2010
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2010 1,863
December 2010
- Christmas light controller
- Building a security access panel
- Shutter remote for RICOH cameras
- Arduino EMF sensor
- Fabricating a music-controlled stoplight
- GSM hacking with prepaid phones
- PS3 hacking start-to-finish – CCC
- Lightsaber boasts detachable blade and crystal chamber
- Adding a serial port through an RJ45 connector
- Lego pinhole camera
- iPod nano 6g closer to being cracked
- Custom Made Industrial Hookah
- A Tricycle built for Plowing
- Bringing the Shark to the Bee
- Jumbo Size New Years Countdown
- Perfect shots every time
- Singing: With Plasma!
- Accidental LED fabrication
- MIT Inspired Impromptu SegStick
- Build a fusion reactor in your home
- Santa-Pede Challenge: Take Two
- LED lighthouse simulator
- Building a germanium fuzz face guitar pedal
- Tardis tree topper
- Hackaday links: December 26, 2010
- Upgrading an old Polaroid land camera for 35mm rolls
- Versaloon can program hardware from several manufacturers
- A hacker’s marginal security helps return stolen computer
- Crash course in HTML manipulation from a shell script
- Kodak ZX3 teardown and Tetris
- Reading NAND flash chips without removing them
- ‘Tis the season to decorate bags with EL wire
- Gaming on an IBM XT using an NES controller
- Repairing a broken RC ceiling fan
- Cobbling together a CNC mill
- Teensy can school you at Guitar Hero
- Guerilla guide to CNC machining
- Didn’t See The Lunar Eclipse, Make One!
- Bi-color LED matrix clock uses point-to-point construction
- Add explosive power to your hi-five
- Alarm and wake up light
- Clamp sensor power monitoring
- This hack really pushes our buttons
- Macro photos using an under-light rig
- How to be a dinosaur for Christmas
- German engineering produces an overcomplicated scarecrow
- Adding auto-fire to a computer mouse
- Tape delay made from recycled cassette decks
- Instructables “Hackaday edition”
- Oxyhydrogen water rocket
- Kinetic sculpture takes a page from modern life
- Hackaday unleashes a Troll sniffing rat
- This fire extinguisher serves frothy beverages
- Keep your kids in line with a time clock
- Lifehacker’s top ten of 2010
- Santa-pede Challenge: the conclusion
- Making mSATA work with mini PCI Express
- If you’re photographing and you know it clap your hands
- Domino Clock uses an electromechanical display
- Inkjet print head made with a 3D printer
- Haptic feedback for the blind
- Rich Decibel’s Kequencer
- The Heinz Automato
- Home built knitting machine
- SD activity indicator for Wii
- External RAM for an ATmega128
- DIY Breathalyzer may be the hit of the party
- Peer network using graphing calculators
- Chat list indicator uses hacked xmas lights
- Reading a digital caliper with a microcontroller
- Falling sand game on an FPGA
- Developing a Sega Game Gear flash cartridge
- RepRapped Transistors
- Update: 6809 computing
- Garage Monitor Has an Extra Arduino
- Inventing robot athletes
- Make your own minimalist AVR ISP
- My RepRap is bigger than yours
- AVR HV Rescue Shield 2
- MP3 player barely larger than an SD card
- Shooting fireballs from your wrists – Hadouken!
- Building a spectrophotometer
- DIY clamp helps with surface mount soldering
- Putting too many horses in a golf cart
- Game Boy VGA using an FPGA
- Make your own cookie cutters this year
- Nook color rooted: Hands on
- Jacob’s Ladder using EL wire
- Kids type with their eyes, robot arm prints their words
- RC plane built using pieces of an RC car
- Using analog voltage references with Arduino
- Using a chicken as a steadicam
- Kindle terminal with secret key-press activation
- Bluetooth temperature module
- Segfault: balancing transport using a dozen op-amps
- EEG the Locomotion
- Lego machine predicts future eclipses
- Skillet reflow controller
- ATX psu turned into an adjustable voltage bench supply
- Quick, cheap, and simple vacuum tweezers
- Designing an RF transceiver
- Part 2: Help me reverse engineer an LED light bulb
- Ice Tube Clock, meet the ChronoDot
- Home Brew Coffee Machine
- Cassette case cameraphone tripod
- Copper-clad enclosures
- The Twelve Days of… self-replicating
- Vintage car audio gets MP3 input
- Christmas tree low-water monitor
- How to work with EL wire
- Nails and some blacksmithing
- Radio controlled hard drive security
- Project hosting, a common question
- Tuesday Two-Fer: Battery Cases and ABS Lettering
- Original shell houses a Game Boy Advance SP
- Meter clock with pleasing design considerations
- Knitting machine hack by keypad emulation
- Star Trek inspired pocket doors
- Hot resistors used for color-changing clock face
- Breathing motion powered USB charger
- Classical VCR head jog wheel
- Sluggy Wind Speed Sensor
- Composite video with MSP430 chip
- Nerf gun converted to CO2 powered semi-automatic
- Make Your Own TSA “Naked” Scanner
- Water-blob launcher
- BendDesk multi-touch furniture
- Power All Over Your Body
- Next-Level Robotic Hijinx
- Vacuum forming at home
- Make your own solenoids, then play the xylophone
- Heater for bending acrylic
- Steam-powered Rickrolling
- J1: a small, fast, CPU core for FPGA
- You know that they say about guys with big lenses?
- Developing an animatronics platform
- Fake Christmas tree makes it fake snow
- Hacked LED Christmas Lights
November 2010
- Single LED ultraviolet exposure box
- Hacker Classifieds featured find: Thin clients on the cheap
- Time-lapse camera dolly
- Pencil balancer a bit noisy for desk use
- Unlocking RS232 serial comm on a multimeter
- Phillip Torrone answers your questions
- Drill press for through-hole PCB manufacturing
- DIY OLEDs
- Climbing bike storage thwarts thieves?
- Warm Tube Clock
- Chumby webserver using upgraded internal storage
- Radar gun teardown
- “Strong enough to lift a person, yet gentle enough to embrace a child.”
- Wiffletree: a mechanical digital to analog converter
- Audio controlled party lights
- RFID spoofer with code and instructions
- Hackaday links: November 28, 2010
- Epic wooden marble run for kids’ room
- Balancing inverted pendulums
- Barcode challenge for radio operators
- Automated chicken coop door is solar-powered
- Surprisingly simple magnetic card spoofer
- Arduino Electronic Speed Control explained
- Thanksgiving turkey quadcopter shenanigans
- Ubertooth board for Bluetooth experimentation
- Roller curtains with your graphics on them
- Dodecapod to offset Segway as futuristic transport
- Cheap audio equipment makes ATM theft easier
- Hopefully Detect Trolls Before They Devour You
- Elder Robots
- Making music with tech stolen from Predator
- Thanksgiving with thermite
- The quest to build a better Stairmaster
- Double the Hertz, Double the Pleasure
- Building a bandwidth meter
- Interface up to 12 servos using Arduino
- SparkFun free day 2011: now with gambling
- MeggyCade: when handheld pixel gaming isn’t enough
- VGA interfacing AVR microcontrollers
- Timelapse circuit for point and shoot cameras
- PR2 + Kinect
- Hacking together a bedbug exterminator
- Anaglyphic photography made easy
- Mix your own photo developing emulsions
- Ridiculous exerciser becomes useful as a charger
- SmartLCD makes video for microcontrollers easy
- LED wall and Kinect join forces
- Motion activated wildlife camera (or a spy device)
- Adding pan and tilt to a webcam
- Retro adapter for Canon SLR
- Beginner Concepts: Powering your projects
- AVR Programming 04: Writing code, etc.
- Communicating with an LED matrix
- Arduino + Java + Joystick
- Key chain LCD as screen for a Dockstar
- Projector introduces augmented reality to reality
- Hack a Day Classifieds
- Five Free Evalbots
- Build your own SOIC progamming clip
- Well-balanced flight simulator
- Global Village Construction Set
- Electromechanical computer built from relays
- 2010 Hacker Gift Guide
- PC monitor sleep mode using iPhone
- Build a Pong gaming console
- Make a point-and-shoot see infrared light
- CRT art: Wobbulator
- Learn to reverse engineer
- Newest Hardware Bounty, The Open Lidar Project
- Making model rocket motor igniters
- Paper touchpad
- How to weigh a bee hive
- DTG: improved printing on T-shirts
- Jeri makes flexible EL displays
- Gear indicator for Suzuki motorcycle
- Playing hacker with a toy vault
- Excuse me, my pinky is ringing
- Rendering a 3D environment from Kinect video
- In-button display for your car’s dashboard
- Girltech. Sugar Cubes. Monocrome LCD
- C# Portable Settings Provider
- Breadboarding RAM
- Direct to PCB inkjet printing
- Pulito: The LEGO Roomba
- Renesas RX Design Contest: $110K+ of Cash and Prizes
- Debug mode lurking inside AMD chips
- Final Take on the Machine: winners
- Kinect and TISCH combined for multitouch
- Lots of spinning POV goodness
- Nixie tubes live in a cool box
- Lessons in Electric Circuits
- Help me reverse engineer an LED light bulb
- Nixie frequency counter gone timepiece
- Helicopter POV display is a masterwork
- Building a wooden Vespa
- Stupid Friggin’ Robots
- Under-desk RGB keyboard lighting
- DIY vaporizer
- Gum ball maze updated… now with robots!
