2013
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2013 2,514
December 2013
- Fubarino Contest Winners
- Retrotechtacular: Wax On, Wax Off: How Records Are Made
- Acoustic Wayfinder for the Visually Impaired
- Case Modder Builds LCD Window; Causes LSD Flashbacks
- Barbot Mixes Drinks Perfectly with Web Interface
- POV Display with an Element of Danger
- The Geek Group Installs Robot, Destroys CRT Monitor
- Roving Hexapod Poops Out 3D Prints
- Hacking and Philosophy: Surveillance State
- UFO-looking RGB LED RC Plane Lights Up the Night, Uses All the Acronyms
- DIY Incubator Cooks Bacteria… Or Yogurt!
- Using The Wii U Controller With Everything
- Electric Snow Scooter
- The Crowbox Turns Crows into a Cash Machine
- Fubarino Contest: Splash Screen On System Reset
- Hackaday Links: December 29, 2013
- Hacking SD Card & Flash Memory Controllers
- I am NXT 3-Point Bend Tester. Please Insert Girder.
- Fubarino Contest: Hackaday On An RC Heli
- Project Lucidity Wants YOU!
- Fubarino Contest: NTP Clock
- A FPGA Controlled Reflow Oven
- Fubarino Contest: Micro Voltmeter
- Vibe Mirror
- Chameleon Emulates Contactless Smart Cards
- Making An ARM Powered MIDI Synthesizer
- Fubarino Contest: Custom Mech Warrior Online Controller
- The Magnetophone
- Fubarino Contest: Serial Data Transmission
- Raspberry Pi Car Deck
- Fubarino Contest: Bluetooth Control for PC PSU
- Hacking a Christmas Tree for Less Blinkyness
- Fubarino Contest: Oscilloscope Clock
- Elinchrom EL-Skyport Triggered by Arduino
- Fubarino Contest: Home Automation and Candle Flicker
- Cleaning Slides with Plasma
- Motorized Longboard
- Mega Tree Game Display
- Apple And Raspberry Pis
- Re-purposing an Old Laptop Display
- Fubarino Contest: FPGA Pong
- Jello Shot Printer
- Fubarino Contest: Hackaday In Your Soldering Iron
- NeverWet on Electronics?
- Christmas Tree Analyzes Your Tweets
- More Lights for your Presents
- Serializing Dickens to LEDs
- An Animated Elf
- Spherebot: Decorating Xmas Baubles
- CartoLucci: A Candle-Powered Christmas Card
- LED Matrix Mask Will Scare Up Holiday Cheer
- Direct, Wall-Mounted Storage with Lasers and Polymorph
- Fubarino Contest: A Sculpted Room With LEDs
- Retrotechtacular: Submarine Cable Splicing is Serious Business
- Fubarino Contest: A Really, Really Old Plotter
- 3DMonstr Printer: 8 Cubic Feet Of Build Volume
- Fubarino Contest: Single PCB Synth
- Sonar With Python and Conference Call Hardware
- Fubarino Contest: Network Nodes, Door Lock, and Smoker Controller
- IR Theremin Speaks In Four Voices
- Software Advice for Anyone Thinking About a CNC Router
- The World’s First Autonomous Flapping MAV
- Repairing a Non-Serviceable Welding Hood
- Holograms With The New Kinect
- Fubarino Contest: The Problem Of Being Very Good At Foosball
- 3D Printering: Making A Thing In AutoCAD, Part II
- Hackaday Links: December 22, 2013
- Fubarino-Contest: 1980’s CD Player with MPD
- Automated Drink Mixer Is the Life of the Party
- DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials Wrap Up
- Fubarino Contest: Minecraft, Zelda, Arduinos, And Hackaday
- Trainable Robotic Arm
- Quick Candy Sorting Machine
- A Clock Built from Scraps
- 3D Scanner Using a Sharp Infrared Sensor
- Fubarino Contest: Persistence of Vision clock
- An Opensource Arduino Guitar Pedal
- NESPoise – a Nice Looking NES Clone
- Full-size Lego Car Can Hit 30km/h!
- Fubarino Contest: Hackaday Tells You You’re A Terrible Pilot
- DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials Day 1
- Hack some Picks
- Impersonating FBI Agents And People Who Can Solder
- An Even Larger Array of Many LEDs and No Ping-Pong balls
- Ambient Computer Noise Leaks Your Encryption Keys
- DIY Laser Cutter
- Fubarino Contest: A Dutch Word Clock
- Moody Useless Machine
- Addressable RGB LED Coffee Table
- Touching Conversations: Email Snippets Scroll By on Electro-Embroidery Piece
- A Balancing, Walking Cube Named Cubli
- Staff Update and Philanthropy
- Fail of the Week: Baby Monitor Hack Ends in Facepalm
- A Weird Kind of Printer
- From CT Scans to 3D Prints
- Fubarino Contest: LED Matrix Game Console
- Thermochromic Imaging
- 3D Printering: Making A Thing With AutoCAD, Part I
- FPGAs For The Pi And ‘Bone
- Fubarino Contest: Morse Code Christmas Baubles
- Hacking Digital Scales for the Disabled
- SMAC Mag: Spider’s Minimal Analog Control Paintball Gun
- Developed on Hackaday: First Version of the Hardware
- Disrupting Advertisement Agency Workers with Electric Shocks
- Custom Rostock 3D Printer Makes Use of IKEA Components
- Arduino Xmas Tree Shield
- Snowden Immortalized as Bond Villain in Edge-Lit Acrylic Poster
- Cryophone: A Dry Ice-Powered Musical Installation
- Analog Drum Machine
- Retrotechtacular: Films Used to Be Recorded on Film
- Fubarino Contest: Game Boy Printer
- Fixing Christmas Lights And Shocking Yourself Silly
- Particle System Busy Box Keeps Baby Occupied
- Stylish OLED Watch Uses Accelerometer Instead of Buttons
- Shopping Trolley is Wired for Camp
- Hacking a Heating Pad
- Attacknid Becomes Laser Death Drone
- Tricked-out Arduino-controlled Time-Lapse is More Than Just a Timer
- Fubarino Contest: Battery Capacity Tester
- Aluminum Bitcoin Keychain
- Machine Learning Used to Create an HIV Vaccine
- Further Teardown of the Saturn V Flight Computer
- Reverse Engineering a Candle Flicker LED
- A New Way to Heat People
- DIY Hearing Aid
- LEDmas Tree
- Hackaday Links: December 15, 2013
- Build an In Line Network Bandwidth Monitor
- Cast a Shadow, Play a Note
- Fubarino Contest: A Shifter With An Easter Egg
- Raspberry Pi Wall Calendar
- Controlling High Voltage 7-Segment Displays
- Digital Electric Meter Monitor Goes Old School
- Reverse Engineering an LCD Display
- Building Mosaic LEGO Lamps
- Testing Six Hundred Fish
- Reverse Engineering Serial Ports
- Fubarino Contest: Simon Says Hackaday
- Battlebots in the Sky
- Wii Nunchuck-Controlled Tetris on a Raspberry Pi
- UsbXlater for PS4 Keyboard And Mouse Action
- Flying Spaghetti Monster Display
- Arduino Controlled Beer Brewing Machine!
- 3D Printed, Solderless Circuits
- Roboxotica (Barbot Festival in Vienna)
- Hacking A Reader For Medical Test Strips
- Developed on Hackaday: Setting Up the Project’s Infrastructure
- Portable Musical Stairs
- Raspi Notifies You Of Space Station Passes
- Putting A Mac Plus On The Internet
- Fubarino Contest: VFD Clock
- Over Engineered Kegerator is Glorious
- Status Light Tells You The Code is Borked Again
- Inverted Christmas Tree Made of Nespresso Tubes
- Real Life Sonic Screwdriver for Home Automation
- HDD Driven Table Tennis Robot
- Modifying a PS4 Dualshock4 Controller to Use a Mouse and Keyboard
- Finally, An Animated GIF Light Painter
- Fail of the Week: Physical Pixel Display
- Robot Battle for the Big Leagues: Valkyrie and the DARPA Challenge
- Open your Hackerspace Door with a Phone Call
- Bizarre Mini Amplifier + White Noise Generator?
- Turning A Building Into A Rubik’s Cube
- Mains Frequency Display
- Steampunk Battleship complete with Steam Engine!
- The 3D Printed Ukulele
- [Ben Heck] Builds The Ultimate Glue Gun
- Hackaday Twitter hits 40,000 Followers!
- Veronica Gets A Pair Of Gamepads And A Bugged Chip
- 3D Printering: Making A Thing With OpenSCAD
- A Really Big Extruder For Exotic Filaments
- Digitally Controlled Dual Power Supply
- Internet-Enabling a Lamp with the Raspberry Pi
- Xbox One Headset 2.5 mm Plug Adapter
- Hidden Reed Switches for DIY Home Security
- e-volo VC200 Makes Maiden Flight. Flying Cars Incoming
- VFD And Nixie Clock Twofer
- A Kinect Controlled Robotic Hand
- DIY 3D Projector from an LCD
- Get Tangled Up In EL Wire with Freaklabs
- 8-Track Tapes As A Storage Medium
- Creative Compulsive Disorder: Zina Nicole Lahr
- Retrotechtacular: Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) Manufacturing
- Hanging Plotter With a Color Twist
- Ultrasonic Data Transmission With GNU Radio
- Disk-O-Mat: A Photobooth For Records
- Solar Powered, Tweeting Bird Feeder
- The $40 x86 Arduino
- Future Tech and Upgrading your Brain
- Ion Wind Propelled Star Trek Enterprise
- Developed on Hackaday: First Feedback From Users
- Google Security Certificates Forged
- Guest Post: The Real Story of Hacking Together the Commodore C128
- Fubarino Contest: Morse Code Transmitter
- Meet the Teensy 3.1
- $40 Lens Hack Gives Your FLIR Higher Clarity
- Boil Off Some White Gas in the Back Yard
- Oculus Rift Goes from Virtual to Augmented Reality
- Solder Fume Extractor With Heat Recovery
- A Touch Scroll Wheel via OpenSCAD
- Hackaday Links: December 8, 2013
- $50 Backyard Rollercoaster
- OpenMV: The Camera For Your Next Project
- An Awesome Electric Bike
- Four Cable Drawing Machine Pulls Our Strings
- Arduino RFID Car Starter
- LED Concert Dress
- Will Dance For Bitcoin
- Super Simple FM Transmitter
- Repairing Bose Active Noise Cancelling Headphones
- Speeding Up BeagleBone Black GPIO A Thousand Times
- Using XBox One And PS4 Controllers With Everything
- A Rostock Welding 3D Printer?
- Raspi AC and Blinds Controller
- Bally’s Bomber – A 1/3rd Replica of a B-17G
- DCF77 Powered Clock is a Work of Art
- 3D Printer Exhaust
- SkyJack: A Drone to Hack All Drones
- Developed on Hackaday: Let’s Build Some Hardware!
- The Sub-$500 Deltaprintr
- Trimming The Fat From AVR GCC
- Android and Arduino RF Outlet Selector
- Turning A Pi Into An iBeacon
- Instant Inkjet Circuits with Silver Nanoparticle Ink
- AVR Atmega based PID Magnetic Levitator
- Logic Analyzers And X11
- Fail of the Week: Hackaday Writer’s First CNC Adventure
- Fubarino Contest Example: A Sneaky IRC Bot
- The “Melt-O-Matic” – A Digital Melting Point Apparatus
- LearnCNC Game
- LavaAMP Spectrum Analzyer
- Crab-ble – A Table That Walks
- A 555-Based, Two-Channel Remote Control Circuit
- Using Ultrasonic Sensors to Measure and Log Oil Tank Levels
- Hack Your Datasheets Using Datasheet.net
- A Collective Pitch Quadcopter
- Tiny 3x3x3 SMD LED Cube
- Easy Capacitive Touch Sensors In Eagle
- A Speaking Ultrasonic Distance Sensor
- Fabricate Your Own 7-Segment Displays
- Retrotechtacular: An Ax Factory of Yore
- Stealing $100 Million in Bitcoins
- New Contest: Win One of 20 Microchip Fubarino SD Boards
- Compliant Robot Gripper Won’t Scramble Your Eggs
- Advice About Over-Driving LEDs
- Cellphone Charging Inductive Purse
- Repairing and Adding Bluetooth Control to an Induction Cooker
- Energy Harvesting Peltier Ring
- Adding a SIM card to the Photon Q 4G LTE
- Hacking and Philosophy: Crackdown Part IV
- Pokemon Blue Becomes An IDE
- An Engineer’s Emergency Business Card
- Crafting A Liquid Crystal Display
- Scratch-built Smart Flashlight
- Newsstand Shotgun Hack Poised to Further Ruin Air Travel
- 3D Printing Lithium Ion Cells
- Hackaday Links: December 1, 2013
- Arduino Christmas Lights
- DIY Thermal Imaging Camera
- Levitating Wireless LED Ring
- A Shell For The Stellaris & Tiva
- DIY Pringles Can Speaker
- Arduino-Powered Steampunk Steam Gauge
- Smartphone Controlled Paper Plane!
- Over-powered Fume Hood is Awesome
November 2013
- Making a UNIX Clock While Making a Few Mistakes Along the Way
- Gravity-Powered Generator: Real or Fake?
- 2.5 mm Jack Adapter for the Xbox One Headset
- The Flow Of Time Draws On A River
- A Raspberry Pi Arcade Stick
- Nose Cone Parachute Deployment from a Soda Bottle, Rubber Band, and Servo
- Improving A Cheap Guitar Pedal
- Sterling Engine Kludged Together From Whatever
- Bypassing Seagate ATA Security Lock
- WiFi & Bluetooth Bot Control
- Build and Control Your Own Robot Army
- RFID RGB Lamp Goes the Distance
- PS4 Controller LEDs Suck (the battery)
- 8-Bit Video Game is Best of Retro Gaming on a Shoestring Budget
- Breadboard Friendly ARM Board Based on STM32F4
- Maglite 18650 Battery Conversion
- ScareMail Tries to Disrupt NSA Email Surveillance
- Fail of the Week: How a Cheap USB AC Adapter Might Indirectly Burn Your House Down
- Persistence of Vision Planetary Map
- The Game of NIM
- Something WiFi This Way Comes; Wicked Device Unveils Wildfire
- Repairing Dead USB Flash Drives
- Turning A Storefront Into A Video Game
- Indio Picaro Doll Mixes Drinks…
- The Atari Jaguar That Should Have Been
- Interview with [Damien George], Creator of the Micro Python project
- A Modular Game Boy Synthesizer
- Update: SD Card Locker Now Supports Password Protect
- Windows CE On A Raspberry Pi
- Robot Painter Works Like a Photobooth
- DIY Home Control Using a SSRelay
- Simple Dremel TRIAC Hack Repair
- Raspberry Pi Emulates an Amiga 500 Floppy Drive
- Retrotechtacular: WWII Paraset Spy Radio Used by French Resistance
- Quadcopters Go Inverted by Reversing Their Motors
- Amateur Radio Transmits 1000 Miles On Voice Power
- Laser Wire Stripping
- How Hacker News Page Rankings Really Work
- The Making of the WaterColorBot
- Running a Laundromat with an Arduino
- Sniffing Data from Radio-Controlled Bus Stop Displays
- Hacking and Philosophy: Crackdown Part III
- Circuit Stickers
- EmuDroid 4: An Android Gaming Controller
- Mini Supergun PCB
- Mathematica and Wolfram On The Raspberry Pi
- Pedaling at 128km/h
- Hackaday Links: November 24, 2013
- Measuring The Lifespan Of Nixie Tubes
- An ARM Powered Business Card, Part Two
- Hack-a-Day Logo Laser Light Show
- Pimp My Keyboard: Automatic Lift Kit and More
- Building an LED Source for a Fiber Optic Ring Light
- ATMega16 Hard Disk Clock
- Wireless MIDI Floor Piano!
