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Hacking Diabetes Hack Chat
Join us on Wednesday, October 16 at noon Pacific for the Hacking Diabetes Hack Chat with Dana Lewis! When your child is newly diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes (T1D), everyone is quick to point out, “It’s...
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Linux Fu: Python GUIs for Command Line Programs (Almost) Instantly
Not every programmer likes creating GUI code. Most hacker types don’t mind a command line interface, but very few ordinary users appreciate them. However, if you write command line programs in Python,...
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A (Mostly) 3D Printed Servo/Gear Reduction
This servo/gear reduction was assembled with almost all 3D-printed parts. Apart from a brushed 36 V DC-motor, a stainless steel shaft, and screws for holding the servo together, the only other...
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The Final Days of the Fire Lookouts
For more than a century, the United States Forest Service has employed men and women to monitor vast swaths of wilderness from isolated lookout towers. Armed with little more than a pair of binoculars...
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A DIY Bench-Sized Milling Machine
Hanging around the machining community online, you’d be more than familiar with clapped out Bridgeport mills, which are practically a meme at this point. But mills come in all shapes and sizes, from...
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How to Build the Strongest Arches
When it comes to architectural features, there are probably not many as quintessentially memorable as arches. From the simplicity of the curved structure to the seemingly impossible task of a...
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Hackaday Prize China Finalists Announced
In the time since the Hackaday Prize was first run it has nurtured an astonishing array of projects from around the world, and brought to the fore some truly exceptional winners that have demonstrated...
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Reverse Engineering Liberates Dash Cam Video
If you’ve purchased a piece of consumer electronics in the last few years, there’s an excellent chance that you were forced to use some proprietary application (likely on a mobile device) to unlock its...
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Pack Your Bags – Systemd Is Taking You To A New Home
Home directories have been a fundamental part on any Unixy system since day one. They’re such a basic element, we usually don’t give them much thought. And why would we? From a low level point of view,...
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DIY Video Microscopy
Owning a Microscope is great fun as a hobby in general, but for hackers, it is a particularly useful instrument for assembly and inspection, now that we are building hardware with “grain of sand”...
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RTFM: ADCs and DACs
It’s tough to find a project these days that doesn’t use an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) or digital-to-analog converter (DAC) for something. Whether these converters come as built-in peripherals...
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The Smallest Homebrewed TTL CPU In the World
The may very well be the smallest homemade TTL CPU we’ve ever seen. Measuring at one square inch, this tiny chip boasts 40 connections, an 8-bit databus, a 16-bit address bus, a 64 kB memory space,...
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Painting with Light: The Homemade Pixelstick
Light painting has long graced the portfolios of long-exposure photographers, but high resolution isn’t usually possible when you’re light painting with human subjects. This weekend project from...
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Worn Out eMMC Chips are Crippling Older Teslas
It should probably go without saying that the main reason most people buy an electric vehicle (EV) is because they want to reduce or eliminate their usage of gasoline. Even if you aren’t terribly...
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Coandă Effect Makes a Better Hovercraft than a Quadcopter
Leaving no stone unturned in his quest for alternative and improbable ways to generate lift, [Tom Stanton] has come up with some interesting aircraft over the years. But this time he isn’t exactly...
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Worried About Bats in your Belfry? A Tale of Two Bat Detectors
As somebody who loves technology and wildlife and also needs to develop an old farmhouse, going down the bat detector rabbit hole was a journey hard to resist. Bats are ideal animals for hackers to...
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“The Thing”: A Homemade FPGA Board
The Thing is an unassuming name for an ambitious project to build an FPGA board from easy to find components. The project stems from an earlier build submitted to the 2018 Hackaday Prize by [Just4Fun]...
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Balance Box Game Requires A Steady Hand
In the distant past, engineers used exotic devices to measure orientation, such as large mechanical gyros and mercury tilt switches. These are all still useful methods, but for many applications MEMS...
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The True Cost of Multimeters
If you are building a home shop, it is common to try to get the cheapest gear you can possibly get. However, professionals often look at TCO or total cost of ownership. Buying a cheap car, for...
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Hackaday Podcast 040: 3D Printed Everything, Strength v Toughness, Blades of...
Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams opine on the coolest hacks we saw this week. This episode is heavy with 3D printing as Prusa released a new, smaller printer, printed gearboxes...
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