2020
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2020 3,567
December 2020
- Cupcake Machine Makes Tasty, If Weird, Creations
- Remoticon Video: The Mechanics of Finite Element Analysis
- This Week in Security: Deeper Dive Into SolarWinds, Bouncy Castle, and Docker Images
- Amazon Halo Teardown is Supremely Thorough
- Still Working after All These Years: The Voyager Plasma Wave Subsystem
- A Novel Micro Desktop Display For Your Raspberry Pi
- Augmented Reality On The Cheap With ESP32
- LEDs-On-Chips Will Give Us Lower Cost Optoelectronics
- Magnetocuring: Curing Epoxy With A Magnetic Field
- Unbricking A SEGGER J-Link v9 Debug Probe
- Alien Inspired Cyberdeck Packs Vintage Atari 800XL
- Japan To Launch Wooden Satellites
- Water And Molten Aluminium Is A Dangerous Combination
- Boston Dynamics’ Dancing Bots Beg For Your Love a la Napoleon Dynamite
- Solar Flares and Radio Communications — How Precarious are Our Electronics?
- Improve ATtiny Timing Accuracy With This Clock Calibrator
- Amiga Now Includes HDMI By Way of a Raspberry Pi Daughterboard
- More 3D Printed IKEA Hacks Make Life Better
- High Tech Photos Capture Snowflakes Like Never Before
- Federal Aviation Administration Announces Major Drone Rule Changes
- Magnetic Motorized Plasma Cutter Track
- Remoticon Video: From Zero to ASIC; How to Design in Silicon
- Seeking Enlightenment: The Quest To Restore Vision In Humans
- Reverse Engineering Silicon From The First Pocket Calculator
- 2020: As The Hardware World Turns
- New Part Day: SD NAND are Surface Mount Chips That Work Like An SD Card
- The Black Magic of a Disappearing Linear Actuator
- Think Your Laptop is Anemic? Try an MSDOS One
- Twenty Seconds at 100 Megakelvins
- Co41D 2020 MIDI Theremin Sounds Pretty Sick
- Build Your Own Custom Elevator
- Netscape Communicator And SHA-1 Written Into Brexit Agreement
- Teardown: Creality Wi-Fi Box
- A Pull Chain to End Your Zoom Pain
- The High-Tech Valor Glass Vials Used to Deliver the Coronavirus Vaccine
- The Wichinsky Bagelmatic
- Big Time Character LCD Clock
- Retrocomputing With Modern Hardware, No Emulation Required
- Rheoscopic Holiday Ornaments
- Hackaday Links: December 27, 2020
- A Mechanical Edge-Avoiding Robot
- Put a Hardened Edge on Mild Steel with Just a Drill Bit. Sort of.
- 76-bit Trombones Led By The Big MIDI File
- Custom Powerbank In Compact Form Factor
- A Tracker For Radio Sondes
- 3D Printed Server Case Holds 14 Raspberry Pis
- Analyzing the “Source Code” of the COVID-19 Vaccine
- Squeezing Every Bit from an ATMega
- Fox Hunting with Software-Defined Radio
- Indoor Antennas Worthy of 007
- Legged Robots Put On Wheels And Skate Away
- Casting Skateboard Wheels with a 3D Printed Mold
- No Doorknobs Needed for This Nitrogen Laser Build
- Webcam Heart Rate Monitor Brings Photoplethysmography to Your PC
- Better Security, Harry Potter Style
- Making Smart Bulbs Smarter With The Power Of MQTT
- Modified Yost Tames Pinout Plethora
- Ten Robot Mechanisms For Your Design Toolbox
- The X-PC, A stylish Re-Imagining Of An Old Laptop
- Is This The World’s Smallest Nintendo 64?
- Tank Track Skateboard
- Discrete LEDs Make a Micro Display
- Control Theory Spellcasting Banishes the 3D Printing Ghosts
- Fully Backlit AlphaSmart NEO2 Lights Up the Night
- PIR Sensor In A Jar Helps You Keep Your Concentration
- XChange Promises Inexpensive Tool Changes for 3D Printers
- Circuit VR: Some Op Amps
- Hackaday Podcast 099: Our Hundredth Episode! Denture Synth, OLED Keycaps, and SNES Raytracing
- Ringing In The Holidays With Self-Playing Chimes
- How the Gates (Almost) Stole Christmas
- We would not Want to be Stormtroopers Right Now
- Hello, Holograms
- 4-bit Retrocomputer Emulator Gets Custom PCB
- SpaceAusScope Team Listens to the Galaxy
- Racing The Old Clock
- Magic 8-Ball Gets a Modern Makeover
- Remoticon Video: KiCad to Blender PCB Renders
- Bare-Metal STM32: Exploring Memory-Mapped I/O And Linker Scripts
- For Your Holiday Relaxation: the Clickspring Sundial Build Megacut
- The Mouth-Watering World Of NIST Standard Foods
- Hyundai Mini 45 EV Is A Small Car With Grand Ambitions
- A Tiny LED Matrix is Better With Friends
- The World is Your Green Screen
- Adding Space Music To The Astronomy Toolbox
- V12 Corvette Gets Electronic Gauge Mod
- Watch This Scaly Gauntlet’s Hypnotizing, Rippling Waves
- DIY ESP32 Video Doorbell Locks Out Big Brother
- New Part Day: Hackboard 2, an x86 Single-Board Computer
- A Charmander Lamp to Light Up the Garden
- Uber Traded Away Its In-House Self-Driving Effort
- Implementing SENT Sensors on the Raspberry Pi
- TI eZ430-Chronos Turned Medical Alert Wearable
- Heavy Raspberry Pi User? Keep an HDMI-to-USB Capture Device Around
- C++ Compiler Targets the Web
- Coil On Plug Ignition For Tiny Engines
- Watch Life Tick Away, one LED Segment at a Time
- Remoticon Video: Making Glowy Origami with Charlyn Gonda
- World Solar Challenge: How Far in a Solar Car?
- Solar Pi Zero e-Paper Photo Frame Waits for the Right Moment
- The First Real Palmtop
- Did ET Finally Call Us?
- We Bet You’ve Never Seen a Pink Denture Synth
- Weather Note Tells You What You Need To Know, And No More
- Splash droplet photos
- Hackaday Links: December 20, 2020
- Lidar House Looks Good, Looks All Around
- Status Display Lets Them Know You Can’t Play
- This Expedient Microfiche Reader Illuminates Retro Datasheets
- Making a Little Smalltalk
- A Synth Of Your Own, For Not A Lot
- Old Thermostat Gets Smarts
- Why Your Scanner Has A Hole In It
- Hamster Wheel Tacho Measures Tiny Pet Performance
- How Researchers Used Salt to Give Masks an Edge Against Pathogens
- Bringing Full Colour PCB Art To Production
- Label Your Shtuff!
- Logitech Joystick Gets a Mechanical Sidekick
- Protect Your Tomatoes With A 9V Battery
- A Camera Slider with a Twist
- A Bullet For The Digital You
- Machining Without Machines
- Over-Engineered Bottle Opener Takes the Drudgery out of Drinking
- Remoticon Video: How to 3D Print onto Fabric with Billie Ruben
- Basics Of Remote Cellular Access – Choosing a Modem
- Hackaday Podcast 098: China’s Moon Rocks, Antikythera Revelations, Creality vs Octoprint, and RC Starship
- Edge-Mounted LEDs Make This Spherical POV Look Fantastic
- This Week in Security: SolarWinds and FireEye, WordPress DDoS, And Enhance!
- Building A Smash Bros. Controller With Keyswitches
- Stacked Material Makes Kitchen Temperature Superconductors
- 900-Degree Racing Wheel Helps You Nail The Apex
- BASH Template Promises Safer Scripts
- Hypercar Valve Technology On A Harbour Freight Engine
- Adaptive Macro-Pad Uses Tiny OLED Screens as Keycaps
- Remoticon Video: How to Use Max in Your Interactive Projects
- How To Get Into Cars: Drag Racing Mods
- Animatronic Saturn V Launch Tower Sends Lego Model to the Moon
- Tech Hidden in Plain Sight: the Ballpoint Pen
- Fancy Filament Joiner Has Promise, But Ultimately Fails
- A SNES, Ray Tracing
- Skittle Sorter Makes Long Task Shorter
- Learn Compilers Online from Cornell
- Automatic Sanitizer for Your Cupholder
- Building Distributed Mode Loudspeakers With Plywood
- Enormous CNC Router Uses Clever Tricks to Improve Performance
- Tracking Satellites: The Nitty Gritty Details
- Sit Up Straight!: Open Source Bluetooth Posture Sensing
- Teardown: Siemens 8mm SMD Parts Feeder
- 3D Printing With VHS Tape Filament
- RC Lawn Mower Cuts With Impunity
- Micro:bit Put On Plant Minding Duty
- Russian Doomsday Radios Go Missing
- Radio Controlled Hovercraft Apes The SR.N1
- Real Hackers Videoconference in Terminal
- Remoticon Video: Intro to Modern Synthesis Using VCV Rack
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Saw Through the Stars
- Console Controller Mod Gets Amputee Back in the Game
- PS2 Emulation On The Xbox Series S: A Story Of Walled Gardens
- Mouse-Controller Hybrid Aims To Dominate in First-Person Shooters
- SpaceX Starship Replica Attempts The Bellyflop
- An Easy DIY Pedal Set For Racing Sims
- Tunes You Can Eat
- Dead Simple Time-Domain Reflectometry with Just a Battery and an Oscilloscope
- Railroad Rail Transformed into Blacksmith’s Anvil with the Simplest of Tools
- Pi Compute Module is Love-child of Raspberry and Arduino
- China’s Moon Mission Was About More than Rocks
- Join Us for the “Holiday with Hackaday and Tindie” Meet-Up
- Save Your Original Xbox From A Corrosive Death
- Peeking Inside A VW Gearbox Reveals Die Casting Truths
- 15 Volts to 110,000 Volts
- Building A Tiny Finger Plane For Detailed Work
- Auto Tuning For A Vintage Stereo
- Little Red Night Light is Just Right
- Hackaday Links: December 13, 2020
- A 3D – To – 2D Converter To Make Plots From STLs.
- A Pair of Steppers are Put to Work in This Automatic Instrument Pickup Winder
- RC Starship Perfects its Skydiving Routine
- Creality WiFi Takes on Octoprint
- Can You Use an Easy-Bake Oven for Reflow Soldering?
- IRC over LoRa, For When Things Really Go South
- A Beeping Toy Helps a Blind Dog Play Fetch
- Homebuilt Racing Sim Does Almost Everything From Scratch
- Hacker’s Discovery Changes Understanding of the Antikythera Mechanism
- Giving Blind Runners Independence With AI
- How Much is Too Much?
- Slick DIY Compound Bow Uses Coiled Springs, Toothbrush Heads
- 3D Finger Joints For Your Laser Cutter
- Surfing the Web with 7400 Logic
- A Thousand Feet Under The Sea
- Microstepping A PCB Motor
- Putting the Finishing Touches on a 60W Laser
- Remoticon Video: Breaking Encrypted Firmware Workshop
- Bare-Metal STM32: Blinky And The Secret Of Delay Functions
- Hackaday Podcast 097: We ♥ MicroMice, the Case of the Missing Drones, and 3D Prints Tested for Rocketry and Food Prep
- Still Got Film To Scan? This Lego And Raspberry Pi Scanner Is For You
- This Week in Security: VMWare, Microsoft Teams, Python Fuzzing, and More
- CNC Router Frame Repurposed for Colorful String Art Bot
- Gigantic Working Arduino Uses 1/4″ Cables
- A Lambda 8300 Lives Again
- Easy Frequency Counter Looks Good, Reads To 6.5 MHz
- ESP32 Spectrum Analyzer Taps Into Both Cores
- The Macro Keyboard Is On Deck
- Remoticon Video: Learn How to Hack a Car with Amith Reddy
- Remembering Chuck Yeager: The Supersonic Legend Whose Wings Were Clipped By A High School Diploma
- A Walking Rover Destined Explore Your Fridge Door
- A Xilinx Zynq Linux FPGA Board For Under $20? The Windfall of Decommissioned Crypto Mining
- A Whimsical Touch-Free Gumball Machine for These Trying Times
- Wireless Quad Voltmeter Brings it All Together
- A Relay-Based Pseudorandom Number Generator
- A PCB Diary
- PET 2001 Emulator on $2 of Hardware
- CentOS is Dead, Long Live CentOS
- Who Says Solder Paste Stencils Have To Be CNC Cut?
- Hyperloop: Fast, But At What Cost?
- Mind-Controlled Beer Pong Gets Easier as You Drink
- North American Field Guide to Rail Cars
- Speaker Snitch Tattles on Privacy Leaks
- This Automated Wire Prep Machine Cuts and Strips the Wire
- Printed Circuits, 1940s Style
- Roll Your Own Tracking
- Home-Crafting A Motorcycle Throttle Hold
- DevTerm Beats Cyberdeck Builders to the Punch
- Remoticon Video: Making Microphones and Finding Sound
- Space is Radioactive: Dealing with Cosmic Rays
- A Portable Serial Terminal That Should Be From The 1970s
- Exploring Custom Firmware on Xiaomi Thermometers
- SLA 3D Printed Vortex Cooled Rocket Engine
- 3D Printed Rigid Chain Mechanism
- Inside CHIP-8
- Food Safe Printing Techniques
- Cassette Synth Plays with Speed Control
- The Gatwick Drone: Finally Someone Who Isn’t Us Asks Whether It Ever Really Existed
- Sinclair QL Repairs and Restoration
- How to Get Into Lost Wax Casting (with a Dash of 3D Printing)
- Vacuum Tube Logic Hack Chat
- An Epic Quest for a Motorized Volume Knob
- Norway Leads The Charge To Phase Out Internal Combustion; China and the UK To Follow
- Slim RGB Matrix Puts LEDs Inside The PCB
- A Brain Transplant For An Uncommon Smart Bulb
- These Micro Mice have Macro Control
- A UV Curing Wand For Everyone
- Hackaday Links: December 6, 2020
- Leaking Data By Ultrasound
- No-Battery Pressure Sensors For Bike Tyres
- Parkinson’s Spoon uses Control Theory for Good
- Ground Off Part Number Leads To Chip Detective Work
- Tiny Chain-Link Fence Made With Hand-Cranked Brilliance
- DIY Automated Roller Blinds
- Slot Machine Has a Handle on Fun
- Hybrid Respirator Uses Repurposed Filters
- A Retro Camcorder Upgraded as a Raspberry Pi HQ Camera
- Killing Mosquitoes With Cardi B
- Sufficiently Advanced Technology and Justice
- ARM and X86 Team Up in No Compromise Cyberdeck
- Fans Add Reality to Virtual Driving
- Sierpinski PCB Christmas Tree
- The Protein Folding Break-Through
- FM Radio from Scratch using an Arduino
- Transforming Work Light Is More than Meets the Eye
- Remoticon Video: How to Use Machine Learning with Microcontrollers
- Circuit VR: Squaring with Schmitt Triggers
- Hackaday Podcast 096: Diaphragm Engine, DIY Dish Washer, Forgotten Soviet Computers, and a Starlink Teardown
- Flipbook Automation Saves Your Thumb
- This Week in Security: iOS Wifi Incantations, Ghosts, and Bad Regex
- nerfnet Tunnels TCP/IP over NRF24L01 Radios
- Incredible Discrete MOSFET Rover has Maximum Blink
- Hardware Keymapper Routes Through Raspberry Pi
- FTDI VCP Chips With Custom PIDs Not Working On MacOS 11 Big Sur
- PinePhone Gets 3D Printed Mechanical Keyboard
- NSF Releases Video of Arecibo’s Final Moments
- Underwater Drone Faces Trial By Water
- Remoticon Video: Circuit Sculpture Workshop
- Crossed Wires Crash Rockets
- Cheap DIY High Impedance Earphones
- Game Cartridges And The Technology To Make Data Last Forever
- Waveshare’s Pi CM3 Laptop Arrives a Bit Too Late
- Exhaust Fan-Equipped Reflow Oven Cools PCBs Quickly
- Hot Wire Foam Cutter Does Circles, Too
- Smart Screen Heal Thyself
- Fridge Compressor Turned into Capable Little Four-Stroke Engine
- European Right To Repair: Poor Repairability Shamed With Rating System
- Templateize your Timetable with EPaper Templates
- A Case for Project Part Numbers
- Clone Console Cribs Ben Heck’s Classic SNES Caché
- The Dark Side of Solar Power
- A Straightforward Guide To Unlocking The Nintendo Game And Watch
- Diaphragm Air Engine
- Exploring Turn of the Century RAF Avionics
- Extracting A Gate From AMD and Intel
- Watercooling A Canon DSLR Leads To Serious Engineering Upgrades
- Wemo Smart Plug Gets Brain Transplant
- Remoticon Video: How to Reverse Engineer a PCB
- Spacing Out: Rocks From The Moon, Rocks From Mars, A Near Miss, And Some Interesting Launches
- Giving Micro Channel Bus Computers A Sound Blaster Bark
- Let’s Encrypt Will Stop Working For Older Android Devices
- Zelda II Redux ROM Hack Plays How You Remember The Original
- Building A Vector Graphics Machine From Scratch Including The CRT
- USB Webcams Out of Stock? Make One With A Raspberry Pi and HQ Camera Module
- Recovering Metal From Waste
- Gathering Eclipse Data Via Ham Radio
November 2020
- Building A Dishwasher From Scratch
- A Crust-Cutting, Carrot-Chopping Robot
- Amazon Sidewalk: Should You Be Co-Opted Into A Private Neighbourhood LoRa Network?