- Dungeon crawler game for IM-ME (and Linux)
- Moving a resistor for EvalBot power when programming
- Open Source Kinect contest has been won
- Japanese Micro Planes
- Fixing the Future
- Carbon fiber part fabrication guide
- Diving deep into the Game Boy LCD protocol
- Single-motor walker for Santa-Pede Challenge inspiration
- Wireless doorbell rings a real bell
- Robotic mobility for the little ones
- Monotron Openly Monophonic
- Kinect open source driver demo and hacking
- Permanent Root exploit found for g2
- Android Talks Pulsewave
- Beginner Concepts: LEDs and Laws
- Propeller and machine gun timing
- Solderless Drawdio Terminally Implemented
- ROS turns three
- Debounce Code – one post to rule them all
- Android on iPhone: New treats
- AVR controlled RGB LED matrix plays Tetris
- Home automation without pulling wires
- Machine your own Ring Light
- Swapping speedometer needle for LEDs
- Build a confetti cannon for your next party
- Czech Discovery Ressurects PS/2 Keyboard
- V4Z80P: The 8-bit laptop
- Swiveling arms replace Laptop LCD hinges
- CNC machine from PC parts
- Win Big: American Design Style
- Make a knitting machine print pixel art
- Project enclosures the right way
- IM-ME plays music in preparation for gaming
- Water use feedback changes behavior
- Exploit Bait and Switch
- Your mobile phone, now with 100% more RFID
- The Transistor Takes on the Machine
- Hacking together a Sous Vide cooker
- Step by step antique radio repair and upgrade
- Some weekend robot goodness in link form
- AVR Programming 03: Reading and compiling code
- Robot eyes look where you do
- AI via Super Mario evolution
- Chest freezer temperature controller
- Making Point Contact Transistors
- Racing sim cockpit stores inside an ottoman
- Have you ever wanted to be on (Internet) TV?
- Kilobuck Open Kinect Project Prize
- Apple Studio Display connector ports
- Mac SE reborn as a server and Mac emulator
- SNES controller dock for Dell Streak
- Quick and easy Street View treadmill
- Win a Harley in this design contest
- DIY Coffee Gripper
- Test Beds and Jigs with Pogo Pins
- RC bristlebot shifts weight for steering
- Patching into Android music control
- RGB stroboscopic guitar tuning
- Normal connectors for Apple Studio Display
- How-to: Program PICs using Linux
- Robot bicep curl accompanied by too much fanfare
- LEGO ball mill
- LEGO barcode scanner
- Hacking a hack: disassembly and sniffing of IM-ME binary
- Halloween Prop: Mario Bros. with full sound effects
- Magnetic card stripe spoofer
- Augen E-Go booting Linux
- Futuristic 3D mouse originally Arduino powered and 3D printed
- Typewriter as I/O; lets you play Zork
- IM-ME graphic manipulation using sprites
- Halloween House Has Been Known to Burst Into Song
October 2010
- Large magnets spark on Halloween, who knew?
- Mechanical mustache envy
- Even more Halloween links
- Keyboard concept uses magic trackpad
- Hackaday links: October 31, 2010
- Halloween Props: Voice-changing Daft Punk costume
- Building the Banana Jr. 6000
- TV out for TI calculators using the link port
- Beginner Concepts: Electronics basics from the Giz
- Ignore UOP on the OSX dvd player
- This is a peer-to-peer filesharing network
- BBB #1: The Santa-pede challenge
- Exercise along to Google Street View
- Maze-solving robo mouse
- Crutch-mounted light
- Tiny USB business card
- Buy Break Build: A Hackaday Contest Series
- Servicing an Epson projector
- We knew we were doomed when the T-shirt cannon bots showed up
- Software security courtesy of child labor
- Hacking: a disobedient act that drives change
- Artisans Asylum Takes on the Machine
- Unreal speaker build
- Power supplies and transformers; a learning experience
- Halloween Props: Borg costume
- Halloween Props: Talking skeleton in reaper robes
- Smallest gaming console ever. EVER!
- Almost free robo mower
- 70 LED matrix in a Jack-o-lantern
- Portal…shirt?
- Robot gripper uses coffee to pick up anything
- Security flaw bypasses iPhone lock screen
- Tanks treads for your next robot
- Ethernet connection using capacitive coupling
- PC game controller with a touch of class
- RC controlled camera takes intimate video of rodents
- Gas containment for laser cutters
- Firesheep: Promoting privacy in a scary way
- Fully customized robots
- Hacker Housing – Rally to Restore Sanity
- Halloween Props: This drill makes your head spin
- AVR Programming 02: The Hardware
- Hackaday links: October 24, 2010
- Hackvision is build-your-own retro game
- Lightsaber color selector
- Marx Generator, knocks our rocks off
- IM-ME USB dongle hacking
- EvalBot: arrival and assembly
- AVR Programming 01: Introduction
- RGB LED Headband
- Halloween props: Pumpkin in standby-mode
- FM bug using salvaged SMD parts
- 1000W search light – now build a bat signal
- Panaplex in a jar
- Tiny FM transmitter bugs rooms
- Multiple core Propeller speeds up display addressing
- UV EPROM eraser in a toolbox
- 90 TB drive array for home storage needs
- Crash Space Takes on the Machine
- AVR DDS signal generator improvements
- Building a UV exposure box
- Waterproof DIY momentary-push switch
- Rodent-based power generation
- New Dynamic Duo, Arduino and Eclipse
- Plantenna: the plant antenna
- Using a cellphone LCD as auxiliary Linux display
- More EL chemistry: Luminescent ink
- Machining an SLR camera from scratch
- Propeller Platform prototyping board gets an upgrade
- Hacking TVs in 1954
- Cheap and easy SMS via GSM for your MCU
- Data confirmation with RF communications
- 3D printing with LEGO
- Data plotting for the visually impaired
- Halloween props: Dancing spider
- Hackaday links: October 17, 2010
- Master clock system uses all logic, no microcontrollers
- Gesture controlled robotic hand
- Live action fighting games
- Homemade music player
- Shiny motorcycle computer
- Computer aided cake decoration
- Brightest day, darkest night, charge it with Arduino’s light
- The polyplasmic archophone
- Adafruit industries opens a job board
- Cellphone crowd-pleasers
- C Sharp Development 101 – Part 2: Toolbox Controls
- Vapor phase reflow soldering
- 3D printing with visible light
- Self-balancing unicycle 2.0
- Spherical multitouch rig
- Window curtain moves to screen pedestrians
- Pumping Station: One takes on the machine
- Android oscilloscope
- Cadsoft Eagle migrating to XML
- Touring the available Nokia LCD screens
- Larson scanner hacking
- Assassin’s Creed blades make us wince
- Open Call: send us your Debounce code
- LEGO automatic transmissions
- Paging system for your TV remote
- DIY print head experiments
- Chumby takes its first steps
- Building a recumbent trike from old parts
- ARM prototyping on-the-cheap with STM32 Discovery
- Use a 3D mouse with Eagle CAD
- Halloween props: puking pirate
- Take me back to a simpler time, Radio Flyer
- Adding mobile control to your gardening
- Embedded RFID for online passwords
- NES controller gets a rumble pak
- Bicycle hub hydropower
- Learning to walk, a tutorial on making bipeds walk
- Creepy HDD activity lights just in time for Halloween
- Oogoo, a home-made Sugru substitute
- Hackaday links: October 10, 2010
- Add-on panel brings automated vents flaps to a PC
- New A4 jailbreak debacle puts the brakes on for iPad
- Human Theremin, one step closer to cyborgs (not really)
- Yashica Electro Shutter mod
- Using an Arduino or Seeeduino for its FTDI chip
- Pulling data from the IM-ME spectrum analyzer
- Beefy battery backup still running after a decade
- Reddit hacking for votes and profit
- Add supercaps to your exercise routine
- Game Boy printer USB cable and software
- Bench supply with current limiting
- Turtles all the way down, 40 Propeller MCU skyscraper
- Playing piano with optical sensors
- An interesting take on WEP cracking
- Automated chip burning
- BIOS password cracking
- NYC Resistor Takes on the Machine
- Upgrading the Freetronics twentyten with a real-time clock
- Cheap robotic hand
- Arduino, RFID, and you
- Pyrosphere at Burning Man 2010
- Solar powered WiFi repeater
- Mini pinball is all-pixels
- PIC programmable power supply
- Syyn Labs’ Glowing DNA
- Rat propulsion via brain-machine interface
- Build a simple switch
- Cheap(er) biometric gun safe
- Munchausen makes NES a cartridge programmer
- A ride into space, but nothing fancy
- Build a beach winch for wakeboarding
- Bronze casting with MakerBot
- Photo booth in briefcase form
- From sign language to spoken language
- More OpenWRT image building for the Dockstar
- $125 off the Evalbot is a steal
- Wood burning house heater
- Electronic dice, overkill and simplified
- IR receiver as USB keyboard
- Hackaday links: October 3, 2010
- Millennium Falcon doll house
- Zinc sulfide glow power at home
- Chiptune instrument from NES
- Spinning POV clock done oh-so-right
- Decoding MP3 in Python
- DIY night vision monocle
- R/C PPM hacked
- Android apps using Processing
- USB ports hidden inside gaming mouse
- Open source pick-and-place
- Disco drumming with piezo sensitive lighting
- Next generation Arduino manufacturing problems?
