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DIY Clapper Lets You Pick Your Components
One thing that always means the end of the year is close is the reappearance of TV ads for “The Clapper.” After all, who needs home automation when you can clap on and clap off? While we’re partial to...
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Building a Cyberpunk Multi-Touch Input Device
This multi-touch touch panel built by [thiagesh D] might look like it came from the retro-futuristic worlds of Blade Runner or Alien, but thanks to a detailed build video and a fairly short list of...
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A Modular Ecosystem That Evolved Around A Simple Diesel Engine
High volume commodity products are a foundation of hacking, we’ve built many projects around popular form factors like NEMA 17 stepper motors, 608 bearings, and 280 DC motors. Their high volume led to...
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Better Battery Management Through Chemistry
The lead-acid rechargeable battery is a not-quite-modern marvel. Super reliable and easy to use, charging it is just a matter of applying a fixed voltage to it and waiting a while; eventually the...
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Raspberry Pi Ham Radio Remote Reviewed
One problem with ham radio these days is that most hams live where you can’t put a big old antenna up due to city laws and homeowner covenants. If you’re just working local stations on VHF or UHF,...
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Designing Sci-Fi Hack Chat
Join us on Wednesday, October 9 at noon Pacific for the Designing Sci-Fi Hack Chat with Seth Molson! We all know the feeling of watching a movie set in a galaxy far, far away and seeing something that...
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Ask Hackaday: What’s The Perfect Hacker Smart Watch?
Since Dick Tracy all the way back in ’46, smart watches have captured the public imagination. After several false starts, the technology has gone through a renaissance in the last 10 years or so. For...
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Dry Your Clothes In One Minute or Less
If you’re like most people, then washing clothes is probably a huge pain for you. Figuring out the odd number of minutes necessary to run a wash and dry cycle, trying desperately not to end up with...
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Resurrecting a Recalcitrant SE/30
The Macintosh SE/30 is well regarded as the choice pick of the compact Mac line. Packing a powerful 68030 processor and with the capability to use up to 128 MB of RAM, it brought serious grunt to bear...
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The Long History Of Fast Reactors And The Promise Of A Closed Fuel Cycle
The discovery of nuclear fission in the 1930s brought with it first the threat of nuclear annihilation by nuclear weapons in the 1940s, followed by the promise of clean, plentiful power in the 1950s...
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Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day by Catching Up on Stories of Science and Technology
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day to celebrate and encourage women in the fields of science and technology. It’s a perfect time to look back and catch up on biographies of some incredible people whose...
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Teardown: Quirky Egg Minder
Many of the biggest stars are hesitant to do sequels, believing that the magic captured the first time around is hard to reproduce in subsequent productions. As I’m known (at least around the former...
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Making Music From Cardboard
Fans of MaKey MaKey may find this project similar, but there’s a lot more to the Mini Automat than making music from fruit. The idea for the Mini Automat (which is an off-shoot of the original Automat...
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Dip Your Toes in the Open Water of Raspipool
If you’re lucky enough to have a swimming pool, well, you may not feel all that lucky. Pools are great to have on a hot summer day, but keeping them crystal clear and pH-balanced is a deep dive into...
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Europeans Now Have The Right To Repair – And That Means The Rest Of Us...
As anyone who has been faced with a recently-manufactured household appliance that has broken will know, sometimes they can be surprisingly difficult to fix. In many cases it is not in the interests of...
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Pickaxe Controller Is Great For Minecraft, Just Aim Carefully
Minecraft started out as a lovable indie game, and became an unstoppable billion-dollar juggernaut in a remarkably quick fashion. Over time, it’s become a favorite among modders and those that seek to...
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Willem Kolff’s Artificial Organs
In my youth I worked for a paid ambulance service, and while we all lived for the emergency calls, the routine transports were the calls that paid the bills. Compared with the glamor and excitement of...
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These Dice Know If You’re Cheating
Fans of D&D are surely aware of the significance of a good pair of dice. What if your dice were not only stylish, but smart? For anyone who’s ever had to deal with playing board games with less...
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This sentence isn’t just a sentence
Some sentences have more than meets the eye, and we’re not talking about interpretive nonsense. Rather, some sentences may contain up to four paragraphs’ worth of hidden text, invisible to readers....
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What Will We Do with the Turbine Blades?
As the global climate emergency continues to loom over human civilization, feverish work is underway around the world to find technical and political solutions to the problem. Much has been gained in...
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