- Precision Optics Hack Chat with Jeroen Vleggaar of Huygens Optics
- Leaking Data Slowly By Switching Ethernet Speeds
- Lithium: What Is It and Do We Have Enough?
- Urban Explorers Reveal A Treasure Trove Of Soviet Computing Power
- Pushing The FPGA Video Player Further
- Mouse-Controlled Mouse Controller Is Silly, But Could Be Useful
- Calendar Printer Makes You A Hard Copy On The Daily
- Hackaday Links: November 29, 2020
- MQTT Dashboard Uses SHARP Memory LCD
- Making A “Unpickable” Lock
- DIY Induction Heater Draws 1.4 kW And Gets Metal Hot
- Advanced Printer Control Aims To Stop Idle Waste
- A Clap-Activated Machine For All Your Applause Needs
- Open Hardware GPS Tracker Works On Your Terms
- Ham Radio Needs To Embrace The Hacker Community Now More Than Ever
- Taking Over the Amazing Control Panel of a Vintage Video Switcher
- Scratch Building a Supersized CNC Router
- This Debug Connector Brings Your Issues to the Edge
- Sims-Style Plumb Bob Broadcasts Your Mood
- TMD-2: A Bigger, Better, More Collaborative Turing Machine
- HackRF PortaPack Firmware Spoofs All the Things
- An iMac All-In-One’s New Life
- He’s the Operator of His Pocket Arduino
- Finally! The ROM You Wished Your Sinclair Spectrum Had!
- Atreus Gets a TrackPoint and Layer LEDs
- Hackaday Podcast 095: Booting FreeDOS from a Vinyl Record, Floating on Mushrooms, and Tunneling Through a Living Room
- Repurposing Large Electronic Price Tags
- So Close to Landing a Model Rocket on Its Tail
- Shhh… Robot Vacuum Lidar is Listening
- Chess Computer Retires to Play Jazz
- TinyTacho: Rotational Speed Measurement Without The Bulk
- Building a Workshop Crane From Scratch
- Alfa Romeo Gauge Cluster Gets a Fresh Set of LEDs
- Tiny Ethernet Routers Now Available In Gigabit Speeds
- Cornhole Boards Play Victory Songs
- Electric BMX with Friction Drive
- Adding USB To A Keyboard The Way It Used To Be Done
- Audio Fingerprinting Skips a Show’s Intro, Reliably
- Zoombombing the EU Foreign Affairs Council
- Cleaner Laser Cutting With a 3D-Printed Nozzle
- Literally Tearing Apart a SpaceX Starlink Antenna
- TV Head Is Great Replacement For Your Real Head
- “Enhance” Is Now A Thing, But Don’t Believe What You See
- Building A Mask To Induce Lucid Dreaming
- The Wow! Signal and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- A Raspberry Pi 400 UPS Add-On, It’s Not All Plain Sailing
- SMD Challenge Extreme Edition Gets Our Flux Flowing
- True Networked KVM Without Breaking the Bank
- Real Spectrum Analysis Goes Virtual
- DIY Camera Motion Rig Is Mostly 3D Printed
- Digispark Spoofs IR To Get Speakers Under Control
- Alfred Jones Talks About the Challenges of Designing Fully Self-Driving Vehicles
- Garrett Augustus Morgan Made the World Safer
- Over-the-Top Cyberdeck is Really a Geiger-Deck
- Eulogy To Arecibo: With Demise of a Unique Scientific Facility, Who Will Carry The Torch?
- Bet You Didn’t Know Arduinos Are Psychic
- Trashed Tablet Lives Again Thanks to New Charger IC
- A CPU-Less Computer with a Single NOR-Gate ALU
- Roll Your Own Photo Sharing, Minus the Social Networking Baggage
- The Mystery Of A Particular ATtiny85 Fuse
- Coaxial Connectors, Starting With The PL259
- Wireless Mouse Gets a Charging House
- Linux Fu: VPN for Free with SSH
- Escape Tunnel In Your Living Room: A Different Take On The Infinity Mirror
- The Cost of Moving Atoms in Space; Unpacking the Dubious Claims of a $10 Quintillion Space Asteroid
- Full 8-Bit Computer on Breadboards
- Booting a PC from Vinyl for a Warmer, Richer OS
- The Most Annoying Among Us Tasks Created In Real Life
- Hackaday Links: November 22, 2020
- Espressif Leaks ESP32-C3: A WiFi SoC That’s RISC-V and is ESP8266 Pin-Compatible
- DOOM Running on the Nintendo Game & Watch
- Artistic Robot Has Paints, Will Travel
- Blue Pill as a Nerdy Swiss Army Knife
- RGB Party Bike Flashes With The Beat
- Intel’s Forgotten 1970s Dual Core Processor
- Beer Pong Difficulty Level: 10
- A Computer In The Game Of Life
- A Rocket Powered Ejection Seat For Model Aircraft
- Among Us Emergency Meeting Button Becomes Reality
- High-Speed Spectrometer Built with Cheap Linear CCD
- Why You Need to Finish
- Reduce, Reuse, Injection Mold
- Reverse Engineering a PokeWalker
- Big Nerf Bazooka Packs a Wallop
- Procedurally Generated Trees
- A Motorized Rotary Shop Table from Scratch
- No Wonder These Projects Won the Circuit Sculpture Contest
- Desktop Wind Tunnel Brings Aerospace Engineering to the Home Gamer
- Ask Hackaday: What Tools Do You Really Need For A Life On The Road?
- Hackaday Podcast 094: Fake Sun, Hacked Super Mario, Minimum Viable Smart Glasses, and 3D Printers Can’t Do That
- New Part Day: Bouffalo Labs BL602 RISC-V Wi-Fi/Bluetooth SoC
- This Week in Security: SAD DNS, Incident Documentation Done Well, and TCL Responds
- 3D Printable Cloth Takes Advantage of Defects
- Mushroom Canoe is Rooted in Nature
- Circuit Boards You Can Stretch: Liquid Metal Nanomaterials Make a Strange Flex
- The Battle for Arecibo Has Been Lost
- RadioShack to Be Reborn as Online-First Retailer
- Micro Macro Keyboard is ‘Mega-Based
- Remoticon Video: Firmware Reverse Engineering Workshop with Asmita Jha
- Easy IoT Logging Options For The Beginner
- Colorful Quinary Clock Makes the Most Out of Five Neopixels
- The Shipping Industry’s Transition To Atomic Power And Faster Deliveries
- 3D Printer Lets You Play “Will It Shred?”
- E-Ink Calendar Paves A Path For All
- C64 Runs on STM32F429 Discovery
- Turning GitHub Into A URL Shortening Service
- Giving Recalled Fitness Trackers a Second Chance
- Actuator Opens the Door to Drier Dishes
- Easy Device Configuration For Your Pi Projects
- Larry Berg and the Purple Open Passion Project
- 3D Printed Electric Motor Wants to Take Flight
- How To Get Into Cars: Offroading Mods
- Hacking the FPGA Control Board from a Bitcoin Miner
- More LEDs Means Faster Print Times For 3D Printer, But There’s a Catch
- Magnifying on the Cheap
- Portable Ham Antenna Uses SMD Capacitors
- Exploring the new Super Mario Game & Watch
- Sorting Thousands of Drill Bits
- Kipp Bradford Discusses the Entanglement of Politics and Technology
- Bare-Metal STM32: From Power-Up To Hello World
- Custom Firmware For Cheap Bluetooth Thermometers
- The Special Fridges Behind The COVID-19 Vaccine, Why It’s Surprisingly Difficult To Be That Cool
- Another Kind of “Bare Metal”: 6502 Computer Powers RPN Calculator
- Prusa Mini Gets Custom Heavy Duty Enclosure
- 3D Print Your Way to a Modular MIDI Playset
- FreeCAD Debugging
- youtube-dl Makes Their Case, Returns to GitHub
- Gorgeous Mini-Lathe Makes the Most Out of Wood and Metal
- Celebrating the 4004’s 0x31st Anniversary
- Teardown: Recon Sentinel
- Harnessing Your Creativity Hack Chat
- Simple Tips For Better 3D-Printed Enclosures
- 3D Printering: The Things Printers (Don’t) Do
- Automatic Winder Takes the Drudgery Out of Tesla Coil Builds
- Vectron Adds Basic and Christmas Tree Control
- Gyroscope Level is Digital
- DIY High Voltage Kirlian Photography Rig
- Hackaday Links: November 15, 2020
- A Microwave Repair Even Mechanical Keyboard Fans Will Love
- Halloween Pumpkin Scares With An Evil Eye
- Cutting Balsa Wood with Air (Oh, and a Laser)
- Interactive Subway Map Talks You Through The Route
- An EV Conversion Engineered As A Drop-in Replacement
- Automatic Scoring For Skeeball Mini-Golf
- Micropython on Microcontrollers
- A Different Kind of IKEA Hack: Javascript Price Comparison by Location
- Illuminated 3D Printed Guitar is Ready to Rock
- MicroOS is Immutable Linux
- What is Worth Saving?
- Turn-by-turn Smart Glasses Give You Direction
- Dremel 3D20 Printer Gets Modern Overhaul
- Haunted TV Does Mirror Scares With Raspberry Pi
- Wireless Earphones And Getting Them Back After They Fall On Tram Tracks
- Robotics Club Teaches Soldering
- “Artificial Sun” Lighting Via Old Satellite Dishes
- Fran Finds Four Foot Alphanumeric Displays From 1910
- DSP Spreadsheet: The Goertzel Algorithm is Fourier’s Simpler Cousin
- Hackaday Podcast 093: Hot and Fast Raspberry Pi, Dr. Seuss Drone, M&M Mass Meter, and FPGA Tape Backup
- Zoom Control Box Helps Keep Meetings On Track
- This Week in Security: Platypus, Git.bat, TCL TVs, and Lessons From Online Gaming
- Easy Carrier Board For the Compute Module 4 Shows You Can Do It, Too
- Tracking Drone Flight Path Via Video, Using Cameras We Can Get
- Domino Clock Tells The Time In Style
- Rotating Magnetic Fields, Explained
- Bringing An IBM Model F Into 2020
- Highly Sensitive Camera Makes A Great Night Vision Scope
- Three-Wheeled Turret Car Looks Like It Should Be Orbiting Thunderdome
- Tech Hidden in Plain Sight: Gas Pumps
- Meticulous Bionic Hand
- After Eight-Month Break, Deep Space Network Reconnects with Voyager 2
- Quick And Dirty Trebuchet Flings Mashed Potato
- Really Useful Robot
- Homebrew Slide Rule Gets Back to Mathematical Basics
- Aircraft Radio Bares All
- Rotary Plotter Draws On Bottles
- Teensy Controller for Powerful CNCs
- Escalating Privileges in Ubuntu 20.04 from User Account
- Spacing Out: A Big Anniversary, Starlink Failures Plummet, Lunar Cellphones, And A Crewed Launch
- Visualizing Magnetic Memory with Core 64
- Adventures in Overclocking: Which Raspberry Pi 4 Flavor is Fastest?
- Laser-Induced Graphene Supercapacitors from Kapton Tape
- Tensions High After Second Failed Cable At Arecibo
- Trying (And Failing) To Use GPUs with the Compute Module 4
- Retrotechtacular: Shake Hands with Danger
- Xbox Series S Teardown Shows a Glimpse at the Future
- Help, I’m Buried Alive By Tablets!
- Illuminating the Inner Workings of a Venus Flytrap
- Linux Fu: Send in the (Cloud) Clones
- New Contest: Say Goodbye to 2020
- Mini iMac G4 Made With NUC and 3D Printer
- Sending 3D Printed Parts to Mars: A Look Inside JPL’s Additive Manufacturing Center
- Binary Calculator For All 0b10 Types
- Proper Cassettes For Your FPGA Retrocomputer
- Kinect Gave Us A Preview Of The Future, Though Not The One It Intended
- Watching The Global Oil Trade With Satellite Imagery
- Hello From The NearSpace
- Infinity Mirror Guitar Shreds Forever
- Getting Over 4Gbps Out Of A Compute Module 4
- Prism Lighting – The Art of Steering Daylight
- Learning SDR and DSP Hack Chat
- The Logic Chip RISC-V Project Reboots
- Product Review: The tinySA, a Shirt-Pocket Sized Spectrum Analyzer
- Ethernet Goes to the Ether
- From Trash PPE To New PPE
- Teardown Experts Sing Praise Of Stretch-Release Adhesives
- “Hey, You Left the Peanut Out of My Peanut M&Ms!”
- Hackaday Links: November 8, 2020
- Fail of the Week: Roboracer Meets Wall
- Today at Remoticon: Sunday Live Events
- Under the Sea GPS Uses Sound
- Robots Can Finally Answer, Are You Talking To Me?
- Near-Silent Bellows Uses Water Flow And Magnetic Coupling
- Door Mutes Microphone to Prevent Remote Learning Humiliation
- The BYTE is the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 Hackaday Prize
- An Old-School Control Panel For Your Computer
- One Wheel Is All We Need To Roll Into Better Multirotor Efficiency
- How To Improve a Smart Motor? Make It Bigger!
- Dad Scores Big with DIY Indoor Hockey Game
- Tired of the Cat-and-Mouse
- Today at Remoticon: Saturday Live Events
- Training A Neural Network To Play A Driving Game
- Wearable Sensors on Your Skin
- Procedurally Generated Retrocomputer Emulators
- Spider Silk, Spider Silk, Made Using a Strain of Yeast
- Gorgeous Perfboard Build Puts 1-Bit Controller Back to Work
- Mix It Up with a Multi-Volume Controller
- Open Source Self-Driving Smartphone Robot
- Local And Remote Debugging With GDB
- Hackaday Podcast 092: Orbital Data by Mail, Human Flight on Styrofoam Wings, and Seven Shades of E-Ink
- Robots Learning to Understand Their Surroundings
- Today at Remoticon: Bring-a-Hack
- This Week in Security: In the Wild, Through Your NAT, and Brave
- Lunar Ark Boldly Goes
- Walmart Gives Up on Stock-Checking Robots
- A Super UPS for the Pi
- Purdue’s Powerful Paint Could Cancel Climate Change
- Open Source Lego Controller
- Giant Blacksmith Vise From Start To Finish
- A Featherweight Direct Drive Extruder in a Class of Its Own
- AlphaSmart Neo Teardown: This is the Way to Write Without Distractions
- Robust Water-Rocket Launcher Gets the Engineering Just Right
- Linux Fu: Monitor Disks
- Quadcopter with Tensegrity Shell Takes A Beating And Gets Back Up
- Rebuilding a Hero (the Robot, not the Sandwich)
- DualShock Flight Simulator Yoke
- Building Walks with Robot Legs
- 3D Printed Workshop Lamp Uses A Few Neat Tricks
- Minimalist Low Power Supercapacitor Sensor Node
- Quick and Simple Milliohmmeter
- Bespoke Storage Technologies: The Alphabet Soup Found in Modern Hard Drives and Beyond
- DIY Heavy Duty Linear Slides
- MOSAiC Project Freezes A Boat In The Arctic Ice Pack For Science
- Scratch Built 3D Printer Goes Big
- Wheels or Legs? Why Not Both?
- “Brain in a Vat” 6502
- Make Some Noise or Simulate It, at Least
- E-Paper Weather Display is a Great Base to Build From
- Computer Vision Maps Christmas Lights
- Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna Sharpened Mother Nature’s Genetic Scissors and Won the Nobel for It
- This GCode Post-Processor Squeezes Lines into Arcs
- As Facebook Tightens Their Grip on VR, Jailbreaking Looks More Likely
- Raspberry Raven Pi Security Camera Does Double Duty
- Useless Box with Attitude Isn’t Entirely Useless
- Dumping A N64 Development Cartridge Safely
- TTL Simulator in JavaScript
- Building A Top-Notch Electret Microphone
- Peter Sripol’s DIY Electric Ultralight MK4
- Robot Sink Helps With The Dishes
- OpenOffice or LibreOffice? A Star is Torn
- How Many Punches Does it Take?
- ESP32 Adds New Features To 1990s Home Alarm System
- Flies Like a Quadcopter, But This Drone Design Has Only One Propeller
- New Raspberry Pi 400 is a Computer In a Keyboard for $70
- Sharpie Mount Brings Some Color to Your 3D Prints
- Raspberry PI 4 Now Supported by Risc OS in Latest Update
- Hackaday Links: November 1, 2020
- Bodge Wire Saves a Vintage Mac SE/30 From the Heap
- Brassy, Classy WiFi Clock Shows Weather, Too
- Flexible Actuators Spring Into Action
- Big Workshop Clock Is 3D Printing Done Right
- Burning Your Own PS1 Modchip Is Easy
- Fuel Cell Drone Aims For Extended Flight Times
- Kelvin Probes Review Shows How 4-Wire Resistance Measurement Works
October 2020
- Self-Driving RC Truck is a Master’s Thesis in Cybernetics and Robotics
- Using Open Source to Train your Dog
- School Project Turns Plastic Waste Into Bricks
- Scratching That Itch
- Nerf Blaster Becomes Light Gun Controller
- Ubuntu (Finally) Officially Lands on the Raspberry Pi. But Will Anyone Notice?