- Update: Semi-automatic Pick and Place Goes Fully-Automatic
- Video Gaming to Fix Eye Ailments
- Sniffing Out LG Smart TV Tracking Protocol
- Hacking a Mac Magsafe Jack into a PC Ultrabook
- Oscar Updates Your Grocery List From the Trash
- Raspi Mini Laser Engraver
- Solder Sucker Meets Industrial Vacuum Pump
- DIY Filament: The Filabot Wee
- Hack Your Stove in the Name of Homebrewing
- If You Own a Camera You Need to Try Light Graffiti
- Learn Engineering and Draw Narwhals
- Building a Crystal Clear Whiteboard
- Using DMA to Drive WS2812 LED Pixels
- Tricky Repair of Power Driver for CNC Machine
- A Low-Cost Modular High Altitude Balloon Tracker with Mesh Networked Sensors
- Making The Worst Linux PC Useful
- A Pair of Toaster Reflow Oven Builds
- A Six Part CNC Machine
- Fail of the Week: Commute-Shortening Electric Scooter
- Beautiful Touch-Sensitive Furniture
- 7-Segment Display Matrix Visualizes More Than Numbers
- Hacking Helps Bring Educational Robot Projects in for a Few Dollars
- Primer Tutorials for Arduino IR Remote Cloning and Keyboard Simulation
- Raspis and Arduinos for FM Broadcast Streaming
- Home Theater for One Shakes Souls, Removes Fillings
- Making Logic With Inductors
- 3D Printering: Wherein ABS Is Dangerous
- Simple 10 Watt LED driver is Hot Stuff
- Pong Playing T-Shirt
- Raspberry Pi Smart TV
- DIY Coolsculptor Freezes Fat with Cryolipolysis
- Da Vinci’s Viola Organista
- Retrotechtacular: [Zoltán Bay’s] Moon Bounce Coulometer Signal Amplifier
- Interview: Mill CPU for Humans Parts 3 and 4
- Posterior Posture Videogame Controller
- Hacking a Cheap Toy Quadcopter to work with Arduino
- Wireless SNES Controller for Logitech Receiver
- An Awesome Wireless Motion Sensor
- A Simple, Overkill, Electric Car
- Salvaging Gold From Old Electronics
- Hacking and Philosophy: Crackdown Part II
- Interview: New Mill CPU Architecture Explanation for Humans
- A POV Spinner Display with Arduino
- How to Fix Low Speaker Volume on the Nexus 5
- Heirloom Chemistry Set
- DIY Bluetooth Home Automation
- Building a More Nyan Planet
- Hackaday Links: November 17, 2013
- Retropie Gaming Table
- Arduino-Based Power Failure Alert System
- Google Glass? How about this Home-brew Solution?
- Battery Backup for RasPi Keeps Your Data Safe
- Getting a Shell on any Android Device
- Real-Life Raspi-Controlled Redstone Lamp
- Opentilt: Tag, You’re Out!
- $13 Homemade RC Blimp
- Nearspace Environmental Chamber
- Should all Quadrotors Look like This?
- Original NES Advantage Controller Stuffed with Clone NES
- FT230X Brings USB Charging Detection to the Serial IC Game
- 20 Android Tablets form an Interactive Photo Collage
- Automated Aquarium is Kitchen-Sinky
- Producing Ozone at 3500 RPM
- [Charles] Tears Into a Ford Fusion Battery
- Unbricking a Router With a Raspi
- Arduino Astronomic Clock Automates Lights
- Recreate a PCB with a Scanner and Inkscape
- Collective Pitch Thrust Vectoring on a RC Plane
- Cloning the Trinket for a USB Volume Knob
- Long-distance High Frequency APRS Tracking Using The FreeTrak63
- Commodore 64 Power Glove Is So Bad
- Human Powered Hydrofoil, the Wingbike!
- Fail of the Week: Automatic Baby Rocker
- A DIY NFC Tag
- Ask Hackaday: (How) should we control Kickstarter campaigns?
- Raspberry Pi Driven 128×32 LED sign
- View-Master Video Player!
- inFORM the Morphing Table Gets Even More Interactive
- Flying RC Toaster
- 3D Printering: A Makerbot In Every School Follows the Oregon Trail
- BITX, A Return to Hackers’ Paradise
- Ask Hackaday: Can you Hack an Appliance into a Spy Device?
- Examining Vintage Printer Server Hardware for Apple II
- 39 Raspberry Pi 3D Scanner
- Peltier Joule Thief Power Supply
- Sailing With An Autopilot
- A Simple Servo Hack for an Iron Man Helmet
- Printing Printed Circuit Boards
- Building A Better Serial Camera
- Retrotechtacular: Upgrading Train Signaling Before the Information Age
- Upstagram: a Flying Raspberry Pi
- Wireless Keurig Hack!
- Keep Your SD Cards Data Safe with the SD Locker
- Reverse Engineering the Sony Ericsson Vivaz High Resolution 640 x 360 Cellphone LCD
- HackPrinceton: Piano Stairs!
- Reverse Engineering the Z80’s 16-bit Increment/Decrement Circuit
- Diagnose and Repair a Yaesu FT-7800 Ham Radio
- Build Your Own Desoldering Station on the Cheap
- Hacking and Philosophy: Hacker Crackdown Part I
- DIY CNC Rotary 4th Axis
- Robotic Sloth Haunts Your Dreams
- Bluetooth Audio Adapter Hacked to Switch Off Amplified Speakers
- Self-Balancing Robot Keeps Getting More Features
- RFID Door Access Robot
- Hackaday Links: November 10, 2013
- KiCad video series: from concept to manufacture
- One-night No Budget CNC Machine
- Brute Forcing an Android Phone
- Morph: Adaptive Spaceframe
- Make Any Shape Board in Eagle
- The Rabbit’s Hole: Creative Reuse and Stop Motion Animation
- VFD Display Becomes an Amplifier
- Detect Disguises with a Raspberry Pi
- Transmitting data with a Pi and RTL-SDR
- HHH: Delta CNC Mill
- Robots of BarBot 2013
- Constructable: Interactive Laser Cutting
- Full-size MRI Machine Replica
- 3D Printed Velcro
- Freeside’s Infinity Portal
- RC Tractor Build
- Trinket Contest Winners
- Tricking a USB Power Supply
- A New Old Lathe for your Hackerspace or Garage
- Wireless Encryption Between Galileo and a MSP430
- Why You Shouldn’t Care About The All-Metal 3D Printed Gun
- Linux on a Leapster for Classic Video Game Emulation
- 3D Printing With Metal… At Home!
- GameBoy Color Costume
- Remote Control FPV cockpit
- The Tiniest Video Game
- Fail of the Week: CAN-Bus Attached HUD for Ford Mustang
- inFORM: MIT’s Morphing Table
- Laser Origami!
- Homemade Nixie Tubes
- Guitar Amp Turned Tool Cabinet
- Plotterbot Hangs on your Wall to Work
- Augmented Reality Breadboarding
- Classic 80’s Stereo Receiver Enjoys a Second Life as RadioduinoWRT
- A cortex M4 based platform with ETH, USB, BT and many on-board peripherals
- The Raspberry Pi Becomes a Form Factor
- Hackerspacing in Europe: Conclusion
- Writing a FUSE Filesystem in Python
- The Rabbit Hole Hackerspace Sports a New Logo
- Furbies Sing Queen at Fresher’s Faire
- Finding Shiny Pokemon Automatically
- Retrotechtacular: World’s First Color Movie
- CAN Hacking: The Hardware
- Fork-o-Drumbot: A MIDI Drummer!
- Can An 8 Node Raspberry Pi Cluster Web Server Survive Hackaday?
- Do It Yourself Nuclear Fusion
- Open Source Telescope Control
- Trinket Contest Update #7
- Manufacturer-Crippled Flir E4 Thermal Camera Hacked to Perform as High-End Model
- Hacking and Philosophy: The Mentor’s Manifesto
- HHH: CNC Winners
- ASAP 3 – The Almost Simple As Possible Computer
- Hacking a flip dot display
- Bass Bump Headphone Amp
- Fire bell wakes you for work by shaving years off your life
- The Trials of Printing Mil-Spec Connectors
- Hackaday Links: November 3, 2013
- Duo Basic: An All-Logic Chip Educational Computer
- DIY Doggy Doorbell
- “Professor Kill A. Volt” Shocks Pumpkins with his Tesla Coil
- RFID Reader Snoops Cards from 3 Feet Away
- Make Your Own LED Lightbulb!
- Assassin’s Creed Hidden Blade
- Video Game Automation Hacks
- Supercap-Based Cell Phone Charger
- Raspberry Pi Becomes a Universal Translator
- Adorable Homebrew Waveform Generator
- Trinket Contest Update #6
- Perfect PCBs With an Inkjet Printer
- A Nightmare on CNC Street
- Arduino Keypad Door Automation
- Deconstructing Apollo Flight Hardware
- Heathkit Clock Updated with a PIC32 and GPS
- LED Bulb Reviews, Evaluations and Teardowns
- Trinket Contest Update #5
- Copper Electroplating the Cheap and Safe Way
- Hackerspacing in Europe: Hack42 in Arnhem!
- Low Cost Filament Extruder
- Making a solid-state relay with I2C interface
- Hackaday Logo Projector from a single LED
- GimBall Bounces off Trees and Comes Back for More
October 2013
- Halloween Links: October 30th, 2013
- Light Controller Goes Overboard for Halloween
- Trinket Contest Update #4
- Fail of the Week: 27 Face Jack-o’-Lantern
- A Killer Arcade Cabinet for Halloween
- Spark-Up Your Halloween Party with this Double Helix Jacob’s Ladder
- Hackerspacing in Europe: Stratum 0 in Braunschweig
- Another Reflow Soldering Solution
- Use Your Smartphone as a Microscope for Less Than $10
- Hackerspacing in Europe: MadSpace in Eindhoven!
- Hackaday Interview with Amal Graafstra, Creator of xNT Implant Chip
- Impressive Laser Harp
- Bicycle Generator for Emergency Electricity
- Ask Hackaday: Does Project Ara Solve the Phonebloks’ Problems?
- PropVario, a Talking Variometer/Altimeter for RC Sailplanes
- LED Magic Staff Just in Time for Halloween!
- InfinitEye HMD Brings 210 Degree FOV to the Party
- Compass Guided Kayak Autopilot
- Retrotechtacular: Automata
- CAN Hacking: Protocols
- An Overly-Complicated Logic Chip Clock
- Hackerspacing in Europe: A children’s Hackerspace in Eindhoven!
- 1Sheeld Uses Your SmartPhone as an Arduino Accessory
- Building a DC Constant Current/Power Electric Load
- Hackerspace Tour: Milwaukee Makerspace
- Trinket Contest Update #3
- The Nickelphone
- Hacking and Philosophy: An Introduction
- Making a Power Inductor Checker
- Portable PS2, Courtesy of Cross Plane
- DIY Mini Quadcopter Frame is Light and Strong
- Microslice: The Tiny Arduino Laser Cutter
- Hackaday Links: October 27, 2013
- DIY Pellet Fed Boiler is Hot Stuff
- Hackerspacing in Europe: Technologia Incognita in Amsterdam
- [Charles’s] Epic “Total-Recap” GoKart Post
- Electrochemical Etching With a Microcontroller
- Aluminum Unibody Nintendo 64
- Laptop Trackpads and MIDI Controllers
- Class Up your Haunted House with a Disney Mansion Prop
- A Jeep-Mounted FLIR Camera
- An Impressively Large LED Matrix
- Hackerspacing in Europe: RevSpace in Den Haag
- Trinket Contest Update #2
- A Twitter Connected Mechanical Calculator
- HHH: Sniffing Proprietary CNC to Hack in G-Code Support
- Learn Wireless Sensor Networks With Nanode
- Making 128MB SIMMs From Junk
- UK Cops Fear Gun; Pointlessly Seize 3D Printer
- Converting a Mill to CNC
- Weightless, the Internet of Things Chip, Becomes Less Vaporware
- Hackerspacing in Europe: Void Warranties in Antwerp
- Fire Breathing Jack-O-Lantern of Death
- A Very Professional Homemade CNC Router
- Old Fax Machine Shows Signs of Life
- A Much More DYI Air Gap Flash Unit
- Hackerspacing in Europe: WhiteSpace in Gent
- Fail of the Week: Flaming Brushless Motor Controller
- Trinket Contest Update #1
- Building a Ball-Balancing Robot
- Hacking a Streetlight with Lasers
- Backseat USB Charger
- Towards a Low Cost, Desktop CT Scanner
- Hackerspacing in Europe: ACKspace in Heerlen
- Inexpensive Robot Tracking System is Swarm Ready
- Serial USB for Any AVR Microcontroller
- HHH: PCB Mill from Connecticut Hackerspace
- 3D Printering: A Call for an Open Source Automated Build Platform
- Hackerspacing in Europe: HSBXL in Brussels
- Arduino-Controlled Single-Leaf Shutter
- 5 Year Mission Continues After 45 Year Hiatus
- Table Saw Kickback Video Ends Badly
- 3D Printed Cutaway Jet Engine Sounds Great
- Making an Airgap Flash
- Hackerspacing in Europe: Open Garage in Antwerp
- HeartBeat Boombox Creates Bio Beats
- CAN Hacking: The In-vehicle Network
- Retrotechtacular: Steam Locomotive Construction in the 1930’s
- Easy-phi: an Open Source Platform for Experimenters
- Pseudo-Random Flickering Jack-O-Lantern LED using ATtiny13
- Cracking GSM with RTL-SDR for Thirty Dollars
- USB Implementers Forum Says No to Open Source
- Turn a PC on with a Knock and an ATTiny
- CAN Hacking: Introductions
- The Most Minimal Homebrew Computer
- Introducing the Shapeoko 2
- Slap Hackaday Logo on Something and Win a Trinket
- Adventures in Hackerspacing: Freeside Atlanta, Part II
- Piano Repurposed as a Resonant Synth Speaker
- Pet Water Warden
- Walter is a Robot Head Built From Scratch.
