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IPv6 Christmas Display Uses 75 Internet’s Worth of Addresses
We’ve seen internet-enabled holiday displays before, and we know IPv6 offers much more space than the older IPv4 addressing scheme that most of us still use today, but the two have never been more...
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Vintage Toys Live on Through 3D Printing
We all have fond memories of a toy from our younger days. Most of which are still easy enough to get your hands on thanks to eBay or modern reproductions, but what if your childhood fancies weren’t...
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Ambitious Homebrew X-Ray Machine Reveals What Lies Within
We’re not quite sure what to say about this DIY X-ray machine. On the one hand, it’s a really impressive build, with incredible planning and a lot of attention to detail. On the other hand, it’s a...
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Arduino and Pi Share Boardspace
A Raspberry Pi Zero (W) and Arduino are very different animals, the prior has processing power and connectivity while the latter has some analog to digital converters (ADCs) and nearly real-time...
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Have Yourself a Recursive Little Christmas: Ornament That Prints Ornaments
Sure there are the occasional functional Christmas tree ornaments; we had one that plugged into the lights and was supposed to sound like a bird gently trilling its song, but was in fact so...
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Lenses For DIY Augmented Reality Will Get a Bit Less Unobtainable
You may remember that earlier this year Leap Motion revealed Project North Star, a kind of open-source reference design for an Augmented Reality (AR) headset. While it’s not destined to make high...
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Machine Learning on Tiny Platforms Like Raspberry Pi and Arduino
Machine learning is starting to come online in all kinds of arenas lately, and the trend is likely to continue for the forseeable future. What was once only available for operators of supercomputers...
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Automatic Soap Dispenser Hides Arduino Board
If you’ve been hanging out here at Hackaday for awhile, you’ve certainly seen projects that were based around the concept of putting a miniature computer inside the carcass of some other piece of...
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Kinetic Wire Animatronics Bend It Like Disney
The House of Mouse has been at the forefront of entertainment technology from its very beginnings in an old orange grove in Anaheim. Disney Imagineers invented the first modern animatronics in the...
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Delicious Vector Game Console Runs Pac-Man, Tetris, and Mario
The only question we have about [mitxela]’s DIY vector graphics game console is: Why did he wait five years to tell the world about it? Judging by the projects we’ve seen before, from his tiny LED...
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Ooops, Did We Just Close An Airport Over A UFO Sighting?
Picture this: it’s late in the evening on a freezing cold, dark, and windy December night in southern England, and an airport worker at Gatwick — London’s second international airport — sees something...
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Bonanza of Keyswitch Datasheets Fills Our Decks with Clack
Mechanical keyboards use switches of a few different types. But even those types include myriad variations. How’s a hacker to know just exactly what equipment is out there? For example, if you grab a...
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A Daring Search for Answers in Soyuz Mystery
If you happened to tune into NASA TV on December 11th, you’d have been treated to a sight perhaps best described as “unprecedented”: Russian cosmonauts roughly cutting away the thermal insulation of a...
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Doomba Transports Your Living Room to Hell
Despite being over 25 years old, the original DOOM is still a favorite among gamers and hackers alike. For years now, running the 1993 demonic shooter has been a critical milestone when hacking or...
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Top Secret Teardown Reveals Soviet Missile Secrets
Technology has moved at such a furious pace that what would have been most secret military technology a few decades ago is now surplus on eBay. Case in point: [msylvain59] picked up a Soviet-era K-13...
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2018: As The Hardware World Turns
2018 is almost over, and we have another year in the dataset: an improbable number of celebrities died in 2016. The stock market is down, and everyone thinks a crash is coming. Journalists are being...
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HD Video and Telemetry Link Uses Standard WiFi Hardware
[GlytchTech] decided to implement his own Digital Data Link (DDL) for his drone experiments, and by using a Raspberry Pi Zero and some open-source software, he succeeded in creating a mostly...
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Printed It: Parametric Hex Key Holder
Desktop 3D printing is an incredible technology to be sure, but it’s not a cure-all. If you’re interested in making something in large numbers, or if production speed is a concern, 3D printing probably...
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High-Speed Camera Plus Lawnmower Equals Destructive Fun
I hate gratuitous destruction videos. You know, the ones that ask “what happens if we drop a red-hot ball of Plutonium onto a bag of Cheetos?” There’s a lot of smoke, flames and a big pile of ad...
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Peering Into a Running Brain: SDRAM Refresh Analyzed from Userspace
Over on the Cloudflare blog, [Marek] found himself wondering about computer memory, as we all sometimes do. Specifically, he pondered if he could detect the refresh of his SDRAM from within a running...
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