2011
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December 2011
- Best of Hackaday – 2011 edition
- Disco icosahedron rings in the new year
- Using mains wiring as an antenna
- Zombie [Jackson] bot dances to Thriller
- Full color laser TV
- Homebrew on the Rigol DS1052E ‘scope
- Printing with clear polycarbonate
- Doomsday Keg of Radness helps ring in the New Year
- So you wanna learn FPGAs…
- Programming an Arduino using an audio file
- Focus fix for non-reflex 35mm camera
- Spring clamp tripod mount has potential
- Build your own mini ball drop for New Year’s Eve
- A Floppy Drive Orchestra
- A chink in the armor of WPA/WPA2 WiFi security
- Knockoff game controller makes a fine remote shutter release
- [Bob] shows us how to make DIY calendars for vintage computer geeks
- Relighting a gauge cluster
- Solar-powered CNC woodburning
- Augmented reality ex nihilo
- Repairing a commercial-grade pick and place machine
- Phone-controlled light display is simple and fun
- Video series shows how to build your own solar-charged R/C lawnmower
- A Little Tweeting “Ewok”
- Leaking water detector from an old smoke alarm
- Rooting a Motorola Actv (Android wristwatch)
- Self-balancing unicycle only for those with good balance
- A Robot… That Can See Through Walls!
- Arcade cabinet that doesn’t monopolize your space
- StripInvaders puts colored lights everywhere
- Ammo Tin ][
- IP over LEGO train carrier
- Counting down to the New Year
- Using an ATmega8 to program PIC24FJ chips
- One way to reuse your Christmas lights post-holiday
- Hackaday Links: December 25, 2011
- Reduced-cost Braille display for use with computers
- We’re on an Atari Jaguar kick, apparently
- DIY solution does PoE on the cheap
- Digital synth for the non-chiptune inclined
- [Scot] whips up breakout board for his ARM breakout board
- A vacuum chamber from a pressure cooker
- Snap together boombox great for taking your music on the go
- Animated LED buckyball
- Make any scrap of paper sticky with 2000 volts
- Bitbuf delivers some of the best chiptune effects around
- Xbee Wireless Servo Control
- MAMEing a CNC router
- Keeping Christmas present hunters guessing with QR code gift tags
- Microcontroller comm with a computer monitor
- Tannenbaum ticker, even though the markets close for Christmas
- How to grow your own EL wire DNA helix lamp
- Handheld Jaguar makes 32 or 64 bits portable
- Arduino notebook cover makes it easy to tinker anywhere
- How to etch your own solder paste stencils
- Scratch-built Software-Defined Radio
- Flowerboard LED cube
- EFF on securing digital information when crossing the border
- Reverse engineering the Icebreaker POV toy
- Numitron tube tutorial
- Hackaday Links: December 21, 2011
- Keeping axolotl healthy and cool
- [Ben Krasnow] sticks LEDs in his contacts just for kicks
- Keep others from snooping in your digital life
- Motorized camera mount unexpectedly popular for CNC-aimed hardware
- Hack removes ads from Kindle ‘Special Offers’ hardware
- Automatic flashlight tag damage sensor
- The most evil gift ever
- Computer-aided paint brush
- DIY clapper is the ideal gift for the laziest person in your life
- Prank gift keeps curious hands at bay
- Retrofitting modern LEGO train tracks for use with older version
- Smelting metal in your microwave oven
- Hacking old server hardware for new home use
- Ask Hackaday: Troll physics edition
- [Jack]’s solar-powered clock
- Playing with routers, vinyl and music concrete
- Tribot robotics platform
- This CheerLights display has a mind of its own
- Head-mounted light display takes holiday cheer on the go
- Xbee remote sensors tell you when someone enters your home
- Cloud Mirror adds Internet to your morning ritual
- Controlling your Christmas lights without ever getting off the couch
- SMS remote start gives new life to your old smartphone
- MIDI synth Arduino shield
- A Wooden Engine Powered By Compressed Air
- Hackin’ the junkyard: Electric scrap bike projects
- CheerLights: Synchronizing Christmas lights around the globe
- Magnetotron is an armonica mellotron mashup
- Data logging with a cheap Lux meter
- Hackaday Links: December 16, 2011
- Advent Calendar of Circuits
- Welding and casting ABS
- Making paint with inorganic chemistry
- Electronic ornament will definitely put [Dave] on Santa’s “naughty” list
- Saleae Logic Analyzer knockoff hacking
- Build your own miniature self parking car
- Improving terrible computer speakers
- Censoring all the ‘F’ words on TV
- Decorating an Ent for Christmas
- Impromptu lamp runs Linux
- Smother yourself in addressable LEDs
- Twitter-enabled candy machine dispenses treats on command
- Geared system adds RFID to regular door locks
- High speed stepper driving: 25k steps per second
- Lighted acrylic Christmas ornaments
- Ultrasonic combo lock
- How the Kindle Touch jailbreak was discovered
- Rudolph toy hacked to announce incoming email
- Adding HTTP to Ikea DIODER
- Music-synced Christmas light suit
- Pee-light gives guidance for nocturnal tinkles
- Naughty Duck will be the end of Secret Santa at your place of work
- Dilemmabox brings tactile upvoting
- Android legs stability testing
- Troubleshooting household light timers
- Simple IR sensor simplifies laptop audio control
- Ask Hackaday: Organizing a growing collection of electronic odds and ends
- Dial 1 to get Siri as your operator
- Building the Ocarina of Time with an FPGA
- Half Keyboard, Half Guitar, Totally Radical, the Tabstrummer!
- Get ready to play some wicked air harp
- Kindle Fire cover from a Moleskine journal
- Simple PCB vise
- Crunching the numbers: using solar cells indoors
- Sphere morphing hexabot is a mechanical jellyfish
- Muff-Fones sound dirty; well, not literally
- GE Color Effects hacking for the nautically inclined
- Nokia N900 control pad is perfect for gaming on the go
- A clock made out of some very weird tubes
- Dimming AC lights the hard way
- Chrono-tomic shield helps your Arduino keep perfect time
- Detecting seismic waves with a piezo element
- Hackaday Links: December 11, 2011
- A little fire breathing pony to call your own
- Nine not-so-easy steps to build a singing Tesla coil
- [Ian] shops Akihabara
- Weekly Roundup 12/10/11
- R/C blimp uses a party balloon for lift
- Simulating PenTile RGBG displays
- Pyxis 3 hits beta; rebranded as Gadgetos
- Lighted fan pull saves you from flailing around in the dark
- Buzzer project for classroom team games
- Tiny audio switcher eliminates repetitive plug swapping
- Follow up: Star Wars tree gets an upgrade
- Rebuilding dried out capacitors
- Color sensing with an RGB LED and photoresistor
- Win free stuff by uploading a pic of your Fritzing circuit
- IR remote for DSLR cameras
- Hack a webcam and a film camera into a USB microscope
- [DJ Sures] digs up another 80s robot toy, makes it awesome
- Hand made carbon fiber violin is a stunning work of craftsmanship
- Hackaday Merit Badges now available at Adafruit!
- Scam-o-Matic determines if you bought fake SD cards
- Programming the 6502 one nibble at a time
- I2C level converter
- Laser cutting technique makes plywood bendable
- Periodic Table of Swearing would even make a sailor blush
- Christmas tree water sensor gets an upgrade and a fancy new box
- Combine 2 Non-Working Sony TVs into One That Works
- Physical computing just got a lot easier
- Hackaday Links: December 7, 2011
- Aluminum bending tutorial and a DIY brake
- Awesome little UAV flies 1 km
- Web-enabled Kinect
- Exterior-grade electrical box as project enclosure
- Echo box shakes itself to make sound
- Reverse voltage protection with a P-FET
- Sound treating a studio
- AVR External Memory Interface (XMEM) reads input matrix
- Playing classic 60s tunes with an all electronic band
- This toy intercom system is way better than a pair of tin cans and some string
- Two telescope improvements
- Update: Tiny line-follower and more
- Slowing a Bopit so the littles ones can play too
- Web-enabled coffee maker over-complicates your break time
- Reverse engineering Bluetooth using Android and SPOT as an example
- Musical [Blinky] candy tin
- Ethernet controlled garage door
- An iambic keyer in 5 minutes
- The force is strong with this Christmas tree light show
- Dash-mounted Nook Color is a perfect head unit replacement
- A keyboard for your FIGnition
- Pick up that can, [Jeri]
- An EEWeb Interview with Todd Harrison
- Building a ’60s guerilla homebrew square wave generator
- Reverse engineering a Korg Monotribe
- 10 Meter long moving light show is mesmerizing
- Hackaday Links: December 3, 2011
- RCA DSB772WE teardown shows that this cheap streaming box might have potential
- Weekly Roundup 12/3/11
- A solar clock that isn’t a sundial
- Micromouse wins 2011 maze race in under 4 seconds
- Eight-dollar airplane for really bad pilots
- Printable solar cells that can be folded up when not in use
- Cheap DIY tilt switches are great in a pinch
- Children’s light up toy is an easy hand-made gift
- Trying to measure the speed of light with an Arduino
- Cheap DIY laser scanner is quite impressive
- Multivibrator in theory and practice
- Milling interlocking wooden rings
- Make your own spray paint cans
- Binary division when your processor lacks hardware division
- An introduction to stepper motors
- Making sweet floppy drive music with a calculator
- From the readers: low battery cutoff solutions
- HDCP falls to FPGA-based man-in-the-middle attack
November 2011
- Custom Massive LED panel lights up the party
- Building a computer around a 6502 processor
- Siri as a lippy and sometimes profane television remote
- Arduino weather-station to Internet bridge
- Graphical programming with the Arduino IDE
- Funtendo connects all your Nintendo controllers to a PC
- Researchers claim that HP laser printers can be hijacked to steal data and catch fire
- OpenPnP working to create an affordable and completely open Pick and Place machine
- Network monitoring panel built from the IT Department junk heap
- Pros and cons of replacing tool batteries with Lithium Polymer
- Extreme finger painting with a router
- G-35 circuit board porn
- Lamp fading and remote control for the lazy
- Desktop coilgun lets you play Scorched Earth in your living room
- Adding sound and light to your radio controlled vehicles
- For the Trade Show Booth That Has Everything, a Blimp!
- Fabbing a guitar tremolo stompbox
- DIY car lighting illuminates areas the designers overlooked
- New Siri hack controls your car
- ANT+ networks using an MSP430 chip and Android phone
- LED sconces spice up dorm room parties
- Learn a new fabrication technique from DIY prosthetics builders
- Building a 1300 lumen bike light
- Building a digital camera from scratch
- Calculating Pi to 10 Trillion Digits; the last number is 5
- Earthquake detector could have helped during quakepocalypse
- Chinese hackerspaces, or, what happens when a government is run by engineers
- Kitchen Hacks: Improving an espresso machine
- Star Trek style pneumatic doors that don’t require a stagehand
- Adorable and small portable NES
- Two ways to convert an electric cooler to a humidor
- ARM programming primer; getting the USART running
- Pushing chest strap heart rate to a stock exerciser display
- Replacing solder tab batteries
- This dongle makes any screen an Android device
- Full featured security lock demonstration
- Rebuilding a Mac SE as a server again
- Weekly Roundup 11/26/11
- Etching your own PCBs
- Beer dispenser talks to customers, announces office parties via Twitter
- A Trojan Horse full of music
- Making a privacy monitor from an old LCD
- UberFridge helps keep beer production going through the dog days of summer
- Toaster oven reflow control without modifying the oven
- Internet controlled robotic arm
- Hackaday Links: November 24, 2011
- Name these parts: Verifone payment module tear down
- Fixing that broken laptop power jack
- Seeing with another person’s eyes
- Sparkfun announces Free Day 2012
- Reading inputs from shift registers using just one single pin
- Gif player does it using paper medium
- Adventures in resurrecting a no-name IP webcam
- Kitchen Hacks: Home made meat smoker
- Oh boy do we want to ride a giant inflatable robot
- Auto-Focus assist hack keeps improving
- Simple low toner workaround squeezes out a few extra pages when your printer refuses
- A doorbell pleasing to both the ears and eyes
- C bit field structures for microcontroller multitasking
- Kitchen Hacks: Sous Vide builds don’t need to cost an arm and a leg
- The Picture Post – Observe Your World in Extreme Slow Motion
- Musical greeting card with minimal parts
- Human flight at 190 MPH with no steering
- I’ll see your Launchpad controlled arm and raise you Arduino controlled autonomy
- Tracking satellites with an Arduino
- Junkyard tube-amp gold!
- Think you can take Kinect to the next level? Check out Kinect Accelerator
- Power strip hack reduces standby electricity consumption
- Simple touch sensors with the Arduino CapSense library
- Siri proxy adds tons of functionality, doesn’t require a jailbreak
- Black Friday deals and Contest Giveaways
- Stroboscope project uses optical drive motor and Arduino
- Experimenting with an air muscle and sensor feedback
- TI Launchpad adds computer control to a robot arm
- A real, laser-based 3D display
- An exercise in servo voice control with Android
- This giant hand made LED matrix must be ours!
- Gridrunner: a custom part for measuring in Eagle CAD
- Experimenting with bridge rectifers for AC to DC power conversion
- Pushing FPGA config files via serial using ‘cat’
- Nuclear Taco helmet measures reaction to spicy food
- Getting useful data from a dirt cheap RFID reader
- Strap yourself in and let this robot arm shake the bejesus out of you
- Python powered sprinkler system wastes no water
- Weekly Roundup 11/19/11
- Syneseizure makes objects feel loud
- FIGnition FLINT is a stripboard build of the simple computer
- MAME cabinet 3D modeled and CNC milled
- The cheapest and easiest 3D printer we’ve seen so far
- Video display from RGB strips makes it seem so easy
- Kitchen Hacks: Microwave plays YouTube videos matched to your cooking time
- A DIY audio player for when all that matters is the music
- Lighting LEDs with raindrops
- A head-mounted Tesla coil – what could possibly go wrong?
- Monitoring batch jobs the Cylon way with Python and a parallel port
- Double-pendulum spray gives this graffiti bot some style
- Adding keypad security to your automobile’s ignition system
- Whole house battery backup used for lower power bills
- Polar pen plotter draws huge images very slowly
- Building a heat sealer for anti-static bags
- Simple telepresence hack lets remote user rotate this laptop
- Video: Interrupts on the ATmega328p
- This animatronic Horus Guard mask is so good, even Anubis would be fooled
- Kitchen Hacks: an Android bartender
- Brute Force BIOS Hacking Using the Arduino
- EagleUp pulls your PCBs into SketchUp
- Electronic recorder conversion
- POV bauble uses DIY accelerometer to sync the image
- I am root! — Kindle Fire edition
- Making aerogel at home
- Ice on your turkey makes it tender, apparently
- Zero-G experiments will make some pretty pictures
- A technique to avoid warping on large 3D prints
- DIY LED photography lights
- Snake-bot gives us the mechanical heevy-jeevies
- Stylophone 5 – modernizing the best of the 1968 hardware
- Audio output selection courtesy of the Internet
- ColorHug: A reasonably-priced, completely open color calibration tool
- Solder reflow toaster oven
- The Origin of the Arduino
- Build your own Stereolithographic 3D printer
- Nixie clock exhibits well fabricated metal bezel
- FT-2232 bridges Python and I2C/SPI
- There’s a lot packed into this BeagleBoard controlled rover
- Taking GPS where no man has gone before
- The International Obfuscated C Code Contest is back
- Insane Macro Photography Rig
- Half-tone CNC with man-powered Z axis
- Spaduino heats up a used hot-tub
- Kitchen Hacks: [Dino’s] egg tricks
- Bluetooth enabled breathalyzer
- NES controller is a slick way to carry around your portable OS
- Chicken light keeps up egg production
- ColorNode: A drop-in GE Color Effects LED controller
- Sous vide with racing stripes
- Rebuilding a Bridgeport mill
- A Kinect Primer
- Lego NXT creations are even cooler with WiFi on board
- Video: Working with the 3pi robot’s line sensors
- Adding RS232 to a multimeter the hard way
- Ghostly images appear thanks to projections on fog
- Weekly Roundup 11/12/11
- You’ll shoot your eye out with this laser-filled tennis ball
- Dad hacks Cerebral Palsy, upgrades son’s lifestyle
- Steampunk wings: bigger, heavier, and steampunkier
- LUFA open source USB stack now for NXP ARM processors
- iPad 2 gets a home in hacked iDJ Live console
- Thailand residents use hacks to make the best of a horrible situation
- LED strip and uC add some flash to your tail lights
- $150 CNC mill is a tad slow but very solid
- RGB upgrade for Ikea single color fiber optic lamp
- 20 kilovolts replaces push pins on this bulletin board
- Toilet Buddy helps cover up bathroom noises
- Hackaday Links: November 10, 2011
- Jarvis opens the door at P-Space
- Bullhorn mod lets you disperse angry crowds to the dulcet tones of [Kenny G]
- RFID reading and spoofing
- RGB laser projector is a jaw-dropping build
- Pikachu is coming for you (especially on carpet)
- Candy chucker – weapon, or advanced Halloween delivery system?