- You’re stealing it wrong: a speech by Jason Scott
- GameBoy Advance Rapid Fire Hack
- Mac tablet keeps the look of the donor-Macbook
September 2010
- Launchpad takes ultra low power to the extreme
- C Sharp Development 101 – Part 1: Hello World
- Build a cutting laser from an old PC
- Printing from a Famicom clone computer
- The new Apple TV
- USB mouse with storage added
- Wooden quadcopter body
- Dazzling coat sure to be in demand with pimps everywhere
- Magnets Capable of Brain Hacks
- Dreamcast VMU, meet iPod
- Tiny Cray-1 courtesy of an FPGA
- Thinner client using STM32 and NTSC monitor
- Lazarus-64, not actually 64 bit but still blows our minds
- Creepy Robot Really Wants Money…
- 16 bit ALU in minecraft
- Woot lights and mice transplants
- Launchpad not limited to value line chips
- Building a crystal oven
- Graffiti Analysis
- Photo Booth for a wedding
- Single string servo electric guitar
- Solder Paste How-to Tutorial
- Homemade solid propellant rocket motors
- Work for Hack A Day
- GPU Processing and Password Cracking
- Wireless electrocardiography… with iPhone
- Arduino UNO and Mega 2560
- Beginner Concepts: All about AVR Interrupts
- Scanning tunneling microscope under GPL3
- Making your own lithium-ion batteries
- DRM causes vulnerabilities
- PS3 Sixaxis controller now houses exploit
- From cinema to stills, camera lens gets new life
- Portable password vault
- A simple FM transmitter
- Laser mic makes eavesdropping remarkably simple
- RFID readers, writers, and spoofers
- Tokyo Hackerspace – Akihabara Station Video Tour
- PS3 Jailbreak – Now in Apple flavor!
- Unmanned ocean crossing
- Gutting an air freshener for the parts
- The HDCP master key
- Thieves, armed with a vacuum cleaner, still on the run
- Full-featured AVR time-lapse
- You’ll shoot your eye out, another coilgun
- WiFi AP gets antenna augmentation
- Analog Stylophone
- Codec2: GNU low-bitrate speech codec
- 2-bit paper processor teaches how they work
- A fantastic collection of slapped together bots
- Build a tetrahedral ambisonic microphone
- Input device using LED and four photoresistors
- Darbuka band
- Matrix clock is a breadboarding win
- Audio ads in newspapers?
- Small and simple FM radio
- Discussing Pulse-Width Modulation
- Another approach to power meter data harvesting
- Hackerspace competition: looks promising
- Machined steadicam, steadier than the rest
- Something wicked this way comes
- New term for art: Sculptural Robotics
- Homebrew firmware upgrade for VCI-100 turntable controller
- Motorcycle rear-view with in-helmet display
- Audio cabinet refit with modern equipment
- Beefing up a cheap drill motor
- World Maker Faire New York 2010
- Hackaday links: September 19, 2010
- Autonomous rover roams the halls
- WiiMote accessibility modifications
- Hackerspaces sprouting up around the Midwest
- As promised: more industrial robot goodness
- Smart power meter interface for the Linux crowd
- Daft Punk table with iPod dock
- Intel: High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection cracked
- USB host comes to Zipit
- Line following tank without a microcontroller
- 3D digital light art using iPad and camera trickery
- Building Linux images for ARM architectures
- Ben Heckendorn gets his own TV show
- USB adapter options
- Low-power wireless home automation sensors
- Web controlled sprinkler automation
- Wii sensor bar projector
- Dead motor? Think again
- Robot laser tag
- Laser marquee projector
- Atari 2600 recreated in an FPGA
- PSGroove on a PIC microcontroller
- $169 Linux tablet… sortof
- Quadbike: bigger is better
- Ritewing Zephyr build and flight footage
- Blade Runner umbrella saber
- Automated entry for a garden gate
- Robotic eye surgery controlled with magnets
- 5 Tones, 1 Arduino
- LEGO host for all of your prototyping projects
- Auxiliary scoreboard reads status directly from memory
- 1 Watt laser engraver
- Python library for Emotiv EEG
- Analog style LED clock
- Home made T.E.A. lasers
- Building a power supply around a DC-DC converter
- Small CNC gadget draws what it hears
- Cheap cable reused to add USB to your project
- Keypad door lock, better than last years keyfob?
- Macro lens for a Nexus One
- Internet controlled remote
- PVC pipe fittings just for building stuff
- PlayStation 3 exploit using a TI84 calculator
- Augmented reality UAV controller
- Constructing a CO2 laser cutter
- Web controlled watering can
- Laser cutter doubles as a 3D printer
- 76 flaming trombones led the big parade
- RFID entry uses homemade electronic strike
- Password exploitation classes online
- Revive a DockStar and get so much more
- Easy quadrotor helicopter instructions
- Location tracking with Twitter and Google maps
- Steroscopic rig requires only one camera
- Serial port controlled CPU fan
- Re-purpose industrial robotic arms
- BeagleBoard Cluster
- Face-slapping security gaff in stored-value cards
- Hacking Wing Commander for Windows 7 Compatibility
- Projectile speed sensor
- Equinox clock
- 1953 Radio includes tubes, AM, FM, and MP3
- Snake bot climbs trees
- Self playing Bayan built nearly 22 years ago
- Solid ice beer caddy
- Binary Calculator
- Shovel…guitar?
- C Sharp Development 101 – A Tutorial Series
- The Spindicator
- EEVblog dissects a kindle 3
- Controlling the power of a flash with a tv remote
- Trossen Robotics holding another contest
- Using an NES controller on an Android phone
- Car computer requires PIN for ignition
- Meter clock using the TI Launchpad
- Firmware hacking on Behringer midi devices
- Meat smoker texts you when it is done
- Barcode Infiltrator
- Spy Video TRAKR: software and first hack
- LED suit lights up the night
- Alarm clock learns new trick, opening doors
- How to fix AVR-SIZE on Ubuntu 10.04
- Using quality optics with a webcam
- Open source version of the Play Station 3 Jailbreak
- Replacing the driver board in an old-school door chime
August 2010
- Making a smaller keyboard
- Wearable controller for your paintball tank
- Build your own magnetic levitator
- Floating globe, hacked to rotate
- Controlling an AC drill using one PWM connection
- Pressure mapping sensor mat
- Spy Video TRAKR: the teardown
- Use a big magnet to set the time
- Arduino based thermal printer
- USB Typewriter
- DWex watch looks for future development
- Hackaday links: August 29, 2010
- From RepStrap to RepRap; a 3D printer is born
- Make switched-mode power supplies do your bidding
- Art piece from board artwork
- Seaswarm: we can clean up the Gulf in a month
- Beginner Concepts: Analog circuits
- Prototyping the Bulbdial clock
- Gas plasma pinball display
- Tube preamp with a dazzling wood case
- Robotic helicopter that can grasp a payload
- Airport Express speaker mashup
- Hydropower generator
- iPhone drum machine isn’t synthesized
- Devote your life to replicating a lightsaber
- Spy Video TRAKR: first impressions
- LED goggles make you trip out?