- Accurate-ish Pneumatic Cylinder Positioning
- The Apple IIe Becomes a Lisp Machine
- Hackaday Links: October 20, 2013
- Polyphonic Arduino Sketches
- 3Doodler in the Wild
- Hackerspacing in Europe: The Garage Lab in Düsseldorf
- Halloween Knock Box
- Hackerspacing in Europe: The Chaosdorf in Düsseldorf
- Pyrotechnic Star Machine
- DIY Pneumatic Skeleton and Air Horn Gag to Scare Those Trick-Or-Treaters
- Game of Life Clock
- Solar Camping on Steroids
- Circular Saw to Table Saw Conversion
- Build a Sensorless Brushless DC Motor Controller
- Alas, Poor Yorick! I Tweeted Him
- Blender CAM – Open Source CAM Software
- Woodcut Stamps and Conductive Ink
- Quadruped Robot Thinks it’s a Puppy
- Rebuilding a 1940s TV
- FlightDeck: A “Touchless” MIDI Controller
- Guest Rant: From Bits To Atoms
- HHH: CNC Storage Base from The Rabbit Hole
- Making a Diode Matrix ROM
- Keyboard Spoofs 4 NES Controllers for Chiptune Goodness
- Laptop Keyboard EL Panel Backlight
- Tips and Tricks for the C Pre-processor
- Making Use of the Trancend WiFi SD Card
- Artificial Leg Comes with a Normal Gait!
- Fail of the Week: [Caleb’s] Phosphorescent CD Player
- Interactive Boozeshelf is its own Dance Party
- SparkFun Ponders Women in STEM Fields
- Unorthodox Home-made CNC Machine
- POV Airsoft Turret on a RC Plane
- Going Mobile with your Air Tools
- Monitor GitHub Activity with an RGB LED Matrix
- [Ben Krasnow] Discusses the Heat Treatment of Steel
- 3D Printering: Pastestruders
- Tour of Chicago hackerspace: Pumping Station One
- Teach an Old LCD New Tricks
- VT100 Gets BeagleBoned
- A GPU for an Arduino
- Building a Rail Gun
- Breadboarding with a ARM microcontroller
- Retrotechtacular: Miniseries on The Wright Brothers
- CastAR Goes Live on Kickstarter
- Creating Irregular Board Outlines in KiCad
- Running Custom Code on Cheap One-time Password Tokens
- Fine Furniture Kegerator Serves a lot of Beer; Smokes a lot of Cigars
- More Drive Bays, Cooling, and Power for a DIY Raid Box
- Galaga Mini-Cabinet using a Nintendo DS
- BlenderDefender: Automating Pavlovian Conditioning
- 6-axis 3D Printer
- Adventures in Hackerspacing: Freeside Atlanta, Part I
- Build a DIY Plate Reverb
- Reverse Engineering a D-Link Backdoor
- PACCAM: Interactive 2D Part Packing
- Turbot is a Beam/Picaxe Hybrid
- How Do You Build a Relay CPU?
- Hackaday Links: October 13, 2013
- The Greenest Wall-Powered Clock
- Perfect Jump Shots with OpenCV and Processing
- Raspi Z-Wave Automation is Automated
- 3D Printer Made from E-waste in Africa
- Raspberry Pi Garage Door Automation
- Hack a Solar Garden Light Into a Flashlight
- RepRap Wally Can Print Larger Versions of Itself
- A simple Forth development board
- GE Garage and Chicago Ideas Week
- European Hackerspace Tour
- Build an FPGA Microbee in Three (Not so) Easy Steps
- Testing DRAM From a Commodore 64
- CNC Software Toolchain Using Only Open Source Software
- DIY HHO Mini Torch
- An Open Source GPU
- An homemade 48cc V8 engine with injection
- Light Up Earrings
- HaDuino: Open Your Beer Using Arduino
- Circuit Bent Toy Keyboard is MIDI Controlled
- SDRAM controller for low-end FPGAs
- Machine Metabolism: Structure-Reconfiguring Robots
- Hovercraft Plane?
- LED Blinds Turn Windows into Displays
- [Ben Krasnow] Explains Kilowatt Hour Meters
- Cuba: A DIY Society?
- Fail of the Week: Photography Turntable
- Extremely Precise Positional Tracking
- Arduino-based Sieve of Eratosthenes
- Eidos: Audio/Visual Sensory Augmentation
- STL Fun: Converting Images To STL Geometry
- Create a Full Adder Using the C Preprocessor
- Making a core rope read-only memory
- SCARA Arm Becomes Enormous 3D Printer
- 3D Printering: You Want UV Resin?
- A Motherboard for a WiFi Enabled SD Card
- Ask Hackaday: What is “Home Automation”?
- Troll physics: 3 LEDs powered by hand
- Electric Bicycle Hack is Hilariously Simple
- Pokewithastick, an Arduino programmable web-logger/server
- Custom Wireless Headphone Charging Station
- Hackaday is Broken
- Reverse Engineering an LG Cell Phone Display
- Retrotechtacular: Discovering Electronic Music
- Atlas Survives the Wrecking Ball
- LED-Guided Piano Instruction
- Halloween Doorknocker Decoration Hack
- Custom HTPC and Home Media Server
- Temp-Sensitive Automatic Blinds
- Arduino-based Enigma Replica is Fully Functional
- How the Game Genie Works
- Hackaday Hackerspace Henchmen == Free Stuff for You
- Custom Arcade Control Panel
- Handheld Console Build-off
- Computer Controlled Water Show
- Remote Servo-controlled Lightswitch
- Hackaday Links: October 6, 2013
- School Bus Keyless Door Lock Conversion
- LED Costumes and Clothing
- Humidity Activated Bathroom Fan
- SSTV beacon based on a Raspberry Pi
- Pepper’s Ghost – Halloween Ghosting
- DIY CD Autoloader
- A laminar flow nozzle
- Self-stabilizing Spoon for People with Parkinson’s
- JJ Dasher: The Tinkerer (Documentary)
- Boston Dynamics Takes WildCat Outside
- (Please Don’t) Build a Jet Engine from a Toilet Paper Holder
- Homebuilt Ultra Wideband Impulse Radar
- Home Made CNC Reuses Printer Parts
- Have a Router? Build a Skeeball Machine
- Why Kickstarter projects are always delayed
- Electrooculograph (EOG) from a Video Stream
- A DIY Solution for Controlling Robots and Quadcopters
- New Ads – Please Whitelist Hackaday on Adblock
- Tre: When Arduino Meets Beagle Bone
- Make the World takes on Crowdsourcing Prosthetics
- How this Power Racing Series Car got on a Plane to WMF
- Interactive Office Conference Table (Tableduino)
- Making a 9GHz doppler radar
- Step into the Box
- VU Meter Prom Dress
- Raspberry Pi Media Center on an Apple TV
- Fail of the Week: EPROM Reading and Erasing
- The Intel-powered Arduino
- Making a Bathymetric Book by Hand and Searching for an Easier Way
- Rubber Band Blaster Shoots 10 Rounds a Second
- DIY Pressure Plate Switch for your Haunted House
- PocketQubes: Even Smaller Than a CubeSat
- JTAGulator Finds Debug Interfaces
- A Retro, Not Steampunk, Media Center
- 3D Printering: The Problem of Thingiverse
- Restoring an Industrial Tractor
- Electrified Yard Equipment Hauls Grass
- Calling European Hackerspaces!
- X-Winder: Carbon Fiber Wrapping
- DIY 250 lb thrust Liquid Oxygen/Kerosene Rocket
- LEDs turn the heat up on flameless pumpkin lights
- Steam Controller: Open and Hackable?
- Retrotechtacular: Building BART
- 5 Digit Security Code Activated Relay Using Mostly Discrete Circuitry
- Android Controlled RGB Lights
- Flickering Pumpkin Lanterns
- GuruBrew’s 15 minute Windows 8 survival guide
- An atmega328-based radioteletype XY scope display
September 2013
- DIY soda can battery
- Using a Raspberry Pi to give your car more features
- Smoothieboard, The Be-all, End-all CNC Controller
- Time-lapse synthesizer build will blow your mind
- Game controller repurposed for flea market find
- Smart Citizen: Arduino-compatible and packed with sensors
- Umbrella Turned Delta Kite
- Passive Bluetooth keyless entry system
- Hackaday Links: September 29, 2013
- Inside The Clapper
- 50″ multitouch table is expensive, indestructable
- Project Thumper Walkthrough
- Upgrading Cordless Drill Batteries to Lithium
- Musical Pencil Synthesizer
- Electronics Everything Reference Poster
- Headphone Hack Makes Wireless an Option
- Touring Component Markets in Shenzhen
- Breadboard Tetris is Wire Artwork
- Custom E-Cruiser has features for disabled rider
- CD-ROM POV Clock
- DIY Metal Detector
- Making QR Codes in Google Docs
- Mechanical Typewriter Types Your Tweets!
- An Oscilloscope on your Wrist
- A simple nixie clock with logic gates
- Learn to Translate IR Codes and Retransmit Using Arduino
- How Much Can You Cram Into a Wristwatch
- UTF-8 – “The most elegant hack”
- An Improvised ATtiny2313 Logic Analyzer
- Hacking a flatbed scanner to scan very large documents
- Wi-Fi Enabled Garage Door Opener
- Turn a decommissioned robot into a CNC machine
- Breadboard Sequencer Does a Lot with Very Little Hardware
- Opening up the settings in MakerWare
- Fail of the Week: Capturing Data from a Laser Rangefinder
- Thecontrollerproject’s first contest, with prizes
- Self-balancing Arduino does it without an IMU
- Maxim App Note Reuses Lithium Ion Cells — Plus Extras
- 3D printed Kindle page turner
- Arduino-based temp control via SMS
- Zero gravity (sort of) on a budget
- 3D Printering: Advances in 3D printing at Maker Faire
- World Maker Faire 2013 Roundup
- Crowdsourcing plastic model kits
- Adding Automatic Power-On to a Linksys NAS
- Electric BMX Has Pedals That Can’t Be Pedalled
- Automatic Bluetooth Module Programmer
- Backlit PCB Panel as Wall Art
- Safety warning: Arduino GSM shield may cause fires
- Priceless Paintings – Scanned and Printed in 3D
- Announcing Adafruit’s Bluefruit
- World Maker Faire: We annoy the DIWire crew
- Retrotechtacular: Fundamentals of AM and FM Radio Communication
- LIB3 plans to bring contract manufacturing to the masses
- castAR comes to Maker Faire NY 2013
- oneTesla electrifies Maker Faire NY 2013
- PocketNC P5 takes desktop CNC to the 5th dimension
- DIY High Stability Timebase Hack for ~$25. Why? Frequency Stability Matters!
- World Maker Faire: 3D printed tower defense
- Guest Rant: Ham Radio — Hackers’ Paradise
- Homebuilt 30kV High Voltage Power Supply
- OpenFuge: an open-source centrifuge
- Sound blimp makes camera quieter and waterproof
- Hackaday Links: September 22, 2013
- How to make PinMAME awesome
- Hackett’s tripod and some advice on abstraction
- FlowFree goes life sized at Maker Faire NY
- What’s inside a 555?
- World Maker Faire 2013: The Sub-$500 Deltaprintr
- Trash to treasure Bluetooth radio and tube amp build
- A $100 Stereolithography 3D Printer
- An “ill” logical PWM control
- ContactKey: A portable, battery-powered phonebook
- Talkbot: an Arduino-driven robot for beginners
- VCR Centrifuge
- Pocket Sized Sattelites for Asteroid Detection
- World Maker Faire: The New Ultimaker
- Building a brushless motor controller around an ATmega chip
- Sending data over Bluetooth Low Energy with a cheap nRF24L01+ module
- Haunted Dollhouse Microcontroller Networking for World Maker Faire
- Polyurethane protecting PCBs
- Learn machining from an old school metal master
- Heavy lifting copters can apparently lift people
- Getting Your Feedback and a Staff Update
- Visually tune your HF antenna using an oscilloscope and signal generator
- DIY Ultrasonic acoustic levitation
- Mario plays piano with a little help from Raspberry Pi
- Advanced Transcend WiFi SD Hacking: Custom Kernels, X, and Firefox
- Desoldering chips with fire
- BeagleBone Black does CNC with RAMPS
- Fail of the Week: Smoking pulse sensor and BLE disappointment
- A spinning beachball of doom that you can carry in your pocket
- FLASH.IT: The RGB LED climbing wall
- Accurate temperature control of your 3D printer extruder
- Classic PDA finds second life as a network touch screen display
- Seven Decade Programmable Resistor
- RepRap Simpson puts a new spin on delta RepRaps
- Functional NES controller coffee table
- The Bitbox Console: an Open Source Gaming Rig
- 3D Printering: Alternative Filaments
- Hacking a Disco Laser
- $25 coupon code for Texas Instruments store
- Stewart Platform reinvents the wheel so you don’t have to
- Revenge of the Glueless Stool and a New Folding Chair
- Team Van Gogh uses OpenXC to create art from your drive
- Aux-in on a 30 Year Old Boombox
- An Open Source Hardware Modchip
- Explaining the low level stuff you don’t know about ARM programming
- Automatic tool changing on a 3D printer
- Retrotechtacular: Linotype Machines, Mechanical Marvels
- Stealth peephole camera watches your front door
- High pressure air compressor using a pair of refrigeration compressors
- Update: McHck’s self flashing rig
- Octoscroller takes the Hexascroller to the next level
- One man’s microwave oven is another man’s hobby electronics store
- Robotic tentacles for a disturbing haunted house
- Giant video walls powered by a Raspberry Pi
- Modifying a knock-off battery charger to be safer
- Electron Tree Bridal gifts
- Modified E-ZPass detects reads far from toll booths
- Hackaday is going to the NYC Maker Faire!
- Disarm: Turning Guns into a Mechanised Musical Orchestra
- Hackaday Links: September 15, 2013
- Turning a Raspi into AdBlock
- The easy or hard way to build a PWM dimmer
- Tiny Chess Playing Computer
- 3D Printed Injection Molds
- Smart Brake lights and more with OpenXC
- Cloning an infrared disarming remote of a $8 home security system
- A sublime PVC cannon
- A touch screen Geiger counter without a Geiger tube
- Using Google Authenticator with an Arduino
- SNESoIP: It’s exactly what it sounds like
- USB Ableton foot controller reuses old keyboard
- Repurposing a ceiling fan into a pottery wheel
- Organizing transistors
- A 23 feet tall pyramid with 0.31 mile of LED strips
- Students build a 3D printed plane
- A Bitcoin vending machine
- Ask Hackaday: Can we do better than Phonebloks?
