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Spring Clamp Is Completely 3D Printed
Dual-filament printers may seem like a gimmick to the uninitiated, but they open up some powerful options for advanced designs. [Darren Tarbard] shows this off with a nifty spring clamp that is 3D...
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BinDayCator Lets You Know When To Take Out The Trash
Municipal waste pickup is a wonderful luxury. Typically once a week, large trucks come by and pick up bins of garbage from your residence. All you have to do is remember to put them out! In a uniquely...
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A Pair of CRTs Drive This Virtual Reality Headset
With the benefit of decades of advances in miniaturization, looking back at the devices of yore can be entertaining. Take camcorders; did we really walk around with these massive devices resting on...
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A Simple Science Fair AM Transmitter
A crystal radio is a common enough science fair project, but the problem is, there isn’t much on anymore. The answer is, of course, obvious: build your own AM transmitter, too. AM modulation isn’t...
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New Part Day: LED Driver is FPGA Dev Board in Disguise
Our new part of the day is the ColorLight 5A-75B, a board that’s meant to drive eight of those ubiquitous high-density color LED panels over gigabit Ethernet. If you were building a commercial LED...
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An Eight-Day Home Automation Hackathon is Inspiration for Getting More...
There’s nothing quite like a deadline to cut through extras and get right at the heart of the problem. Maybe we should all follow Interpreet’s example and stop thinking about automating our homes and...
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Broken 3D Printer Turned Scanning Microscope
A few years ago, [Wayne] managed to blow out the main board of his Flashforge Finder attempting to change the fan. He could have just fixed it of course, but where’s the fun in that? Instead, he’s used...
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Robo Pony Greets Hackerspace Visitors
Robotic animal companions were once all the rage, though their limited personalities and annoying sound effects often relegated them to the bin fairly quickly. This makes them all the more ripe for...
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Little Hex Tricks Make Little Displays a Little Easier
Depending on the device in hand and one’s temperament, bringing up a new part can be a frolic through the verdant fields of discovery or an endless slog through the grey marshes of defeat. One of the...
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Advanced Timber Architecture Gives New Life to Wooden Structures
When it comes to building materials, wood doesn’t always draw the most attention as the strongest in the bunch. That honor usually goes to concrete and steel – steel embedded in concrete provides...
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Failed: Air Umbrella
About five years ago, a Kickstarter popped up for the air umbrella. It wasn’t long before the project fell apart and the company made at least some refunds. Old news, we know. But [The Action Lab]...
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Mr. Carlson Gets Zapped by Snow
As a Canadian, [Mr. Carlson] knows a thing or two about extreme winter weather. Chances are good, though, that he never thought he’d get zapped with high voltage generated by falling snow. [Mr....
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Porting Quake to an iPod classic is no Easy Task
We didn’t think we’d see another hack involving the aging iPod Classic here on Hackaday again, yet [Franklin Wei] surprises us with a brand new port of Quake for the sixth-generation iPod released...
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A Custom Raspberry Pi 4 Arcade Cabinet
Over the years we’ve covered quite a few Raspberry Pi based arcade cabinets, and admittedly many of them have been fairly similar. After all, there’s only so much variation you can make before it stops...
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Hubble Telescope Power Supply Tester on eBay
Got $75K spare? Then this is the eBay deal for you! [jvanorsdal] pointed us to this eBay bargain: the VPI Vehicle Power Interface Rack & Console Hubble Space Telescope. This was the actual system...
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CNC Etch-A-Sketch: Stop Motion is Logical Next Step
It happens to everyone. You get your hands on an Etch-A-Sketch for the first time, and armed with the knowledge of how it works, you’re sure you can draw things other than rectangles and staircases....
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Light The Way To Every Component
How do you organize your stock of components and modules? If an unruly pile of anti-static bags and envelopes from China stuffed into a cardboard box sounds familiar, then you need help from [Dimitris...
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Hackaday Links: January 26, 2019
The news this week was dominated by the novel coronavirus outbreak centered in Wuhan, China. Despite draconian quarantines and international travel restrictions, the infection has spread far beyond...
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Teardown And Analysis Of A Cheap Solar Lamp
If you walk the aisles of a dollar store one constant that you will see worldwide is the Chinese solar lamp. Your dollar gets you a white LED behind plastic, mounted on a spike to stick into the...
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ESP32 Serial Interface Modernizes Old Equipment
There’s still plenty of useful hardware out there that uses an RS-232 interface, like the Behringer Ultradrive loudspeaker systems that [Lasse Lukkari] works with from time to time. Rather than ditch...
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