Auction Finds Combined For A Unique Desoldering Station
If you are in the market for a high-quality soldering iron, a rewarding pursuit can be attending dispersal auctions. It is not unusual to see boxes of irons, as anything remotely iron-like is bundled...
View ArticleHow to Put the ‘Pro’ in Prototype
It’s easy to get professional-quality finishes on your prints and prototypes if you take the right steps. In the final installment of his series about building with Bondo, product designer [Eric...
View Article3D Printing Electronics Direct to Body
Some argue that the original Star Trek series predicted the flip phone. Later installments of the franchise used little badges. But Babylon 5 had people talking into a link that stuck mysteriously to...
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The Quest For The Reuleaux Triangle Bearing
[Angus Deveson] published a video on “solids of constant width” nearly a year ago. Following the release of the video, he had a deluge of requests asking if he could make a bearing from them. Since...
View ArticleMilspec Teardown: AH-64A Apache Data Entry Panel
It’s time once again to see how those tax dollars are spent, this time in the form of a “Data Entry Keyboard” manufactured by Hughes Helicopters. This device was built circa 1986 or so, and was used in...
View ArticleTiny Arduino + FPGA = Sno
Alorium rolled out a new product late last year that caught our attention. The Sno (pronounced like “snow”) board is a tiny footprint Arduino board that you can see in the video below. By itself that...
View ArticleDecellularization: Apples to Earlobes
Our bodies are not like LEGO blocks or computers because we cannot swap out our parts in the living room while watching television. Organ transplants and cosmetic surgery are currently our options for...
View ArticleUniversal Quick-Release Bar Clamps
The typical hacker can never say no to more tools. And when it comes to clamps, one just can’t have enough of them. From holding small PCB’s to clamping together large sheets of plywood, you need a...
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Battery Backup Conceals a Pentesting Pi
Over the last few years one thing has become abundantly clear: hackers love cramming the Raspberry Pi into stuff. From classic game systems to mirrors, there’s few places that haven’t been invaded by...
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Inside Mechanical Calculators
For as busy as things can get at the grocery store on a typical afternoon just before the dinner hour, at least the modern experience has one thing going for it: it’s relatively quiet. Aside from the...
View ArticleRecycling and Casting Styrofoam with Solvents
Styrofoam is an ever-present waste material in modern society, being used to package everything from food to futons. It’s also not the easiest thing to deal with as a waste stream, either. With this in...
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The Anxiety of Open Source: Why We Struggle With Putting It Out There
You’ve just finished your project. Well, not finished, but it works and you’ve solved all the problems worth solving, and you have a thing that works for you. Then you think about sharing your creation...
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Building Badges The Hard Way
What’s a hacker to do to profess his love for his dearest beloved? [Nitesh Kadyan] built his lady-love this awesome LED pendant – the LED BLE Hearty Necklace Badge. The hardware is pretty vanilla by...
View Article3D Printering: Which Raspberry Pi is Best at Slicing in Octoprint?
OctoPrint is arguably the ultimate tool for remote 3D printer control and monitoring. Whether you simply want a way to send G-Code to your printer without it being physically connected to your computer...
View ArticleSmooth PLA Through the Fire and Flames
3D printing makes it easy to produce complex geometries, but the fused deposition methods generally create parts with poor surface finish, largely due to the layers being highly visible in the finished...
View ArticleSan Francisco: Let’s Learn to Build Some Robots!
Hone your skills at basic robot building. You’re invited to join Hackaday for a Beginner Robotics Workshop on Saturday, May 12. For this workshop we’re pairing up with FIRST robotics mentors and...
View ArticleCircuit VR: Sink or Swim with Current Sources
If you got your start in electronics sometime after 1980 your first project might well have been to light up an LED. Microcontroller projects often light up an LED, too, and a blinking LED is something...
View ArticleRobot Radar Module
For his Hackaday Prize entry, [Ted Yapo] is building a Robot Radar Module breakout board. His design uses the A111 60 GHz pulsed coherent radar (PCR) sensor from Acconeer AB (New Part alert!) . The...
View ArticleCommodore 64 to Raspberry Pi Conversion is Respectful & Complete
We’re big fans of taking old computers and giving them a new lease on life, but only when it is done respectfully. That means no cutting, no hot glue, and no gouging out bits to make the new computer...
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Ask Hackaday: Whatever Happened to Wire Wrapping?
Back in the 70s when I started getting interested in electronics, tons of magazines catered to the hobbyist market. Popular Electronics was my favorite, and I think I remember the advertisements more...
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