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This TARDIS Is Bigger On The Inside
A few months ago, YouTube user [Maladroit Modeller] uploaded a video of his model TARDIS from Doctor Who which shows an inside that’s bigger than the outside. Recently, [Maladroit Modeller] posted...
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Turn Your Teddy Bear Into A Robot With Yale’s “Robotic Skin”
Despite what we may have seen in the new Winnie the Pooh movie, our cherished plush toys don’t usually come to life. But if that’s the goal, we have ways of making it happen. Like these “robotic...
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There Are Multiple Ways To Gesture With This Serpentine Sensor
Serpentine is a gesture sensor that’s the equivalent of a membrane potentiometer, flex and stretch sensor, and more. It’s self-powering and can be used in wearable hacks such as the necklace shown in...
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Maker Faire NY: Programmable Air
At this year’s World Maker Faire in New York City we’re astonished and proud to run into some of the best projects that are currently in the running for the Hackaday Prize. One of these is...
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One Man’s Disenchantment With The World Of Software
There is a widely derided quote attributed to [Bill Gates], that “640k should be enough for anyone”. Meaning of course that the 640 kb memory limit for the original IBM PC of the early 1980s should be...
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DIY Arduino Soldering Iron Hits Version 2.0
A few months ago we brought word that [Electronoobs] was working on his own open source alternative to pocket-sized temperature controlled soldering irons like the TS100. Powered by the ATMega328p...
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Submarine to Plane: Can You Hear Me Now? The Hydrophone Radar Connection
How does a submarine talk to an airplane? It sounds like a bad joke but it’s actually a difficult engineering challenge. Traditionally the submarine must surface or get shallow enough to deploy a...
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Send Smooches over Skype with the Kiss Interface
This project of [Nathan]’s certainly has a playful straightforwardness about it. His Skype ‘Kiss’ Interface has a simple job: to try to create a more intuitive way to express affection within the...
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Hackaday Links: September 23, 2018
In the spirit of Nintendo’s NES mini and Super NES mini, Sony is releasing a tiny version of the Playstation. It’s a hundred bucks in December and it comes with Final Fantasy VII, what more do you...
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The Tiniest Computer Vision Platform Just Got Better
The future, if you believe the ad copy, is a world filled with cameras backed by intelligence, neural nets, and computer vision. Despite the hype, this may actually turn out to be true: drones are...
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World’s Smallest LED Blinky
[Mike Harrison] is known for incredibly tiny soldering. Now he’s claiming a “world’s smallest” in the form of a stand-alone LED blinker, and we think he’s got the record. He brought it along with him...
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Feeding Dogs over Twitch is Latest E-Sport Craze
The modern social-networking fueled Internet loves two things more than anything: pets, and watching other people do stuff. There’s probably a scroll tucked behind a filing cabinet at Vint Cerf’s house...
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A Three Axis Mill For The End Of The World
A mill is one of those things that many hackers want, but unfortunately few get their hands on. Even a low-end mill that can barely rattle its way through a straight cut in a piece of aluminum is...
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Cheating the Perfect Wheelie With Sensors And Servos
Everyone remembers popping their first wheelie on a bike. It’s an exhilarating moment when you figure out just the right mechanics to get balanced over the rear axle for a few glorious seconds of...
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Infection? Your Smartphone Will See You Now
When Mr. Spock beams down to a planet, he’s carrying a tricorder, a communicator, and a phaser. We just have our cell phones. The University of California Santa Barbara published a paper showing how...
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Self-Solving Rubik’s Cube
Rubik’s Cube has been around for what seems like forever now, and has spawned an entire subculture devoted to solving the puzzle with automation. Most Rubik robots put the cube in a specially designed...
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That TRS Jack On Your Graphing Calculator Does More Than You Think
It’s not Apple IIs, and it’s not Raspberry Pis. The most important computing platform for teaching kids programming is the Texas Instruments graphing calculator. These things have been around in one...
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Minimal Blinky Project Makes The Chip The Circuit Board
We’ve got a thing for projects that have no real practical value but instead seek to answer a simple yet fundamental question: I wonder if I can do that? This dead-bug style 555 blinky light is one of...
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DIY Studio Lights To Improve Your Videos
It’s 2018, a full thirteen years since YouTube was founded. With an online sharing service up and running, and high-resolution cameras in just about every mobile phone, the production of video has...
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Nim Writes C Code — And More — For You
When we first heard Nim, we thought about the game. In this case, though, nim is a programming language. Sure, we need another programming language, right? But Nim is a bit different. It is not only...
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