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Supercon: Ruth Grace Wong and Firmware From the Firehose
Firmware and software are both just code, right? How different could the code that runs Internet-scale distributed web stuff be from the code that runs a tiny microcontroller brain inside a personal...
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Nerf Mods Via 3D Printing
Nerf guns are a great way to annoy parents. Simply give them as a gift to any child, and watch precious family heirlooms tumble to the ground as little Holly commando rolls behind the couch to avoid...
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Building An Optically Pumped Laser Pointer
As a society, we’ve largely come together to agree that laser pointers are mostly useless. They’re now the preserve of university lecturers and those destined to wind up in a jail cell for harassing...
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Colour-Code Your Way To Timber Satisfaction
As Hackaday writers we see the insides of as many hackerspaces as we can, and some of us make it our business to be members of more than one within reach of our homes. Thus it was that a simple but...
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Art Deco Control Panel Looks Out of Metropolis
Bakelite, hammertone gray finish, big chunky toggle switches, jeweled pilot lights – these are a few of [Wesley Treat]’s favorite retro electronics things. And he’ll get no argument from us, as old...
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The PC Speaker Lives On As A New Album
The speaker in the original IBM PC is nearly the worst electronic musical instrument ever created. This isn’t because amazing works of art were never created for the PC speaker; no, that’s been done,...
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Ultra Tiny PC plays Snake
[Steve Martin] used to do a comedy act about “Let’s get small!” You have to wonder if [Paul Klinger] is a fan of that routine, as he recently completed a very small 3D printed PC that plays snake. Ok,...
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Charging LiPos with USB Power Delivery
DC power bricks were never a particularly nice way to run home electronics. Heavy and unwieldy, they had a tendency to fall out and block adjacent outlets from use. In recent years, more and more...
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DAT, The HD Video Tape Format We Never Knew We Had
When we consume our music online via streaming services it is easy to forget the days of recordings being contained on physical media, and to overlook the plethora of competing formats that vied for...
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Pathio: New 3D Slicer from E3D
Having a great word processor won’t actually help you write the next bestselling novel. It might make it easier, but if you have a great novel in you, you could probably write it on paper towels with...
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Mustang Dash Becomes Bookshelf Art Piece
Despite most of the common gauges remaining the same over the last 60 years, the automotive dashboard of days past used very different technology to those today. Cable driven speedometers were common,...
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Well-Protected USB Power Strip Makes It Easy to Plug In
When we get a new device these days, somewhere in the package is likely to be a wall-wart USB power supply. We look for a place to plug in the little switch-mode dongle, rearrange a few plugs in the...
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Curve Tracing On Spray Painted CRTs
A Lissajous curve is formed when two sine waves plotted on their respective X and Y axes. You can see one using an oscilloscope and a couple of signal generators, if you play with one of those...
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All Things Enigma Hack Chat
Join us Wednesday at noon Pacific time for the All Things Enigma Hack Chat! This week’s Hack Chat is a bit of a departure for us because our host, Simon Jansen, has tackled so many interesting projects...
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Stethoscopes, Electronics, and Artificial Intelligence
For all the advances in medical diagnostics made over the last two centuries of modern medicine, from the ability to peer deep inside the body with the help of superconducting magnets to harnessing the...
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Would You Like To Play a Game? WOPR Summit is This Weekend
During the summer months it might be known as “America’s Playground”, but around this time of year, Atlantic City is generally the destination of choice for bus loads of seniors looking to burn up some...
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E-Ink Price Tags Fall Off Store Shelves Onto Your Workbench
There’s always a magic moment for our community in the lifecycle of any piece of technology: the point at which it first becomes available for pennies on the surplus market. Something which could...
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Casting The Bed Of A CNC Machine In Granite
If you’re looking at CNC machines, or machine tools in general, heavier is better. That old drill press or mill made of a few hundred pounds of cast iron isn’t just better because it’s stood the test...
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Putting the Brakes on High-Frequency Trading with Physics
In the middle of the East Coast’s slow broil in the summer of 2018, a curious phenomenon surfaced. As a tropical air mass settled in and smothered the metropolitan New York area, a certain breed of...
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Playing Pokemon On A CRT Thanks to A Powerful Microcontroller
Microcontrollers come in a broad swathe of capabilities these days. There are the venerable 8-bit micros that have been around forever and valiantly crunch away, all the way up to modern 32-bit...
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