- So you want to make a Command Line Interface
- Building a laser cutter from a weak laser
- Hacking a code-protected hard disk
- Burglar alarm in a zippo lighter
- Take better pictures of your projects
- Wristwatch board with throwback digits
- Modem used in an alarm system
- EL Wire: make it, connect it, power it
- Electric scooter sings as it travels
- In-dash motorcycle display
- Adventures in Consumer Electronics Control (CEC)
- Digital View-Master
- PET-Gaming Computer Module
- Top 5 Integrated Development Environments
- ATtiny2313 prime number generator
- Surgical microscope gets LED retrofit
- WiFi controlled Arduino-bot
- Profit-less space program launches in one week
- Indestructible TI-89
- A different take on electric motor cars
- Hexapod controlled by Android and iPhone
- Hackaday links: August 22, 2010
- Giving an IR transmitter some strength
- Another home-built laser projector
- Laminar water jet explained
- Vector plotter with lasers
- Laser microscope projection
- Electric motorcycle rocks one wheel
- Microscope camera adapter
- 1W blue laser – remarkably easy and dangerous
- Microsoft engineers reinvent the Optimus keyboard
- FPSLIC powered LED matrix
- Replace batteries with USB power
- Modchip hacks PS3 via USB port
- Todays Arduino Moment
- Lee Hart’s “Memebership Card”
- 7-segment Sudoku
- Make iPhone a penetration testing tool
- Needs more LEDs, EMSL biggified Conway’s Game of Life
- Drone cracks WiFi from on high
- mbed Robo-Rover
- Building a discrete digital-analog-converter
- Ride fly: Segway DIY
- Negative laser etching
- A desktop made of Air
- Repairing the Itona VXL thin client
- Super simple Arduino setup lowers electricity bills
- Brain wave skimming on the go
- Using videotape tape as a controller
- Home claw game delights the little ones
- Robot follows the rules of the road
- Androidome: Monome for Android
- GameBoy Analog Meter
- Hackaday links: August 15, 2010
- Making EL wire
- More car audio input hacking
- New nook says: no root for you!
- YM2149 gets new life
- Google maps wristlet navigator
- Hacked AC and ash filter
- Portable WiFi penetration testing
- RS232 and RS485 networking – no code required
- Building a Yagi-Uda antenna
- A collection of quick line-followers
- Making the Bulbdial clock touch sensitive
- Porting code to MSP430
- EyeMario, play mario with your eye movements
- Cybraphon, rocks hard to the mood of the internet
- 2 foot tall POV globe
- GBA emulator ported to Didj
- Beer fridge holds iPad hostage
- Adding an input to an old head unit
- Airsoft minigun packs quite a punch
- One-handed GameCube controller
- How-to: Launchpad programming with Linux
- DroidX gets a custom recovery image
- MSP430 based single LED clock
- Snapping pics at the right moment with a pressure plate
- Road tour on a bike with an attitude
- Android Development 101 – Part 6:Getting ready for Market!
- Super Simple Inch worm mechanism
- Out now: EL coat, Coming soon: EL hat
- RGB Lamp bulb replacement
- Guide to producing tilt-shift photography
- Spin Peggy, get 3D POV
- Behind the scenes of a 1K graphics demo
- Adding a microphone jack to a HAM radio handset
- Chainsaw/flashlight overkill
- Solar panel charger analysis with Ladyada
- Texas Instruments watch claims it’s a computer mouse
- Open graphing calculator: Beagleboard + R
- Miniscule intervalometer
- Dummy loads and heat sinks
- Make your own Mindstorm sensors
- Bluetooth multimedia remote
- RGB VU meter
- txtBomber
- Using Makerbot for dishwasher repair
- Android Development 101 – Part 5:DroidDraw & Information Tracker Completed
- Cray-inspired PC case
- Recyclebot digests milk jugs to feed MakerBot
- Giant insect rover works for us
- PCB trace antenna
- Wine cask sensor suite
- Making home automation modules talk to each other
- Network enabled window air conditioner
- Racing game uses a physical race track and vehicle
- All metal hot end for Makerbot
- The quest for a bicycle power system
- Robot boxing with wrist watches
- Driving with Android
- Reverse engineering Apple’s recharging scheme
- DIY Guided Missile (…err model rocket)
- Android controlling Mindstorms NXT
- Handheld plays SNES and NES carts
- Light bulb form-factor computer
- Head-up uses facial recognition and augmented reality
- Android Development 101- Part 4:Advanced Database/GUI Code and DDMS
- Hardware hack 3D, software still needed
- Jailbreak your Apple products
- Doorbell combo lock can open your garage door
- Update: Custom cellphone induction charging
- Hackaday links: August 1, 2010
- Multi-purpose welding cart
- Save a baby, nursery temperature monitor
July 2010
- XT IDE controller
- DefCon 18 Official Badges
- Scoreboard from scratch
- Building a better water rocket launchpad
- Elegant wearable computer
- DIY picture frame better than store bought
- Tethering the Samsung Vibrant without rooting
- 2010 Ninja Party badge
- Super simple gaming controller for Android or iPhone
- Graphic calculator as a spectrum analyzer
- Ice Tube Clock GPS
- Flipping pancakes
- WiFi on a Sprint Pixi
- Emulating an Amiga floppy drive
- Inductive cellphone charging without voiding warranty
- Extra extra: Now legal to jailbreak iPhone
- Store update: Bags, Pads, and possibly badges.
- 200 mile RF transmitter (and high altitude balloon)
- Making Nixie tubes at home
- Air freshener hacking
- 6809 computing
- C02 laser in your living room
- Web-enabled LED pegboard
- More automated wire cutting
- HOPE badge proximity sensor
- DS1307 breakout board
- Long arms required, electronic trombone
- Hackaday links: July 25, 2010
- Alternative Morse code keys
- Guitar effect shield for Maple
- Extremely organized prototyping
- Daft Punk Helmet replica finally completed
- Adding mute to a Bluetooth headset
- Teensy credit card reader
- 20-channel DMX controller
- Spirograph generator
- Terminal Node Controller in a router
- A bicycle build for… 2.0
- All that’s needed is a retro paintjob, miniMAME
- Release the Kraken: Open source GSM cracking tool released.
- Making mobile audio work at home
- Mouse controlled manipulator arm
- Adding a serial port to a Dockstar
- Chipophone plays video game classics
- Tailgating this car carries a heavy penalty
- CNC hardware: stream g-code to an Arduino
- Android Development 101 – Part 3:Introduction to Databases
- Break out the two-ply, Ecobot III poops
- LED matrix with a gross of pixels
- Complete the Hack A Day survey, win a shirt
- iPhone 4 steadicam
- Rapid furniture prototyping
- iPad arcade dock has hidden projector
- Hands-free input
- 4-player SNES and more
- Wifi hotspot powered by wind turbine and solar panel
- AVR Guardian filters out dogs
- PIC based picture frame
- Nixie Sudoku: a look at the hardware
- Android Development 101- Part 2:Graphical Elements
- Xbox 360 hard drive adapter (redux)
- My what a large capacitor bank you have
- Building a remote control
- Arm mounted light cannon; villains beware
- Making glow sticks at home
- Servo controller board
- Lolo’s (perfect moment) alarm clock
- OpenWRT on a Seagate FreeAgent Dockstar
- RFID cat feeder helps with the diet
- SEGA Genesis cloned with an FPGA
- Neon binary clock
- Decapping integrated circuits with sap
- CNC build ditches rods for hardboard
- General purpose robot remote
- 3D printing with chemicals
- Android Development 101 – Part 1:Hello World
- That light switch is disgusting!
- Foam board servo driven arm
- Arduino Space Program
- 3 camera booms for your Wednesday afternoon
- Programmable Game Boy cartridge walk through
- Panoramic and spheric tripod rig
- Fankart and the HolyF***k!ted fan
- RBD (robotic beer delivery)
- Shred air with Theremin Hero
- Homemade induction generator
- A pair of Rube Goldberg builds
- Key fob programming
- DelFly2 and DelFly micro
- Electronic vuvuzela
- Programmable drum machine
- Update: Acrobatic quadcopters team up
- A letter from Jason Calacanis, the owner of Hack a Day
- Android Development 101 – A tutorial Series
- Stretch-bike
- Top 5 Twitter Clients For Android
- Make your own toner transfer paper
- Chess table: physical interface for Internet games
- 16-pixel handheld gaming
- Adding speech recognition to your embedded platform.
