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Supercon 2018: Mike Szczys and the State of the Hackaday
Every year at Superconference, Editor-in-Chief Mike Szczys gets the chance to talk about what we think are the biggest, most important themes in the Hackaday universe. This year’s talk was about...
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New Part Day: A RISC-V CPU For Eight Dollars
RISC-V is the new hotness, and companies are churning out code and announcements, but little actual hardware. Eventually, we’re going to get to the point where RISC-V microcontrollers and SoCs cost...
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Now Hackaday Looks Great on the Small Screen Too
Most of use read and comment on Hackaday from the desktop, while we let our mind work through the perplexing compiler errors, wait for that 3D print to finish, or lay out the next PCB. But more and...
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Building a Semiautomatic Swag Launcher
Regular readers of Hackaday have certainly seen the work of [Jeremy Cook] at this point. Whether you remember him from his time as a writer for this fine online publication, or recognize the name from...
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Hackaday Podcast Ep6 – Reversing iPod Screens, Hot Isotopes, We
What’s the buzz in the hackersphere this week? Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys recap their favorite hacks and articles from the past seven days. In Episode Six we cover an incredible...
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Airbus To Halt Production Of The A380; Goodbye to an Engineering Triumph
Eleven years ago, the Airbus A380 entered commercial service with Singapore Airlines. In the time since then it has become the queen of the skies. It’s a double-decker airliner, capable of flying 550...
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Understanding Math Rather Than Merely Learning It
There’s a line from the original Star Trek where Khan says, “Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity, but improve man and you gain a thousandfold.” Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron...
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Is That A Word Clock In Your Pocket?
Word clocks are one of those projects that everyone seems to love. Even if you aren’t into the tech behind how they work, they have a certain appealing aesthetic. Plus you can read the time without...
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CNC Tellurion Lets You See the Earth and Moon Dance
Kids – they’re such a treasure. One minute you’re having a nice chat, the next minutes they’re testing your knowledge of the natural world with a question like, “Why can we see the Moon during the...
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How Do You Etch Something You Can’t Move?
We probably don’t need to tell this to the average Hackaday reader, but we’re living in a largely disposable society. Far too many things are built as cheaply as possible, either because manufacturers...
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Lego Monorail From Your 3D Printer
If you had to guess the age of a person hailing from a country in which Lego is commonly available, you might very well do it by asking them about the Lego trains available in their youth. Blue rails...
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Build Your Own Dial-up ISP With A Raspberry Pi
The bing-bongs, screeches, and whiirings of a diai-up modem are long forgotten now. For good reason. Dial up was slow, and if you’re one of those unlucky people reading this and waiting for the...
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Biodegradable Implants Supercharge Nerve Regeneration
Controlled electrical stimulation of nerves can do amazing things. It has been shown to encourage healing and growth in damaged cells of the peripheral nervous system which means regaining motor...
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Identifying a 3D Printer From a 3D Print
A TV crime show I saw recently centered on the ability of forensic scientists to identify a plastic bag as coming from a particular roll: it’s all down to the striations, apparently. This development...
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Command Line Utilities… in the Cloud?
Although many people think of Linux-based operating systems as graphical, really that GUI is just another application running over the bare operating system. Power users, remote administrators, and...
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Infinity Icosahedron Is Difficult To Contemplate Even Looking Right At It
Cubes and pyramids are wonderful primitive three-dimensional objects, but everyone knows that the real mystical power is in icosahedrons. Yes, the twenty-sided polyhedron does more than just ruin your...
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A Lightweight AVR IDE
It’s entirely possible to do your coding in vim or emacs, hammering out hotkeys to drive the interface and bring your code to life. While working in such a way has its charms, it can be confronting to...
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How To Program A Really Cheap Microcontroller
There are rumors of a cheap chip that does USB natively, has an Open Source toolchain, and costs a quarter. These aren’t rumors: you can buy the CH552 microcontroller right now. Surprisingly, there...
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Entry-Level SLA Printer Gets Upgrades, Prints Better
Fused-deposition modeling (FDM) printers have the lion’s share of the 3D-printing market, with cheap, easy-to-use printers slurping up thousands of kilos of filament every year. So where’s the...
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X-Rays and High Voltage Hack Chat
Join us on Wednesday at noon Pacific time for the X-rays and high-voltage Hack Chat! Fran Piernas likes to push the envelope a bit with projects that others might shy away from. A quick glance at his...
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