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LIFI – AUDIO TRANSMISSION THROUGH LIGHT
Gagan jain has built an interesting rig called the LIFI, it allows a simple transmission of audio using an LED for sending the audio signal and a solar cell to receive it. “The full form of LiFi is...
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Video Shows Power Isn’t Everything In Laser Engraving
When it comes to power tools, generally speaking more watts is better. But as laser maestro [Martin Raynsford] shows, watts aren’t everything. He shares a brief video showing his older 100 W laser...
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Seeing a Webcam’s PCBs in a Whole Different Light
When it comes to inspection of printed circuits, most of us rely on the Mark I eyeball to see how we did with the soldering iron or reflow oven. And even when we need the help of some kind of...
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Measuring The Stiffness Of 3D-Printed Parts
How do you choose filament when you want strong 3D-printed parts? Like most of us, you probably take a guess, or just use what you have on hand and hope for the best. But armed with a little knowledge...
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New Controller For Retro Console
In the world of retro gaming, when using emulators and non-native hardware it’s pretty common to use whatever USB controller happens to be available. This allows us to get a nostalgic look while using...
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Mike Tyson’s Punchout Patch Gives HDTV Lag A K.O.
They just don’t make them like they used to. Digital televisions have rendered so many of the videogames designed in the days where CRTs ruled the earth virtually unplayable due to display lag. Games...
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Drone + Ground Penetrating Radar = Mine Detector?
Most civilized nations ban the use of landmines because they kill indiscriminately, and for years after they are planted. However, they are still used in many places around the world, and people are...
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Save A Linotype Machine For Future Generations
The journalist’s art is now one of the computer keyboard and the internet connection, but there was a time when it involved sleepless nights over a manual typewriter followed by time spent reviewing...
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The Solution To DJs Playing Their MacBooks
The greatest invention relating to music in the 20th century was multi-track recording, for which we have Les Paul to thank. The second greatest? Non-linear editing and Pro Tools. For some bizarre...
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Dymo Rides Again With This Dot-Matrix Label Embosser
For a five-year-old future Hackaday scribe, there could be no greater day than that on which a Dymo label maker appeared in the house. With its spinny daisy-wheel to choose a character and its squeezy...
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Mergers And Acquisitions: Apple Buys Most of Dialog
Apple is buying a $600 million stake in Dialog Semiconductor in a deal Dialog is describing as an asset transfer and licensing deal. Dialog’s current portfolio is focused mainly on mobile devices,...
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Arcade Asteroids, Now In Colour
Asteroids is one of the classic games of the early arcade era. Launched in 1979 by Atari, it relied upon using an XY vector monitor to deliver crisp graphics for its space-based gameplay. One of the...
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R3-14, The Personal Assistant Two Years In The Making
One of the great things about hacking together projects these days is how many powerful subsystems are readily available to reuse. [Sanjeet] took full advantage of a whole slate of reusable pieces...
View ArticleListen To A Song Made From Custom Nintendo LABO Waveform Cards
[Hunter Irving] has been busy with the Nintendo LABO’s piano for the Nintendo Switch. In particular he’s been very busy creating his own custom waveform cards, which greatly expands the capabilities of...
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Hackaday Links: October 14, 2018
Here’s something of interest of 3D printing enthusiasts. How do you print lightweight 3D objects? [Tom Stanton] does a lot of stuff with 3D printing and RC airplanes, so yeah, he’s probably the guy...
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Glasses For The Hearing Impaired?
If you don’t have hearing loss, it is easy to forget just how much you depend on your ears. Hearing aids are great if you can afford them, but they aren’t like glasses where they immediately improve...
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DIY Wire Bender Gets Wires All Bent Into Shape
It’s been a while since we’ve shown a DIY wire bending machine, and [How To Mechatronics] has come up with an elegant design with easy construction through the use of 3D-printed parts which handle most...
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Degaussing Coil To Restore Gameplay Like It’s 1985
You may think that cathode ray tube (CRT) TVs and monitors have gone the way of the dinosaur, but you’d be wrong. Many still have them for playing video games at home or in arcades, for vintage...
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Wind Turbine Pushes Limits Of Desktop 3D Printing
There was a time, not so long ago, when hype for desktop 3D printing as so high that it seemed you could print anything. Just imagine it, and your handy dandy magical 3D printer could manifest it into...
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Hybrid Robot Walks, Transforms, And Takes Flight
[Project Malaikat] is a 3D printed hybrid bipedal walker and quadcopter robot, but there’s much more to it than just sticking some props and a flight controller to a biped and calling it a day. Not...
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