- Reverse engineering MyKeepon
- Hacking a VS200 Food Sealer
- Build a Kinect bot for 500 bones
- Big Head costume would make Max Headroom jealous
- Single-column Rubens’ tube
- Talking digital calipers make engineering more accessible
- Kitchen hacks: What would you cook if you had a Sous-Vide this large?
- Counterfeit electronics in military weapons
- Personal flight from the steam age
- Making an RF controlled light switch work with IR
- Beginner concepts: We’re gonna let you finish, but first this tutorial on Arduino interrupts
- Panning time-lapse rig
- Kitchen hacks: The Margarita Machine
- Arduino-based MIDI synth
- [George Foreman] seedling starter for kitchen herbs
- A Tesla coil that delivers shocking candy
- A Simple Method for Expanding Arduino IO Capacity
- Hackaday now officially has a G+ page
- Announcing our next theme: Kitchen hacks
- G-35 Christmas lights do make a great LED matrix
- This Panavise Jr. Speed Winder should be in every maker’s toolbox
- Ikea wine rack originally sold as a mattress holder
- HEX Out reveals the secrets your data bus holds
- DO NOT build a fully automatic battery-launching air gun
- Google Hangout laser turret
- Wireless MIDI piano glove
- Hacking a “magic wand” to remotely control light displays
- Canon FD lenses on an EOS mount
- DIY spot welder can join anything together, even copper
- 4Track robot gets around with ease
- Hackaday Links: November 6th, 2011
- CadSoft’s EAGLE 6 hits beta and packs goodies
- Halloween Hacks: An evil R/C clown car for terrorizing the neighborhood
- Controlling shift registers via SPI
- Weekly roundup 11/5/11
- Mimicing a heartbeat in sound and electrical pathways
- DIY drum triggers & recreating [Bonzo]’s Vistalites
- Halloween Hacks: Motion sensing fog machine
- Shutter trigger remote with some nice design considerations
- Camping light retrofitted as a solar recharging station
- The folly of adding an auxiliary audio input to a Hyundai Sonata
- Look, it’s a helicopter! it’s a plane! it’s a rolling robot!
- DIY binary alarm clock small enough to fit in your pocket
- Beer security system keeps freeloaders out of your stash
- Second run at taser gloves uses bug zapper parts
- Using WebSocket with PIC microcontrollers
- TV-B-Gone can double as a camera remote control
- Bomb disposal robot with Lego gripper
- Video: Analog to Digital Conversion on the ATmega328p
- Halloween Hacks: A Jacob’s Lantern sure to win the carving contest
- Making a Wall Power Adapter for a Digital Camera
- Interactive digital fireplace is great for those chilly winter evenings
- Time Twister is an ingenious Lego clock
- Using your existing hardware to automate scanning and filing
- USB and PS/2 key loggers and mess with your grammar
- Cheap OLED display for your TI Launchpad
- ChipKIT temperature shield supports a dozen sensors
- Occupy rigs up human-power after generators are confiscated
- Here’s your flying car
- Urine Territory Marking, Now for Humans!
- Annoy your sound guy even more
- Simple earphone repair saves a big chunk of cash
- Say hello to our little friend, the BeagleBone
- The Rube-Goldberg of car audio
- Amazingly realistic skeleton prop
- Halloween Hacks: The Headless Dogman
- Skeleton does a Looney Tunes style song and dance
- LED sexting belt buckle
- Halloween Hacks: A radioactive display with more trick than treat
- Turning LEDs into a camera
- Looking toward Christmas decor by learning about DMX
October 2011
- Wine-o-Meter quantifies your bachelor party bad behavior
- Do you know what you’re doing when integrating PC-side apps with USB microcontrollers?
- Salvaged flight stick controls A/V system, triggers “Emergency Party System”
- 3G connected hotspot hangs out at your house
- Insanely kludgy pen plotter actually works
- Automated CD ripper build from Lego and other parts
- Preparing for the zombie apocalypse
- Old-school projector turned digital
- Color organ tiki-o’-lantern
- Arduino controlled four socket outlet
- Two DJ Hero controllers turned into a giant Etch A Sketch
- PocketStation as two-factor authentication
- Ball of dub has lots of wub
- Halloween Hacks: Larger than life costume made from an inflatable lawn ornament
- Cellphone battery booster built at the checkout counter
- Bluetooth for Android open accessories
- Synthesizing sound with a light sensitive pen and CRT television
- Wii remote controling the vehicle you’re riding in
- Weekly Roundup 10/29/11
- Ants duke it out in the AI challenge
- Upgrading a solar lamp to charge an iPad
- Halloween Hacks: Arc reactor costume
- Motor drivers: half h-bridge with brake and more
- The basics of reading data from resistive touchscreens
- Detailed tutorial shows how to unleash your inner [Michael Knight]
- Halloween Hacks: A light and music show fit for [Jack Skellington]
- You probably do not have time to build this incredible Dead Space costume.
- Hackaday Links: October 28th, 2011
- Pololu compatible relay driver
- Crawling zombie is shockingly creepy
- DIY thermostat keeps the harsh winter cold at bay
- 3D printed electromechanical computer
- [Vigo’s] stare follows you wherever you go
- Hacked parking disc can be controlled remotely
- Recreating the Commodore PET with an FPGA
- A Simple Induction Heater
- A Smartphone Dock for your Arm? Why Not?
- Video: PWM on the ATmega328p
- Now pictures on the Internet can be faked
- Halloween Hacks: Simple robotic skull is a perfect last minute decoration
- Rooting Sony PRS-T1 lets you get at the Android goodies
- Macetech takes on its own Ambilight clone hack
- Halloween time machine simulator built into an outhouse
- Custom flat cables to suit your needs
- Halloween Hacks: Terrifying mask follows you everywhere
- Nintenduo stuffs an NES and SNES in the same case
- Minibloq Arduino IDE is in Beta and in need of testers
- Huge flexible LED matrix can be worn almost anywhere
- Tilt compensation when reading a digital compass
- Do you know WHY you’re supposed to use decoupling capacitors?
- Singing house lights up Halloween again this year
- Tactile computer interface with electromagnets
- Recovering a corrupted EEE PC BIOS
- Wicked use of HTML5 to display sensor data
- Millivolt meter Nixie clock
- Halloween Hacks: Death throws a party
- Minimalist DIODER hack requires no external microcontroller
- You Want How Much for a Phone Charger?
- Laser cut 3D sculptures remind us of an old Playstation
- Giving Siri the keys to your house
- Washing machine powered bike
- Fattening a thin client to run a Debian desktop
- Using an LCD’s poor viewing angle to your advantage
- Logging bubble frequency and pressure in your fermenter
- Altoid tin etching tutorial
- Adding a Compact Flash reader to a Korg Triton
- Snooping around in the iclicker hardware and firmware
- Beating the wrong amateur balloon record
- Toy car fitted with lights and sirens is a children’s delight
- How To Record 3D Video in 3D
- All About the Google Autonomous Vehicle Project
- Medusa: a proximity-aware tabletop
- Halloween Hacks: Flickering Jack-o’-lantern
- Hacking in Cameroon for profit and entertainment
- 7400 drum machine is a delight
- Going RGB with 7 segment displays
- Weekly Roundup 10/22/11
- Light bulb, diode, and capacitor step mains down to 12V DC
- Hydrocrystallophone probably won’t make you insane
- Going for the amateur balloon altitude record
- 14-part RepRap Saga draws to a close
- Extend your personal weather station’s reporting capabilities
- Building optical flex sensors
- Illogical voltage double uses logic
- Light painting Nyan Cat with an Arduino
- Cheap Acoustic Panel DIY
- A very simple Android recon vehicle
- Extending battery life while taking time lapse photos
- Grab your own images from NOAA weather satellites
- Taser gloves are a bad idea
- RAM upgrade for WRT300N router
- Animatronics in a box
- Robotic farming means more corn for everyone
- Halloween Hacks: Diorama-rama
- Detecting DTMF tones from scratch
- Rear window LED display gives other drivers a piece of your mind
- Analog test interface for your computer
- Video: performing I/O with the ATmega328p
- Creepy delta bot follows your every move
- A Wooden Computer Case, Monitor Stand, and Keyboard
- Cellphone microscope for about $20
- Multicolor 3D prints the hard way
- Unbricking and upgrading an ASUS wl520 router
- Halloween Hacks: Scaring small children with Huffman coding
- Baking an HP LaserJet 1522 Series back to life
- Beefing up your laptop’s gaming chops with an external GPU
- Creating a voice controlled robotic arm
- Halloween Props: Pumpkin battery
- Can you develop film with coffee and vitamin C?
- C64 joystick adapter
- Years of robotic projects – dumped for your enjoyment
- Throw together a temperature logger in minutes
- Building the second tiniest Tetris
- Tiny MP3 module is perfect for your next project
- A CD Changer Made of Wood
- Powering kids’ toys by hand
- On the life of [Dennis Ritchie]
- Anodizing and dyeing aluminum without battery acid
- Halloween Hacks: Transform that annoying dancing Santa into a Halloween mummy!
- Monkey-powered scooter is all electric
- LCD backpack: from Arduino board to homemade pcb
- PopCARD vending machine enhancement gets upgraded
- Tactile 4-bit maze
- Making luminol from household chemicals
- How to develop for STM32 discovery boards using Linux
- Modding an inkjet for PCB production
- The “Effervo” Kinect Particle Effect Machine
- Hackaday Links: October 16, 2011
- We want this LED ball
- Easy to use automatic QR code generator
- Small tabletop telepresence robot
- Over engineering a game of Lights Out
- Join the Pen15 club with a vibrator shield
- Christmasqualizer is the next light switch rave
- Remote controlled glass block LED matrix
- Halloween Hacks: A haunted house project for the kids
- Weekly roundup 10/15/11
- Contest entry roulette
- Panoramic ball camera; toss to snap a picture
- Surface mount solder assitant
- Hardware version control using visual DIFF
- Improving sports performance with a Kinect
- Video: Learning to program for the ATmega328p Part I
- Reverse Engineering the Nike+ Hardware
- Laser level tripod made from recycled parts
- POE home automation control panel
- N64 controller input using an ATtiny85
- Electronic die rolls up to 100
- Building your own replacement refrigerator thermostat
- Ultimaker quality FAQ is like porn for 3D printers
- Solar charger for Occupy Boston
- Build a binary wall clock for just a few bucks
- Non-invasive AC power adapter for exercise equipment
- Hackers age 14-18 can compete to put their project into space
- An Autonomous Minivan for Busy Parents
- Candied LEDs are a light, tasty treat
- Brewing up some quantum dots
- USB killswitch turns off your home entertainment bling automatically
- Halloween Hacks: Building a dark ride in a garage
- Wireless hackerspace music control
- Vintage camera retrofit perfect for trolling strangers
- Building a better clock to drive you insane
- Remote-controlled VMUSIC2 audio player
- Slick music synchronized light show uses UV LEDs and water
- Cheap Ikea camera boom ensures shake-free video
- Sweet octocopter takes the RED Epic to new heights
- Garage door monitoring and control using a dedicated Android phone
- Send a satellite into space for $300
- Simple hack reuses an air freshener PIR sensor
- PlayStation 3 controller made fully remappable
- This cube of playroom drawers is quite puzzling
- See where Socks has been using a GPS tracking collar
- Announcing our next theme: Halloween hacks
- Genetic testing with Lego
- Building a multidimensional display from trash
- Simple circuit reminds you to lock the door as you rush out of the house
- Link spam your friends with printed QR codes
- Character LCD spectrum analyzer made simple with a dedicated IC
- Full-color eBook reader needs only 8-bits of muscle
- Ultrasonic rangefinder as scanning radar
- How to build a 23″ Android tablet
- Electric mountain board with glove control
- Animated X-mas sign
- Retrofitting a 60-year old electric heater
- 22 miles straight up in 90 seconds
- Sustainability Hacks: The final word
- Open-source sprinkler controller keeps your lawn looking great
- Linear motor can be built from trash
- Workbench overhead camera boom made from PVC
- Improving a cheap espresso machine
- Upgrading an old Super Scope
- Tinywrench controls motors with ATtiny24 chips
- The Zigroller Balance Bot
- An Interview With Bre Pettis, Founder of MakerBot Industries
- DIY amplifier minder turns off your stereo when you forget
- Structured light 3d scanner
- RF sniffing on-the-go
- Burning Man 2011: Christopher Schardt’s Garden of Rockets
- Weekly Roundup 10/8/11
- Sustainability Hacks: Wind turbine generator
- Win a laser cutter by playing with light
- Adafruit celebrates Ada Lovelace day
- Analog iPhone amplifier made from recycled trumpets
- Playing dubstep on real instruments
- Making the most of your diy development boards
- 8-pin micro plays Pong on your widescreen
- Hackerspace competition combines drinking and lock picking – need we say more?
- Light up biking vest shows impatient drivers how fast you are going
- Sustainability Hacks: Solar panels built from old windows and factory rejects
- Video: Everything you wanted to know about DC motors
- Vetinari clock will drive you insane
- Reclaiming waste heat from appliances
- A masochistic video card
- Decorate your house in vacuum tubes
- Hardware-based keyboard remapping
- Magic table gives disabled child control over her music
- Meet the Pinguino – a completely open PIC-based dev platform
- QR code key fob helps your lost keys find their way home
- Sustainability Hacks: Poop power
- Open Source makes this USB arcade controller build a breeze
- Tetris on a building
- Student built robot chassis has something you can learn from
- Portable light box for photographers on-the-go
- iPhone controlled Daft Punk helmet replica a dazzling build
- Quick and easy DIY PIC development board
- Adalight: Ladyada’s ambilight
- Sustainability Hacks: Auto-feeding wood-fired generator
- Very impressive steampunk keyboard
- WiFi jamming via deauthentication packets
- Effortlessly troll your friends each time they reach for a snack
- Gaming scoreboard and storage box in one
- Makita jobsite radio gets a few extra bells and whistles
- Hackaday links: October 4, 2011
- DSLR focus stacking assistant takes the hard work out of macro photography
- PC temperature monitoring system lights up when things get hot
- Slick robot with tank treads can move every which way
- Build your own Portal turret in 150 easy steps
- Hone your skills by building control modules
- AVR chiptune project turns this simple code into music
- Hack A Watchman
- DIY signal generator probe
- Animated turn signals add a little bit of Cylon to your automobile
- Resurrecting an XT
- Freakyphone has a puzzle for you!