- Altair Front Panel Tutorials
- Easy-SDR Gets Updates
- Cryptic Calendar Makes For A Useful Wall Ornament
- Adding Remote Control to the Elegoo Mars Pro
- Animated Pumpkins Sing and Scare On Halloween
- The Theremin is 100 Years Old; Celebrating the Spookiest of Instruments
- Hackaday Podcast 091: Louisville Exploder, Generating Japanese Joinery, Relay Retrocomputer Rally, and Chop the Robopup
- ESP8266 Does RC Without the Transmitter
- This Week in Security: Discord, Chromium, and WordPress Forced Updates
- Color E-Ink Display Photo Frame Pranks [Mom]
- Crowd Funded Jumping Cubes
- N64 Power Adapter Works Around The World
- A Look Behind the “Big Boards” at Mission Control in the Golden Age of NASA
- Nightmare Robot Only Moves When You Look Away
- A Clock From An Electricity Meter
- Five-Axis Pumpkin Carving
- Tracking Satellites with a Commodore PET
- Alfred Jones and Kipp Bradford to Deliver Keynotes at Remoticon Next Week
- Rockin’ Out in LTSpice: Simulating Classic Guitar Pedals
- DSL is Barely Hanging on the Line as Telcos Stop Selling New Service
- Massive Battle Bot Needs Equally Chunky Custom-Molded Wheels
- DIY Regular Expressions
- This Z80 Computer Bootstraps Itself
- Projecting Halloween Peril
- PyGame Celebrates 20 Years by Releasing PyGame 2.0
- Making a 3D Printed DSLR Camera Mount Even Better
- An Automatic Label Dispenser for Quicker Stickers
- Linux Fu: Troubleshooting Incron
- Replace Your IR Remote with a Web Browser
- Bringing High Temperature 3D Printing to the Masses
- The 10,000 Pixel Per Inch Display is Now Possible
- A VGA Retro Console With Everything Generated From A Single ARM Cortex M0
- Circuit Sculpture Breathes Life into Discrete Components
- Quantum Inspired Algorithm Going Back To The Source
- Community Rallies Behind youtube-dl After DMCA Takedown
- What’s In A USB-C Connector?
- The Ground Beneath Your Feet: SuperAdobe Construction
- AMD Acquires Xilinx for $35 Billion
- Ode To An AVO 8 Multimeter
- Take This 3D-Print Post-Processing Method with a Grain of Salt
- Engine Trouble Delays SpaceX’s Return to the ISS
- Going For The Home Run Record With Explosive Help
- Low-Tech Fix Saves Expensive, High-Tech TV From Junk Pile
- Inside the Top Secret Doughnut: a Visit to GCHQ
- Jetson Emulator Gives Students a Free AI Lesson
- World’s Smallest Benchy Shows off What 3D-Printing Can Do for “Microswimmers”
- Simple Induction Heater Helps with Homebrew Shrink-Fitting
- Plastic Strips Protect Ball Screws on This Homebrew CNC Router
- The Game Boy Camera, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love The Pixels
- The Art of Nixies Hack Chat
- Improved Flexible Build Plate for SLA is Ready to Rock
- Console Identity in the Age of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series
- A Teleprompter For The Rest Of Us
- Complete Flight Sim Controller Set With 3D Printing And Hall-Effect Sensors.
- A Unique Display Makes An Unusual Clock
- STM32 Gets Up Close and Personal with Mandelbrot
- Hackaday Links: October 25, 2020
- Iconic Yugoslavian Galaksija Computer Reborn, With a Documentary Too
- Smoothing Big Fonts on Graphic LCDs
- POV LED Staff Takes Art for a Spin
- The Clock Under the Dome
- When Only The Tiniest Of Violins Will Do
- Flash is Dead, but Its Culture Should Live On
- Radio Remote Control via HTML5
- A Transistor-less Sound Synthesizer
- Let The Solar Free
- Optical Centrepunch Is An Easy Build If You Need One
- Get Over Your Fears
- Super-Simple VGA Adapter Sports Low-Res Output with Only Four TTL Chips
- Proprietary Lenses Are No Problem With This USB Adaptor
- Relay Computer Consumes Six Years and 4.5 Suitcases
- Short Video Recaps A Long Tradition of Space Hacks
- A Plethora of Power Delivery Potential
- Don’t Guess, Listen to Your Plants’ Pleas for Water
- The Adorable Robot Spot, Now In Affordable Form
- Tesla Begins “Full Self Driving” Public Beta as Waymo and Cruise Go Unattended
- Hackaday Podcast 090: DIY Linux SBC, HDMI CEC, Fake Bluepills, and SCARA Arms
- Complex Wood Joints, Thanks To New Software’s Interactive Features
- This Week in Security: Too Little Too Late, and Other Stories
- Battery Swap Gives Nissan LEAF New Lease on Life
- Trick or Yeet Cannon Will Give Them Candy Shell Shock
- Cardboard Models Trace Design Process of Vintage Tektronix Miniscopes
- Tracking Boats and Ships in Real Time at the Same Time
- Digital Preservation for Old Batteries
- A Linear Stencil Clock Built for Quiet Operation
- Pulse Oximetry Sensor Judges Your Coffee Roast
- Clacker Hacker: Popping a Cap in a Brother EP43 Thermal Typewriter
- What If You Could Design Your Own Aluminum Hand?
- STM32 Clones: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
- Cluster Deck Packs Four Pis into One Portable Package
- Affordable Ground-Penetrating Radar
- Do Your Part to Stop the Robot Uprising
- Correlated Electron Memory… Coming Soon?
- Exoskeleton Muscles Powered By Hydrogen
- Small Spotify Remote Broadens Musical Horizons
- How an Engineer Designs a DIY Energy Recovery Ventilator
- Google Meddling With URLs In Emails, Causing Security Concerns
- Bonsai LED Matrix Has Chaotic Roots
- Taking a Crack at the Traveling Salesman Problem
- Arduino and Wire Detects Metal
- Learn IC Decapping
- Light Fields: Missing Ingredient for Immersive 3D Video Gets Improved
- Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi Spy: This Is How Trademark SNAFUs Should Be Handled
- OSIRIS-REx Reaches Out and Touches Asteroid Bennu
- This (mostly) Transparent Tesla Coil Shows It All
- Untethered: Fishing Without Lines
- Lewis Latimer Drafted the Future of Electric Light
- Arduino Bobbin Winding Machine is Freaky Fast
- Mazda Investing Big In Advanced Gasoline Tech With Skyactiv-X
- Thinking about Creating a Raspberry Pi Replacement?
- Upgrading a Classic Function Generator
- Simplifying the Ruggedized Raspberry Pi Portable
- Let KiCad and Python Make Your Coils
- Stomp Button, Receive Candy
- PyBot is a 3D Printed SCARA Arm for the Masses
- Escape To An Alternate Reality Anywhere With Port-A-Vid
- Does Your Phone Need a RAM Drive?
- Exploring Animal Intelligence Hack Chat
- Motorized Magic Over HDMI
- TTGO ESP32 Module with Multiple Personalities
- Ethernet At 40: From A Napkin Sketch To Multi-Gigabit Links
- Bench Supplies Get Smaller Thanks to USB-C
- New Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module: So long SO-DIMM, Hello PCIe!
- Retro Calculator Design Has Creative Tactile Touchscreen
- Free P2P VPN
- Hackaday Links: October 18, 2020
- Custom Electronic Load Makes Use Of Gaming PC Tech
- Precision Metal Detector Finds Needles in Haystacks
- Worm Bot Inches Along As You’d Expect
- Duality of Light Explored by Revisiting the Double-Slit Experiment
- Where We’re Calculating, We Don’t Need No Seven Segments!
- Climbing Everest One Hill At A Time – And Keeping Track Of It
- Polymer Networks Make Better 3D Prints
- Attempting to Generate Photorealistic Video With Neural Networks
- Robot Travels the World
- SMD Breadboard Adaptors Skip Schematic, Goes Straight to PCB
- Spare Parts Express
- Turning A Desk Drawer Into A Flight Yoke
- It Came From Outer Space: Listening to the Deep Space Network
- ISASTM Runs Vintage Cards Over USB
- Low-Level Academy gets into Details
- Saving Floor Space With a Scratch Built Bike Hoist
- Gas Powered Blender Packs Real Grunt
- Page-Turning Pedal is Pretty Boss
- Mutant Corn Could Be the Future of Agriculture
- Hackaday Podcast 089: 770 Potato Battery, Printing Resin Resist, and No-Internet Video Chat
- Benchtop Injection Molding For The Home Gamer
- This Week in Security: BleedingTooth, Bad Neighbors, and Unpickable Locks
- Shocking Tinnitus Therapy is Music to Sufferers’ Ears
- Jetson Nano Robot
- Clear PS2 Is The Crystal Edition We Deserved
- Room Temperature Superconductor? Yes, but not so Fast…
- Adding Crush Ribs to 3D Printed Parts For a Better Press Fit
- Building An Internet Radio Is Quick And Easy With The ESP32
- Handheld Pong on a 6502
- Axe Hacks: Spinning Knobs And Flipping Switches
- A Lawnmower That Looks Where You’re Going
- Getting Rid of All the Space Junk in Earth’s Backyard
- Air Cannon Serves Up a Blast of Ferrocerium Sparks
- A Smart Speaker That Reminds You It’s Listening
- Modern Network Adapter for Retro Computers
- Grab a Stanford Computer Science Education
- Rolling Your Own TiVo WiFi Adapter
- Designing and Building a Custom Optical Fuel Sensor
- Cheap All-Sky Camera is Easy as Pi
- Linux Fu: Global Search and Replace with Ripgrep
- Homebrew Pulsejet Uses Carbon Fiber To Great Effect
- Lowering the Bar for Exam Software Security
- Tiny Mario Clone On A Tiny Processor
- An Open Source IR Gateway Based on the ESP8266
- Making A Servo Tester Just A Bit Better
- Browser Makes Tiny Office Suite
- New BBC micro:bit Adds Microphone and Speaker
- Building This Mechanical Digital Clock Took Balls
- Quality Control, Done Anywhere
- Andrea Ghez Gazes into Our Galaxy’s Black Hole
- Robot Gets Around On All Fours, Thanks To Many, Many Servos
- Firmware Hints that Tesla’s Driver Camera is Watching
- The Potatoes of DOOM
- USB Adaptor Isolates Multiple Serial Interfaces
- Retro Computer Trainer Gets a Raspberry Pi Refit
- An Up-To-Date Datasette for Commodore TED Series
- World’s Smallest Version of World’s Fastest Bumper Car
- Fail Of The Week: Putting Guitar Strings On A Piano
- A Breadboard Block for 8-Bit CPUs
- Inputs of Interest: The OrbiTouch Keyless Keyboard and Mouse
- Add Creativity to Your BOM: Hack Chat
- Running Way More LED Strips On A Raspberry Pi With DMA
- Ask Hackaday: With Landline Use in Decline, What’s to be Done with the Local Loop?
- HALWOP Recreates Retro Style with the Raspberry Pi
- Spin the Video Track with a Mechanical Flair
- Throwing Down the FPGA Gauntlet
- Improved Part Searches for JLCPCB Parts
- Hackaday Links: October 11, 2020
- Lo-Fi Art on a 32×32 Matrix
- Tube Amp is Modeled with the Power of AI
- Access an 8-bit Atari through Twitter
- Arduino Gets Old PC Booted and Back Into Action
- Modular Rover Platform Rolls on 3D Printed Flexible Tank Tracks
- The Cable Modem to SDR Transformation
- DIY Braille Embosser is Really Impressive
- Heavy Metal Power Bank Uses Tool Batteries
- Procedural Barcode Synth is as Simple as Black and White
- Starshine is a MIDI Controller for the Musically Shy
- Hardware vs Software: Fight!
- Homemade Gear Cutting Indexer Blends Art with Engineering
- Long Range WiFi Broadcasts Open-Source Video Conferencing
- Tracking Your Run Over the Long Haul
- Electronic Treatment for Diabetes?
- Classical Poultry Conditioning is a Bird-Brained Scheme
- Put that New Resin Printer to Work Making PCBs
- UVA Aims To Be More Than Just One Tool
- How To Shoot A Great Project Video
- Hackaday Podcast 088: Flywheel Trebuchet, Thieving Magpies, Hero Engines, and Hypermiling
- Fat Bottomed-Keebs, You Make the Clackin’ World Go Round
- This Week in Security: Code Scanning, Information Gathering, and Seams in the Cloud
- Tiny Trash Can Repels Trash Pandas, Medium-Sized Cats
- FreeCAD Parametrics Made Simple
- Educational Robot Teaches With Magnets And Servos
- Current Sensor Makes Intriguing Use of Concrete
- Light Tracking Robot Relies on LDRs
- A Double Shot Of Vintage Computing This Weekend
- OpenFluid Warmer Aims To Get Medical Equipment Where It’s Needed
- Sensing the Earth’s Wobble in Time
- A Geared Bench Vise To Clamp All The Things
- Hackaday Passes 1,000,000 Comments
- The Prusa i3 MK3S and a Tale of Two Sensors
- 3D Printed Mini MacBook with a Raspberry Pi Heart
- 3D Printed SCARA Arm With 3D Printer Components
- An Impressive Modular Mold Box
- Developing an Open Source Electronics Trainer
- Portable Printer Is A Top Notch High School Project
- Official Teardown Gives Unexpected Look into PS5
- Aruna: An Open Source ROV For Affordable Research
- Linux Fu: The Linux Android Convergence
- Raspberry Pi Crazy Guitar Rig Turns You Into a Hard ‘N Heavy One-Man Band
- Typhoon-Tough Turbines Withstand Wild Winds
- Keep Your YouTube Habits To Yourself With FreeTube
- Hacking a Netgear Router
- Toddler Arcade Cabinet is a Stand-Up Job
- Getting Started With Geometric Algebra For Robotics, Computer Vision And More
- Making a Halloween Costume Fit For 2020
- Making a Modern Version of a Steam Engine from Antiquity
- Gesture Controller for Roku and Universal Keyboard Built By UCPLA Dream Team
- 3D Printering: Wash Parts Better and Make Solvent Last Longer
- Scratch-Built XY Table Gets the Job Done
- Welcome to Solar Cycle 25; Our Sun Enters a New 11-Year Period
- Hacker has Robot Give Yubikey the Finger
- Clock Is Not Readable By Humans
- Baseball Cap Mouse Provides A Look-And-Click Interface
- Graphene Generates a Little Power
- Spare SMD Storage, With Stacking SMT Tape Reels
- Dice Roller Keeps Germs Out of Your Snake Eyes
- Hardware Store Hydroponics
- Tesla’s New Tabless Batteries Unlock New Levels of Performance
- DIY Lasers Hack Chat
- Custom Tool Helps Hakko Set Threaded Inserts
- NVIDIA Announces $59 Jetson Nano 2GB, a Single Board Computer with Makers in Mind
- Making Music with a Go Board Step Sequencer
- Minimal TinyAVR 0 Programming
- This Tabletop Lighthouse Will Get Your Attention
- Vizy “AI Camera” Wants to Make Machine Vision Less Complex
- Hackaday Links: October 4, 2020
- Skylight in any Room
- Porting QMK to a Cheap Mechanical Keyboard
- An LED Cube To Display CPU Vitals
- Teaching an Old Lathe New Tricks With a Programmable Power Feed
- Cleaning Up the Yard with AI — Avian Intelligence
- Indian RISC-V Chip is Team’s Third Successful Chip
- Faster Desktop Ethernet With Server Network Adapters
- Receipt Printers End It All In Moving Art Piece
- Sunshine in a Bag
- A Digital Magic 8-Ball? Signs Point to Yes
- Paying it Forward
- Electric Volkspod Takes You On An Eco-friendly Beetle Cruise
- The Amazing Technicolor Parts Organizer
- Retrotechtacular: The $5,000 40 Pound HP Classroom Computer
- M17 Aims to Replace Proprietary Ham Radio Protocols
- Flywheel Trebuchet Spins Right Round
- Voice Controlled RGB LEDs Go Big
- Seek and Ye Shall Command
- How To Get Into Cars: Hypermiling Mods
- Hackaday Podcast 087: Sound-Shattering Gliders, Pressing Dashcam Buttons, and Ratcheting Up Time
- Shadow Lamp Moves Delibrately Slowly
- This Week in Security: PunkBuster, NAT, NAS and MP3s
- Bullet Time On A Budget With The Raspberry Pi
- Advanced Model Rocket Flight Computer Reaching For The Stars
- Cube64 Puts The Good Controllers On The GoldenEye Console
- Should You Build for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, or Linux? Yes!
- Reel in the Years with a Cassette Player Synth
- Teaching a Pocket Logic Analyzer (Many) New Tricks
- Improved Mosquito Birth Control Causes Ripple Effect
- Even More Firmware in your Firmware
- Raspberry Pi Helps Racer Master the Track
- Certifying Nuclear Reactors: How The NRC Approved Its First Small Modular Reactor Design
- 3D Printed Video Terminal Dials C for Cyberpunk
- Pulse Generator Does The Job With An STM8
- ESP32 Becomes Modern Controller for A 1960s Clock
- KiwiSDR vs RaspberrySDR — a Tale of Two SDRs
September 2020
- Automated Tools For WiFi Cracking
- The Ultimate Model Rocket Launchpad
- Oh, Holey Light
- Choosing The Right RTC For Your Project
- Robot Cat Takes Inspiration From Nature
- Video: Exploring the Abandoned Birthplace of the 6502 and Commodore 64
- Weigh Your Car With Paper
- Hyper Links and Hyperfunctional Text CAD
- New Controllers On Old Nintendos With USB64
- Fiber Optics, But… Wetter?
