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This 3D Printed LED Softbox Really Shines
Generally speaking, objects made on desktop 3D printers are pretty small. This is of course no surprise, as filament based printers are fairly slow and most don’t have very large beds to begin with....
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There Are 200 Electronic Kits In That Box
If you grew up in the latter part of the 20th century, you didn’t have the Internet we have today — or maybe not at all. What you did have, though, was Radio Shack within an hour’s drive. They sold...
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Make Your Lego Fly
We probably all used to make our Lego fly by throwing it across the room, but Flite Test have come up with a slightly more elegant solution: they converted a Lego quadcopter to fly. They did it by...
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Building A RISC-V Desktop
If you want to talk about RISC-V, the Open Source instruction set for CPUs, you’re probably talking about microcontrollers. You can buy small but powerful RISC-V micros on par with an ARM Cortex-M4...
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Open-Source Biology and Biohacking Hack Chat
Join us on Wednesday at noon Pacific time for the open-source biology and biohacking Hack Chat! Justin Atkin‘s name might not ring a bell, but you’ve probably seen his popular YouTube channel The...
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Review: IchigoJam Single Board Computer
It won’t replace your beloved Rasbperry Pi, but it’s worth saying hello to this “Strawberry Jam”, straight out of Japan. It’s an equally delicious way to get people interested in the basics of coding....
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Chris Gammell Talks Circuit Toolboxes
Chris Gammell wants to know: What’s in your circuit toolbox? Personally, mine is somewhat understocked. I do know that in one of my journals, probably from back in the 1980s, I scribbled down a...
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Get Organized With This Raspberry Pi E-Ink Calendar
Like many hackers, we love e-ink. There’s something mesmerizing and decidedly futuristic about the way the images shift around and reconstitute themselves. Like something from Harry Potter, but that...
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Security Engineering: Inside the Scooter Startups
A year ago, ridesharing scooter startups were gearing up for launch. Workers at Bird, Lime, Skip, and Spin were busy improving their app, retrofitting scooters, and most importantly, figuring out the...
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Putting an Out of Work iPod Display to Good Use
[Mike Harrison] produces so much quality content that sometimes excellent material slips through the editorial cracks. This time we noticed that one such lost gem was [Mike]’s reverse engineering of...
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EF50: the Tube that Changed Everything
From today’s perspective, vacuum tubes are pretty low tech. But for a while they were the pinnacle of high tech, and heavy research followed the promise shown by early vacuum tubes in transmission and...
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Toilet Seat Could Save Your Ass
Our morning routine could be appended to something like “breakfast, stretching, sit on a medical examiner, shower, then commute.” If we are speaking seriously, we don’t always get to our morning...
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Every Digital Clock Is Made Of Analog Components
In 2008, an art studio out of Stockholm released the ClockClock, a digital clock with an analog heart. The ClockClock used 24 individual analog clocks — hour and minute hands and all — to display time...
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The “Impossible” Tech Behind SpaceX’s New Engine
Followers of the Church of Elon will no doubt already be aware of SpaceX’s latest technical triumph: the test firing of the first full-scale Raptor engine. Of course, it was hardly a secret. As he...
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Western Digital Releases Their RISC-V Cores To The World
What grew out of a university research project is finally becoming real silicon. RISC-V, the ISA that’s completely Big-O Open, is making inroads in dev boards, Arduino-ish things, and some light...
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Hack My House: Garage Door Cryptography Meets Raspberry Pi
Today’s story is one of victory and defeat, of mystery and adventure… It’s time to automate the garage door. Connecting the garage door to the internet was a must on my list of smart home features. Our...
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Three-Conductor Pivot for E-Textiles is Better Than Wires
Pivots for e-textiles can seem like a trivial problem. After all, wires and fabrics bend and flex just fine. However, things that are worn on a body can have trickier needs. Snap connectors are the...
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Palm-Sized Gatling Gun Has 32 Mini Elastics With Your Name On Them
One thing 3D printers excel at is being able to easily create objects that would be daunting by other methods, something that also allows for rapid design iteration. That’s apparent in [Canino]’s...
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Text Projector With — You Know — Lasers
We missed [iliasam’s] laser text projector when it first appeared, perhaps because the original article was in Russian. However, he recently reposted in English and it really caught our eye. You can...
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New Part Day : A sensor chip for 3D color X-Ray imaging
We all know CERN as that cool place where physicists play with massive, superconducting rings to smash atoms and subatomic particles to uncover secrets of matter in the Universe. To achieve this aim,...
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