- Sustainability Hacks: Bio-diesel motorcycle speed record
- How to build your own cat door
- Robotic arm follows the movements of your own limbs
- [Clement] sees the cargo bike and raises a bicycle cargo trailer
- Page-turning book scanner roundup
- Star Wars Imperial March Played by Dual Floppy Drives
- Bread Head makes AVR programming a snap
- Sustainability Hacks: Thin client server
- Getting the lead out of the Arduino runtime
- Spamming a label printer with #cookiehammer
- Incredibly cheap upcycled cargo bike
- Hacking SPOT personal satellite tracker to pass more information
- Make Your Own GPS Receiver!
- A sunrise clock for those cold, dark winter mornings
- Weekly roundup 10/1/11
- Sustainability Hacks – External Wood Burner
September 2011
- Fake PS3 tracks thieves all the way home
- Passive RFID tag cloning
- New BigDog video doesn’t fail to impress
- Basic Micro ATOM Nano Giveaway
- Get digital plastic surgery thanks to openFrameworks and some addons
- Cocktail machine minces words
- Recreating the first PC
- Using polycarbonate filament with a RepRap
- Video: Soldering our PIC development board
- Workshop 88 hosts a near space balloon contest
- Sustainability Hacks: Heliostats
- Repairing the blue canary in the outlet by the light switch
- Booting a 1989 Mac with Mario
- Fully fretted guitar MIDI controller
- What has 114 LEDs and is always running?
- Prototyping a Bluetooth to IR remote control translator
- Remote-controlled USB switch
- Hacking your car’s multifunction display
- Battery-less electronic dice for all your D&D needs
- Putting Twitter in a VFD clock
- Sustainability Hacks: Automatic window control
- MSP430-based wristwatch project
- Hackaday Links: September 28, 2011
- Ambilight clone built from Arduino and ShiftBrite modules
- Which resistor values should you order for all circumstances?
- Sustainability Hacks: Solar battery/smartphone charger
- Making a simple addressable array from LED strips
- Running the Linux kernel on a DE0-nano FPGA board
- CV Sequencer with a TV out
- Amazing RGB POV clock
- They may be for developing countries, but we want a concrete lathe
- Arduino boards control cheap clockworks via coil injection
- Turn your Wireless Keyboard into a MAME Controller!
- DIY breadboard modules for easy prototyping
- Two dice, one 8-pin uC
- Building a battery-powered motion alarm
- Sustainability Hack: Wind turbine battery charger
- Toilet paper printer made from scrap parts
- Bluetooth communications for Android devices via Processing
- Python on a microcontroller
- Barebones PIC RFID tag
- Voxel Shield makes driving LED cubes easy
- Capacitive sensing tutorial
- The Water Calligraphy Tricycle
- Over-the-air FM radio gains Internet control
- Announcing our next theme – Sustainability Hacks
- How to decode IR remote control signals with your PICkit 2
- Improvised metal lathe
- SNES gamepad coversion to USB
- Arduino heart rate monitor
- Working with the µOLED-128-G1 display
- Discrete logic driving game development
- ATtiny Hacks: Stopwatch Turned Race Clock
- ATtiny Hacks: ATtiny45/85 servo library
- Interfacing with a PS/2 mouse
- Pinball machine eats your quarters, tells time
- Automated humane pest control
- Weekly roundup 9/24/11
- ATtiny hacks: Robot Halloween costume
- ATtiny Hacks: ATtiny10 game – doing more with less
- Octocopter will someday kill someone
- USB stick Propeller development board
- Add some LED enhancement to your netbook lid
- Flip off your alarm clock!
- Interfacing with a PS/2 Keyboard
- ATtiny Hacks: Infrared guidance and navigation
- Large scale Tetris game controlled with DDR pads
- ATtiny Hacks: SerialCouple – A standalone thermocouple ADC board with serial out
- Burning Man 2011: Duane Flatmo’s El Pulpo Mecanico
- Why wasn’t this magnetic cello made in the 70’s?
- Tracking commercial aircraft with salvaged electronics
- Beginner Concepts: A quartet of videos on Inductors
- Retro-gaming wall art; it’s playable!
- ATtiny Hacks: DIY high-speed photography LED lighting rig
- DIY RFID shielded wallet keeps data thieves at bay
- Laser cut clock reminds us of a Spirograph
- Modifying DD-WRT’s protected GUI
- Video: Eagle CAD Layout
- Build cheap panning camera mounts for time lapse photography
- Air Wick Odor Detect teardown
- A Solar-Powered Automatic Chicken Coop
- ATtiny Hacks: ATtiny-controlled 4x4x4 LED cube has a unique design
- Roland 808 synced to MIDI
- 3D-printable laser cutter
- [Dino] builds a simple non-contact voltage detector
- Lxardoscope is a Linux+Arduino oscilloscope
- PIC LC meter improvements add Li-Ion battery and charging circuitry
- Laser light show comes to life from the junk bin
- Adding an external audio input to the Sansa Clip+
- ATtiny Hacks: BEES! An electronic scale to see who brings in more honey.
- 8 Breadboard Hacks to Make Life Easier
- Things to do with your laptop batteries when they’re dead
- Space camera streams data during flight
- Motorized blinds put control at your fingertips
- Easily movable RFID door lock is great for dorm rooms
- Arduino releases new products; help them develop ARM-based Arduino
- Using classic game controllers with a wii
- Toaster oven forgoes Pop-Tarts, reflows solder
- ATtiny Hacks: Reading from a motorcycle’s J1850 data bus
- Robotic disco floor is a mobile party
- Hackaday Birthday Cake!
- Broken Xbox 360 converted into an arcade controller
- Mechatron, industrial looking security bot
- Schäuble Jr Aims to Take Away Your Privacy!
- ATtiny hacks: 2313 driving a 4x4x4 LED cube
- Stoplight indicator system signals when your servers are in distress
- Weekly Roundup 9/17/11
- ATtiny Hacks: Simple USB temperature probe
- Grow your own fresh salad year round with this cheap hydroponic setup
- Recreating the Mac Plus with an FPGA
- Motorized coop door lets the chickens out for you
- Swap-O-Matic: an automat with recycling in mind
- SPDIF passthrough lets you digitally manipulate the audio
- jGPX keeps the bachelor party moving in the right direction, regardless of BAC
- Burning Man 2011: Peter Hudson’s Charon Strobe Sculpture
- ATtiny hacks: Roll 2d6 with an ATtiny
- Steerable bristlebot via IR control
- Hackaday Links: September 15, 2011
- Have you got what it takes to code Android apps using Assembly?
- Solar-powered RepRap prints even when the power is out
- An Open-Source Rotational Casting Machine
- Karate Chop is Simon without all the touching
- Build your own CT scanner
- Microchip puts up two $1000 prizes for USB and TCP/IP stacks!
- ATtiny Hacks: An audio alert for cell phones accidentally left on vibrate
- Record sound without a microcontroller
- Adding a little polish to your cellphone charging setup
- Amp Hour interviews [Joe Grand]
- CheapStat: an open-source potentiostat
- Video – Eagle CAD’s CAM processor
- Making better CNC halftone pictures
- Quadcopter stabilization system using Wii Motion Plus
- Keeping simple children’s toys interesting with small modifications
- A laser cutter challenge
- ATtiny Hacks: Look Ma, no batteries!
- Upverter: it’s like Github for hardware
- Motion detecting window closers keep train noise at bay
- Transformer-based PSU repair
- Get the lead out of the Arduino compile process
- Android phone serves as Arduino terminal
- Upload firmware over Ethernet
- Recycled clock spins round and round to tell time
- Use Droid Bionic as a mobile hotspot without paying extra
- Drill holes in your tablet for better sound quality
- Portable power strip control lights and appliances using SMS
- A Light-Following Pong Game
- ATTiny Hacks: Run your Arduino project on an ATTiny!
- Building an Optigan-like instrument
- Digging deep into the Neato’s LIDAR module
- Wall-climbing bot does it with ease
- Chumby’s new NeTV makes almost ‘any TV’ into an Internet connected device
- Super Pixel Bros now with manufactured PCB and rewritten software
- [Dino’s] JFET guitar preamp with piezo pickup
- Inkjet print head driver shield
- PCB drill from R/C car parts
- A simple fix to resurrect your broken iclicker
- World clock simulates night and day
- Announcing our next theme: ATtiny hacks
- Glass PCBs
- Update: Bluetooth Super Nintendo controller for Android
- Dippy Bird binary clock
- Laser trip wire in an easy-to-use form factor
- Bluetooth cassette adapter
- Engine Hacks – A DIY Methane Generator
- High efficiency solar charger circuit tops off those lead-acid batteries
- The weighted companion cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, is a subwoofer
- Improving your welder without a microcontroller
- Adding Fluke 54 II features to a 51 II thermometer
- A No-touchscreen Picture Frame?
- Weekly Roundup 9/10/11
- Engine Hacks: Build a turbojet from junkyard parts
- Print the best mascot, win a shiny new Makerbot
- Repeat timer hacked for 35 minute hydroponic cycles
- Program an Arduino using your sound card
- Spinning UV light writer
- No quarters required for this sidescrolling game in a box
- Laser etched PCB production
- Engine Hacks – Tesla turbines
- Putting laptop LCDs to use with an FPGA
- Arcade controller in a box
- Anthropomorphizing an Ikea lamp (like Pixar but in real life)
- Huge DIY 3D printer predictably prints huge 3D items
- DIY portable charger/generator
- TSC230 Color Light-to-Frequency Module
- Turning pixels into LEGO pieces
- Spectrum analyzer users custom characters on an HD44780 display
- Security system gives you a call when it senses intruders
- This marriage proposal is the best PCB design ever
- Engine Hacks: Riquimbilis, or: what we’d do if we couldn’t buy a car
- Recovering data for a homemade Cray
- Want 2 megabytes of SRAM for your Arduino?
- Broken vintage record player reborn as a portable MP3 cabinet
- Light up your workshop with this arcade button light switch
- Cookie projector uses that dusty film camera of yours
- Beginner Concepts: MOSFETs
- Defusable alarm clock – wastes wire but fun for the kids
- Video: Learning Eagle CAD part 2
- Need something in a pinch? SparkFun products now at Micro Center
- Matchbox-sized line following robot
- Engine Hacks: Electric drill made into a trolling motor
- Hybrid control scheme using an Xbox game pad and Kinect
- GPS audio tour brought to you by surface speakers
- Fallout brought to life with this working PIP-Boy 3000
- TV retrofit… because flatscreens just don’t take up enough space
- Controlling samplers and sequencers with multitouch
- Smartphone hacking without risk – plus, broken phones needed
- Salvaging a commercial-grade pick and place machine
- Playing snake with a TV remote
- Engine Hacks: Snow chucking — because snow blowing is for commoners
- La Crosse weather station wireless data acquisition
- Want to learn Artificial Intelligence? Good.
- Czech-ing out the view from 31 kilometers
- The Partyscroller LED Display
- Upgrading RAM in an Arduino Mega
- Engine Hacks: A pulse jet UAV by any other name would still be a cruise missile
- Material of choice: felt pen on glass
- Freakin’ huge CNC router
- A ham radio receiver, Manhattan Style
- Delta robot 3D printer
- Engine Hacks: Homebuilt Solid State Ignition Module
- PIC-based voice recorder
- Weekly Roundup 09/03/11
- Engine Hacks: Convert your yard tools to run on steam!
- POV keychain from prototype to SMD board
- Get out the graph paper get started on the new discrete logic contest
- Simple transistor tester makes sorting easy
- Intel’s new way of creating randomness from digital orderliness
- Coil gun revolver
- Engine Hacks: Electrified Datsun is the ultimate engine swap
- Kraftwerk inspired LED tie
- Awesome fiber optic LED Viking helmet
- Highway based soundtrack recordings
- Candlestick phone goes modern.
- Using nixie tubes as robot eyes
- Robust wireless DSLR control over Bluetooth
- Repairing an old pick and place machine
- Engine Hacks: Liquid fuel amateur rocket roundup
- Building a CNC Router to Call My Own
August 2011
- Google ADK on an EvalBot
- Bare-bones electronic advent calendar
- How to build a vacuum form table that gets it right every time
- Multitouch tower defense uses physical towers
- Virtual Machine for microcontrollers lets you run Python on AVR chips
- The life and death of a fantastically brilliant flashlight
- Making a line-following toy into a programmable robot
- Insects turned into orchestra; not harmed but terribly inconvenienced
- Making a Bluetooth Headset into a Wireless Music Streaming Device
- VGA video output with an ATtiny
- Engine Hacks: The Kawaskai Voyager… V-12?
- Addressing Microchip’s open source problem
- Dustbin computer lets you clean and prototype with a Neato XV-11
- My first robot: A simple demo to get kids excited about robotics
- Knock lock with logic chips
- Hunting down farmyard pests with technology
- DIY Electron Accelerator
- A cellphone based Interactive Voice Response System
- Retractable iPad dock for the kitchen
- Water vortex exhibit repair gives a look at the bearing and gasket design
- Guitar pickup winding workstation
- Crazy slingshot guy at it again with a 220 lb steel ball cannon
- Engine Hacks: Adding fuel injection to a riding lawnmower
- Monitoring water levels with a Parallax Ping sensor
- Speaker-mounted WAV player for street performances
- Chumby controlled mechanum wheel robot
- [Easton’s] animatronic hand gets 3D printed upgrade
- Got an iLight?
- Revolights keep you safe while riding at night
- Mineable Minecraft block
- A cat elevator, for the discerning lazy feline in your life
- MindFlex watches as you judge others by sight alone
- Video: Learning Eagle CAD part I – Schematic & Custom Parts
- Announcing the next theme: Engine Hacks
- Run unsigned code on any xbox
- BASIC programming on an Arduino
- Build a clock using dials instead of hands
- The “AlarmTock”, a Chumby Hacker Board Alarm Clock
- DIY Segway: fast, silent, and open
- High voltage hacks finale: Do not try this under any circumstances
- Chumby transplant and hardware upgrade used with DSLR and WFT
- More POV fan message hacking
- Converting a lame Tron toy into a cool Halloween costume prop
- Vowel recognition using an ATmega644
- Weekly Roundup 8/27/2011
- High Voltage Hacks: Transmute the elements in your garage
- Hacking [Steve Jobs]: A retrospective
- Making oscilloscopes from ARM development boards
- Installing OpenSSH on the HP TouchPad
- A beginner’s guide to burning Arduino bootloaders
- Milling curves into mirrors and glass
- Go ahead, let the kids play with your digital camera… after some additions
- Wireless fiber optic mood lighting
- Dev board from an AVR programmer
- High Voltage Hacks: A 1000 Watt tube amp
- Raspberry Pi might not be vaporware
- Large 7 Segment Display Made from Glue
- Paddle controller for GPU overclocking
- How not to build a robotic lawnmower
- Evalbot OS Set Free
- Burning Man: Pirate Ship Sports Arduino Powered Flame Sails
- “Counting box” also saves calculators from small children
- Controlling Dioder light strips wirelessly
- A Design Contest with High Odds of Winning!
- High Voltage Hacks: All About Electroluminescence
- Vintage phone has a dirty Android secret
- When Airsoft gets boring, build a coil gun!
- Zigbee home automation gives us another reason not to get up
- More FrankenKindle progress
- Cellphone controlled retro-radio stores and plays your digital library
- Water-powered multi-channel audio
- The Dish-o-Tron 6000 is back and better than ever
- Forget that boring old fire pit, build a Flame Tree instead!
- The Scariest Hacks from Black Hat and Defcon
- “Extrem Konsolen Modding”
- High Voltage: Build your own 84 kV lightning stick
- All your I/O pins belong to ArduinoDashboard
- HaD links – Quakepocalypse Edition: August 23, 2011
- Kinect-controlled delta robot has a magnetic personality
- Home tanning lamps become organ donors for a PCB exposure bed
- Tree Climbing Bot Climbs Tree
- We don’t need to brainstorm projects; xkcd does that for us
- Winterizing: keeping the drafts out of double-hung windows
- Bluetooth wristwatch based on an Arduino
- Can a Dippy Bird be used as a temperature sensor?
