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Which Wireless is Right Wireless?
Back in the early days of Arduino proliferation (and before you ask, yes we realize there was a time before that too), wireless was a strange and foreign beast. IR communication was definitely a thing....
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Wired Wireless Over Coax
If it’s stupid and it works, then it’s not stupid. There’s no better evidence of that than [Tobias]’ networking setup. He recently had to distribute Ethernet through a building, and there are a few...
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Hacking Nature’s Musicians
We just wrapped up the Musical Instrument Challenge in the Hackaday Prize, and for most projects that meant replicating sounds made by humans, or otherwise making musicians for humans. There’s more to...
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Can You Build An Open Source Pocket Operator?
Toys are now musical instruments. Or we’ll just say musical instruments are now toys. You can probably ascribe this recent phenomenon to Frooty Loops or whatever software the kids are using these...
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IoT Traffic Light Is Cardboard Made Fun
Traffic lights! Kids love them, hackers love them, and they’re useful in industrial contexts to see if the giant machine is currently working or having a bad day. While the real deal are unwieldy and...
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Elegant Drum Machine from Teensy
Playing the drums is pretty hard, especially for the uncoordinated. Doing four things at the same time, all while keeping an even tempo, isn’t reasonable for most of us. Rather than hiring a drummer...
View ArticleYou’ll Flip for This 7404 IC Motherboard Fix
We often lament that the days of repairable electronics are long gone. It used to be you’d get schematics for a piece of gear, and you could just as easily crack it open and fix something as the local...
View ArticleFinally, An Open Source MIDI Foot Controller
MIDI has been around for longer than most of the readers of Hackaday, and you can get off my lawn. In spite of this, MIDI is still commonly used in nearly every single aspect of musical performance,...
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The Polyphonic Analog/Digital Synth Project
[Matt Bradshaw]’s entry in the Hackaday Prize is Polymod, a modular digital synthesizer which combines the modularity of an analog synth with the power of a digital synth. Each module (LFO, Envelope...
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Hackaday Links: October 21, 2018
A few weeks ago, we got word [Fran] was being kicked out of her workshop. You might remember [Fran] from her exploits in reverse engineering the launch computer for the Saturn V, her work on...
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Stock Looking PSP Hides a Raspberry Pi Zero
We don’t see that many PSP hacks around these parts, perhaps because the system never attained the same sort of generational following that Nintendo’s Game Boy line obtained during its heyday. Which is...
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Blazing Fast Raspberry Pi Display Driver Will Melt Your Face then Teach You How
Reader [poipoi] recently wrote into our tip line to tell us about an “amazingly fast” Raspberry Pi display driver with a README file that “is an actual joy to read”. Of course, we had to see for...
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Teardown: Sony’s New Aibo goes Under the Knife
In a complete surprise, Sony has moved to release the latest version of their robotic dog series, Aibo, in North America. The device is already out in Japan, where there are a number of owner’s clubs...
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One Man’s Quest to Build His Own Speakers
Why build your own stereo speakers? Some people like to work on cars in their garage. Some people build fast computers. Others seek the perfect audio setup. The problem for a newcomer is the signal to...
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Homemade Shop Vise Packs a Hydraulic Punch
It’s a sad day when one of the simplest and generally most reliable tools in the shop – the bench vise – gives up the ghost. With just a pair of beefy castings and a heavy Acme screw, there’s very...
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Building an Electric Scooter That’s Street Legal, Even in Germany
Sometimes a successful project isn’t only about making sure all the electrons are in the right place at the right time, or building something that won’t collapse under its own weight. A lot of...
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Ford Ka Becomes Diwheel Monster
If you’ve been to the right events, you’ve seen them before – the cars with an external cage that let the car complete a somersault in the forward direction under heavy braking. They’re impressive,...
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Faux Walkie-Talkie for Comedy Walking Tour is a Rapid Prototyping Win
Chances are good that a fair number of us have been roped into “one of those” projects before. You know the type: vague specs, limited budget, and of course they need it yesterday. But you know...
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This Ukulele Does Chiptunes, and Not Just Because It’s Made Out Of a Game Boy
When you think about singer-songwriters, the name Bob Dylan might come to your mind. You might think about Jeff Buckley, you might think about Hank Williams, Springsteen, David Bowie, or Prince. You’d...
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3D Printed Bridge Goes Dutch
If you’ve ever been to Amsterdam, you know there are plenty of canals and, therefore, plenty of bridges. Next year, a unique pedestrian bridge in the old city center will go into service. The...
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