- Eight Motors Can Sure Pump A Lot Of Water
- Electric Window Mechanism Into A Electric Screen Door
- Push Pedal for Privacy
- A Good, Hard Look at Pre-Stressed Concrete
- All the Workshops, and the SMD Challenge Happening at Hackaday Remoticon
- Split Keeb Splits Time Between Desk and Tablet Modes
- Linux-Fu: Making AWK a Bit Easier
- WiFi Hacking Mr. Coffee
- Bunnie’s Betrusted Makes First Appearance As Mobile, FPGA-Based SoC Development Kit
- State of the Art for Nixies Gets a Boost from Dalibor Farny’s Supersize Prototype
- NASA Claims Cold Fusion without Naming It
- Sliding Screen Has Wheels, Will Travel
- Voice Controlled Sofa Meets Your Every Beverage Need
- Check Your Pockets for Components
- PC Cases Are Still Stuck In The Dark Ages, But We Can Fix This
- Mechanical Engineering Hack Chat
- Lego Ziplining Robot Climbs for Claps
- Teardown: BlackBerry Smart Card Reader
- An Elegant Modular Enclosure System For The Raspberry Pi 4
- Boot Sector Pong as a Crash Course in Assembly
- Parking Assistant Helps Back Up the Car Without Going Too Far
- Already Have that Book? Get the ISBN 411 Over IoT
- Hackaday Links: September 27, 2020
- Food Dispenser Shakes And Rattles
- DIYing a High End Camera Arm
- Rocket Plane Build Aims For High Speed Flight
- Old Polaroid Gets a Pi and a Printer
- A Battery To Add A Tingling Sensation To Your Tweets
- An FPGA Video Player Built Just For Fun
- Soldering Practice Kit Remains Useful After Completion
- Cheap Current Probe Gets Good Review
- Tesla Turbine Boat Uses Lily Impeller
- Orbital Tracking on the NES
- Twitter: It’s Not the Algorithm’s Fault. It’s Much Worse.
- Linear Clock Ratchets up the Action
- Fermenting Yogurt With The Help Of Hardware
- Internet Connected E-Paper Message Board
- Tracking Down Radio Frequency Noise Source, With Help from Mother Nature
- Building A Compact Reflow Oven With Halogen Lamps
- Autodesk Blinks, Keeps STEP File Export in Free Version of Fusion 360
- Xbox Controller Gets Snap On Joystick from Clever 3D-Printed Design
- Road Pollution Doesn’t Just Come from Exhaust
- Ask Hackaday: Is Windows XP Source Code Leak a Bad Thing?
- Hackaday Podcast 086: News Overflow, Formula 1/3 Racer, Standing Up For Rubber Duckies, and Useless Machine Takes a Turn
- Candy Slide Keeps Halloween Spooky and Socially Distant
- This Week in Security: uTorrent Vulnerable, Crowd-Sourcing Your Fail2Ban, and Cryptographers at Casinos
- Hacking A Cheap Action Cam Into A Dashcam With A Microcontroller
- Adding WiFi To The Acorn Electron
- DIY Grout Cleaning Machine Does A Good Job
- Robotic Worm uses NinjaFlex Filament
- Plaster Annealing 3D Prints for Strength
- 3D-Printed Adapter Keeps Your Guitar In Tune And In Style
- Textmeter Tells Its Tale
- In Praise Of The DT830, The Phenomenal Instrument You Probably Don’t Recognise For What It Is
- Roller-Based Robot Hand Grasps
- Dynamic Soaring: 545 MPH RC Planes Have No Motor
- 3D Print a Piece of Nintendo History Before the Real One is Gone
- ESP32 Vulnerability affects Older Chips
- Apollo DSKY Replica Looks the Part
- Building a USB-C Charger for Canon NB-4L Batteries
- DIY Ergonomic Game Pad Lends a Hand
- Reforming 3D Prints with Salt and Heat
- In-vest-ing in Menopause
- Community Testing Suggests Bias in Twitter’s Cropping Algorithm
- How To Create Hermetically Sealed Electrical Connections
- Hard Disk Drives Have Made Precision Engineering Commonplace
- Teleconferencing Like It’s 1988: Connecting Vintage Hardware to Zoom
- Displaying Incoming Server Attacks by Giving Server Logs a Scoreboard
- This DIY Drill Press Is Very Well Executed
- Watch a Fast Sand Plotter Plow Patterns at Speed
- SpaceX Sending Tom Cruise to the Space Station in 2021
- Second-Hand Television SHINEs, Takes Down Entire Village’s Internet
- Linkage Inferring Software Handwaves Away the Hard Stuff
- Inputs of Interest: BIGtrack Mouse Might Make You Squeal
- A Digital Guestbook Is A Perfect Hacker Wedding Gift
- Remoticon Tickets and Workshops Just Dropped
- Axe Hacks: New Sounds For Your Electric Guitar Beginning From What Makes Them Tick
- A Monotrack Bike With Only Basic Tools And Parts
- Autonomous Rover Navigates The House With LIDAR
- Adding MIDI to a Mini Synth is Easy As Pi
- A Motorcycle Dashboard Straight from the ECU
- Building a Cell Testing Station For 18650s
- Circuit Board Origami Puts You Face-to-Face with Low-Poly Electronics
- Upcycled Dryer Motor Makes Budget Disk Sander
- Linux Fu: Simple SSH File Sharing
- Into the Plasmaverse Hack Chat
- Custom Keyboard Goes Split, Gets Thin, Acquires Stained Wood
- Exploring the Clouds of Venus; It’s Not Fantasy, But it Will Take Specialized Spacecraft
- Historical Satellite Tracker Saved From Scrap Heap
- What’s Inside An FPGA? Ken Shirriff Has (Again) The Answer
- Custom Strain Gauges Help Keep Paraglider Aloft
- 1/3 Scale Hybrid RC Car With A Scratch-Built 125cc V10 Engine
- Hackaday Links: September 20, 2020
- Boost Your Animation to 60 FPS using AI
- Finally, a Differently Useless Machine
- ESP8266 Turned Secretive WiFi Probe Request Sniffer
- TI and Cadence Make PSpice Free
- A Budget Testing Rig For Low-Volume Production
- A Big Computer Needs a Big Keyboard
- Mirror, Mirror, on Your Cam, Show Us What You’ve Drawn by Hand
- E-Textile Tools Get the Multimeter Hookup
- Rolex Becomes World’s Most Expensive ESD Strap
- Patience Beats Rage-Quit in Shattered Xbox Controller Repair
- Code for Hackers
- Controlling a Broken Super Nintendo With MIDI
- Plastic Prosthetics for Rubber Duckies
- Greeking out with Arduinos
- Parsing Math in Python
- Wooden Disc Player Translates Binary Back Into Text
- Falcon 9 Lamp is Touching Down in the Living Room
- Casio Computer Rebuild Puts New Wine in an Old Bottle
- The ZX Microdrive: Budget Data Storage, 1980s Style
- Hackaday Podcast 085: Cable Robots Two-Ways, Cubic Raspberry Pi, Plastic Wrap Kayak, and Digging Inductors
- Magnum Opus Keyboardus, or Build Ad Infinitum?
- This Week in Security: AD has Fallen, Two Factor Flaws, And Hacking Politicians
- Listening To An iPhone With AM Radio
- Radon Monitor Recreates Steam Gauge with E-Ink
- Closely Examining How A PG&E Transmission Line Claimed 85 Lives In The 2018 Camp Fire
- Figuro Draws 3D in Browser
- Vacuum Dragster Uses Syringes For Propulsion
- Mirror Turns Webcam into Document Camera
- Into the Belly of the Beast with Placemon
- Underwater Datacenter Proves To Be A Success
- We’re Hiring: Come Join Us!
- Commodore 64 Mini Man Makes Matching Mini Monitor
- Targeting Rivers To Keep Plastic Pollution Out of the Ocean
- Cyberplotter Uses Multiple Tools To Great Success
- Roll Your Own Heelys
- TOBOT is Your Tic Tac Toe Opponent with a Bad Attitude
- Distance Learning Land
- Autodesk Announces Major Changes to Fusion 360 Personal Use License Terms
- Digital Cribbage Board Saves Scores, Marriage
- The Most Expensive d20 You’ll See Today
- Otis Boykin’s Precision Passives Propelled the Pacemaker
- A Walking Robot with A Single Servo
- Decoding the Netflix Announcement: Explaining Optimized Shot-Based Encoding for 4K
- Improving More Leaf Design Flaws
- Rapid Charging Supercapacitors
- LED Art Reveals Itself in Very Slow Motion
- Whimsical Solder Stand Moonlights As Toy 3D Printer
- Open-Source Robotic Arm for All Purposes
- Deep-Sleep Problems Lead to Forensic Investigation of Troublesome Chip
- Digital Expression Via Harmonica
- Putting the Firmware in your Firmware
- Mirrored Music Machine Reflects Circadian Rhythms
- GitHub’s Move Away From Passwords: A Sign Of Things To Come?
- A Tentacle That’s A Work Of Art
- Let This Crying Detecting Classifier Offer Some Much Needed Reprieve
- Juuke – an RFID Music Player for Elderly and Kids
- A Graphene Mouth Screen
- The Jolly Cart-Pushing Robot
- This Ruggedized Raspberry Pi Was Built to be Copied
- SkyWater PDK Hack Chat
- Weather Warnings and Dust Detection from this Meteorological Marvel
- Finalists Announced for the 2020 Hackaday Prize
- It’s A Boat? It’s A Duck? It’s A DIY Plastic Wrap Kayak!
- Nvidia Acquires ARM for $40 Billion
- Floating Spaceports for Future Rockets
- Budget-Friendly Bend Sensor Deforms with Precision
- Autonomous Multi-Task Performing Robot
- Cybercube Makes a Great Computing Companion
- The Interactive Storytelling Radio
- Hackaday Links: September 13, 2020
- Digging in the Dirt Yields Homebrew Inductors
- This LEGO Air Conditioner is Cooler Than Yours
- USB Bell Rings in Custom Terminal
- Soldering Glass And Titanium With Ultrasonic Energy
- Open Source VR Headset for $200
- World Radio Lets Your Fingers Do the Walking
- Learn About Historic Firearm Design With A 3D Printer
- Toy O-Scope is Dope
- Adding Luxury Charging Features to an Entry-Level EV
- A Bit of DIY Helps Cut Straight and Happy Threads
- The Egg-laying Wool-Milk Pig
- PLA-F Blends PLA and ABS
- 3D POV Display Has The Shakes
- Infinity Mirror at Warp Speed
- Give Me a Minute , My Eyes are Busy
- Making Baseballs Go Supersonic
- TV Output from Arduino — 1980s Style!
- Peripheral Doesn’t Need Deskspace
- Linux Fu: Literate Regular Expressions
- Hackaday Podcast 084: Awful Floppy Disk Music, Watching a Robot Climb Walls, A Futuristic Undersea Lab, and Inside a Digital Pregnancy Test
- Friendly Fiberglassing: Can Hide Glue Replace Epoxy?
- Security this Week: Racoons in My TLS, Bypassing Frontends, and Obscurity
- A Deep Dive into the Sterzo Steering Plate
- Game Boy Plays Forever
- Arduino Takes Control of Dead Business Card Cutter
- ISS Ham Radio Repeater
- Reverse Engineering a Module from a Vacuum Tube Computer
- Surfboard LED Strips Light Up The Waves
- Eye-Catching and Crumb-Suspending
- The O-Bahn Busway – Obscure Transit For The Masses
- Garbage Can Takes Itself Out
- 3D-Printed Thermite Brings the Heat, and the Safety
- Cell Phone Signal Booster Gets Teardown and Demo
- New Zealand to Test Wireless Power Transmission
- A Real Working Lego NES
- Upgraded Infotainment Options on a 14 Year Old Mercedes
- Digital Pregnancy Tests Use LEDs to Read Between the Lines
- Third Time’s a Charm for This Basketball-Catching Robot
- Wooden Tank’s Movement Hinges on Hinges
- AUTOVON: A Phone System Fit for the Military
- Building an Affordable Press for Heat Set Inserts
- Google Turns Android Up to 11 With Latest Update
- Tesla Coil Electric Bike is Wireless
- Paper Keyboard is Self-Powered
- LEGO Delivers Corvette Experience on a Budget
- Tutorial for Setting Up Raspberry Pi for Ham Radio Use
- Measure 1024 Times, Cut Once
- Electric Surfboard Doesn’t Need Waves
- Identifying Creatures that go Chirp in the Night
- Size Does Matter When It Comes To SD Cards
- Designing Hardware Challenges Hack Chat
- A Backlit Calendar for All Eternity
- Teardown: Mini GPS Jammer
- ESP32 Hash Monster Fills Pockets with Packets
- A Gaming Mouse With Recoil Feedback
- The Floppy Disk As A Portable Music Format
- You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know which Way the Drone Blows
- 40% Keyboard Build is 100% Open Source
- Easy Focus Stacking With Your CNC Machine
- Accessibility Keyboard is Modular and Practical
- Ultra-Mobile Little Robot Will Climb the Walls
- Cousteau’s Proteus Will Be the ISS of the Seas
- Codespaces for Embedded Development
- Miniature Faux Floppy for 8-Bit Atari Looks the Part
- Watch Winder Keeps Your Timepieces Ticking
- DIY Relay Module Saves Time
- Hackaday Links: September 6, 2020
- Restoring an Unusual Piece Of Computing History
- Pocket-sized Device Sniffs Out Damp Masks
- Recognizing Activities Using Radar
- A Free Software OS for the reMarkable e-Paper Tablet
- Filament Dust Filter Helps Keep Your Print Quality High
- ExoMy Is A Miniature European Mars Rover With A Friendly Face
- Building A UV Curing Station For Resin Prints
- Intuition about Signals and Systems
- Turning the Raspberry Pi into a MCU Programmer
- Comparing Shortwave Antennas With RTL-SDR And Python
- Keep it Simple, Smartly
- Incredible Soldering in the Name of Hardware Support
- Play A Game Of Multimeter
- S400 Scanner Modified For Finding Hidden Watermarks
- I’m Sorry Dave, You Shouldn’t Write Verilog
- Automatic Arduino Bicycle Shifter
- See This Casio? Watch It Unlock My Tesla!
- Approaching the Drop Location: Seeds Away!
- Retrotechtacular: Forging In Closed Dies
- Hackaday Podcast 083: Soooo Many Custom Peripherals, Leaving Bluetooth Footprints, and a Twirlybird on Mars
- An Arduino Controller for Hot Air Handles
- This Week in Security: Zero Days, Notarized Malware, Jedi Mind Tricks, and more
- Autonomous Off-Road Food Delivery with Pixhawk
- The Screwdriver You Don’t Need, But Probably Want
- YARH.IO is the Hackable Pi Portable Of Our Dreams
- Choosing the Optimal Sampling Rate for your DIY Heart Rate Monitor
- World’s Only Flying Twin Mustang Goes On Sale
- A 3D Printed Magnetic Stirrer For Your DIY Chemistry Projects
- Cerebral Palsy Tool Assistant
- The Astronomical Grit of Ronald McNair
- Linux Fu: Moving /usr
- COVID-tracing Framework Privacy Busted by Bluetooth
- 3D-Printed Flight Controls Use Magnets for Enhanced Flight Simulator 2020 Experience
- Don’t Slack Off On Updating Your Status
- Fog-Free Mask Hack Solves Mask Versus Glasses Conundrum with Superb Seal
- Flipper Zero Blasts Past Funding Goal and Into Our Hearts
- Building An Open Source ThinkPad Battery
- Pause Your Tunes When it is Time to Listen Up!
- The B-Sides: Curious Uses of Off-the-Shelf Parts
- Hacker Driven to Build R/C Forza Controller
- An Up-Close Look at the First Martian Helicopter
- Staged Train Wrecks: An Idea That Ran Out of Steam
- WiiBoy Color Is Exactly What It Sounds Like
- TinySA is a $49 Spectrum Analyzer
- Retrocomputing Spray Paints: Amiga Beige, Commodore, and ATARI Grey
- Antique Oscilloscope Gets New Home and Purpose
- This 3D Printed “Bladeless” Fan Gets it Done Cheap
- Karting Hands-Free
- That Elusive Valve Amp Sound, For Not A Lot! (There Has To Be A Catch)
- “A Guy in a Jet Pack” Reported Flying Next to Aircraft Near LAX
- Potential Contenders For Battery Supremacy
- A Cyclopic LCD Case For Your Raspberry Pi Server
- Perfect Photographs For PCB Reverse Engineering
- The Hurricanes are Coming
- An Analog IC Design Book Draft
August 2020
- A 3D Printed Paint Mixer
- Pocket TV Now Shows the Inspection Channel 24/7
- OPARP Telepresence Robot
- Start Me Up: What Has The Windows 95 Desktop Given Us 25 Years Later?
- Bright White Night Light Fights E-Waste
- What’s the Deal with Rolling Blackouts in California’s Power Grid?
- 100% Printed Flashlight: Conductive Filament and Melted-in Leads
- Grasp Kotlin’s Coroutines With This Short Tutorial
- Something To Look Forward To: MCH2021 Call For Participation
- Sudden Death Rainbow Sorting Game Reveals Your True Colors
- Hackaday Links: August 30, 2020
- Solar Satellite Glows at Night
- A PIN Pad Blasting UV Sanitizer
- OCR Reads Old Newspapers So We Don’t Have To
- Olaf Lets an ESP32 Listen to the Music
- Read My Lips, Under this No-Sew Mask
- RC HalfTrack Is Lasercut Masterpiece
- SDR Transmitting Gets the Power
- A Tiny Jacob’s Ladder You Can Build At Home
- UnifiedWater Finds Potable Water and Stops Polluters
- Easy-To-Use Music Player Relies on RFID
- Impossibilities and 3D Printing
- Two Days Left to Enter the Hackaday Prize!