- High Voltage: Lightning simulator can’t send you back to the future
- Barcode tattoo has a lot of thought put into it
- Building a contact mic using homemade piezo crystals
- Setting it straight about science fair solar energy breakthrough
- [Dino] tells us about transistor-based on/off switches
- Jack’s video has been fixed.
- Polarized art fixture made from a busted laptop screen
- Bounty for an HP Touchpad Android port
- FPGA bitcoin miner is probably the most power efficient.
- Video: Shocking [Jack] into submission with High Voltage
- Hacking A2DP support into an old car stereo
- Hackaday Links: August 21, 2011
- One-man SMD assembly line shares a lot of tips about doing it right
- Resurrecting an electric razor
- This GLaDOS potato is a lie
- Basic Animatronics Continued: Servo Actuated Mouth
- A quick and dirty VU meter for your next party
- [Bunnie] mods Chumby to capture epic time-lapse video
- High Voltage: Controlling a flyback transformer with an Arduino
- What would you put in a shipping container makerspace?
- LEGO mill produces sculpted models with fantastic resolution
- Glowing eyes project keeps it simple this Halloween
- Weekly Roundup 8/20/2011
- Homebrew weather station plus a pan and tilt camera rig
- High Voltage Hacks: shrinking coins
- Installing Linux on old PC’s Part 2
- Adding wireless controls to vintage stereo equipment
- Robotic arm and claw sculpted entirely from ShapeLock
- The Hand-Mounted Haptic Feedback Sonar Obstacle Avoidance Asstance Device.. Or the Tacit
- Building a message board with a web interface
- Adding USB control for Ikea RGB LED strips
- Using an MSP430 for time lapse photography
- Heathkit is back from the dead
- High Voltage: Using enclosed relays for HV switching
- Meet Radio Shack’s new Parallax lineup
- Project 25 Digital Radios (law enforcement grade) vulnerable to the IM-ME
- DIY RC sensor board
- Robotic artist listens to your criticism
- Gyroscope-based smartphone keylogging attack
- High voltage plasma lamp is also tasteful steampunk
- Morphing hexapod has us drooling
- Dumpster hackers and junkyard makers get their own TV show
- Build your own SMS chatroom
- MilliOhm Measurement Made Easy
- Very clean Android headphone controller project
- TI’s new web site appeals to the penny pincher in us
- Bootloader burning basics
- Bobuino: Arduino based on ATmega1284 + goodies
- Restoring a jukebox with an Arduino
- Electric longboard uses DIY hub motors
- Who knew Jacob’s Ladder builds had so many options?
- A Stackable Motor Driver Shield for the Arduino
- DIY PCB exposure box looks professionally made
- Clicking and counting with push wheel switches
- Amazing 60 year old robot dog is a mystery
- I have seen the future, and it has Swarmanoids
- PS2 to USB keyboard converter also logs your keystrokes
- Automatically weed the celebrity gossip out of your TV time
- Easy to build Z80 single board computer
- Autonomous tank will track you down, cover you in welts
- Controlling muscles with high intensity magnetic pulses
- Shock yourself to better health!
- Converting PWM to DC signaling for more precise fan control
- Simple device answers questions just like your boss does
- Power Up with Knowledge
- Hacking a better pressure cooker
- Make Your Own Custom Hot Glue Sticks
- Largest LED cube we’ve ever seen is still only half complete
- Automated aquarium chemical dispenser is extremely precise
- Eye see you.
- Build Your Own Class AB Audio Amplifier
- Playing SNES with an R/C controller
- Juice Bridge powers your breadboard in a snap
- Making SATA drives work with a SCSI backplane
- Obama-1 Desk Spy Satellite Aims for High Approval Ratings
- Head-to-head mountain climbing from the safety of your game room
- Hackaday weekly roundup
- Installing Linux on a 386 laptop
- Beer chilling in the name of science
- Stream music anywhere in your house with these WiFi speakers
- Two-axis panning time lapse rig built from Lego
- Overhaul an old mechanical keyboard
- Wii homebrew hack – no game discs required
- Arduino Link Libraries
- Persistence of vision helicopter blades with RGB LEDs
- How to put your logo in a QR code
- Keeping tabs on your tabby with a camera and GPS
- Boost your garden’s output using ultrasonic mist
- Nanode: A low-cost network-enabled Arduino Ethernet alternative
- Portal puppet probably won’t kill us
- Adding a MIDI input to a Game Boy
- Add a real life hardware terminal to that newfangled computer of yours
- DIY smart tweezers make SMD work a cinch
- Control LED lighting with an old stereo receiver
- Kinect-based turntable 3D scanner looks very promising
- Color changing door handles
- Feel the hum of electricity between your legs
- Make W7 64 bit play nice with your Programmer
- An introduction to DC boost converters
- Impressive lighting console offers professional features for a fraction of the price
- An “Earthcore” Hexapod with Minimal Mechanical Parts
- Enhance your magnetic silly putty with personal lubricants
- Lighted shoe ruffles — he’ll never step on your toes again
- Play-by-play of a high altitude balloon flight
- God’s own keyboard, now with Bluetooth
- Stretch your circuit’s battery life by putting your PIC to sleep
- Quit Monkeying About!
- Hacking QR codes for fun and profit
- Gain wizardly knowledge about crystals
- Ever wonder where cool interactive museum exhibits come from?
- Sous Vide crock pot controller
- A Robotic Turtle Platform to Buy or Build
- DIY orb display puts the Earth in your hands
- Programming the Kinect to Work with Android
- 3D printed Turtle Shell Racers bring Mario Kart to life
- [Scott] made a single-chip Hellschreiber on earth
- Electrographic Enlarging Sketchifier does your drawing for you
- Video – Turning Good Gnomes Evil
- Sound activated flash for high speed photography
- Noise generator ported to run on small AVR, also Arduino compatible
- Old pachinko game tweaked to add a reward system
- Announcing Hack a Day Themes
- Home automation systems easily hacked via the power grid
- Portable gets a proper home in an arcade controller
- Most useless machine upgrade — now with a button!
- 1 Chip USB AVR Development
- RC car hack saves lives in war zone
- Blow your mind with the Brainwave Disruptor
- VTOL airplane / quadracopter mashup
- Dead-bug Arduino is still breadboard ready
- Quick and easy audio preamp
- Instructables Joins Autodesk
- The DIY Nuclear Reactor
- Ohm Sense makes sense of resistor color bands
- Need cheap and plentiful project boxes? Hit up your local hardware store
- LAN-connected washing machine lets you know when your clothes are done
- Robots tends your lawn while you veg out on the couch
- Building a computer out of 555 chips
- Basic Animatronics Tutorial: PIC Based Servo Eyebrows
- Etch-a-Sketch automatically draws a tribute to Hack a Day
- Using an LED cube as an audio visualizer
- Would you like to play a game?
- Prison inmates: The world’s least admirable hackers
- An Arduino board for your tiniest of projects
- The Lego Synchro Drive
- Air conditioner regulation using a hobby servo
- An ARM dev board you can make at home
- DIY Propeller-based ECG
- Dedicated hacker adds USB capabilities to his Commodore 64
- RepRap voyeurism
- Microsoft’s attempt at an Arduino killer — feels like a gimmick
- Peltier powered sous-vide rig gets it right every time
- How to add modular tools to your soldering platform
- Come see what’s cooking in the Arduino kitchen
- A 3D Printed Aerial Drone
- Model rocketry from the rocket’s point of view
- Classic game cabinet becomes a drivable car
- Visualizing PCB revisions using a Gerber viewer
- Only losers text message on cellphones – this guy carries his own teletype for that
- Chainless bicycle will turn a few heads
- Incredibly fast 3D printing with the Ultimaker
- Virtual Segway tours using the Wii Balance Board
- Tiny external system monitor makes it easy to keep tabs on your PC
- Bluetooth morse code keyboard for the disabled
- Robots listen only to the leader when building a roving quadcopter landing pad
- Want to play Pong on your Oscilloscope?
- Who knew Thinkpad batteries require a jump start?
- Adding Ambilight clone system to your home theater just got a big price cut
- Google ADK clones pack a few extra features, hopefully far cheaper than the original
- Light LED’s with FIRE!
- WASP UAV gets some new toys, now intercepts your phone calls too
- Robotic gardener takes its cue from bomb disposal bots
- Making the case for in-circuit debugging tools
- Fonera-based quadcopter can be controlled from a web browser
- How to take a travelling electronics lab on the road with you
- Workshop lights so bright, they will give you sunburn
- Here’s a button, call someone who cares…
- Toy robot hand vastly improved, now more offensive
July 2011
- Hackaday Links: July 31, 2011
- Do you have what it takes to make lumber keep time?
- Monitoring the world’s DNS status using a display straight out of WarGames
- Commodore 64 USB controller adapter for your PC
- Parametric script makes laser cutter designs a snap
- AVR programmer modelled after the MkII – uses LUFA
- R/C Hexababy is guaranteed to give you nightmares
- Bejeweled Blitz bot makes your high score look just sad
- USB Reddit Upvote/Downvote button
- AM Singer: a tiny AM transmitter
- Making structured wiring do your bidding
- RGB LED spectrum analyzer coffee table
- Improving audio output from an HD radio receiver
- Comment system updates
- Putting a PDP-10 on an FPGA
- Adding auto-off to a cheap multimeter
- IR communications tutorial
- MIDI Air Drums let you play anywhere
- Sleek, disc-less GameCube handheld
- A Pill Reminder Box to be Proud of
- NTSC video out with the Papilio One
- Live NBA scoreboard with huge 7-segment displays
- Creating halftone pictures with a CNC machine
- Wooden machine belongs in Willy Wonka’s factory
- FrankenKindle: building an alternate Kindle keyboard
- RC car and Beagle Board mate for a versatile robot build
- A Professional Looking N64 Portable Build
- Microcontroller communications using flashing lights
- Security Bot 2
- Making and selling Star Wars costumes ruled to be legal
- SMD Soldering with Gas
- 3D printed singularity drive platform
- Hackaday Comment Policy; We’re cleaning up.
- Bass Hero combines Guitar Hero with Dance Dance Revolution
- Camera flash marquee: Real of Fake?
- Unlocking Wireless PC Locks
- Automated water distiller gets an overhaul
- How to build your own quadcopter, step by step
- London’s 44Con is looking for a few good hackers
- Building a one-instruction computer
- CircuitBee makes sharing schematics and circuit diagrams easy
- Add external MIC input for Samsung HMX-T10 videocamera
- Auxiliary display for Beat707 works via I2C
- Purdue IEEE ROV
- Component storage roundup
- A study in AVR power saving techniques
- The Isostick
- Locking notebook enclosure
- Update: Arduino Shift Register PWM gets speed boost
- Understanding interrupts in PIC microcontrollers
- Regarding Atmel’s Xmega chips
- Ignored disabled man builds his own damn elevator
- DIY Segway recycles broken electric scooters
- Is that a rom in your locket?
- Digital cootie detector
- Adding USB connectivity to old benchtop tools
- Singing Robot
- Hybrid roller coaster concept
- Robot vacuum makes cleaning into a game
- Clocks built from old aircraft surplus parts
- Arduino Powered 2.4 GHz Spectrum Analyzer
- Hacking 14 year old Power PC Mac back to life
- Pass the Bomb electronic drinking game
- Going a long way for Game Boy Advanced video out
- Hackaday Links: July 24, 2011
- Desktop email notification bell
- Guitar becomes an improved color organ
- All About Accelerometers
- Using an Arduino to measure inductance
- Creating music from GPU noise
- Cypherbot uses older uC and retro-controller
- The Firebird32, a new dev board on the block
- Frustrating fun with magnetic levitation
- Apple laptop batteries vulnerable to firmware hack
- Radio Shack will now stock cellphones, cellphone accessories, Arduinos
- Adding video out to the Open Pandora
- Using Binary Code Modulation to control LED brightness
- Resistor substitution box
- Beefy rover looks like tons of fun
- Modded Wall-E becomes a real robot
- Hack a Day visits LVL1 hackerspace in Louisville
- Sandia Labs “Hopper” Robot
- Roll your own toner transfer dice
- Magic: The Gathering nixie life counter
- Power tool battery charger repair
- Demystifying PID Control with a look at the new Arduino PID library
- Intro to DC motor control using the SN754410
- LG TV hacking via serial connection or IR codes
- Bypassing manufacturer-imposed battery lockouts
- Controlling an infuriating game with an accelerometer
- Klout Klok tracks your popularity, time
- Using a router as a Linux-based PID controller
- Followup: portable SID player is now PC output
- Amazing pipe organ desk features secret compartments and an all-wood logic board
- Roomba used to map indoor air quality
- Output up to 768 PWM signals from one Arduino
- Hackaday in the social tangle
- Beat707 LE: A Button Pad-based Standalone MIDI sequencer
- Hacking your MacBook Air restore drive to install OSX Lion
- RC transmitter does everything
- Chilean teen builds automatic earthquake alarm
- Obstacle avoiding hexapod from reused parts
- One really big quadcopter that is following in the steps of the Spruce Goose
- Gambiologia – Brazilian Physical Item Hacking
- [Jeri Ellsworth] builds a software radio
- 2011 CCC r0ket badge
- Analyzing TV’s talking heads with Processing
- Hackaday Links: Tuesday, July 19th
- Modelling chemical reactions using an FPGA
- Bringing an iWallet back to life
- Building a computer around a TTL CPU
- iPhone to Arduino communications sans jailbreak
- DIY book scanner processes 600 pages/hour
- Getting more information from your battery charger
- Robot band covers [Marilyn Manson]
- DIY robot remote control
- Hacking your NES/Famicom console for better video and audio
- Cheap and easy PCB agitator from an old CD-ROM
- Impressive steampunk keyboard
- LED headgear is marvel of free-formed circuitry
- FPGA Arduino shield uses Kickstarter as a preorder system
- Don’t buy an IPAD, Make one!
- Megavallometer camera trigger
- Android controlled t-shirt cannon
- VGA Pong on a chipKIT
- Playing DVDs on an iPad
- Building a simple FM transmitter bug
- Skateboard tagging
- Race car POV LED displays
- Cheap voice-controlled lighting
- Arduino video sampler
- Surplus bazooka converted to shoot firework artillery shells
- extMEDIA: An XBMC disc changer interface
- Did Microsoft steal the Kinect?
- Adding extra buttons to a Cintiq drawing pad
- Building a single-button combination lock
- Vodafone femtocells hacked, root password revealed
- Red Bull Creation contest results
- iButton is opening doors at the TkkrLab
- A beginner’s guide to magnetometers
- Incredible 1000 mW Iron Man repulsor beam
- nD sticks it to traditional gaming giants
- IOIO upgrades get a bit easier
- Omniwheel robot
- Replacing non-standard USB charging ports
- Color changing EL wire
- DIY wiper speed control and collision avoidance
- Building a solar power heliostat
- Automotive battery voltage monitor
- Faux LED scroller using phosphorescence
- Xbox 360 DVD changer is the ultimate in gaming laziness
- Shoulder surfing with openCV
- Character LCD screen add-on for Android devices
- FPGA generated SPDIF output
- FabLab helps the developing world set up long-distance wireless Ethernet
- Zzstructure emulator
- Wearable video coat
- One-click unbrick for Samsung phones
- Re-manufacturing inkjet cartridges for 3d printing
- Accounting for material loss when laser cutting
- Controlling a counter top water distiller with salvaged parts
- Computer-controlled EL wire light show
- Running Android on large touch screen displays
- Crafting a hexapod with an RC controller
- Building a stepper driver
- DIY clock replica is better than the real thing
- LED wand for light painting photography
- Scavenging ambient electromagnetic energy
- Waterfall signal visualizer from Arduino and cellphone LCD
- How to build your own pulsed laser pistol
- Sound card microcontroller/PC communication
- A homemade electric chair reveals a darker side of hacking
- Bubble Blowing Bot Blows Big Bouncy Bubbles
- Improved FPGA synth
- Slick 16-segment POV hard drive clock
- Repairing a broken salad spinner
- Hardware XOR for output pins on AVR microcontrollers
- Live CD for RFID hacking on the go
- Amazing hemispherical omnidirectional gimbaled wheel robot
- Turn any Bluetooth device into a MIDI controller
- Measuring home networks with BISMark
- DIY guitar fuzz pedal
- Internal 7-segment PS3 display
- G-men pay [Kyle McDonald] a visit
- Voice recognition system controls everything, hopefully won’t kill us.