- CubeStormer; quick solutions from LEGO parts
- Try as you might, Scooty won’t fall over
- Electric mountainboard with wireless control
- Top 10 features we’d like to see in Android 3.0
- Solar MintyBoost
- Server enclosure from 22 rolls of tape
- Waking up with the (fake) sun
- Autonomous battery exchange
- Nixie Sudoku
- Get started with speech recognition
- Meter clock
- Control a TV with GLCD commands
- Stylin’ HMD
- Building an Electric Kart
- Leapster Explorer continues the Didj tradition
- Stepping beyond the Ethernet shield
- Introductions: 3 new writers
- Wear a helmet, rollerblades with attitude
- Touch screen using range sensors
- Heel treads make shoes go
- Whole house current monitoring
- Humble Homes, Simple Shacks
- Nexus one gets Linux
- Multi-layer display uses water instead of screen
- Wireless face tracking camera
- Texting with some walkie-talkies
- Decatron stand-in
- Mini racing cabinet
- Bassoforte and other new instruments
- Connecting a Nokia 3310 LCD using an AVR
- 30 Mph electric mountain bike
- Power laces take us 5 years into the future
- Wireless garage door indicator
- Reverse engineering an RF clicker
- Marvelous Magnetic Machines
- Wireless presenters easily cracked
- RobotsEverywhere
- Hard drive destruction plan
- Calibrate those instruments
- Free laundry redux
- No touch LED lamp
- Robostool follows you to your chair
- OLED hack saves juice on Nexus One
- Tomato irrigation
- Coded safety for diy laser
- Great interactive LED puzzle
- Three pendulum harmonograph
- Store update: Remember this?
- Arduino webserver
- Open source logic analyzer software
- Wasp sucker clears the air
- RFID transplant
- Microcontrollers access the web
- Project Apex, Apad mod
June 2010
- Physical tone matrix
- DIDJ composite video out
- NES controller to USB gamepad
- Holy robin trap Batman!
- How to design your gears
- Power cycling a problematic modem
- Acrylic hackintosh housing
- FPC Arduino
- Sidecar reminiscent of conjoined twins
- Programmable Origami
- Cameras perch on power lines, steal electricity
- Touchscreen scooter computer
- Houses to go from leftover scraps
- Tank drone with automatic targeting and tracking
- Sonoluminescence
- Interview with Steven Levy about Hackers
- Links expanded: Snake on LED matrix
- DTG using a stock printer
- Audible tuner for the blind
- Now you see me, now you don’t, face detection scripts
- Hackaday links: June 27, 2010
- CD controlled lawn mower
- Portable Atari the size of a Game Boy
- Cat hacking
- Multitouch using water
- Jumping robot looks like a product of Doctor Wily
- Selective Laser Sintering rig on the cheap
- SOAP compatibility for SQLmap
- Adding motion control to an RC transmitter
- Yukikaze, music visualizations
- Machining a horizontal Stirling engine
- Adding a serial port to the Zipit
- Unwrapping 360 degree video
- Multi Multimeter clock
- Mushroom terrarium automation
- Mr. Burns prevents sun burns
- Fusion, in my backyard?!
- Working with the AT90USBKey
- Live fire Half-life
- Giant LED matrix
- iPhone 4 teardown
- Another take on a bicycle built for two
- Next HOPE badge hacking primer
- Update: Atari pause button
- PlayStation 2 portable
- Morse code clock
- TI makes a big bid for the hobby market
- PSP homebrew using the Half-Byte Loader
- Audio breakout box for MacBook Pro
- Inductive charging for the HTC Evo
- Gaming’s newest accessory: headbands
- $100 CNC mill
- Swarm Light at Art Basel
- Tetris code theory explained
- Reverse GeoCache puzzle gets downsized
- Hackaday links: June 20, 2010
- Building a SuperMacro lens
- Coachella lamp
- Arc Reactor replica
- Nerf sentry turret
- Candle stop motion: how’s it done?
- Velosynth annoys those around you as you ride
- Talking poker timer
- X-Band linear rail SAR imaging
- Student Soaker, wireless water gun
- The PR2 calls the shots
- Replacement speedometer
- Building a cluster of iPaq PCs
- No nonsense mbed development demo
- Adjustable Tesla coil build
- Most useless machine loses carbon footprint
- Joojoo alternative OS installations
- Careful! That gas pedal is a Nexus One
- Win at Hangman, gain entry
- Simple shutter speed tester
- Using iPod docks with Droid via an adapter
- (Real) Stargate built in backyard
- Great ball contraption
- Preparing your PCB design for manufacture
- Recharging AC with propane
- iPad hacked to include a Verizon MiFi
- Vuvuzela removal
- Android meets Arduino
- Unbricking with the help of Arduino
- Update: Flash_Destroyer final destroys EEPROM
- Monster Chess
- Distance measurement input device
- Radio-Walkman-megaphone hybrid
- Ground your car to make it go
- Electro Luminescent fun with Jeri Ellsworth
- World’s slowest Porsche, still faster than my car
- Toddler android
- Gaming system for less than three bucks
- Hackaday links: June 13, 2010
- Wireless accelerometer project
- LEGO hand controller
- Massive MIDI station ditches the monitor
- Wiimote controlled Ruben’s tube
- Cockroach pimps a sweet ride
- Printed circuit board minus the printed traces
- Pressurized PVC water gun
- Intelligent battery charging
- Seven-six-two millimeter. Full plastic jacket.
- Dingoo A320 RAM upgrade
- Making liquid nitrogen at home
- DMX keyboard display
- Rotary display uses VCR head and LEDs
- (mini)How-To: Refill your DTG inks
- Building a glue stick flashlight
- Linux tablet built around a BeagleBoard
- Resurrecting ISA hardware
- Preserving old stuff with the Library of Congress
- Baxter the ButlerBot and RoboFridge
- Distributed Flight Array
- DUO 128 Elite, 4 bit CPU
- An Arduino Watch you would actually want to wear
- Getting your message across at commencement
- WiMax antenna with auto-positioning system
- Simple way to fix that broken Ethernet cable
- Windows 7 tablet in a carbon fiber case
- Nexus one as USB host
- Compound eyes for your robot
- Augmenting a cheap Android MID
- Furniture bots, transform
- Did that table just move?
- USB hub used for In System Programming
- HaD store update: New stickers, Shirts, New logo
- Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition 2010 Day Two Report
- Color clock makes telling time impossible
- Drawbot produces portraits… very slowly
- Fake Nixie clock
- How-to: DIYDTG
- Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition 2010 Day One Report
- Adding Compact Flash to an old sequencer
- 3D Printed MakerBot
- BP oil blunders
- Motorcycle current gear indicator
- 1000W induction heater
- Superprobe
- Printing with pressure
- USBasp: AVR programmer based on ATmega8
- Nixie-display brings more wiring madness
- Wire-wrapping an LED matrix
- HID crafting with a PIC and a joystick
- Easy data input for LabVIEW
- PartKAM produces CAM related files online
- Six digit LED clock
- LEGO printer built without NXT parts
- HDSPs and Playstation 2 controllers on Arduinos
- RC car taunts man’s best friend
- Modern recordings on wax cylinder
- Stomp box synthesizer
- JTAG programming over a network
- iRobot gets awesome exploding rope thingy
- Switchmode LED flashlight upgrade
May 2010
- May the Phorse be with you
- Beginner Concepts: Cascading shift registers
- Bluetooth boombox
- LEGO pick and place
- Flight simulator but you’re the plane
- Child-sized cocktail cabinets
- Crossfade curve tweaking
- Brighten up your PCB drilling station
- Moving speakers to mix audio tracks
- Parallax RFID Reader for Ten Bucks
- SPRIME controlled AC outlets
- Hoverboard comes to life
- Home DNA lab tools
- 2010 sees new lock impressioning speed record
- Quadcopter acrobatics like nothing we’ve seen
- Russian Roulette… for EEPROM
- Embedding an accelerometer and XBee in a guitar
- Adding SCART to a cheap CRT television
- Commercial webcam multi-touch coming soon
- GSoC takes on XBMC on the Beagleboard
- BAMF2010: Look sir, droids!