- Automation With a New Twist
- Auxiliary Display Makes Ham Radio Field Operations Easier
- Robotic Mouse Toy Built For Cats
- Video Compression Explainer — Like We’re Five-Year-Olds
- A New Spin on a Medical Test
- Laser-Etching Photos On To Eggs
- Building a Heavy Duty Open Source Ventilator
- A Tale of Tutor Texts
- Hackaday Podcast 082: DJ CNC, NFC Black Box, Sound of Keys, and Payin’ for 3D Prints
- Creating Kelvin Test Leads for Four-Wire Measurments
- This Week in Security: XCode Infections, Freepik, and Crypto Fails
- Open Hardware Laptop Built on Power PC ISA
- Over-Engineered Single Button Timer
- 38 Years Later, The Atari 2600 Learns To Speak
- Cold Tube Draws the Heat
- Hands-On: BornHack 2020 Badge has 9×32 of Bling Fed by CircuitPython
- Print-in-Place Engine Aims to be the Next Benchy
- Simultaneous Soldering Station
- VR Technology Helps Bring A Galaxy Far, Far Away To Our TV
- Mil-Spec Looks Without Defense Department Budget
- The Mini Console Revolution, And Why Hackers Passed Them By
- Tiny Raspberry Pi Mac Nails the Apple Aesthetic
- TMD-1 Makes Turing Machine Concepts Easy to Understand
- Discrete-Logic UART Keeps 8-Bit TTL Computer Connected
- Tiny Robot Beetle Runs On Alcohol
- This Geiger Counter has Few Parts
- Slack Off from Home with a Networked Jam Session
- Driving a PAL TV Over RF Thanks To PWM Harmonics
- Dealing with a Hacked Brain; Let’s Talk About Depression
- You’ve Never Seen This RetroPie Emulator Console: Watermelon
- 3D Printering: The World of Non-Free 3D Models Is Buyer Beware
- New Arduino JPEG Library Focuses On Speed
- Circle Guitar Creates Wall of Sound
- Sunrise, Sunset, Repeat
- Assembly Language for Real
- Two-Part, Four-Wire Air Quality Meter Shows How It’s Done
- Mini CNC Mill Goes Horizontal to Reuse CD Drives
- Checking in on the Damn Linux Tablet One
- Frances Allen Optimised Your Code Without You Even Knowing
- The USB Null Modem Cable Is Now A Thing
- Linux-Fu: Your Own Dynamic DNS
- Prop-Driven Cardboard RC Car Doesn’t Skimp on Performance
- Schlieren on a Stick
- An Old Calculator Lives Again
- Hacking D-Link Firmware
- Reactive Pixel Lamps Create Colourful Vibes On Command
- Arduino Rig Does Spectrophotometry
- Assistive Gloves Come in Pairs
- Running A Successful Hacker Camp In A Pandemic: BornHack 2020
- CNC on the Desktop Hack Chat
- Evaluating Raspberry Pi as a Programmable Logic Controller
- Damage to Arecibo Leaves Gaping Hole in Astronomy
- Raspberry Pi Makes a Practical Tricorder
- MIDI Slide Whistle Shows the Value of a Proper Fipple
- Mobile Transmitter Gets Internal GPS And Bluetooth
- E-Paper Display Shows Movies Very, Very Slowly
- Hackaday Links: August 23, 2020
- Lithium Sulfur Batteries Slated for Takeoff
- Monitor Not VESA-Compliant? It Is Now!
- The CIA’s Corona Project was about Satellites, Not a Virus
- A Miniature Power Supply For High Voltage Hacking
- Breaking Smartphone NFC Firmware: the Gory Details
- Graphene Prints More Smoothly Under the Influence of Alcohol
- Facing the Coronavirus
- FBI Reports on Linux Drovorub Malware
- Mini Marble-Powered Synth Pays Homage to Its Bigger Cousins
- Manual Larson Scanner Invites You To Crank It
- Seeing the Skill is Better than Seeing the Project
- Stealing Keys from the Sound of the Lock
- Unique LED Display Inspired by Fighter Jet Dashboard
- Student Rover Explores the Backyard in Tribute
- Cool Off with a Piezo and a Glass of Water
- Get Creative with This ESP8266 Photography Light
- Four Years Later, Off-Grid Office Shed Still Rocks
- Free Refrigeration in Hot Climates
- Microsoft Flight Simulator’s Data Insanity Spawns Enormous Buildings and Anomalies from OpenStreetMap
- Hackaday Podcast 081: Mask-apult, Beef Tallow, Grinding Melted Plastic, and Stretching Flowing Metal
- Hand-Stitched Keycaps for Truly Luxurious Typing
- This Week in Security: Bluetooth Hacking, NEC Phones, and Malicious Tor Nodes
- GTA V Mod Shows (And Cheats) Those Stunt Jump Hoops
- Transparent OLED Hitting The Market With Xiaomi’s Mi TV LUX Transparent Edition
- Mixing Up Your Own Supersized Sidewalk Chalk
- Fire Pit Burns to the Beat with Bluetooth
- Exotic Device Gets Linux Support via Wireshark And Rust
- Want to Support Hacker-friendly Hardware Design? Follow Valve’s Example
- Bike Computer Powers on Long After Your Legs Give Out
- ESP32 Altair Emulator Gets Split Personality
- Print Your Way to Keyboard Stability
- Russell Kirsch: Pixel Pioneer and the Father of Digital Imaging
- Eavesdropping on Satellites for Fun and Profit
- Palm-Sized Sixteen Segments Light the Way to Our Hearts
- Antenna Pulls in AM Stations
- Building the Scoreboard of Your Imagination
- IBM Reveals POWER10 CPU Based On The OpenPOWER ISA 3.1 Specification
- Re-imagining the Crossed Gantry 3D Printer
- Building the Ultimate Raspberry Pi Automation Controller
- How To Get Into Cars: Aero Mods For More Grip
- Automating Mini Blinds the Rental-Friendly Way
- Airlines Seek Storage For Grounded Fleets Due To COVID-19
- Printing, Plating, and Baking Makes DIY Microlattices Possible
- Model Railroad Engine Gets A Tiny OLED Rollsign While Showing off Tidy Protoboard Skills
- Restoring Commodore’s Unloved Plus/4
- Encouragement Machine Battles Your Inner Bully
- dropController Sets the Bar For Documentation
- Share Your Clipboard Across Machines Using MQTT
- Open Exosuit Project Helps Physically Challenged Put One Foot in Front of Another
- Linux-Fu: One at a Time, Please! Critical Sections in Bash Scripts
- New Contest: Circuit Sculpture Challenge
- Get Your SQL Statements Right the First Time With SQL Lint
- Inputs of Interest: The Infogrip BAT Chording Keyboard
- E3D Teaches Additive 3D-Printers How to Subtract
- Robots With A Delicate Touch Assemble PlayStation 4
- Fitting Snake Into a QR Code
- Simple MP3 Player Hides Home Automation Brilliance
- Something’s Brewing Up In The Woods – And It Looks Stunning
- Vizy the AI Camera Aims to Ease Machine Vision
- Cellerator Wants to Be Your Automated Desktop Biotech Lab
- The Mostly Forgotten Story of Atmospheric Railway
- Open and Sustainable Engineering Hack Chat
- Mercurial Light Box Has a Secret Switch
- Your Phone is Now Helping to Detect Earthquakes
- 3D on the ZX Spectrum 48K
- GridSound – An Audio Workstation In Your Browser
- Modified Bricks Can House Energy, Too
- Hydraulic Lifting Workbench To Save Your Back
- Hackaday Links: August 16, 2020
- Building a Gimballed Motorcycle Helmet Camera from Scratch
- E-Ink Moon Phase Viewer Keeps Interest from Waning
- Write in PipelineC for FPGAs
- Give a Man a Phish, and You Entertain Him For a Day
- Draw On Your Lawn With This Autonomous Mower And RTK-GPS
- The Mask Launcher; Like an Airbag for Your Face
- Helmet Decal Charger Keeps Them Ready to Glow
- Anything Becomes a Clock
- Vintage Ammeter Becomes Plant Moisture Gauge
- Keycap Customizer Brings All Your Caps to the Board
- Hammer Seeks Nail
- Wireless Sax Mic Done On The Cheap
- Four Steppers Make A Four-Voice MIDI Instrument
- Quick 3D-Printed Airfoils with these OpenSCAD Helpers
- Single Piece 3D-Printed PCB Vise
- Tech At Home Winners Who Made the Best of their Quarantine
- Abused Hard Drive Becomes POV Clock
- Analyzing Water Quality with a Pair of Robots
- How To Choose The Right GPS Module For Your Project
- Hackaday Podcast 080: Trucks On a Wire, Seeing Sounds, Flightless Drone, and TEA Laser Strike
- $5 Lets Your Documents Go Virtual
- This Week in Security: DEF CON, Intel Leaks, Snapdragon, and A Robot Possessed
- Robotic Arm Sports Industrial Design, 3D-Printed Cycloidal Gears
- Moving Fridge Magnets Make for Unique Clock
- PIC32 DMA is a Weird Machine
- Automatic Cat Weighing Machine Knows Which Pet It is Feeding
- Tensile Testing Machine Takes 3D Printed Parts to the Breaking Point
- Gaze Inside the Valve Index VR Headset in Detailed Teardown
- A High Torque Gearbox You Can Print At Home
- A Tetraquark for Muster Mark!
- Six New HackadayU Courses Announced for Fall 2020
- Pi Saves Vintage Mac Case From a Watery Grave
- Under Pressure: How Aluminum Extrusions Are Made
- Drone Buoy Drifts Along the Gulf Stream for Citizen Science
- Head-Tracking NES Water Blaster Is Good Summer Fun
- Rack ’em Stack ’em Raspberry Pi Controller Board
- RetroPlug Syncs Gameboy Emulators With Your DAW for Chiptunes Overload
- Scratch Build of This Tiny RC Car is a Handmade Fabrication Masterpiece
- Miniature Star Wars Arcade Lets You Blow Up the Death Star on the Go
- RESQ Hunts For Lost Hikers From The Air
- The Ever-Accelerating Automation of Fast Food
- A Song Of Fog And Fire – Taking A Look Inside A Rubens’ Tube
- Degrees of Freedom: Booting ARM Processors
- A Special Baseball Bat With Explosive Hitting Power
- Floppy Disks Still Used To Update 747 Flight Software
- Split Keyboard Finder Stacks Them Up for Your Approval
- Popcorn Pocket P. C. Open Sourced
- HOPE 2020 Delivers Historic Marathon Of Hacking
- Building a YouTube Remote Control Worthy of 2020
- 3D Printing Interactive Maps For The Visually Impaired
- Linux Fu: Remote Execution Made Easy
- Ring the Bell for the Hackaday Prize: Three More Weeks to Enter Your Project!
- Folding Raspberry Pi Enclosure Prints in One Piece, No Screws in Sight
- Our Trucks Won’t Need No Batteries! Electric Trucks Look to Overhead Wires for Power
- ESPFLIX Brings Streaming Video To The World Of Microcontrollers
- 3D Printable Kinematic Couplings, Ready To Use
- Glasgow Uses an FPGA as an Embedded Systems Multitool
- Modular Vibrating ‘Bots Made From PCBs
- Raspberry Pi Gets PATA/IDE Drive via GPIO Header
- True Craftsmanship: Pneumatic Powered Drone Wasn’t Made To Fly
- Breathtaking Alarm Clock Looks Like it Came From a 1960 Fallout Shelter
- Boom Hopes to Reignite Supersonic Travel with XB-1
- Recreating Retrocomputers Hack Chat
- Acoustic Camera Uses Many, Many Microphones
- The Weather Station at the Top of the World
- The Zero Terminal 3: A Pop-Out Keyboard Linux Computer in Your Pocket
- Unique Instrument Plucks Out Notes on a Ruler
- 45 Minute Podcast Served Up On A Floppy Disk
- Talking Head Teaches Laplace Transform
- Hackaday Links: August 9, 2020
- How About a Nice Cuppa TEA Laser?
- Hands-On: Internet of Batteries Quantum Badge Brings Badgelife Add-Ons the Power and Internet They Crave
- Recreating Early Apple Mice For the Modern Era
- OAK Vision Modules Help You See The Forest And The Trees
- Tune Into the Bonnaroo That No One Gets to Go To
- Animal Crossing IRL with Nova Lights To Mark The Passage Of Time
- Print With Plasma!
- Wood-Fired Hot Tub For The End Of The World
- Vintage Gauges Turned Classy Weather Display
- A Shell? A Programming Language? Relax! It’s Both!
- DIY HID, OMG!
- Why Buy The Newer Model, When You Can Just Replicate Its User Interface?
- An Amiga Sampler 30 Years Later
- Virtual Software Defined Radio
- Tired of Regular Keebs? Might Be Time to Split
- HAWT Wind Turbine Is Mostly 3D Printed
- Hands-On: AND!XOR Unofficial DC28 Badge Embraces the Acrylic Stackup
- Separation Between WiFi and Bluetooth Broken by the Spectra Co-Existence Attack
- Hackaday Podcast 079: Wobble Sphere, Pixelflut, Skeeter Traps, and Tracing Apps
- This Week in Security: Garmin Ransomware, KeePass , and Twitter Warnings
- Odyssey Is A x86 Computer Packing An Arduino Along For The Trip
- Lightning Analysis With Your SDR
- The Google Chrome Dinosaur Game, in Real Life
- iRobot Makes Learning Robot More Affordable
- A Tongue Operated Human Machine Interface
- Telepresence Robot Navigates Upgrades
- Generate Positivity with Machine Learning
- Just Who Makes Tubes These Days?
- The Redesigned CNC Scroll Saw Rides Again
- Proteus, the Shape-Shifting and Possibly Non-Cuttable Material
- Scratch Built Subnautica Sub Explores the Pool
- Miles the Spider Robot
- Mold-Making Masterclass in Minutes
- Can You Remembrandt Where This is From?
- A Wood Gas Powered Lawn Mower
- RGB LED Shutter Shades
- Illegal Blast Fishing Detector is All Ears
- The Smell Of Space
- Perfect Your Beer Pong Game with the PongMate CyberCannon Mark III
- Teardown: Orthofix SpinalStim
- Pour Yourself a Glass of 100,000 Volts
- The Game Boy as a Midi Synthesiser
- Retro Game Bow Tie
- A Hybrid Helical Antenna for the Es’hail-2 Geosynchronous Repeater
- Bringing an iPod to the Modern NAND Era
- Official Arduboy Upgrade Module Nears Competition
- MenoPlay Through the Pain of Menopause
- Fresh Food Year Round? You Can Thank Frederick McKinley Jones
- Unbricking a $2,000 Exercise Bike with a Raspberry Pi Zero and Bluetooth Hacks
- Hackaday Remoticon: Our 2020 Conference is Packed with Workshops and We’re Calling for Proposals
- Don’t Let Endianness Flip You Around
- [NileRed] Makes Superconductors
- Facial Detection with Pi + MATLAB
- IOT Pinball Puts Oktoberfest Fun on Tap
- Optimizing GIF Playback For Microcontrollers
- William English, Computer Mouse Co-Creator, Has Passed
- Hack a Folding Bike to Help You Catch Some Pike
- Cryptographic LCDs Use The Magic of XOR
- Linux-Fu: Help Messages for Shell Scripts and Here Documents
- Cheap And Effective Mosquito Trap Looks Like A Disco
- COVID Tracing Apps: What Europe Has Done Right, and Wrong
- Pinephone Gets Thermal Imaging Backpack
- See the Science Behind VR Display Design, and What Makes a Problem Important
- Electrochemistry at Home
- Folding@Home And Rosetta, For ARM
- Hackaday Links: August 2, 2020
- A DIY 6.5-Digit Multimeter Is A Lesson In Clever Circuitry
- Springs and Things Wrap into a Polyhedron of Interactive LED Art
- Little Jumping Bot Can Now Stick The Perfect Landing
- Swimming Pool Lap Counter Relies On Ultrasound
- Digital Caliper Talks For Accessibility, With This App
- Art Piece Builds Up Images with Dots on Thread
- A Homebrew Radio, As All The Best Homebrew Radios Should Be
- VK-01 is a Bartender You Don’t Need to Tip
- Playing the Pixelflut
- How Many of You Are There, Really?
- 2020: Everything is Virtual
- You’ve Got Rat!
- This Mini Soviet Micro Will Have Astounding Attention To Detail
- Reverse Engineering the Charge Pump of an 8086 Microprocessor
- Sanitizer Dispenser Does It Hands-Free
July 2020
- Electric Skateboard With Tank Tracks, From A Big 3D Printer
- Producing A Prop Gun That Actually Ejects Cases
- Transform Kicad Design To Patchwork For Isolation Routing
- CampZone 2020 Badge Literally Speaks to Us
- Hackaday Podcast 078: Happy B-Day MP3, Eavesdropping on a Mars Probe, Shadowcasting 7-Segments, and a Spicy Commodore 64
- The Internet of Bubble Machines
- This Week in Security: Twilio, PongoTV, and BootHole
- Patent Law And The Legality Of Making Something Similar
- Fewer Millimeters Make a Useful ESP32 Devboard
- Myst ‘Demake’ For The Apple II
- Art Generated From the Dubious Comments Section
- Aesthetic DIY Bluetooth Speakers
- Rotary Dialer Becomes Numeric Keypad
- Learn Software Reverse Engineering: Ghidra Class Videos from HackadayU Now Available!
- No-Melt Nuclear ‘Power Balls’ Might Win a Few Hearts and Minds
- Saturday: Vintage Computer Festival West
- Denim Sunglasses Frames Use a Wicked Set of Jigs
- Geocaching on Mars: How Perseverance Will Seal Martian Samples with a Return to Earth in Mind
- Enjoying Some Exothermic Welding, With Thermite!