- ChibiMo – an AVR-based USB display
- On-dash g-meter project is another way to distract drivers
- [Phillip Torrone] on why all makers should learn Chinese
- Bluescripts makes Bluetooth control from Android a bit easier
- Mini IR theremin
- Reverse engineering VxWorks (which replaces Linux on newer routers)
- VU meter scarf lights up the night
- Humanoid robot listens to music, plays along on his Theremin
- DIY table saw cuts through anything, leaves no room for mistakes
- Minecraft is now a 3d design tool
- UPDATE: Playing piano with optical sensors
- ArduDelta would make a great pick and place machine
- Hacking and Rolling at the Red Bull Creation Challenge
- Infrared control for appliances
- Play dress up with Kinect
- Use Bluetooth to open your garage and start your car remotely
- VFD Hacking
- Smile, your face is on the Internet
- Driving game steering wheel controller without the wheel
- Playing chess on a microcontroller
- Moisture control for a DIY greenhouse
- Propeller-based robot with basic object avoidance
- MB LED is next generation of LED video block puzzles
- Your snapshot on a thermal printed receipt, instantly!
- Retro-radio: building on another WiFi radio hack
- A Plotter Made from Lego Parts
- Magic Locket
- Paper Craft Claw
- GPS lap timer from secondhand parts
- Electronics tutorial two-fer: soldering skills and wires
- Take to the skies with this flying RC superhero
- Kinect-controlled quadrotor
- Voice controlled robot controlled by an Android phone
- Augmented reality game could come from the seventies
- Fog horn built from plumbing supplies
- Alarm clock forces you to play Tetris to prove you are awake
- CEE is a swiss army knife for analog electronics
- Bottle rocket POV video
- Sandbox game in a sandbox
- A Simple Dolly for Time-Lapse Photography
- Robotic Schadenfreude – quadrotor blooper reel
- 3D display using a kinect
- Controlling a CGA Monitor with an Arduino
- Not your ordinary LED book light
- Poor man’s Peltier air conditioner
- Game Boy communicates directly with an SD card
- A MAME cabinet fit for a Doctor (Who)
- Automated LED Hallway Lighting
- Boobie Board powered Twitter notifier
- Flogo – a floating foam logo generator
- Livescribe shuts down developer program
- Electro-active polymers
- CNC-PBDU (pancake batter dispenser unit)
- Importing PCB layout into Google Sketchup
- External text display for Nexus One
June 2011
- New conductive ink allows circuit prototyping with a pen and paper
- Androcade is a controller and stand in one
- Driving and old receipt printer
- Tweeting home alarm system
- DIY servo activated door lock with capacitive touch keypad
- Google Android ADK Bluetooth wireless communications
- Gigantic 555 footstool
- Alternative Phone Charging Devices
- A doorbell loud enough to wake the dead
- Detecting muscles with electromyography
- Tesla coil bullet-time photography
- Maker Faire KC 2011: In Photos (Part 2)
- Tour of Advanced Circuits – A PCB Manufacturer
- PossessedHand controls hand with electrical stimuli
- The PixBoard
- Giant POV tube for light painting
- Handy board plays music with an NES controller
- Teensy AVRs used in penetration testing
- Tweeting bird feeder keeps a picture record of all visitors
- FPGA MIDI Interface
- Put your ARM skills to the test with the Freescale Make It Challenge
- Circuit design for multiple UART connections
- Keep all eyes on your kegerator with this light up gauge cluster
- Maker Faire KC 2011: In Photos (Part 1)
- [Bunnie’s] archives: Unlocking protected microcontrollers
- Solder paste dispenser hacked to run off compressed air cans
- Tiny hardware-based DSLR intervalometer
- Teamspeak button uses tattoo machine foot switch
- MSP430-based palm size quad copter
- Stereo amplifier with digital volume control
- Building an up-to-date MSPGCC toolchain
- 2005 Subaru aux-in hacking
- XBMC controller is an all-in-one usb solution for HTPCs
- Behold, the Oomphalapompatronium!
- Lose the beer belly by brewing beer
- ATtiny13 powered handheld helicopter game
- Pulse Width Modulation with microcontrollers
- Digitized retro LCD games played using an Arduino as a controller
- A badge without a conference
- DIY battery reconditioner saves old rechargeable batteries from the landfill
- Electronics lessons for beginners
- Automotive backup alarm
- A Beautiful Fibre Optic Chandelier
- Thumper The T-Shirt Launcher
- Measuring RPM with reflective sensors
- Semi-automatic PCB drill press
- Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring Emotiphone!
- Selective solar sintering with sand
- Super Mario coin block lamp is a Nintendo fanboy’s dream come true
- Building a robot without using a machine shop
- A pick and place machine for under $1k
- Keeping tabs on your pets’ busy lives
- “Zero overhead” Z80 computer focuses on performance
- Automatic Micro-Copter Cameraman
- Enhancing simple circuit kits with microcontrollers
- Launching model rockets wirelessly
- Making wheelchairs more safe through high visibility
- Use FPGAs the easy way with Alien Cortex AV
- 10,000 year clock sounds like an Indiana Jones flick – makes us wonder if we’re being trolled
- Repaired microwave keypad looks as good as new
- 3 Axis Plotter Made from Spare Parts
- Tiny Morse code trainer
- Synapse turns your Kinect into a Dubstep theremin
- Puncture resistant bike tires from old seatbelts
- 24 cellphone buttons controlled with 6 microcontroller pins
- Building DIY BlinkM clones
- Automated scanning for a pile of documents
- Build a standalone BASIC interpreter
- Reworking Ball Grid Array circuit board components at home
- Converting a Roomba into a Mars rover
- Spokes? We don’t need no stinking spokes!
- Photo hardware that automatically produces rotating GIFs
- Twitter notifier lets us know how awesome we are
- Making Airsoft guns far more potent
- The Engineering Guy explains fiber optics
- Photographing near-space objects we’re not supposed to know about
- Quadbike: smaller is faster
- Roomba shares all of its daily activity on the web
- The passing of Bob Pease
- PLL 101
- Turning spotlights into soft LED nightlights
- DIY softboxes light your photos on the cheap
- Salvaged coil magnetizes tools on demand
- Receipt racer wastes a lot of paper
- Equipment Needed to Get “Started” in Electronics
- Electronic cufflinks for the discerning hacker
- Mini Google Street View car built from Lego
- Arduinos…. In…. Spaaaaaace…..
- The Infrared Graduation Cap
- Hackaday Links: Saturday, June 18th
- Modding a car charger to a variable power supply
- The Party Popper “Security” Robot
- The Perfect Beer Every Time
- You can keep your mints safe; we have the technology
- If you don’t have a Steampunk Smartphone…
- Disco isn’t dead: diy dance floor spotted at student parties
- Devboard deal: TI Experimenter Board for $15 (50% off)
- Slot car lap timer/counter
- Keypad uses a PIC’s built in capacitance functionality
- A Simple DIY Solar Tracker
- Homebrew TTL logic computer
- Making your own lab instruments
- 360 degree photography uses very easy post-processing
- Antenna cannon for amateur radio
- Official kinect SDK released
- Tripod CNC Plotter
- Beginner Concepts: Using a low-pass filter to smooth PWM output
- Mouse and HDD combo show off your data gluttony
- Watch out Segway, here comes Tilto
- PVC boombox is not a potato cannon
- We’ve got a real bone to pick with this mouse
- Libyan rebels turn toys into weapons of war
- Homebrew heat gun from scrounged parts
- An instrument that plays along with you
- Modifying a cheap robot arm for arduino control
- An Even Simpler Smartphone Garage Door Opener
- MIT’s eSuperbike takes on the Isle of Man
- eReader battery never goes flat (in the sun)
- Turning beer cans into bells with 35kV
- Man spends 30 years helping disabled gamers
- Celebrating the design principles behind cellphones
- Excuse me iPad, may I cut in?
- Adjustable voltage and polarity tester
- Simple clock uses RTC chip and character display
- Disappearing kitchen island
- Thirty Year old Pachinko Machine meets an Arduino
- Blox That Play Back
- Bikinis of the future!
- Puppy POV: Four-legged persistence of vision display
- GPS without GPS
- Reverse engineering wireless weather stations
- Flashing Arduinos with a Zipit
- The WALL-E Robot
- Hackaday Links: Monday June 13
- An Autonomous Car Using a “Webcam”
- Wifi sniffing digital picture frame
- Hacking cakes with LEDs, the sequel!
- How Canonical automates Linux package compilation
- Crosshair aiming system for your laser cutter
- Rescuing surplus blinkenlights
- A suitcase for all your wardriving needs
- Fixing motorized window shutter battery problems
- The Jazari robotic jazz enesmble
- A prosthetic arm that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.
- The Breech Loaded Paintall “Shotgun”
- Satellite tracking by shining a laser into space
- 3D printer looks factory made
- AVRcam for small robot machine vision
- Forearm-mounted GPS uses LEDs to light the way home
- Spherical military drone coming to a sky near you
- Magnetism makes silly putty fun again
- Virtual Reality with a Pico Projector
- Autodesk enters the hobby market
- $14 swarm robot, kilobot, is extremely cool
- Displaying graphics on an oscilloscope
- Pick and place at home
- Ubuntu Laika – an Android phone pen testing platform
- Gigantic ball-manipulating binary computer
- ISS lamp tells you when to look up
- Tablet-controlled disco Droid
- RFID Shower Time Logger
- Another Smarter Water Heater Timer
- Hacking into your router’s administrative interface
- Compaq Portable III rises again for a noble cause
- Turning a router into an APRS gateway
- Repairing a broken microwave keypad
- Experimental music iPad dock
- DIY CNC touch probe
- IOIO now supports Android Open Accessory
- Designing and building a bench supply
- Create and Conflagrate giant modeled sculptures with Kinect and CNC
- VU meter lives in a Linksys housing
- Tiny transforming beer can robot
- Machine precisely, methodically arranges water droplets
- Android controlled labyrinth
- DIY Earthquake Detector
- chipKIT Sketch: Mini Polyphonic Sampling Synth
- Extending the usability of touchscreens
- Experimenting with a permeability tuned oscillator
- Vintage peripheral hacks roundup
- Wifon is back and better than ever
- Solar powered cellphone a true hack
- Trobot: kickstarting the 6-axis minature robot arm
- Stripping DRM from OverDrive Media Console eBooks
- Automatic Espresso Loader for those Late Night Hack Sessions
- The Kinect Controlled Zombie Skeleton
- Capturing video with an Arduino
- Cleaning flux from PCBs the easy way
- Hard Drive Teardown
- DIY Bolt Together CNC Router
- Working with I2C port expanders
- Arduino hits the battlefield — for real
- FPGA Mandelbrot fractal engine
- Building a one-ton linear servo
- Mini-cannon built from a BBQ lighter fires Airsoft pellets
- Apple ][ converted into USB keyboard
- Wireless mouse Li-Poly retrofit with USB charging
- Open Hardware Summit 2011 Call for Submissions
- The Complete AVR Programmer That Fits in Your Pocket
- Building an electromagnetic pendulum clock
- RFID record player
- Million volt guitar rocks the house…for science!
- DIY digital bench power supply
- Retro video games sounds…for your toilet
- Converting a laptop computer into a desktop machine
- Beginner Concepts: Designing transistor control circuits
- Halloween Props: Trash can jack-in-the-box
- LiveLight is an expertly crafted ambilight clone
- Washing machine mechanical timer replaced with microcontroller
- Faking high-speed video photography of repetitive events
- A big transformer, because it’s cool!
- How to Make a Hand Drill out of a Pencil Sharpener
- Vocera B1000A teardown
- Putting the flex back into the RDS 80 soldering station
- Programming robots like you would train a pet
- Canon A70 CCD replacement/repair
- Shop lighting: weighing cost and efficiency
- Help 2600 Magazine Compile a List of Dates for their Hacker Calendar!
- Build your own panoramic pinhole camera
- Two Kinects Plus One HD Projector Makes the Coolest “Snowglobe” Ever
- Amazing 3d telepresence system
- DIY high voltage electric field detector
- [Dino] celebrates the 131st anniversary of the Photophone
- onshouldersTV knows how to use OpenSCAD
- Warm Tube Clock, take 2
- Portable SID plays chiptunes
- Kinect-driven cart makes shopping a snap
- Precision frequency measurement library for 8-bit microcontrollers
- I am root! – IP camera shell access
- DIY inkjet printer begs to be hacked
- The Laser Guided Wheelchair
- Update: Laser-powered auto focus assist version 2
- Fan throttling for PS3 temperature control
- Cube solving robot shatters the world record
- EDWARD The Vehicle of the Future
- Simple VGA interface for tiny FPGA boards
- VGA out on a Maple board
- Snap-together PCB mill
- Trick mouse keeps the screen saver at bay
- Cheap and cheerful Arduino breadboard basics
- Archaeopteryx: a large, colorful MIDI controller
- Kickstarter Roundup: Wednesday, June 1st
- Sinister Tone Generator brings the bass
- GPU password cracking made easy
- [Jeri’s] dress lights up when someone invades her personal space — step back nerds!
- Buying, selling, and bartering hacking hardware
- Prototyping the new office clock
- Devil horns adorn the hood of my truck
- Radio packets…from spaaaace!
May 2011
- A keygen for the real world
- Electronic bird house monitoring goes a few steps further
- Modular synthesizer is rack-mounted and reconfigurable
- Library makes Arduino to Arduino serial communications dead simple
- Run Kindle 3 firmware on Kindle 2 hardware
- Laser-powered DSLR auto focus assist light
- Guitar pickup 101
- VGA Testers for the Children
- LCD: Replacing CCFL with LEDs
- Solar-powered bird house Tweets using B-Squares
- A Bright Idea
- Tree climber takes a page from the inchworm book
- Reverse engineering embedded device firmware
- Hackaday Links: Monday, May 30th
- Hidden device distorts news on wireless networks, brews beer, is time machine
- Fixing POST errors with a single key
- Programming an ATtiny using an Arduino
- Aquabot gets around more than you’d think
- This robot can beat you at pointless games
- RSA SecurID breach leads to intrusion at Lockheed Martin
- Robot juggler sure handles a lot of balls
- Quadruped military vehicles from back in the day
- Wireless controller operates your CNC mill
- Speak your mind and help RadioShack suck less
- Music tank puts the boom in boombox
- 64-bit OS written entirely in assembly
- chipKIT Uno32: first impressions and benchmarks
- Minimalistic 555 Adding Machine
- Adding persistent memory and Ethernet to vintage arcade machines
- Low-cost, low-bandwidth wireless Arduino to Android communications
- My desk IS my computer case
- Tracking eye movement by measuring electrons in the eye
- Wall climbing robot uses supersonic grippers
- Hey OEMs, Arduino controlled dishwasher has much potential
- Hidden Messages in Audio
- Adding GPS to a Viewsonic G-Tablet
- Long-range Canon DSLR remote video trigger
- Arduino based biofeedback unit
- PS3 controller spoofing advancing with leaps and bounds
- Automated hose keeps cats from watering you
- Color object tracking with an 8-bit microcontroller
- The ins and outs of Lithium-based battery packs
- Extracting secured firmware from Freescale Zigbee radios
- Hacked phone runs Zork, gets lamp
- Hand-cranked magnet machine is endless fun
- Wireless rover has two guns…one for each of ya
- Building a brushless motor controller
- I2C Arduino GPS shield
- Automated faucet keeps your cat watered
- RF robot controlled from a terminal window
- Turn a logic analyzer into a signal generator using only software
- Facebook notifier uses some papercraft and simple electronics
- Generating pink noise
- Simple Bench Power
- Sound localization and a treaded rover
- Automated chess set does it from below
- Great junk-yard find leads to a reclaimed control panel project
- An odd little box
- Wireless hackerspace status notifier
- Building your own real time clock
- Wireless 4 Channel Temperature Monitor From Arduino Libraries
- Why build a CNC mill when you can have a chess robot instead?
