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London Gatwick Airport Shuts Its Doors Due To Drone Sighting
If you could pick a news story you would prefer not to be woken with, it’s likely that a major airport being closed due to a drone sighting would be high on the list. But that’s the news this morning:...
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Rise Of The Unionized Robots
For the first time, a robot has been unionized. This shouldn’t be too surprising as a European Union resolution has already recommended creating a legal status for robots for purposes of liability and...
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Incredibly Heavy Ornament Likely Inappropriate To Hang On Tree
It’s that time of year again, and the Christmas hacks are flooding in thick and fast. To get into the Christmas spirit, the FoxGuard team wanted a custom ornament to hang from the tree. They may have...
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Neural Network Knows When Cat Wants To Go Outside
Neural networks are computer systems that are vaguely inspired by the construction of animal brains, and much like human brains, can be trained to obey the whims of the almighty domestic cat....
View ArticleNow We’re Everywhere: Grab Our Podcast for Your Holiday Commute
Before you hit the road this weekend, grab the Hackaday Year in Review Podcast to keep you company during your journey. Google Play iTunes Soundcloud Spotify Stitcher Direct Download (64 mb, mp3) We...
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A Star-Trek-Inspired Robot With Raspberry Pi and AI
When [314Reactor] got a robot car kit, he knew he wanted to add some extra things to it. At about the same time he was watching a Star Trek episode that featured exocomps — robots that worked in...
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Linux Fu: Share Terminal in Browser
The title of this post says it all: GoTTY is a program that lets you share Linux terminal applications into a web browser. It is a simple web server written in Go that runs a non-GUI program and can...
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Manual 3D Digitizer Works a Bit Like 3-Dimensional Measuring Tape
Digitizing an object usually means firing up a CAD program and keeping the calipers handy, or using a 3D scanner to create a point cloud representing an object’s surfaces. [Dzl] took an entirely...
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Explaining Fourier Again
One of the nice things about living in the Internet age is that creating amazing simulations and animations is relatively simple today. [SmarterEveryDay] recently did a video that shows this off,...
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FPGA Emulates a PDP-1, Breathes New Life Into Classic Video Game
If you’ve ever wanted to sit at the console of the machine that started the revolution in interactive computing, your options are extremely limited. Of the 53 PDP-1 machines that Digital Equipment...
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Game Boy Camera – Now In Color
The Game Boy Camera is a legendary piece of 90s gaming hardware, despite not being a game at all. It consisted of a low-resolution greyscale camera, fitted to a Game Boy cartridge, that you could use...
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Experiment With Lumia, The Cheap and Easy Way
Light is a wonderful medium for art, and there’s all manner of ways to approach it. We’ve always been huge fans of all that blinks and glows, but there’s a whole wide world of other methods and...
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Clever Wedges That Will Increase Your PCB Assembly Yield
If there’s one thing that will bring down the yield of your PCB assembly, it’s your solder paste. Put too much on, and you’ll get bridged leads. If you don’t put enough on, that pad might not make...
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Old Game Development IDE Goes FPGA
If you have a thing for old game development — things like the Atari 2600 or similar period arcade games — you might already know about the 8bitworkshop IDE. There you can develop code in your browser...
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Sanding Seashells by the Seashore
We all maintain this balancing act between the cool things we want, the money we can spend, and our free time. When the pièce de résistance is a couple of orders of magnitude out of our budget, the...
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Nintendo Does Sony, Better Than Sony
Fans of game consoles from the golden era of TV game appliances have been in for a treat over the past couple of years, and a slew of official reboots of the stars of the past have reached the market....
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Epoxy Too Thin? Use Wood Flour as a Thixotropic Filler
The world of glues is wide and varied, and it pays to use the right glue for the job. When [Eric] needed to stick a wide and flat 3D printed mount onto the back of a PCB that had been weatherproofed...
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A Perfectly Orderly Way to Manage Your Time
[Paul Gallagher] has spent years separating his tasks into carefully measured out blocks, a method of time management known as the Pomodoro Technique. If that’s not enough proof that he’s considerably...
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Lighting Up a Very Wiry Candle
Entries into the Circuit Sculpture Contest tend to be pretty minimalist by nature, and this LED candle by [Amal Mathew] is a perfect example. The idea here was to recreate the slim and uncomplicated...
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LEDs and Pi Let You Virtually Decorate This Online Christmas Tree
Anyone who has decorated a Christmas tree knows that the lights are what really make the look. But no matter how many strings you wrap around it, there never seems to be enough. Plus the standard sets...
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