- USB morse code keyboard
- BAMF2010: DIY electroluminescent displays
- Unlocking the crippled potential of an unmanaged switch
- PLCC replaces Game Boy cartridge ROM
- One-armed coding using a half-qwerty hack
- Sound card driven servo motor
- 32-bit ARM7 gaming rig
- The story of Mr. Stabby
- Bay Area Maker Faire 2010 video
- Head mounted camera tracks with your eyes
- Cool yourself with a CPU cooler and beer fridge
- Mass storage business card
- Aircraft carrier is moving target for autonomous quadcopter
- Poor MABEL
- Bay Area Maker Faire 2010 in pictures
- Maple R3 now shipping
- DB9 form factor USB-RS232 replacement
- Build HAL into your kitchen
- Prison tattoo machine made from PlayStation
- BAMF2010: Spy TRAKR – no lasers, $14,861 cheaper
- Sun tracking solar panel
- BAMF2010: QB goes to meetings, shoots lasers from eyes
- BAMF2010: CMT 380X Blackbird
- Spark plug music
- BAMF2010: SolarPump Charging Station
- Talking clock sounds just like you
- Composting to create hot water
- Open Source STM
- Z80 emulated on PIC hardware
- Hack a Day store now open
- Bay Area Maker Faire blasts off Saturday
- Power drill solder spooler
- Ubuntu on the ClarionMIND MID
- Automatic fish feeder
- Urine a candidate for energy independence
- Personal pencil production plant
- Keyboard input for PlayStation
- Balancing cube looks more like a star
- Arduino based EATC replacement
- Shredding to Street Fighter
- Cramming more pixels into a Thinkpad
- Solder station hack adds temperature control
- 32 LED POV globe
- Mister Gloves, gesture input
- Cathode ray tube leads the way on this bot
- Composing music with the Force Trainer
- Command line video processing using FOSS
- Modern car data systems lack security
- Super quick and cheap trackball
- Magically repair AVR chips
- Old school vending machine learns new tricks
- Building an oak telescope
- Tweet-a-Watt now speaks to Google Power Meter
- Final Projects: WiFi coil gun turret
- Lunkenheimer steam whistle, doorbell
- Kaossilator on the cheap
- A Black Box Mystery
- Human Tetris: object tracking on an 8-bit microcontroller
- Hack a Day’s Dictionary of Questionable Utility™
- Minimalist AVR programmer is just fab!
- Button mapping for all
- Using iPad SIM with an iPhone
- Cat door unlocks via facial recognition
- Electromechanical game: Running with the bulls
- Biopunk watch: time, temperature, gaming
- Wii remote connectivity for Android devices
- OpenGL on the Didj
- Transistor fabrication: so simple a child can do it
- Nike + iPod as a tracking device
- Ghetto repairs: Desoldering with a candle
- Point and shoot in a classic camera body
- Midi gloves
- Monitor UV exposure with your sunglasses
- Building air variable capacitors
- Nerf sentry gun build in progress
- Digikey sort by price script
- Maze solving
- PS3 patch allows Linux installation
- Original NES plays Game Boy games?
- Open3DP looks at 3D printing in common materials
- Hack Your Crystal’s Frequency
- Color a Sound
- More glove-based interfaces
- FPS controller hacks getting easier
- TOBY: reel mower bot evolved
- Making a bluetooth SNES controller
- Twilio adds touch tone telephone control for Arduino
- Multiple material 3D printing
- Manual transmission gear sensor
- Nimbus, portable N64
- XKCD takes a swipe at the Arduino
- Making magnetite nanocrystals
- Cornell final project list
- 5×2 patch board
- Reuse that PDA as a WRT terminal
- Toner transfer explained step-by-step
- Hand made manipulator arm
- Peltier cooler based cloud chamber
- DSLR Shoulder holster with follow focus
- Building removable epoxy mounting brackets
- PC side IM-ME hacks
- Build your own Wikipedia reader
- Vehicle information display hacks
- Mad machinist masterpieces
- Classic Canon AE-1 gets a digital upgrade
- Custom PS3 controller: software emulation version
- Adding RAM to the Nexus One without soldering
- Possibly the most beautiful piece of hardware
- When multimeters go boom
- Remote operated underwater vehicle
- Answers.hackaday.com is LIVE
- Paintball graffitti
- Laser Command game uses laser for control
- Print toner directly to a PCB
- QFN or MLF soldering without solder paste
- EMG controlled prosthesis
- POV LED sphere
- iPhone 3.1.3 unteathered jailbreak
- Automated chicken coop door
- VirtualBox beta runs Mac OS X
- Wyvern quadcopter
- Remote control reel mower
- Headphone tube preamp kit
- A more powerful boost charger
- DIY pulse oximeter
- Motion sensing light module
- Custom headphones solve wire tangles
- Phasor A/V PAL demo uses ATmega88
- DPAC put your alarm clock to shame
- CPU as a heat sink
- Motorcycle computer
April 2010
- Adding reset to an FTDI cable
- Using A/C frequency as a clock signal
- Ball inverted pendulum
- Optiboot makes your Arduino faster, sleeker
- Perfect spiral, every time
- 9 digit pulse counter
- Ithacka BOJ challenge
- Sony removes PS3 Linux support; Gets sued for it
- Hacking Game Boy for sound
- Mindstorm Rubik’s solver
- Surface mount breakout boards
- Chumby One becomes a 3g router
- Forget the Rovio, drive a taxi with your mind.
- Aerial photography platforms
- Mind controlled rovio
- Printable mecanum wheel
- Learn console hacking
- Bonfire – interactivity using pico projectors and cameras
- Report from ESC Silicon Valley 2010
- Multiple buttons and a pot on one pin
- Puppet Circuits
- RFID immobiliser
- Hackaday links: April 28, 2010
- Part arcade, part guitar
- I am root! – Alex eReader
- Apod, an update
- 40 MSPS Digital oscilloscope
- Emulating a Z80 computer with an AVR chip
- The Wii golf glove
- Lawnmower converted to Hoe/scraper
- IEE clock
- Lawnmower+stake+rope=Analog robotic lawn service
- Midi piano instructor
- Printable appendage with two joints and integrated motors
- Altair 8800 pc case can emulate the original hardware
- Update: IR controlled lighting
- Biosphere lighting
- Spinning ball of LED awesomeness
- Wii remote controlled balancing wheel chair
- Custom controllers for PlayStation 3
- RF transmission in the 9 KHz band
- Rendering and Blendering in a file cabinet
- Apple IIe Twitter ticker
- Driving the car without going anywhere
- Playstation 2 controller to PSP adapter
- Flux-cored to MIG welder conversion
- WiFi and Bluetooth sniffing rifle
- Get serious about building a sequencer
- Build a foam machine
- VFD as a sound amplifier
- Android on the iPhone
- USB VU-meter
- Are you human? Resistor edition
- Flaming hot brick plays games, promotes tendonitis
- Replicating connectors by machining PVC
- All-terrain camera
- Infrared transmission decoding
- Egg incubation chamber
- Automated guitar pickup winding
- Fisheye lens for your SLR
- Twittering pub hanging
- Just the right controller for any game
- GPS embedded in visor
- Gently stroke this drum
- Build your own RFID reader
- Toaster web interface
- Augmented reality glasses
- Makerbot clone
- Arduino RFID spoofer
- Hackaday links: April 18, 2010
- Didj Hacking: DJHI 2.8 preorder
- Racing sim with real car parts
- Beginner concepts: Using an accelerometer
- Improving a motorized toy
- Four channel logic analyzer
- Zune gets hacked, OpenZDK
- Hijacking the Mazda LCD display
- Virtual windows that track a viewer’s position
- Vigorous exercise keeps the tunes coming
- Coin-op pays out when you win
- Victorian styled nixie tester
- Beer can pinhole camera
- Mindstorm plays Tetris for you
- Solenoid orchestra led a by laser conductor
- Clock hides time until you’re in close proximity
- Stanford’s stickybot3
- Make cotton candy at home
- Ask HackADay: Organization?!
- Punching accelerometers
- Robotic chess opponent
- What kind of LED matrix does your vodka come with?
- All about VLF radio
- Electronic wind chime
- PWM fan controller for external hard drive
- PICMAN, a diy prototyping setup
- Laser cut and printable cases
- Mechanical scanning television
- Tiny tube amp for headphones
- Giant robotic giraffe getting a giant robotic facelift
- Building a window mounted antenna for your car
- Game Boy video out adapter
- Public transportation notifier
- Warthog laser tag
- Force feedback for the Nintendo DS
- Mind controlled TV
- Convert an early 60s Polaroid to modern film
- Ask HackADay: Network Security Camera
- Packshotnik: 360 degree image creation
- SNES Controller + USB + Accelerometer
- Make a bandsaw
- Strobe array for dance parties
- Hacking the MindFlex, more!
- Flux paste applicator gun
- PIC USB host shortcuts
- LEGO gearbox – seven speed plus reverse
- Arduino implemented on an FPGA
- Roomba dissection videos
- Intruder alarm McDonald’s toy hacking
- The trans-atlantic battery bunny divide
- Project J.A.R.V.I.S.
- Teletype Twitter frontend
- Fully-automated golf ball gun
- Logic clock without an on-board oscillator
- Third-person vehicle
- On-the-go prototyping
- PC fan failure alarm
- Peering in a the A4, the iPad’s brain
- Solenoid motor from a VCR head
- A cop in every car
- Beginner concepts: electronic Jack-in-the-box
- Internet radio player wins Propeller Design Contest
- Program your own mayhem-causing USB dongle
- USB host for Propeller micros
- Photographing splashing droplets
- JooJoo turns out to be legit, gets torn down.