- Adding a display to a USB digital scale
- DesignSpark Mechanical – The Gift of Invention
- Motobrain: A Bluetooth controlled PDU
- Tooth Fairy goes pneumatic
- Digital camera becomes video transmitter
- The Arduino YUN. YUN means cloud.
- Fail of the Week: Laser cutter that makes jagged edges
- DIY Heatsinking PCBs
- Four Meter Light Paintings
- Fully automated watering robot takes a big leap forward toward greenhouse automation
- 3-Sweep: Turning 2D images into 3D models
- DIY Electricity and Internet for Burning Man
- Accelerometer Poi
- NES: Nixie Entertainment System
- 3D Printering: Key Patents
- Game of Light
- 123D Circuits: Autodesk’s free design tool
- Completely analog electronic music box
- Rubicon gives the Makerbot Digitizer a run for its money
- Swapping LEDs with motors on a LED strip
- PCB agitator from a broken CD-ROM drive
- Retrotechtacular: The Apollo Guidance Computer
- The Melloman, Mk. II
- Building a small keypad for strategy games
- ArduGuitar, an Arduino Controllable Guitar
- An improved bubble display with RGB LEDs
- E-cigarettes, powered by an NES controller
- Graffiti briefcase for stealth tagging
- How FindChips started as a NASA engineer’s hack
- Stripping Kindle DRM with Lego
- Jeep dashboard display turned into a desk clock
- An RTL-SDR Spectrum Analyzer
- Handmade stainless steel chainmail
- 3D Printed Prosthetic Hand
- Hackaday Links: September 8, 2013
- Use your new-timey printer to make an old-timey camera
- We’re Hiring
- BREWSTER fetches your beer automatically
- Web connectivity and other addons for an automatic schnauzer feeder
- The Nibbler: a 4-bit CPU built with 7400 logic
- Make Your Treadmill More Entertaining for $0
- Hidden RFID reader locks workstation unless keys are present
- Open Hardware Summit 2013 – Part 1: Demos
- Extruded rail and 3D printed connectors form a proper laser engraver
- Potassium Chlorate from household products
- Pair of MIDI dongles to inspire some weekend music hacking
- Putting every game console in the palm of your hand
- 3D Printering: Electronics Boards
- A PC rig that belongs on the wall of an art museum
- My First Brainf*ck
- Cheap guitar amp repaired by replacing the distortion circuit
- Machining an Orrery
- Homemade LED helmet
- Antares: One bare metal build system to rule all microcontrollers
- [Kenneth Finnegan’s] EPIC Burning Man slideshow
- Fail of the Week: GPS module design
- A really, really tiny microcontroller board
- Jack the DVD ripping robot
- Making Asteroids Miniature
- Custom car keypad entry
- ‘conus’ mixes media, math and mollusks
- Diesel bike build: Round 2
- Solar power for your bike
- Git with Eagle: Add meaning to Diff
- Modifying the HC-05 Bluetooth module defaults using AT commands
- Laptop to all-in-one PC conversion
- RGB Infinity Mirror
- Screaming fast RC Hovercraft
- Another Arduino clone is the last thing the world needs
- Retrotechtacular: 6CH industrial robot
- The JavaScript of Things
- A weekend trip to verify general relativity
- Finally, a practical use for the Leap
- Couch to 5K with 1K to spare
- A pick and place tool from medical equipment
- Grow your own coffee beans
- Monitoring a coffee pot with an Arduino
- Give yourself to the dark roast side
- Precise temperature control of a coffee urn
- A coffee machine with an attitude
- Phase one of a robot coffee maker
- A drip coffee maker for camping
- Hackaday Links: September 1, 2013
- A real car remote controlled with an Arduino… what could go wrong?
- Obstacle avoiding LEGO rover uses CDs for wheels
- Ottawa Mini Maker Faire
- Build a file server inside an old external optical drive enclosure
- Scratch-built gigapixel scanner
August 2013
- Tearing an old laptop apart to build a ground control station
- A think-tank solution for monitoring radioactive water storge tanks
- Radar detector integrated with dashboard display screens and steering wheel controls
- Yet Another Self-Balancing Unicycle
- Learn JTAG by writing a bit-banging programmer
- 360° Photography Made Easy
- Free Hackaday stuff at next week’s Open Hardware Summit
- Cooling fan speed controllers do it by generating heat
- [Ken Shirriff] completely reverse engineers the 1974 Sinclair Scientific calculator
- PlayStation 3 analog audio out hack
- Disabling under/over voltage protection on ATX power supplies
- Bluetooth Low Energy weather lamp
- 24-hour hackathon produces respectable accelerometer labyrinth
- Many iterations of a plywood stool that requires no glue
- Fail of the Week: Motorizing a PCB cutting shear
- As Millenials grow up do they demand cooler LED sneakers?
- Primer on Bluetooth Low Energy
- Wheelchair hack lets two-year-old explore on his own
- Laser cut Arc Reactor replica
- Hackaday’s resistor code reference card
- Open Activity Tracker Webcast
- 3D Printering: The Combo Machines Cometh
- Building a rocket to launch your project into space
- Kindle hack adds value to the wallpaper
- A one third scale Macintosh
- Molding Flexible Links
- A facelift for the view out your livingroom window
- Retrotechtacular: The 10-year anniversary of plastic
- Milled water bottle rocket launcher pushes plastic containers to their limit
- Building a ‘high-end’ USB audio DAC
- CC3000 WiFi driver for .NET Micros
- Spoofing WiFi AP based geolocation
- Stopping a hackerspace from rusting away
- Making a HP Frequency Counter More Accurate
- Sony SmartWatch hack lets it tell time with a teapot animation
- Making S’mores with 50,000 Volts
- Building an ethernet connected RFID reader
- [Update] Vladimir’s Robot Guitar
- Logging two multimeters at (nearly) the same time
- Reaction time challenge
- Hackaday Links: August 25, 2013
- The difference between bitcrushers and sample rate reducers
- The Straddler makes AVR breadboarding truly plug and play
- Making keys after the apocalypse
- Connecting an old scope to a computer
- Turning Cheap Voltmeters into I2C Displays
- Building an audio box out of thrown away boards
- 75 Controllers, One Gaming System
- Vacuum pressure bazooka
- Evalbot as a JTAG programmer
- 3D Printering: Scanning 3D models
- An absurdly small tri-copter
- A Comparison of Hacker Friendly SDRs
- Write an essay, win a Tektronix scope
- Upgrading a Fluke multimeter with a masterful addition
- Browsing the web one step at a time
- Hacking McDonald’s Minion toy to be an electric slidewhistle
- Unplayable Holophonor replica is unplayable
- Fail of the Week: Switched-mode PSU camera battery replacement
- Update: Whistled platform upgraded for simple word recognition
- Crazyflie control with Leap and Kinect
- Put in pocket change, get bitcoins
- Free yourself from social media with classical conditioning
- TightLight: A 3D projection mapping assistant
- Rotary phone museum exhibit
- Amazing flight of a 3D printed rubber band powered ornithopter
- Ultrasonic anemometer for an absurdly accurate weather station
- GoPro Slingshot
- An arcade controller for the original PlayStation
- A fast and easy-to-use vision sensor
- Hacking Coin Collection
- Retrotechtacular: The history of ANSI and ASCII art
- Building an analog whistle detection device
- Sensor gloves from joystick pots
- Twitter Knitter combines 40 year old hardware with modern social media
- Update: testing the accuracy of a magnetic rotary encoder
- Fix a keyboard’s firmware with trial, error, and I2C
- Getting Boxeebox root and making it useful again
- Reverse-engineering old Finnish metro station displays
- Building an entire pinball machine from just the playfield
- Controlling Chromecast: AirCast APK released
- Adult sized baking powder submarine
- NESPo: another 3D printed portable NES
- On not getting metal fume fever with galvanized conduit
- [Lou] puts invisible fence inside and outside his home
- Bode plots on an oscilloscope
- Compact fluorescent grow light
- Rescuing an SD card with an Arduino
- Hackaday Links: August 18, 2013
- 3D printed arc reactor replica
- Wrist-mounted flamethrower on the cheap
- Building an accurate equal arm balance
- Liquid nitrogen (finally) makes an Arduino project cool
- Tearing down an ultrasound machine from 1963
- AquaTop: a gaming touch display that looks like demon possessed water
- Preserve your garden bounty with a solar food drier
- Motorized skateboard controlled by hand gestures
- Here Be Dragons, and VR…and sheep.
- A deck screw extruder
- One pixel video game rises from RGB button hardware
- Getting SPI on a router
- HHO generator makes bubbles that go boom
- Reverse engineering the die of a ULN2003 transistor array
- Hackaday Staff Update
- Electronic wedding attire for a geeky wedding
- Turning anyone into a casuality
- Change the TV channel over IP
- Turning a tiny Linux box into a synthesizer
- Rock solid PCB mill built at home
- Microcontrollers and Node.js, naturally
- IMU boards as next-gen motion capture suit?
- Fail of the Week: The follies of a bootstrapped CNC mill
- Stompy, the 18-foot, 2-ton hexapod is ready for production
- Your Hackerspace needs a biology lab; here’s the inspiration
- Bow tie kindly suggests that you back off
- Controlling a railroad with an mbed
- The RPC: a stand-alone MIDI workstation
- 3D Printering: Where can I get the cheapest filament?
- Reactive target range for Nerf, Airsoft, etc.
- Unreadable Binary Epoch clock is unreadable
- Making the electronics for a Doppler motion sensor
- Playing with an oscilloscope you’ll (probably) never own
- Designing a pressure sensitive floor
- Retrotechtacular: Understanding a voltage doubler
- USB adapter for an old VT100 keyboard
- Just swipe your card and enter the pin… what could go wrong?
- Raspi Bitcoin miner may just pay for itself eventually
- The BatBox: Portable power, polished and professional. Plus smoke!
- Swapping the sensor in a DSLR
- Galaxy S4 inductive charging hack keeps everything inside the case
- Converting a Flip-dot display to work like Core Memory
- 0x10c becomes a community-developed game
- Hacking Transcend Wifi SD Cards
- All wheel drive motorcycle
- An elegant timepiece from paper and a fistful of servos
- Hack VersaPak battery modules to reuse laptop cells
- Boominator solar stereo keeps the music pumping even in cloudy weather
- Hackaday Links: August 11, 2013
- A crystal radio amplifier in a jar
- Goodbye Hackaday subdomains
- Building the electronics for a Tesla coil… and watercooling them
- Wireless Marble Labyrinth uses TI dev hardware
- Bitbanging I2C by hand
- Voice controlled home automation uses Raspberry Pi and LightwaveRF
- Defeating reddit’s CAPTCHA
- Making vector arcade games with an FPGA
- DIY 23mph+ electric skateboard
- The Hubless Horseman
- Hacking Sensoria, the smart sock
- Dual extruders in the space of one stepper motor
- Zappo the robot mixes tone generator, sensors, alarm clock and more
- How to debug a faulty memory board
- Rant: Why I love what the Chromecast stands for
- Tiny WiFi modules, again
- Google Glass controlled quadcopter
- What the inside of a pneumatic transport system looks like
- Pill dispenser tattles to the Internet when you don’t take your pills
- Custom made MIDI recorder for an 8 year old girl
- Four-stroke engine with glass cylinder is a 2400 RPM piece of art
- Fail of the Week: Inaugural Edition
- Repairing a mill that cost as much as a car
- Building a Barn Door tracker for astronomical photography
- Controlling real world objects from your lucid dream for $15
- Six years, a giant robot, and a kickstarter
- Supercharging your digital calipers
- The Cramp: A MSP430-powered crane lamp
- 3D Printering: Remote control of 3D printers
- How to use the Kenetis KL25Z Freedom board as an HID mouse
- A cable box becomes a network time display
- A $5 ARM development board
- Soundball bumps to your tunes
- A cold cathode audio visualizer
- Taming STM32 Discovery boards for regular use
- A full-auto Gauss gun probably won’t hurt much
- Retrotechtacular: Singing bird automata
- Leap motion controls hexapod with hand signals
- Avalanche pulse generator design
- Replacing knurled thumb screws
- Bench equipment tip: Screenshot of old oscilloscopes
- Making Digi-Key much, much prettier
- Turning a rubidium standard into a proper tool
- Raspberry Pi camera built as part of advertising campaign
- Have you failed hard enough to be on Hackaday?
- Centimeter-level precision GPS for $900
- No computer Ambilight clone uses a computer
- Overclocking your Bitcoin miner
- Android hack adds missing Chromecast button to Netflix app
- DEF CON: Hacking Charities and Routers
- Hackaday Links: Sunday, August 4th, 2013
- LED strip cape drives kilometers worth of LEDs
- Measuring tiny current with high resolution
- Drilling PCBs with cameras and math
- DEF CON: Tamper Evidence, Contests, and Embedded Talks
- DIY prescription swimming goggles
- Current limiter for a MOT welder
- Biodiesel equipment hacks
- Dead drop concept inspired by [Ender Wiggin] family
- Protoboard line following robot
- DEF CON: Hacking Hardware and Cars
- Leapcast emulates Chromecast in your Chrome browser
- The Mill CPU architecture
- [Sprite_TM] OHM2013 Talk: Hacking hard drive controller chips
- Building a hard drive scratch controller
- Printing an Aston Martin DB4
- BeagleBone SensorCape lets you measure just about anything
- Hackaday at DEF CON 21
- How to use CoIDE with LPCXpresso Board
- Blackhat: iOS device charger exploit installs and activates malware
- Laser cigarette lighter makes smoking even more dangerous
- Making a real instrument out of a Kaoss pad and ribbon controllers
- Vaporizer rebuild
- HackRF, or playing from 30 MHz to 6 GHz
July 2013
- ARM dev board with USB uploading
- Pair of aquarium builds are masterpieces inside and out
- OSH Park adds board sharing feature
- A Macbook Air and a Thunderbolt GPU
- How to play a Game Boy emulator on Chromecast
- FLAMEnco guitar
- Trust hacking: How the Bitcoin system works
- An introduction to inertial navigation systems
- Xbox 360 light right and RF module connected to Raspberry Pi
- Any-size SIL connector kit
- Touch control for every key on the keyboard
- Breakout board for $11 LCD module with small pitch
- BeagleBone Black becomes a handheld classic gaming console
- Tools and talent for custom platinum jewelry
- Self-contained time-lapse rig braves elements from thirty feet
- Racing telemetry on a cockpit view
- 2013 Open Hardware Summit badge includes ePaper display
- Headless tethering between Raspberry Pi and iPhone
- Chromecast bootloader exploit
- Update: Home security monitoring prototype
- PCBs with powder coat
- Disney prototype adds haptic feedback to gestural interface
- Finally, a firewall for all the porn on the Internet
- Hackaday Links: Sunday, July 28th, 2013
- GRBL compatible Arduino CNC shield
- Rekindling Forth with a Propeller Jupiter Ace
- Electric skillet reflow soldering guide
- Turning Kerbal Space Program into a proper space simulator
- Propane forge built from a soup can
- Make your own fume-extracting glove box
- Hackaday is going to DEF CON!