- Join Your Own Private LoRa Mesh Network
- Die Photos Reveal Logic from Commodore 128 PLA Chip
- Inside a $30,000 8 GHz Scope
- Do You Know Where Your Children Are? Check the Weasley Clock
- An Open-Source Microfluidic Pump For Your Science Needs
- Breakaway Keyboard PCB Makes Customization a Snap
- Smashing the Atom: A Brief History of Particle Accelerators
- A Mobile Phone For The Pulse Dial Generation
- Ask Hackaday: Why Did GitHub Ship All Our Software Off To The Arctic?
- Panic Button is an Audio-Visual Parachute Out of Zoom Calls
- Ultracapacitors Might Have Bad Fruity Smell
- Trick from 1903 Makes An Old Monochrome TV Spit Some Colours
- Trunking Police Scanning with SDRTrunk
- The Swiss Army Knife of Bench Tools
- ESP32 Turned Open Source COVID-19 Contact Tracer
- Broken Smartphones: Laptops in Disguise
- Porsche’s Printed Pistons are Powerful and Precise
- FCC Fines Hobby King Almost $3 Million for Illegal Drone Transmitters
- 80 Years From Invention, China Is Struggling With Jet Engines
- What Is The Tianwen-1 Probe Saying?
- Busting GPS Exercise Data Out of Its Garmin-controlled IoT Prison
- RadioGlobe Takes the World of Internet Radio for a Spin
- Polymorphic String Encryption Gives Code Hackers Bad Conniptions
- 3D Printing Latex Is Now Possible
- Smoking Meat with a Commodore 64
- A Low-Cost Current Probe For IoT Applications
- Falcon 9 Beats Shuttle’s Reflight Record, But Still Has a Long Way to Go
- Ideas to Prototypes Hack Chat with Nick Bild
- A Face Mask That’s Functional and Hacker-Certified
- MP3 Is 25 Years Old!
- Mechanical Seven-Segment Display Really Sticks Out from the Pack
- Tiny Circuit Sculpture Keeps the Night Watch
- Argos Book of Horrors
- New Release of FidoCadJ Draws Schematics Everywhere
- Hackaday Links: July 26, 2020
- Hex Matrix Clock is Spellbinding
- Concentric Rings Keep this Calendar Perpetually Up to Date
- This Four-Axis Stencil Printer is the Ultimate in SMD Alignment Tools
- Son of Rothult
- Breadboarding Console Has the Power
- Vintage Aircraft Controls Turned USB Button Box
- 3D Printed Doggie Braces
- 3D Printed Speaker Uses DSP For Ultimate Performance
- Simple Plasma Cutter Collision Detection System
- ESP8266 Makes a Wireless Card Reader
- Stop Bad Laws Before They Start
- Jet Airliner Nacelle Becomes A Unique Camper
- This Tube Preamp Has A Nixie Volume Display
- Homebrew 16-Bit Computer is a Wire-Wrapped Work of Art
- Microwave Modified for Disinfecting
- Laser Cutting Your Way to an RGB LED Table
- Hands-On: The Pandemic DEF CON Badge is an Audio Cassette
- RGB Minecraft Sign isn’t Just For Looks
- Liquid Air Energy Storage: A Power Grid Battery Using Regular Old Ambient Air
- Hackaday Podcast 077: Secret Life of SD Cards, Mining Minecraft’s Secret Seed, BadPower is Bad, and Sailing a Sea of Neon
- USB-C Where It Was Never Intended To Be
- This Week in Security: Iran’s ITG18, ProcMon for Linux, and Garbage Collection Fail
- A Complete Raspberry Pi Power Monitoring System
- TinyPilot Provides KVM-over-IP, With Low Cost and Even Lower Latency
- Portable CP/M Runs the Classics Anywhere
- Wobble Disk Coffee Roaster Gets The Beans Just Right
- Ergo Keyboard Build Issue Becomes Crystal Clear
- 3D Printed ESP8266 TV is a Blast from the Past
- 384 Neon Bulbs Become Attractive Display
- Hands-On: Wireless Login with the New Mooltipass Mini BLE Secure Password Keeper
- Custom Weather Camera Feed With Software Tricks
- Linux Fu: Keep In Sync
- Tiny Ethernet Switch Gets Even Smaller
- Appeasing Chicken Tastes With 3D Printing
- Let’s Take a Closer Look at This Robotic Airship
- DIY Stress Meter
- Versatile Energy Meter Has Multiple Functions
- Bringing the Pi Camera into Focus with LEGO
- CBS Announces Functional Tricorder Replica for 2021
- Jan Czochralski and the Silicon Revolution
- Robot, Sudo Fold My Laundry
- The WISE in NEOWISE: How a Hibernating Satellite Awoke to Discover the Comet
- Pine Made Phones, Laptops, and Now… Soldering Irons?
- BadPower Vulnerability in Fast Chargers Might Make Phones Halt and Catch Fire
- Bringing Back the Fidget Toy Craze with the Magic Microcontroller Cube
- Apollo Missions Get Upgraded Video
- Die Lapping For Better CPU Performance
- Hand Depanelizer Gets Pneumatic Upgrade
- Stay at Home, HOPE and DEF CON Will Come to You
- Model Hydroelectric Plant is an Illuminating Educational Tool
- Beyond Printf(): Better Logging Practices for Faster Debugging
- Flipping a Coin 10,000 Times With A Dedicated Machine
- Window In The Skies: Why Everyone Is Going To Mars This Month
- A Stylish Raspberry Pi Camera
- A Simple Soft Power Switch Using Common Modules
- Life Size Lancer Becomes Gears of War Motion Controller
- Can A 3D Printer Print Better Filament For Itself?
- Skee-Ball Scoring with Coin Slot Switches
- A Portable Home Air Quality Meter With The ESP32
- Finding The Random Seed of Minecraft’s Title Screen
- There’s An Engineer In Germany I’d Like A Word With; Tale of a Crumbling Volkswagen Lock
- Ubuntu Update Hack Chat
- Raspberry Pi Shuffler Is Computerized Card Shark
- Clacker Hacker: Hot Rod Switch Mods
- Automated Part Removal Gets Serious with the Chain Production Add-on
- Grok The Z80 With This Simulator
- 3D Printer Revives Large Format Camera
- Digging Deep Into SD Card Secrets
- Hackaday Links: July 19, 2020
- Upgrading the RAM in a 25 Year Old Oscilloscope
- This 68k Board Is About As Simple As It Gets
- Building A Motion Capture Suit On The Cheap
- RC Car Becomes Cable Cam
- The Real Story: How Samsung Blu Ray Players Were Bricked
- A Tin Can Modem, Just for Fun
- An HDMI Monitor From Your Phone
- Faux Radar Uses Ultrasound & Python
- Reverse Engineering Teaches an Old Scope New Tricks
- Tool Changing 3D Printers Shouldn’t Break The Bank
- The Sincerest Form of Flattery
- Techniques For Making Complex Carbon Fibre Tube Parts
- Forget LED Matrices, How About Neon!
- A Z80 Board With Very Few Parts
- Bluepill Copies Code So You Don’t Have To
- Home Monitoring, Without All the Sensors
- USB Flash Drive Reveals Strange SD Card Heart
- This Soap Dispenser Will Crush Your Germs
- Modern Radio Receiver Architecture: From Regenerative to Direct Conversion
- Hackaday Podcast 076: Grinding Compression Screws, Scratching PCBs, and Melting Foam
- Four on the Floor for Your Virtual Race Car
- This Week in Security: Twitter, Windows DNS, SAP RECON
- Make Your Own Filament
- The Mother(board) of All CNC Controllers
- Smooth(er) Text Scrolling on HD44780 LCDs
- Ham Radio Mobile Operations Circa 1919
- Ljusmaskinen Takes the Rave to the Streets (Eventually)
- Touch Screen Reflow Oven Pulls Out all the Stops
- A Lowly 8-Bit Micro Busts Copy Protection From The 16-Bit Era
- Hyundai Makes Push Towards Fuel Cell Trucking
- FreeCAD vs SolveSpace
- Tend Your Garden… Again
- Super Mario 64 As Experienced By Mario
- Speech to Morse Code, Courtesy of Google
- Quickly Mute and Unmute Yourself Using the Physical Mute Button
- Will 2020 Be The Year Of Rust In The Linux Kernel?
- A Shrine For All The 555 Lovers
- Today’s Twitter Hack is New Take on “Nigerian Prince” Scam
- No Assembly Required for this Compliant Mechanism Dial Indicator
- Exposing Computer Monitor Side-Channel Vulnerabilities with TempestSDR
- Printed It: Print-in-Place PCB Gripper
- Arduino Plays NES Games
- The Many Methods of Communicating with Submarines
- X-Ray Sleuthing Unveils The Fake In Your Adaptors
- DIY Dongle Breathes Life Into Broken Ventilators
- Soviet Core Memory Experiments
- High-End Ham Radio Gives Up Its Firmware Secrets
- Don’t Wait, You Need to See Comet NEOWISE Right Now
- Take Pottery for a Spin with a Pocket-Sized Wheel
- A Robotic Stylist for Your Lockdown Lengthened Locks
- Jerry Lawson And The Fairchild Channel F; Father of the Video Game Cartridge
- Roboticist Grant Imahara of Mythbusters Fame Dies of Aneurysm at Age 49
- An Easier Way to Roll Your Own LED Ball
- Tales From the Sysadmin: Impending Hard Drive Doom
- Spoofing an Analog Rotary Knob with an ATtiny, and Vampiric Power
- Modern Mice on Old Computers
- Bubbles, the People-Pleasing Pandemic Panda
- SoftBank Robots Pinch Hit For Baseball Cheerleaders
- 1975 Circuit Board Was a Masterpiece Hidden On Your Wrist
- Solar Weather Station Listens For Lightning
- Back to Basics Hack Chat
- Home Automation Covers Everything
- Surgery on the Arduino IDE Makes Bigger Serial Buffers
- Mergers and Acquisitions: Analog Devices Snaps Up Maxim Integrated for $21 B
- Build an Everlasting Continuity Tester
- Changing System Architectures And The Complexities Of Apple’s Butterfly Approach To ISAs
- 500 Lasers Are Not Necessarily Better Than One, but They Look Great
- NASA Making Big Upgrades To Their Big Dish DSS43
- (Re)Making a ColecoVision
- Making Smalltalk on a Raspberry Pi
- Hackaday Links: July 12, 2020
- Printed TS100 Case Beats the Heat with a Bearing
- Maybe One Of The Most Adorable Obstacle Avoiding Robots You’ve Seen
- 7-Segment Display is No Small Feat
- SoftCore CPU Comparison
- Learn the Secrets of Matching Bottle Cap Threads To One Another
- Life-Saving Surgery for a Telescopic Antenna
- Detect COVID-19 Symptoms Using Wearable Device and AI
- Interactive CNC Foam Cutter Churns Out Abstract Art
- Hack Together Your Own Bat Signal
- Aerodynamics for Dummies
- Hackaday Made Me Buy It!
- A Desk Calendar With A Difference
- A ZX80 With A Proper Case
- It’s Time for Watch Clocks to Make a Comeback
- Mmm… Obfuscated Shell Donuts
- Vintage Instrument Gets Modern Replacement for Unobtainium Parts
- Hacked Case Fan Follows the Leader with IR Sensor
- Dream Team Members Announced for the 2020 Hackaday Prize
- How Early Radio Receivers Worked
- Hackaday Podcast 075: 3D Printing Japanese Joinery, Android PHONK, One-Armed Time Bandit, and Whistling Bridges
- Steampunk Geiger Counter is a Mix of Art and Science
- This Week in Security: F5, Novel Ransomware, Freta, and Database Woes
- Making PCBs the Easy Way
- An NEC V20 For Two Processors In One SBC
- A Wearable that Jives to the Beat of Your Heart
- EasyOCR makes OCR, Well, Easy
- 3D Printing a Macro Pad, Switches and All
- Robotic Cornhole Board Does the Electric Slide
- Tablet Oscilloscope Claims 100 MHz, But Is It?
- Video: Bil Herds Looks at Mitosis
- Turning a Waterjet Cutter into a Wood Lathe, For No Reason
- The Simplest TS100 Upgrade Leads Down A Cable Testing Rabbit Hole
- Open Source Stream Deck Does it Without Touch Screens
- Open-Source Grinder Makes Compression Screws for Plastic Extruders Easy
- Your Own Electronic Drum Kit
- Software Defined Radio Academy Goes Virtual
- This Freezer Failure Alarm Keeps Your Spoils Unspoiled
- Synthesizer Gets an External Touch Screen
- Cakeday Countdown Clock is a Sweet Little Scroller
- 3D Printering: Selling Prints, and Solving the Pickup Problem
- Heater Joins the Internet of Things with ESP32 Board
- Bridge Over Trebled Water: How the Golden Gate Bridge Started to Sing
- Animatronic Nikola Tesla Sets the Record Straight
- The Latest Linux – On A Floppy In A 486!
- Color Your Workspace, Calm Your Mind
- Gaming in Different Languages
- Salvaged Drill Gets a Magnetic Upgrade
- RC Car Becomes Useful Little Mower
- Bantam Tools PCB Mill Gets a Ferocious New Sequel
- Marian Croak is the MVP of VoIP Adoption
- Magnetic Couplings Make This Lego Submarine Watertight
- Not Just GPS: New Options For Global Positioning
- Designing 3D Printed Enclosures for KiCad PCBs
- Milling Dies And Injection Moulding Some Acrylic Lenses
- Filmmaking from Home with Projection Mapping
- Remote Code Execution On The N64
- Analog Noise Generator, Fighter Of Other Noises
- Multi-Volume Knob Gives All Your Programs a Turn
- Time Bandit Clock Hits the Aesthetic Jackpot
- The WIMP is Dead, Long Live the Solar Axion!
- Linux in the Machine Shop Hack Chat
- New (mis)Use for Lithophanes: Miniature Diorama Backgrounds
- 3D-Printing Bigger Wind Turbines
- The Spin Cycle: Washing Machine Motor Converts 10-Speed to E-Bike
- Elegant Shoji Lamps from Your 3D Printer
- Your Microcontroller Is Your IDE
- Live Map of London Tube Created In PCB and Lights
- Hackaday Links: July 5, 2020
- Syringes Put the Squeeze On This Mini Drill Press
- Reviving a DOA Smart Bulb With Custom Firmware for Its ESP8266
- Bathymetric Map Uses Edge Lighting To Stunning Effect
- Slothbot Lives Up to Its Name
- DIY Baby MIT Cheetah Robot
- Finding a Secret Message From a Gaming Legend
- Digi-Key Hacks UV Into Conveyor Line to Protect Warehouse Staff
- An RGB Backlight for the Nokia 5110 LCD
- A Word Clock You Don’t Have To Actually Build To Enjoy
- The Cheap Way to Glitch an STM8 Microcontroller
- A Reason to Code
- Travel Globe Spins You Around Memory Lane
- This Iron Man Suit is a Hacker’s Dream Come True
- DJing Without The Truckload Of Equipment; Secret Ingredient is Raspberry Pi
- iWings For The New Apple Power Adaptor
- Robotic Biped Walks On Inverse Kinematics
- Sky Anchor Puts Radios Up High, No Tower Needed
- Spacing Out: OneWeb Rescue, Starlink Base Stations, And Rocket Tests
- Hackaday Podcast 074: Stuttering Swashplate, Bending Mirrors, Chasing Curves, and Farewell to Segway
- This Week in Security: Palo Alto Scores a 10, Cursed Images, VM Escapes, and Malicious Music
- DIY Filtered Positive Pressure Suit Shows Fine Workmanship
- Make Your Own Microdot
- Watch Conway’s Game of Life Flutter Across a Flip-Dot Display
- Easy, Secure HTTPS With an ESP8266
- Custom Packet Sniffer Is A Great Way To Learn CAN
- The Open Source Mars Rover, One Year Later
- An Off-The-Grid Instant Messaging Plattform
- Review: Calculator Kit is Just a Few Hacks From Greatness
- AVR Multi-Tool Learns the Latest Tricks
- Inputs of Interest: X-Bows Ergo-Mechanical Keyboard
- PHONK – A Hacker’s Fun Shortcut To Android Programming
- Number Crunching GPS For the DIYer
- Merlin Pi Camera is a Photographic Wizard
- 3D Printing Damascus-like Steel
- Pop Open Your Neighbor’s Front Door With 12 Volts
- Tidy Laser Cut Packaging For PCBs With KiCAD
- BlueRetro Is The Ultimate Console Controller Adapter
- Why Are Digital Cameras Still Boring?
- Breadboard Breaks the Speed Barrier
- The ISS is Getting a New WC
- Adding PCIe To Your Raspberry Pi 4, The Easier Way
- Unrolling the Mystery Inside an Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor
- Commodore SX-64 Keyboard Upgraded from Trash to Treasure
- FreeDVDBoot Opens Up The PlayStation 2 Like Never Before
June 2020
- Automating The Disinfection Of Large Spaces With Robots
- Experimenting with Vibratory Wind Generators
- The Challenges Of Monitoring Water Streams And Surviving Mother Nature
- Your Own Open Source ASIC: SkyWater-PDK Plans First 130 nm Wafer in 2020
- Aggressive Indoor Flying Thanks To SteamVR
- The Segway is Dead, Long Live the Segway
- Quadcopter With Stereo Vision
- Towards a 3D-Printed Neutrino Detector
- Mini “Gaming PC” Nails the Look, Streams the Games
- Implementing the Exponential Function
- Make Your Own Pet Fire Breathing Dragon
- Build a Lathe Like it’s 1777
- Thumbmouse Keeps Your Hands on the Keyboard
- LED Art Hack Chat
- Linux-Fu: Parallel Universe
- Fail Of The Week: This SD Card Won’t Slot
- Updating the Language of SPI Pin Labels to Remove Casual References to Slavery
- Does PHP Have A Future, Or Are Twenty Five Years Enough?
