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34C3: The First Day is a Doozy
It’s 5 pm, the sun is slowly setting on the Leipzig conference center, and although we’re only halfway through the first day, there’s a ton that you should see. We’ll report some more on the culture of...
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Fingerling Disemboweled for Your Entertainment
Due to the graphic nature of this post, small children and the elderly may want to leave the room. One of the hottest toys this holiday season has been gutted like a fish so that we may better...
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Barbara McClintock: Against The Genetic Grain
The tale of much of Barbara McClintock’s life is that of the scientist working long hours with a microscope seeking to solve mysteries. The mystery she spent most of her career trying to solve was how...
View ArticleHackaday Superconference Talk: Cory Grosser
When we look at a product or project here at Hackaday it is likely that our interest has been caught by its internal technology, or perhaps by its functionality. It is easy to forget that there is...
View ArticleErgonomic Keyboard Designed from the Ground Up
In 2011, [Fabio] had been working behind a keyboard for about a decade when he started noticing wrist pain. This is a common long-term injury for people at desk jobs, but rather than buy an ergonomic...
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34C3: Hacking into a CPU’s Microcode
Inside every modern CPU since the Intel Pentium fdiv bug, assembly instructions aren’t a one-to-one mapping to what the CPU actually does. Inside the CPU, there is a decoder that turns assembly into...
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Take the Coin Cell Challenge This Weekend!
The year is drawing to a close, and we have a weekend project for you to while away the remaining hours. Take the Coin Cell Challenge! The point of the challenge is to do something interesting with a...
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Retrotechtacular: 1950s Televisions Were Beasts
Television has been around for a long time, but what we point to and call a TV these days is a completely different object from what consumers first fell in love with. This video of RCA factory tours...
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[Ken Shirriff] Becomes a Core Memory Repairman (Again)
Lately, [Ken Shirriff] has been on some of the most incredible hardware adventures. In his most recent undertaking we find [Ken] elbow-deep in the core memory of a 50-year-old machine, the IBM 1401....
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Seven-Segment Flip Clock Display Finally Finished
Earlier this year, we mentioned in a Hackaday Links article that [Spencer Hamblin] was in the process of building a seven-segment flip clock. Well, it’s finally finished, and it looks great! Vintage...
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34C3: Fitbit Sniffing and Firmware Hacking
If you walked into a gym and asked to sniff exercise equipment you would get some mighty strange looks. If you tell hackers you’ve sniffed a Fitbit, you might be asked to give a presentation. [Jiska]...
View ArticleEspple: A Wireless Apple 1 on an ESP8266
The Apple 1 was one of the three big hobbyist computers that burst onto the scene in 1977. Unlike the PET 2001 and the TRS-80, only a couple hundred Apple 1s were ever produced, and with only a handful...
View ArticleElectromagnet-Powered Pendulum
We’re always happy to see hackers inspired to try something different by what they see on Hackaday. To [SimpleTronic] has a project that will let you stretch your analog electronics skills in a really...
View ArticleBeefBot: Your Robotic Grill Master
Have you ever been too busy to attend to the proper cooking of a steak? Well, lament no more, and warn your cardiologist. A trio of students from Cornell University have designed and built the...
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34C3: Using Your Car As Video Game Controller
Despite the presence of human drivers, modern cars are controlled by computers. In his talk at the Chaos Communication Congress [Guillaume Heilles] and [P1kachu] demonstrate the potential of taking...
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Laptop with Raspberry Pi Inside Learns to Speak Battery
Early in November we took a look at a one of the best Raspberry Pi laptops we had ever seen, using the shell of a Sony VAIO. Laptops used to be hulking beasts, and that played into [Frank Adams’] hands...
View ArticleFind Your Way with Tiny Laser Beams
For their final project in embedded microcontroller class, [Aaheli, Jun, and Naomi] turned their focus toward assistive technology and created an Electronic Travel Aid (ETA) for the visually impaired...
View ArticleOld Logic Analyzer becomes New PC Case
There are a lot of cool ways to wrap a case around your custom PC build. But the off-the-shelf stuff doesn’t really set your machine apart from the herd, no matter how many RGB LEDs you put inside. If...
View ArticleOne String, One Print, One Harp
To exclude musical instruments in the overflowing library of possibility that 3D printing enables would be a disservice to makers and musicians everywhere. For the minds over at [Makefast Workshop], an...
View ArticleMaking A Classic Chip From Discretes
A hackspace discussion of voltage regulators within our earshot touched on the famous μA723, then moved on to its competitors. Kits-of-parts for linear regulators were ten-a-penny in the 1970s, it...
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