- BAMF2011: Google’s SKPR Bot, not for arachnophobes
- Serial port JTAG programmer
- It’s like… I can tell the time just by the color, man
- BAMF2011: Lasersaur is one BIG laser cutter!
- Hacking for feline enjoyment
- Shoehorning RS-232 into a Minitel terminal
- We know “Mario’s Early Years” was a let down, but this takes it a bit too far.
- BAMF2011: Keyboards built from scratch
- BAMF2011: Bloxes, a building kit with a nifty pedigree
- BAMF2011: chipKIT is Arduino to the power of 32
- Making a 3D printer work wirelessly
- Class-D audio amplifier makes it from breadboard to PCB
- Xoscillo turns Arduino in an oscilloscope
- PCB Milling with a Makerbot
- Arduino I2C sniffer
- Bay Area Maker Faire: Hackaday has arrived!
- Send email, receive surveilance picture
- Introduction to the H-bridge motor controller
- Using an AVR as an RFID tag
- DIY Spectrophotometer
- NES multi-cartridge
- Reverse engineering a cheap LED message marquee
- A computer-controlled shutter for Polaroid packfilm cameras
- An alarm for every day of the week
- 1Hz timebase
- Displaying video and gifs on RGB LED matrices
- Uber keyboard hides security tools in plain sight
- Arduino Arcade Rom Dumper
- Aux-in Hacking an ’04 Subaru Radio
- Quick project: Hard drive system meter
- Lego Technic Super 8 movie projector
- Dino’s 2 axis camera dolly
- Fixing Arduino’s serial latency issues
- Blowing up capacitors
- Awesome custom disco basement
- Bluetooth Super Nintendo controller for Android gaming
- RFID smart card reader
- Electro-static see-saw
- Last mile WiFi over TV white space
- Transforming robot is more than meets the eye
- Hardware Handshaking for AVR
- Cheap and reliable portable face recognition system
- Dimming control for an Ikea solar desk lamp
- Adding Ethernet control for a 5.1 speaker set
- Ollie the socially awkward autonomous blimp
- Making the case for cool project enclosures
- Chemical wood burning
- Resurrecting the Optigan disc format
- Google ADK project shows just how easy it is to use
- Destroying an Arduino’s EEPROM
- Home made BlinkM units
- Optimizing code for PWM efficiency
- Japanese maid mods a furby
- Bluetooth media remote in an N64 controller
- Emulating a marching band with wearable instruments
- Stress testing robots…with baseball bats
- USB Geiger counter hack
- Adding MIDI to a very old drum machine
- Using Google’s ADK on standard Arduino hardware
- Monitor your home’s power usage on the cheap
- chipKIT Max32, an Arduino Mega upgrade with a PIC32 under the hood
- Plastic Plate Capacitors
- Papercraft flowers teach kids about batteries
- Macetech is looking for a few good Processing programmers
- Adding a tachometer to the SX2 Mini mill
- Bringing the game of tag into the digital age
- Automating Rock Band vocals
- Google? In my lightbulbs? It’s more likely than you think
- GSM-to-Skype bridge lets you lose those roaming fees
- Touch-based synthesizer is a wiring nightmare
- Adding power trim to a boat
- DIY hidden bookshelf speakers
- I2C 101
- Official android open accessory development kit – it’s an Arduino
- Machining replacement parts with hand tools
- Arduino magnetic core memory shield
- Cheap open-source pace clock keeps your practice on schedule
- DIY sound localization sensor
- Open Source Linear Bearing System
- DIY portal turret is… looking pretty good.
- Human-powered quadcopter flies live tomorrow
- Bit banging VGA from an SD card slot
- Roll your own capacitors – high voltage edition
- Don’t hit that switch!
- AVR Gameboy Dumper
- Juggling with Kinect
- FBI tracking device found; disassembled
- Double barreled air cannon
- Jeri Ellsworth’s shooting gallery
- A friendly spiderbot named Chopsticks
- Roll your own capacitors
- Synkie: the modular synth for video
- Learning electronics concepts step by step
- Generating music with credit cards
- Photon Banner
- Rebecca Black running accessory also promotes running for everyone within earshot
- Digital picture frame reverse engineering
- Miniature PC packs a big punch
- Advanced robotic arm control using Kinect
- Improve charlieplexing performance with interrupts
- USB Minecraft portal
- Digital Audio on the Parallax Propeller
- Mini light table fits inside a briefcase
- Modular security system is portable too
- Tiny Atari 810 Disk Drive upgrade
- Dabbling with CPLD generated VGA signals
- Light painting – still shots and animations
- Gitbrew brings OtherOS back to the PS3
- Arduino Home Statistics
- Automate repetitive PC actions with a foot pedal
- Awesome fan-powered Frankenscooter
- AppleCrate II doubles the cluster computing fun
- Analog projection clock so simple you should have thought of it
- DIY sunrise alarm clock
- Cutting paper scrolls with frickin’ lasers
- Build your own Programmable Logic Controller
- Meet Mr. Clappidoo
- USB Keyboard Prankster
- LED Matrix Helmits Inspiried by You-Know-Who
- Real-time robotic arm control with Blender
- A Weighted Companion Cube worth saving from the incinerator
- 3D Render Live with Kinect and Bubble Boy
- Marble machines roundup
- Building your own router lift-out mechanism
- LED matrix glasses keep all eyes on you
- Large remote-controlled Game of Life display
- Egg clock (it’s egg-ceptional)
- Old Computer Parts Demonstrate How Particle Accelerators Work
- Adding remote touch control to the Kaoss Pad
- Quick hack disables iPod dock auto-standby
- Thrift Store Hard Drive Enclosure
- Scout, the autonomous transatlantic boat
- 3D printed Strandbeests made to order
- Isolation Transformer 101
- Flinging birds and slaying pigs with your thoughts
- Papercraft strandbeest is a great rainy day project
- Racing wheel guided R/C car with video feed
- Diagnosing diseases like MacGyver
- LM386 Altoids tin amp
April 2011
- Hackaday Links: Saturday, April 30th
- Help identify this vintage electronics component
- BBC covers an old-school hacker
- Build a real-life Escher’s Waterfall
- Mini quadrocopter is Crazy awesome
- EEG-assisted hand control
- Real-time digital puppetry
- HDD unlocking on the Mitsubishi Multi-Communication System
- A beginner’s guide to LED matrices
- [Phillip Torrone] pleads for companies to open source discontinued projects
- ChronoTune: listen to radio by year, not by frequency
- The start to finish of an interactive exhibit
- A visual history of the computer mouse
- Wooden bike hopes to set world record, not catch fire
- Frankenstein’s lawnmower
- The concepts behind robotic maze solving
- BlinkM smart garage door opener
- IDE bus sniffing and hard drive password recovery
- Hacker Typer lets you turn jibberish into useless code
- Hack a Day Links: April 27, 2011
- WonderHowTo inteview of [Matthias Wandel]
- Playstation Network breached, no end to downtime in sight
- Be lazy, and get somewhere at the same time
- Data scraping and visualization with Python
- Server room light and temperature monitoring
- DIY lightbox repurposes useless scanner
- Motion Controlled Reddit Vote Sign.
- Google’s secret perk? A private hackerspace
- Watch hacking, one day at a time
- Enhance your key fob via CAN bus hacking
- The Silicon IC 50th Anniversary
- Hacking LG’s Netcast
- Extending the battery life of LED dominoes
- Color-matching powder coat paints
- Small POV device shows off some big features
- SCART hack automatically selects TV’s AV mode
- 9v IR Tester
- Papydoo is Watching You!
- Vintage AM radio restoration
- A chicken tractor to call home
- Hackaday Links: April 25, 2011
- Single-chip digital audio player
- Motorcycle turned chicken launcher
- Can crusher keeps track of your recycling efforts
- DIY resin cast project box
- Location tracking? ‘Droid does
- Portal turret plushie is cute and harmless
- Adding a pedal to a Yamaha DD35 drum kit
- The Vibrotron
- Mini LED message board built from retro displays
- Hacking cakes with LEDs
- Hacking analog phones for VOIP
- The LayerOne Hacking conference is around the corner
- Simple AVR based GPS tracker
- Simple IR Bounce Tachometer
- Nerf mind bullets
- DSLR infrared camera conversion
- Relay Calculator
- Beat707 takes it’s cue from a vintage drum machine
- Rule your furnace with this network-enabled thermostat
- PCB milling tutorial
- MindWave is developer (read: hacker) friendly mind control
- Laser tripwire water balloon prank
- Measuring the ~10 kiloamp output of a large capacitor bank
- Blackberry LCD reverse engineering
- Tandy Color Computer (CoCo3) color video playback
- Camera software learns to pick you out of a crowd
- Internet-controlled robotic arm
- Easter egg hacking
- Rube Goldberg machine puts engineering students in the record books
- Cotton candy just the color you like it
- DoJ and FBI now issuing command to botnet malware
- Amazing quad pick and place system tirelessly sorts your Legos
- Trackuino – an Open Source Arduino APRS Tracker
- Larson scanner using 7400 series logic hardware
- Capacitive touch sensor shield for the TI Launchpad
- Interactive sun exhibit uses 3D projection screen and Kinect
- iPhone watching every breath you take, every move you make
- Zork on the Microtouch
- 555 Contest winners to be announced tonight
- Apple II Weather Display (part 3)
- Magellan GPS hack for hassle-free charging
- Defcon 19 Call for Workshops
- Laser tracker replays competitive rock wall climbs
- High voltage rig wipes CDs clean
- Laser trip wire – the bare essentials
- Simple FM transmitter that shows off its own circuitry
- Powering vehicles with aluminum
- EagerFeet lets you scrape your Nike+ data from the web
- Ludum Dare 20 Starting April 29th
- Apple II Weather Display (part 2)
- Teaching children to walk using video games
- Cellphone battery mouse modification
- Build a spinning POV in a day
- Guitar teaches you to play using LEDs
- Laser tripwire alarm system uses mirrors to increase coverage
- Laser camera sees around corners
- Nixie tube conference badge
- Xerox Phaser drum unit hacked, lives to print another day
- Open Hacker Conference Badge Project Needs Your Help!
- Auxiliary battery pack for field operations
- Mechanical Twitter feed for offline reading
- Apple II Weather Display (part 1)
- Radiation sensor shield for the Arduino
- Musical Tesla concert is electrifying
- IP-based engine remote enable switch
- Hacking gets a cover story
- Chatbox wireless IM client
- DTMF shield aimed at ham controlled Arduino
- Webcam turned security cam with motion detected email notifications
- Hackaday Links: April 16, 2011
- Oscilloscope Piano Tuning 101
- The basics of building a multitouch table
- Pidato box adds vibrato effect to digital pianos
- Pinewood Derby Cars Have Come A Long Way
- Creating NES cartridge clones from ROM dumps
- Long-range Bluetooth wardriving rig
- Drag and drop programming gets kids started early
- Aquarium overflow sensor saves your fish and your floors
- Feel like we do with a bass guitar talk box
- Push notifications for snail mail on an iPhone
- The origin of CTRL-ALT-DELETE
- Fiberoptic mouse prevents stray magnetic fields
- Squishy circuits for tiny tinkerers
- Variable super capacitor battery provides power on the go
- HsNet: Node communications for feature-limited microcontrollers
- 3-phase Jacob’s ladder
- Tactical Wifi Cantenna Needs Picatinny Rails
- Full-featured battery tester puts them through their paces
- Quick & Dirty USB phone charger
- Reversible relay-based motor controller
- Save boatloads of cash by building your own laser cutter
- OSHW Logo Announced
- FPGA-based Turbografx 16 clone
- Buying a Laser Cutter From China
- Sony Ericsson promotes Android bootloader unlocking
- Real-time GPS tracker with mobile phone uplink
- Analog scope stands in to for laser light show
- Doorbell hack makes coworkers less annoying
- K’nex whiteboard plotter
- Hackaday Links: April 13, 2011
- Haptic GPS sneakers for the visually impaired
- Using Kinect to make human marionettes
- Building an electric kiln
- CNC mill built from junk and hardware store parts
- RSA SecurID two-factor authentication comprimised
- Robotics merit badge just announced
- Variable capacitance/reistance switch box has you covered
- Super refined Kinect physics demo
- New, Inexpensive DSO now shipping
- LED build monitor helps keep an eye on your servers
- Homebrew Z80 computer inspires awe
- Dishwasher notifier for the absent-minded
- Prototyping with a GPS module
- Geohot case settlement
- Do your projects violate International Traffic in Arms Regulations?
- Booby box – It’s a trap!
- Dynamic DNS updating – no PC required
- Temperature sensing mug means never burning your mouth again
- Play Unreleased Retro Games on the Real Thing
- Controlling weapons with Kinect
- Giant Scale Printer
- Ball bot constructed from power tools and pet toys
- Retrode gets an upgrade
- DIY MP3 player shows that no hack is ever obsolete
- Print your own header shrouds
- Potentially explosive spritz cookies
- Fan and vent holes prevent sweaty gaming hands
- FlipFlop clock uses mains frequency to keep time
- PIC-based temperature logger with onboard storage
- Brainwave-based assistive technology in the home
- Hackaday reader throwdown: Electronic dice
- Doom II on epaper display
- Are phones with haptic feedback in our future?
- Webcam images processed and played back on LED display
- Hackaday links: April 10, 2011
- Growling doorbell lets you know guests have arrived
- How Low Can You Go?
- Bolt Action Pneumatic Spud Gun
- According to Pete – new online video series
- Kequencer 2.0 is cheaper and easier to build — still awesome
- Compost heap temperature logger helps keep things hot
- PCB parts salvaging made easy
- Light-sensing circuit for power saving applications
- NXT machine sorts LEGO blocks automatically
- MIDI drum interface helps you step up your game
- Converting from clutter closet to dreamy datacenter
- Mayor is a hacker and wants to use DIY parking meters
- Sequencer built on a Cycle II FPGA board
- Body heat sensing PC security system
- One-eyed, one-armed metal rolling Roomba robot
- A breakout board for your Android phone
- Sticky sweet animatronic Peep show
- Geiger counter built in an Ohmmeter enclosure
- Shift register is all it takes to make a 3-wire serial LCD
- Art installation lets you be your own Souvenir
- Hacking Electronic Price Tags
- IR remote control jammer makes you Lord of the Livingroom
- Simulating VHDL of an AVR8 soft processor
- Super VMW CPU Meter
- PIC-based Ham radio autotuner
- Circuit building with a hammer and nails
- Building an augmented reality display using obsolete technology
- 15-digit Nixie clock contains mostly non-useful information
- Baking pan tube amp sounds better than you’d expect
- AVR HVSP on a tiny breadboard
- Alternate keyboard layouts – for geekiness and other reasons
- Blu-ray laser plotter writes on glow-in-the-dark screen
- Keep Fun in Check With a Parental Count Down Timer
- Bluetooth headset battery swap keeps going and going…
- Everything You Need to Know About Wall Warts
- Reverse Engineering LED vodka bottle displays
- PID Sous-Vide Slow Cooker – Bon Appétit!
- Xbox 360 briefcase is ready to go wherever you do
- Hacking automated hand sanitizers with Ben Heck
- Chill your phone for longer battery life?
- TI adds some Linux support for Evalbot – we’ve got hardware coupon codes for you!
