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Eth0 Autumn 2019: Tiny Camp, Creative Badge
The Dutch organisation eth0 has run a series of informal small camps over the years, never with an attendance too far into three figures, and without pre-planned events or entertainment. What happens...
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DIY Cassette Tape Guitar Delay
Digital delay pedals are pretty good nowadays and even the cheaper ones do a pretty good job at emulating the sound of old analog delay effects. And that’s good, because the original delay effects can...
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SmallKat: An Adorable and Dynamic Robot
SmallKat is a cute little robot with a lot of capability designed around teaching and experimenting with dynamic robot control. It’s a shame we haven’t covered SmallKat yet, as it’s both a finalist in...
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Gigantic FPGA in a Game Boy Form Factor, 2019 Supercon Badge is a Hardware...
Look upon this conference badge and kiss your free time goodbye. The 2019 Hackaday Superconference badge is an ECP5 FPGA running a RISC-V core in a Game Boy form factor complete with cartridge slot...
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Axiom, A 100+kW Motor Controller for Making Big Motors Move
We’ve seen a lot of motor driver boards for robots and the odd electric skateboard. What we haven’t see a lot of is one big enough to drop into an electric vehicle. The Axiom motor controller was a...
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A USB-C Bench Power Supply
A bench power supply is one of those things that every hacker needs, and as the name implies, it’s intended to occupy a place of honor on your workbench. But with the addition of USB-C support to his...
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A Simpler Method to Make Optical Fiber with 3D Printing
There are a lot of remarkable uses for optical fiber, chief among them being telecommunications and imaging. While fiber can be produced for a better price than copper wire equivalents, they’re still...
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Superconference Interview: Carl Bugeja
It’s an exciting time of year for us, not because Christmas is on the horizon, instead for something far more exciting than that! The Hackaday Superconference is nearly upon us, our yearly gathering...
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The Murky Business of Stopping Oil Spills
Six years before Deepwater Horizon exploded in April 2010, the force of Hurricane Ivan blew an offshore drilling platform off its legs and into the Gulf of Mexico. For the last 14 years, that well’s...
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Servo Socks is a Brilliantly Simple Solution For Quick Hacking
[Dan Kitchen] has a great solution for making servos easy to hack. Every hacker has a drawer full of servo’s somewhere. Just about every project that uses them starts off by measuring the spacing and...
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Building A 6.5 Digit Voltmeter From Scratch
After initially working to create a modernized replica of a Czechoslovakian 4-digit Metra M1T242 voltmeter, [Jaromir Sukuba] figured that while he was at it, he might as well create a voltmeter that...
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Ramen Pen Lets You Doodle with Noodles
Don’t write off your weird ideas — turn them into reality. For years, woodworkers have used pen bodies as a canvas for showing off beautiful wood. But what’s the fun in that? [JPayneWoodworking] made...
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Supercon Keynote: Dr. Megan Wachs on RISC-V
Hackaday has open-source running deep in our veins — and that goes for hardware as well as software. After all, it’s great to run open-source software, but if it’s running on black-box hardware, the...
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Blend Your Last Frogs. Google Turns a Blind Eye to Flash.
Google has announced that it will no longer index Flash files. Journey with me to a time in a faraway internet; a time before we had monetized social media. A time when the page you shared with your...
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Giving Sight to the Blind with A Wave of the Hand
[Jakob Kilian] is working on a glove that he hopes will let the blind “see” their surroundings. One of the most fascinating examples of the human brain’s plasticity is in its ability to map one sense...
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An Open Hardware Laser Engraver For Everyone
Right now, you can get a diode laser engraver on eBay for around $100 USD. That sounds like a deal, but it’ll probably use some arcane proprietary software, won’t be terribly accurate, and the laser...
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Tesla’s Smart Summon – Gimmick or Greatness?
Tesla have always aimed to position themselves as part automaker, part tech company. Their unique offering is that their vehicles feature cutting-edge technology not available from their market rivals....
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3D-Printed Magazines Tame the SMD Tape Beast
Chances are pretty good that you’ve got a box or a bin somewhere in your shop with coils of SMD component tapes in it. If you’re lucky, the coils are somewhat contained in their conductive Mylar bags;...
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Found Footage: Elliot Williams Talks Nexus Technologies
Back at the 2017 Superconference, Hackaday Managing Editor Elliot Williams started his talk about the so-called “Internet of Things” by explaining the only part he doesn’t like about the idea is the...
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Bobble-Bot Teaches Modern Real-Time Robot Control
Bobble-Bot uses the standard inverted pendulum problem to teach modern robotic control using a Raspberry Pi, RT-Linux, and ROS. We’re really impressed by the polish and design effort put into this...
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