- DIY Pocket MP3 Player
- An Affordable Home Made Vacuum Chamber
- Faux Vintage Radio Gets AirPlay Upgrade
- Hantek 3-in-1 Instrument Reviewed
- Hackaday Links: June 28, 2020
- Mini Library for Kids Gets Blinky Lights and Solar Upgrade
- Reproduction 1960s Computer Trainer Really Pushes Our Buttons
- Calcuino is an Arduino Calculator
- A Dead Macbook GPU Shouldn’t Stop You, With This BGA Soldering Hack
- Hacking A ThinkPad USB-C Adapter
- DIY Hand Mixer Whips Coffee Into Shape
- 433 On A Stick
- Comparing Bare Silicon on Two Game Boy Audio Chips
- Variable Mirror Changes Shape Under Pressure
- What Does The Bat Say? Tune In With This Heterodyne Detector
- Nothing Comes From Nowhere
- Recreating Paintings By Teaching An AI To Paint
- The Trouble With Tamagotchis…
- Reliving Heathkit’s Glory Days Through a Teardown and Rebuild
- Slipping Sheets Map Multiple Bends in this Ingenious Flex Sensor
- Hinge Brings New Meaning to Flexible PCB
- Smart Toilet Paper Holder Keeps Track Of White Gold
- Smart Thermometer Can Tell Flu from Cold
- Ask Hackaday: What Can Be Done with Your Bootlooping Blu-Ray?
- Hackaday Podcast 073: Betrayal By Clipboard, Scratching 4K, Flaming Solder Joints, and Electric Paper
- Get The Party Started With A Mesh WiFi Light Show
- This Week in Security: Bitdefender, Ripple20, Starbucks, and Pwned Passwords
- Double The RAM Of A Dreamcast Console For A Cool 32 MB
- Is Anything Really Private Anymore?
- Teardown Of The Singaporean COVID-19 TraceTogether Token
- Creating A Custom ASIC With The First Open Source PDK
- A Baby Grand Gets MIDI
- Excercise Ball Makes A Passable Landing Gear
- Measuring the Time is a Breeze With This Air Flow Clock
- Grey Gear: French TV Encryption, 1980s Style
- DIY TV-B-Gone is A-OK
- Ditching x86, Apple Starts An ARM Race
- Building and Flying a Helicopter With a Virtual Swashplate
- AudioMoth: The Proverbial Moth On The Wall
- Rotary Phone Takes You Around The World And Through Time – With Music
- Intel Says Nanowire and NanoRibbon in Volume in Five Years
- 3D-Printed Tools Make Circuit Sculpture a Little Easier
- Hacker Turns Thermal Clacker Into USB Keyboard
- Sentry Water Gun Relies On LIDAR
- What’s the Deal With Snap Packages?
- Tracked Robot Makes Sand Drawings
- Netbooks: The Next Generation — Chromebooks
- How To Retrofit a Pick and Place Machine For OpenPnP, in Detail
- Raspberry Pi Takes Control of Ham Radio
- Boot-To-BASIC Box Packs A Killer Graphics Engine
- An Open Source Tool to Document Your Wiring
- Eico Signal Generator Gets a Repair
- Macros For A Mazda
- Building A Scooter Exhaust From Scrap Metal
- Ask Hackaday: Is Our Power Grid Smart Enough to Know When There’s No Power?
- Chaotic Oscillator From Antique Logic
- USB-C Is Taking Over… When, Exactly?
- Switch Tester Servo-Slaps Them ’til they Fail
- OTA ESP32 GUI Makes Updates Simple
- Educational Radio, Educates
- New Silq Programming Language Aims To Make Quantum Programming Easier
- A True 4K Projector From Scrap eBay Components
- Popping the Hood on the Flux Beamo Laser Cutter
- Voice-Command Chess Board Powered By Alexa
- Hunting Neutrinos in the Antarctic
- Gigatron Hack Chat
- Wearable Device for Preventing SUDEP (Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy)
- Teardown: Wonder Bible
- Vulkan For The Older Raspberry Pi
- Just How Do Aircraft Transponders Work Anyway?
- Help Thrust Open Source Satellites To The Next Level
- 3D Printing Transmission Line Speakers
- Hackaday Links: June 21, 2020
- VGA Framegrabber Built From Scratch
- Decapsulating a Dual Triode
- Custom Portable N64 Embraces Modern Making
- Score Big Against Boredom with Tabletop Bowling
- Simulate Your World with Hash.ai
- Wurlitzer Note Visualizer Gets a 2020-Spec Replica
- Dipole Antenna is Off Balance
- WiFi Networks Turned Targets in this Pocket Game
- Chasing A Long-Obsolete Tube
- Great Badge Concept: A “Geiger Counter” for WiFi Deauthentication Frames
- Seeing Code: The Widescreen Rant
- Smartglove Helps Cyclists Be Seen
- Key That Morse With Little More Than Your Laptop
- Plant’m if you Got’m and Keep’m Alive
- Learn Quantum Computing with Spaced Repetition
- Scanning Analog Film For The Last Time
- Vintage Keyboard Gets the QMK Treatment
- Message In A Bottle: Bicycle Trailer On A Mission
- Loading Coils, the Heaviside Condition, and Pupin Coils
- Hackaday Podcast 072: Robo Golf Clubs, Plastic Speedboats, No-Juice Flipdots, and Super Soakers
- 3D Printed DIY Neuralyzer
- This Week in Security: HaveIBeenPwned And Facebook Attack Their Customers
- Up Your Home Network Performance – Build Your Own Router!
- Strike A Solder Joint Behind Enemy Lines
- Capture the Flag, Along with the Game Data
- Boston Dynamics’ Spot Robot Gets a Price Tag: $75 Grand
- Repairing a Workhorse Bench Meter
- Toddler-Friendly MP3 Player Navigates with Light
- Metasurface Design Methods Can Make LED Light Act More Like Lasers
- Inputs of Interest: Curves Are the Key to My Type
- Less Rock, More Roll: A MIDI Barrel Piano
- Ask Hackaday: Are 80 Characters Per Line Still Reasonable In 2020?
- Copy and Paste Deemed Insecure
- One-Percenter Mods For Premium Apple Pencil Usability
- Justice For The Gatwick Two: The Final Chapter In The British Drone Panic Saga
- Obstacle Avoidance For Drones, Learned From Mosquitoes
- Print-in-Place Helping Hand Grabs A Hold Of Your PCB
- Arduino Magnetic Board is Anything but Boring
- School’s in Session with HackadayU
- Surviving The Pandemic As A Hacker: Take Care Of Your Mental Health
- Fiber Optic Ceiling Pumps to the Beat
- Hands On With a Batteryless E-Paper Display
- Fail of the Week: How Not to Watercool a PC
- DIY Plastic Speedboat for One
- Compile a Hydroponics System From Source
- Disable Intel’s Backdoor on Modern Hardware
- Arduino Reduces Heating Costs
- Overclocking and Watercooling The TI-84, Just Cause
- Hackaday Prize: Cal-Earth is Digging Deep to Shelter Those in Need
- Lonnie Johnson, Prolific Engineer And Hero To Millions Of Kids (Even If They Don’t Know It)
- A Properly Engineered UV Chamber for PPE Sanitization
- Why You (Probably) Won’t Be Building A Replica Amiga Anytime Soon
- Tackling Trunked Radio with Software
- Retrotechtacular: The Nernst Lamp
- Portable Video Looper is Easy as Pi
- High Speed The Way We Want It
- Giant Bearing Is At The Heart Of A Camera Mount
- Electronic Connect Four Has No Pieces to Lose
- Hacking A Cheap Disco Light For UV Effects
- Linux-Fu: Automation for Chrome and the Desktop By Matching Screenshots
- PPE Testing Hack Chat
- Bluetooth Development Board Goes the Distance
- Samsung’s Leap Month Bug Teaches Not to Skimp On Testing
- Virtual Pinball Cabinet Provides Real Thrills
- Plot And Visualise Brain Data In An Artwork
- Making Custom Gradient Markers At Home
- Defeating Fridge DRM With Duct Tape and A Dremel
- Hackaday Links: June 14, 2020
- Notification Wearable Helps Get Child’s Attention
- OmniBallot, Another Flawed Attempt At Online Voting
- Dial in your Multi-Headed 3D Printer with 2020 Machine Vision
- Mini Computer Brings Starfleet To Your Desk
- ESP32 Becomes Music Player In Under 40 Lines of Code
- No Need for Speed with This Arduino-Based Inkjet Printer
- Blow Dryers And Metal Shears: Hacks of Early Falcon 9 Flights
- Flipdots, Without The Electronics
- Antique Army Surplus Receiver Restored
- RIP Danal Estes, Developer of Multitool 3D Printing Infrastructure
- Machine Builds Rise From the Ashes
- Engineers Develop a Brain on a Chip
- Office Status Light Turns “Do Not Disturb” To “Busy”
- Tiny Barcode Scanner Beeps Your Shopping List Together
- Programming in Plain English
- Cheap Lab Balance Needs Upgrades, Gets Gutted Instead
- Mobile Power From Cordless Tool Batteries
- How CERN Made High Quality Electronics In The 1970s
- This Week in Security: Crosstalk, TLS Resumption, And Brave Shenanigans
- Binary Math Tricks: Shifting to Divide by Ten Ain’t Easy
- Hackaday Podcast 071: Measuring Micrometers, the Goldilocks Fit, Little Linear Motors, and 8-bit Games on ESP32
- Rolling Out A New Robot Arm
- Now This is a Maker’s PCB Shaker
- Apollo 11 Trig Was Brief
- Arduino Music Box Turns Stuffed Animal Into TV Personality
- Solder to Aluminum
- Learning About VNAs
- A Robotic Golf Club To (Possibly) Boost Your Game
- Retrotechtacular: Wire Splicing the Army Way
- A Beginner’s Guide to Lithium Rechargeable Batteries
- Knitting Machine Rebuild Takes It To The Next Level
- Quantum Computing And The End Of Encryption
- Dexter the Companion Bot Wants To Give You Five
- The Sound of Silence: Speed Up Your Video Consumption
- Control a Motor With a Touchpad
- Soon… Inkjet Your Circuit Boards
- Dremel Workstation’s New Job: Applying Threaded Inserts With Cheap Soldering Iron
- Light Up the Night with a Tetrahedral LED Hat
- A Levitating Lamp without Magnets
- Surviving The Pandemic As A Hacker: Making A Mask Of Your Very Own
- Building an ESP32 Smart Power Strip from Scratch
- The Seedy World of Message Serialization
- Autonomous Sentry Gun Packs a Punch and a Ton of Build Tips
- STM32 Blue Pill Turned GPG Security Token
- An Open Hardware Modem for the Modern Era
- Xilinx Makes MIPI CSI and DSI Controller IP Blocks Free To Use With Vivado
- External Battery Mod for Action Camera Does It Non-destructively
- Lunchbox Cyberdeck Is a Tasty Build
- The Hackaday Prize: Field Ready Is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Relief
- Bertha Benz Pushed the Automobile Toward Production
- Finding Perfect Part Fits with the Goldilocks Approach (and OpenSCAD)
- Teardown: The Writer Word Processor
- Run Your Favorite 8-bit Games on an ESP32
- Solving Buyer’s Remorse With A Rotary Tool And Soldering Iron
- Unique Strandbeest Stands Tall with Line of Legs
- Displaying HTML Interfaces And Managing Network Nodes… In Space!
- Circuit Sculpture Clock Goes Pew Pew
- UV Phone Sanitizer Shows the Power of Modern DIY
- Wireless Tin Can Telephone
- Vernier Calipers And Micrometer Screw Gauges, Measuring Without Compromise
- Rapid Prototyping Hack Chat
- A 50W Speaker Made Of Light Bulbs
- 3D Printing Nuclear Reactors For Fun And Profit
- Raspberry Pi Plays A MIDI Tune Wherever You May Roam
- A Look Behind The Canvas Of The “60 Billion Lights” Project
- Hands-Free Haptic Braille Display is Making Waves
- The Simplest Microwave Receiver
- Hackaday Links: June 7, 2020
- Build this Cyberdeck in a Cave with a Box of Scraps
- Adjustable Jig Eases PCB Stencil Alignment Process
- Crate EV Motor Hits Market: The Swindon Powertrain
- Bust Your Own Ghosts with a PKE Meter
- Smart Home Meets Dumb Terminal
- 64-bit And A Display: Minecraft Computers 10 Years Later
- Testing Hardware with ASCII Waveforms
- A DIY Electronic Load with a Twist
- Cheap Party Light Gets Arduino Upgrade
- Lattice Drops EULA Clause Forbidding FPGA Bitstream Reverse Engineering
- Burning Chrome
- Sparklines For Your ESP32 Projects
- Vacuum Dust Collection With Self-Powered Relays
- Automatic Planet Finder is Out of This World
- New Microscope Directly Images Protein Atoms
- Homebrew Coil Winder Makes Toroids a Snap to Wind
- Lattice Semiconductor Targets Bitstream Reverse Engineering In Latest Propel SDK License
- Join the Movement with this Mini Cyberdeck
- Ancient History of the Phone Jack
- Hackaday Podcast 070: Memory Bump, Strontium Rain, Sentient Solder Smoke, and Botting Browsers
- Turning A MicroKORG Into A MicroKORG S With This Speaker Mod
- This Week in Security: Exim, Apple Sign-in, Cursed Wallpaper, and Nuclear Secrets
- Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to printf()
- How Did They Get Sampled Sounds From An SN76489 8-bit Sound Chip?
- Nintendo’s GBA Dev Board Could Pass for Modern DIY
- Palm’s Mini-Mobile Phone Becomes Bike Phone
- Contactless Doorbell Built To Avoid Coronavirus
- CNC Scroll Saw Makes Promising First Cuts
- Day Clock Monitors Air Quality of the Great Indoors
- Netbooks: The Form Factor Time Forgot
- Rotary Controller Dials in PC Volume
- 3D Printering: Sticky Resin Prints and How to Fix Them
- A Pocket Retro Computer Anyone Can Build
- Adding WiFi To Black Magic For Wireless GDB Action
- Tiny Laser Cutter Puts Micro Steppers to Work
- Machine Learning Takes the Embarrassment Out of Videoconference Wardrobe Malfunctions
- Fighter Jet’s Gyro Stays Upright Before It Self-Destructs
- When A Bike Sharing Startup Goes Away, What Do You Do With The Bikes?
- Hackaday Prize and UCPLA Are Driving Assistive Technology Forward
- Surviving The Pandemic As A Hacker: Peering Behind The Mask
- Arduino Car HUD Does the Job
- Ford’s Powershift Debacle
- A Dual Screen Luggable With Integrated RTL-SDR
- Dual-Wielding Robot Carves 3D Shapes From Foam With Warped Wire
- Remotely Navigate the Apocalypse in Mid-Century Style
- Scientific Calculator Whipped Up In Python
- Original Xbox Gets the Steam Overhaul
- Arduino Drums Bring The Noise, no MIDI Required
- Social Distancing Headgear For The Futuristically Inclined
- Inputs of Interest: ErgoDox Post-Mortem
- An Open Source HDMI Implementation for FPGAs
- How Science Adapted to the Aftermath of Cold War Nuke Tests
- DIYing a VR Headset For Cheap
- Fusion for STM32: Development Board With Debugging And Programming Via WiFi
- Credit Card Chip Used To Make Crystal Radio
- Python Is All You’ll Ever Need In This Linux Distro
- The Easiest Way To Put Your Doorbell On The Internet
- Cast Metal from Prints to Solidify Childhood Memories
- RC Lawn Mower Keeps The Grass Greener On Your Side Of The Fence
- Linux Fu: Raspberry Pi Desktop Headless
- Physical Security Hack Chat with Deviant Ollam
- Why Does Solder Smoke Always Find Your Face?
- NASA’s Long-Delayed Return to Human Spaceflight
- Easy Internet For Retro Computers With The PiModem
- A Home Made Dumper You’d Swear Came From A Factory
- Pulling Data From News Feed Telemetry
- Receive Analog Video Radio Signals from Scratch
May 2020
- Hackaday Links: May 31, 2020
- Building One Test Fixture to Rule Them All
- If This Is Your Inspiration From Space, You’re Doing It Wrong
- Homebrew Binaural Microphone Lets You Listen Like a Human
- The Descendants of Ancient Computers
- Digitize An Analogue Oscilloscope
- A Tasty Output Device
- Swap Your Microwave for a High Voltage Stereo
- This Old Console Stereo Hides A Liquor Cabinet
- DMCA vs Hacker
- Build Your Own Dial-Up ISP – Now With Modem Pool!
- Spacing Out: All the Orbital News You’re Missing
- Rolling Your Own LED Matrix Driver, With Copper Foil Tape to the Rescue
- Job Application Script Automates The Boring Stuff With Python
- Creating Surreal Short Films from Machine Learning
- WiFi Goes Open
- Build Your Own Grid Tie Inverter
- Cheap Speakers Sound Good With Easy Open Baffle Design
- Tarot Machine Flips Through Fate’s Rolodex
- Books You Should Read: The Design of Everyday Things
- Hackaday Podcast 069: Calculator Controversy, Socketing SOIC, Metal on the Moon, and Basking in Bench Tools
- Steampunk Brushless Motor Demo Pushes All the Maker Buttons
- This Week in Security: Leaking Partial Bits, Apple News, and Overzealous Contact Tracing
- Toilet Paper Chase And Indoor Cycling Race With Unity And Arduino
- Two Way Mirror Improves Video Conferencing
- Building a 3270 Terminal Controller
- What Rhymes with Spice and Simulates Huge Circuits?
- Psst – Wanna Buy A Control Panel From A Nuclear Power Station?
