2018
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2018 3,542
December 2018
- 35C3: A Deep Dive into DOS Viruses and Pranks
- The Art of Vacuum Tube Fabrication
- Cybersecurity and Insurance
- Ion Powered Airplane: Not Coming to an Airport Near You
- Take a Mini Lathe for a Spin
- 35C3: Finding Bugs in Bluetooth
- RFID Doing More than ID
- Pushbutton → Push Notification
- Starlite: Super Material That Protects Hands from Pesky Blowtorches
- The Very Slow Movie Player Does it With E-Ink
- This Raspberry Pi Is A Stereo Camera And So Much More
- 3D-Printing Wankel Engine from Mazda’s Beloved “Rotary Rocket”
- Turning LEGO Blocks into Music with OpenCV
- POV Tops Hobbyist Abilities
- Infinity Cube Is Gorgeous Yet Simple
- Homemade Daft Punk Helmet
- Open Source IDE for FPGAs as QtCreator Learns Verilog
- Voice Controlled Camera for Journalist in Need
- Adaptive Infotainment Plays Tunes To Match Your Dangerous Driving
- Freeforming the Atari Punk Console
- Laser Harp Sounds Real Thanks to Karplus-Strong Wave Equation
- Can This Fire Fighting Robot Take The Heat?
- See How Paper Maché Sculptor Uses Cloth for Tricky Spots
- Improved Controller For E-Skateboards
- Dainty Delta Is About As Small As A Robot Can Be
- A Different Kind of Hand Controlled Vehicle
- The 7400 Quad 2-Input NAND Gate, A Neglected Survivor From A Pre-Microprocessor World
- Rebuilding an Extremely Rare Twin Mustang Fighter
- DooM Retrospective: 25 Years of Metal
- Peering Into a Running Brain: SDRAM Refresh Analyzed from Userspace
- High-Speed Camera Plus Lawnmower Equals Destructive Fun
- 1985 Electric Vehicle Restoration
- When Unfolding An STL In Software, Math Isn’t The Tricky Part
- Improving Router-Based Dev Boards With The Onion Omega2 Pro
- Motorize Your Camera Slider, The Hacker Way
- Does Electronic Current Flow Like Water?
- Printed It: Parametric Hex Key Holder
- HD Video and Telemetry Link Uses Standard WiFi Hardware
- 2018: As The Hardware World Turns
- Top Secret Teardown Reveals Soviet Missile Secrets
- Doomba Transports Your Living Room to Hell
- Word Clock Don’t Need No Stencil Font
- Portmanteau Spewing PunBot
- Skeletal Robot Skips the Chassis
- Make an Impression at the Bar with a CNC Coaster Plotter
- Bottom of the Barrel Connector: Tell Us Your Socket Hacks
- A Daring Search for Answers in Soyuz Mystery
- Bonanza of Keyswitch Datasheets Fills Our Decks with Clack
- Ooops, Did We Just Close An Airport Over A UFO Sighting?
- Delicious Vector Game Console Runs Pac-Man, Tetris, and Mario
- Kinetic Wire Animatronics Bend It Like Disney
- Cortex 2 is One Serious 3D Printed Experimental Rocket
- Fail of the Week: Hard Lessons in 3D-Printed Bushings for a Giant RC Car
- The Umbrella That Tells You The Weather
- Achieving Zen the Arduino Way
- How a Microcontroller Hiding in a USB Port Became an FPGA Hiding in the Same
- Automatic Soap Dispenser Hides Arduino Board
- Machine Learning on Tiny Platforms Like Raspberry Pi and Arduino
- Lenses For DIY Augmented Reality Will Get a Bit Less Unobtainable
- Have Yourself a Recursive Little Christmas: Ornament That Prints Ornaments
- Arduino and Pi Share Boardspace
- A Safe, Ducted Drone With No Visible Blades
- An IoT Christmas Tree You’re Invited to Control
- Oh the Lessons You’ll Learn by Building a Robot Familiar
- Ambitious Homebrew X-Ray Machine Reveals What Lies Within
- Vintage Toys Live on Through 3D Printing
- IPv6 Christmas Display Uses 75 Internet’s Worth of Addresses
- LEDs and Pi Let You Virtually Decorate This Online Christmas Tree
- Lighting Up a Very Wiry Candle
- Hackaday Links: Christmas Eve Eve, 2018
- Arduino Heart Rate Monitor Has Star Trek Chic
- Microcontroller and IMU Team Up for Simple Flight Sim Controls
- A Perfectly Orderly Way to Manage Your Time
- Epoxy Too Thin? Use Wood Flour as a Thixotropic Filler
- Nintendo Does Sony, Better Than Sony
- Sanding Seashells by the Seashore
- Old Game Development IDE Goes FPGA
- Refurbishing A Classic Electrostatic Speaker PSU
- Get Your Tweets Without Looking
- Clever Wedges That Will Increase Your PCB Assembly Yield
- Experiment With Lumia, The Cheap and Easy Way
- Game Boy Camera – Now In Color
- FPGA Emulates a PDP-1, Breathes New Life Into Classic Video Game
- Explaining Fourier Again
- Giving An Old Mac Spotify
- Weather Forecasting Clock Makes An Almighty Racket
- We’re Dreaming of a Circuit Sculpture Christmas
- Radio Gets Ridiculous
- Manual 3D Digitizer Works a Bit Like 3-Dimensional Measuring Tape
- Linux Fu: Share Terminal in Browser
- A Star-Trek-Inspired Robot With Raspberry Pi and AI
- Now We’re Everywhere: Grab Our Podcast for Your Holiday Commute
- Neural Network Knows When Cat Wants To Go Outside
- Vintage IBM 1403 Printer Problem Evades an Easy Fix
- “DB” = Abbreviated Microcontroller Debugging
- A Scratch Instrument For Ants
- Behold The WT-220: A ‘Clever’ VT-220 Terminal
- Woodworker Goes from 3D-Printing Skeptic to Believer
- Kitty Yeung On Tech-Fashion Designs and the Wearables Industry
- Incredibly Heavy Ornament Likely Inappropriate To Hang On Tree
- Rise Of The Unionized Robots
- London Gatwick Airport Shuts Its Doors Due To Drone Sighting
- Organic Ornithopter Sensor Drone
- Power Wheels Gets Real With Real Wheels
- Using FTDI Chips With Python
- Lighting Up The Night Sky With A Flying POV Display
- Rigol MSO5000 Hacked, Features Unlocked
- PIC-Powered Game Console Is Blocky Goodness
- Seeing Like Bees With Ultraviolet Photography
- Hexagrow Robot Packs A Serious Sensor Package
- GoPro Factory Goes Nomad to Dodge Tariff Threat
- 3D Printed Head Can Unlock Your Phone
- That’s A Lisp Machine In Your Pocket
- A Symbiotic Partnership Between FPGA And 6502
- This Robot Swims, Skates, And Crawls
- Glowing Eyes For Regular Guys
- Old Wattmeter Uses Magnetics To Do the Math
- Hackaday Podcast: 2018 Year In Review
- Thread Carefully: An Introduction To Concurrent Python
- Can You 3D-Print a Stator for a Brushless DC Motor?
- GPS III Launching Today But You Can’t Use it Until 2022
- Does Library Bloat Make Your Smartphone App Look Fat?
- Can Magnets Replace The Spring In A Pogo Stick?
- Tired of Killing Houseplants? Try Using WiFi.
- Hacker Makes A Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves
- Welcome Our New Insect Overlords With Arduino-Powered Ant Bot
- Arduino One Pixel Camera Sees All (Eventually)
- ULTIMATE – A Useful Tool For File System Hacking
- The Hydrogen Economy May Be Coming Through Your Cooker
- Button, Button, Who’s Got the (One) Button?
- Welcome to the Slow Death of Satellite TV in America
- A Deep Dive Into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers
- ‘Bit’ Installation Combines Art, Markov Chains
- Musical Mod Lets MRI Scanner Soothe the Frazzled Patient
- Cheap Multimeter Leads Come With Extra Ohms, Free!
- Hackaday Links: December 16, 2018
- Artificial Intelligence Composes New Christmas Songs
- How Not to Design a 3D Printed Belt Clamp
- AI Bot Plays Castlevania So You Don’t Have to
- OpenLH: Automating Biology for Everyone
- Brushless Motor Thrust Stand Provides Useful Data
- Shape Shifting Structures Work With Magnets
- Manhattan Mystery of Creepy Jingles and Random Noises Solved
- Imploding Tiny 3D Prints
- This 6502 Made From 74-Series Logic Can Run At 20 MHz
- Maze Generator Keeps Plotter (and Kids) Busy
- Young Entrepreneurs Learn What Really Goes Into Making a Product
- Bust A Move Doesn’t Have To Be Such A Grind
- Reflex Trainer Puts Athletes To The Test
- Build Your Own Anechoic Chamber
- A Lecture By A Fun Guy
- Lessons Learned From A 1-Day RTL-SDR Enclosure Project
- Vintage Plotter Turned Fruit Spectrometer
- Arduino-Powered Rocket Test Stand
- Scott Swaaley On High Voltage
- Dexterity Hand is a Configurable Prosthetic Hand
- Retrotechtacular: Remembering Radio Shack P-Box Kits
- Let’s Look At Some Cool Old LEDs
- Charge Your EV The Portable Way
- Turn Old Pinball Parts Into A Unique Digital Clock
- A Cheat Sheet For Publishing Python Packages
- How To Make A Pilotron, The Forgotten Tube
- Every Computer Deserves a Rotary Encoder
- The Battle Between Robot Harmonica And Machine Finger Rages On
- Jeremy Hong: Weaponizing the Radio Spectrum
- Tiny Art Etched into Silicon Wafers with Electron Beam Lithography
- RISC-V Will Stop Hackers Dead From Getting Into Your Computer
- [Ben Krasnow] Builds a One-Component Interferometer
- iCEBreaker, The Open Source Development Board for FPGAs
- Stovetop Milk Steamer Is Beautiful, Effective
- Cyborg, Or Leafy Sensor Array?
- Intel Announces Faster Processor Patched for Meltdown and Spectre
- Electric Drift Trike Needs Water Cooling
- Soft Rotating Pneumatic Actuators
- How To Stay Grounded When You Have Zero Potential
- My Oscilloscope Uses Fire
- Warnings On Steroids – Static Code Analysis Tools
- A Pi Cluster to Hang in Your Stocking with Care
- Toast Printer Prints Tasty Images And Weather Forecasts
- FPGA Hack Becomes An Atari Game Genie
- Improving Depth Of Field With Only 5 Phones
- MakerBot Moves Away From Makers with New Printer
- Open Hardware Board For Robust USB Power Monitoring
- Modified F Clamp is Wheely Good
- Julius Lilienfeld and the First Transistor
- Off Road Vehicle has Six Wheels and Fluid Power
- ABS: Three Plastics in One
- True Transparent Parts from a Desktop 3D Printer
- Biology Lab on Your Christmas List
- Interfacing Philips Hue Lights With Everything
- Bootstrapping An MSDOS Assembler With Batch Files
- Laptop Chargers Team Up To Get The Juice Flowing
- Crawling PCB ‘Bot Is Flexible Where It Counts
- Mini Van De Graaff is a Shocking Desk Toy
- The Space Station has a Supercomputer Stowaway
- Dozens of Servos Flip the Segments of This 3D-Printed Digital Clock
- The Evolution of Wireless Game Controllers
- PlayStation Classic Hacked Live on Stream
- Hydrogen Powered Nerf Blaster Is Dangerously Awesome
- From SPIDriver to I2CDriver
- Christmas POV Display Makes Viewer do the Work
- Hackaday Links: December 9, 2018
- Bose Wants You to Listen Up for Augmented Reality
- Stove Alarm Keeps The Kitchen Safe
- Generating Power with Wind, Water, and Solar
- FPGA used VHDL for Fractals
- Easily Deboss Notebooks with a 3D Printed Stamp
- Furby Plus Borges Equals Borgy
- An over-engineered LED Sign Board
- Advent Calendar – ‘Tis the CNSeason
- Crystal Oscillators Explained
- The Guts Of Switched Mode Power Supplies, Brought To You By Oscilloscope Repair
- Negative Voltage Pushes AVR to New Heights
- NTP Morse Code Clock Powered by ESP8266
- VexRISC-V Exposed
- Wearable Speeder Bikes Are Ready For A Night Out
- Artistic Images Made With Water Lens
- Liberating Birds For A Cheap Electric Scooter
- Building The World’s Smallest Jet Turbine By Hand
- Racing the Beam on a Thin Client, in FPGAs
- Magic Wand Learns Spells through Machine Learning and an IMU
- Better Mechanical Keyboards Through 3D Printing
- Weaponized Networked Printing is Now a Thing
- 5G Cellphone’s Location Privacy Broken Before It’s Even Implemented
- Hacking Your Way to a Custom TV Boot Screen
- A Scratch-Built Forgotten Classic Of The Early PC Age
- Eyes On The Prize Of Glucose Monitoring
- Spend All Day On The Lake
- Fan-Based Parts Tumbler Is A Breeze To Build
- Mechanizing A Eurorack Sequencer
- Fail of the Week: A Candle Caused Browns Ferry Nuclear Incident
- Solar Heart Engineered to Beat for Decades
- Your BOM is not your COGS
- Your USB Serial Adapter Just Became a SDR
- A Christmas Tree for your Lab
- 1970s Lab Equipment Turned Retro Pi Terminal
- A Portal Port Programmed For Platforms Of The Past
- The Complete Beginner’s Guide To Building A CNC Machine
- Thrift Store Razor Scooter Gets More Kick
- The Filament Pelletizer For Fused Granular Fabrication
- Ken Shirriff Explains His Techniques For Reverse Engineering Silicon
- Many Uses For A Single Button
- Linux Fu: Turn a Web App into a Full Program
- Editing GameCube Memory With A Raspberry Pi
- Apple II Megademo Is Countin’ Cycles and Takin’ Names
- Yet Another Restomod Of The Greatest Computer Ever
- Replace Legacy CNC PCs With A Gerbil
- A Neat Pen POV build
- High-End Headphones Get Flexible Boom Upgrade
- Adorable Desktop Disc Sander Warms Our Hearts and Our Parts
- Daphne Oram and the Birth of Electronic Music
- The Circuit Sculpture Contest
- Go Up A Creek Without A Paddle
- Hackaday Visits the Electric City
- Teensy Liberates the ThinkPad Keyboard
- Getting Started with Free ARM Cores on Xilinx
- Custom Joystick For An Old Commodore Finds An Unlikely Home
- New Transistor Uses Metal And Air Instead Of Semiconductors
- An Arduino Wrapped In An OLED Wrapped Inside An Enigma Pocket Watch
- Etch-a-Sketch 3D Printed With Cell Phone
- Putting That Airplane On The Map – Live And With Python
- Amazon Thinks ARM is Bigger than your Phone
- NBA Jam ROM Hack on SNES is Heating Up
- Why is Continuous Glucose Monitoring So Hard?
- Anderson’s Water Computer Spills The Analog Secrets Of Digital Logic
- Fail of the Week: How Not to Electric Vehicle
- GBA on the Big Screen: FPGA Delivers HDMI and Every Feature Imaginable
- Keep Both Hands on the Probes With This Oscilloscope Footswitch
- Hackaday Links: December 2, 2018
- A Raspberry Pi Has This Pool Covered
- FPV Antenna Leans Into The Bank
- Spring-Loaded Bed for K40 Laser Acts As an Auto-Focus
- Wheel of Fortune Gets Infinite Puzzles on NES
- CNC Machine Most Satisfyingly Mills Double-Sided PCBs
- 3D Printed Brushed Motor is Easy to Visualize
- Connect Your Electric Heater To The Internet (Easily and Cheaply)!
- Arcade1up Cabinet Solderless Upgrade With A Side of Raspberry Pi
- Naomi Wu On The Sino:Bit, 3D Printers, And Open Source Hardware In China
- Retrotechtacular: Before the Internet: MUDPIE
- Simple, Low-Cost Rig Lets the Budding Biohacker Run DNA Gels
- Henry the Hoover Gets a Weapons Upgrade
- Germinate Seeds With The Help of 3D Printing
- The Arduino Hits The Rails
- 1,000 Watt Power Supply Tear Down And Repair
- Professional Results From Cheap Air Compressors
November 2018
- Air Bubble Characters Float Along This Unique Scrolling Display
- Retrotechtacular: Some Of The Last CRTs From The Factory Floor
- Building Portable Linux Devices: Never Been Easier, But Still Hard
- Extreme Pi Overclocking With Mineral Oil
- Packing Decimal Numbers Easily
- New Part Day: The Twenty Five Cent USB Microcontroller (With A Toolchain!)
- Buy Or Build An Autonomous Race Car To Take The Checkered Flag
- An Englishman And 48 Gameboys Walk Into A Bar…
- MIPI CSI-2 Implementation In FPGAs
- Adopting An Orphaned Ultralight
- Build A Plate Reverb From Ikea
- SDR Is At the Heart of This Soup-Can Doppler Radar Set
- Katrina Nguyen Automates Her Mice
- Wonderful Sculptural Circuits hide Interactive Synthesizers
- Interstellar 8-Track: The Not-So-Low-Tech Data Recorders of Voyager
- Reverse Engineering With Sandpaper
- SauceBot Uses G-Code to Apply Condiments with Precision
- Mini Vectrex Prototype Restored By National Videogame Museum
- 9 Planes Combine To Make One Giant Flexible Flier
- Pedal Far With A Solar Powered Tricycle
- Sniffing RFID Readers With A Piece of Paper
- Homebrew Battery Discharger
- Linux Fu: Controlling the Terminal
- Xbox One X Gets Aluminum Laptop Makeover
- Collecting, Repairing, and Wearing Vintage Digital Watches
- 72 Tranducers For Acoustic Levitation
- Advances In Flat-Pack PCBs
- Amazon Creates Distributed Satellite Ground Stations
- Soft Silicone Pneumatics Are 3D-printed In A Tub Of Gel
- Tiny Drone Racing Gates Use Up Those Filament Scraps
- Blimpduino Hits Version 2
- A Guide For Driving LED Matrices
- Treasure Trove of Projects Provides Endless Examples
- Bill Gross On Why Your Startup Will Succeed
- The Most-3D-Printed 3D Printer
- Sci-Hub: Breaking Down The Paywalls
- The Electronics of Cold War Nightmares
- Video Details Construction of Transparent Wood
- Hackaday Assembling At 35C3
- Plug Your Ears And Hop On This Jet-Powered eBike
- FCC Gets Complaint: Proposed Ham Radio Rules Hurt National Security
- A Sub-$1000, Non-X86 Motherboard
- Poké Ball Plus Teardown Reveals No Pikachu Inside
- Designing Space-Rated PCBs
- Applied Science Rolls An Electroluminescent Controller
- Shushing Sonic Booms: NASA’s Supersonic X-Plane to Take Flight in 2021
- RISC-V CPU Gets A Peripheral
- Watch The Low-Cost Mechatronics Lab Dispense Candy, Sort Cups
- “Yell to Press B” Mod Makes N64 Controller Worse
- Quick Face Recognition With An FPGA
- Hackaday Links: November 25, 2018
- Solar-Powered IoT Sensor Saves Wine Batch From Overheating
- Already Impressive CNC Router Gets An Extra Axis
- 3D Printed V8 Engine Uses Solenoids
- DIY Ovalia Chair Serves Your Futuristic Fantasies
- Mug-O-Matic Plots On Coffee Mugs
- Set Up A Headless Raspberry Pi, All From Another Computer’s Command Line
- I’m Sorry, Alexander, I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That
- Mining Airport WiFi Data: This Sunday Is The Worst Day To Fly
- Agilent LCR Meter Teardown
- Adding Vector Art To Your Eagle Boards
- The Best Laptop Gets Even Better
- Electrolysis Tank Removes Rust
- Put that DLP Printer to Use Making PCBs
- Energy Sipping Neodymium Sphere Keeps on Spinning
- Look Like A Movie Hacker
- LED-ifying A Guitar, Part Two
- Move Over Strandbeest, Here’s Strider!
- Fail of the Week: Did My Laser Cutter Tube Really Burn Out?
- Five Year Old Bug Spawns Router Botnet Monster
- Overlooked Minimalism in Assistive Technology
- The Metal That Never Forgets: Nitinol and Shape-Memory
- Bar Code Adds a Third Dimension
- This Bitcoin Price Tracking Traffic Light Isn’t Just A Red LED
- Disco Ain’t Dead: Blinky Ball Makes You Solder Inside a Dome
- PLA Foils Homemade Tachometer
- Tumbleweed Turbine Wins Dyson Foundation Award
- Kind of the Opposite of a Lightsaber
- Neural Network Pies That Might Be Worth A Try
- Beautiful Moving Origami Light Made from Scrap
- Growing Your Own Insulation
- Tiny Ray Tracer Fits In 64 Bytes
- Battery Swap Keeps Sansa Clip+ Chugging
- See Cells In A New Light With A DIY Fluorescence Microscope
- Dad’s Custom Xbox Adaptive Controller Build for His Child
- Supercon: Alex Hornstein’s Adventures In Hacking The Lightfield
- Neo Geo Mini Gets The Ben Heck Portable Treatment
- Creating Black Holes: Division By Zero In Practice
- 3D Printer Warning: Heating Plastic To High Temps is Not Healthy
- Jittery Back Off to Speed Up
- Simulating A Speaker
- Little Emulators Do 8 Bits At A Time
- Retro Wall Phone Becomes A Doorbell, And So Much More
- Scratch-Building A Supersized Laser Cutter
- Gorgeous Bartop Arcade Build is a Cut Above
- The Linux Throwie: A Non-Spacefaring Satellite
- Rapid-Fire Hail Of Chopstick Arrows Makes Short Work Of Diminutive Foes
- Flagging Down Aliens with World’s Biggest Laser Pointer
- [Ben Krasnow] Gasses MEMS Chips, for Science
- The Electric Imp Sniffs out California Wildfires
- DIY Mini Helical Antennas From Salvaged Co-ax Cable
- A Candle Powered Guitar Pedal
- A Hacked Solution For Non-Standard Audio Modules
- A 3D Printed Kinematic Camera Mount
- Many Ways to Drive a Small Motor
- Of Roach Killer and Rust Remover: Sam Zeloof’s Garage-Made Chips
- NES Hack Lets the Mario Bros. Play Together
- How the Xbox Was Hacked
- It Might Be Possible To Build A Stingray With A Raspberry Pi
- Flywire Circuits at the Next Level
- Fail Of The Week: When the Epoxy-Coated Chip Is Conductive
- The Lost Art Of Steam Heating
- Hackaday Links: November 18, 2018
- Fail of the Week: Laser-based Persistence of Vision Gadget
- The (UV) Writing’s On The Wall
- Self-Powered Sun Tracker Takes a Cue from NASA Solar Probe
- Linux as a Library: Unikernels are Coming
- A 1940s Gangster-Mobile Gets an Electric Makeover
- CNC Embroidery Machine Punches Out Designs a Stitch at a Time
- Restoring An Apollo Guidance Computer
- Generative Design Algorithms Prepare For Space
- Meat-Seeking Raspberry Pi Leads you to Flavortown
- Vintage Rotary Phone Turned Virtual Assistant
- SNES Controller Has a Pi Zero in the Trunk
- High Voltage Measurement is Shockingly Safe
- A Sneak Peek at Anechoic Chamber Testing
- Etch Your Own Circuit Boards In Your Kitchen
- Analog Clock Goes Digital, or Vice Versa
- Expanding 3D Printer Bed Stays True Under Fire
- The Kilogramme Will Cease To Be A Physical Entity
- DIY Telepresence Robot Built From Off-The-Shelf Parts
- FPGA Testbenches Made Easier
- Turning A Rotary Tool Into A CNC
- Supercon: Designing Your Own Diffractive Optics
- Delta Bot Plucks Out Tunes on a Mandolin
- Smooth Moves from Cheap Motors
- How’s a Gyro Work?
