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Rock ‘n Roll With 3D-Printed Tonewheels
What can you do with ferromagnetic PLA? [TheMixedSignal] used it to give new meaning to the term ‘musicians’ gear’. He’s made a proof of concept for a DIY tone generator, which is the same...
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Steampunk Water Thief Clock Steals Attention, Too
The funny thing about clocks is that the more intriguing they are to look at, the more precious time is wasted. This steampunk clepsydra is no exception. A clepsydra, or water thief clock is an...
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Hackaday Podcast 043: Ploopy, Castlevania Cube-Scroller, Projection Map Your...
Before you even ask, it’s an open source trackball and you’re gonna like it. Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams get down to brass tacks on this week’s hacks. From laying down fatter 3D...
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The Dyson Awards Definitely Do Not Suck
Named after British inventor James Dyson of cyclonic vacuum cleaner fame, the Dyson Awards are presented annually to current and recent students of engineering, industrial design, and product design,...
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uECG – a very small wearable ECG
[Ultimate Robotics] has been working on designing and producing an extremely small ECG that can stream data real time. Typical electrocardiogram equipment is bulky: miniaturization doesn’t do much for...
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Why Buy Toys When You Can Build Them Instead?
Like many creative individuals who suddenly find themselves parents, [Marta] wanted to make something special for his children to play with. Anybody can just purchase an off-the-shelf electronic toy,...
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Considering The Originality Question
Many Hackaday readers have an interest in older technologies, and from antique motorcycles to tube radios to retrocomputers, you own, conserve and restore them. Sometimes you do so using new parts...
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Plan Ahead: Roaming Charges are a Killer
As the world gets more connected and computerized, it is easy to have an unintended consequence pop up and bite you. Especially because, so much of the time, today, things just work. The days of...
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Sensing, Connected, Utility Transport Taxi for Level Environments
If that sounds like a mouthful, just call it SCUTTLE – the open-source mobile robot designed at Texas A&M University. SCUTTLE is a low cost (under $350) robot designed for teaching Aggies at the...
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Weather Station Gets Much-Needed Upgrades
Weather stations are a popular project, partly because it’s helpful (and interesting) to know about the weather at your exact location rather than a forecast that might be vaguely in your zip code....
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Use Your Earbud’s Media Controls on Your Laptop With This Useful Dongle
[David] sends in his very nicely designed “Thumpware Media Controller” that lets your mobile phone headphones control the media playback on your PC. We realize that some PCs have support for the extra...
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Blackjack Game Plays With the Limits of PyPortal
It’s that time of year again, when fall is quickly ushered out to make room for all things holiday-related. For many of us, this means going on trips to visit relatives, which, depending on the...
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Accessibility Apps Get Help from Bluetooth Buttons
Ever hear of Microsoft Soundscape? We hadn’t, either. But apparently it and similar apps like Blindsquare provide people with vision problems context about their surroundings. The app is made to run...
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An Atari Graphics Chip, Ready For You To Build
The most notable of the home computer and console hardware from the 8-bit golden era didn’t get their impressive sound and graphics from off-the-shelf silicon, instead they relied on secretive custom...
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3D Print Your Very Own Mechanical Computer
Most Hackaday readers are familiar with computers from the 70s and 80s, but what about ones even older than that? The Digi Comp 1 was a commercially available computer from the 1960s that actually...
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Watch a 3D Printer Get Designed From The Ground Up
Too often when you see a build video, you only get to see the final product. Even if there’s footage of the build itself, it’s usually only the highlights as a major component is completed. But...
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Network Booting the Pi 4
We’ve talked about PXE booting the Raspberry Pi 3B+, and then looked at the Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop replacement. But there’s more! The Pi 4 sports a very useful new feature, the flashable...
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New Part Day: Alexa Connect Kit Now Available For Sale
People who were subscribed to updates on the Alexa Connect Kit (ACK) would recently have received an email informing that this kit is now available for sale. Last time we covered the ACK was back in...
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Review: Ear Wax Cleaning Cameras As Cheap Microscopes, We Take A Closer Look
Those of us who trawl the world of cheap imported goods will most often stay in our own comfortable zones as we search for new items to amaze and entertain us. We’ll have listings of electronic goods...
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The Ifs Make Learning to Code Child’s Play
Anyone who has done the slightest bit of programming knows about the “Hello, World!” program. It’s the archetypal program that one enters to get a feel for a new language or a new architecture; if you...
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