- Resole shoes with old tire tread
- I keep my tunes in an ammo can
- Hacklet adds Linux control for the Modlet smart outlet
- Heart-shaped heart simulator
- 10-drive microserver is the clown car of the computer case world
- Retrotechtacular: A tour of WLW, a 500,000 Watt radio transmitter
- CNC router built with 80/20 rail
- Building an internal combustion engine from hardware store parts
- Geometry class just got augmented
- Defcon presenters preview hack that takes Prius out of driver’s control
- This bear can pass a Turing test
- Drive bay form factor dual Dekatron readouts for RAM and CPU usage
- Making a Dropbox with a Chumby and Bittorrent
- Hello from SupplyFrame – your new evil overlords !
- Electric Imp as an Internet to RF gateway
- Hackit: Researchers wait 69-years to see tar move
- Build your own metal detector
- Android stick mutates into a home server
- Proposing with a Contra ROM hack
- Monitoring a sick bird using the Raspberry Pi
- A variable capacitor made from junk
- Building a bike for 100 miles per hour
- Cyclone PCB Factory: 3d printable circuit board mill
- Home audio and lighting taken over by the Raspberry Pi
- Using 30 year old microcontrollers
- Predator suit for Monsterpalooza includes over-engineered shoulder cannon
- A keygen for the Rigol 2000-series scopes
- Easy LCD control for Arduino Mega
- A Video Game with custom LCD characters
- [Travis Goodspeed] starts a space agency in Southern Appalachia
- Wooden flatbed truck conversion
- Beating the heat with geothermal cooling
- Polishing optics milled from acrylic
- Popup book includes a playable piano keyboard
- Anachronistic Hard Drive for the Apple II
- Building a blinky infinity mirror
- DIY Pick and Place just getting under way
- Scratch built camera tripod
- Multiple Raspberry Pi boards used to create video wall
- Leather wallet making involves more than you think
- Mac malware uses right to left character exploit
- Animated GIFs on an Apple II
- Complex camera rig controlled with Blender 3D
- Hackaday Links: Sunday, July 21st, 2013
- Hardware store goods and an mbed combine help solar panels track the sun
- How the mazes were generated for classic Berzerk game
- Quadruple backflip and sticks the landing
- Well that’s finally over with
- Arduino cellphone
- Reverse engineer a PSU to change its output voltage
- LED module used to display load, traffic, and status data for your PC
- Water cooled Raspberry Pi
- Energy harvesting to build a Carbon Monoxide Detector with no battery
- Building an aquarium into your walls
- Interviews with the Hand-Makers
- Embedded DMX controller for Burning Man
- PixelBrite is an LED wall/coffee table done right
- NPR Science Friday Roundup
- Goal Zero Bolt hack lets your flashlight use non-proprietary batteries
- Magnetic panning time-lapse camera mount couldn’t be easier
- Is a LEGO 3D printer by definition self-replicating?
- Wireless toilet occupancy sensor
- Hacking quiz game buttons to add a central controller
- Cast acrylic and wood LED light
- Make your own electronic children’s toys
- Angular teardrop camper includes an improvised galley
- Robot theater isn’t so much for the actors as the stagehands
- Water heater controller automates garage doors
- Atlas humanoid robot standing on his own
- How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively increased?
- Simple bookends wear blemishes with pride
- HDTV antenna of a different color
- Retrotechtacular: Vintage computer museum playlist
- Prosthetic spines become musical instruments
- Thermocouple vacuum gauge teardown
- FPV drones with an Oculus Rift
- MSP430 alarm clock project
- Plastic bottles funnel rain into rain barrels
- Copper kettle just for the hipster coffee scene
- Filtering out mains hum from ADC samples
- Fluorescent light, powered by battery
- A robotic tattoo artist
- Fun with LED matrix and mouse
- Turning Hackaday into a virtual hackerspace
- [Massimo] talks about Arduino clones
- Hackaday Links: Sunday, July 14th, 2013
- Shifting gears on your pig roasting spit
- Flying with a little help from friends
- Simple looking Antique Internet Radio has a lot under the hood
- DIY Airbag, explosions included
- A love note in 14 segments
- Resistance decade box using DIP switches
- Making PCBs and Waffles
- Adafruit builds the Back to the Future time circuit display
- No nonsense guide for patching into a gaming controller
- Gas, Water, and Electricity monitoring
- Computer monitor Ambilight clone shows remarkable performance
- Human powered flight extravaganza
- A different type of Arduino Internet shield
- Adding a digital timer to a cable release camera
- The most advanced microwave you’ll ever own
- Galaxy Note 2 gets three and a half months of standby time
- Electro-permanent magnets for quadcopters
- Web based automation courtesy of Raspberry Pi
- Ghostly images captured only on camera
- Paper ROM
- How do you think this quadcopter feels?
- Building Han Solo’s blaster
- Kebab skewer quadcopter
- Your resume all cinched up in LaTeX
- The perils of cheap MIDI adapters
- The tiniest arcade cabinets you’ve ever seen
- Text editor running on your ARM project
- Animating a lamp with the Leap Motion
- 3D printed dispenser flings treats at your pets
- Teardrop camper combines simplicity, style, and function
- Build a bare bones Arduino clone which maximizes its use of real estate
- Ambilight clone uses video pass-through; needs no computer
- A custom cooler, sewing not required
- 24-hour hackathon project adds object-based automation to hackerspace
- 737 autopilot, courtesy of an Arduino
- Best practices to include in your final projects
- Hack It: In-refrigerator egg monitoring
- We’ve found the awesome singularity
- A handful of parts used to form an Electrocardiogram
- 3D printing with liquid metals
- This is run by an Arduino
- Salvaging parts from broken Roomba robots
- Arduino oscilloscope at five megasamples per second
- Turning anything into a drone
- An autonomous boat across the Atlantic
- Two-way Bluetooth communication made easy
- The model engineer
- A very small HDMI display
- Automata and wooden gears
- Hackaday Links: Sunday, July 7th, 2013
- Manual transmission for gamers
- Rocketduino, for high-G, high altitude logging
- Taking picture of exploding wire
- Raspberry Pi learns the lost art of Teletext
- 3D printed bike shifter
- Putting two years into one bowl
- Brute force attack Xbox 360 parental controls
- Bolstering Raspberry Pi HDMI with a current regulator
- Pull-out pantry fills space next to refrigerator
- Turning a router into an Arduino shield
- Veronica 6502 gets keyboard input via USB
- LED strip Pong as an Arduino shield
- The best photo booth for really small stuff
- MacBook Pro Retina display with a normal computer
- PlayStation 3 controlled with head movement
- Simon Says learn how to program ARM chips
- Building a 70-foot sailboat in Oklahoma
- LegoDuino for kid-friendly microcontrollers
- Packing a Jeep Wrangler full of hacks
- From maple and spruce to an archtop guitar
- A custom Starcraft keyboard
- Is an LED bow tie ironic or awesome?
- Showing off a high-performance brushless motor camera gimbal
- A rifle, handmade circa 1700
- DIP switch adjusted voltage regulator
- Sentrifying a Nerf gun
- Perfect wall-mounted tablet integration
- Twenty two servos and an awesome clock
- Hand soldering BGA wafer chips
- Deep woods cabin; one man, his tools, and a camera on a tripod
- The 14th game for the Nintendo Power Pad
- Super-precise light painting from a delta robot
- Seeing plant health in infrared
- Raspberry Pi, now in a Mini-ITX form factor
- Family pulls together to build dad’s casket
- Salvaging Lithium cells and circuits
- Unlocking a Rigol scope once again
- Custom handmade boxes, made with steam
- Bullet time with a ceiling fan
- USB sniffing with the BeagleBoard-xM
- The definitive guide to solder stencils
- Turning Grandpa’s o-scope into a clock
- Hackaday looking for a good home
- Briefcase mill
- Raspberry Pi automates your tomato farm
- Goodbye Hackaday, I’ll miss you.
- Working with very cool LCD modules from Sharp
- Designing a marble track from scratch
- 3D printed Pip-Boy, Geiger counter not included
- Build your own steel reinforced storm shelter
- Reverse engineering a wireless protocol
June 2013
- Hackaday Links: Sunday, June 30th, 2013
- Air-powered gripper design makes them easy to produce
- Retrotechtacular: Bell Labs introduces a thing called ‘UNIX’
- Google Science Fair finalist explains squid-inspired underwater propulsion
- Easily 3D print mesh screens
- Build a light following bristlebot as a way to teach science
- Car stereo AUX input taps into CD ribbon cable
- An XBMC controller built for Grandma
- Bringing eLua to the mbed
- Send an Arduino to the moon for $300
- Dimming LED bulbs designed to replace halogen lamps
- The trials of repairing a MacBook
- RF wireless kernel module for Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone and others
- Hackers in Africa are building their own aircraft
- The Thunderball jetpack becomes a quadcopter
- Measuring ketosis with an Arduino
- Astrosmash style video game as Sony SmartWatch firmware
- Atari 2600 has a Raspberry Pi hiding under the hood
- Building an IR mouse interface for the disabled
- ShapeOko build log — it’s a CNC mill in a box
- WALL-O-TRON, the interactive rock climbing wall
- Thundercats, HO!
- Prototyping a Maglev train using LEGO
- The Ondes Martenot; Better than a Theremin
- Chest freezer kegerator conversion has six beers on tap
- Life sized Katamari Damacy ball controls game but isn’t sticky
- Tearing apart an organ and making a MIDI keyboard
- LED tie plays Tetris
- Solder trick to make your own surface mount breakout boards
- Signmaking in glass and gold
- Build a waterproof music controller on the cheap
- How to build a Tron bar that Daft Punk would hang out at
- TI’s CC3000 WiFi chip gets a library
- Lots of seven segment displays with a single ATtiny
- 16 core computer made of ATMegas
- What’s happening at LIFE.hackaday lateley
- Transformer built from MIT admissions mailing tube
- A 555 player piano
- Hackaday Links: Sunday, June 23rd, 2013
- Adding RGB backlight to arcade buttons
- Raspberry Pi Bitcoin miner
- Turning a phone into a Geiger counter
- Kinect full body scanner
- [Ricky’s] rugged DVD player
- Heart-shaped project takes no shortcuts
- Sony SmartWatch running Arduino sketches
- A charming Arduino king cobra game
- Outputting text on a paper tape machine
- Wetlev 2 water jet pack marginally less lethal than prior version
- 3D scanning by calculating the focus of each pixel
- Giving a crank flashlight a super capacitor overhaul
- An Arduino power inverter
- Building a synth on a breadboard
- Hacking a Medion WiFi streaming radio found at Aldi
- A folding knife made from scratch
- Solar powered hovercraft
- Building custom game controllers for people with physical disabilities
- Modeling squid cells in code foregoes connecting voltage to animals
- Giving digital calipers Bluetooth
- An interview with [David] of Ultimaker
- Building a blink based input device
- We should build mandolins and violas
- Using an angle grinder as a bench grinder
- Black Ash basket weaving from scratch
- PBX blade for multiple extension home telephony
- Long distance PS3 controller
- Adding wireless charging to any phone
- Crystal oven temperature sensor reads 0.01F resolution
- R2D2 cake plays Leia’s distress message
- Brushless gimbal 3D printed and bolted to quadcopter
- Best robot demos from ICRA 2013
- RedBull Creation 2013: final thoughts and recap
- Pager message sniffing with RPi and SDR
- [Frank] builds a chair from a sequoia
- Causing trouble at RedBull Creation 2013
- Modifying a CRT television for use as an arcade monitor
- Coopering wine barrels
- Raspberry Pi replaces a Volvo nav system
- Adding WiFi to a kid’s tablet
- Letting Bluetooth take the wires out of your headphones
- Giving the VirtualBoy a VGA out
- Hackaday Links: Sunday, June 16th, 2013
- Water tank level meter prevents overflow
- Autonomous RC car navigates by waypoints
- Custom driver board for paintball gun
- The secret projects at the RedBull Creation Challenge
- Raspberry Pi Tor proxy lets you take anonymity with you
- Wherein books are judged by their cover
- RedBull creation update: Fantastic videos from the welder company!
- HackIt: Sony invites you to hack its SmartWatch firmware
- Machining beer can solder stencils
- Hackaday at the Redbull Creation Challenge: The teams begin to build
- Guitarduino show and tell
- The making of a katana hand guard
- Wet spill vacuum cleaner attachment
- Heading to New York to judge the RedBull Creation Contest!
- Beck’s beer bottle sound recording
- Upgrading a hackerspace’s shelving
- Dummy batteries let you use an AC adapter
- AuPod, the solid gold iPod nano watch
- Building a Strandbeest
- Ditch that boring mouse for a military-grade trackball
- Using electrical conduit for a 3D printer frame
- Building a digital scale from scratch
- Loading Atari games from an SD card
- The birth of a tool: Damascus steel knife making
- Telegraph sounder clicks out email messages
- Giving an RC tank a fire control computer
- Building a WiFi enabled Nixie counter
- 3D printed hand-cranked digital computer
- Arc Reactor replica could have been crafted in a cave
- An interview with Shapeways
- Giving toys an electronic voice
- 60,000 RPM vacuum powered rotary tool was 3D printed
- Automated programming and testing jig built with Raspberry Pi
- Gesture control uses WiFi doppler shift
- Incredible bow lathe work in Morocco
- A binary clock that uses bulbs
- Learning letters, particularly R, F, I, & D
- Hackaday Links: Sunday, June 9th, 2013
- Super-cap powered blinky jewelry charged by the sun or USB
- Open source PLC
- This week on HANDMADE.hackaday
- 1,200 hours of work results in the smallest v12 engine
- Echolocation pinpoints where a gunshot came from
- Ask Hackaday: Can you steal a car with a mini tesla coil?
- Omniwheel robot build uses a bit of everything
- Raspberry Pi used to build a smart television
- Wireless unread email counter tells you how busy you’re not
- 3D mapping of rooms, again
- USB infrared receiver looks good sitting in your livingroom
- No space in the garage? Build a Lamborghini in the basement
- Embedded solution for uploading webcam pictures to the cloud
- iOS keyboard exploit allows brute force iPad lock screen attack
- Smoothing PLA printed parts
- Apple MagSafe protocol hacking
- The construction of an triode, by hand
- Alarm clock uses Raspberry Pi to poll Google Calendar
- Sliding gopro rig for timelapse
- Hacking the R-390A military shortwave radio receiver to transmit as well
- Sugar Painting: street vendors make works of edible art
- Making a bow from scratch
- NES Zapper modified to work with an old Nintendo VS. cabinet
- Ask Hackaday: How are these thieves exploiting automotive keyless entry?
