Touchless Shop Doors Over-Engineered to a Blissful Level
When [John Saunders] wanted an automatic door for his shop, rather than settle for a commercial unit, he designed and built a proximity-sensing opener to ease his passing. Sounds simple, right?...
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FPGA Magic Puts Little Embedded Screens Up On The Big Screen
Old-school handheld gaming platforms have a certain charm, but it’s fair to say that their relatively tiny screens don’t lend themselves to wider viewing. This presented a problem to [uXe] who wanted...
View ArticleHackaday Links: March 11, 2018
Guess what’ll be wrapping up in just two weeks? The Midwest RepRap Festival, the largest con for open source 3D printing in the world. MRRF is going down in Goshen, Indiana on March 23rd through March...
View ArticlePrint, Rinse, Wear. Nanowire Circuits For Your Microfibre Clothing.
While our bodies are pretty amazing, their dynamic nature makes integrating circuits into our clothing a frustrating process. Squaring up against this challenge, a team of researchers from North...
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Glorious Body of Tracked ‘Mad Mech’ Started as Cardboard
[Dickel] always liked tracked vehicles. Taking inspiration from the ‘Peacemaker’ tracked vehicle in Mad Max: Fury Road, he replicated it as the Mad Mech. The vehicle is remote-controlled and the tank...
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Rubik’s Cube Solved in 0.38 Seconds
Some people are able to solve a Rubik’s Cube very quickly, there are even lots of robots that can solve them much faster than people can. Well this new system is crazy fast. Less then a half second...
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On a Quest for the Perfect Numpad
Often times, the only way to get exactly what you want in a device is to just build it yourself. Well, maybe not the only way, but we’ve all certainly told ourselves it was the only way enough that it...
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DIY Planetarium Built From PVC Pipes and Cardboard
When you think about DIY projects, you probably don’t consider building your own planetarium. Why would you? Building the thing is surely outside the capabilities of the individual, and even if you...
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Open Source Hardware Video Game Music Player
[Aidan Lawrence] likes classic synthesized video game music in the same way that other people “like” breathing and eating. He spent a good deal of 2017 working on a line of devices based on the Yamaha...
View ArticleBaremetal Rust On the Horizon
Rust Programming Langauge has grown by leaps and bounds since it was announced in 2010 by Mozilla. It has since become a very popular language owing to features such as memory safety and its ownership...
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Respectfully Modifying the Amiga 500
Modifying the Amiga 500 to speed up access to RAM in a memory expansion pack is a well documented procedure, with guides on the process written in the early 1990’s when the hardware was only a few...
View Article3D Printed Transmission Invented Again; This Time Continuously Variable
We shouldn’t laugh, but we know the feeling very well. [Gear Down for What] invented a revolutionary transmission and fabricated it from scrap material when he was 16. Except he later found out the...
View ArticleUnbricking A 3D Printer The Hard Way: By Writing a Bootloader
There’s a sinking feeling when a firmware upgrade to a piece of equipment goes wrong. We’ve all likely had this happen and bricked a device or two. If we are lucky we can simply reapply the upgrade or...
View ArticleBuilding A Lightweight Softbox For Better Photography
If you want to take good photographs, you need good light. Luckily for us, you can get reels and reels of LEDs from China for pennies, power supplies are ubiquitous, and anyone can solder up a few LED...
View ArticleUp AlphaGoer Five
AlphaGo is the deep learning program that can beat humans at the game Go. You can read Google’s highly technical paper on it, but you’ll have to wade through some very academic language. [Aman Agarwal]...
View ArticlePocket-Sized Multiduino Does it All
How many times have you wished for a pocket-sized multimeter? How about a mini microcontroller-based testing rig? Have you ever dared to dream of a device that does both? Multiduino turns an Arduino...
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Raspberry Pi Gets Faster CPU and Better Networking in the New Model 3 B+
While the Raspberry Pi’s birthday (and the traditional release date for the newest and best Pi) was a few weeks ago, Pi Day is a fitting enough date for the introduction of the best Pi to date. The...
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RC Transmitter Hacked Into Music Player
Packed with an incredible amount of hardware, and increasingly likely to be running an open source firmware, the modern RC transmitter is effectively a little multi-purpose computer in its own right....
View ArticleInteractive Plant Lamps for Quiet Spaces
If you’ve spent any serious time in libraries, you’ve probably noticed that they attract people who want or need to be alone without being isolated. In this space, a kind of silent community is formed....
View ArticleLED Illusion Makes Colorful Water Drops Defy Gravity
The 60s and 70s were a great time for kitschy lighting accessories. Lava lamps, strobes, color organs, black light posters — we had it all. One particularly groovy device was an artificial rain...
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