- Retake on a Wii remote controlled balancing robot
- Cocktail cabinet to be proud of
- Atmega Analog two pack
- Redeye Printer Interface
- Retrofitting LCD projectors with high-powered LEDs
- Class up your next party with the Drink Making Unit 2.0
- Kinect hack makes April Fools’ prank a reality
- RFID drink system eliminates the need for change
- Power-sipping MSP430 mini alarm clock
- Thinkpad Dock-Picking
- Solar-powered GameBoy Color never runs out of juice
- Gun turret built into a cake box
- Kapton tape aids in drag soldering surface mount parts
- Aftermarket Visor-mounted GPS better than OEM
- Adjustable prank box growls and screams
- Using your PC as a simple signal generator
- Hacking game port peripherals to work with modern PCs
- Macro lens and image stacking
- 3D printed gun fires Nerf darts
- Robotic berimbau plays itself
- Manage your rechargeables at a glance
- Simple DTMF decoder pulls numbers from YouTube videos
- Awesome portable N64 keeps your games in hand, out of sight
- Bluetooth bot constructed from thrift store rejects
- SPARKFUNS HAS DA KEWT KITTY PARADES OF STUF
- Whistle to make the art flow
- 3D printer gets a big resolution improvement
- Kinect produced autostereograms (Magic Eye pictures)
- Transmitting power and data through thick metal enclosures
- I can has hackz?
March 2011
- Thanks for ruining a good thing, or TRYING to!
- DIY camera stabilizer keeps your video shake free on the cheap
- R/C car controlled by an iPad or Kinect
- Screaming Altoids tin just in time for April Fool’s
- Think Geeks wants you to have broken stuff
- Building an Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS) base station
- Solar-powered MP3 playing speaker
- PCBs without any substrate
- The ElectroAxé Full-Body Percussion Suit
- [Jason Scott] gets a job in a candy factory — kinda
- Using TouchOSC with your projects
- Snuggle up with the softer side of hacking
- Oscilloscope thinks it’s a video monitor
- “Stupid expert” builds a machete slingshot for the impending zombie apocalypse
- Jacob’s Ladder makes itself at home in a floppy disk box
- Converting the BlinkM into the world’s tiniest Arduino
- SMS gateway lets you Twitter by text message
- Designing a controllable RGB LED driver board
- Headphones use standard-sized but proprietary rechargeable batteries
- Propeller Lamp
- SNES to PC
- Robotic bird flaps away last bits of privacy
- Wireless luge timer levels the playing field
- Propeller-Android communications using debug mode
- CFL Breakdown
- Quadcopter pair plays table tennis without the table
- Printable gripping rover is wristwatch controlled
- Propeller proto board has you flying in no time
- Super Pong table doubles the fun
- How a HP VFD Module was Reverse Engineered
- Portable bench supply carries around 10 amp-hours of juice
- PS3 gun/controller hybrid
- Keeping beer chilled from keg to tap
- Automated home beer brewery — best laundry room add-on ever
- Your robot stand-in has arrived
- Nano Sumo robot takes on all comers
- Nintendo hacked to fit inside an NES cartridge
- Breathing new life into a broken iPod
- Motion Sensing Minecraft Creeper Will Scare the Pickaxe Offa’ya
- LED floor lamp really ties the room together
- HIDUINO: Your Arduino is Now A MIDI Interface
- Wireless animatronic hand control
- Open Source Wireless Mesh Networking Energy Meter
- Function generator built and mounted inside electronics bench
- Multi-Function Bench Power Supply
- Music synthesized from the Game of Life
- Arduino and Open Sound Control without an Ethernet shield
- Hackaday links: March 27, 2011
- SudoGlove gets a big software upgrade
- Papercraft gyroscope
- Automatic trigger for lightning photography
- WiFi radio plays your tunes in style
- Kinect Two-fer: MoCap movie and robot control
- Hand-built car made almost entirely from scavenged parts
- Stirring plate from USB enclosure
- Mechanical Turing machine can compute anything…slowly
- DARPA Needs Your Help! Design A Ground Combat Vehicle.
- Mame cabinet springs to life from Ikea furniture
- Matchstick model rocketry
- Antique Light Bulb Organ
- Bubble Display
- Interactive dice game pits man against machine
- Kinect + Minecraft Trifecta
- Low-voltage wind turbine lighting
- Lower Cost Arduino Cell Shield
- Laptop touchpad-based LED lighting control
- More high voltage experimentation with a flyback inverter
- Redbull sends marketing doodad to hackerspace using an open source product
- Hackaday is looking for a full time project builder/ video host!
- Video Experimenter Shield
- Virtual Serial Bridge
- Portable NES console gets it oh so right
- Mini arcade cabinet looks as good as the real thing
- DIY Scanning Electron Microscope
- Geiger counter A/D conversion for radiation level crowdsourcing
- Fusion reactor wins science fairs
- DIY Low-power PSU for home server use
- Learn the geometry to draw an analog clock on a graphic LCD screen
- Vote for the Open Source Hardware logo
- Real life Super Mario coin block
- Photographing stuff that’s not there by using stencils
- Convert an old busted phone into a voice-altering prank machine
- Surplus military gear keeps your hands free, calls private
- Real-time wireframe video effect overlay with Kinect
- Remote-controlled tank tread robot will walk the dog for you
- High Voltage: How to cook your goose in 62 easy steps
- Roll away clock becomes a programmable rover
- RC override for autonomous hardware
- Terapixel images and see-through cameras: Real or Fake?
- PC case using CNC router and home building products
- Autonomous Paintball Sentry Gun
- Hackaday Links: March 22, 2011
- Paper Mechanical Iris
- Birthday gift is a constant reminder of impending AARP membership
- Wristwatch Turntables
- RF range finder doesn’t need to see to calculate distance
- TI’s Grace – a new MCU IDE GUI (DNFTT)
- Magic 8 Thing answers all of your burning questions
- POV business card is guaranteed to get you noticed
- HERF gun zaps more than your dinner
- Clever hack tethers a Kinect sensor to the PS3
- Freedombot explores your fridge
- Simple robot knows its bounds
- People-tracking orb demo makes us want to build our own
- Converting a scanner into a touchscreen
- Don’t buy an amp, build one to suit
- Tricycle robot using omni-wheels
- Kinect, mouse, and nerf gun combine for House of the Dead
- Hackaday Links: March 20, 2011
- GPS-enabled bag allows for carefree city roaming
- Third time’s a charm – 512 LED cube kicks it up a notch with RGB LEDs
- Gameboy ROM backups using an Arduino
- RFID-based HTPC controller gets a wireless refresh
- Smartphone operated garage door is beginning of Arduino home automation system
- eeePC touchscreen retrofit
- Test your etching chops with PCB map making
- Building a home automation mesh network
- Hardware-based security keypad keeps it simple
- More radiation test gear
- Add a shutoff timer to your bathroom fan
- Building a zoetrope using Kinect, processing, and a laser cutter
- 512 LED cube (again)
- Automatic dog dish filler never goes dry
- Reviving a broken HSDPA modem with a bit of clever investigation
- Speech Recognition Geocache: Se Habla Español
- Direct to PCB resist printing requires minimal additional components
- DIY camera dolly frees up your hands to take care of the important stuff
- Seeed looks for help developing an open source radiation detector
- Junkyard Jumbotron is begging to for an open source project clone
- Free home phone method uses parts we’re familiar with
- Robot gets around on lopsided wheels
- Audiophile quality headphones at a fraction of the price
- Free Energy is for fools?
- Bill Hammack explains how LED backlit LCD monitors work
- Pitch shifter makes your band sing higher
- Recycled Sound – An Art Installation Not Lacking Arduinos
- AV test box meets the incredible shrink ray
- Lego Minifig multimeter makes resistor sorting a lot more fun
- N64Boy Advance
- Quick and Dirty Film Dosimeter
- LCD Twofer
- Writing Python drivers for input devices
- Researchers discover that cars can be hacked with music
- The basics of controlling an Arduino with PHP
- Laser light show features full XY control via homemade galvanometers
- Ladyada to be featured in WIRED magazine
- RoboTouch adds physical game controls to the iPad
- Adding digital storage to an analog scope
- Beginner Project: Super Cheap Magnetic Mixer
- Giving “sight” to the visually impaired with Kinect
- Cellphone charger has a USB port forced upon it
- USB man-in-the-middle adapter
- Tokyo Hackerspace helping disaster victims
- dsPIC-based spectrum analyzer
- Toothpaste Diode
- Motorcycle Sound Effects
- PWM-controlled LED display is truly a gift from the heart
- Cooking up piezo crystals at home
- The Evil Genius Simulator: Kinect Controlled Tesla Coils
- Automated harmonica plays simple tunes
- Electronic diaper bag reminds you to pack everything but the baby
- PICAXE using LEDs to communicate
- Tilt and pivot camera base uses just two servos
- PIC based frequency counter
- CO2 powered pinewood derby car is definitely cheating
- Animated Paper
- No PCIE slot? Just add one
- Weather station turned data logger
- Automatic ball launcher is for the dogs
- Wireless weather station obsessively reports the temperature
- Pi phone lulls you to sleep with the digits of Pi
- Battery capacity tester lifts the veil on manufacturer capacity claims
- Guide for working with AVR microcontrollers
- DIY Digital pinball console plays hundreds of games
- Beginner Concepts: 595 shift register simulator
- Commandeering public video screens: real or fake?
- Frequency counter for $10 worth of parts
- CNC Etch-a-Sketch draws on itself
- 3D modeling out of thin air
- Control your home theater from anywhere in the world
- Mini SATA power adapter does away with HDD docking stations
- CD phonograph brings old-time charm to modern music
- DIY laser light show is sure to please
- Reverse engineering the Playstation Move
- Reverse engineering the PSP
- Bristlebot mod never rubs you the wrong way
- Sleek numitron clock tells the time and temperature
- USB dongle hack tethers DSLR cameras at a fraction of the price
- Protei: articulated, backward sailing robots clean oil spills
- Personal soundboard recounts years of clever one-liners
- NBA Hangtime pinball display
- Building your Internet radio empire
- Passcode protected laser tripwire alarm system
- Bench-top laser engraver does some cutting too
- ASync-Firefly
- Bounce flash in multiple mediums
- Lol Shield Theatre brings online video to the pixelated screen
- The Traveling Terabyte Project – Helping those who protect us
- Microsoft Points algorithm cracked… they’re out $1M
- Bitbang IR Remote
- Phillip Torrone makes case for next-gen public libraries
- Zigbee-powered wireless scale
- Build your own vertical axis wind turbine
- Water droplet sculpture using LEDs and Arduino
- All about PS3 SixAxis controller USB communications
- DIY flower bouquet guaranteed to get you dumped on Valentine’s day
- Kinect hacked to work with Garry’s Mod means endless hours of virtual fun
- Rigol oscilloscope teardown and repair
- Laser-cut noise maker resembles violin
- Domo Kun robot achieves balance sans gyroscope
- Sound-sensitive Android figure speaks in Morse code
- Give KiCAD a try. Here’s how
- DIY hot air reflow station
- GSM tracking without GPS
- Keyboard Converter 2 Pack
- Interactive Punching Bag
- Hackerspace camera rig auto-alerts the Internets when projects are finished
- You’ll shoot your eye out…with a 1MW laser pulse pistol
- PC casemod-inspired benchtop PSU
- DIY wireless keylogger makes you feel like James Bond (In your own little world)
- Simple fluidyne engine
- Header file brings Arduino sketches to the TI Launchpad
- Mechanical engineering primer
- Android skips uncanny valley – fills in at the office for you
- Automatic lock cracker makes breaking and entering a breeze
- Lightweight robosuit is like stilts on steroids
- A 555 Synthesizer
- Arduino Thermo-cam
- DSLR bellows-mounted lens retrofit
- Beginner concepts in electronics and Arduino
- CNC-built R2-D2 brings childhood dreams to life
- Laptop BIOS password recovery using a simple dongle
- Soda bottle skylights
- On-the-go desktop
- Controlling fire with your mind (and your thumb)
- CAN sniffing for steering wheel button presses
- SSD Flex connector to SATA
- Twittering wall switch lets Dutch hackers know when it’s time to play
- Shedding some light on your kitchen chores
- Coming soon to a store near you: remote-control cockroaches
- Hacker Classifieds featured find: Free Sony video wall projectors
- Literally turn your headset into a handset
- 14.4 Kbps modem makes excuses for everything
- Lilypad bicycle computer reads back distance in beeps
- Forum addition: project requests
- Wiimote-based whiteboard lets you write on any surface
- Simple fixes breathe new life into aging game consoles
- These Apple-inspired speakers would make Steve Jobs envious
- Chilling drinks with your friends’ faces
- Remote-controlled robot toy from air freshener parts
- Minty FM Transmitter
- TV Oscilloscope
- Quick hack brings Wi-Fi to an aging laptop
- 8th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition call for papers
- Inkscape plugin for engraving fonts
- Hackaday links: March 6, 2011
- Follow-up: Radio-controlled LED light show
- Autonomous cars already drive the roads among us
- ICE uses wide set of tools to hunt for media pirates
- Micro audio player can hide behind a postage stamp
- Open source 5-axis CNC router
- Audio Two-fer – Sneaker speakers and DIY Mid-Fi woofers
- Recover Acer Aspire One from “failed to initialize HAL” error
- LED backlight conversion using recycled CCFL inverter parts
- Real-time Arduino interpreter ditches the PC
- Analog robot navigates around the workshop with ease
- On Air light parses webpage data wirelessly without a computer
- .Net OS for your ARM
- Arduino Sip n Puff switch
- Haptic feedback joystick uses air muscles
- LEGO pendulum clock
- Hacking strippers to do your bidding
- How Escher’s impossible waterfall was faked
- Simple PCB etchant made from chemicals you can put in your mouth
- Jittering hexapod dances to the strokes of your Bluetooth keyboard
- Arduino Based ambient lighting improvements
- Keypad input scanning by a 555 timer
- Cutting out your own breakout boards
- DIY ring light takes its cues from fiber optic toys
- Nintendo 3DS Teardown
- Xbox 360 controller mod for a friend in need
- Self-balancing robot keeps things on the straight and narrow
- LED artwork disappears right before your eyes
- Remote operated security gate lets you phone it in
- A different take on a laser projection microscope
- How to find WiFi: carry a big stick and use long exposures
- Pint-sized Nixie display fits neatly in your pocket
- This robot will school you at freethrows
- Earthquake alert system
- Bathroom mirror HUD displays time and weather
- Open Source Laser Cutter (v2)
- DrunkenNES makes a game out of getting hammered
- Gameduino
- Old school LED light show
- Endless fun with LED dominoes
- Fly like Superman using The Force
- Bluetooth Nixie driver lets you go almost-wireless
- Timed shot-glass won’t let you stop drinking
- Automated window curtain hits the road
- Let there be cake – and video games in one package
- Super winch makes sledding 100% more fun
- iPhone-based universal IR remote
- Walking motion analysis using Wii remotes
- Kindle 3 powers this diy LED light
February 2011
- Encase yourself in Carbonite with Kinect
- Portable gaming for retro console lovers
- Direct to PCB etch resist printing
- Bluetooth-enabled talking chicken
- Fun slide whistle synth toy
- Web-enabling your smoke breaks
- Giant oscilloscope music display
- Crank-arm Style Hexapod
- Quick and easy DIY kegerator
- Santa-pede contest winners
- A trio of last-minute 555 timer projects
- Alien life form synth toy
- 2-bit full adder using just thirty six 555 timers
- Reverse engineering shopping cart security
- Fabric speaker
- Easy to build rig prevents reflow soldering mishaps
- Repair parts from unlikely sources
- Remote phone control using Bluetooth and a video stream
- AM/FM SOS beacon saves your bacon
- Google two-factor authentication in a wristwatch
- Layering pinball audio using parallel WAV shields
- All-band receiver hides in plain sight
- Hackaday links: February 27, 2011
- Analog robotic concepts
- Boom goes the dynamite – murals made with precision explosives
- DIY lightning special effects
- Screen tracking projector
- Entrust you kid’s life to a homemade roller coaster?