- [Jimmy the torch] making blown glass
- Plex hack runs Apple TV without a Jailbreak
- Whats up with these subdomains at Hackaday?
- HANDMADE.hackaday: Celebrate Craftsmanship
- Retrotechtacular: How I wrote Pitfall for the Atari 2600
- Hacking high school exams and foiling them with statistics
- Superbly built walking cane
- Ship building in Volgograd
- Building a treadle powered lathe
- How does that ship get into the bottle?
- GoPro panning time-lapse with Ikea egg timer
- Hand crafting a tuba
- Automated aquarium fertilizer doser
- Hackaday retro edition roundup
- Raspi Internet radio with Google Music
- Nikkor optical glass
- Dead simple jamming gripper design
- A very tiny gamma ray detector
- Keurig hack now automatically fills the water reservoir
- Quick and dirty touch-sensitive keyboard project
- The thinnest Xbox laptop yet
- Benchmarking USB transfer speeds
- Hardware store robot hand
- Hackaday Links: Sunday, June 2nd, 2013
- USB fume extractor takes stink out of soldering sessions
- A black box for a motorcycle
- Building a miniature x-ray tube
- Delta-type 3D printer built using extruded rails
- Off the shelf EEG hardware records your dreams
- TP-Link router turned into a DALI automated lighting controller
- Complicated iPhone garage door opener
- Arduino-compatible, quad-core ARM dev board
- 2013 LayerOne badge hacking contest winner
May 2013
- LED mortar board battles suns brightness with 21W of power
- Already impressive Wolverine claws now energized with high voltage
- High speed photography with friggin’ lasers
- [Jeri] spills the beans on her AR glasses
- 18-year-old builds functioning submarine
- Raspberry Pi helps with 2.4GHz home automation
- Giving the Nexus 4 a serial port
- Human Asteroids makes you a vector triangle ship
- HP16500B Logic Analyzer controlled with RS-232 and more
- Programming a through-hole ARM microcontroller
- Build your own backyard pizza oven
- Reflow soldering improved with carbon dioxide
- Charlotte, the hexapod with 3D vision
- Programming microcontrollers with a Raspi
- Ambilight clone has meaningful amount of resolution
- Announcing LIFE.hackaday
- One man’s adventures in custom keyboard development
- Wireless rover with Android control
- Arduino particle light box generates animations from sound
- An overkill network adapter for retrocomputers
- Shocking your brain and making yourself smarter
- Etch your own CPLD development board
- Blood glucose monitor data pushed to smart watch
- WS2811 can be addressed at 800kHz using a 8MHz clock
- Adding night vision to the Raspberry Pi camera
- Book Review: The Good Life Lab
- Moostar — fortune telling moose knock-off of Zoltar
- Hackaday Links: Sunday, May 26th, 2013
- Crown earns you the title King of the Junkyard
- Detecting galactic rotation with software defined radio
- Update: Live video played on LED strip display
- Add external power to any USB hub
- Alert Tube monitors all aspects of your digital life
- Use your ears as an oscilloscope
- RPi control your server PSU over the Internet
- 3W handheld laser raises hope for a real Lightsaber someday
- Tamagotchi ROM dump and reverse engineering
- Tweaking designs for [Theo Jansen] walking machines
- Laptop vs Thermite: Slow motion destruction
- Herd single cell organisms with your mind
- Listening to aircraft transponders with a Raspberry Pi
- Tracking cicadas with Radiolab and an Arduino
- LED Etch-a-Sketch built without a microcontroller
- Ask Hackaday: What are we going to do with the new Kinect?
- Anti-Tetris project is a study in hand tracking
- Hackaday Newsletter: Now including “This day in Hackaday History”
- Submersible camera snaps pics of ocean going predators
- Adding stereo to monophonic audio
- Vine app hack on iPhone makes time-lapse movies
- Scratch-built desk adjusts so you may sit or stand
- 33 Node Beowulf Cluster built with Raspberry Pi
- Meet the 2013 LayerOne conference badge
- Scooterputer, the all-in-one scooter computer
- Electric motorcycle hits the racing circuit
- Automated cat feeder and large plastic screws
- Trimethyl Borate lantern built from garbage
- Camera-based touchscreen input via an FPGA
- Turning a phone into a media center remote
- Adding LEDs to an engagement ring
- UK Hackerspace builds mobile spaceship disaster simulator
- Hackaday Links: Sunday, May 19th, 2013
- ATX Raspi is a smart power source for Raspberry Pi
- Wireless microcontroller/PC interface for $3
- Controlling a terminal with Google Voice
- FPGA plays Mario like a champ
- Robot air hockey championship as a final project
- Just put your lips together to turn on a lamp
- Dermal implants means strapless watch
- Filming light reflecting off objects
- North Street Labs try to spice up a game of Tic-Tac-Toe
- Reading Game Boy carts with I2C
- LED retrofit for vintage edge-lit numeric display modules
- Android pen plotter snaps, processes, and prints pictures
- Drinking games and digital logic
- Homebrew GPS gets ±1 meter resolution with a Raspberry Pi
- Flocking behavior using Mindstorm robots
- Magnetic CNC marble maze
- Timelapse of the 3d printed gun being printed.
- Altering automotive window motors for use in your projects
- Rigol DS1022C hack brings it up to 100MHz speed
- Converting a bottle style water cooler to self-fill from the tap
- Winch hack lets your change chandelier light bulbs at ground level
- 3D scanner with remarkable resolution
- One game controller connects to many consoles
- Retrotechtacular: First laser transmitter built 50 years ago
- Master lock auto-cracker built as coursework at University
- The Hackaday Newsletter is growing!
- GoPro hack delivers live video feed for piloting your Quadcopter
- Geiger counter tells you if your dishes are radioactive
- Clean and minimal self-balancing robot
- Hackaday Links: Sunday, May 12th, 2013
- Hobby electronics team up with augmented reality
- External pinball controls for an Android tablet
- Auto dimmer hacked into keyboard backlight
- LEGO jukebox choses from different CDs
- Laser cutter helps make dual sided PCBs
- Low water indicator for coffee maker couldn’t be simpler
- Update: lost PLA metal casting — The Movie
- Microcontroller enumerates as USB printer — can be programmed by printing
- 6 foot tall fire breathing piranha plant from Super Mario Brothers
- Voice controlled chess robot
- Everything you need to know to make a Laser engraver from scrap
- Raspberry Pi housed inside a computer monitor
- HDMI color processing board used as an FPGA dev board to mine Bitcoins
- Beautiful Modded NES for the 25th anniversary of Mega Man, plus bonus interview!
- Trashed LCD monitor turned into a light box
- RedBull creation contest entries revealed!
- Karma Controller makes Reddit a game
- Weather-O-Matic displays digital weather on an analog face
- 3D printer used to make custom blade server type mounting system
- Fabricating a mechanical wristwatch at home
- DVD laser diode used to build a laser engraver
- Tracking ships using software-defined radio (SDR)
- The first 3d printed gun has been fired, and I don’t care.
- Update: Grow controller rebuilt to last
- Hackaday Links: Sunday, May 5th, 2013
- MSP430 touchscreen piano
- Asteriods: the belt buckle
- The meaning of being a hard-core hacker from a 1985 recollection
- Laptop backlight converted from CCFL to LED
- Quadruped walks of four legs, rolls on four treads
- Hot plate stirrer dissolves support material in 3D printed objects
- Atari Combo Controller has what you need for any cartridge
- Microsoft IllumiRoom breaks your video game out of its television prison
- Pebble watch hack makes it a home automation controller
- Using a screwdriver to start your car
- High voltage Thor’s Hammer: Mjolnir at 80,000 volts
- AM tube radio restored and given MP3 playback too
- DIY laser cutter built to make stencils
- Life meter gives a real life measure of video game health
- Bluetooth stepper motor driver
April 2013
- Retrotechtacular: History of the U.S. Antiballistic Missile Systems
- Sump pump alarm sends text message as water rises
- Scratch-built 3D printer shows rock-solid performance
- Sega controller houses auto-launch emulator
- Wifi Pineapple project uses updated hardware for man-in-the-middle attacks
- Chromebook hack controls your television
- Hackaday Links: Sunday, April 28th, 2013
- Wristwatch made of sandwiched PCBs
- ODB-II hacking using an Android tablet
- MIDI out for a Korg CX-3 organ
- Video player built from Stellaris Launchpad
- Hand placing flash die to make USB drives
- Old LED marquee turned embedded video player
- Cube 3D printer hack lets you use bulk filament
- Foot-powered lathe is a tour de force of joinery techniques
- SDR as a Police and Fire radio scanner
- The 10 best hacking videos
- Keurig hack runs a water supply line to your coffee maker
- A quick tour of my workbench
- Bending and printing a curved camera dolly track
- Hacking a Sigma lens to work with a Canon camera
- This GPS logger is so small…
- Acrobatic tricopter inspired by the Oblivion movie trailer
- Rattle generator is a new type of dynamo for a bicycle
- OTM-02 is a 3D printed wristwatch
- What are the best hacking documentaries?
- Console radio given new life with a WiFi router retrofit
- 20 pounds and a gut feeling yields a configurable Rubidium atomic clock source
- Connect a Retina display to a regular computer
- Automatic tubular bells given a MIDI interface too
- Hackaday Links: Sunday, April 21st, 2013
- Drop-in pcb makes Nintendo Four Score a USB joystick
- 3D printing some sweet music
- Mood lamp/notifier uses neat modular PCB design
- GUI window manager on an AVR chip
- This piggy bank is our stock broker
- Asynchronous fireflies use few parts
- Replace your project power supplies with recycled Li-Ion cells and a switching regulator
- Measuring the lifespan of LEGO
- Pulse Oximeter from LM324, LED, and Photodiode
- Living night light with glowing algae
- Semi-automatic pick and place machine
- Hidden servo automates slat-style window blinds
- Upgrade a toy keyboard’s tone production
- 3D Printing sensor mounts for the Oculus Rift
- Apple MagSafe cord repair
- Hackerspace security system brings RFID, video feedback, and automatic doors
- Hacked together Mac isn’t a hackintosh
- Building a kegerator with visual style
- Tube radio husk gets a web radio transplant
- Original hardware for fifteen consoles jammed into recently completed Project Unity
- [FlorianH] shows off MinimaBL, the next generation of his quadcopter project
- Glowing Easter eggs more fun than a dye job
- Hackaday Links: Sunday, April 14th, 2013
- Building a replacement for a broken dehumidifier controller
- Teaching a computer to play Mario… seemingly through voodoo
- SqueezeBerry: a Raspberri Pi powered Squeezebox appliance
- Working 3D printed stepper motor
- Network-controlled fireworks launcher
- Generating electricity from alcohol
- Horribly complicated electric guitar keyboard
- Jeep Wrangler gets pressurized water right out of the bumper
- Hacking the Oculus Rift: the Oculight
- Automating a mechanical typewriter
- Top 10 best hacking scenes in movies
- Guitar EQ levels trigger the stage lights
- Snowboard propulsion system motors you through the flats
- Perpetual pong
- MIDI pedal project looks as good as it sounds
- Hacker sends this through the mail to record a video of the process
- Wall wart computer mouse
- Recurve bow make from wood and skis
- The RedBull creation contest begins!
- Synthesizing graphene in your basement laboratory
- Yamaha SW60XG hack lets you use it as a standalone MIDI device
- Combo lock uses relays and logic gates
- Another way to look at Charlieplexing
- Hackaday Links: Sunday, April 7th, 2013
- Solar powered robot mows your lawn while you chill indoors
- Acoustic bass guitar uses water jug and two strings
- Making PLA stick to a 3D printer build platform by using hairspray or an acetone ABS slurry
- Rolling your own minimal USB to serial Arduino programmer
- Fixing the worst video game ever: E.T. for Atari 2600
- Light Graffiti with Servos and Python
- Stapler hack fastens infinitely large sheets of paper
- H-bot style 3D printer moves bed for Z-axis
- Electric tricycle build log is like hacker crack
- Snowboard goggle HUD displays critical data while falling down a mountain
- Home security hardware makes you the monitoring service
- High speed circuit design for quantum physics light sensing
- Steampunk theremin goggles
- Top 10 Hacking Failures in movies: part 2
- Melting Metal with a DIY Foundry Furnace
- Wireless Temperature Control for a Microbrewery
- Turning an easter egg hunt into a fox hunt
- Pranking a hackerspace IRC for April Fool’s Day
- MP3/USB/Aux hack hidden behind cassette facade
- Retrotechtacular: The Fourier Series
- Adding an optical mouse sensor to an autonomous vehicle
- Hall effect limit switches for a 3D printer
- Microscope ring light with a number of different features
- Building a Theremincello
- Homebuilt Laser Cutter Ideas
- Upgrading a router with impeccable soldering skills
- Powering the Oculus Rift with USB
- Embedded web server is all about clever formatting
- SenseLamp automates rooms by replacing light fixtures
- April Fools’ project teaches coworkers not to touch your stuff
- Building a vehicle parking camera
- CNC Tic Tac Toe
- Adafruit launches educational show aimed at kids
- Hackerspace tour: Arch Reactor in St. Louis Missouri
- Cooling a photomultiplier tube
- Ask Hackaday: Hacking lingo fails
- Dual displays on a Playstation 2
- An EQ display for a pedal board
- How-to: turn on a light bulb
- SNES headphones scream out for Bluetooth control
- Windmill made from washing machine, 555 chip
- Kindle weather and recycling display
- Doctor Who-style WiFi
- Hackaday’s very first Kickstarter campaign
- Visualize Twitter with an LED matrix
- Building RAM into Veronica – the 6502 computer
March 2013
- Images carrying an encrypted data payload
- Add features (that should have already been there) to an EPROM programmer
- Building a wooden air raid siren
- Coding new parts in Eagle
- Interview: Another Kickstarter round for the B9Creator
- Treasure trove of swarm robotics research
- Used hard drive repurposed as a cotton candy machine
- Adding Bluetooth remote control to PC speakers
- BigDog throwing cinder blocks
- Car stereo hack gives your party tunes and an extra place to sit
- Homemade Bocce balls
- AVR VGA generator
- Ask Hackaday: Are we close to reinventing the keyboard for touchscreens?