- Magnets and Printed Parts Make Quick-Disconnect Terminals
- Measuring The Cooling Effect Of Transformer Oil
- Foam Airboat is Cheap RC Fun
- Researchers Seek to Create the Digital Smell Interface
- An In-Depth Look at Dexter, the Robotic Arm
- Adding Linux To A PDP-11
- Choosing Cell Modems: The Drama Queen of Hardware Design
- Cyborg Mushrooms
- The Smaller, More Powerful Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+
- Re-enacting TRON on the Apple IIgs
- Centurion Bridge Layer, Now In RC
- Rock Out to the Written Word with BookSound
- 3D Print Springs With Hacked GCode
- Mastering OpenSCAD Workflow
- 3D Printering: Blender Tips For Printable Objects
- Friday Hack Chat: All About Crypto
- The Value of Cardboard In Product Design
- Hack My House: Opening Raspberry Pi to the Internet, but Not the Whole World
- Memory Mapping Methods in the Super Nintendo
- Backyard Planetarium with Magnets
- Hackaday Meetup at Electronica: Thursday
- What’s the Difference? Ask an Op Amp
- Non-Nefarious Raspberry Pi Only Looks Like a Hack
- The Mighty D Battery Becomes A USB Powerbank
- Apple 1 Emulator Is A Perfect Fit For Supercon Badge
- ESP8266 Wi-Fi Instant Camera is a Simple Shooter
- Hotend Becomes the Z Probe with a Kinematic Coupling
- Mechanisms: Lead Screws and Ball Screws
- Alice Evans: Brucellosis, or Why We Pasteurize Milk
- Unique Flat-Screen Display Put to Use in CRT Game Boy
- Low-energy ESP8266-based Board Sleeps Like a Log Until Triggered
- Advent Calendar Tracks The Days Until Christmas
- Hacked Heating Instruments for the DIY Biology Lab
- Arduino Provides Hands-Free Focus for Digital Inspection Scope
- Fail of the Week: Leaf Blowers Can’t Fly
- Lego Tardis Spins Through the Void
- Sprite_TM’s Magic Paintbrush
- An Apollo Guidance Computer Laid Bare
- Hello, And Please Don’t Hang Up: The Scourge of Robocalls
- New Part Day: A $6 Linux Computer You Might Be Able To Write Code For
- How To Evolve A Radio
- A Daylight-Readable Bar Graph Display in the 70s Wasn’t Cheap
- The Naughty AIs That Gamed The System
- Hackaday Links: The Eleventh Day Of The Eleventh Month, 2018
- Belt Up With A Redundant Car Part
- 3D-Printer Extrudes Paper Pulp Instead of Plastic
- Kinect Visualizer Demo Gives Winamp a Run for Its Money
- A Fleet of Pressure Washers Powers This Interactive Public Fountain
- Robot Never Misses Leg Day
- A $4 Ultrasonic Theremin Looks Cheesy on Purpose
- Arduino Gets a Command Line Interface
- Single Board Computer Plays Nice with NVIDIA GPU
- What’s Inside that New Mac Mini Anyway?
- Back to School Online
- What Good Are Counterfeit Parts? Believe It Or Not, Maybe A Refund
- Making Colored Smoke Devices, The Right Way
- E-Mail Service Claims it Doesn’t Store Your Mail
- An Englishman’s Home Is His (Drone-Defended) Castle
- Raspberry Pi PoE Redux
- Using E-Paper Displays for an Electronic Etch A Sketch
- Pixy2 is Super Vision for Arduino or Raspberry Pi
- The How and Why of Laser Cutter Aiming
- X-Ray Vision for FPGAs: Using Verifla
- Tractor Drives Itself, Thanks to ESP32 and Open Source
- Soyuz Failure Leaves Questions Unanswered
- The Negative Rail Explained
- All The Goodies You Need For Your RTL-SDR
- Fixing a Crazy Expensive Spectrum Analyser, With Solder
- Pringles Can Turned Vaporwave Lamp
- A 3D-Printed Egg-Shaped Speaker Cabinet
- Did We Just Get Buzzed by Alien Space Junk?
- Rewound and Rewired BLDC Makes a Half-Decent Generator
- It Happened at Supercon: Six Days of Fun in a Three Day Con
- Digital Picture Frame Turned Vectrex Overlay
- The Dual In-Line Package and How It Got That Way
- Steady Hand Repurposes Cheap SSD Modules
- Put an ItsyBitsy Zork in your Pocket
- Debugging Arduino is Painful: This Can Help
- Printed Parts Turn Ruler into Marking Gauge
- Junkbox Constant Current Source Helps with Kelvin Sensing
- Teardown of a (Relatively) Cheap Thermal Camera
- Rooting the Amazon Fire TV Cube with an Arduino
- Inventor Services – Maybe Right For You – Maybe
- Lightsaber Uses Pogo Pins to Make Assembly a Breeze
- Linux Fu: Pimp Your Pipes
- Shakespeare in a Zip in a RAR, Hidden in an Image on Twitter
- Bill’s 100 Year-Old Smart Home
- BitBench Helps Parse Binary Data
- Suspense Courtesy of Arduino, Mess of Wires
- Add Nest Functionality to your Thermostat for $5
- Soviet-Era 7-Segment Display, Built Like a Tank
- A Clay Oven For Perfect Pizza Every Time
- Supercon Badge Hackers Racing The Clock
- Pocket Sized Arduino Calculator Makes a Great First Project
- Warnings Are Your Friend – A Code Quality Primer
- Tilt-Rotor Plane Needs Flight Controller Hack to Get Airborne
- Welding Robot Takes on a Hot, Dirty, Dangerous Job
- An OpenSCAD Mini-ITX Computer Case
- A QR Code, Step By Step
- Homebrew Attachment Turns Angle Grinder into Slimline Belt Sander
- Breathing Underwater Using Wind Power
- Scratch Built Toe Clamps Keep Your Work In Place
- Better 3D Printing through Magnets
- ESP8266 Monitor Keeps an Eye on OctoPrint
- How the Sony PlayStation Was Hacked
- Arachnid Ale Uses Yeast to Make Spider Silk
- Pint-sized Jacob’s Ladder Packs 10,000 Volts in a Pickle Jar
- Living Hinges at the Next Level
- Quick and Dirty MIDI Interface with USBASP
- Weather Station Is A Tutorial in Low Power Design
- Redesigning the Musical Keyboard with Light-Up Buttons
- Stepper Motor Mods Improve CNC Flat Coil Winder
- Launchpad MIDI Controller Put to Work with Python
- Green LED Means GO For Supercon Badge Hacking
- TouchYou: Wearable Touch Sensor and Stimulator
- Dexter Robotic Arm Wins the 2018 Hackaday Prize
- Arduino Nitrox Analyzer for the Submarine Hacker
- Competitive Soldering Gets Heated at Hackaday Superconference
- Voice Controlled Glasses and Magnifying Lens
- Adding Energy Use and Cost to “Laundry Done” Notifications
- Livestream the Hackaday Superconference
- Revive that old Analog Cell Phone with SDR
- Who’s Going On Your Fifty?
- Analog Synth, But In Cello Form
- Save a Few Steps on Your Next Build with These Easy Linear Actuators
- Gyro Controlled RGB Blinky Ball Will Light up Your Life
- Teardown and Repair of a Police Recorder
- Eight Player GameCube Adapter is Ready for Smash
- These Are The 100 Finalists In The Hackaday Prize
- FT8: Saving Ham Radio or Killing It?
- Flexible Battery Meter Bends Over Backward to Work
- The Linux Throwie: Powering a Linux Server with a 0.3W Solar Panel
- Cooking Eggs with Magnets in Motion
- SMORES Robot Finds Its Own Way To The Campfire
- Cut Through The Noise, See Tiny Signals
- Code Review Lamp Subtly Reminds You To Help Your Fellow Developer
- A Cow-Powered Human Centrifuge
- This Cup Holder Crystal Ball Tells Your MPG Future
- The Portable, Digital, Visual Theremin
- Adaptive Layer Height on the Monoprice Select Mini
- Video Quick Bit: The Best DIY Musical Instruments
- Mini LEGO Technic Tank Patrols Your Desk Under ESP32 Control
- Hands on with the Arduino FPGA
- Drawing On an OLED with an ATtiny85, No RAM Buffers Allowed
- Apple Kernel Code Vulnerability Affected All Devices
- Corporate Badgelife: Oracle’s Code Card
- The Modern Analog Soldering Station
October 2018
- 7 Segment Clockwork Display Made From Cardboard
- Speak Your WiFi
- This Weekend: The Greatest Hardware Conference
- The Swiss Army Knife of Audio Synthesis
- Ask Hackaday: What are Your Less Extreme Brain Hacks?
- Spooky Animated Eyes for Your Frightening Needs
- When Good Software Goes Bad: Malware In Open Source
- Helium can Stop Your iPhone — Maybe Other MEMS, Too
- LED Stick Person Costume Lights Up the Night
- Learn to Optimize Code in Assembly… for Android
- A Bluetooth Upgrade For An Unusual Set Of Headphones
- Kepler Closes Eyes After a Decade of Discovery
- Apple Introduces What We’ve All Been Waiting For
- Wavetable General MIDI For Everyone
- Oliver Heaviside: Rags to Recognition, to Madness
- Want to Learn Ethernet? Write Your Own Darn AVR Bootloader!
- Relativity Space’s Quest to 3D Print Entire Rockets
- Burn Some Time with this Arduino Reddit Browser
- Lessons in Disposable Design from a Cheap Blinky Ball
- Short Length of Wire Turns STM32 Microcontroller into Good-enough Wireless UART Blaster
- New Part Day: ST’s New 3D Printer Motor Driver
- Low-cost Autonomous Rover will Drive your Projects
- Prototype Proves Wii was Two Gamecubes Taped Together All Along
- The Incredible Judges Of The Hackaday Prize
- History of White LEDs
- Supercon is Sold Out, Join Us On the Live Streams and Chat Rooms
- Open Data Cam Combines Camera, GPU, and Neural Network in an Artisanal DIY Cereal Box
- Seth Molson is Designing the Future, One Show at a Time
- Creating a 3G Raspberry Pi Smartphone
- Parcelcopter Drone Project Delivers In Rough Terrain
- A Tour Through the Archetypical Asian Factory
- Unicycle Given a Hand Crafted Gear Box
- Hackaday Links: October 28, 2018
- The Ultimate MIDI Wind Controller Is The Human Voice
- Easy Blinking LED Eyes for Halloween
- Making PCBs With A Cutting Plotter
- Brain Cell Electronics Explains Wetware Computing Power
- With Grinning Keyboard and Sleek Design, This Synth Shows It All
- New AVR-IOT Board Connects to Google
- Custom LED Signage From Household Items
- Piano Genie Trained a Neural Net to Play 88-Key Piano with 8 Arcade Buttons
- Chiptunes In An Altoids Tin
- Travel to Mercury on Ion Power
- This RC Fortnite Rocket Is A Victory Royale
- The Bolt-On Peristaltic Pump
- Hardware Controllers For Software Effects
- Rebuilding an Amiga 500 PSU
- Failing at Making Ferrofluid
- Ghost Rider Costume Is Smoking Hot
- Kinetic Sculpture Achieves Balance Through Machine Learning
- Gutters To Gardens: The IoT Rain Barrel
- Books You Should Read: Designing Reality
- Competitive Surface Mount Soldering Comes to Supercon
- A Multifunction ESP8266 Smartwatch
- DMCA Review: Big Win for Right to Repair, Zero for Right to Tinker
- Child’s Pushcar Gets Serious Horsepower
- EMMC Data Recovery From A Bricked Phone
- DIY Tuning Capacitors from Washers and 3D-Printed Parts
- Paper Airplane Database has the Wright Stuff
- Vinduino Water-Smart Farming – Now with LoRa!
- Looks Like a Glove, Plays Like a Musical Instrument
- What Can The Blockchain Do For You?
- Supercon Badge Hardware Hacking: Here’s What to Bring
- Hurdy-Gurdy Gets Modernized with MIDI Upgrades
- The Machinists’ Mantra: Precision, Thy Name Is Rigidity
- Portable Hacking Unit Combines Pi With WiFi Pineapple
- 10,000-Year-Old Camera Lens Takes Striking Pictures
- AV Synth is Psychedelic Analog Mayhem
- 3D Printed Bridge Goes Dutch
- This Ukulele Does Chiptunes, and Not Just Because It’s Made Out Of a Game Boy
- Building a Proof of Concept Hardware Implant
- Linux Fu: Marker is a Command Line Menu
- This Synth Plays The Only Scale Everybody Knows
- Friday Hack Chat: Air Hacking
- Camera Obscura On Wheels Hits the Open Road
- GE’s Engine to Reignite Civil Supersonic Flight
- Faux Walkie-Talkie for Comedy Walking Tour is a Rapid Prototyping Win
- Ford Ka Becomes Diwheel Monster
- Building an Electric Scooter That’s Street Legal, Even in Germany
- Homemade Shop Vise Packs a Hydraulic Punch
- One Man’s Quest to Build His Own Speakers
- Racing the Beam and Dropping Some Beats
- The Spirit Of The 80s Lives On In A MIDI Harmonica
- Sidney Darlington
- Putting a Motor Inside a Speed Controller
- Hack My House: ZoneMinder’s Keeping an Eye on the Place
- Slack on the SNES via Satellite
- $3 Multimeter Teardown
- Real Time Satellite Tracker Shows You What’s Going Over Your Head
- Jump into AI with a Neural Network of your Own
- Wave-Powered Glider Delivers Your Message In A Bottle
- Robot + Trumpet = Sad Trombone.mp3
- The Incredible Judges Of The Hackaday Prize
- A Close Look at the Prusa i3 MK3
- Vibrosight Hears When You are Sleeping. It Knows When You’re Awake.
- That Time Atari Cracked the Nintendo Entertainment System
- Home Built Flight Sim Combines Virtual and Actual Reality
- Teardown: Sony’s New Aibo goes Under the Knife
- Blazing Fast Raspberry Pi Display Driver Will Melt Your Face then Teach You How
- Stock Looking PSP Hides a Raspberry Pi Zero
- Hackaday Links: October 21, 2018
- The Polyphonic Analog/Digital Synth Project
- Turning The Deep Note Into A Game
- What the Hack Is This Thing?
- HTTPS for the Internet of Things
- Dollar Store Helping Hands for Soldering
- Finally, An Open Source MIDI Foot Controller
- You’ll Flip for This 7404 IC Motherboard Fix
- Elegant Drum Machine from Teensy
- IoT Traffic Light Is Cardboard Made Fun
- Can You Build An Open Source Pocket Operator?
- The Crystal (Testing) Method
- I2C Bootloader for ATtiny85 Lets Other Micros Push Firmware Updates
- E-ink Typewriter Is Refreshingly Slow
- Hacking Nature’s Musicians
- Wired Wireless Over Coax
- Which Wireless is Right Wireless?
- An Open Controller For Woodwind Instruments
- Bradley Gawthrop Loves Wiring and so Should You
- Superdeep Borehole Samples Create Non-boring Music
- Return of the Infamous Triforium
- Talking Clock? That’s Nothing New
- Laser Cutter Resurrection Uncovers a Magnificent Machine Beneath the Ash
- The BNC Connector and How It Got That Way
- A Robotic Arm For Those Who Like Their Kinematics Both Ways
- Decorative Light Box Lets You Guess The Time
- Redeem Your Irresponsible 90s Self
- The Math That Makes Computers Go, Built On a Tiny PCB
- Playing Doom on Keysight Oscilloscope via Windows CE
- SandBot Happily And Tirelessly Rolls Patterns In Sand
- Laser Cut Cardboard Robot Construction Kit Eases Learning And Play
- Ask Hackaday: Why Aren’t We Hacking Cellphones?
- Packing a Lot Into a Little PCB: Winners of the Square Inch Project
- Mechatronic Hand Mimics Human Anatomy to Achieve Dexterity
- ILLIAC was HAL 9000’s Granddaddy
- Popup Notification Dinosaur
- Reverse Engineering CMOS
- US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty; International Shipping Prices Expected to Rise
- Use Nodes to Code Loads of G-code for 3D CNC Carving
- 3D Printing, Halloween Style
- DIY Arc Light Makes An Unnecessarily Powerful Bicycle Headlight
- Sonic Robots Don’t Play Instruments, They Are The Instruments
- The Supercon Badge is a Freakin’ Computer
- Friday Hack Chat: Visual Synthesis
- Balancing Robots From Off-The-Shelf Parts
- Hacking When It Counts: Setting Sail in a Submarine
- Flamethrower Gets Update, Retains Some Sketchiness
- Can A Motorized Bicycle Run On Trees?
- LibSSH Vuln: You Don’t Need to See my Authentication
- FIDO2 Authentication In All The Colors
- Modular Violin Takes A Bow
- Hacker Pops Top On NFC Vending Machines
- These Twenty Projects Won The Musical Instrument Challenge In The Hackaday Prize
- Cool Tools: Deus Ex Autorouter
- Just in Time for Halloween: Another Talking Skull
- The Science of Landing on an Asteroid
- Life Imitates Art: 3D Printed Banksy Frame “Shreds” Oeuvre, Prints Money
- Performing A Chip Transplant To Resurrect A Dead Board
- Circuit Bending A TV For Better Input
- Hams see Dark Side Of The Moon Without Pink Floyd
- Hybrid Robot Walks, Transforms, And Takes Flight
- Wind Turbine Pushes Limits Of Desktop 3D Printing
- The Incredible Judges Of The Hackaday Prize
- Teardown: D50761 Aircraft Quick Access Recorder
- The 3D Printed Plotter You Didn’t Know You Needed
- Construction Cranes Versus Hurricanes
- Shedding A Bit Of Light On Some Logic
- Degaussing Coil To Restore Gameplay Like It’s 1985
- DIY Wire Bender Gets Wires All Bent Into Shape
- Glasses For The Hearing Impaired?
- Hackaday Links: October 14, 2018
- Listen To A Song Made From Custom Nintendo LABO Waveform Cards
- Synthesizing Mother Nature’s Sounds Like You’ve Never Seen Before
- Flash: Arduino Vidor FPGA Instructions Hit France
- Detect Elevated Carbon Monoxide (Levels)
- R3-14, The Personal Assistant Two Years In The Making
- Arcade Asteroids, Now In Colour
- Mergers And Acquisitions: Apple Buys Most of Dialog
- Dymo Rides Again With This Dot-Matrix Label Embosser
- The Solution To DJs Playing Their MacBooks
- Tiny Telescope For Simple Radio Astronomy
- Disney Builds Autonomous Graffiti Drone
- Atlas is Back with Some New Moves
- Save A Linotype Machine For Future Generations
- Drone + Ground Penetrating Radar = Mine Detector?
- Mike Tyson’s Punchout Patch Gives HDTV Lag A K.O.
- New Controller For Retro Console
- Measuring The Stiffness Of 3D-Printed Parts
- An Open Source Toy Synth
- Logic Analyzers for FPGAs: A Verilog Odyssey
- Contest Results: Raspberry Pis Put on a Show
- Down the DIY Rabbit Hole with a Shop AC Installation
- Retrotechtacular: Robots and Bowling Pins
- You Should Not Try These Taser NERF Darts
- Seeing a Webcam’s PCBs in a Whole Different Light
- Video Shows Power Isn’t Everything In Laser Engraving
- Bird Beats Cancer With The Help Of A 3D-Printed Prosthetic
- Swedish Front Plus Japanese Back Makes For Useful Hybrid Camera
- Trashed TV Gets RGB LED Backlight
- MIDI Controlled Neon
- International Space Station is Racing the Clock After Soyuz Failure
- Ken Shirriff Chats About a Whole World of Chip Decapping
- The Crustacean Battle Bot of your Nightmares
- I Ate a Robot Hamburger Before the Restaurant Went Out of Business
- Soyuz Rocket Emergency Landing, Everyone OK
- A New Kid On The Mini ARM Block
- Studying Airplane Radio Reflections With SDR
- Atari Lynx Becomes Modern 2600 Console Homage
- The Little Cat That Could
- Build Your Own LAN Cable Tester
- Recovering Data From A Vintage MFM Drive
- The 3D Printed Guitar
- The 555 and How It Got That Way
- Friday Hack Chat: FPGA Bootcamp
- 3D Printed Catamaran eats Benchy’s Lunch
- This Year’s Nobel Prizes Are Straight Out Of Science Fiction
- Printrbot Post Mortem
- Adding Bluetooth to Original SNES Controllers
- One-Legged Jumping Robot Shows That Control Is Everything
- Using AI To Pull Call Signs From SDR-Processed Signals
- Putting The Sega Teradrive Into Overdrive
- Hacking The ZH03B Laser Particle Sensor
- A Better Charger For Your Coin Cell Batteries
- A Funny Thing Happened on Ada Lovelace Day…
- Dirty Video Mixing with the Raspberry Pi Zero
- Google Discovers Google+ Servers Are Still Running
- Flying Human Head Lands Just in Time for Halloween
- Is 2018 Finally the Year of Windows on the Robot?
- Another Drawbot Uses A Pi And Web Sockets
- Programming A RISC-V Softcore With Ada
- Pocket High Voltage Generator Becomes Great Test Tool
- Knock Your 3D Printer Down To 2D
- The Incredible Judges Of The Hackaday Prize
- Hack My House: Running Raspberry Pi Without an SD Card
- Everything Supercon: This. Is. Big.
- World’s Smallest Wii is Also World’s Worst
- Will Drones and Planes be Treated as Equals by FAA?
- New Part Day: The RISC-V Chip With Built-In Neural Networks
- Perfecting the Solar Powered Web Server
- Clock Monitors Deep Space Network, Keeps Vigil Over Lost Mars Rover
- The Bells! The Bells! One Battery since 1840
- Hackaday Links: October 7, 2018
- Towards Open Biomedical Imaging
- Reading Old Data Tapes, the Hard Way
- Solar Power For Chernobyl’s Second Generation of Electricity
- Robot Sorts Beads by Color
- Banksy’s Barely Believable Batteries
- ESP8266 Clock Puts Time in a Jar
- Bus Raider Allows Classic Micro Emulation On An RC2014
- Amplifier Controlled Motorized Display
- Challenge Your Perception Of Reality With Emotional Sunglasses
- The Carbon Fiber Construction Of Large Propellers
- Soft Robotic Jellyfish Get Pumped in the Atlantic
- Smartphone Mod Goes Out On A Limb
- A Graphic Equaliser The Analogue Way
- Perhaps The Ultimate Raspberry Pi Case: Your PC
- Creating KiCad Parts From A PDF Automagically
- Build Your Next Dancing Robot From Empty Soda Bottles
- Help For High-Frequency Hobbyists
- This Is Your Last Chance To Enter The Hackaday Prize
- Electromagnetic Field 2018: Event Review
- Supercon Talks That Inspire You to Take On Something New
- 3D Printed Sneakers Are Now A Thing
- Easy FPGA CPU with MAX1000
- Displaying Bitmaps on the Apple II
- This Rocket Cookstove Is Hot Stuff!
- Homebrew Linear Actuators Put The Moves On This Motion Simulator
- We Got Your Sega Chiptunes Right Here
- Fully 3D Printed And Metalized Horn Antennas Are Shiny and Chrome
- Tiny Plotter Is Made Of Strings And Cardboard
- SENSEation Shows The Importance of Good Physical Design
- How Precise is That Part? Know Your GD&T
- Supercon: How Many Hardware Talks Can Be Packed Into One Conference?
