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VFD Puts the Suck Back into Desoldering Station
A dedicated desoldering station is a fantastic tool if you’re in the business of harvesting components from old gear. Having heat and suction in a single tool is far more convenient than futzing with...
View ArticleWatch Video on a Oscilloscope with an ESP32
[bitluni] got a brand new scope, and he couldn’t be happier. No, really — check the video below; he’s really happy. And to celebrate, he turned his scope into a vector display using an ESP32. Using a...
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Control a Quadcopter over Websockets
Everyone’s favourite IOT module, the ESP8266, is often the go-to choice for any project that needs quick and cheap control over the web. [Andi23456] wanted to control his quadcopter using the luxury of...
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Tiny Transmitter Tracks Targets
It is a staple of spy movies. The hero — or sometimes the bad guy — sticks a device never any bigger than an Alka Seltzer to a vehicle or a person and then tracks it anywhere it goes in the world. Real...
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Floating Death Star Is Just In Time
Unless you’ve been living under a high voltage transformer, you’re aware of the latest release in the Star Wars Saga. [John] has a relative that is clearly a big Star Wars fan, so he set about to...
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Micro-ATX Arduino is the Ultimate Breakout Board
If you’ve been hanging around microcontrollers and electronics for a while, you’re surely familiar with the concept of the breakout board. Instead of straining to connect wires and components to...
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Edward Snowden Introduces Baby Monitor for Spies
Famed whistleblower [Edward Snowden] has recently taken to YouTube to announce Haven: an Open Source application designed to allow security-conscious users turn old unused Android smartphones and...
View ArticleLED Christmas Tree Is Perfect Holiday Build
Soon the most wonderful time of the year will be upon us. Families all over the globe will gather together to exchange gifts, eat good food and enjoy some quality time with each other. For many, it...
View ArticleHackaday at 34C3
It’s that time of year. While the rest of the Christmas-celebrating world sits around and plays with the toys that they got out from under the tree, German nerds head off to the biggest European hacker...
View ArticleProgrammable Christmas Tree is a JavaScript Interpreter
Here at Hackaday, we find Christmas time very exciting because it means an influx of holiday-themed hacks that really help us get into the festive mood. [Andrew’s] programmable Christmas tree hosted at...
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Wishing the Family a Sinusoidal Christmas
When it’s time to put together the annual Christmas card, most families take a few pictures of the kids, slap on a generic greeting, and call it a day. It used to be fairly common for the whole family...
View ArticleSound Isolated Server Rack
Servers are most often found in climate controlled data centers. This means they aren’t exactly built for creature comforts like quiet operation. Quite the contrary — many server chassis include fans...
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Fast 3D Printing with Raspberry Pi — But Not How You Think
Although we tend to think of 3D printers as high-tech toys, most of them are not especially powerful in the brain department. There are some exceptions, but most 3D printers run on either an 8-bit...
View ArticleAn Automated Ice Cream Topper For The Ultimate In Zero Effort Desserts
It’s a highly personal facet of the eating experience, the choice of topping applied to your frozen dessert. Everybody has their own preferences when it comes to whipped cream, sprinkles, and chocolate...
View ArticleA Visit From Saint Rich
With apologies to Clement Clarke Moore, Richard Stallman, and the English-speaking world in general — ed. ‘Twas the night before ChristmasWhile up in my bed,I stared at the ceilingWith feelings of...
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LiquidWatch is Dripping with Style
Some of the entries for the 2017 Coin Cell Challenge have already redefined what most would have considered possible just a month ago. From starting cars to welding metal, coin cells are being pushed...
View ArticleYour 3D Printer Could Print Stone
Most of our 3D printers print in plastic. While metal printing exists, the setup for it is expensive and the less expensive it is, the less impressive the results are. But there are other materials...
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JST Is Not A Connector
When reading about cool projects and products, it’s common to see wiring plugs labelled “JST connector.” This looks fine until we start getting hands-on and begin hacking things together. Inevitably we...
View Article3D Printed Airplane Engine Runs on Air
One of the most important considerations when flying remote-controlled airplanes is weight. Especially if the airplane has a motor, this has a huge potential impact on weight. For this reason,...
View ArticleDead eBay Thermal Camera is an Organ Donor
[Damien] wanted to build a thermal camera. He was dismayed about how much a microbolometer costs so he salvaged one from a dead FLIR he picked up on eBay for 75 pounds. That’s about $100, and less than...
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