- DVD power supply repair tips
- Wooden teeth for your USB keyboard
- Oil feed retrofit for a CNC mill starting to come together
- Reverse engineering challenge starts off simple
- Hammond Organ sends messages which can be decoded by a Spectrogram
- Hacking VM for peak performance
- Top 10 hacking failures in movies
- Automatic Closet Lightswitch
- Ikea Dioder ambilight hack
- Making it Easier to Build Firmware
- Epson projector LED mod
- Centerpieces for a geeky wedding
- Handwriting robot arm is a little stiff-wristed
- Hi-Hat MIDI controller
- Color NTSC video directly from an AVR chip
- Business card draws [ch00f]’s logo
- Making a 12V bulb work in a 6V socket
- Robot steals soda from the vending machine
- Extending old games with reverse engineering and MAME
- Android controlled Minecraft ores
- Turning PCBs into art
- Atomic skull clock reminds us we’re dying
- DIY $6 serial cable for vintage Apple QuickTake cameras
- Raspberry Pi: the perfect machine for old DOS games
- Get Phone Calls Answered with the Moshi Moshi
- Having fun with dumb terminals
- Giving a CNC knitting machine a new brain
- Rate Gyroscope circuitry explained
- Playing Meat Boy on an FPGA
- Rigol WFM viewer ported for non-Windows users
- Robot bartender mixes a mean drink
- Hackaday Links: March 25, 2013
- Installing GLaDOS in the ceiling of your house
- IR Based Augmented Reality
- Going back to our old commenting system!
- Giving an Electric RC Plane an Afterburner
- A tiny custom table saw
- Mining bitcoins on a Nintendo
- CNC ping pong printer uses simple construction
- ATtiny2313 frequency meter measures 1Hz-10MHz
- Fixing tools with 3D printers
- A homebrew binary wristwatch
- Rogue Pi: A RPi Pentesting Dropbox
- Smoothing 3D Prints with Acetone Vapor
- Hacked Interactive R2D2 controlled by Raspberry Pi
- LiFePO4 batteries work much better in a camera than NiMH
- Shocking Operation makes sure you have skin in the game
- HTML link tag hack sends you to the wrong place
- Hacking the right side of a keyboard completely off
- Comparing USB to Ethernet converters: Apple vs. Knock-off
- Atari 800 EPROM cartridge hack
- Writing new firmware for a handheld radio
- LulzBot is giving away more printers
- Finally upgrading our comment system.
- Low-resolution toaster prints on slices of bread
- Gamma-ray scintillation probe in a paint can
- DIY PC to telescope interface cable
- Analog input expansion boards for Raspberry Pi
- Bluetooth headset garage door opener update
- Remote control command center includes RF and IR functions
- NANDputer is mostly wiring
- WSPR transmitter shows true value of Raspberry Pi for hacking
- Words of wisdom from a maker entrepreneur
- Assigning new packages to Eagle PCB components
- Printed vacuum pump muffler quiets the lab
- Futaba 10C radio modified for Spektrum module compatibility
- Second grade science project: a steam engine
- CuteUino: Only use the parts of the Arduino that you need for each project
- Bullet time with a single GoPro
- Retrotechtacular: flying foot-soldiers are coming for you (sixty years ago)
- Bakery automation mixes single cookies
- Putting the brains of a reverse geocache on the outside
- Hackaday Links: March 20th, 2013
- Measuring meditation with a heart rate
- Hackerspace Intro: Make Lehigh Valley
- Carry a Git server in your pocket
- Fabricating custom displays for a commercial coffee roaster
- Stereoscopic display art installation
- Python script migrates from dying Google Reader to Evernote
- Ask Hackaday: What movies have the best/worst hacking scenes
- DIY Arduino Pro Mini quadcopter
- Make Your Own Steadycam Mount
- Designing and Building a Wooden Mechanical Clock
- Robotic rat torments and depresses real rats
- UC Davis students build coffee can radar project inspired by MIT
- Temperature controlled wine cellar substitute
- Prototyping a modular LED matrix
- Wireless base station eavesdrops on robot communications
- Hack removes firmware crippling from NVIDIA graphics card
- Heat your house with propane (but not in the way you’re thinking)
- Google Glass hack for Apple fanboys can be had right now
- Custom boards at home without etching
- Auto off for any circuit
- Testing caps with a DIY ESR meter
- Sonic Screwdriver meets TV-B-Gone
- AC vs DC human pain test
- Midwest RepRap Festival
- Mug Plotter based on the Egg-Bot
- ASETNIOP chorded typing with a piano keyboard
- Script makes custom pinout labels for your chips
- Adding fireplace control to your home automation
- Repairing broken injection molded parts with a 3D printer
- Enabling an unused touchscreen overlay on a consumer LCD
- Deploying an open source pollution monitoring network
- Workshop computer floats above bench and is nearly wireless
- Eloquent universal receiver for your home entertainment equipment
- EEPROM hack unlocks crippled features in Agilent multimeter and LCR meter
- This cube is made for walkin’
- Stealing cars and ringing doorbells with radio
- Lighting up a workspace twofer
- Camera trick lets you see sound waves in falling water
- Raspberry Pi as a Spotify server with MPD control
- Extreme Game Boy hack plays titles from a wide range of systems
- ShuttAVR can snap a pic or serve as an intervalometer
- Minimalist user interface for headless Raspberry Pi applications
- Cardboard lampshade makes ordinary recycling a centerpiece of your room
- Retrotechtacular: Mechanical targeting computers
- Cloud support for fleets of 3D printers
- No-touch music player
- Mailbox notifier texts when the letter carrier arrives
- Remote control car that packs its own Beretta
- A clock that uses sixty RGB pixels
- Briquette press for rocket stove fuel
- Hinged NES case hides an integrated LCD screen
- A clever solution for constantly locking workstations
- Playing MAME Games on a RGB Laser Projector
- Making a Propane Tank Hank Drum
- DEFCAD, the island of misfit objects
- “Hacking the Xbox” Released for Free in Honor of [Aaron Swartz]
- Hackaday Links: March 12, 2013
- Molding rubber for a pre-production prototype using a 3D printed model
- Camera adapter for a microscope
- Two-wire serial backpack for GLCD screens
- Non-resettable thermal fuse teardown
- PCB stencils for $200
- One piece, 3D printed crossbow
- Hackerspace intro: HeatSync Labs
- Building new, weird CPUs in FPGAs
- Laser toting robot taunts house cat
- Coffee pot aquarium keeps fish warm without cooking them (hopefully)
- Launching a glider from space
- Makerbot shows off 3D scanner
- Another salvo in the PIC vs. AVR holy war
- DIY Lighting Solutions
- Tracking a car like it were a computer mouse
- Oil truck transforms into giant mobile grill
- Hard drive centrifuge for sensitizing copper clad boards
- Dispensing change for low-stakes gambling
- 3D display controlled with the Leap Motion
- Airport X-ray machine teardown
- Making a Commodore 64 portable
- Printed machine does nothing until the heat death of the Universe
- Hackaday Links: March 8, 2013
- Putting yourself inside a display
- Pumping 1080p video out of an FPGA
- Hackerspace develops ways to get Peeps to spill their secrets
- Quick wallet hack adds pickpocket alarm
- Handwriting suck? Build a machine to do it for you
- Human powered emergency cell phone charger
- Wireless doorbell battery monitor
- Real multifunction “Sonic Screwdriver”
- BGA rework station
- Shock sword works best on foes who fight with multiple blades
- Fabricating edible LEDs
- Debian Linux on a PowerMac 7200
- DIY space experiments within a ping pong ball ‘satellite’
- Wiimote Controlled RPi Robot
- This Maglite is a BB Gun
- A real thermal imaging camera for $300
- Beautiful replica Team Fortress 2 weapons
- Dynamic bicycle headlight uses the open road as a display
- POV Pong game uses all kinds of smart design
- Print your own adjustable lenses
- Everything you need to build a light-cured resin 3D printer
- Scratch-built bottle cap coffee table pulses to the music
- Time-lapse dolly uses some stock parts and a bit of machining work
- Quick and easy rocket stove
- 24V relay driver circuit
- Oreo separators Episode 2 chucks food at your face
- NES annoyance timer makes no friends at your work
- Viscerally pleasing electromechanical doorbell
- SparkFun takes their educational show on the road
- Digging deep into how the 8085 processor’s registers were designed
- Turning the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 into a proper Linux box
- Finally, a machine that makes cheap 3D printer filament.
- Programmable computer built from a humble ATtiny84
- Audiobook player used only NFC tags for control
- [Fran’s] PCB etching techniques
- Wireless pinball controller for tablet gaming
- A longboard speed and distance computer
- Retrotechtacular: Donner 3500 portable analog computer
- Preserving locomotives with 3D laser scanning and 3D printing
- Using OpenCV with the Raspberry Pi
- Warming seeds in an outdoor garden
- DRM Chair only works 8 times
- Street Art Bot
- RPi Printer Server for your 3D Printer
- Building a remote control for a cable release camera
- Hackerspace Intro: Workshop 88
- High contrast laser etching
- VFD tube clock built using protoboard and free-formed PSU
- Virtual Archery game makes practicing convenient, safe, and inexpensive
- More acetone-vapor polishing experiments
- 24-port GPIO on a PCI card
- Building a touchscreen XBMC setup with the Raspberry Pi
- Laser Etching an iPhone 5
- Cool new hardware spectacular
- PwnPad, the pentesting tablet
- Tymkrs’ Deconstruction for the zombie apocalypse
- High powered rocket engines made from PVC pipe
- Hacking a PAL SNES to output 50Hz or 60Hz with a single switch
- Oreo-creme hater builds Rube Goldberg CNC router to remove the Stuf
- Soluble support structure can be used with any extruder-based 3D printer
- Mexican law enforcement seizes a hacked together Weed Cannon
- Revolving camera mount helps to capture 3D video-game assests
- A solar powered cattle crossing gate
- Hackaday Links: February 28th, 2013
February 2013
- Optical data transfer project at local school’s family science night
- Bending materials with a simple hot wire forming tool
- Hacking a Ham Radio
- Uzebox Coding Challenge
- Adding a home theater without ruining a Victorian home
- LCD-based QR clock
- 3D printed HOG drive
- Add some animated bling to your GQ duds
- Acrylic enclosures use integrated clips to do away with fasteners
- Interpreting Brainf*#k on an AVR
- Hacking a radio controlled spy device for overly attached girlfriend.
- Making a violin mold with a 3D printer
- The coolest homebrew computer gets its own case
- NSL takes their propeller driven car to the drive through
- Mac EFI PIN lock brute force attack (unsuccessful)
- Simple to build programmable foot switches
- Smashed tablet in NES case lives out its days as an emulator
- Python frontend is a GUI for different microcontrollers
- A respectable electronics bench that’s not a pain to move
- Massively parallel CPU processes 256 shades of gray
- Taking the pain out of making custom Eagle parts
- Giving 3D printed parts a shiny smooth finish
- Hacking the International Space Station with a toothbrush
- Automatic beer pourer was hacked together from a bit of everything
- Laser Kaleidoscope uses more 3D printing and less scavenging
- Critter cam hacked from an old cellphone.