- Malicious Component Found on Server Motherboards Supplied to Numerous Companies
- Linux Fu: Keep an Eye on that File
- Doom Battle Royale Mod with 64 Players Hurts Plenty
- Easy Access Point Configuration on ESP8266
- WebSockets Embedded With The ESP8266
- Robot Solves Rubik’s Cube With One Hand Tied Behind Its Back
- Ants, Dirt, Rain, And The Commodore 64 That Wouldn’t Quit
- New Part Day: The Fifty Cent USB Chip
- The Magic Flute of Rat Mind Control Aims to Mix Magic and Science
- Icestorm Tools Roundup: Open Source FPGA Dev Guide
- Supercon on the Rise: More Amazing Talks Revealed
- Friday Hack Chat: Is There Life On Mars?
- Retrotechtacular: Disposing of Sodium, 1947-Style
- Giant Robot Arm Uses Fluid Power, Not Electronics
- Keep ‘Em Flying with this Monster DIY Battery
- A New Tilt on RC Car Controllers
- Artistic Collaboration With AI
- A New Take On Building A Portable N64
- Experimenting With Extruded Elements
- An Unmanned Ground Vehicle, Compatable With An Arduino
- The Modular Connector and How It Got That Way
- Eight More Speakers You’ll See at Supercon
- Free ARM cores for Xilinx FPGAs
- Bitcoin’s Double Spending Flaw Was Hush-Hush During Rollout
- Pirates Don’t Stand a Chance Against This 3-D Printed Pan-Tilt Gimbal
- Tiny WiFi-Enabled ARM MCU for Tiny Projects
- VinylVideo Is Literally Video On Vinyl
- Continuous Seltzer Deployment System Solves Our Bubbly-Water Sourcing Problems
- Add Some Edge To Your Blades With Blown-Arc Plasma
- High Detail 3D Printing With An Airbrush Nozzle
- The Leap Motion Makes Robots Bend To Your Will
- Cool Tools: The Pantorouter Turns Tracing on its Side
- Just a Taste of the Talks at Supercon
- A Better Battery Arduino
- Remember When Blockbuster Video Tried Burning Game Cartridges On Demand?
- Pristine Apple I Sells at Auction for a Jaw-Dropping Price
- Microsoft Releases Crown Jewels — From 1982!
- How to Build an Inverter, and Why Not to Bother
- What’s the Cheapest Way to Scan Lots of Buttons?
September 2018
- Hackaday Links: September 30, 2018
- An Enigma Wrapped In A Riddle Wrapped In A Vintage Radio
- iCEstick Makes Terrible Radio Transmitter
- Tindie Guides That Hackaday Prize Entry Into Your Hands
- Maker Faire NY: Getting Physical with Minecraft
- Watch the Snappy, Insect-like Moves of this DIY Quadruped Robot
- An SLA-Printed Pogo Pin Programming Jig
- This Nixie Device is Useless, But Pretty
- Putting M5Stack on LoRa and the Things Network
- Walk It Off, Healing Robots
- Gesture Control without Fancy Sensors, Just Pots and Weights
- Turn a Cheap 3D Printer Into a Cheap Laser Cutter
- Maker Faire NY: Cocoa Press Chocolate Printer
- These 3D Printed Supports Can Take Hard Use, Thanks to Resin Filling
- Drill Jig Helps Mount WeMos D1 Mini
- Faux Aircon Units, Made Entirely From 2D Cuts
- Creating Antimatter On The Desktop — One Day
- Bot Makes Etch A Sketch Art In One Continuous Line
- Gaze Upon This Daft Punk Helmet’s Rows of Utterly Perfect Hand-Soldered LEDs
- Give Yourself A Sixth Sense With An Arduino
- Retrotechtacular: Here’s How They Programmed the EDSAC Computer
- Maker Faire NY: Developing for the Final Frontier
- Inductance in PCB Layout: The Good, the Bad, and the Fugly
- FPGA Jacked Into Pinball Machine Masters High Scores
- Sounding A Sour Note Can Save People From A Sour Stomach (Or Worse)
- Antennas That You Install With A Spray-Can
- Three Part Deep Dive Explains Lattice iCE40 FPGA Details
- Sorting LEGO Is Like Making A Box Of Chocolates
- RTL-SDR Paves Way To Alexa Controlled Blinds
- The Redox Keyboard
- Laser Noob: Getting Started With the K40 Laser
- Kipp Bradford on the Importance of Boring Projects, Medical Tech, and Sci Fi Novels
- The New, Improved Open Hardware Certification Program
- Can You “Take Back” Open Source Code?
- The Exquisite Badges Of Open Hardware Summit
- Maker Faire NY: Infinite Autonomous 3D Printing
- Fallout Watch Build Triumphs In Adverse Conditions
- Epoxy Fix For A Combusted PCB
- Learn Verilog In Your Browser
- Apple’s Best Computer Gets WiFi
- Bask In The Warm Glow Of DIY Incandescent Bulbs
- Hair Is Good Electronic Hub Real Estate
- Building a Hardware Store Faraday Cage
- Bring Your Own Controller Kits Just Add Bluetooth
- Hack My House: Raspberry Pi as Infrastructure
- Adding Analog Touch To (Nearly) Any Mechanical Keyboard
- Giant Connect Four Pits You Against the Computer
- A Nibble And A Half Of Wooden Bits
- Nim Writes C Code — And More — For You
- DIY Studio Lights To Improve Your Videos
- Minimal Blinky Project Makes The Chip The Circuit Board
- DIY Puff-Suck Interface Aims for Faster Text Input
- Maker Faire NY: Where Robots Come Out to Play
- Join Hackaday And Tindie This Thursday At Open Hardware Summit
- Buy A Baofeng While You Still Can? FCC Scowls at Unauthorized Frequency Transmitters
- Productivity, Unfinished Projects, and Letting Go
- Trials and Tribulations in Sending Data with Wires
- That TRS Jack On Your Graphing Calculator Does More Than You Think
- Self-Solving Rubik’s Cube
- Infection? Your Smartphone Will See You Now
- Cheating the Perfect Wheelie With Sensors And Servos
- A Three Axis Mill For The End Of The World
- A Motion Capture System For Everyone
- Box Forts For Adults: Best Practices and Design Strategies
- A Rotary Axis CNC Machine
- Planned Obsolescence Isn’t A Thing, But It Is Your Fault
- Tearing Into a $1.3 Million Oscilloscope
- Feeding Dogs over Twitch is Latest E-Sport Craze
- World’s Smallest LED Blinky
- The Tiniest Computer Vision Platform Just Got Better
- Hackaday Links: September 23, 2018
- Send Smooches over Skype with the Kiss Interface
- This Pinball Game Doesn’t Come In A Box… It Is The Box
- Using an FPGA to Navigate China’s Railroads
- Greasing Robot Hands: Variable Friction Makes Robo-Mitts More Like Our Own
- Submarine to Plane: Can You Hear Me Now? The Hydrophone Radar Connection
- DIY Arduino Soldering Iron Hits Version 2.0
- One Man’s Disenchantment With The World Of Software
- Maker Faire NY: Programmable Air
- There Are Multiple Ways To Gesture With This Serpentine Sensor
- Prusa Introduces A Resin Printer at Maker Faire NY
- I Hear You Offer WiFi
- Wonderful iPad Mini 2 Home Made Spiral Notebook Case
- Turn Your Teddy Bear Into A Robot With Yale’s “Robotic Skin”
- This TARDIS Is Bigger On The Inside
- Make An Electric Skateboard For Your Cat
- The Un-Economy Of Building Your Own Spot Welder
- Building A Pocket Sized Arduino Oscilloscope
- The Diaphragm is the Coil in These Flexible PCB Speakers
- Easy GUI Front Ends for Arduino, Rasberry Pi, and More with MyOpenLab
- Convince Your Boss to Send You To Supercon
- Prusa Unveils their own Line of PLA Filament
- The N64 Controller Gets Brass Gears Through 3D Printing
- 555 Timer Robots Will Rule The World
- New Part Day: Put An Alexa In Everything
- One Man’s Journey To Becoming His Own ISP
- Fixing An IBM 1401 Computer To Get It Printing Again
- C64 Keyboard Helps Keep The Memory Alive
- This Keyboard And Mouse Also Gives You A Workout
- The Use and Abuse Of CT Scanners
- Golf Practice Made Easy with Robotics
- Space Garbage Truck Passes its First Test
- Show that Sega Saturn Save Battery Who’s Boss
- Learn ARM Assembly with the Raspberry Pi
- Touch Anything And Everything
- Advanced Techniques For Using Git With KiCAD
- Electric Wheelbarrow Makes Hauling Big Loads Easier
- Voice Controlled Stereo Balance With ESP8266
- ‘SHE BON’ is an Artful, Wearable, Sensual, Sensing Platform
- Industrial 3D Printing Uses Layers Like We’ve Never Seen Before
- Join Hackaday For A Night Of Pre-Maker Faire Hacks
- Braille on a Tablet Computer
- Learn To Loop The Python Way: Iterators And Generators Explained
- Final Fantasy Exploit Teaches 32-bit Integer Math
- Visual Schematic Diffs in KiCAD Help Find Changes
- Soldering Like It’s 205 BC
- Super Magnesium: Lighter Than Aluminum, Cheaper Than Carbon Fiber
- Robotic Fruit Fly Won’t Eat Your Fruit
- Epic Clock Clocks The Unix Epoch
- A Look at Liquid Dielectrics
- Get Your PCBs Made at the Mall
- Ask Hackaday: How’s That Capacitor Shortage Going?
- Rocket Science With The Other SpaceX
- ARM-Based NAS Is A Low Cost, Low Power Beauty
- It’s The Web, Basically
- A $1, Linux-Capable, Hand-Solderable Processor
- Hacked Electric Toothbrush Defeats Locks With Ease
- Open Source Paramotor Using Quadcopter Tech
- Man’s Best Robotic Friend
- 3D Printing in Metal: the Laser and Metal Powder Printers We Saw at IMTS
- The Desktop Computer Returns As Amiga-Infused Retro Case
- Linux, Without The Git Factor
- Exploring an Abandoned Toys “R” Us
- DIY Rubber Ducky is as Cheap as its Namesake
- Hand-Forged Cases Make Nixie Clocks into Works of Art
- Raspberry Pi Projection Mapping Crash Course
- iCub is the Robot that is Equally Cute and Creepy
- Hackaday Links: September 16, 2018
- Turn Yourself Into A Cyborg With Neural Nets
- Wind-Blaster: Haptic Feedback That’ll Make You Recoil
- This Nearly NIMO Clock Fakes it and Makes It
- This Xbox 360 is Powered by Steam
- DrawBot Badge Represents the CNC World in Badge Design
- A Look At The Smallest Magnetic Deflection CRT Ever Made
- Cat Robot’s Secret to Slim Legs? Banish the Motors!
- Adding 3D Printer Power and Light Control to OctoPrint
- The Tiny, Pocket-Sized Robot Meant For Hacking
- Camera Uses Algorithms Instead of Lenses
- String Art Robot Is An Autorouter In Reverse
- Testing Lithium Ceramic Batteries (LCBs)
- Electromagnetic Field: Speczilla!
- A Dozen Tubes Make An Educational Amplifier
- AI Finds More Space Chatter
- Flexible PCBs Make The Fins Of This Robotic Fish
- Let No Eyebrow Go Unsinged With A Wrist-Mounted Flamethrower
- Speech Recognition Without A Voice
- Easy Portable Serial Ports
- Katherine Scott: Earth’s Daily Photo Through 200 Cubesat Cameras
- One Small Step for a Space Elevator
- HP Rolls Out Metal 3D Printers
- Behold a DIY, Kid-Friendly Table Saw
- France Questions Russian Satellite with “Big Ears”
- A Whole Other Kind Of Graphical Programming
- Damaged Power Cord Repaired With Shop-Made Mold
- Turning A Tiny FLIR Into An Action Cam With FPGAs
- Using Motors As Encoders
- My Career As A Spammer, And Other Stories From The Sneakernet
- Packing 10 into 1: A Square Inch Dekatron Replacement
- The DIN Rail and How It Got That Way
- Tesla Opens with Precomputed Key Fob Attack
- Wood Shines in this SCARA Robotic Arm Project
- TI(ny) Is A New Take On The TI-99/4A
- Unphotogenic Lighting As A Feature
- A 3D Printed Marble Clock
- Bixel, An Open Source 16×16 Interactive LED Array
- Video Quick Bit: The Best In Human Computer Interfaces
- What’s a Couplate? The Stepping Stone to Integrated Circuits
- Friday Hack Chat: Playing With Fire
- Gorgeous Omnidirectional 3D Printed Speaker
- PLA: The Plastic That Grows
- Turning a Cheap Engraver into a Decent PCB Mill
- Less is More: A Micromatrix Display in a Square Inch
- Repairing A Desktop Jukebox
- Shop-Made Pneumatic Cylinders From PVC And Plywood
- Adding Upgrades To A Stock Motorcycle
- Temperature Controlled Fan Keeps Printer Cool
- Disassembling Mouse Sensors For Tracking Tongues
- The Pre-CRT Oscilloscope
- Awesome Looking 3D Printed RC Plane Is Full Of Design Considerations
- Do Space Probes Fail Because Of Space Weather?
- How Big is Your Oscilloscope? One Inch?
- Automagic Tool makes KiCAD Schematic Symbols from PDFs
- Better Than Original Pong Using Arduino
- No Signal For Your Radio-Controlled Watch? Just Make Your Own Transmitter
- A No-Fuss Rack of Ham
- ATX Adapter For The IBM PCJr Now Available
- DIY Switches For People Who Can’t Push Switches
- Behind The Scenes Of A Hacker Conference
- Direction Finding And Passive Radar With RTL-SDR
- Doing One Thing, Well: The UNIX Philosophy
- Trebucheting Tennis Balls at 124 MPH
- 120 Second Shower Cap
- 3D Printed Radius Gauge, Just Add Calipers (And A Wee Bit Of Math)
- Electromagnetic Field: A Cyberpunk Headdress To Be Noticed In
- Hackaday Links: September 9, 2018
- Now, Finally, We Can Play With Power
- Cheap RC Boat Turned Weirdly Capable Seaplane
- The Tide Is High, And This Clock Lets You Know
- A DIY Balcony Crane Lifts Groceries For The Lazy But Patient
- Source Of Evil – A Botnet Code Collection
- See Binary On Your Breadboard
- A Switching Power Supply, 1940s-Style
- Shoelace-Tying Robot With Only Two Motors
- Modular Keyboards For CAD, Gaming, And Video Editing
- Pun Intended: Bare Metal Attracts Rust
- SMART Response XE Gets Wireless Bootloader
- Cheap FPV Goggles Turned Pocket Sized Display
- Electromagnetic Field: TIM, A Relay Computer
- CORDIC Brings Math To FPGA Designs
- Unmanned Sailboat Traverses The North Atlantic
- Create Your Own ESP8266 Shields
- Scooter Hauls Kids With A Little Heavy Metal
- Moving 3D Printed Prosthetic Arms With A Pulse
- FOSSCON 2018: Where Open Source and LEGO Collide
- We’re Hiring: Come Join Us!
- The How and Why of Tungsten Carbide Inserts, and a Factory Tour
- Apollo 12 Was the Lucky Number Among Apollo Disasters
- Don’t Look Now, But Your Necklace is Listening
- Photon Door Lock Swaps Keys for a POST Request
- You Can’t Build A Roland TR-808 Because You Don’t Have Faulty Transistors
- ESP8266 Powered Tank With Voice Control
- Save Fingers, Save Lives With A No-Voltage Release For The Shop
- Transistor Logic Clock Gets Stacked Up
- Count To F Easily With This DIY Calculator
- How to Add UART to Your FPGA Projects
- One Square Inch Expanded in the Time Dimension
- Fail of the Week: How Not to Design an RF Signal Generator
- Ask Hackaday: Managing Inspiration
- ZPB30A1 Electronic Load gets an Open Firmware
- Electromagnetic Field: A Hacked Knitting Machine, Knitting the Universe
- Detective Work Recovers Atari ST ASIC Designs
- Robots Invade Your Personal Space
- Retro Console Upgrade Gives Atari Flair
- 3D Printed RC Jet Boat Gets Up To Speed
- Twenty Projects That Just Won the Human Computer Interface Challenge
- All the Badges of DEF CON 26 (vol 4)
- Friday Hack Chat: Environmental Sensors
- A Custom Built FPV Monitor to Keep the Fans Happy
- Intro to Docker: Why and How to Use Containers on Any System
- LED “Candle” Gets the 555 Treatment
- Monitoring Power By Counting Blinks
- GPS Overlays Give Real Life Racing A Video Game Feel
- Make The Surface Dial Do More Things, Such As MIDI
- A Servo Powered Robotic Arm, But Like You’ve Never Seen Before
- Chemistry and Lasers Turn Any Plastic Surface Into a PCB
- This Is Your Solution For Open Source Motion Tracking
- Printed It: Logitech C270 Conversion
- Superconference Submission Deadline Extended
- Interactive KiCAD BOMs Make Hand Assembly a Breeze
- When are Dumb LEDs the Smart Choice?
- Pushing Tin Remotely: The Start of Flight Control in the Cloud
- Doing Logic Analysis To Get Around The CatGenie’s DRM
- Live Streaming Goes Pro with a Hacked Backpack
- Visualizing Verilog Simulation
- There Is A Cost To Extended Lifetime Products. It’s 7.5%.
- The Quest For High Powered Blinky And Buzzing
- Air Wrench Becomes a Milling Machine Power Drawbar
- FOSSCON 2018: Developing the FreedomBox
- Unleash Your Inner Starship Captain with this Immersive Simulator Console
- Arduino Powered Portable Function Generator
- The E-Waste Apocalypse Looms
- Non-Newtonian Batteries
- Hackaday Links: September 2, 2018
- You Have To Have A Very High IQ To Understand This Rick And Morty Portal Gun Replica
- Scratch-Built 3D-Printer Goes Back to the Roots of the Hobby
- Branch out your SQLite Database with LiteTree
- Epoxy Embedded Electronic Art Running On Pyramid Power
- Transistor Fundamentals Animated
- LED-ifying A Guitar
- A BCD Clock For Your Desk
- Talk To The Faucet
- You’ll Be Shocked At This Way To Improve Your Video Game High Score
- Custom Coaxial Dust Collector Makes CNC Router a Clean Machine
- Salvaging an Ancient, Dangerous Machine With Wood
- Talking Garbage Can Keeps Eye on Playground
- Retrotechtacular: The Iron Giants That Built The Jet Age
- DIY Long Distance Laser Telescope Does Some Damage
- Hummingbirds, 3D Printing, and Deep Learning
August 2018
- Knock-Off AirPods Merged into Bluetooth Receiver
- Dumping A Zelda SNES ROM, And Learning A Few Things Along The Way
- Optimizing Screen Time To Heart Beats
- Learn FPGA with this Persistence of Vision Hack
- New Mooltipass Begins Development with Call for Collaborators
- Make Your Python Prettier With Decorators
- Single-Rotor Drone: a Thrust-Vectoring Monocopter
- Science Shows Green Lasers Might Be More Than You Bargained For
- Laser Arm Cannon Scares More than Metroids
- The Boldport Cordwood And Cuttlefish, Together As A Guitar Tuner
- BladeRF 2.0 Micro is Smaller, More Powerful
- Metroid, Zelda, and Castelvania Auto-Mapped with NES Emulation & Heuristics
- Turning A Fitness Tracker Into An EEG
- GSM Phone Network At EMF Camp Built on Raspberry Pi and LimeSDR
- Competitive Soldering is Now a Thing
- The Challenges of Shipping From China – Life of a Flailing Tube Man
- Real or Fake? Robot Uses AI to Find Waldo
- The Electric Vehicles Of Electromagnetic Field: The Ottermobile And The Ottercar
- $99 Pinebook Gets KDE Neon Port
- Linux Fu: Modernize Your Command Line
- Faded Beauty DMM Gets An OLED Makeover
- 3D Printed Magnetic Dust Port Keeps Shop Clean
- This Is The Raspberry Pi Robot To Beat All Others
- All the Badges of DEF CON 26 (vol 3)
- Friday Hack Chat: GNU Radio
- A Scratch-Built Drill Press Vise from Scrap
- The Largest Aircraft Ever Built Will Soon Launch Rockets To Space
- Power Steering Pump Repurposed for Great Speed
- Raspberry Pi as 433 MHz to MQTT Gateway
- A CNC Woodworking Tool That Does The Hard Parts
- NASA Shows Off Its Big Computer In 1986
- Empty Can Upcycled Into Portable Speaker
- Recreating The Amiga 1200 PCB from Pictures
- See the Fabulous Workmanship in this Smart Pressure Regulator
- Publish or Perish: The Sad Genius of Ignaz Semmelweis
- OpenSCAD handles the Math in 3D Printed Holder for Magnetic Spheres
- Martian Dust Storm May Spell Doom for Rover
- PiPod: A Raspberry Pi Zero Portable Music Player
- Where’s The Cat? Locating Your Moggy Without Eating Batteries
- An Abstract Kind of Clock: The Chinese Remainder Clock
- The Solution To Oversized Dev Boards: A Literal Hack
- Making A Vintage 1990s Sound Board Do Rapid Fire Silently
- GPL Violations Cost Creality a US Distributor
- Let the Musical Instrument Challenge Begin!
- FOSSCON 2018: Hacking the Indego Bike Sharing API
- Self Folding Origami from a 3D Printer
- Selling Everything, Moving to Asia, and Setting Up a Company
- Time-Stretching Zoetrope Animation Runs Longer Than It Should
- The Best New Quad Is A Bicopter
- 2018 Electromagnetic Field Badge: It’s an Entire Phone!
- 3D Printing a Printing Press
- Rasberry Pi PoE Hat Released
- Soft Hydraulic Muscles Lift Weights As A Team
- Demystifying The ESP8266 With A Series Of Tutorials
- Perf Board Pyrotechnics Courtesy of a High-Voltage Supply
- You Can Add Wireless Charging to iPhone… Kinda
- Arduino Gets Command Line Interface Tools That Let You Skip the IDE
- Quadcopter Ditches Batteries; Flies on Solar Power Alone
- Air Conditioner Remote Reverse Engineered Despite Esoteric Protocol
- UnMaker 2.0 Is Wile E Coyote’s Dead Blow Hammer
- Better Motion Through Electrostatic Actuators
- You’ve Never See A Solid-State Oscilloscope Like This One
- The Electric Vehicles Of Electromagnetic FIeld: The Selby
- Electric Shower Head Teardown Makes Us Wince
- Raspberry Shake Detects Quakes
- RC Boat Goes Brushless For Speed & Reliability
- Tracking The Office Coffee Machines Using Current Draw
- This Hackable Phone Makes WiFi Calls.
