually what you’d call… portable. For [Malte Schrader], that simply wouldn’t do – thus, the X-printer was born! The X-printer is a...
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PrintEye Gives You Stats in a Blink
Once upon a time, most things were single-purpose, like the pocket watch. Then somebody made a watch with a date function, and next thing you know, we had TV/VCR combos and Swiss army knives. Now,...
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Floating Power Plants; The Coastal City Solution Sure to Be Increasingly Popular
Building new things in an existing city is hard. Usually, new development means tearing down existing structures. Doing so for apartment complexes or new skyscrapers is one thing, but infrastructure is...
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Solve Your Precision Woes With a Sliding Angle Grinder
Angle grinders are among the most useful tools for anyone who’s ever had to cut metal. They’re ergonomic, compact, and get the job done. Unfortunately, one of the tradeoffs you usually make when using...
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DSP Spreadsheet: FIR Filtering
There’s an old saying: Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn. I’m guilty of this in a big way — I was never much on classroom learning. But if I build something or...
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No Need to Watch Your Tea, This Robot Does It For You
For anyone who’s ever had to make their own tea, steeping it for the right amount of time can be a pain. That’s precisely the problem that the automatic tea brewing robot solves with its painless...
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This Week in Security: Is RSA Finally Broken? The Push for Cloud Accounts,...
Ever wondered what “cyberwar” looks like? Apparently it’s a lot of guessing security questions and changing passwords. It’s an interesting read on its own, but there are some interesting clues if you...
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This Biofuel Cell Harvests Energy From Your Sweat
Researchers from l’Université Grenoble Alpes and the University of San Diego recently developed and patented a flexible device that’s able to produce electrical energy from human sweat. The lactate/O2...
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Hackaday Podcast 038: Cyberdecks Taking Over, Resin 3D-Printing vs FDM,...
Hackaday Editors Tom Nardi and Mike Szczys comb through their favorite hacks from the past week. We loved Donald Papp’s article on considerations before making the leap from FDM 3D Printers to a...
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More Supercon Talks Taking the Hardware World by Storm
You’re going to love the talks at the Hackaday Superconference this November. The ultimate hardware conference is all about hardware creation. The ten speakers below join the talks we announced last...
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Modular Camera Remote Is Highly Capable
Many cameras these days have optional remotes that allow the shutter release to be triggered wirelessly. Despite this, [Foaly] desired more range, and more options for dealing with several cameras at...
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Tiny Robots That Grow Taller (And Wider)
Sometimes one just needs an extra hand or six around the workbench. Since you’re a hacker that should take the form of a tiny robot swarm that can physically display your sensor data, protect you...
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Mt Everest Lamp Recreates The Famous Peak
Anyone who has travelled to distant mountain peaks has marvelled at the beauty of the natural, rugged terrain. [apoorvas15] is no different, and created a lamp that celebrated the awe of the largest...
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The Monotron, A Rusty Retrocomputer
For many people, a retrocomputer is a classic machine from the past lovingly brought back to working order. But for some, the idea of a retrocomputer is wider than that, encompassing modern hardware...
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How To Get Started With Fadecandy And LEDs
The internet is awash with millions of stunning LED projects, and for that, we are all very thankful. For those outside the hacker/maker matrix, it can be difficult to know how to approach such a...
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This Home-Etched ARM Dev Board Is A Work Of Art
One of the step changes in electronic construction at our level over the last ten or fifteen years has been the availability of cheap high-quality printed circuit boards. What used to cost hundreds of...
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This Hurricane Uses A Novel Technique
You’ve probably heard of the brave pilots, the so-called ‘few’, that took to the air in their Supermarine Spitfires and saved the day during the Battle of Britain. It’s a story that contains a lot of...
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Upgrades Give Crazy Cart XL a Few More X’s
Why should kids have all the newfangled fun? They shouldn’t! Quarter-life crises are on the rise, and those who can are spoiling their inner child with adult-sized Heelys and electric Mario Karts that...
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