- Veronica 6502 computer reaches Hello World stage
- Using a flashing LCD monitor to transfer data
- Ubuntu with a GUI on a Beagleboard
- SCARA arm finally prints plastic parts
- Modifying a printer for PCB fabbing
- Building huge displays with LED strips
- Arduinofied QRP radio beacon
- A remote-controlled, autonomous kite generates power
- Reading Sensors with Scratch
- Multibooting the Raspberry Pi
- Automated pH Control
- Tickle-Me-Elmo… Frozen In Carbonite
- An industrial RepRap
- WeMo without a smartphone
- Watching 50 teams build something cool
- Smartphone controlled Labyrinth
- Dissecting a firmware image
- NFC tags control your home’s lighting
- A Bitcoin mining example for the BeagleBone with an FPGA shield
- Door hidden by bookcase is a marvel of DIY engineering
- Panelizing PCBs in Eagle
- Hackaday Links: February 22, 2013
- Build your own dumb USB power strip
- Arduino-controlled MIDI sequencer
- LED marquee uses discrete through-hole lights
- Self-waking computer for DIY cloud storage
- Laser Spirograph
- Bit banging through a USB parallel port adapter
- Framing up your electronics projects
- Retro gaming just in-case
- Swiss Army Keys
- Making Eagle work with circuits.io
- Pair of musical hacks use sensor arrays as keyboards
- RF switching module can learn new remotes
- Freezing Android to crack the encryption
- A brick-sized Game Boy Advance SP
- Video phone Arduino shield
- The perils of buying a stereo microscope without a stand
- 3Doodler, a 3D drawing pen
- Solar clock uses capacitors for style and function
- Hacked auxiliary port for a car stereo
- Diamond Ore wall lamp brings Minecraft into your home
- Rusty old table saw turned into a workstation worthy of a master craftsman
- LEGO stylus solves Ruzzle tablet game
- Impressive dev boards for your STM32 dev boards
- OpenSCAD is for use with 2D machine, not just 3D printing
- Rube-Goldberg provides liquid refreshment
- Via press crushes copper to make a mechanical connection
- HDMI breakout lets you sniff HDCP crypto keys
- Wireless fireworks controller includes several safety features
- Valentine’s puzzle box makes you work for what’s inside
- A beautiful game of Lights Out
- Speech synthesizing valentine from 1991
- [CNLohr]’s Microscope Slide Linux AVR Minecraft… thing
- Making a QR clock bigger, cheaper, and better
- Running x86 apps on Windows RT devices
- The Nottingham Hackspace
- Making a better, MIDI controlled Leslie stompbox
- Bringing the Zach Morris phone into the 21st century
- Custom 3D printed designs with Makerbot’s Customizer
- R2D2 collects Valentine’s cards like a boss
- Turning an $8 RFID reader into something useful
- Playing with the Minecraft API and a Raspberry Pi
- UDP between STM32-F4 Discovery boards
- Airsoft turret has turn, tilt, and auto-feed to keep those BBs flying
- Cracking open a 24-port switch so you don’t have to
- Beginner’s Android/Arduino example shows the power of App Inventor
- Quadcopter brain
- An awesome, futuristic, all-in-one robot chassis
- Pulse jet snowmobile, or, what Swedes do during hibernation
- Brake Light Backpack overpowered with LED pixels
- FAA GPS data formatted for your use
- Raspberry Pi as a plug-in hash harvester
- Your own head-mounted display for under two bills
- 3D scanner made in a day
- Weightless, the hopefully-not-vaporware Internet of Things chip
- Hacking a Coffee Machine for a Better Brew
- 555-timer charges lead acid batteries
- Toroid winding cheat
- Hackaday Links: Valentine’s Day, 2013
- Roll your own LoJack clone
- Wall-wart retrofitted with a high-power LED supply circuit
- X-Labs hackerspace completes a big 2-year Tesla coil build
- How to make a vaporizer for smoking medical marijuana
- Building a six-channel floppy drive synth from start to finish
- Wireless light bulbs with a Slayer exciter
- Roomba becomes data center robot
- A table saw to cut solar panels
- DIY forklift for the home shop
- Lord Vetinari’s clock strikes again
- Layer One: a call for papers
- Add speed control to a DIY CNC machine
- Converting an IBM PCjr joystick to USB
- Help Hackaday build a custom gaming controller for a good cause
- Giant resistor-shaped Ohmmeter
- Hackerspace intro: Metrix Create:Space in Seattle, Washington
- University research dollars poured into developing a Holodeck
- [Limor] from Adafruit to hang out with President [Obama]
- Build an eye tracking headset for $90
- Automatic, custom Eagle schematics
- The Firecracker Crossbow
- Hands on with the super tiny arudino: FemtoDuino
- Cracking a SAM7XC cryptographic coprocessor
- Automatic volume control puts the kibosh on loud TV commercials
- Script lets you import Eagle boards for use in FreeCAD
- Digging deeper into the Apollo Saturn V LVDC
- GLCD clock project packed with great UI and features
- Harry Potter location clock spies on your smart phone
- Minecraft for RPi Released
- LED tells you when your server has melted
- Programming in 3D with 3DPL
- Turning an iPhone into a Karaoke machine
- Soldering Small Components for a Video DA
- Hack a Day on Fact or Fiction with [Veronical Belmont]
- Reflow oven courtesy of hurricane Sandy
- Better PWM on the Raspberry Pi
- Building a better NES
- Pinoccio Web Rover
- Adventures in 3d printing: Our first week with the LulzBot AO-100
- Hackaday Links: February 9th, 2013
- Arduino as an inexpensive ham radio frequency counter
- NASA inspired circadian rhythm lights
- Another take on the 6502 computer
- SCARA arm 3D printer
- A pair of automatic fish feeders
- Programming a 555 chip
- Building a tool to measure melting point
- Raspberry Pi is right at home inside of a Game Boy
- 3D printed prosthetic hand helps out for about $150
- A constant resistance dummy load design
- Learn shift registers without involving a microcontroller
- USB Apple ][ disk emulator
- Add motorized blinds to your home theater
- WebSockets, Raspis, and GPIO
- PCB production workshop means everyone gets an Arduino
- Quantifying Cloudiness with OpenCV
- Midwest RepRap Festival
- Heating, bending, and gluing to make acrylic enclosures
- gifsockets: WebSockets using animated GIF files
- Pocket Serial Host acts as an Apple II disk drive
- Fruit piano uses a different circuit than the Makey Makey
- Wall votive display controlled with a glowing cube
- Brilliant auto-off feature for a bike light
- Making karaoke worse
- Raspberry Pi camera board incoming
- Complete Siri home automation controls everything but the kitchen sink
- Rack Mount Home Automation with a RPi
- Re:load, an Open Source Dummy Load
- Quick fixes for SMD population problems
- One Kindle launcher to rule them
- BASH games
- Introducing The Deconstruction: a collaborative experiment
- Military steals idea of anyone who ever tied a cellphone camera to quadcopter
- Web connected treat dispenser appeases the pets
- Learn a little assembly language for the 6502 processor
- Using nichrome wire to repair broken plastic parts
- Space invaders played on a 16×2 character display
- Building a linear motor
- Stellaris Launchpad shield shows good fabrication technique
- CASUAL seeks to make Android hacking OS agnostic
- Adaptive technology used to fly an IR helicopter
- Shooting ping pong balls at Mach 1.2
- Finding 1s and 0s with a microscope and computer vision
- Elemental display is also a LED wall
- DIY solder stencils from soda cans
- Making high concentrations of hydrogen peroxide at home
- The Universal Geospatial Light Switch
- Ammo box PSU
- bladeRF, your next software defined radio
- Guitar Hero controller built from toy guitar and keyboard
- Easy web interface with GPIO access runs on Raspberry Pi
- Music challenge has you flapping your wrist to make sounds
- Glowing Super Bowl helmets
- FitBit Hack causes food to spoil if you don’t exercise
- Populate SMD boads using a toothpick and tweezers
- Barometer tells you to take your bike or the train
- Getting rid of telemarketers with a Banana Phone
- Y Combinator and Upverter Host Hardware Hackathon
- Siri controlled Arduino using Ruby
- Reverse engineering salvaged part footprints
- Tweeting beer dispenser requires co-worker approval
January 2013
- Infra is a television made of Infrared pixels
- 12-axis sensor adds auto screen orientation to this older tablet PC
- How a dial-up modem handshake works
- Getting an Arduino to control a wireless outlet
- Turning the Belkin WeMo into a deathtrap
- Letting people on the Internet control your dating experience
- Gas sensor suite built with Gadgeteer modules
- 7x7x7 LED cube driven by Arduino mega
- The Keypad Contest
- Feedback for automated water and food pet dispensers
- HDD POV clock takes the best from those that came before it
- 3d printed hexapod robot
- Modulator box connects iPod to Tesla coil
- Really, really geeky wedding invitations
- Controlling a Raspberry Pi with real life redstone
- Mr. Tea is a hot plate and magnetic stirrer in the same enclosure
- Automated Doors for Theatre Effect
- Finding the cheapest board house
- Ask Hackaday: What’s an easy way to build a potentiometer for a soldering iron?
- MIT Media Lab’s month in Shenzhen
- A look at the (now patched) security of [Kim Dotcom’s] MEGA cloud storage service
- Messenger bag LED matrix keeps bikers safe at night
- Help hackaday buy our own 3D printer UPDATED!
- Adapting the Nexus 7 for a double DIN car dashboard opening
- Genetic algorithms become programmers themselves
- Building a velocity sensitive keyboard
- This man will take your picture while macing you
- Hand bind your own books
- Breaking the MintEye CAPTCHA one more time
- Duct Tape Bagpipes
- Portable gaming console uses SSD1289 and Propeller
- Telepresence upgrade with a minimum of effort
- TV show inspires this smaller Pong paddles hardware hack
- Mobile chicken coop includes wireless sensors
- Our first preview email goes out tomorrow, Tuesday Jan 29th.
- DIY NES controller makes no changes to the design
- Great antenna for software defined radio is really easy to make
- Reverse engineering the Furby
- Raspberry Pi becomes a guitar effects processor
- A breakout board for a tiny WiFi chip
- Turning the Stellaris Launchpad into a logic analyzer
- Extracting data with USB HID
- Adding shoulder buttons to an RC transmitter
- Gizmo Board, a tiny x86 dev board
- Pinoccio – An Ecosystem for the Internet of Things
- How the 8085 ALU is structured
- Improved hourglass entropy
- Announcing: Hackaday videos and behind the scenes mailing list
- Raspberry Pi used as a beacon transmitter
- $20 vacuum pen build on of the best we’ve seen
- Iron Man faux stained glass saves $4k
- New IOIO is faster, cheaper
- Build a bioprinter from very old inkjet cartridges
- Sunrise alarm clock mounted above the bed
- Hackaday Links: January 24th, 2013
- Building your own Model A Raspberry Pi
- Wooden cargo bicycle
- Brake drum and plumbing parts get you started with Blacksmithing
- Raspberry Pi becomes a Torrent box
- Stocker monitors the markets
- Hot air rework doubles as an herbal bag vaporizer
- Fitting a cold, metal heart in an Altoids tin
- Ceramic hot-end mount seeks to improve extrude performace
- Vintage Kegerator
- Web scraping Amazon and Rotten Tomatoes
- Replacement controllers for slot car racing
- Simple iPhone telescope mount
- Dead motherboard wall hides an LED marquee
- Sous Vadar
- Stuffing an NES into an FPGA
- Raspi-controlled RGB LED strip display
- Retrotechtacular: How a watch works
- XBMC workaround for Android hardware video acceleration
- Faceless child’s engineer father builds him a breathtaking ride
- Gaming system inside an Atari joystick
- 21st century light bulbs using 3D printer and chemistry equipment
- Adding a Bluetooth terminal to your router
- GSM to Landline box has a creatively soldered cellphone inside
- Laser cut PCBs
- Raspberry Pi plays MIDI without an operating system
- An attempt to replace multiple RFID cards with a single hacked-together tag
- Communication protocol for an indoor helicopter
- Brute force finds the lost password for an electronic safe
- Land speed baby carriage record set at 53 mpg
- Laminated wooden case brings a dropped coffee grinder back from the junk heap
- Award clock put to good use as a bench meter
- Building a tool to bend small metal tubes
- Tired of playing the MacBook? Play the Raspberry Pi!
- Plastic sword detects WiFi-enabled orcs
- Flatbed scanner eliminates the perils of macro photography
- Raspberry Pi and R
- A better template for your STM32 F3 dev board
- Write code, fix the space station, win $10,000
- An Arduino hydrogen blimp… oh the humanity!
- Custom gauges with a stepper motor breakout board
- Breaking the minteye captcha again
- Ask Hackaday: What to do with a home intercom system?
- Renaming parts in Eagle CAD by editing the XML directly
- RFID emulator card includes a learning mode
- A guide and helper script for ARM cross compiling toolchain on a Mac
- Humble beginnings of a home automation project
- TP-Link TL-WR703N specialized firmware generator
- Breathing life into an old LCD
- Building an automatic bicycle transmission in a week
- Operation StratoSphere
- Hackaday Links: January 17th, 2013
- Google Talk bot running on Raspberry Pi
- Real life Mario Karts react to launchable items
- Raspberry Pi power controller adds shutdown and startup functionality
- LED cloud lamp in any color you can imagine
- Build and install your own high-end cycling power meter
- Making better noises with dual PWM
- Raspi astrophotography board also does everything else
- Script defeats minteye CAPTCHA
- Coffee table arcade hides its controls
- Polaroid Catcher make Print Screen do what it says
- Adapting modern cameras to use old flash units
- One method of fabricating translucent faceplates
- No sleep till Brooklyn aquaponics installation is complete
- A steampunk combination sketchbook
- LTC3105 and LTC3109 energy harvesting chips
- Print your own 30 round AR15 magazine
- Retrotechtacular: The Differential
- Converting a weather station kit for wireless data harvesting
- Coffee table arcade cabinet
- Hacking grandfather clock accuracy while it’s still ticking
- Little sister’s turn for hobby electronic party favors
- How 6502 Overflow Works
- Evolutionary algorithms computes the best blackjack strategy
- There’s something strange about this Game Boy
- 3D printing vacuum tube sockets
- Automating a key fob camera for time lapse
- Type4me is a hardware clipboard for your digital copy and paste needs
- Unwrapping images of cylindrical objects
- Papercraft dial is the slide-ruler of current limiting resistors
- Microcontroller statistics with a small SRAM footprint
- Deathly Hallows mark the passing of time
- Kitchen scale key transplant
- USB to Serial adapter tells you what COM port you’re on
- Magic eye spectrum analyzer
- A Bluetooth trackpad from a resistive touchscreen
- This has not been a good week for the hacker community
- Putting the BBC in Seattle
- Listening in on weather balloons with RTL SDR
- A Pirate Box for sharing files
- Finally, TI is producing simple, cheap WiFi modules
- Hackaday Retro Roundup: Ultraportables edition
- Building an inexpensive Squeezebox client replacement
- Veronica VGA board finalized
- Replacement drivers for old LED signs
- Extending the features of an IP camera
- Printing images with a wood burning CNC machine
- Bluetooth Network Monitor
- Ask Hackaday: We might have some FPGAs to hack
- Turning a broken bass into a headless bass
- A really, really tiny tube amp
- Letting [Euler] help out with PCB fabrication
- Peltier campfire generator put out 14W (kind of)
- Prototyping a low-resolution handheld gaming rig
- One-button scan to email using Raspberry Pi
- Motorized binocular chair has you stargazing in comfort
- Weather station graphs history on webpage
- 8×8 LED matrix pendant sealed in a block of epoxy
- The PICnDuino Review
- In-depth look at an LVCD board from a Saturn V rocket
- Unsigned code running on Windows RT
- Another take on the rear-window LED marquee
- Garage parking monitor guides you in every time
- New Year’s Eve countdown clock included SMS interactivity
- Glass delay line slide used in an RGB lamp
- LED ice cubes prevent alcohol induced blackouts
- Turning a Game Boy into an Android gamepad
- [Ben Krasnow] builds a CT Scanner
- Robot has rhythm; carries drum sticks
- Adding AirPlay to a shelf system
- Picture frame that scrapes train times from the web
- Star Wars themed MAME cabinet is perfect in this basement bar
- Satellite dish solar cooker bakes potatoes and more
- A blinky fedora to ring in the New Year
- A WiFi Controlled RC Car with an IP Camera
- Turning a tiny router into a webradio
- Giving the Hexbug Spider a set of eyes
- Adding an LCD screen terminal for TP-Link routers
- Home built stun baton turns you into a cop from Demolition Man
- Reverse engineering ST-Link/V2 firmware
- Google Talk used for home automation communications via Android
- Versatile motion dolly for time lapse photography
- Bubble wrap cure for Nexus 7 speaker distortion
- Signing your 3D prints
- Reading piano rolls without a player piano
- Building a new motherboard for a TRS-80
- Playing a WAV file with 64 bytes of RAM
- Hardware SPI with Python on a Raspberry Pi
- Who would win in a fight, robot [Lemmy] or robot God?
- Brute forcing a GPS PIN
- Hackaday Links: January 5, 2013
- Electric Imp makes a cat door Tweet its activities
- Is entropy slowing down your Android device?
- Estimate velocity using quadrature encoder data
- Dedicated Pandora player plus AirPlay built around the Raspberry Pi
- Van de Graaff generator built for a few dollars
- Case feeder makes your ammo reloading more efficient
- Pictures from weather satellites with a USB TV tuner
- Touchscreen control for a Reprap
- Turning a Raspberry Pi into an SNES
- Arduino using a straight key for Morse code assistance
- Building a rather rudimentary Arduino tank bot
- OCR automatically reads a power meter
- Tie tack sends Morse code seasons greetings
- Web-based TI graphing calculator emulator
- Sump pump monitor emails and raises alarm if water rises
- Solar Powered Wifi Radiation Sensor
- An absurdly clever thermal imaging camera
- Accurate timers with an AVR
- Tentacles and phalanges made from drinking straws
- Battery teardown to get at the cells inside
- Morse code flower is trying to tell you something
- Color changing bag matches clothing color, tells you what’s inside
- An amplifier circuit good enough to eat
- Three conceptual approaches to driving a WS2811 LED pixel
- A very dash-ing iPad mini
- A Gamecube and N64 console mashup
- Frankenstein, an all-tube home theater amplifier
- This day in Hack a Day history: January 1st 2005
- Hackerspace intro: Greenville Makers in Greenville, South Carolina
- [Jason Scott] throws down a preview of his DEFCON documentary
- That’s not beer! A biofuel fermentation controller project