- An Arduino Watch Without A Clock
- This Is Your Last Chance To Design The Greatest Human Computer Interface
- How to Mash Up BLE, NodeJS, and MQTT to Get Internet of Things
- Power Over Ethernet Splitter Improves Negotiating Skills
- Two Bit Circus Took The Tech We Love And Built An Amusement Park
- Fail of the Week: Solid State Relay Fails Spectacularly
- A Peek at the Mesmerizing Action of a Cycloidal Drive
- MIDI Association Releases Spec For TRS Jacks
- Retro-uC, Your Favorite Instruction Sets On Custom Silicon
- Low-Quality Capacitors Turned Into High-Quality Temperature Sensors
- Using Modern Nintendo Controllers On The C64
- Listening To Mains Power
- Circuit VR: Measuring with LTSpice
- Call For Proposals: Hackaday Superconference
- Guardin, Guarding the Garden: Turn Raspberry Pi Into a 3rd Eye
- The First Vending Machine Hacked Liquor Laws: The Puss and Mew
- Marines 3D-Print Part to Repair Multi-Million Dollar Fighter
- Memristor May be Fake News
- Toil in Style With Salvaged Porsche Office Chairs
- Cross-Correlation Makes Quick Work Of Ads
- An Incredible ATX Amiga 4000 Motherboard
- Build Your Own Two-Stage Water Rockets
- Better Ways To Drive Nixie Tubes
- Simulate PIC and Arduino/AVR Designs with no Cloud
- Friday Hack Chat: Hacking For Mental Health
- Measure Resistance The Colourful Way
- Ask Hackaday Answered: The Tale of the Top-Octave Generator
- Giant 3D Printed Lock Helps Teach Picking
- FCC Filing Reveals Tasty Hardware McSecrets
- Hardware Store White Balance Reference
- If You Are Planning On Building Your Own Space Shuttle…
- Plasma Etching In A Microwave
- Automated Turntable For 3D Scanning
- Turning Everything Into A Tap Controller
- All the Badges of DEF CON 26 (vol 2)
- Blink A Pi, Win A Prize
- Texture Trick for 3D Prints From the Stone Age
- Kathleen Booth: Assembling Early Computers While Inventing Assembly
- ARM Programming with Bare C
- An LED You Can Blow Out, With No Added Sensor
- Cheap FPGA Board Roundup
- What Will You Do If WWVB Goes Silent?
- OMEN Alpha: A DIY 8085-Based Computer
- Simple ESP8266 Weather Station using Blynk
- Rewinding Live Radio
- The Forgotten Art of Riveted Structures
- Badgelife, The Hardware Demoscene Documentary
- Installing LibreBoot the (Very) Lazy Way
- Build a Fun CPU in Your Browser
- An Upcycled Speaker Box with Hidden Features
- The Engineering Of An Ultrasonic Phased Array
- Restoring A 100 Year Old Vice To Pristine Condition
- Hackaday Links: August 19, 2018
- Wiring The ESP-32 To Ethernet
- Getting Resourceful to Build A Home CNC
- [Cody] Builds a Chlorine Machine
- NASA Wants You… to Design Their Robot
- Weaponized Fidget Spinners
- Custom Split-Flap Display Is a Unique Way to Show the Weather
- PC in an SNES Case is a Weirdly Perfect Fit
- How The 8087 Coprocessor Got Its Bias
- When Every Last Nanoamp Matters
- An Achievable Underwater Camera
- Bench Power Supply Packs a Lot into a DIN-Rail Package
- JB Weld – Strong Enough To Repair a Connecting Rod?
- A Motion Coprocessor Without The Proprietary Layer
- Multi-switch Useless Box Is Useless In Multiple Ways
- Radio Antenna Mismatching: VSWR Explained
- A Tiny Steering Wheel You Can Print
- The Wonderful World of USB Type-C
- Turning Cheap WiFi Modules Into Cheap WiFi Swiss Army Knives
- Circuit VR: A Tale Of Two Transistors
- Semi-automated Winder Spins Rotors for Motors
- Getting An RF Low-Pass Filter Right
- What’s Behind the Door? An IoT Light Switch
- No SD Card Slot? No Problem!
- PCB Junk Drawer Turned Into Blinky Mosaic
- Digital Dining With Charged Chopsticks
- A Surprisingly Practical Numitron Watch
- Hanging, Sliding Raspi Camera Adds Dimension To Octoprint
- Getting Kitted to Teach your First Hardware Workshop
- Breakfast at DEF CON — The Greatest Illicit Meetup of All
- DARPA Goes Underground For Next Challenge
- Jump Start Your Car With A Drill Battery
- Welcome to the Internet of Swords
- Theo Jansen Invents A Faster, Simpler, Wind-Powered Strandbeest
- Zener Diode Tutorial
- Before Sending A Probe To The Sun, Make Sure It Can Take The Heat
- Every Shop Needs A Giant Wooden Utility Knife
- Don’t Forget Your Mints When Using This Synthesizer
- Rover V2 Handles Stairs as Easily as the Outdoors
- Track Everything, Everywhere with an IoT Barcode Scanner
- Friday Hack Chat: LED Diffusion
- Arcade Inspired Halloween Candy Dispenser
- Stop Using Python 2: What You Need to Know About Python 3
- A Remotely Controlled Kindle Page Turner
- Replacement Audi Plastics Thanks To 3D Printing
- Reinforce Happy Faces With Marshmallows And Computer Vision
- A Radar Module Teardown And Measuring Fan Speed The Hard Way
- Foreshadow: The Sky Is Falling Again for Intel Chips
- All the Badges of DEF CON 26 (vol 1)
- DIY Wind Turbine for Where the Sun Doesn’t Shine
- Behind The Pin: Logic Level Outputs
- Looking Forward To Electromagnetic Field 2018
- Leather Working with a 3D Printer
- Virgin Orbit Readies First Launch
- Run a Linux Terminal on Cheap E-Ink Displays
- Internet of Tea: Coaster Watches for Optimum Drinking Temperature
- Raspberry Pi Foosball Scoreboard
- MIT Makes Washable LED Fabric
- Converting A 3-in-1 Printer Into A WiFi Scanner, Just Because
- Thomas The Terrifying Karaoke Robot
- Power Generation Modules Mix and Match Wind, Water, and Hand Cranks
- Dawn of the First Digital Camera
- Oil-Immersed Raspberry Pi Keeps Its Cool Under Heavy Loads
- Project Orion: Detonating Nuclear Bombs For Thrust
- Modern PC Crammed Into an Original Xbox
- Gamers Rejoice: Here’s a Fix for ASUS Strix Vega 64 Thermal Issues
- Build Your Own Linux Single Board Computer
- The Ins and Outs of Geiger Counters, for Personal Reasons
- Hackaday Links: August 12, 2018
- Tiny Solar Energy Module (TSEM) Brings Big Performance
- The Electric Vehicles Of Electromagnetic Field: The Dustbin 7
- Tariff Expansion Set to Hit 3D-Printing Right in the Filament
- Hacking A Solar Bubble Blaster With Grandkids
- Underwater VR Offers Zero Gravity on a Budget
- Get Nostalgic with these GameCube Themed Joy-Cons
- Signal Generator Uses FPGA
- Car Hacking at DEF CON 26
- Lily Power Pods Make the Seebeck Effect Look Good
- Electrostatically Accelerated Ping-Pong Ball Travels the Circuit
- Teardown: Queercon 15 Badge (and the Game Hidden Within)
- Updating a 1999 Saab with an Arduino
- The Quick-Build PowerWall
- Line Following Robot Without The Lines
- Scanning Tunneling Microscope Packs the Bits
- IBM PCjr Revived by an ATX Power Supply and Many False Starts
- Ease Rover Development With These Self-Contained Track Units
- This Is The Year Of PCB Inductors
- Circuit VR: Starting an Amplifier Design
- OTTO: A Pi Based Open Source Music Production Box
- Rediffusion Television: Early Cable TV Delivered Like Telephone
- 3D Printers Get a Fuel Gauge: Adding a Filament Scale to OctoPrint
- A Display Made From Shoelaces
- Op Amps Before Transistors: A 600V Vacuum Tube Monster
- High Tech Drone Scarecrows Can Make Airports Safer
- Python Resurrects Dot Matrix Printing
- First Look at DEF CON 26 Official Badge
- Big Power, Little Power, Tiny Power, Zap!
- Using Acoustic Levitation for Applications Going Way Beyond Novelty
- Friday Hack Chat: Motors Made Out Of PCBs
- Homebrew Pancreas Gets 30 Minutes of Fame
- The VU Meter and How It Got That Way
- Reverse Engineering a DNA Sequencer
- Results of 3D-Printed Cylinder Head Testing Fail to Surprise
- Mechanical Issues For A Pi CNC
- Facebook Wants to Teach Machine Learning
- Electric Bike From The Ground Up
- Printed Part Gets Classic Truck Rolling
- Regenerative Braking Charges Your Phone
- Ask Hackaday: Is There a Common Mechanical Parts Library?
- Sunday: Breakfast at DEF CON
- Programmable Badge uses E-Ink and ESP8266
- Memories Of A Mis-Spent Youth: Learnabout Simple Electronics
- Twitch Plays Battling Robots?
- Thumbs Up for This Custom Atari 5200 Controller
- Automatic Sunglasses, The Electromechanical Way
- Failed Tool Turned Exploded Wall Art
- VCF West: Homebrew Lisp Machines And Injection Molded PDPs
- Remote Controlled Electric Snowblower Sports FPV For Safety
- Video Quick Bit: Power Harvesting Hacks
- Recorded Programming — Thanks to Bing Crosby
- The Square-Inch Project Rides Again!
- Even the PlayStation 2 Can’t Escape Java
- Lathe Headstock Alignment: Cutting A Test Bar
- DIY Scientific Calculator Powered By Pi Zero
- Sushi-Snarfing Barbie Uses Solenoid to Swallow
- More Suspension Than Necessary
- FxSolver is a Math Notebook for Engineers
- Dog-Or-Catapult Controls The Speed Of The Feed
- VCF West: All The Floptical Disks
- The “P Cell” is Exactly What You Might Suspect
- DSO Nano 3 Review: a 20 MHz Pocket ‘Scope For Not A Lot
- Learn FPGA Fast with Hackaday’s FPGA Boot Camp
- Feeling the Heat of High-Frequency Trading
- Mouse Trap Game used as an Actual Mouse Trap
- Rolling Out a Slick Rotary Phase Converter
- Spot Welding …Plastic?
- A Plasma Speaker Using A TL494
- Hackaday Links: August 5, 2018
- How To Run a Clock for a Century
- VCF West: Adding A Front Panel To The 6502
- Custom Designed Keyboard Needs A Custom Made Metal Case
- Teardown Of A Fingerprint Padlock
- How Much Current Does that Thing Draw?
- Cheap PSoC Enables Electrochemistry Research
- Memristors On A Chip Solve Partial Differential Equations
- Help Save Some Of Australia’s Computer History From The Bulldozers
- Looking at Wind Turbines From a Different Angle
- Feast Your Eyeballs On This Mechanical Eyeball
- Hacked Vacuum Chamber Won’t Suck a Hole in Your Budget
- Gameduino + Mystorm = Oscilloscope!
- Finding The Linear In A Laser
- Measuring Energy Consumption
- Computer Programming Unplugged For Kids
- Six Wheels (En)rolling: Mars Rovers Going To School
- Voltage Monitor Relay is More than Meets the Eye
- Intuitive Musical Books Accompany Alzheimer’s Patients’ Memories
- Beginning BLE Experiments And Making Everything Better
- Unofficial Badges Get Official Recognition at DEF CON: Badge Life Contest
- Junk Bin Spin Coater uses Modded Case Fan
- When Is Wrought Iron Not Wrought Iron?
- Classy CoreXY Build Breaks Down the Design Pinchpoints
- Glimmies, as logic
- Ancient Teletype Revived in Labor of Retrocomputing Love
- Web Pages Via Forth
- Engineering the Perfect Throw for Rock Skipping
- CD Image Via Twitter: A Handcrafted Game Disc
- Thermal Actuators: Hydraulic Motors That Feed on Temperature Changes
- Hackaday Belgrade: Sophi Kravitz’s Blimp Army
- SMD Soldering Challenge Lands At DEF CON
- Lasercut Gears – A Learning Experience
- The Photo Lab That Flew to the Moon
- Crowdfunding: !Sinclair !ZX Vega To Lose The Sinclair Name
- Shell Script Synthesizer Knocks Your SoX Off
- Raspberry Pi On The Go Powers Car System
- Hanky-Deprived Drones Taste Whale Snot for Science
- Quadcopter Hardware Gets Classic Lake Bed Test
- Old LED Light Bulbs Give Up Filaments for Spider Web Clock
- PTPM Energy Scavenger Aims for Maintenance-Free Sensor Nodes
- This Weekend: The Vintage Computer Festival West
- Wolfram Alpha Electronic Tips
- Friday Hack Chat: Training Robots By Touch
- Specialized Knife Sharpener from Old Airplane
- DefCAD Triggers HTTP 451
- Find Your Level – Extracting NES Game Data Using Python
- Kindle Tells The Time By Quoting Literature
- Homebuilt CNC Software, Brewed To Taste
- Object Detection, With TensorFlow
July 2018
- A Custom Keyboard At Maximum Effort
- Need A Tiny CRT? Karaoke Might Just Help
- High Efficiency, Open-Sourced MPPT Solar Charger
- Retrotechtacular: Apex Radio — The Forgotten HiFi
- Are Patent Claims Coming for Your WS2812?
- The Precise Science Of Whacking A Wine Glass
- Kepler Planet Hunter Nears End of Epic Journey
- Add-On Board Brings Xbox 360 Controllers to N64
- Building the Terminator’s Arm
- Vintage Silvertone Cabinet Gets Bluetooth Treatment
- A Crystal Oscillator For A Stable Bench Reference
- Light Painting Animations Directly From Blender
- Incredible 3D Printed Overwatch Airsoft Pistol
- Flat Pack Generators
- Hands-On with New Arduino FPGA Board: MKR Vidor 4000
- A Stereo Tube Amp For Less Than $5
- Video Review: AND!XOR DEF CON 26 Badge
- Side Channel Attacks Against Mixed Signal Microcontrollers
- Amiga Repairs Put One Tough Little Machine Back in Service
- The Nitty-Gritty Of Making A Brass Clock
- Robot Rovers of the Early Space Race
- Hackaday Links: July 29, 2018
- Vampire Charger is a Rugged Anything-to-5VDC Converter
- Flexible PCB Becomes The Actuator
- 1950’s AM Transmitter is Fun but Dangerous
- Turning A Tile Into A Car Tracker
- This Clock is Hard: No Arduino Needed
- H2gO Keeps Us from Drying Out
- The Apocalypse Bicycle
- Become The Rockstar Developer You’ve Always Dreamed Of Being
- The Undead Remote
- Save Some Steps with this Arduino Rapid Design Board
- A Mobile Computer to Make William Gibson Jealous
- The $4 Z80 Single-Board Computer, Evolved.
- Why Have Only One Radio, When You Can Have Two?
- Building An SDR Lab With Wheels
- Screaming Channels Attack RF Security
- Self-Vacuuming LEGO Box Makes Life Better
- Custom ATTiny85 Board Powers Kids’ Light Show
- Micro-Organisms Give Up the Volts in this Biological Battery
- Circuit VR: An (Almost) Practical Buck Converter
- Animatronic Puppet Takes Cues From Animation Software
- The Hot and Cold of Balanced Audio
- Share Bike Surrenders Its Secrets To A Teardown
- ESP8266 Internet Controlled LED Dimmer
- Couch Potato Refined: Self-Rotating TV Uses Plywood Gears
- Shining a Light on Hearing Loss
- Dual-Port Memory And Raspberry Pi Team Up For Retro Console Multicart
- An MRI-Safe 3D Printed Pneumatic Stepper Motor
- Bringing Augmented Reality to the Workbench
- Hackaday Belgrade: Luka Mustafa on Exploiting IoT Niches
- This Cetus Printer is Rigged for Silent Running
- Working on a Startup? New Fund is Building Portfolio from Hard Technology
- Radar in Space: The Gemini Rendezvous Radar
- Grbl Ported to the ESP32
- Data Logging Like It’s 1982
- Talking To Alexa With Sign Language
- GTA: San Andreas Radio Earns Six-Star Wanted Level
- Juggling Machine Listens to the Bounce to Keep Ball in the Air
- ESP8266 Zelda Heart Responds To Tweets
- An Integrated Electromagnetic Lifting Module for Robots
- HOPE XII: A FOSS Operating System for e-Readers
- Friday Hack Chat: Making Modular Hardware
- Monoprice Mini Converted to Pick and Place (Kinda)
- How—And Why—To Avoid Tolerance Stacking In Your Technical Drawings
- Was the Self Driving Car Invented in the 1980s?
- BlinkBox: Debugging Tool For Addressable LEDs
- 3D Printing, Cybersecurity, and Audio Fingerprinting
- Help With Stuttering Could Come From Electricity
- Open Source Power Converter For The Masses
- Simple RC to USB Interface
- Twenty Power Harvesting Projects Headed to the Hackaday Prize Finals
- Edwin Armstrong’s Battle for FM Radio
- Custom LCD Module is Unexpectedly Cheap and Easy
- Milspec Teardown: C-1282 Chaff Controller
- A BCD Wristwatch You’d Want To Wear
- A Dramatic Demo of AC Versus DC Switching
- Sad Without a SID? This Comes Pretty Close
- HOPE XII: Make Your Own Holograms
- DIY Vs. Commercially Made Solar Panel
- Fail Of The Week: How Not To Make A 3D Scanner
- Be a Fire Bender With The Power of Magnets
- Build a Wi-Fi Smart Scale
- HOPE XII: Time Travel with Software Defined Radio
- Turn A Cheap Bluetooth Speaker Into An Audio Receiver
- Hands On With Python 3.7: What’s New In The Latest Release
- Fail Of The Week: ESP Walkie, Not-So-Talkie
- The Return of RadioShack?
- IHC badge: It’s Not (Quite) a Nokia
- DIY Tiny Dyno
- Hackaday Links: July 22, 2018
- HOPE XII: Chelsea Manning
- Classroom Gadget Turned Arduino Compatible
- A 3D-Printed Bowl Feeder for Tiny SMD Parts
- Out Of Batteries For Your Torch? Just Use A Mini Nitro Engine
- Repairing a Capacitor inside a Potted Transformer
- Recycle LCDs into LEDs
- Old Phone, New Remote Switch
- Wire Wound Resistors On Your Own
- A Caterpillar Drive That Actually Looks Like A Caterpillar
- Hacking A Very Special 486
- HOPE XIII: Oh The Fun You’ll Have With a Bit of Social Engineering
- Measuring Web Latency in the Browser
- Digital Attenuator Goes from Manual to Arduino Control
- Open Source Laboratory Rocker is Super Smooth
- Bananas Against Racism
- Failed 3D Print Saved with Manual Coding
- Arduino Powered Arcade Button Lighting Effects
- Bucky Glow: Have a Ball While You Practice Coding
- Belgrade Badge Hacks
- Hackaday Passes 100,000 Subscribers on YouTube
- Build A Boat With Your Buddies
- Learn to Count in Seximal, a Position Above the Rest
- The C.H.I.P Returns, Maybe
- Sharpies and Glue Sticks Fight the Gummy Metal Machining Blues
- A Super Simple ESP8266 IOT Motion Sensor
- A Slightly Scientific Examination Of Epoxies
- Thinking Inside The (Cardboard) Box With Nintendo Labo Hacks
- Mario Candy Machine Gamifies Halloween
- Energy Harvesting Design Doesn’t Need Sleep
- Using Pad Printers To Add Color To Artistic PCBs
- Hackers on Planet Earth, Here We Come!
- Expanding the K40 Laser Cutter with Aluminum Extrusion
- Delta Clipper: A 1990s Reusable Single-Stage To Orbit Spaceship Prototype
- What’s Inside A Scientology E-Meter?
- A Farewell to Printrbot
- Twitch Stream Turned Infinity Mirror
- Understanding Math vs Understanding Math
- Harley-Hardened Wire Helps High-Gain Antenna Hack
- 3D Printed Gun Saga: Court Case Over CAD Files Settled
- Dual Brushed Motor Controller Doesn’t Care How It Receives Commands
- ERRF 18: The Start of Something Great
- Hot Camera Contest: Build A Battery Powered Thermal Camera
- Transforming A Bookshelf Speaker Into A Portable Boombox
- What to Expect When You’re Expecting – A Trademark
- DIY Tube Oven Brings the Heat to Homebrew Semiconductor Fab
- How Low Can You Go? Tiny Current Generator
- The Biggest Corner Antenna We’ve Ever Seen
- Bomb Hoist Teardown Shows Cold-War-Era Big Iron
- Teensy Hat Controls Games
- Beverage Holder of Science
- SPINES Design Makes for Modular Energy Harvesting
- Françoise Barré-Sinoussi: Virus Hunter
- Emotional Hazards That Lurk Far From The Uncanny Valley
- Let’s Talk About Elon Musk’s Submarine
- Freak Out Your Smartphone with Ultrasound
- CortexProg Is A Real ARM-Twister
- Row Your Bike To China
- Fail of the Week: When Good Foundries Go Bad
- Global Radio Direction Finding in Your Browser
- Replace Old Electrolytics? Not So Fast… Maybe
- 3D Printer Guardian Watches for Worst-case Failures
- Review: SMD Tweezer Meter or Tweezer Probes For Your Multimeter?
- Human-Computer Interface Challenge: Change How We Interact with Computers, Win Prizes
- A Microwave Erector Set
- Getting the Lead Out of Lithium Battery Recycling
- Acrylic Stencils Help with Component Placement for SMD Assembly
- It’s 1984, And You Can’t Afford A Computer. Never Mind, Have This Pop-Up Paper One Instead!
- Incredible Atari 800XL Case Restoration
- Dual Source Laser Cutter Built Like a Tank, Cuts Most Anything
- Hackaday Links: July 15, 2018
- Harvesting Power From Microwave Popcorn
- Interactive Mandelbrot Set Viewer Runs on FPGAs
- Stepper Motor? Encoder? It’s Both!
- Drive Big Servos With Ease
- Watney: A Fully 3D Printed Rover Platform
- Robot Maps Rooms with Help From iPhone
- IoT Solar Pool Heating
- 3D Printed Variable Area Jet Nozzle
- Charging USB-C Devices Off Of LiPo Battery Packs
- Blinging Buttons for Pick and Place
- Casting a 3D Printed Extruder Body in Aluminum
- A Tale Of More Than One Amiga 1500
- Bandpass Filters from the CNC Mill
- Explore Low-Energy Bluetooth by Gaming
- Quantum Computing For Computer Scientists
- Custom Circuit Makes for Better Battery Level Display
- Mademoiselle Pinball Table Gets Rock ‘n Roll Makeover
- This Is Your Last Chance To Design The Greatest In Power Harvesting
- ERRF 18: New Products Make their Debut
- Supersize DIY R/C Servos From Windscreen Wipers
- Behind The Pin: How The Raspberry Pi Gets Its Audio
- Replace your Calipers with a Microscope and Image Analysis
- Give the Clapper a Hand
- Old Time Traffic Signal Revived with a Raspberry Pi Controller
- Fail of the Week: Careful Case Mod is all for Naught
- Teardown Of Sonos And Amazon Smart Speakers Reveals Interesting Engineering Details
- Hacked LCD Shutter Glasses See The Light
- Air Quality Readings at a Glance
- The Bad Old Days of Telephone Answering Machines
- Dual Sensor Echo Locator Gives High Accuracy at Low Cost
- It’s All In The Libs – Building A Plugin System Using Dynamic Loading
- You Can Now Buy a Practical Gauss Gun
- Old Laptop? Mobile x86 Game System!
- Shoehorning A Slick Spotify Remote Into An ESP8266
- Diode Recovery Time Explained
- A Graph Plotting Metal Detector
- Building A Gasometer To Store Wood Gas And Other Bio-Fuels
- Robotic Muscles from Fishing Line and Nichrome
- ERRF 18: Slice Engineering Shows off the Mosquito
- Friday Hack Chat: Hacking Voice Assistants
- Hold the Salt and Butter, This Popcorn Is For a Robot
- Teardown Of USB Fan Reveals Journalists’ Lack Of Opsec
- Ham-designed Gear Used in Thailand Cave Rescue
- Cheetah 3 Is Learning To Move Blindly Before Learning To See
- SPIDriver Shows You What’s Going On
- Flawed Synthetic Diamonds May Be Key For Quantum Computing
- Do You Need A Solder Fume Extractor?