- DIY hot air hand dryer – an OCD sufferer’s best friend
- DIY Animatronic penguin shakes and grooves
- Image projector can be built in minutes
- 555 inductance meter
- A VFD clock that tells the time, then tells you to **** off
- Propane Tank-ard
- A look at Sony’s ongoing war against hackers
- Racking up miles on a bicycle odometer
- Building a 555 timer from discrete components
- Digital Wavetable Oscillator
- Hear that? It’s a 555 Timer AM radio
- Video projector from an old single-slide unit
- 555 Two-fer – Baby swing upgrade and a Headphone tube amp
- Debugging MSP430 using Eclipse
- Der Wafflemeister 3000
- Vanishing point robot guidance
- Machine pushes cellphone buttons from anywhere in the world
- Let there be light inside picture frames
- Heat gun GPU reflow fixes laptop
- Magnetic SMD pick and place
- 555 Video Game
- 555 timer-based charge controller
- Reverse engineering a mobile phone e-paper display
- Self-regulating water heater
- Repair stuck iPod Nano buttons
- Force feedback rig
- Gauss Weapons
- Breaking the iClass security
- Kindle 3.1 Jailbreak
- Building a dead mouse’s switch
- Easy DIY stroboscope
- Xteardown
- Mystery Box out of Lego
- MIDI controller fit for an arcade
- The interstellar clock
- DIY Racing Sim shift box
- iTalkman Refrigerated Franken-phone
- DARPA’s hummingbird spybot
- Global CALCnet: your TI-83 just acquired Internet
- KiwiDrive HouseBot
- Kinect to get Windows drivers months after open source drivers were developed
- Light sensitive MIDI glove
- 555 Cartoons
- Thermostat Controlled Plug Box
- Speeding up a ThinkPad x41 via a SATA SSD conversion
- Eyelid shutter glasses: fake but still a hack
- DIY pick and place seems easy to build
- Over-engineered clock finds purpose as RSS reader
- Amazing backyard rocket ship tree house
- Interfacing an Arduino with a TFT LCD
- Farmbot
- Ultrasmall Arduino
- NES game pad wireless light commander
- DIY emergency lighting system
- Hackaday links: February 21, 2011
- Blinky headgear
- Arduino levitation
- Motion activated monitor wakeup
- Blasting off with GPS
- Three digit binary clock
- Toy helicopter charging fix
- RF control from just about any device
- Solar-powered junkbot
- Thingiverse Receives First DMCA Takedown
- Analog to Digital converter build
- Power adapter for digital cameras without an external jack
- Free (…as in ‘free beer’) ARM kit
- Bluetooth Tomy Omnibot hack
- Emulating Oric-1 floppy disk hardware
- Measure earth’s rotation with PlayStation Move
- Plug-in module lies about news at coffee shops. Real or Fake?
- Stackable macro photography rig
- Hard drive password recovery
- Hacking Teddy Ruxpin
- Valentine’s gift counts the days spent together
- Sniff Ethernet with a throwing star
- Bluetooth-enabled Wii nunchuck
- Brain Car Interface
- Simple household status system
- Molded parts: Prusa Mendel in 30 minutes
- 8-bit MIDI synthesizer
- Cyborg camera mask
- NES Paul game controller
- Xprotolab: oscilloscope and Xmega development board
- Motion Tracking Prop from Alien
- Model rocket radio telemetry
- More ambient lighting monitor hacks
- Fingertip heart rate monitor
- Your first Digital to Analog Converter build
- Electronic tolling system
- Etching panel faces on the cheap
- Propeller Platform Logic Analzyer
- DIY fizzy fruit
- Classical’s greatest hits on hardware’s greatest flops
- Punch tape musical synth
- 38 kHz IR communications tutorial
- Voice-controlled rolling robot
- Junkyard fish tank
- Printing your own guitar parts
- Guitar-mounted camera documents your Guitar Hero-ness
- Arduino-Fart-O-Meter
- Long-range laser night-vision
- Black Rock City Navigator
- The wandering Arduinobot
- Ski pole persistence of vision
- A-Z of Electronics – Capacitors
- DOTKLOK
- Screamer doll prank toy
- Learn to debug msp430 chips using IAR
- Nimbus, the wall-following robot
- WWII’s top cryptography comes to a child’s toy
- Inexpensive robot platform combines mass-produced parts
- Super Brite LED Sneakers
- IR-controlled musical alarm clock
- Shockingly fun quiz game
- Pactuator: Mechanical Pac-Man Frame
- What Development Board to Use? (Part Two)
- Kinect home theater control
- Pedal powered EL wire bike
- Valentine’s Day love song machine
- Clap to remove this brassiere
- Batman inspired hidden light switch
- Radio-controlled LED light show
- Recordable SNES belt buckle
- NintendOscope
- Nixie tube thermometer
- Arduino Based PC Ambient Lighting
- Overclocked ATmega32 gaming
- Range finder musical toy
- LaunchPad MIDI synth
- Flash trigger with programmable delay
- NES game pad guided robotic arm
- Modern freaking: pull phone numbers from YouTube audio
- Uncrippling lower model speakers
- Model car additions make us hear Knight Rider theme
- SMS controlled irrigation
- DIY PIC development board and web server
- Paper accelerometers for pennies in the works
- PID controlled Bradley smoker clone
- LED dog collar, Christmas edition
- The plant whisperer
- RFID triggered presentation box
- Thermic lance made from spaghetti
- How the arduino won? This is how we can kill it.
- Bellows Camera to DSLR
- LED Dog Collar
- NESBot video game automation
- Launchpad serial Morse code transmitter
- Today’s Arduino Minute
- The CIA’s amazing bots
- RGB “Tilty cube”
- Canon T1i/500d external microphone hack
- The joy of forums
- Talking joystick mouse
- Backlit Buttons and Panels
- Rechargeable battery capacity tester
- Driving a Salvaged LCD
- Imploding Vacuum tubes for science
- Multitool alarm system
- Daft punk module – just add table
- Ossmann talks about Ubertooth at Schmoocon
- Low-cost video chat robot
- Four-axis camera mount rides on a wire
- Logisim: Open source digital logic simulator
- Sumo style robot
- Update to Stairmonster
- Pong clocks using LED matrix modules
- Animating an LED matrix without a microcontroller
- Wireless Arduino message board
- Grinding down your computer to just 8.5 watts
- 555 Timer circuit simulation software
- Update: Open source pick-and-place
- Mixed I/O testing module
- Theremin midi board is like using autotune
- FareBot – Android NFC Proof of Concept
- Building a better spectrum analyzer for radio enthusiasts
- Arduino Asteroids
- Upvote/Downvote cards
- Replace an N64’s worn out joystick
- Home Built Revolving Shotgun
- Chroma – Mesmerizing LED driven fractal display
- Fowl accommodations provided by mathematics
- Laptop LCD reused in Beagleboard project
- A Charlieplex display and a board layout tip
- Sniffing RF hardware communication packets
- Hamster Powered Strandbeest
- Rotary Wall Plug from Scrap
- DIY Clapper
- More 555 Projects to Enjoy
- Electronic Watering Can
- Simple RFID access system clone
- Paintball Chronograph
- Versaloon ported to STM8 and STM32 discovery boards
- Switched mode power supply repair guide
- Microsimon
- The Energy Detective TED 5000-G teardown
- 10 µm Scanning electron microscope from Vidicon tube
- Going cellular with your Arduino projects
- N64 Advance portable gaming system
- Steampunk CD player
- Custom enclosures made of paper
- 8×8 LED infinity mirror
- Homebrew Mp3 player with some bonus features
- Analog computer does math
- Touch sensors: overview, theory, and construction
- Charging timer for R/C batteries
- The future of cyberattacks
- MIDI input for the Kaossilator
- CNC milled docking system for Droid
- Shotgun blast lights up your controller
- A Briefing on Integrated Circuits
- USB controller for multiple servos
- Remote camera trigger built from air freshener parts
- Chrome in the Pwn2Own Contest
- ENIAC was first, right?
- Harvesting ultrasonic sensors
- PID controlled smoker
- Triggering a DSLR shutter with an audio clip
- Internships: have fun while working toward a career
- See-through LED display
- Location recorder and mapper
- Simple touch sensor and other lessons
- STK200 pocket change programmer
- Robo Rainbow graffiti machine
- Have a face for radio?
- Nokia LCD, nunchuck, and MSP430 join forces
- TI Evalbot development under Linux
- Emulating ink cartridges
- Digital measuring tape
- Bringing an LCD viewfinder back to life
- Automating automatic racing
- Building infra red light sources with regular lights
- Shiny acrylic MAME box
- Water-dosing coffee maker augmentation
- Rotary dial authenticates sudo commands
- Fermentation temperature control
- Nook Color gets honeycomb
- Disco Death Ray
- Keepon finally gets a cheaper version
- What Development Board to Use?
- Video game installations for kids’ parties
- 555s for your mouse and R/C airplane
January 2011
- Update: microtouch the 8-bit ipod touch
- Etch-a-Sketch computer is a surprisingly simple hack
- Out Engineering a Sneaky Cat
- Target hunting UAV armed with fireworks
- How to build a ping-pong ball display
- Printable wax as PCB etch resist
- “Ask an engineer” live streams at Adafruit
- Drop F-bombs into a magic 8-ball
- Evalbot nunchuck control
- Insane covert IR illumination
- SNES arcade controller
- Jeri getting her own show?
- Snail mail notification system
- Hands-on with eZ430-F2013
- Network packet sniffing with Linux
- Ego Box monitors web hits
- Meet Mr. Haas, he makes eyes
- Security Audit Kit in a Mouse
- Fabulous Magic 8 ball prank
- Wireless electricity enables next generation of annoying packaging
- Building linear amplifier prototypes
- The OpenServo Project
- Simple sensors to calculate RPM
- Take your PS3 on world tour
- SIM card carrying traffic lights
- Patching into an optical mouse with a PIC
- Reminder: Santa-Pede challenge ending soon
- Monitoring the Engine Control Unit
- Touch screen jukebox
- 555 based balancing bot
- 2600 magazine runs a sale for the 20th century back issues
- Xbee controlled, granite-wrapped clock travels into future
- 5/8″ ball bearing playground
- Mitch Altman hosts a tour of Noisebridge
- Conways’ wall of life and whiteboard emporium
- Exploding an AVR
- Official Hackaday forums
- Plug and Prey: Malicious USB devices
- The pirate box
- Disguise your Acura NSX as a Ferrari F50
- Make presents: The Multimeter
- Learn to code at Lifehacker
- Stepper Directed HDTV Antenna
- Making the IM-ME dongle more useful
- Robot hand has no problem giving you the finger
- Edison clock uses Ammeter plus bulbs to set alarm
- Reverse engineering radio controlled outlets
- 12 foot LED display keeps your office informed
- ROS gains full body telemetry
- Abusing HTTP status codes
- Wireless Sniffing and Jamming of Chronos and iclicker
- Inaccurate Breathalyzer is still quite nice
- Monocrome to Magnificent: computer display chronology
- Jamming gripper completes robot drug dealer
- Sparkfun free day recap
- Radios without power sources
- Jeep-uter adds push button control to your vehicle
- VR! now with more kinect, wiimote, and vuzix
- Refurbishing a refrigerator for fermenting
- 555 Design Contest, Win $1500+ in prizes!
- AVR: the facts about flash memory
- Building a creepy doll army
- Keyless entry via SMS
- Amarino makes Android controlled robots a snap
- Yet Another Cat Door
- Google takes Science Fairs global
- Roll the D’Icey
- DIY Ultrasonic range finder for $5
- Hackaday links: January 24, 2011
- Your very own cloud chamber
- Backwards Mario
- Revive your tired Dremel battery pack
- Turning music into a light show
- Reverse Engineering a PCB
- High Voltage Etch a Sketch
- No more blurry pictures
- Fertilizing a planted aquarium using air freshener hardware
- Magnetic digital scale
- Our beloved XBMC hits iOS devices
- Dance for a Dollar with the YayTM
- Making boxes from soda cans
- LEGO wah-wah pedal
- Guitar tube-amp from junk hi-fi
- Zipitbot
- Rapatronic shutter; snap a pic of an atomic bomb
- Intermediate Concepts: Building discrete transistor gates
- Projector tricks make use of Kinect 3D mapping
- Make Your Own Odometer from Scraps
- Cracking a manipulation-proof, million combination safe
- Arduino The Documentary
- Gas turbine jetpack – test pilots wanted
- MCP2200 USB to serial chip hacked to do your bidding
- Attitude control for a really big rocket
- New Year’s Eve ball drop in your kitchen
- Phosphorescent Laser Painting
- The Lunchtime clock gives you 12 extra minutes
- Glimpses of a 3D volumetric display
- Aquarium water exchanger
- Nokia internet key external antenna
- Tri-rotor helicopter with full autopilot
- Is your camera lying?
- Audio Crossover Back in Service
- Electronic dice has option for 20 or 100 sides
- Electrodes turn your eyelids into 3D shutter glasses
- $20 fuel injector tester
- Binary clock using logic chips and mains frequency
- Quiz-o-Tron 3000
- Improving a hexapod design
- Two generations of ocean-going ROV
- Converting 8mm film to digital
- R2D2 wannabe lacks lightsaber launcher, autonomy
- ArduSpider entertains children and exercises pets
- Atomic pinball clock
- Theory behind evanescent wave coupling, aka wireless power
- Macintosh Plus DJ Helmet with an iPad
- Open Source Your Rave with OpenLase
- Kinetic project duo to delight and amuse
- Let paper dolls teach you science
- Man made rainbow uses ONLY sunlight and rainwater
- Pin header sizing machine
- Turning a one-armed-bandit into web slots
- SkyWalker: a really really tall bike
- Quit your job and build a pipe organ
- Hold, fast, and max features on a digital caliper
- Intro to Circuit Bending
- Scrolling marquee made from GE Christmas lights
- Digitizing player piano rolls
- Button cell connectors for breadboarding
- Speed up Web Browsing in Linux
- Halloween hangover: talking heads
- Outside-air cooled PC
- DIY air gap flash saves at least seven grand
- 555 based AM radio transmitter
- Beer catapulting fridge
- Reverse geocache features UI and is reprogrammable
- OLED displays and small microcontrollers
- Data logging football
- Steam cycle feels like your pants are on fire
- PIC spectrum analyzer uses Fast Fourier Transform routine
- Developing an electronic board game
- Creating art from an old Christmas tree
- iPhone tilt motion controller
- A look back at DefCon 18 badges
- Fixing the Rovio battery charging circuit
- CES: Where are they now? CES of course!
- Internet enabled drip coffee
- CES: Microsoft Hacks Up Next OS as SOC
- Drill-based Kinect camera
- Making punch card programming a snap
- Kitchen island makes a mean cocktail
- Quiet Dust Extractor from Scavenged Materials
- Make the wedding ring speak to her
- Rovio headlight hack looks stock
- CNC cake decorator
- Hacking a hack: electric hybrid Geo Metro
- Flaming guitar hero
- Solar monsters… you know… for kids!
- Broken laptop recovered using an Arduino
- Getting started with the Parallax Propeller
- Foldaway photo booth
- Dome light LED retrofit
- Giving a canoe lawnmower power
- Hackaday sort of going to C.E.S.
- Timelapse Photos for All!
- More bike-controlled Google-travelling
- Driving an 8-digit split flap display
- Controlling real objects using Minecraft
- RC pontoon from a toy car
- Flower with PCB pot and LED blossoms
- Hackaday links: January 2, 2011
- Would you entrust your DSLR to this diy underwater enclosure?
- Classic game emulation on the Dockstar
- Reverse geocaching Christmas gift box
- 512 LED cube
- Beer shooting dorm fridge
- Light testing facility tour
- Calc is high-tech for 1970’s homebrew
- Cell Phone Endurance Tests