- iPad teardown
- Touch screen for graphing calculator
- HDD power tools: the sander
- Clock sans-microcontroller
- AVR synth/sequencer
- 3D laser printer
- Illuminated moveable type
- Your hard drive needs a diamond blade
- Flood triggered camera
- Arduino iPod library work continues
- I’m one step closer to Azeroth
- How-to: Make a Mains Crossover Cable
- Core3Duino (April fools?!) and xDuino
March 2010
- CNC plotter from old parts
- Sony removes PS3 Linux support with an update… errrrr, downgrade?
- Home fabricated boards in any color
- Update: 50MHz to 100Mhz scope conversion
- What input device? Just use your arm
- ZeroPlus logic cube modification
- CNC egg decorating
- Nixie tachometer
- (the) FIRST Robotics competition
- Analog tape playing glove
- Add USB playback to some European LG televisions
- DTMF and SelCall signal generator
- Microchip’s PIC development for iPhone and iPod
- Trash heap projector
- Flash animations on Peggy2.0
- Leapfrog DIDJ
- Guitar echo pedal built with mbed
- Hackaday links: March 28, 2010
- Automated rain barrel watering system
- Swapping coins cells for capacitors for noise filtering
- Beginner concepts: LPT instead of uC
- Turing machine a masterpiece of craftsmanship
- 8-bit game console with wireless motion controller
- LEGO automatons
- That’s a big flashlight
- Heated aluminum bed for MakerBot
- Lawnbot 400: an update to an update
- Robots from dolls
- Lawnbot400 saves wheelbarrow trips
- Heated MakerBot build stage
- Polaroid instant film, reborn.
- Fan-powered skateboard
- $500 Craigslist car competes against $400,000 race car…
- Update: Samsung TV firmware hacking
- ARM-based CNC mill needs no computer
- Theo Jansen: like the professor from Gilligan
- Didgeridoo, now does real time video
- Floppy disk augmented reality is a head-scratcher
- Die bloodsuckers – pew pew
- XBMC hiding in an SNES controller
- All terrain Roomba
- Massive no-touch physically-interfaced display
- 1-Wire LAN with an LCD
- PC cooling using 1000 ft^2 geothermal
- snega2usb changes name, learns new tricks
- GPU cooling to fix RRoD
- Light up your ride with an LED mohawk
- More functional GPS in minutes
- PIC based USB input devices
- Ask Hackaday: Now a regular occurrence
- Balancing skateboard/segway
- POV clock inside acrylic block
- By popular demand: the OK Go Rube Goldberg machine
- RoBo Blower sure to become Stephen King novel
- DIY Super Soaker
- Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor’s dream ride
- Flip-book style digitization
- Graffiti machine sprays for you
- Laser cutting solder stencils
- Motion sensing camera hack
- Arduino based multiboot cable for Game Boy Advance
- Ditch the LPs and build your own 3D scanner
- Google Summer of Code 2010
- LED lighting, a learning experience
- PCB drill press on a budget
- Woot How-to: Let there be Light! (for your Rovio)
- ARM cortex-M3 prototyping on a budget
- Arduino balloon tracking
- Quad-copter controlled with voice commands
- IM-ME spectrum analyzer
- Make your own OLEDS
- Bill Paxton pinball
- Adding an automotive cold air intake
- Electric-assist bicycle uses LiFePO4 batteries
- Pure TTL based clock
- Xbox 360 Laptop more laptop-y than ever
- Tax-exempt Geek Group hit with huge tax bill
- Follow-up: Hacking OnStar
- Keep tabs on your car without OBD-II
- Mondo Spider
- Thermos temperature meter
- 3D printing on a much larger scale
- Eat your heart out iPad
- Soil moisture sensing
- JeeNode development platform
- Intense kit turns Wacom tablet into Cintiq clone
- Flip-top GameCube portable
- RFID reader for iPhone
- Storage for your hacking needs
- Beach stereo
- Easy IM-ME flashing
- Steam powered tank
- Sponge music
- DIY scratch controller
- Update: Nintendo DS camera control
- Hardware jailbreak eases reboot pains
- Coffee powered Car-puccino
- 50MHz to 100Mhz scope conversion
- Jeri makes integrated circuits
- Noisy Super 8
- Game glove learns your weakness
- R2D2 build video
- Will this mouse get me kicked out of the coffee shop?
- One minute review of your wasted time
- Add a clean room to your workshop
- LEGO sequencer builds sound in 3D
- Tube clock database
- Cardboard Androids
- LEDs invade coffee table crevice
- Dr. Boardman’s Color Conundrum
- Give 1984 Mac a Leopard makeover
- Lava lamp centrifuge
- Don’t worry occifer, there is no blood in my alcohol!
- 137 years of Popular Science online free
- Time delay door alarm
- Strobeshnik, an HDD clock
- Lucid dreaming
- DIY Diodes
- RC truck source for robotics platform
- USB oscilloscope
- Space Invaders clock 6 years ahead of Pong Clock
- A VU meter for your PSP
- Google your home with a roomba
- Is GEK a modern-day Mr. Fusion?
- DIY projector collection
- Google unveils API to PowerMeter
- Using Mindflex to shock the heck out of people
- Home cinema 3D (or just tick off theatergoers)
- Monocle fixes webcam farsightedness
- Build your own lightweight flash tripod
- iPhone case rehabilitation
- LED and fan controller
- Vacuum pick and place for SMD parts
- Automatic telephone recorder
- FanWing is like a harvester in the sky
- Hacking space without profit or secrecy
- Smart flash synchronization
- Portable Squeezebox with serial
- Steampunk sequencer
- Hacker finds better use for a Windows machine
- doomBox: Classic keys meet tiny screen
- Phone/webapp written in ploy to appear more popular
- BatchPCB Pays You
- Biped walks with eight servos
February 2010
- Open source logic analyzer
- 112-LED coffee table
- Extreme piano transplant
- Fix 0LBA and BSY HDD errors
- Thwart robbers with an old smoke alarm.
- Two input devices made with common items
- WRT54GL, meet Alice
- Yet another pong-clock
- Lower productivity by using a rotary num pad
- 10×10 LED matrix
- Drilling perfectly centered holes
- Cooling LEDs by heating the water saves on electricity
- Nokia USB cable is USB-to-Serial in disguise
- Python IR tracking for the handicapped
- RoboThespian: Chuck E. Cheese entertainment comes home
- Shiftbrite coffee table
- 10-bit rotary precision for servos
- A second life for dead hard drives
- Bring the crane game home
- Oscilloscope doubles as a serial terminal
- More cellphone controlled door locks
- Add pause button to the Atari 2600
- Precision grinder is a thing of beauty
- Looping foot pedal
- Serial communication with cell phones
- DIY aluminum heat sink casting
- Building the yellow submarine
- Is that some type of new Kindle?
- Gentle wake up alarm
- PIC pong clock
- Android 2.1 on four more HTC handsets
- Robocup bot places wheels perpendicularly
- Hackaday links: February 21 2010
- Controllable LEDs spice up the living room
- Steorn Orbo motor replica
- RFID tracking system
- Sausage Gun 19mm
- Rube Goldberg FTW
- High speed video from cheap digital camera
- Basement fusion reactor
- Update: most interesting game in 64 pixels
- Flexi Knobs
- Glove mouse
- Cannihilator can crusher
- Sukhoi Su-27 Jet build throws down
- Lathe modification
- Reboot Life in a heartbeat
- Build your own hub motor
- The Uber Eeepc
- Now you can record mermaids singing
- Robo-vibe
- Raise your hand if you want to listen to something else
- Drink Making Unit
- Binary clock uses DS3232 RTC
- Repairing your TV EDID
- Ultimate flame bait: liquid cooled Arduino
- The Mini-Markade
- Adding words to Catch Phrase
- Microscope lens hack
- Electronic key impressioning
- Developing for iPhone serial communications
- Converting a Miata to all-electric
- Hexacopter
- HMD upgrade
- Trick your ride: tank conversion
- Homebrew MagSafe
- Hackaday links: February 14, 2010
- iPod shuffle headphone remote reverse engineered
- Propeller arcade
- Workshop tour makes us drool; ache with envy
- Transparent rubber enclosures
- Internet controlled scrolling numitron
- Spectrum analyzer wedged into a cellphone
- Precision Erector Set connects multiple cameras
- Chip and pin broken and other security threats
- Teletype machine from an electric typewriter
- Keyboard Keepalive
- Dexterous hexapod clarification
- HUD for real life capture-the-flag
- Veteran robot features eight legs and BeagleBoard
- Use an analog oscilloscope to display digital logic
- Arduino helps you ski Copper
- RGV laser
- PicAxe LEGO tank
- USB host mode for Droid
- Dexterous hexapod rocks an Atom processor
- The day after Arduino
- CueCat, meet Arduino
- Wireless painting
- TPM crytography cracked
- Old-time music player is brand new
- Porta Touch: portable multitouch
- ‘tiny’ power supply monitor
- Modded C64 eye candy
- GuruPlug, the next generation of SheevaPlug
- ez430 home automation
- Built-in hex editor unlocks plasma TV features
- ‘Mod in the USA’ N900 PUSH competition
- FAT support for any microcontroller
- Hackaday links: February 7, 2010
- Putting on a show in the rain
- Performance oddities
- ExoPC shows off some guts
- Altoids upstaged by gift card tins
- Running bleeding edge on Nexus One
- Interfacing with an analog joystick
- Update: Adafruit Eagle library, now with Arduino
- Hardware based randomness for Linux
- Pre-spun hard drives
- Pipe heating with an ATMega8
- Repurposing a click wheel
- Arduino to Nintendo DS interface
- Antique Jukebox Audio Streamer
- Ask a winner updates day 5: Answers
- Guitar Hero as an instrument or midi controller
- Battery holder reuses blister pack
- Propeller takes Step-a-Sketch to a new level
- Winners of the N900 PUSH Showcase tickets.