- Morphing Digital Clock Will Show You A Good Time
- Open Hardware Takes Charge in Papua New Guinea
- Profiles in Science: Jack Kilby and the Integrated Circuit
- N64 Emulated in VR Makes Hyrule go 3D
- The Machinists’ Mantra: Level Thy Lathe
- 3D Printed Arduino Bot is Limbo Master
- An Amiga 600 With An FPGA Inside
- Eight Transistor Stereo Amplifier From The Days Of Yore
- The Magic that Goes into Magnets
- Vintage Headphones Bluetooth Conversion Goes The Extra Mile
- Build Your Own Portable Arduino Soldering Iron
- Putting More Tech Into More Hands: The Robin Hoods of Hackaday Prize
- Rocket Bullets: The Flame and Fizzle of the Gyrojet
- On The Right Tracks: Electric Wheelchair Guts Find New Life As Tank
- Hackaday Superconference: Tickets and Proposals
- Chinese Laser AK-47: Myth Or Reality?
- 3D Printed Upgrade for Cheap Foam Glider
- Disney’s Humanoid Stunt Robots Throw Multiple Backflips No Sweat
- This 3D Printed Syringe Static Mixer Does It All
- Hackaday Links: July 8, 2018
- Ultra-Low Power, Energy Harvesting Battery Charger
- Amiga 2000 Emergency Repair
- Worn Train Rails Get Judged by Laser
- Automatic Sunglasses, No Battery!
- RGB Sensor’s New Job: Cryptocurrency Trade Advisor
- Tiny Websites have no Server
- Multi-Board Solder Stencils Explained
- A Peek Into a Weed-Eating Robot’s Test Fixtures
- This Smart Pill Uses A Stomach Acid Battery
- Pinball Wizard Hacks Table for Tommy Stage Show
- A Unique Microphone Preamp
- There’s A Computer In This Hard Drive
- The PT2399 Delay/Echo Chip Data Sheet You Never Had
- Smart Power Strip Revived with Raspberry Pi
- Tinkercad Coding Tricks To Automate Modeling
- Dollar Store PCB Holder System
- A 38-Year-Old Vocoder Project
- DIY Socket for Prosthetics Contains Power Supply, Charger
- A Sneak Preview Of The Hacker Warehouse Badge
- Electronic ColorChord Turns Color Into Sound
- Circuit VR: Simple Buck Converters
- An Optical Mouse Sensor For Robotic Vision
- Solar Pi Cluster Scours Internet for Nudes
- NanoPi Cluster Is Quiet, Cool And Has Blinky Lights
- LEDs Make An “Analog” Wristwatch
- Casting Tour-De-Force Results In Swashplate For Scale Helicopter
- Junk Bin Self Balancing Bot With ESP8266
- A Flashlight Powered by Your Hot Little Hands
- Wrangling RC Servos Becoming a Hassle? Try Serial Bus Servos!
- Hackaday Journal Completes First Review Process, Seeks More Submissions
- ESP8266 Keeps Tabs on the Kid’s Tablets
- Open Source DIY Printers are Alive and Well: What We Saw At ERRF 18
- Tattoo your 3D Prints with Velocity Painting
- Shooting for the First Time with Help from a Raspberry Pi
- How To Design Custom Shaped Boards In Fritzing
- The Smaller, Tinier Arduino Platform
- Build Your Own Rowing Machine, Now With Digital Readout!
- Spraychalk Anoints your Sidewalks with Precision Sandprints
- Nonpareil RPN HP-41 Calculator Build
- Calculus and a Calculator
- Friday Hack Chat: Fire and Cars
- Neat 3D Printer Hack Makes Printing Multiples Possible
- Retrotechtacular: Constructing A Car Engine
- A Pick-And-Place That Is A Work Of Art
- The Electric Vehicles Of EMF Camp: A Sinclair C5, (Almost) As It Should Have Been
- Tie-Dyed Filament Sings With Color
- An E-Bike Battery Pack Without Spot Welding
- Launching Fireworks with Raspberry Pi this Fourth of July
- Disney’s New Robot Limbs Trained Using Neural Networks
- Roboshield Helps Your Robot Walk and Talk
- Philo Farnsworth, RCA, and the Battle for Television
- A Cartoon-ifying Camera for Instant Absurdism
- These Capacitors are a Cheap Gimmick
- Drawing Lines In The Sand: Taking Beach Graffiti To The Next Level
- The A to Z of Building Your Own Keyboard
- Using An AI And WiFi To See Through Walls
- Load Bank Teardowns Show Danger
- OpenDeck Makes Spinning Your Own MIDI Controller Easy
- Driftwood Binary Clock Is No Hollow Achievement
- Video Quick-Bit: The Things That Move Robots
- Spy Tech: How an Apollo Capsule Landed in Michigan after a Layover in the USSR
- Electronics Manufacturers React To China Trade Tariffs
- Coolest Way to Watch 3D Printing: Lights, Camera, Octolapse!
- Easy-Peelzy Makes 3D Prints Stick And Not Stick
- Simple Jig Uses Electromagnet For Clean Angle Grinder Cuts
- Furniture And Motors Make A Strange Bedfellow
- Wave Goodbye To Honda Asimo, A Robot That Would Wave Back
- Hackaday Links: July 1, 2018
- Raspberry Pi Zero Stepper Driver, First of Many Modules
- Nintendo Switch Gets Internal Trinket Hardmod
- Heartwatch Monitors Your Ticker
- PCB Holder Quick-fix Turns Out To Be Big Improvement
- Aquarium Controller Starring Arduino Gets A Long Video Description
- Wireless Ring Light For SMD Microscope
- Reverse-Engineering Brains, One Neuron At A Time
June 2018
- DDL-4 Is A Visually Pleasing Modular CPU
- DEXTER Has the Precision To Get The Job Done
- Sonar in Your Hand
- Gyrotourbillion Blesses The Eyes, Hard to Say
- The BBC Computer Literacy Project From The 1980s Is Yours To Browse
- Exostiv FPGA Debugging Might be a Bargain
- Charging An Electric Supercar With Lemons, Kids, And The Sun
- Free E-Book: Software Defined Radio for Engineers
- Handmade Robot Brings Stop Motion to Life
- R/C Rocket-Beest Burns Up Fuses Out There Alone
- xLIDAR Is A Merry-Go-Round Of Time-Of-Flight Sensors
- How Etak Paved the Way to Personal Navigation
- When The Going Gets Tough, These Wheels Transform To Tracks
- Linux Fu: Scripting for Binary Files
- A LIDAR Scanner Build in Glorious Detail
- Box Joint Jig Does Barcodes
- Carousel of Cereals Mixes and Matches Custom Breakfast Blends
- Vlogging With Vintage 1980s Equipment
- This Year, Badges Get Blockchains
- A Lightgun For LCDs – Thanks To Maths!
- Simple Quadcopter Testbed Clears The Air For Easy Algorithm Development
- Rachel Wong Keynote: Growing Eyeballs in the Lab and Building Wearables that Enhance Experience
- Next Weekend: Beginner Solar Workshop
- 3D Printed Tourniquets are Not a Cinch
- Move Aside Mercury: Measuring Temperature Accurately with an RTD
- Tiny Printers Get Color Mixing
- Sunny Custom Keyboard Illuminates the Past
- Raspberry Pi Tracks Starter Fermentation For Optimized Sourdough
- Literary Camouflage For Your Router
- A Different Use For Microwave Oven: Melting Aluminum
- Pool Ball Return System Chalked Up To Ingenuity
- Improving Indoor Navigation of Robots With IR
- After The Sun Set On San Mateo, LED Takes Over Hackaday’s BAMF Meetup
- ESP8266 Home Computer Hides Unexpected Gems
- Keep it Close: A Private Git Server Crash Course
- A Sneak Peek At The TS100 Soldering Iron’s Younger Sibling
- Ken Shirriff Found Butterflies In His Op-Amp
- Never Go To The Office Breakroom Again
- Wired and IBM Explain Quantum Computing to Students from Grade School to Grad School
- Hackers Want Cambridge Dictionary to Change Their Definition
- Building A Mini Electric Bike In Between Projects
- Controlling Robotics Visually
- LEGO: The Kristiansen Legocy
- PIC Powered PicoBat Picks Up Pulsed Power
- Putting Crimpers to the Test: How Good Are Our Crimp Tools?
- No Caffeine, No Problem: A Hand-Soldered Chip-Scale Package
- Everything You Didn’t Know You Were Missing About Bias Tees
- The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Train Whistles
- Conquering The Earth With Cron
- Makerbot Printer Reborn As PCB Engraver
- Apple Coin Bank Plants the Seed of Saving
- Adding Smarts To Dumb Brushed Motors
- A Real Time Data Compression Technique
- Dust to Dust and Jello to Jello: the Journey of a Very Strange Knife
- Lost in Space Gets 3D Printing Right
- SiFive Releases Smaller, Lower Power RISC-V Cores
- The Electric Vehicles Of EMF Camp
- Nvidia Transforms Standard Video Into Slow Motion Using AI
- Clock Plays a Game of Pong with Itself to Pass the Time
- Circuit Bent Keyboard is Pretty in Pink
- Hackaday Links: June 24, 2018
- LoRa With The ESP32
- An Artsy and Functional LED Filament Lamp
- Modular Robotics That Can Make Themselves Into Anything
- Walking Through MRIs With A Vive
- E-Dermis: Feeling At Your (Prosthetic) Fingertips
- Laser Draws Weather Report
- Is This The World’s Smallest Computer?
- Roll Your Own Trackball Mouse
- ROPS Will Be The Board x86 Robot Builders Are Waiting For
- Arduino and Pidgin C++
- Digitizing Domesday Disks
- A MIDI Sequencer To Be Proud Of
- A Cleverly Concealed Magnetic Loop Antenna
- TerraDome Gives Plants And Dinosaurs A New Home
- Your Own Sinclair Scientific Calculator
- The History and Physics of Triode Vacuum Tubes
- Linear Track Makes Plasma Cuts Neat And Simple
- Evolving the 3D Printed Linear Actuator
- VCF East XIII: Another Day in Retro Paradise
- Beats an Extension Cord
- There’s RC2014 Life In The TMS9918A Display Chip Yet
- Linux Fu: The Great Power of Make
- When Vortex Rings Collide
- Analog Meters Become a Clock for Father’s Day
- [Festo]’s Underwater Robot Uses Body-Length Fins
- Computers Go Hollywood
- Is It A Golden Gun If It’s Made Out Of Brass?
- Simple Camera Slider Adds a Dimension or Two to Your Shots
- CNC Mod Pack Hopes To Make Something Useful From A Cheap Machine Tool
- This Is The Year Conference Badges Get Their Own Badges
- Clock This! A 3D-Printed Escapement Mechanism
- Make A Natural Language Phone Bot Like Google’s Duplex AI
- Wiping Robots and Floors: STM32duino Cleans up
- The Best New Amiga Title of 2018?
- Desktop Radio Telescope Images The WiFi Universe
- Learn Something About Phase Locked Loops
- Trackball Gets Bolt-On Button Upgrade
- This Weekend: The East Coast RepRap Festival
- A CNC Plasma Cutter Table, From The Shop Floor Up
- Hexabitz, Modular Electronics Made Easier
- Analog Discovery 2 as a Vector Network Analyzer
- Friday Hack Chat: Ladyada on Creative and Interactive Robotics
- Print Physical Buttons for Your Touch Screen
- Teardown: Box of Pain (Gom Jabbar Sold Separately)
- Bunnie Weighs in on Tariffs
- Would You Look At That Yaw Control
- A YouTube Subscriber Counter With A Tetris Twist
- Calm Down: It’s Only Assembly Language
- Refurbishing A DEC 340 Monitor
- Laser Cutter Turns Scrapped To Shipped
- Printing Strain Wave Gears
- Federico Faggin: The Real Silicon Man
- Lawn From Hell Saved by Mower From Heaven
- What is Our Martian Quarantine Protocol?
- An Arduino Powered Tank Built To Pull Planes
- Tables are Turned as Robots Assemble IKEA Furniture
- Hybrid Lab Power Supply From Broken Audio Amp
- The Colpitts Oscillator Explained
- Raytheon’s Analog Read-Only Memory is Tube-Based
- Arduino Watchdog Sniffs Out Hot 3D Printers
- Buttery Smooth Fades with the Power of HSV
- Watch The World Spin With The Earth Clock
- Fatalities vs False Positives: The Lessons from the Tesla and Uber Crashes
- Opening A Ford With A Robot and the De Bruijn Sequence
- Dissecting the Elusive Wax Motor
- Searchable KiCad Component Database Makes Finding Parts A Breeze
- Learn Six Oscilloscope Measurements with One Arduino
- Hackaday Links: June 17, 2018
- Using IMUs For Odometry
- Retrotechtacular: Car Navigation Like It’s 1971
- FPV-Rover 2.0 Has 3D Printed Treads and Plenty of Zip
- Cheap Front Panels with Dibond Aluminium
- Frozen Rat Kidney Shipping Container
- DIY Coil Winding Machine Counts The Hacky Way
- 3D Printer Tech Cuts Paper
- Definitely-Not-Neopixel Rings, From Scratch!
- A 3D-Printed Robot Actuator
- Building An Ultralight In A Basement is Just So Beautiful to See
- Delta Printer Morphs into CNC Flat Coil Winder
- Titanium Knob Doesn’t Grind Our Gears
- Portable Ham Radio Design Fosters Experiments
- MRI to 3D Print Gets Much Faster
- Changing Color Under Pressure
- Homebrew Calibration For Test Equipment
- Making Electronics Just Got 25% More Expensive In The US
- Two Awesome Ender’s Achievements
- Books You Should Read: Sunburst and Luminary, an Apollo Memoir
- Smoothing PLA with Two Paints
- Retrotechtacular: Voice Controlled Robot from 1961
- Silicon Bugs In The FTDI FT232R, And A Tidy RF VCO Project
- Move Over Aluminum: Cast Iron for the Home Foundry
- Blinging Up A Scope: Scale Your Divisions In Style
- A Crash Course In Reliable Communication
- Making Robot Snakes That Slither, Sidewind, And Strike
- Espresso Machine From Motorbike Engine Parts
- Folding Robots With Special Materials
- General Purpose I/O: How to get more
- DIY Talkbox Gives You More Bounce to the Ounce
- Field Trip! Hackaday Visits Pimoroni
- Neat Odroid & GlusterFS Build Stashes Data, Sips Power
- Poetry is the Fruit of this Loom
- Automatic Sunglasses For the Lazy Hacker
- Extracting Water from Fog
- Simplifying Basic LED Effects
- Cigar Box Synth is a Fun Time
- ESP8266 Uses LiFi To Get On WiFi
- VCF East 2018: Cactus, Retro Because it Wants to Be
- Friday Hack Chat: All About The Hackaday Prize
- Rescuing K-9
- Hair-Raising Tales of Electrostatic Generators
- Unlocking Animal Crossing’s Debug Mode
- Chromebook Trades Camera for WiFi Freedom
- Computer Vision For PCB Layout
- Internal Power Pills
- Teardown Locates Fractal Antenna
- Scotty Allen’s PCB Fab Tour is Like Willy Wonka’s for Hardware Geeks
- These Twenty Amazing Projects Won The Robotics Module Challenge
- The Flight of the Seagull: Valentina Tereshkova, Cosmonaut
- 3D Print A Remote Control Flame Thrower
- Getting Good at FPGAs: Real World Pipelining
- Fail of the Week: Two Rotors Are Not Better Than Four
- 555 Ways to Speed Control A DC Motor
- Understanding a MOSFET Mixer
- A Close Eye on Power Exposes Private Keys
- A Guide To Audio Amps For Radio Builders
- Tricking A Vintage Clock Chip Into Working On 50-Hz Power
- PCBs As Linear Motors
- Ask Hackaday: What Color Are Your PCBs?
- Bike-Driven Scarf Knitter is an Accessory to Warmth
- Hacking When It Counts: The Magnetron Goes to War
- [James Bruton] Is Making A Dog: OpenDog Project
- FPGA Persistently Rick Rolls You
- Custom Buttons For Your Game Controller
- High Voltage Switching with MOSFETs
- Hackaday Links: Benchoff Rants On Flying Cars
- Super Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses
- Joe Grand is Hiding Data in Plain Sight: LEDs that Look Solid but Send a Message
- Rubber Duck Debugging the Digital Way
- Coming Back to Curving Bullets
- Fail Of The Week: Never Trust A Regulator Module
- A Lesson in K40 Laser Repair
- Marvel at Soviet-era Smart Display’s Tiny Size
- Japanese Fire-Fighting Dragon Rides Water Jets
- Framed Raspberry Pi Keeps Tabs on Spotify
- This Is An Inordinate Amount Of Switches
- No Microcontroller In This Vending Machine, D’oh!
- Monotron Gets All the Mods
- Restoring an Atari 800 XL that’s Beyond Restoring
- Arduino Analog I/O Multiplexer
- A Fully Open Source Raspberry Pi Synthesizer
- Algae On Your Plate
- A Tinfoil-Free Internet Of Ceiling Fans
- CalClock Keeps You Tied To The Mast
- Turning Tact Switches Into Keyboards
- Biasing That Transistor Part 4: Don’t Forget the FET
- Minimum Viable 1-D PONG
- VCF East 2018: SDR on the Altair 8800
- Who Said Thermal Cameras Weren’t Accessible To The Masses?
- Space Invaders Sound Chip Went Old School With I2L
- Ambient Lighting for Baby with the ESP8266
- Social Engineering by Railways
- Dive Inside This Old Quartz Watch
- WiFi Pool Controller Only Cost $20
- Vaporwave For The Parallel Port
- Linux Fu: Watch That Filesystem
- Building a Knife by Hand is just as Hard as you Think
- Ask Hackaday: What Is The Future Of Implanted Electronics?
- Indiegogo Calls Time On The ZX Vega
- Battleships Over BGP
- Pocket Projector Uses Raspberry Pi
- Stars Looking A Bit Dim? Throw Some Math At Them.
- Classifying Crystals With An SDR Dongle
- Roll A Black Box For Your Wheels
- 32 Shades Of Gray
- The Hacky Throttle Repair That Got Me On The Road Again
- Friday Hack Chat: Hacking The Wild
- Illuminated Bread for a Cookie Cutter World
- Mechanisms: Abrasives
- Cracking the Case of Capcom’s CPS2 Security
- Homebrew SDR Ham Radio in 9 Parts
- Cat Compels Raspberry Pi Flight Tracker
- Smart Citizen Opens Eyes and Ears in Barcelona
- Magnetic Spheres Line Up for Rotary Encoder Duty
- Lightning Generator from Electric Lighter
- Hacked RC Transmitters Control All The Things
- Ted Dabney, Atari, and the Video Game Revolution
- Drifting Instrument Presents Opportunity to Learn about Crystal Oscillators
- Pipelining Digital Logic in FPGAs
- Microsoft Confirms GitHub Acquisition
- Sonoff Postmortem Finds Bugs, Literally
- Pocket-size Pi Zero Desktop features e-paper Display
- GPS Disciplined Oscillators
- Reverse Engineered Media Controller From Car Is Best Friends With Android
- Tesla Model 3 Battery Pack Teardown
- Robot Dances to the Beat of New YouTube Subs
- Preparing For A Lathe: How to Move 3000 Pounds of Iron
- Power Harvesting Challenge: Scavenge Some Power, Win Prizes
- A Canon Lens Adapter for the Game Boy Camera
- A 100th Birthday Celebration for the Flip Flop
- Teddy Ruxpin: Navigate to 143 Main Street
- Deploying a Turnkey Raspberry Pi System
- Slow Cooking Filament
- It’s UNIX. On A Microcontroller.
- Hackaday Links: June 3, 2018
- Turning That Old Hoverboard Into A Learning Platform
- 3D Printed Clockwork Star Tracker
- $6 Weather Station Goes Where you Do
- Silicon Nanowires Create Flexible Photodetectors
- Someone Set us Up the Compiler Bomb
- Bringing Back A Spectrum’s Rails
- Facebook’s Universal Music Translator
- Budget Dehydrator Gives your Damp Filament a Second Chance
- Servo Becomes Mini Linear Actuator
- Buck Converter Efficiency
- Print Your Own Filament
- Bike Helmet Plays Music via Tiny Motors for Bone Conduction
- 3D Printed Tank has Slick Tread Design
- A HID For Robots
- Prestretched Fabric Prints Pop into the Third Dimension
- An Electromagnet Brings Harmony to this Waving Cat
- Trashed Vector Game Console Revived With Vintage IBM Monitor
- This Is Your Last Chance To Design The Greatest Robotics Modules
- Raspberry Pi’s Power Over Ethernet Hardware Sparks False Spying Hubbub
- A Wild Hackaday Belgrade Confirms Status as One of World’s Greatest Hardware Cons
- Linux Fu: Counter Rotate Keys!
- Dead Simple Ultrasonic Data Communication
- Tracking CubeSats for $25
- Tiny FPGA Board Fits in Your Laptop
- Distorted Text Says A Lot
May 2018
- Blowing Arcylic Canopies Using Stuff From Around The Shop
- DIY Scrap Guitar Really Shreds
- The Best Part of Waking Up Just Got Better
- Modular Robotics Made Easier With ROS
- Reverse-Emulating NES: Nintendception!
- Internet of Smells: Giving a Machine the Job of Sniffing Out Spoiled Food
- Accurate Coffee Billing Through Reverse Engineering
- Serial Connection Over Audio: Arduino Can Listen To UART
- Counting Bees With A Raspberry Pi
- Stock Market Prediction With Natural Language Machine Learning
- The Tantillus, Reborn
- Convert A Curbside CRT TV Into An Arcade Monitor
- Supercapacitors In A Servo: The “Forever” Flashlight
- VCF East 2018: The Mail Order App Store
- Friday Hack Chat: Logic Noise
- Laser-Powered Flying Machine Weighs Milligrams
- 360 Live VR Teleportation Uses Drones, Neural Networks, and Perseverance
- Cheap Stuff To Hack: A Router With An SDR For $13
- Autonomous Spaceplane Travels to 10 km, Lands Safely 200 km Away
- Spellcasting Gun Uses POV Display, Not Magic
- Gaming System Built With Kite, The DIY Android Kit
- Monitoring Air Quality, One Sleepy Meeting At A Time
- Put The 3D Printer To Sleep So You Can Rest Easy
- Tiny $25 Spectrometer Aims to Identify Materials with Ease
- Spanning The Tree : Dr Radia Perlman & Untangling Networks
- Badge Bling And More At LayerOne 2018
- Smart Plugs Don’t Save You Energy, But Don’t Consume Much Either
- Hacking a Fitness Tracker
- This Mostly 3D-Printed Discone Antenna Is Ready For Broadband Duty
- Boozer Tells The Internet How Much You Drink (If You Want It To)
- Ham Radio on $100 Or Less
- [GreatScott] Tests His DIY Battery Pack On His E-Bike
- Strike a Chord With This LED Ukulele
- Talking to Laptop Batteries with the ESP8266
- Stretching My Skills: How (and Why) I Made My Own Compression Sleeves
- Muscle Your Way into Music
- The Robots Were Coming! The Robots Were Coming!
