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Need A Tiny CRT? Karaoke Might Just Help
[Brett] is working on a video installation, and for the past few months, has been trying to get his hands on tiny CRTs any way he can. After initially coming up short, he happened across a karaoke...
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A Custom Keyboard At Maximum Effort
No one loves hacked keyboards more than Hackaday. We spend most of our workday pressing different combinations of the same 104 buttons. Investing time in that tool is time well spent. [Max] feels the...
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Object Detection, With TensorFlow
Getting computers to recognize objects has been a historically difficult problem in computer science, but with the rise of machine learning it is becoming easier to solve. One of the tools that can be...
View ArticleThis Weekend: The Vintage Computer Festival West
This weekend it’s all going down at the Vintage Computer Museum in Mountain View, California. The Vintage Computer Festival West is happening this weekend What’s going on this year at VCF West? Far too...
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PTPM Energy Scavenger Aims for Maintenance-Free Sensor Nodes
[Mile]’s PTPM Energy Scavenger takes the scavenging idea seriously and is designed to gather not only solar power but also energy from temperature differentials, vibrations, and magnetic induction....
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Old LED Light Bulbs Give Up Filaments for Spider Web Clock
We love it when something common gets put to a new and unusual use, especially when it’s one of those, “Why didn’t I think of that?” situations. This digital clock with a suspended display is just...
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Quadcopter Hardware Gets Classic Lake Bed Test
You’d be hard pressed to find an aircraft that wasn’t designed and tested without extensive use of simulation. Whether it’s the classic approach of using a scale model in a wind tunnel or more modern...
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Hanky-Deprived Drones Taste Whale Snot for Science
A whole world of biomass floats in the boogers of a whale’s exhaust, and it’s a biologist’s dream to explore it. Whale snot carries everything from DNA samples to hormone signatures. But getting close...
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Beginning BLE Experiments And Making Everything Better
Successfully connecting things without physical wires has a profound effect on the maker brain. Machines talking to each other without any cables is as amazing today as it was a decade ago. When...
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Intuitive Musical Books Accompany Alzheimer’s Patients’ Memories
If you have a loved one with Alzheimer’s, you know how difficult it can be to hold a conversation with them that doesn’t constantly go in circles. A good way to keep them focused is to use...
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Voltage Monitor Relay is More than Meets the Eye
Automotive components that have a hidden secondary function are usually limited to cartoons and Michael Bay movies, but this project that [Jesus Echavarria] created for a client is a perhaps as close...
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Six Wheels (En)rolling: Mars Rovers Going To School
Few things build excitement like going to space. It captures the imagination of young and old alike. Teachers love to leverage the latest space news to raise interest in their students, and space...
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Computer Programming Unplugged For Kids
There was a time when computers were far too expensive to let mere students use them. In those days, we wrote fake programs for fictitious machines and checked them by hand. That wasn’t fun, but it...
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Hacked Vacuum Chamber Won’t Suck a Hole in Your Budget
There’s nothing like a true hack, where something useful is concocted from bits of scrap and bargain store finds. Builds like these are much more than the sum of their parts, especially when they...
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Feast Your Eyeballs On This Mechanical Eyeball
Most of us, if we have bought a single board computer with the capability to support a camera, will have succumbed to temptation and shelled out for that peripheral in the hope that we can coax our...
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Looking at Wind Turbines From a Different Angle
When we think of wind turbines, the first thing that usually comes to mind is the typical Sim City-esque type – 3 blades, gigantic, and wired into the municipal power grid. In truth, the world of wind...
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Help Save Some Of Australia’s Computer History From The Bulldozers
When multiple tipsters write in to tell us about a story, we can tell it’s an important one. This morning we’ve received word that the holding warehouse of the Australian Computer Museum Society in...
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Memristors On A Chip Solve Partial Differential Equations
We were always taught that the fundamental passive components were resistors, capacitors, and inductors. But in 1971, [Leon Chua] introduced the idea of a memristor — a sort of resistor with memory....
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Custom Designed Keyboard Needs A Custom Made Metal Case
It’s hardly news that mechanical keyboard users love their keyboards. When it comes to custom keyboards, though, [Cameron Sun] has taken things to the next level, by designing his own keyboard and...
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VCF West: Adding A Front Panel To The 6502
When you think about vintage computers from the 1970s, the first thing that should spring to mind are front panels loaded up with switches, LEDs, and if you’re really lucky, a lock with a key. Across...
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