- The mechanical diode
- Leapfrog Didj: Followup
- Print your own pizza
- Lego spider-bot
- Amplifier built inside a 9v battery
- Ask a winner updates day 4: Answers
- PHP runtime rewritten, by Facebook?
- Foil impressioning defeats security locks
- USB HDD enclosure to DVD connector
- Our favorite XBOX to HTPC hacks
- Minneapolis Hackerspace: Twin Cities Maker
- Beginner concepts: 555 push button toggle
- Icosatetrapedal robot
- Game controllers using USB host shield
- Leapfrog Didj: Handheld Linux on the Cheap
- Snow blower robot
- Android audio-serial connection
- Ask a winner updates day 3: Answers
- IM-ME screen reverse engineered
- Wii motion plus direct PC interface
January 2010
- 120v switching
- Hacking a digital bathroom scale
- Recycled cat feeder
- Add a Bluetooth terminal to your Kindle
- Hackaday links: January 31st, 2010
- Hybrid analog/binary clock, the MK2
- The UltimateSIMON
- Robot band gives us so much to make fun of
- Ask a winner updates day 2: Answers
- Our thoughts on the iPad
- Another take on roasting those beans
- Salty LEDs
- And we’re back
- Ask a winner updates: Answers
- Contest: win Push Showcase tickets
- Happy meal toy scavenging
- Drill-powered go cart
- Adding a netbook keyboard light
- 10,000 watt fluorescent array
- 5 legged locomotion
- NES lovers grew up and now they’re coding for Palm
- HDD actuated acoustical instrument
- Nanotouch: a tiny AVR media thing
- PS3 exploit released
- Building a bigger, better laser engraver
- Powering a switch via PoE
- Palm-sized Atari 2600
- Why aren’t we building our own printers?
- Repair or improve your NES
- St. Louis Hackerspace: Arch Reactor
- Gorgeous portable N64 built to order
- Unlocking multitouch for Droid and Nexus One
- Foul-mouthed game will get you in trouble
- Things that kill you, hacked for clean energy
- Android G1 serial to Arduino
- Face tracking with x10
- Automated Super8 film scanning
- Rotary encoding with your soundcard
- PS3 hacked!
- Hackaday links: Sunday January 24
- Trashplane
- iPhone look-alike on your kitchen wall
- C64 interface for your computer
- Ideas based on photo frame clock
- LCD backlight repair
- Hardware store follow focus
- Hack together a Coffee Roaster
- Electric go cart from trash
- Simple laptop conversion
- Arduino programmer for Arduino
- Frustromantic Box, a reverse Geocache
- SpiderBot prompts laser envy
- Adafruit Eagle library
- Turntable light sequencer
- Coded entry using your wristwatch
- Buzzle: a morse code puzzle box
- Robots in space
- Live high altitude balloon launch
- Billy Bass with selectable clips
- NES console to cartridge security in depth
- NXT hacks: tanks and heaters
- Hey man, SSH to my guitar and setup the multitouch
- SheevaPlug PBX
- Servo hacked linear actuator
- Cell phone based car starter, another take
- Polymorph in practice
- The most complicated, and simplest binary clocks.
- The Pololu 3 servo hexapod
- Wii Nunchuk train controls
- Robot waits for no man when recharging
- More AVR Tetris
- Multichannel music generation for Arduino
- XBMC on Xbox keeps going and going
- RGB display development
- Guerilla theater hits two wheels
- CNC brought to you by zip ties
- Editorial: Fear of the Unusual
- Hackaday links: January 17th, 2010
- Free day recap video and book recommendation
- Developing physical controllers for the uninitiated
- iPod peripheral: iSee360i hacking
- Russian billboard includes a “happy ending”
- Wine glass time keeper
- Volt meter clock
- Animatronics reference
- Know your resistors… tell the time
- Phaser-to-laser mod puts out 465mW
- AeroQuad – build your own quadcopter
- GSM car starter
- A day at the lake for the disabled
- Home made small form factor LED projector
- Spherical and stereoscopic photography
- Start the car with a wave of your hand
- Engineering with magnetic spheres
- Hackaday links: January 14th, 2010
- AVR Tetris
- Google bike hack, quick and dirty
- ProtoDeck – MIDIBOX based controller
- Tricking an iPod into trusting your dock
- MythNetVision to cure borked MythTV hacks
- Bike controller for Xbox 360
- Vacuum tube tesla coil
- LEGO router case bests factory finish
- Neon lamp and other crazy clocks
- Cubicle-dwellers rewarded for reflexes
- Makita battery pack repair
- Bike trainer computer: Speed, Cadence, Heartrate, Trainer temp
- How To: Make a Printable CES Badge
- Don’t put that EPROM in your mouth!
- Stroke to unlock
- Arduinome with many pots
- Weather clock
- Amazing chassis hacks
- Steampunk Nixie clock
- Kodak digital frame vulnerability
- LEGO robot lays dominoes not eggs
- CES: Guts Guts Guts
- 194 Transistor Clock will blow your mind
- Cold climate solar water heater
- Fujifilm 3D Camera
- CES Update: Atmega128RFA1
- CES: HackaDay Fans
- CES: Caleb gets Tased
- CES: Augmented Reality
- CES: HackaDay interviews ATMEL
- CES Update: CES Badges
- CES: 3d laser projection system
- CES: Famous People at CES
- CES: Haier Wireless TV
- CES: Glove input
- CES: Day 2 Recap
- CES: 3d tv, without glasses
- Ask a winner…
- CES: Meet the Mini Hexapodinno
- CES: Keepon keeps on
- CES: Pleo shows its guts.
- CES: Hack a Day meets Revision3
- CES: Laser instrument
- CES Update: MakerBot Gets a Badge
- CES Update: A Visit to the Zigbee Booth
- Beginner Concepts: Binary-coded decimal
- CES: update Friday Jan8, 2010
- CES: PS3 Gun Controller
- CES: Parrot AR Drone update
- CES multitouch
- CES Update: x86 Processor Module in a DIP
- CES: Parrot’s AR Drone
- CES: RoBoard Robotic Hand
- CES: USB 3.0 Behind the scenes
- 2-axis motion timelapse photography
- Suska open source Atari ST
- CES update: We made it!
- Spy on your office
- Version control for Eagle
- Fun Theory grant is 25k for a fun project
- SparkFun’s Free Day is nearly upon us…
- Max/MSP accelerometer beat control
- Pong, for real
- Reverse engineering the Telly Terminator
- CES update: January 6th, 2010
- Pulse Oximeter
- Update: more pink wireless-terminal hacking
- Arduino I/O Speed Breakdown
- CES update: January 5, 2010
- RepRap acrylic extrusion using hotbed
- Generate electricity with a candle
- Record player display sans POV
- Missile hack taunts your cat
- Arduino traffic light
- Nokia PUSH competition update
- 360 degree video for next-to-nothing
- Double clutch transmission model
- NES RAM Replacement
- Step-a-sketch
- TOBI the tool bot
- BT phone is much more than retrofit
- Laser-cut puzzle box
- Powder coating at home
- Qube, not an Arduino clone
- RFID emulator
- Arduino security with frickin’ laser
- Arduino Headed for One Point Oh
- 9 most popular of 2009
- More CNC goodness
- Lightning Rod: keeps you safe from dirty Flashers
- FPGA keyboard synthesizer
- Old equipment repository
- Hey man, you seen my turntable around here?
- Making a rail gun (again!)