- Rolling Old School with Copy Protection from the 1980s
- Magic Mirror Tirelessly Indulges Children’s Curiousity
- Vintage Organ Donates Parts for Two New Instruments
- RCA TV Gets New Life As Interactive Atltvhead
- A Nicely Crafted POV Lightsaber
- “Watch Dogs” Inspired Hacking Drone Takes Flight
- A Li-Ion Booster Pack, Done Right
- A Classy SDR Chip, Decapped
- Flash your Libre Firmware with a Libre Programmer
- DIY Submersible Aims for Low Cost, Ease of Operation
- An Oscilloscope For The Nuclear Age
- Disaster Area Communications With Cloud Gateways
- A Custom Keypad with Vision
- Watch the Honeycomb Clock Gently Track Time
- Their Battery is Full of Air
- Hackaday Belgrade is On: Join LiveStream and Chat!
- Wireless Charger Gives a Glimpse into Industrial Design Process
- This Robot Barfs Comics!
- USB Reverse Engineering: A Universal Guide
- Linear Clock is a Different Way to Look at Time
- Don’t Flake on Your Fish—Feed them Automatically
- An Ultrasound Driver With Open Source FPGAs
- Biasing That Transistor: The Emitter Follower
- Hacking for Learning and Laughs: The Makers of Oakwood School
- Hacking When It Counts: The Pioneer Missions
- NASA Remotely Hacks Curiosity’s Rock Drill
- Bringing a VIC-20 Back from an Oily Grave
- Rey’s Blaster Shoots Glow-in-the-Dark Bullets
- Ears To You: Sensing Facial Expressions with an Ear Plug
- Headlight Mod For An Audi A3
- Animated Bluetooth Bike Turn Signals
- Programmable Air Makes Robotics A Breeze
- VCF East 2018: The Desktop ENIAC
- Hackaday Belgrade 2018 is Sold Out: We Can’t Wait for Saturday
- A Smarter PSU Converter Leaves the Magic Smoke Inside
- Ask Hackaday: How Do You DIY a Top-Octave Generator?
- How Hertha Ayrton Enabled the Titanic to Call SOS
- Modern Wizard Summons Familiar Spirit
- ESP32 Boards With Displays: An Overview
- Using TensorFlow To Recognize Your Own Objects
- Retro Rebuild Recreates SGI Workstation Demos On The Go
- Grawler: Painless Cleaning For Glass Roofs
- Open Source Underwater Distributed Sensor Network
- Mechanisms: Solenoids
- Friday Hack Chat: Making Programming Easier
- Plant Biology is a Gateway
- SpaceX’s Next Giant Leap: Second Stage Recovery
- Blowing Rings With Cannons, Fogs, And Lasers
- Automatic I2C Address Allocation For Daisy-Chained Sensors
- This Computer Is As Quiet As The Mouse
- Machine Learning Crash Course From Google
- Spared No Expense: Cloning The Jurassic Park Explorer
- Restoring A 1930s Oscilloscope – Without Supplying Power
- Smiling Robot Moves Without Wires
- Robert Hall and the Solid-State Laser
- Hacking a Cheap Laser Rangefinder
- Hands-On: Flying Drones with Scratch
- Raspberry Pi Keeps Cool
- A Parallel Port Synthesiser For Your DOS PC
- Dual SDR Receives Two Bands at Once
- Online Logic Simulator Is Textual — No, Graphical
- Fail of the Week: The Semiconductor Lapping Machine That Can’t Lap Straight
- Alexa And Particle Modernize Coffee Machine By One Iota
- Investigating the Tiny Salvaged UPS from a Lightbulb
- Wireless Headphone Hack Dangles Batteries Like Earrings
- Explaining Efail and Why It Isn’t the End of Email Privacy
- Ditch The Tapes, Put An Android In Your Deck
- RoMeLa’s Sideways Walking Robot Has Evolved More Limbs
- Slipcasting Resin Prototypes
- Card Reader Lockout Keeps Unauthorized Tool Users at Bay
- Hackaday Links: May 20, 2018
- Inverted Pendulum For The Control Enthusiast
- Stretching The Definitions Of A Custom IC
- Internet of Laundry — Let the ESP8266 Watch Your Dirty Drawers Get Clean
- Tiny Sideways Tetris on a Business Card
- Video of the Arduino FPGA Board Demo at Maker Faire
- Scrapped Motors Don’t Care About Direction
- Friend in Need Gets Junk Bin PC for Cramped Quarters
- It’s Not Morning Until Green o’clock
- Visit Tapigami Tape City, Where Tape Is The Fabric Of Society
- People with Dementia can DRESS Smarter
- Motorized Stage Finesses the Microscopic World
- One-key Keyboard is Exercise in Sub-millimeter Design
- Parallel Programming for FPGAs
- Nuclear Synchroscope Gets New Life
- Hybrid Bench Power Supply Can Also Hit the Road
- Modular Blocks Help Fight Disease
- Tiny Transmitter Brings Out the Spy Inside You
- Autonomous Agribots For Agriculture
- InSight Brings New Tech to Mars
- LayerOne InfoSec Conference Returns Next Weekend
- Arduino Just Introduced an FPGA Board, Announces Debugging and Better Software
- Snowboard and Skateboard So Lit You Can Wipe Out and Still Look Good
- Open Source Calculator Teaches us about Quality Documentation
- Five Steps to TensorFlow on the Raspberry Pi
- Automatic MtG Card Sorter Separates Rags from Riches
- DIY SSR For Mains Switching
- Suitcase Computer Reborn with Raspberry Pi Inside
- No-Battery HD Video Streaming Does It with Backscatter
- The Solid State Weather Station
- Circuit VR: Current Mirrors
- The Pros and Cons of Microcontrollers for Boost Converters
- Review: FG-100 DDS Function Generator
- Open Gaming To Everyone With A Controller Meant To Be Hacked
- Long PCB Shows Effects of Ludicrous Speed
- Arduino Star Tracker Raises the Bar
- Location Sharing with Google Home
- Prop WWII Machine Gun Courtesy of Home Depot
- Neural Networks Using Doom Level Creator Like It’s 1993
- Flood Fault Circuit Interrupter Could Save Lives
- Retrotechtacular: The Saturn Propulsion System
- Welcome to the Internet of Hamsters
- 3D Printering: When an STL File is Not Quite Right
- IKEA Lamp with Raspberry Pi as the Smartest Bulb in the House
- Gentle Electric Eel
- Case Mod Takes “All In One” Printer to the Next Level
- Dark Field Microscopy on the Cheap with a PCB
- Lucky Cat POV Display Ditches the Waving and Windmills Out of Control
- Hawkeye, the 3D-Printed Tourbillon Movement
- Reflowduino: Put That Toaster Oven To Good Use
- Richard Feynman: A Life Of Curiosity And Science
- Direct CNC Control with the Raspberry Pi
- Retro Computer Badge for Hackaday Belgrade Has Everything You Wished for Back in the Day
- DIY Pi Zero Pentesting Tool Keeps it Cheap
- Windows for Workgroups 3.11 in 2018
- MSDOS Development with GCC
- Tiny Pinball Emulator is Hugely Impressive
- DIY Variacs get ESP8266 Upgrades
- RC Paper Airplane From Guts Of Quadcopter
- PGP Vulnerability Pre-announced by Security Researcher
- MoAgriS: A Modular Agriculture System
- The Electrical Outlet and How It Got That Way
- This Weekend: Hackaday x Tindie Meetup At Bay Area Maker Faire.
- 3D-Printing Saves Collectible Lures from a Fishy Ending
- The Eric Lundgren Story: When Free isn’t Free
- Flite Test Puts a Chair in the Air
- ESP Cookbook Goes Beyond Chips and DIPs
- Held Captive by Arduino and Multiple RFID Readers
- Shirt Pocket Slide Rule: History of the HP-35
- Hackaday Links: May 13, 2018
- Intra-Oral Device Detects Opioid Overdose
- Flash Memory: Caveat Emptor
- 3D Printing Air Quality Study
- Build Your Own Avionics Suite, If You Dare
- Sign of the Smith Chart Times
- Battery-Powered Watering Timer Converted to Solar on the Cheap
- HFT On HF, You Can’t Beat It For Latency
- A Two-Range OLED Capacitance Meter
- The Current Advances of PCB Motors
- A Vacuum Tube and Barbecue Lighter X-Ray Generator
- Stepper Motor And Key Fob Controlled Strandbeest
- NeoPixel Game Rewards Button Mashing
- Pimp My Scope
- Save the Tally Ho: Rebuilding a Historic Yacht
- Impossibly Huge Depth of Focus in Microscope Photographs
- Fake Omron Relays are Worth What You Pay For Them
- Flashing An LED The Widlar Way
- Pick And Place Machine Is Mirror Image Of 3D Printer
- Biasing That Transistor: The Common Base Amplifier
- Fail of the Week: 3D Printed Worm Gear Drive Project Unveils Invisible Flaw
- Scratch-Built Ornithopter: Here’s How I Flapped My Way to Flight
- Stylish Business Card with a Stylophone Built In
- Antique Lighthouse Lens via CNC
- Soundproofing A CNC Mill Conversion
- Diablo Drive Appears To Be Cursed
- 3D Printed Tool Tips to Straighten DIP Chips and Unstraighten Resistors
- Google’s Duplex AI Has Conversation Indistinguishable From Human’s
- Build Your Own Android Smartphone
- Simple Ethereum Vending Machines with NodeMCU
- VCF East XIII is Right Around the Corner
- Microsoft Kinect Episode IV: A New Hope
- Modular Robotics: When You Want More Robots in Your Robot
- 1960’s Console Stereo gets Raspberry Pi Touch Screen
- Quiet Your Car The Cheap and Effective Way
- Vector Network Analyzer Uses SoC FPGA
- PIC16Maze Upgrades Secret Maze Game
- QElectroTech: An Open Source Wiring Diagram Tool
- Breadboarding: Git for A/B Testing Actual Bread
- The Metabolizer Turns Trash into Treasure
- Optocouplers: Defending Your Microcontroller, MIDI, and a Hot Tip for Speed
- Friday Hack Chat: Open Hardware For Science
- Broken Screen Becomes Polarizing Art Lamp
- An Ode to Belgrade
- 8-bit game uses our favourite IC and Zero lines of code
- Gorgeous NickelBot Serves Up Lasered Wooden Nickels
- Push it to the Limit: SSD1306 at 150 FPS
- Windows Notepad Now Supports Unix Line Endings
- Putting the Mooshimeter to Sleep with a Bit of Mercury
- Stomping On Microcontrollers: Arduino Mega Guitar Effects Pedal
- Mike’s Robot Dog Is A First Step In The Right Direction
- Sophie Wilson: ARM and How Making Things Simpler Made Them Faster & More Efficient
- We Couldn’t Resist this CNC Batik Bot
- How to Build Anything Out of Aluminum Extrusion and 3D Printed Brackets
- Alexa, Attack Intruders
- Is That a Tweet on Your Belt Buckle or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
- Harmony Hub Hacked and Patched
- Waking Up To Classic Soundgarden Screaming
- Flash and Debug ESP8266 Boards on Android
- Raspberry Pi Becomes Cycle Exact Commodore Drive Emulator
- Smartwatch Fights Anxiety with Action
- Printed It: Toolbag Essentials
- Double The Resolution, From An Arduino ADC
- The Aluminum Wiring Fiasco
- 3D Printed Bicycle Tire Not Full of Hot Air
- AH-1 Cobra Tap Handle Pours on the Fun
- Algorithms for Visual Learners
- The Adafruit Feather Is A Thing
- Hackaday Links: May 6th 2018
- Morse Code Blinking Jewelry
- Hurricane Simulator Buoys Research
- A Home Network, Security System, And A Hidden Room Behind A Bookcase
- Ham Reviews MiniVNA
- Glow In The Dark Globe On A Spherical Screen
- Crawling a Dungeon, 64 Pixels at a Time
- Printed Circuits In The Palm Of Your Hand
- LoRa System Commands Drones From A Distance
- Low-Cost Eye Tracking with Webcams and Open-Source Software
- Fail Of The Week: Never Assume All Crystals Are Born Equal
- Hardware Acceleration in the Cloud
- Simple Home-built Projection Clock Projects Time
- Giving An LED Bulb Some Smarts
- Super Simple, Super Cheap FPV Drone Tracking
- High End PC Gets A Rustic Woodworking Piece Of Art For A Case
- Making Vintage Computing Easy, The Hard Way
- A Mobile Terminal for Guerrilla Communications
- Hacked Fitness Trackers Aim to Improve Mental and Physical Health
- Biasing That Transistor: The Common Emitter Amplifier
- Make 3D-Modeling Child’s Play with a Can of Play-Doh
- Ask Hackaday: Whatever Happened to Wire Wrapping?
- Commodore 64 to Raspberry Pi Conversion is Respectful & Complete
- Step the Halbach from My Magnets
- Portable Photo Booth Named Buzz
- Build Your Own Black Hole
- 3D Printed Tank Scores Suspension
- Colossal Hydraulic Hulkbuster Is Classic Colin Furze
- Robot Radar Module
- Circuit VR: Sink or Swim with Current Sources
- San Francisco: Let’s Learn to Build Some Robots!
- Smooth PLA Through the Fire and Flames
- 3D Printering: Which Raspberry Pi is Best at Slicing in Octoprint?
- More Details On That First Home-Made Lithographically Produced IC
- Playing Jedi Mind-Tricks On Your TV
- Raspberry Pi is Up Up and Away
- Soda Can Art
- Oddball Mercury Vapor Rectifier Is A Tube Geek’s Delight
- The Incredible Shrinking Rework Station
- These Twenty Amazing Projects Won The Open Hardware Design Challenge
- Directly Executing Chunks of Memory: Function Pointers In C
- Friday Hack Chat: Building Robotics With The MeArm
- The Internet of Claw Machines
- Accessing Blockchain on ESP8266 Using the NodeMCU Board
- Scotty Allen Builds A USB Drive From An iPhone
- Tron Inspired LED Desk Lighting
- Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow, Via Electrolysis
- Digikey Tips Its Hat To Kicad With Its Own Library
- A Telepresence System That’s Starting To Feel Like A Holodeck
- See-Through Rotary Engine Reveals Wankel Magic
- Building Badges The Hard Way
- The Anxiety of Open Source: Why We Struggle With Putting It Out There
- Recycling and Casting Styrofoam with Solvents
- Inside Mechanical Calculators
- Battery Backup Conceals a Pentesting Pi
- Comparing Making To Buying A Lithium Ion Battery Pack
- Playing Pong With Micro:bits!
- Game-Ception: Pokemon Red Playable Inside Minecraft
April 2018
- Training The Squirrel Terminator
- This Dust Collector Will Blow You Away.
- Universal Quick-Release Bar Clamps
- Decellularization: Apples to Earlobes
- Tiny Arduino + FPGA = Sno
- Milspec Teardown: AH-64A Apache Data Entry Panel
- The Quest For The Reuleaux Triangle Bearing
- Papercraft-Inspired Snake-bot Slithers like a Real One
- Hackaday Belgrade Schedule Announced
- Hard Drive Gives Its Life to Cool 3D Prints
- Hackaday Links: April 29, 2018
- Towards More Automated Printers
- 3D Printing Electronics Direct to Body
- How to Put the ‘Pro’ in Prototype
- Auction Finds Combined For A Unique Desoldering Station
- Open-source Circuit Simulation
- Core Memory Upgrade for Arduino
- The Interesting Fate Of Kenya’s First Computers
- The Cake Robot is No Lie
- Vastly Improving The Battery Life On Cheap Action Cams
- An Open-Source Turbomolecular Pump Controller
- PCB Take on Stars, Moons, and Ringed Planets is Gold
- Homebrew Not a Hakko
- Umbrella and Tin Cans Turned into WiFi Dish Antenna
- Today: Hackaday is at UK Maker Faire Plus Afterparty
- An Open Source Sip-and-Puff Mouse for Affordable Accessibility
- Cams and Pushrods Improve 3D-Printed Compressed Air Engine
- 2018’s Hottest Accessory Is a 3D Printed Air Raid Siren
- Thermoelectric Fan Harvests Wood Stove Heat Junkyard Style
- Checking The Weather Without A Window
- A Blockchain, Robotics and AI Event in Vietnam
- IR Detective Eases Development with Compact Decoding
- Circuit VR: Oscillating Bridges
- Unlocking Drones with Go
- A Low Cost, Dead Tree Touch Screen
- Catch a Rising Star with Arduino
- Google Lowers The Artificial Intelligence Bar With Complete DIY Kits
- Synthbike Rolls To The Beat
- Reverse Engineering Nintendo Labo Waveform Cards
- A Mini-ITX PDP-11
- Is It On Yet? Sensing the World Around Us, Starting with Light
- Writing On A Whiteboard, Performed By A Robot
- Mechanisms: The Lever, It’s Everywhere
- Turn Failed Prints into Office Fun with a Paper Airplane Maker
- Neural Network Names Nightshades
- Motor test bench talks the torque
- Microsoft Secures IoT from the Microcontroller Up
- Roll Up Your Sleeve, Watch a Video with This Smart Watch Forearm Projector
- Video Quick-Bit: Numitrons and Infinite Build Volumes
- Adventures In Gas Filled Tube Arrays
- Litar: An Air Guitar Using LiDAR
- Retrotechtacular: Synchros Go to War (and Peace)
- Friday Hack Chat: Control Schemes For Robotics
- Reflow Rig Makes SMD Soldering a Wok in The Park
- Firing Bullets Through Propellers
- Beat This Mario Block Like it Owes You Money
- Smart Outlet Cover Offers Lessons on Going from Project to Product
- Temperature Sensor and Simple Oscillator Make a Value-Added HF Beacon
- Neural Networks… On a Stick!
- First Lithographically Produced Home Made IC Announced
- Former Smoker Now Pats Pockets for Motivation
- Custom Chips As A Service
- Émilie du Châtelet: An Energetic Life
- Making 3D Objects The Scroll Saw Way
- A Buyer’s Guide to Lathe Options
- Heat Seeking Robot and Camera Tear Down
- Dissecting the AVR debugWire
- Assemble Your Own Modular Li-Ion Batteries
- Parametric Hinges with Tinkercad
- Detoured: Caltech’s Hackerspace
- 3000W Unicycle’s Only Limitation Is “Personal Courage”
- Tiny Vacuum Chamber Arm to Help with Homemade Semiconductors
- Teardown: LED Bulb Yields Tiny UPS
- Bargain Bin Barcode Scanner Keeps Track Of Shopping Needs
- Robotics Module Challenge: Build Robot, Win Prizes
- What Does ‘Crypto’ Actually Mean?
- Spoofing Cell Networks with a USB to VGA Adapter
- The Simplest Possible DIY Ultrasonic Levitator
- Remote Control of Clocks is Easy as Pi
- An FM Transceiver From An Unexpected Chip
- Hackaday Links: April 22, 2018
- Counting Without Transistors
- Fail of the Week: The Spot Welder Upgrade That Wasn’t
- When Detecting Lines Is Harder Than Expected
- GuerillaClock Could Save This City Thousands
- Blueprints Make It Easy To Make (Some) Alexa Skills
- Computers May Someday Need A Drink
- 3D Drone Video
- Got a Burning Idea For An EMF Camp Presentation? Now’s Your Chance!
- Roomba-Riding Beer Butlers Will Serve Us All
- Tracktorino Shields You From Poor Interfaces
- Building a POV Display On A PC Fan
- Nerf blaster goes next-level with propane power
- Fast LED Matrix Graphics For The ESP32
- Home Made 5-Axis CNC Head Is A Project To Watch
- Zippo Keeps Your Bits Safe
- Real-Time Polarimetric Imager from 1980s Tech
- A Polar Coordinate CNC Plotter Even Descartes Could Love
- This Is Your Last Chance To Design The Greatest In Open Hardware
- eTextile Spring Break Tackles Signal Blocking, Audio Generation, and Radio Transmissions
- Laser projector ditches galvanometer for spinning drum
- Life On Contract: Lowering Your Cost without Dropping Your Price
- This Vapour Deposition Chamber Isn’t Vapourware
- Tesla Coil Uses Vacuum Tube
- Turning 8-Track Player Into A Walkman
- Play Chess Against A Ghost
- Marquee Display Uses Six Dozen Surplus VFD Tubes to Great Effect
- Arduino Revives Junkyard Laser Cutter
- Bent PETG Fills A Nixie Gap
- When 4 + 1 Equals 8: An Advanced Take On Pointers In C
- Completely Scratch-Built Electronic Speed Controller
- Mechanisms: Hook and Loop Fasteners
- Unlock & Talk: Open Source Bootloader & Modem
- Raspberry Pi W Antenna Analysis Reveals Clever Design
- Browsing Modern Day BBS on the Epson PX-8 Laptop
- SDR IF Experiments
- Classic American Dial Phone Gets A GSM Makeover
- The One-Transistor Flip-Flop
- Tesselated Worklights Are Nifty, Modular
- When Hackerspace Directors Burn Out
- Friday Hack Chat: Circuit Board Art
- Fire. Vortex. Cannon. Need We Say More?
- Fix Your Insecure Amazon Fire TV Stick
- This Thermal Printer has Serious Game
- Dispensing Solder Paste Automatically
- Keeping Streets Ice-Free with the Raspberry Pi
- DIY Magnetic Actuator, Illustrated And Demonstrated
- Why Won’t This Darn Thing Charge?
- DIY Drill-Powered Water Pump
- Automating The Design Of Word Clocks
- Beatrice Tinsley and the Evolution of Galaxies
- 3D Printing Watertight Containers
- Beeping The Enemy Into Submission
- Fail Of The Week: An Electric Bicycle, Powered By AA Batteries
- Build Your Own Supercomputer with ESP32s
- Motion-Controlled KVM Switch
- Learning Software In A Soft Exosuit
- Polaroid Gets Thermal Printer and Raspberry Pi
- Reprogramming Cheap WiFi Outlets
- Medium Machine Mediates Microcontroller Messages
- TensorFlow in your Browser
- Delicious Optics, A Chocolate Diffraction Grating
- Two-Cent Temperature Sensors
- Low-Resolution Display Provides High-Nostalgia Animations
- Custom Built Vacuum Tube Cassette Player
- Workshops Announced For Hackaday Belgrade
- RIP DIP ARM
- Superb Wood Floor Inlay Shows Off Computer-Augmented Tools
- Hackaday Links: April 15th, 2018
- Rotary Encoders Become I2C Devices
- Fail Of The Week: Casting A Bolt In A 3D-Printed Mold
- Hackaday & Tindie UK Tour Adds Milton Keynes
- One-Pixel Attack Fools Neural Networks
- Shutter Bug Goes Extreme with Scratch-Built Film Camera
- Hide Secret Messages In Plain Sight With Zero-Width Characters
- Big Mouth Billy Bass Channels Miley Cyrus
- Neon Lamps Light Up Dim Ion Motor
- Mc Lighting Takes the Pain out of Blinking
- Shoes That Tell You Where to Go
- When Stirling Engines Meet 3D Printers
- Visualizing Blocked Ads with the Pi Sense Hat
- The Raspberry Pi 3B+ As An SDR – Without The SDR!
- PID Control with Arduino
- Portable DVD Player gets Raspberry Pi Zero Upgrade
- HP Inkjet Printer Trains for Space
- Customize All the Fan Covers You Never Knew You Needed
- Hybrid 3D-Printer Creates Complete Circuits, Case and All
- Resuming Failed 3D Prints Automatically
- Mechanisms: the Spring
- Up, Up, Up: $2,000 More Seed Funding for Hackaday Prize Entries
- 3D Printer Time Lapse Videos Ditch the Blur
- Another Reason to Learn Morse Code: Kidnapping
- The Ultimate iPhone Upgrade
- A Hacker’s Epic Quest to Keep His Son Entertained
- A Machinist’s Foray Into Jewelry Making
- AlterEgo Listens to Your Internal Voice
- Dumping Arcade ROMs the Hard Way
- Making Custom Silicon For The Latest Raspberry Pi
- Clive Sinclair, The Other Author
- Audio Hacking With The ESP8266
- To Ferrule or Not to Ferrule?
