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An Open Source Boating Autopilot With Some Custom Tweaks
Piloting a boat is all well and good, but can get dull when you’d rather be reclining on the deck with a cold beverage in hand. For [Timo Birnschein], this simply wouldn’t do. He began to gather parts...
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Use Blueprint Process to Print on Fabric With Lasers
[Shih Wei Chieh] has built a laser cyanotype printer for fabrics. You know, for art! How do you get an inkjet head on a shoe or a couch? Most printing processes require a flat surface to print. But...
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Retrotechtacular: Mechanical Arithmetic For The Masses
Last month we carried a piece looking at the development of the 8-bit home computer market through the lens of the British catalogue retailer Argos and their perennial catalogue of dreams. As an aside,...
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Hackaday Superconference: Nick Poole On Boggling The Boardhouse
By now we are all used to the role of the printed circuit board in artwork, because of the burgeoning creativity in the conference and unofficial #BadgeLife electronic badge scenes. When the masters of...
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Escher: Etch-a-Sketch As A Service
For better or for worse, the tech world has fully committed to pushing as many of their products into “The Cloud” as possible. Of course, readers of Hackaday see right through the corporate buzzwords....
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Watch a Sand-Cast Slingshot Made, From Start To Finish
Sand-casting metal parts is a technique that has been around for a very long time, but it can be educational to see the process from start to finish. That’s exactly what [Frederico] shows us with his...
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Learn Arduino In Time And In Tune For Christmas
If you’re one of the lucky ten thousand today who still haven’t tried programming electronics with the Arduino platform, this detailed guide by [Dafna Mordechai] should hopefully give you enough...
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What’s an Exciton?
If you read the scientific literature, you see the familiar subatomic particles you learned about in school: protons, neutrons, and electrons. If you are young enough, you see others you probably heard...
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Replace Your Smartphone With These Arcane Amulets
It’s hard not to feel the constant pull on our limited attention from the very interesting rectangles in our pockets and packs. [Antoine Pintout] is fighting against it with three interesting...
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Degassing Epoxy Resin On The (Very) Cheap
Anyone who’s tried to encapsulate something in epoxy resin knows how much of a hassle air bubbles can be. If you’re trying to get a perfectly clear finish, the last thing you want is a bunch of...
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Super Easy Small Robot Wheels
Anyone who has delved into DIY wheels knows that they are a trickier than it may seem, especially if the wheels aren’t just for show and need to provide things like decent traction and durability. 3D...
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Kerry Scharfglass Secures Your IoT Things
We’ve all seen the IoT device security trainwrecks: those gadgets that fail so spectacularly that the comment section lights up with calls of “were they even thinking about the most basic security?”...
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Numitron Clock Is A Tidy ’70s Throwback
As far as hacker clock builds go, the more obscure the parts involved, the better. By this yardstick, [sjm4306] has a great piece on his hands with this Numitron-based build. The Numitron was a type...
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Boeing’s Starliner Fails To Reach Space Station
After a decade in development, the Boeing CST-100 “Starliner” lifted off from pad SLC-41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station a little before dawn this morning on its first ever flight. Officially...
View ArticleAutonomous Boat For Awesome Video Hyperlapses
With the ever-increasing capabilities of smart phones, action cameras, and hand-held gimbals, the battle for the best shots is intensifying daily on platforms like YouTube and Instagram. Hyperlapse...
View ArticleDTMF To Your Computer, With A Gamepad
Though many of us will never have experimented with it, most readers should be familiar with DTMF as the tones used by the telephone system for dialling. If your youth was not misspent mashing...
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Amazon Ring: Neighbors Leaking Data On Neighbors
For a while now a series of stories have been circulating about Amazon’s Ring doorbell, an Internet-connected camera and entry system that lets users monitor and even interact with visitors and...
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Building a Limitless VR Desktop
[Gabor Horvath] thinks even two monitors is too little space to really lay out his windows properly. That’s why he’s building a VR Desktop straight out of our deepest cyberpunk fantasies. The software...
View ArticleDIY CircuitPython Brain Snakes Into Small Spaces
Whether you’re new to electronics and programming, or you were bit-banging bare metal long before hair metal, CircuitPython is a great tool for getting a project up and working without all the fuss....
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Arcade Buttons Make a Great Multimedia Keyboard
[Giovanni Bernardo] has a very important job – managing the audio for several Christmas events. Desiring a simple and effective control interface, he designed a dedicated media keyboard to run the...
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