- Get Your Name on the Hottest List in the Solar System
- Building the Perfect Home Router
- Hackaday And Tindie Are Coming To London On Sunday!
- Pocket-Sized Workstation Sports Pi Zero, Pop-Up Screen
- Zephyr Adds Features, Platforms, And Windows
- Need a Thousand Extra PWM Pins?
- Universal Chip Analyzer: Test Old CPUs In Seconds
- Dublin Unconference Roundup: The Topics That are Hot Right Now
- Retrotechtacular: Operation Smash Hit
- Friday Hack Chat: Talking MQTT With The Community
- Practical Plasma for Thin-Film Deposition
- Hacking When It Counts: Pigeon-Guided Missiles
- Redirected Walking in VR done via Exploit of Eyeballs
- Emulating OBD-II on the ESP32
- 1920’s Claratone Radio Runs Windows 10
- Simple Quantum Computing in 150 Lines of Python
- Bringing Guitar Synthesis To The Microcontroller
- Micro Chainsaw Gets a Much Needed Nitro Power Boost
- Recharging Drones On The Go With A Supercharger
- Margaret Hamilton Takes Software Engineering To the Moon and Beyond
- Simple Mechanism Gives Support for SMT Assembly
- Reviewing the HBTool HB-019 Desoldering Iron: It Probably Won’t Shock You
- The Forgotten Workstation: Sun JavaStation
- Leap Motion Announces Open Source Augmented Reality Headset
- Beautiful Pi-Powered Cocktail Machine
- Social Networking Robot Actually Respects Privacy
- Who Made the First Human Audio Recordings? Edison? Not so Fast!
- 3D-Printer Gets Hot-Swappable Hot-Ends
- A Victrola For The 21st century
- Ask Hackaday: What’s in Your Digital Bugout Bag?
- Dublin Knows How to Bring-a-Hack
- Space Garbage Truck Takes Out the Trash
- DIY Designer Wallet From Designer Bag
- An SSB Transceiver On Only One Type of Transistor
- Tiny Neural Network Library in 200 Lines of Code
- Orbital Mechanics on a Vintage Kaypro
- Hackaday Links: April 8, 2018
- Floor Mopping Robot Takes Cleanliness to the Next Level
- New App Note Day: Internet of Pillows
- Cracking A Bluetooth Credit Card
- Function Generator Gets DIY Frequency Standard
- DIY CNC Sandblaster Writes Large
- Art Deco Radio Gets FM Reception
- You Can Build Anything Out Of What Is Holding Your 97 Eagle Talon Together
- Using Moiré Patterns To Guide Ships
- The Better RetroPie Handheld
- Applications Open: Ada Lovelace Fellowships For 2018 Open Hardware Summit
- These Gorgeous Robot Parts are Hand-Made
- Retrofit Temperature Control to a Soldering Station
- Reviving an Electron Microscope with Arduino
- Circuit-Sword Delivers Retro Justice
- State Your Intentions More Clearly With State Machines
- Can You 3D Print an Axe?
- Chiptunes on a Solar Panel
- Because Building A Relay Computer Isn’t Hard Enough
- Won’t Somebody, Please, Think Of The Transistors!
- Handheld Arduino Light Painter
- Circuit VR: The Dickson Charge Pump
- Monitor Foot Traffic Using Radio
- Firefox Reality, A Browser For VR Devices
- A True 3D Printed Weather Station
- Magic 8 Ball Business Card Will Answer All Your Questions
- Soda Can Lamp Pinpoints Your Interests
- Kniwwelino Is An ESP8266 Micro:Bit
- Lawn Dog Faithfully Cuts the Grass
- Mechanisms: Couplings
- Persistence of Phosphorescence Clock Displays YouTube Stats Too
- Lazy Hacker Checks Fuel System for Leaks, The Easy Way
- Upgrade Your Mac With A Touchscreen, For Only A Dollar
- Workbench Light Arch on the Cheap
- 3D Print a Thinner Car Key
- Coaxing Water From Desert Air
- LEGO Meets Nintendo Switch
- It’s a Spider! It’s a Droideka! It’s Both!
- The Amazing Hacks Of World Create Day
- The Basics and Pitfalls of Pointers in C
- Detoured: RF And Film
- Kapton: Miracle Material with a Tragic History
- Laser-Cut Mecanum Wheel for the Budget Roboticist
- The Era of Orville Props Has Officially Begun
- Filter your Pi and be a Responsible Pirate
- The Lichtspiel: Not A Simple Child’s Toy.
- Rotating Lithophane Box Turns with Time
- A Gif-Playing Top Hat For FRC 2018!
- Is This The End For The C.H.I.P.?
- Nancy Grace Roman, Mother of the Hubble
- Handheld Propulsion Is Noisy, Awesome
- What’s the Deal with Transparent Aluminum?
- Soldering Saves Data From Waterlogged Laptop
- Hackaday x Tindie Meetup in Dublin this Friday
- [Ben Krasnow] Tests Novel Plasma
- It Looks Like A Nintendo, But It’s Running A Pi: A Gamer’s Long-Sought Dream Handheld
- Emboss Your own Seals with a Laser Cutter
- From Plastic Bottle to Plastic Brush
- Giant F1 Car Is 3D Printed and Radio Controlled
- A Well-Chronicled Adventure in Tiny Robotics
- Bringing Fiction to Life with 3D Printing
- Zen and the Art of Japanese Tea Robots
- Self-Driven: Uber and Tesla
- Pavement Projection Provides Better Bicycle Visibility at Night
- Pepper Mill Locks Your Door
- Multi-Coloured LEDs Make For A Beautiful Colour Clock
- Assess Your Output with a Cheap DIY Urine Flowmeter
- Hackaday Links: Some Sort Of Fool’s Day, 2018
- Yellow Robot Wheels Rolling Out
- Autodesk Introduces Serpentine Router For Eagle
- Incandescent Luminescence Of Semiconductor Junctions Characterised In The Lab
- The IoT (Internet of Teeth)
- Reverse Engineering Bottle Threads for Fun and Profit
- An 8-Bit ALU, Entirely From NAND Gates
- 3D Printed Tank Tracks
March 2018
- Build Your Own Antenna for Outdoor Monitoring with LoRa
- Thermoelectric Generator Shines Where the Sun Doesn’t
- There’s More To MIDI Than Music – How About A Light Show?
- You Bring It, This Blings It: Retrofitting a Hot Foil Stamping Machine
- Simple Decoder Serves as Solo Ham’s Test Buddy
- Sharpening with Bluetooth
- Giving A 6th Generation iPod A New Lease On Life
- The Internet of Three-Pointers
- A Retrocomputer Disk On A Chip
- DIY Mini-Amp Goes to Eleven
- Watch This Tiny Dome Auto-open and Close into a Propeller
- Fail of the Week: How Not To Build Your Own DGPS Base Station
- Learn What Did and Didn’t Work In this Prototyping Post-Mortem
- Color Spaces: The Model at the End of the Rainbow
- Oracle v Google could Chill Software Development
- This is How the Fonz Would Play MP3s
- Apple One, On FPGA
- Cutting Paper And Corners In Animation
- Putting a Poor Man’s Vector Analyzer Through Its Paces
- HairIO: An Interactive Extension of the Self
- A High Speed, Infinite Volume 3D Printer
- Ask Hackaday: Is Your Clock Tied to Mains Frequency?
- Super-Blue CNC Part Fixturing
- It’s Raining Chinese Space Stations: Tiangong-1
- Dumb Down Your Xiaomi Smart Lamp With A Custom Firmware
- Eavesdropping on a VGA Monitor’s Conversations
- Emulating A Complete Commodore 64
- Improving Controls For A Camera Slider Kit
- An LED Effect for Every Occasion
- Evolution of the ESP8266 Party Button
- A Brushless Motor on a PCB, Made from PCB
- Storm Detector Modules: Dancing in the Rain
- Friday Hack Chat: Simulating Analog
- Let’s Bring Back the Age of Automatons
- The Essential List of 3D Printer Accessories
- The End of the Candy Rainbow
- Car Revival According to Tesla
- 3D Printed ESP8266 Programming Jig
- Forth Version 1 Runs Again
- Terrible RC Transmitter Made Less Terrible
- “Attempt” at Wristwatch is a Solid Success
- Neon Display for a Vacuum Tube Calculator
- Scotty Allen Visits Strange Parts, Builds an iPhone
- Everything You Wanted to Know about Transformers (But were Afraid to Ask)
- How To Reverse Engineer Mechanical Designs for 3D Modeling
- Better Beer Through Gene Editing
- Retrotechtacular: A 180 GB Drive from 1994
- IQ Makes Smarter Motors
- Solve 2D Math Equations Colorfully
- The Obscure Electronics Tools You Didn’t Know You Needed
- A Bar Graph for Beer Fridge Vitals
- It’s a Nixie! It’s a VFD! No, It’s a Custom LED Display in a Tube
- Cutting Edge of 3D Printing Revealed At Last Weekend’s Midwest RepRap Festival
- A Resistor Cutting Robot You Can Build
- Norman Borlaug Saves A Billion
- Robot Uses Iron Man Tech to Walk
- Drill Bit Gauge Is Interdenominational Black Magic
- An Amiga 500 For The 21st Century
- Handy Continuity Tester Packs Multiple Modes into a Tiny Package
- Hackaday Links: March 25, 2018
- Rechargeable Robot Mows Lawns
- Turning The Beaglebone On A Chip Into A 3D Printer Controller
- Iron Man Mask With A HUD!
- Quantum Electric Material Borrows from Japanese Basketweaving
- Arbor Press Modded for Applying Specific Force
- Great Emergency Lights from Not-So-Great UPS
- Let There Be Light Rings!
- Hands On With Filament Splicing Robots
- The Weedinator Returns
- E3D Introduces Tool Changing 3D Printer
- US Military Developing Laser Plasma Speakers
- Lasers, Mirrors, and Sensors Combine in an Optical Bench Game
- Cordless Tool Battery Pack Turned into Portable Bench Supply
- Business On The Outside, Electronics Workstation On The Inside
- Ground-Effect Lighting For Your Bed.
- DIY Perpetual Flip Calendar
- Building A Plate Reverb On The Cheap
- We’re Making it Rain Achievements This Year
- Hackaday Visits World’s Oldest Computer Festival: TCF 43
- Servos Do the Plucking in this MIDI Music Box
- Ever Wonder How The Bots On Robot Wars Were Built?
- Stecchino Game is all about Balancing a Big Toothpick
- LED Strips Are So Hot Right Now
- A DIY Nine Channel Digital Scope
- Want A Leak-Proof Camper? Better Fire Up The 3D Printer Now.
- Converting Power Supplies for Antique Computers
- Arduino Clock Jots Down The Time, In UV
- Carrots In Space
- Mechanisms: Cable Ties
- Join Hackaday At The Midwest RepRap Festival This Weekend
- Geoffrey the Giraffe’s Last Call of Toys for Hacking
- An Introduction to Storm Detector Modules
- What to do with Your Brand New Ultrasonic Transducer
- What We Need To Try In Haptic Hacks
- 3D Printed Raspberry Pi NAS with Dual Drive Bays
- Bring Deep Learning Algorithms To Your Security Cameras
- Look Upon Eyepot, And Weep For Mercy
- Neon Lamps Make For The Coolest Of Nixie Clocks
- Everyone Needs A Personal Supercomputer
- Making Pictures Worth 1000 Words in Python
- Friday Hack Chat: All About The Hackaday Prize
- 3D Printed Magnetic Stirrer Could Hardly be Simpler
- Buying Machine Tools: Foreign or Domestic, New or Used?
- Rotary Electric Gun Might Not Put Your Eye Out, Kid
- Hackaday’s Irish Excursion is on 7 April
- Building a Static Grass Applicator
- Icoboard Software Defined Radio Platform
- Make A Steam Cleaner From A Broken Clothes Iron
- Curved Wood LED Lamp Needs No Fancy Tools
- Mystery Nixie Clock From 2001: A Space Odyssey, And Pulsar
- Repurposing Inkjet Technology For 3D Printing
- Sophie Germain: The Mathematics of Elasticity
- NES Controller Slider-Based Light Theremin
- Uber Has An Autonomous Fatality
- 3D Printing And Modelling With A Robot Assistant
- Test Ideas Now With Sensors Already In Your Pocket
- Parts Bin Spooky Eye Build
- All Your iPhone Are Belong To Us
- DIY Power Supply and TS100 Outlet Combo Shows off Great Layout
- Building a Tricorder Prop Worthy of Mr Spock
- Water Level Sensors, Alexa in a Fish, and Modular Synths During World Create Day
- CUDA is Like Owning a Supercomputer
- Emulating Handheld History
- Inventing The Digital Watch Again And Again And…
- A Taste of Who’s Speaking at Hackaday Belgrade
- Learn Programming From Ants
- Making Fancy Dice PCBs at Home
- Traction Control Gets More Power to the Road for Tot-Sized Lamborghini
- Bumblebee Breakout, a DIY Wearable Connector
- Hackaday Links: March 18, 2018
- 3D Printer Halts and Catches Fire — Analysis Finds a Surprising Culprit
- Taking Halloween to the Next Level with JARVIS
- This Big, Bright Seven-Segment Display is 3D-Printable
- Pipe Your Way Through The Jams
- Speaking the Same Language as a Wireless Thermometer
- RFID Unlock Your PC, Because You’re 1337
- From Cop Car Data Terminal, To Retro Computer
- Control a Swarm of RC Vehicles with ESP8266
- Visible Light CT Scanner Does Double Duty
- Capacitive And Resistive Touch Sensors For Wearables
- 3D Printed Stethoscope Makes the Grade
- Balloons and Bubbles Make for Kid-Friendly Robot Deathmatch
- Lockheed Shares Satellite Connectivity Options
- Google Builds A Synthesizer With Neural Nets And Raspberry Pis.
- 3D Printed Antenna is Broadband
- Cracking an Encrypted External Hard Drive
- Go Big Or Go Home – This Arduino RC Car Can Take You There
- Are you Dying to Upload Your Brain?
- Mechanisms: Gears
- We’re Hiring: Come Join Us!
- Massive Shift Register Switches Lights
- Linux Fu: File Aliases, Links, and Mappings
- Gamecube Dock For Switch Mods Nintendo with More Nintendo
- Google Light Fields Trying to Get the Jump on Magic Leap
- A Plywood Laptop For Your Raspberry Pi
- A Pin Pusher To Make Life Easier
- A Compensated Thermocouple Amp, Ready for Arduino
- Carbon Augmented Spider Silk
- Get Together and Hack this Saturday at World Create Day!
- Building a Portable Solar-Powered Spot Welder: Nearly Practical!
- Reverse Engineer An X-Ray Image Sensor
- A Tale of Two Phases and Tech Inertia
- Programming Linux Devices With Arduino And The Cloud
- Laser Cut Your 3D Printed Trash
- Introduce Yourself To a PocketBeagle With BaconBits
- LED Illusion Makes Colorful Water Drops Defy Gravity
- Interactive Plant Lamps for Quiet Spaces
- RC Car Hacked Into Paintball Shooting Tank
- Incremental Sheet Forming with a CNC Machine
- Teardown: The Oregon Trail Handheld
- Stephen Hawking’s Legacy Includes Making His Work Widely Approachable
- Friday Hack Chat: Everything Raspberry Pi
- Archimedes Would Have Known Better If He Could Count To A Million
- RC Transmitter Hacked Into Music Player
- Raspberry Pi Gets Faster CPU and Better Networking in the New Model 3 B+
- Pocket-Sized Multiduino Does it All
- Up AlphaGoer Five
- Building A Lightweight Softbox For Better Photography
- Automatic DIY Wire Stripper
- A DIY 5V-3V Switching Converter in the Space of a TO-220 Package
- Stephanie Kwolek: Saving Lives with Kevlar
- Hacked 3D TV Glasses May Cure Lazy Eye
- Review: LimeSDR Mini Software Defined Radio Transceiver
- Unbricking A 3D Printer The Hard Way: By Writing a Bootloader
- 3D Printed Transmission Invented Again; This Time Continuously Variable
- Respectfully Modifying the Amiga 500
- Baremetal Rust On the Horizon
- Open Source Hardware Video Game Music Player
- Nicely Engineered Boost Converter Powers Nixies from USB Charger
- New ThinkPad Guts Bring Intel Core I, DDR4, USB 3 to Cult Laptops
- Lost In Space: How Materials Degrade In Space
- Rubik’s Robot So Fast It Looks Like a Glitch in the Matrix
- 2018 Hackaday Prize: Build Hope. Design the Future.
- DIY Planetarium Built From PVC Pipes and Cardboard
- On a Quest for the Perfect Numpad
- Glorious Body of Tracked ‘Mad Mech’ Started as Cardboard
- Print, Rinse, Wear. Nanowire Circuits For Your Microfibre Clothing.
- Hackaday Links: March 11, 2018
- Is That A Mars Habitat? A Submarine? A Spaceship? Nope: It’s Home.
- RGB Disk Goes Interactive with Bluetooth; Shows Impressive Plastic Work
- Gramazon Gives Your Echo Dot a 1920’s Makeover
- FPGA Magic Puts Little Embedded Screens Up On The Big Screen
- Touchless Shop Doors Over-Engineered to a Blissful Level
- Android Sources For The Asus Tinker Board
- IoT Chore Reminder for the Serially Forgetful
- Only Mechanical Relays Will Do for Automated Hi-Fi Audio Source Switching
- Wireless Protocol Reverse Engineered to Create Wrist Wearable Mouse
- IoT Potty Training
- High-Effort Streaming Remote for Low-Effort Bingeing
- A Faster Grave Digger For Your Child
- Secret Book Light Switch
- You Don’t Need to be Tony Stark to Afford This Hand Controller
- An Autonomous Drone For Working Rare Squares
- Color-Coded Key Opens Doors, Opportunities
- Robotic Wood Shop Has Ambitions To Challenge IKEA
- A Simple POV Business Card
- How to Test a B-52 Against EMP: Project ATLAS-I
- Europe Loses Six Minutes Due to Sagging Frequency and International Politics
- Linux Fu: Regular Expressions
- Zip Tie Quadcopter Frame is as Cheap as They Come
- Google Ups the Ante in Quantum Computing
- Racing The Beam On An ATtiny
- Comic Boxes Reflect Owner’s Skills
- A Relay Calculator With DIY Neon Displays, Just Because
- Autodesk Introduces Parametric Part Generation
- Single Motor, Single Piece 3D Printed Hovercraft
- 3D Printering: Print Smoothing Tests with UV Resin
- Mechanical Wooden Turing Machine
- The Pontoon Bridge Being Floated as an NYC Transit Fix
- Regrowing a Blackberry from the Keyboard Out
- Adding Optics to a Consumer Thermal Camera
- Hijacking A Sony Watchman For Pong
- Desperately Trying to Find a Use for the ChugPlug
- Hacking Balsa to Make it Stronger
- Not Just Your Average DIY Spot Welder
- Customizing STLs for Off-Brand Devices
- Evolution of the Worlds Oldest Computer Festival
- Friday Hack Chat: Everything About The ESP
- Detoured: Inside MachineHistories
- A Bit More Than A Microphone: The Electret Story
- Precision DIY Calipers? That’s a Moiré!
- CIPODS: Earbuds for Cochlear Implants
- Hot Air Surgery Revives a Cheap Windows Tablet
- Nerds Unite: Prosthetics Inspired by Comics and Beyond!
- Marble Chooses its own Path
- Hacking a Pint-Sized Mercedes
- Clever Approach to Stylus Alignment
- What’s Inside A Neonode Laser Sensor?
- The M1 NerfBot: When Prototypes Evolve
- Retrotechtacular: A Very British MagLev
- AM Ultrasonic Transmitter And Receiver
- The Sensor Array That Grew Into a Robot Cat
- Love Open Source but Hate People? Get OpenKobold
- Building A Bioactive Vivarium From An IKEA Shelf
- Portable Guitar Amp – Is That A Linux In Your Pocket?
- One Man’s Quest for a Desktop Spherical Display
- Customising a $30 IP Camera For Fun
- Controlling OctoPrint on the Go
- 3D Printing with Mussels and Beets
- Badgelife: From 1 To 100
- Shoot-And-Forget Digital Photo Frame
- FPGA Makes ASCII Video
- Graphing Calculator Dual Boots With Pi Zero
- Behold the Giant Eye’s Orrery-Like Iris and Pupil Mechanism
- Hackaday Links: March 4, 2018
- A Tabletop Star Wars Themed Lego Racer Game
- No, Cat, This Is Not The Litter Box
- K40 Laser Cutter, Meet Raspberry Pi
- Coolant Hoses Retasked to Lend a Helping Hand
- Look Out Nest — Here Comes the WIoT-2
- Wah-Wah-Won’t, To Wah-Wah-Will
- Caped Beagle is FPGA Superhero
- Creality CR10-S Upgrade Shows The Effect Of Bad Power
- An Old Way to Make a New Crank Handle
- R.O.B. Gets a Proper RC Resurrection
- Automated Syrup System is Sweet Sweet Madness
- Thermal Camera Diagnoses Thermal Issue on a Sonoff Switch
- Hacking a 30-year-old Russian VFD
- Fire Extinguisher Ball Mill Destined to Grind Kitty Litter
- What is Twitter Without the Numbers?
- Tiny Function Generator on the ATtiny85, Complete with OLED
- Solar Power In A Can!
- Microchip Acquires Microsemi For $8.35B
- Unionize Your Variables – An Introduction to Advanced Data Types in C
- Basic Sequencer for your Synth Rack
- Printed It: Custom Enclosure Generator
- New Part Day: ATMegas With Programmable Logic
- DIY Text-to-Speech with Raspberry Pi
- Who Ate All The Pi?
- Another Introduction to FPGAs
- Finding Noise with an Antenna
- Pinging the Depths of a Rain Barrel
- Laser Rotary Adapter Gets You Rolling
- Mechanisms: The Reed Switch
- Images As Excel FIles Are Gloriously Nasty
- Review: NEJE DK-8-KZ Laser Engraver
- Memcached Servers Abused For DDoS Attacks
- Bye Bye, Maplin
- Cheap and Easy Helmet Lights for the Kids
- Microsoft Quantum Simulator Goes to Linux and Mac
- Monitor Power Consumption of Low-Power Devices
February 2018
- FPGA Calculator Uses Joystick
- Repairs You Can Print Contest: Meet the Winners
- Katherine Johnson: Computer To The Stars
- Friday Hack Chat: Everything PCB
- Detoured: Fabbing At The Art Institute Of Chicago
- Building a Portable Solar Powered Spot Welder: Charging Supercapacitors
- Teardown Of An UWB Location Beacon
- Cook Up Your Own High-Temperature Superconductors
- PipeCam: Shallow-Water Exploration with Raspberry Pi
- Software Development in… Bash
- Lamp’s Ghostly Glow Benefits From Happy Mistake
- Definitive Dog Feeding with Arduino
- Microgamer Is A Micro:Bit Handheld Console
- Chopper And Chopper-Stabilised Amplifiers, What Are They All About Then?
- Fail of the Week: The Little Ultrasonic Knife That Couldn’t
- Can Open-source Hardware Be Like Open-source Software?
- Investigating the World’s Rarest Game Boy
- One Week Left for Hackaday Belgrade Proposals
- Reverse Engineering Opens Up the Samsung Gear VR Controller
- Old Modem, New Internet.
- Quantifying Latency in Cheap RC Transmitters
- Crankshaft: Open Source Car Computer
- PC-XT Emulator On ESP8266
- Review of the Moai SLA 3D Printer
- Successful Experiments In Multicolor Circuit Boards
- World Create Day is the Hackaday Event in Your Neighborhood
- Arduino BabyTV is Big Fun at Low Resolution
- SpaceX Joins in the Long History of Catching Stuff from Space
- Moltoduino: Arduinos All the Way Down
- Order Drinks With Your Mind
- Mechanical Clocks that Never Need Winding
- Real-Time Audio For The PocketBeagle
- Hackaday Links: February 25, 2018
- Debugging with Serial Print at 5333333 Baud
- CSS Steals Your Web Data
- Screw Drive Tank is Radio Controlled, 3D Printed
- Power Supply Choices
- Casting Metal Parts and Silicone Molds from 3D Prints
- Maplin For Sale
- This 3D-Printed Robotic Vacuum Sucks
- Delightful Electromechanical Build Of A Jet Engine Model
- These Small PCBs are Made for Model Rocketry
- Fully 3D Printed Nerf Thirst Zapper
- Microchip Introduces Tiny Cheap Linux Modules
- You’ve Never Seen A Flipping Eyeball Like This One!
- Tachometer Uses Light, Arduinos
- Robotic Laser Keeps Cat Entertained While You Hack
- Stretched PC Case Turned GPU Cryptominer
- Tiny Quad Core Module Available Soon
- 3D Printing Brings a Child’s Imagination to Life
- Arduino Watchdog Has Bite And Doesn’t Need Treats
- Rapidly Prototyping Prosthetics, Braille, and Wheelchairs
- “The Commodore Story” Documentary Premieres Today
- DIY Cryogel Sustains Live Cells
- Next Week: Bring-A-Hack In NYC
- A Robot For Everything: Now Even Zippers
- A Two Tapes Turing Machine
- Forth System-On-Chip Takes Us Back to the 80s
- This Radio Gets Pour Reception
- Software Defined Television on an ESP32
- 3D-Printed Parts Torture-Tested in Nitro Engine — Briefly
- Skull Cane Proves Bondo Isn’t Just for Dents
- QuickBASIC Lives On with QB64
- France Proposes Software Security Liability For Manufacturers, Open Source As Support Ends
- Mechanisms: Mechanical Seals
- OBD-Sniffing A Caddy PHEV
- At 71,572 KM, You Won’t Beat This LoRa Record
- Relive Radio Shack’s Glory Days by Getting Goofy
- Retrocomputing for the Forgotten
- Linux Adds CH341 GPIO
- Vintage Sewing Machine to Computerized Embroidery Machine
- MIT Extracts Power from Temperature Fluctuations
- Retrotechtacular: The Best Jeep Commercial Ever
- Friday Hack Chat: Trusting The Autorouter
- 3D Printed Skateboard Mount for Bikes
- The King of Machine Tools
- Learning The 555 From The Inside
- An Especially Tiny And Perfectly Formed FM Bug
- DIY Peristaltic Pump Keeps the Booze Flowing
- Dungeons and Dragons TV Tabletop!
- Cross-Brand Adapter Makes for Blended Battery Family
- Easy, Modular Alphanumeric Displays are Full of Flappy Goodness
- Turn Your Lathe into a Shaper
- Vera Rubin: Shedding Light on Dark Matter
- ESP-01 Bridges the Gap Between IR and WiFi
- Deconstructing A Simple Op-Amp
- The Strange Physics of Curling
- Debunking Moon Landing Denial with an Arduino and Science
- Invasion of the Tiny Magnetic PCB Vises
- A Jukebox For The 21st-Century Kit Blends Raspberry Pi, Sonos, QR Codes
- Scan Your Film The 3D Printed Way
- Tiny Guitar Amp Rebuilt with Tiny Tubes
- Handheld GPS Tracks All The Things
- You All Know Reginald Fessenden. Who?
- Predicting Starman’s Return To Earth
- Milspec Teardown: CP-142 Range Computer
- The White Rabbit Nixie Clock
- Roll Your Own Rotary Encoders
- Hackaday Dublin Unconference: Grab Your Tickets!
- Photographing Starman From a Million Miles Away
- Turning A Car Into A Computer Mouse
- Hackaday Links: February 18, 2018
- Hack Excel for 3D Rendering
- Rejecting Microsoft’s Phaseout of the Kinect
- Threat Meter Gauges Risk of Creeper-Assisted Suicide
- TrackRobot Sports Welded Steel, Not Plastic
- Mini Lathe Makes Tiny Hydraulic Cylinders for RC Snow Plow
- Repairs You Can Print: Nintendo DS Lite With New Battery And Case
- AI Listens to Radio
- Help Keep The Bombe At Bletchley
- Repairs You Can Print: A Turn Signal Switch For A Chevy Corvair
- The Fine Art of Acid Etching Brass
- Great Beginnings for Vintage Computing in Seattle; VCF PNW
- This Boxing Bell is a Trip
- Catching the (PCIe) Bus
- Resurrecting An Amiga CD32
- Underwater Logging for Science
- Analyzing Hobby Motors with an Oscilloscope
- How To Control the Lights with a TV Remote
- Repairs You Can Print: Better Cable Splicing With 3D Printed Parts
- Retrotechtacular: AM Radios, Core Memory, And Color TV, What Was Hot In Chips In ’73
- 3D-Printed Punch and Die Stand up to Steel
- Whatever Happened To The Desktop Computer?
- Slow Down That Hot Rod Camera Dolly
- There’s Now A New MIDI Spec, And Drones
- Pulling Music Out Of Thin Air with a Raspberry Pi
- Learn About Waveforms Interactively
- Building an Arduino Smart IC Tester for $25
- Student 3D Prints Eyes
- Printed Motorcycle Choke Lever Goes the Distance
- The uA723 As A Switch Mode Regulator
- Laser Galvo Control via Microcontroller’s DAC
- Create a Discord Webhook with Python for Your Bot
- High Speed Imaging Of Magnetic Fields
- Arduino Keyboard is Gorgeous Inside and Out
- Homebrew Wrist Brace Helps Beat Injury with Style
- Harvesting Energy from the Earth with Quantum Tunneling
- This IS Your Grandfather’s Radio
- AT-ST High Chair Elevates Lucky Jedi Youngling
- Repairs You Can Print: Fixing Pegboard Clips That Break Too Easily
- Hovercraft of the Future
- Friday Hack Chat: Making A Makerspace
- Tearing Down a $1000 E-Ink Display
- Mechanisms: Bearings
- A Perfect Rose, a Stepper, an X-Ray Machine, and Thee
- Biohacking Lactose Intolerance
- Cloning the Echo Show With a Fabric Wrapped Pi
- Your Audio Will Be Back, Right After This Commercial Break
- A 6502 with a Custom Language
- Photograph of Single Atom Captured with a Plain Old Camera
- The Most Utilitarian 3D Print Has the Widest Reach
- OpenSCAD: Tieing It Together With Hull()
- Particle Introduces New Hardware, Adds Mesh Support
- Mary Somerville: The First Scientist
- Returning A Lost Sheep To The NASA Fold
- Pipes, Tees, and Gears Result in Smooth Video Shots
- Pi Zero Gives Telescope Hands Free Focus
- World’s Stupidest Solid State Disk Drive Hack
- Getting Started with STM8
- Repairs You Can Print: Floor Lamp is Now Several Shades Better
- Need Strength? It’s Modified Wood You Want!
- Salyut: How We Learned To Make Space Stations
- The Furby Organ
- Hands On With The Smallest Game Boy Ever Made
- Early Bird Tickets for Hackaday Belgrade
- Stepping up your Python Printf Debugging Game
- MIT Breaks Autonomous Drone Speed Limits By Not Sweating Obstacles
- 4-Stroke Clock Fires On All Cylinders
- IBM 1401 Runs FORTRAN II Once More
- Hackaday Links: February 11, 2018
- Flood Damaged 386 Gets a Modern Rebuild
- Will John Deere Finally Get Their DMCA Comeuppance?
- Plastic Model Emulates the First Untethered Spacewalk
- Xbox Needs No TV
- Push Big Red Button, Receive Power.
- Zen and the Art of Foam Core
- Membership Ring of the Electronic Illuminati
- What’s Coming In KiCad Version 5
- ESP32 Weather Station on a PCB
- Reverse Engineering A Bitcoin Miner
- USB to Quad Serial Port Adapter Offers TTL, Isolated Ports
- Heated DryBox Banishes Filament Moisture for Under $20
- All The Stuff You Wished You Knew About Fourier Transforms But Were Afraid To Ask
- Curing a Parrot’s Amnesia with BLEAH
- Celebrating the Olympics With Flaming Windmills
- Custom Parts Feeder Aims to Keep Pace with Pick and Place
- The Latest 3D Printed Fad: Flexible Armor And Pangolin Cosplay
- ESP8266 Broadcasts Memorial WiFi Spam
- Review: CXG E90W Temperature-Controlled Soldering Iron
- A RISC-V That The Rest Of Us Can Understand
- Hacking When It Counts: Churchill’s Toy Shop
- Neural Network Zaps You to Take Better Photographs
- Mini Spy Bug Walkthrough
- Ride Bike, Charge Phone
- Voice User Interface Design Practices
- Count Your Fans with this Stylish ESP8266 Display
- Build a Tiny Hot Wire Foam Cutter
- Large Format… Videography ?
- How Current Shunts Work
- Electric Snowblower Does The Job With 240 Volts
- Printed It: Do More with Lockable Ball And Socket Helping Hands
- The Tachometer Inside Your Smartphone
- Cat Plays the Silver Ball for Treats
- Not Your Typical POV Clock
- S.T.E.A.M. Fabrikarium Builds Assistive Tech in Mumbai
- A Freeze Dryer You Can Build in Your Garage
- Home Made 8-Bit CPU Is A Wiry Blinky Build
- Motorized Mini Excavator Rises From Sheets of Plywood
- Injection Molding iPhone Cases from Trash
- Quantum Searching in Your Browser
- Friday Hack Chat: How Do You Collaborate With Hardware?
- Discrete Pong Project Goes Big, Adds a Player
- Locally Sourced: PLA Adhesive
- Debugging an Arduino with an Arduino
- DARPA Enlisting Nemo and Dory to Find You
- Hacking a Sonoff WiFi Switch
- Eating a QR Code May Save Your Life Someday
- ESP32, We Have Ways to Make You Talk
- Printed Adapter Teaches an Old Ninja New Tricks
- Water Cooling a 3D Printer
- Mae Jemison and the Final Frontier
- CPAP Hacked into Super Charged 3D Printer Cooler
- Are There Better Things To Hurl Into Orbit Than A Sports Car?
- This NES ROM is a ZIP of its Source
- Delivery Drones Can Learn From Driving And Cycling
- Repairs You Can Print: Fixing a Rat-Attacked Mic Cord
- Repairs You Can Print: Model Coal Car Fix
- Circuit Bent Casio SK-1 gets an Arduino Brain
- Repairs You Can Print: A Little Love for the Glove Box
- 3D Printering: Printing Sticks for a PLA Hot Glue Gun
- Making Smoke That Really Performs
- Black Holes and the Elusive Mystery That Lies Within an Equation
- Making Software Defined Radio Portable
- Repairing a Wounded Mantis
- A Game That Does More With Less
- Always Misplacing Your Keys? You Can Fix That With Some Logic Chips
- Hackaday Links: February 4th, 2018
- Benchtop Fume Extractor Cuts the Cord, Clears the Air
- Repairs You Can Print: Nintendo 3DS XL Lives Again!
- A Few Laser-Cut Cases For Your SBCs
- Beating Life-Force Amulet
- A 3D Printable Raman Probe
- Towards Sensible Packaging For 3D Printer Filament
- Boost Tube Replacement Through 3D Printing
- SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor
- Crowdfunding Is Now A Contract Between Company And Backer
- MIT Makes Lego Lab For Microfluidics
- 3D Print A 3D Printer Frame
- Here’s Why Hoverboard Motors Might Belong In Robots
- A Wrencher On Your Oscilloscope
- Repairs You Can Print: 3D Printing is for (Solder) Suckers
- Careful Testing Reveals USB Cable Duds
- You Can Learn a Lot From a Blinkenrocket
- Next Week: Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest
- Printed Nexus 7 SIM Tray is Good ‘Nuff
- I’ll Have a Beer With a Compliment Chaser
- Linux Fu: A Little Help for Bash
- Start Your Apollo Collection with an Open Source DSKY
- What Are Those Hieroglyphics on Your Laptop Charger?
- Flexiphone Rises from the Ashes of Broken Instruments
- Keeping Magnetized Marbles from Stopping the Music
- A Grandfather Clock BarBot
- Three Wires = One Motor
- HandHolo: A Homebrew ARG
- Repairs You Can Print: Fixing a Chewed Up Remote
- Travel in Style on an Electric Air Sled
- Mechanisms: The Screw Thread
- Twitter Celebration of Scientist Hacks For Lab And Field
- The Hard-Learned Lessons of the Columbia Disaster
- Oscilloscope Art From Your Browser
- Sculptural Grade M&M Sorter
- Putting the Pi In Piano
- Router Rebooter Eliminates Hassles
- Junk Build Printer Uses Pencil To Print
January 2018
- Repairs You Can Print: Racing the Clock for a Dishwasher Fix
- The Engineering Analysis Of Plastic-Dissolving Lubricant
- Quantum Communications in Your Browser
- Friday Hack Chat: Circuit Python
- Repairs You Can Print: The Zipper Box
- Global Resistor Shortage, Economics, and Consumer Behavior
- Strumbot: The Guitar that Strums Itself
- What Is This, A Controller For Ants?!
- Kids Kitchen That Says BEEP
- Cell Phone Surveillance Car
- Smell That? It’s time.
- Repairs You Can Print: Broken Glue Gun Triggers Replacement
- Making the Case for Open Source Medical Devices
- Jill Tarter: Searching for E.T.
- Roll Your Own Magnetic Encoder Disks
- Making the Case for Slackware in 2018
- Be the Electronic Chameleon
- Flashing Light Prize 2018: This Time with Neon
- The Engineering Case for Fusing Your LED Strips
- Looking Back at Microsoft Bob
- New Part Day: I2C In, Charlieplexed LEDs Out
- Repairs You Can Print: Take a deep breath thanks to a 3D printed fume extractor
- 3D Printed Battery Pack Keeps Old Drill Spinning
- Smaller and Smarter: The Electron Rocket Takes Flight
- Spiral Laser Cut Buttons Make A Super-Slim USB MIDI Board
- Inventing The Microprocessor: The Intel 4004
- Chasing the Electron Beam at 380,000 FPS
- The Noisiest Seven-Segment Display Ever
- Opt-Out Fitness Data Sharing Leads to Massive Military Locations Leak
- More Than Just An Atari Look-Alike
- Hackaday Links: January 28, 2018
- ESP32 Makes for World’s Worst Radio Station
- Arcade Style Computer Hotkeys
- The Tiniest Working 68K System
- Biologic Additive May Lead to Self-Healing Concrete
- Optical Tach Addresses the Need for Spindle Speed Control
- Alexa Controls This Projector Thanks to ESP8266
- A Talking Clock For The 21st Century
- Make Your Own Current Clamp Probe
- IoT Doorman: Eye-Controlled Door for a Girl with Cerebral Palsy
- 3D Print the Blasphemous Helicopter Part Known as a Jesus Nut
- Play A Few Games of Smash Brothers On The Go With A Portable Wii
- Disco Bulb Keeps the Party Spinning
- Arrow’s $30 FPGA Board Reviewed
- Amazing Mechanical Linkages and The Software to Design Them
- Repairing A Sunburned Game Boy Screen
- Counting is for Sheep: Use a Light to Fall Asleep
- Students Hack an Unusual Violin
- Drink Lots Of Beer To Raise Your Monopole
- The Coolest Electronic Toys You’ll See At NAMM
- Home Brew Solar Cells for the Chemically Curious
- Mechanisms: Ode to the Zipper
- Slimline Proximity Fob Makes Life Easier
- Auto-Tracking Sentry Gun Gives Deer a Super Soaking
- A New Life for a Dead VIC-20
- Cramming a Pi Zero into a Cheap Handheld Game
- Search for Military Satellite Finds One NASA Lost Instead
- Three Ways to Etch Snazzy Brass Nameplates
- Using Lasagna to Make Cost-Saving Molds
- Shmoocon: Advanced Low Power Techniques And A Watch
- Gertrude Elion, DNA Hacker
- Indexing Chuck Not Required
- The Current State of the Black Market: You Can’t Buy Vantablack
- Twitter RNG is Powered By Memes
- Asgard: The Open Source Air Data Computer
- Raspberry Pi Zero Drives Tiny RC Truck
- An Indoor Garden? That’s Arduino-licious
- Giving Stranger Things For Christmas
- This Tiny Motor is Built into a PCB
- Road Apology/Gratitude Emitter Car LED Sign
- Quantum Weirdness in Your Browser
- Friday Hack Chat: Becoming Cyborg
- This Home-Made PDA Is A Work Of Art
- Printed It: Rubber Band PCB Vise
- Firing up 750 Raspberry Pis
- DIY Dungeon Crawler Game Plays on Single LED Strip
- An ADS-B Antenna Built From Actual Garbage
- Making Prints More Resilient With Fibre-Filled Filament
- Retro Flip Clock Gets A Retrofit
- DIY Graphene Putty Makes Super Sensitive Sensor
- 3D Printed Desk Harnesses the Power of Fusion 360 and McMaster-Carr
- Build an Excellent Coffee Roaster With a Satisfyingly Low Price Tag
- Building a Better Kerbal Space Program Controller
- The Precision Upon Which Civilizations Are Built
- Easier End-User Setup for ESP32 Projects
- Shmoocon: Delightful Doppler Direction Finding With Software Defined Radio
- Stepper Motor Robot Arm Has Smooth Moves
- Running Programs On Paper
- Tiny Programming Language in 25 Lines of Code
- Reverse Engineering the TEC-06 Battery Tester
- Shah Selbe: Science in the World’s Wildest Places
- Teardown: What’s Inside a Christmas Laser Projector?
- Seek and Exploit Security Vulnerabilities in an Infusion Pump
- Hackaday Belgrade Call For Proposals Now Open!
- Quantum Computing Hardware Teardown
- How Low Can an ESP8266 Go?
- We Couldn’t Afford An Oculus, So We Built One
- Someone’s Made The Laptop Clive Sinclair Never Built
- Weaving With Light: An OLED Fibre Fabric Display
- Hackaday Links: January 21, 2018
- Interactive LED Table
- Quick and Dirty Driver Tips for Surplus VFDs
- ESP8266 Beacon Announces Your Arrival
- The SD-11 Sphericular Display: Pixels that Aren’t Pixels
- Ancient Insect Scales Analyzed With Help Of Nose Hair
- Trio of Tips for a Cetus Printer
- Color Organ Dress, A Wearable With Audio Feedback
- Tomu: A Microcontroller for Your USB Port
- Vacuum Tubes: Shipping Through EBay Now Challenging?
- The (Unnecessary?) Art of Connector Crimping
- Nintendo Switch Gets Making with Labo
- Tricked-out Barbecue Will Make You Do a Spit Take
- Microsoft Gets Hacker Friendly
- Roll Your Own Raspberry Pi OS
- Getting to Know an 18th Century Hacker
- A Modern Take on the Crystal Radio
- Build a Sandblasting Rig for $6
- A Keyboard To Stomp On
- Space Escape: Flying A Chair To Lunar Orbit
- Make A Better, Spring-Loaded SMT Tape Strip Holder
- Linux Fu: Custom Bash Command Completion
- Long-Range RFID Leaflets
- This USB Drive Will Self-Destruct After Ruining Your Computer
- DIY Spray Booth is Both Light and Lit
- Reading out an EPROM – with DIP switches
- MicroPython learns a new trick – ISP for AVRs
- Cardboard wall is surprisingly well built
- Big Trak Gets a New Brain
- Over The Air Updates For Your Arduino
- Know Your Video Waveform
- Solenoids and Servos for Self Actuated Switches
- Neural Networking: Robots Learning From Video
- Capture the Flag Challenge is the Perfect Gift
- Flying the Friendly Skies with A Hall Effect Joystick
- Making A Covox Speech Thing Work On A Modern PC
- Speech Recognition For Linux Gets A Little Closer
- Recreating the Radio from Portal
- Improvising An EPROM Eraser
- 34C3: Reverse Engineering FPGAs
- Confessions Of A Reformed Frequency Standard Nut
- Friday Hack Chat: Fashion! (Turn To The Left)
- Joykill: Previously Undisclosed Vulnerability Endangers User Data
- Custom Alexa Skill in a Few Minutes Using Glitch
- Four Pi Zeros, Four Cameras, One Really Neat 3D Scanner
- Intel Forms New Security Group to Avoid Future Meltdowns
- Wrecked Civic Rides Again as Cozy Camp Trailer
- Overclock Your Raspberry Pi The Right Way
- Smartphone Controlled Periodic Table of Elements
- A Salty Solution for a Dead Nexus 5X
- How To Reverse Engineer Silicon
- Review: LinkSprite Mini CNC
- Remember Your Birthday For Fifty Years
- Win Big Prizes With Repairs You Can Print
- Miss Beatrice Shilling Saves the Spitfire
- You’ll Really Want An “Undo” Button When You Accidentally Send A Ballistic Missile Warning
- New Part Day: MEMS Loudspeakers
- Raspberry Pi Offers Soulless Work Oversight
- Fooling Speech Recognition With Hidden Voice Commands
- 3D Printing a Better Quadcopter Frame
- Iro3d 3D Prints in Powdered Metal
- Is That Part A Counterfeit? Here Are A Few Pointers
- Spectre and Meltdown: How Cache Works
- Coin Cell Hacks That Won the Coin Cell Challenge
- They’re Putting Soy In Your Wires, Man
- Watching the Watchers: Are You The Star Of an Encrypted Drone Video Stream?
- This Portable Pi May Not Be What You Expect
- Imagine A Cluster Of ESP32s
- Pi Weather Lamp Puts Lava Lamps To Shame
- Hackaday Links: The ‘S’ In ‘CES’ Stands For Snake Oil
- Cable Cutting Machine Makes Fast Work of a Tedious Job
- Aluminum No Match For 3D Printed Press Brake Dies
- Not So Simple LED Upgrade for Microscope
- DIY Bookshelf is More Than Meets The Eye
- Bartop Arcade Cabinet Build Skips the Kit
- Less Dear Heating For The Deer
- Lamp Analysis Tells Sad Truth Behind The Marketing Hype
- Robotic Table Saw Automates Finger Joints
- Vintage Logan Lathe Gets 3D Printed Gears
- Easy Time-lapse Video via Phone and Command Line
- LED Stand For Lego Saturn V Boldly Goes Where No Lego Has Gone Before
- 3D Print a Home Automation Switch
- Inexpensive Display Jumps to Life
- Home Decorating with Tiny Arcade Cabinets
- Warhammer 40K Model Rocket Launcher
- Rolling Robot With Two Motors, But None Are On the Wheels
- Reverse Engineering A Pirate Nintendo Arcade Board
- Bradley Gawthrop: What You Need To Know About Wiring
- Dust Off Those AM Radios, There’s Something Good On!
- Printed PC Speakers Are Way Cooler Than Yours
- Software Design Patterns for Real Hardware
- Apple Passwords: They All ‘Just Work’
- Debouncing the Old-Fashioned Way
- ESP32 Makes Not-So-Smart Lights Smart
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