- Bluetooth Takes Keyboard from DIY to Super Fly
- Hackaday Prize and Conservation X Labs Issue Design Challenges to Address Extinction Crisis
- Peeking Inside Executables And Libraries To Make Debugging Easier
- Begin Your Day on an Uplifting Note with a Daily Affirmation Mirror
- Raspberry Pi 4 Gets Its 8 Gigs
- X-37B Spaceplane To Test Power Beaming Technology
- Jack Tramiel Got A Good Deal, And Ruined Everything
- Home Assistant get Fingerprint Scanning
- Dim Hallway Gets Lighting Upgrade
- Slaying Dragons In Notepad
- ATMega328 SSB SDR For Ham Radio
- Building A Serious Solar Inverter Battery Pack
- ePaper Tablet Gets Desktop Linux Install
- Losing a Wheel on Your Commute; 3-Wheelers Vie For the Open Road
- Useless Machine for an Existential Quandary
- Coronavirus Testing: CRISPR Technology Set to Streamline Viral Testing
- Improving 3D Printed Supports with a Marker
- Hacking Dell Laptops To Use Off-Brand Chargers
- Ewon is an Expressive Robot with Google Assistant
- Assemble Your (Virtual) Robotic Underground Exploration Team
- Telco Curio Hacked Into Simple Counter
- Breathing New Life into Old School ThinkPad Keyboards
- Simple Sprite Routines Ease Handheld Gaming DIY
- Teardown: Nabaztag
- Nintendo Switch Gets a Stylish Dock In a Broken NES
- Aluminium Pucks Fuel Hydrogen Trucks
- Tic Tac Arduintoe Moves the Game To 4×4
- Beautiful Sourdough Bread at Home Thanks to Dynamic Recipe Parameterization
- Boot Your Pi over USB
- This Frequency Generator Knows How To Get Down
- Herb Garden is Smarter Than The Average… Garden
- Secret Knock Unlocks Door
- FPGA Raises Component Video From A Sinclair ZX Spectrum
- 2020 Hackaday Prize Hack Chat with Majenta Strongheart
- Hacking the Road: Roundabouts
- Lasercut Puzzlebox Is Safe-Cracking Fun
- A DIY Electronics Lab You Can Show off With Pride
- Ironclad Tips for Copper-Clad Prototyping
- Mimicking Exoplanet Exploration At Home
- Hackaday Links: May 24, 2020
- Finding RF Cable Impedance
- Arduband Gives Your Eyes a Hand
- DMCA Takedown Issued Over Casio Code That Wasn’t
- Matrix of Resistors Forms the Hot Hands Behind This Thermochromic Analog Clock
- Flexible PCB Earrings Put the Art in Art Deco
- Conduit, Birdhouse, and Skateboard Become Giant Pen Plotter
- Resistors Sorter Measures Values
- An Arduino As A PLL
- Rocking Out On A Limb With LE STRUM
- Adding MIDI To An Old Casio Keyboard
- Start Your Engines!
- A 4-bit Random Number Generator
- More Terrible Keyboards That Nonetheless Work
- Hiding Malware, With Windows XP
- Come On Baby Light My Fire Button
- Microsoft Releases the Source Code You Wanted Almost 30 Years Ago
- Milling a Custom 6-Pin DIN Connector
- Dyeing Fabric To Create Sensors
- Radio’s Sordid History Of Being Blamed For Everything
- Hackaday Podcast 068: Picky Feeders, Slaggy Tables, Wheelie Droids, and Janky Batteries
- From Zero to LED Cube in Less Than Seven Months
- This Week in Security: DNS DDOS, Revenge of the 15 Year Old Bug, and More
- Joy-Con Mod Gives Nintendo Switch Touchpad Control
- Is that an ESP32 on Your Wrist?
- Spherical Quadruped Arduino Robot
- 3D Printed Switch Uses Paperclip
- Brass and Nickel Work Together in this Magnetostrictive Earphone
- Building A Custom Camera Mic
- Stealing RAM For A Microcontroller From A TFT Display
- Linux Fu: Alternative Shells
- Don’t Worry, This Box Will Protect You From 5G!
- No, The Nintendo Leak Won’t Help Emulator Developers, And Here’s Why
- Open Agriculture Initiative Shuttered Amid Scandal
- The Next Best Thing to a Cybertruck
- LED Matrix Takes You Down To Nixieland
- Radio Shack Shortwave Goes Digital
- A Foam Core Stand Against Tablet Design
- Looking for Pi in the 8087 Math Coprocessor Chip
- Bricking Your 3D Printer, In a Good Way
- Using Valgrind to Analyze Code For Bottlenecks Makes Faster, Less Power-Hungry Programs
- Don’t Trust Your Ears for the Freshest Chips
- Masten Moon Rocket Has Landing Pad, Will Travel
- ZRAM Boosts Raspberry Pi Performance
- Poking Around Inside of a Linux Security Camera
- A Sweet Little Insulin Reminder Light
- An Easy Hack For Working With Your Hands On Video Calls
- Wall-Climbing Robot Grabs Prize
- Weather Display is Cloudy With a Chance of ESP8266
- Robotic Basketball Hoop v2
- How To Get Into Cars: Nat Atmo Engine Mods
- Bolt-On Clog Detection for Your 3D Printer
- 2020 Hackaday Prize Reveals Four Open Challenges and New Dream Team Program
- iMac G4 Reborn with Intel NUC Transplant
- Self-Shutting Face Mask is Hacker’s Delight
- Pinball Machine Needs No Wizard
- Piddler Illustrates Aliasing and the z-Transform
- Whiteboard Plotter Rocks Three Colors and an Eraser
- Jumbo LED Matrix Brings Classic Sprites to Life
- A French Cleat Twist on Electronics Bench Organization
- Old School Rotary Tools That Weren’t Made By Dremel
- Animatronics Hack Chat
- Take a 3D Printed Brushless Motor Demo for a Spin
- Plasma “Ghosts” May Help Keep Future Aircraft Safe
- ESP32 Trail Camera Goes the Distance on AA Batteries
- New Breakout Board for Grid-EYE Thermal Sensor
- Keyboard Switch is Really a Transformer
- Defense Department Funds Wearables to Detect COVID-19
- Hackaday Links: May 17, 2020
- Look Ma, No Support For My Floating Holes!
- 60’s Natural Gas Pipeline Computer Retires to Play Games
- Mitigating Con Deprivation: Disobey 2020
- Force Feedback Mouse Really Shakes Things Up
- Building D-O, The Cone Face Droid
- Did Grandma Remember Her Pills? This Dispenser Tells You!
- Ultra-Cheap Microcontroller Powers Addressable 7-segment Display
- PCB Jewelry Never Looked So Good
- CNC Plasma Cutter Filter Gets the Slag Out
- All About That Bass – Marble Machine X Keeps Growing
- Is it a toy? A prototype? It’s a Hack!
- A Pulse Oximeter From Very Little
- The 19th Century, When Gravity Battery Meant Something Different
- EDSAC Lives in MiSTer
- DIY Neuralyzer from Scrap Parts
- High Voltage Experiment Pipes Power With Water
- Laundry Monitor Won’t Generate Static with Roommates
- Purdue Meta-AR-App Allows Instructors and Students to Build Their Own AR Learning Content
- Electric Vehicles Continue the Same Wasteful Mistakes That Limit Longevity
- Hackaday Podcast 067: Winking Out of IoT, Seas of LEDs, Stuffing PCBs, and Vectrex is Awesome
- All Your Passwords Are Belong to FPGA
- This Week in Security: Thunderspy, Facebook Breaking Everything, and More
- Docking with ISS isn’t as Easy as You Might Think
- cyberDÛCK Quacks Like a Cyberdeck
- Piston-Powered Pellet Pusher for Peckish Pets
- Printable, Castable Feeders Simplify Pick-and-Place Component Management
- Passing The Time By Reading The Time
- An ESP32 Home Automation Swiss Army Knife
- A Transmission Line Speaker With The Design Work To Back It Up
- Books You Should Read: The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind
- How Much Is That Plotter in the Window?
- Crunching Giant Data from the Large Hadron Collider
- Fusing Plastic Sheets With A 3D Printer (Sort Of)
- TEMPEST Comes To GNU Radio
- Quality Upgrades Give Old Synth New Lease On Life
- Writing Android Apps in C, no Java Required
- Blinkenlights For Your Parallel Port
- CircuitPython Macro Pad is One Build That Won’t Bite
- Aladdin Lamp Shoots Flames with a Snap of Your Fingers
- The Mark 14 Torpedo — When Just About Everything Goes Wrong, Even the Testing
- Printed Jig is a Welding Rig
- A Redox Flow Battery Made From Iron Industry Waste
- Floppy Drive Keyboard Is Inefficient Fun
- The DOOM Chip
- Foamboard Makes for a Light Hovercraft
- A Smart Bandage for Monitoring Chronic Wounds
- A Twisted Tale of Woven Wires
- 3D Printed Train Set Aims For Speed
- Robotic Open Source Puppy Needs a Home
- Dr. Anthony Fauci, Infectious Disease Slayer
- Original Zork MDL Source Code Has Been Released
- Understanding A Bit About Noise Can Help You Go A Long Way
- Neat and Tidy USB-C Conversions For Legacy Devices
- Open Source Raman Spectrometer is Cheaper, but Not Cheap
- Alexa, Shoot Me Some Chocolate
- Free Cloud Data Logging Courtesy of Google
- A Backpack That Measures Your Heart Rate
- Side-Channel Attack Turns Power Supply into Speakers
- Open Source Pick and Place Has a $450 BOM Cost
- Teardown: Generation NEX
- New Teensy 4.1 Arrives with 100 Mbps Ethernet, High-Speed USB, 8 MB Flash
- Pentesting Hack Chat this Wednesday
- A More Open Raspberry Pi Camera Stack With libcamera
- Making a Gorgeously-Twisty Sculpture, Using Only Flat Pieces
- Iron Pipe Makes A Great Workbench
- Lowering the Boom on Yagi Element Isolation
- Clear Some Space and Build a Cosmo Clock
- Hackaday Links: May 10, 2020
- No More Floppy Drives for this Agilent Scope
- 512 Bytes Ought To Be Enough For Dinosaurs
- Help Us Throw More Cycles at the Coronavirus Problem
- Pulling A Crystal By Grinding It
- Turn an Unused Pi Zero into a Parts Bin WiFi Extender
- Reverse Engineering Saves Trashed LED Panels
- Nightmare Fuel Telepresence ‘Bot May Become Your Last Friend
- Halloween Costume Turned Positive Pressure Suit
- Touch-Typing On Fingertips? Prototype Says It Could Work
- An Op-Amp From The Ground Up
- How Much is DIY Worth to You?
- Beautiful Free-Form LED Clock Recreates 20-Year-Old Weekend Project
- Roll Your Own – Toilet Paper
- Open Laser Blaster Shells Out More Bang for the Buck
- Measuring the Speed of Light in 1927
- The Auto-Bartender
- These LED Shades Will Blind You With Science
- Automated Pancake Making For Devotees Of Fluffy Pancakes
- Portable MRI Machine Comes to the Patient
- Hackaday Podcast 066: The Audio Overdub Episode; Tape Loop Scratcher, Typewriter Simulator, and Relay Adder
- A Microcontroller Display With A Classic Twist
- This Week in Security: Psychic Paper, Spilled Salt, and Malicious Captchas
- Fail of the Week: Bright Idea for LED Signs Goes Bad
- No Corners Were Cut On This Arduino Circle Cutter
- Making Art With Keycap Bots
- Wooden Sheet Metal Press Tools Make Steel Toecaps
- A Hot Printer for Cool Selfies
- Open-Source 2 GHz Oscilloscope Probe
- Scopetrex Is A Game Console… For Your Oscilloscope!
- Ask Hackaday: Wink Hubs, Extortion as a Service?
- Surgery Robot is a Real Cut Up
- What Will You Do With An Extra 1.2 Gigahertz?
- 21st Century Cheating: WiFi In A Calculator
- Drumming a Beat on a Hundred-Year-Old Typewriter
- Hoverboard Becomes Kart In Easy Build
- Three-Dollar Router Rebooter Has One Job
- Combine Broken Drone Propellers For A Second Spin
- Sun-Seeking Sundial Self-Calibrates in No Time
- Celebrate Spring with a DIY Vibration Sensor
- EARN IT: Privacy, Encryption, and Policing in the Information Age
- Neat Open Source Pinhole Camera Design Can Be (Mostly) 3D Printed
- Inputs of Interest: I’m Building an ErgoDox!
- Peek at the Off-Ear Speaker Prototypes for Valve’s VR
- Custom Firmware Makes a LoRA-Enabled HAB Tracker Watch
- Lego Microscope Does Research
- Turn Folds Into Flowers, But Not With Origami
- Given Enough Time, Even a Circle Can Get Complicated
- The Clickiest Keyboard Ever
- Quarantine Clock Answers the Important Question
- NASA’s Plan for Sustained Lunar Exploration
- The ABCs of Adding QMK to a WASD Keyboard
- Sticking Up For the Stick Shift
- Nintendo Switch Laptop Isn’t As BASIC As It Looks
- An Open Hardware Sega Genesis Cartridge Dumper
- Break Time Is Calling On The Rainbow Connection
- Arm Gives Gift to Startups: Zero Cost
- Measure The Speed Of A Speeding Bullet
- Get Quarantine Fit with this Smart Pull-up Bar
- Tips From a Former Niche Item Etsy Store
- The Vaccine Factory Inside You: RNA Vaccine Basics
- ESP32-S2 Hack Chat with Adafruit
- Doom Clone Shows What An Alternate-Reality Amiga Could’ve Had
- Time Enough At Last: Reviving an Heirloom Typewriter
- Take This Cylindrical Coupler Design For A Spin
- Go The Extra Mile For Your LED Driver
- Re-used Materials Make Tiny Offroad Track for Micro R/C
- Using Smartphone Cameras To Make Sure Drivers Are Looking At The Road
- Hackaday Links: May 3, 2020
- DIY Ribbon Controller For A DIY Synth
- Viewing Countrywide Weather At A Glance
- Binary Watch Looks Good
- Under The Hood Of Second Reality, PC Demoscene Landmark
- Start Printing From Film For Around £100
- Slide Your Switch into a Gamecube Controller
- Cheap Smartwatch Hacking, To Run Your Own Code
- A Hackable Drone Without All The Wiring
- Chat Cat Waves on Slack @
- A smart DIY metal detector
- Hardware Hacker’s Marie Kondo: How Many LM386s is Too Many?
- Mass Mask-Making Masterclass
- The Lost Art Of Component Scavenging
- Some Strings Attached: Electric Tenor Guitar Built From Scratch
- Linux Command Line Productivity with tmux
- New Part Day: Raspberry Pi Camera Gets Serious with 12 Megapixels & Proper Lenses
- Putting an Arcade Cabinet inside of an NES Controller
- Scratch Built Magnetic Vise Stays Where You Need It
- Oil Wells Done Rube-Goldberg Style: Flatrods And Jerk Lines
- FDA Approves Ventilator Designed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Hackaday Podcast 065: Game Boy Hacks Galore, Cable Robo Elbow, Pi Cam Solargraphy, and the Deepest Sub is Crushing It
- This Week in Security: Firewall 0-day, Apple’s response, and an Android Bluetooth Bug
- ICANN Board Withhold Consent For .ORG Deal
- Old Laptop Gets New Lease on Life with Raspberry Pi
- Any Remote Can Be A Universal Remote
- Using an FPGA to Glitch the Olimex LPC-P1343
- The United States Air Force Would Like You to Hack Into Their Satellite
April 2020
- DJ Scratches Out Club Music With Tape, Not Turntables
- Building a New RF Remote from Scratch
- An All Lead Screw 3D Printer You Can Build Yourself
- Wolfram Physics Project Seeks Theory of Everything; Is it Revelation or Overstatement?
- New Contest: Making Tech at Home
- This Animatronic Mouth Mimics Speech With Servos
- 3D Printering: Will A Resin Printer Retire Your Filament-based One?
- Giving Surfaces Their Own Antiviral Coating To Fight Infection
- Ultrasonic Sound Gun Precisely Aims Your Music
- Classic 8-Bit Computing the Atari Way
- Make It Easier For Your Software Project to Accept Contributions
- Giant Scale RC A350 Airliner Using Carbon Fibre And 3D Printing
- A DIY 10-bit Relay Adder
- A Custom Saw Designed For Close Quarters Making
- Test Equipment, Shim Washers, and a 30 Year Old Space Telescope
- The Nintendo Game Boy Color Is An Aircon Remote
- Using Valgrind To Track Down Known And Unknown Bugs In Your Code
- Raspberry Pi Waters Your Lawn, Serves HTML
- Cheap Alternative Solvents for PCB Cleaning
- Modular Mouse Packs Features
- Beam Your Program to Another Computer
- A Flag-Waving Hat for All Occasions
- Get Your Microcontroller Online at the Speed of Light
- Beat Your Coat Hangers into Antennas, Not Plowshares
- NASA Readies New Electric X-Plane For First Flight
- A Lego tensegrity structure
- Greatest Keycaps and Where to Find Them
- Washing Your Hands with 20,000 Volts
- Pi Cam Replaces Pinhole and Film for Digital Solargraphy
- A Raspberry Pi Video Intercom System
- Instruction Set Hack For Protected Memory Access
- NEO430 Puts A Custom MSP430 Core In Your FPGA
- Watch the Day Inch Along with a Tape Measure Clock
- Grace Under Pressure: Shelley Green Celebrates Crimped Connections
- Teardown: VTech Whiz Kid Luggable Computer
- Citizen Science Hack Chat with Ben Krasnow
- Defocused Laser Welding Fabric Proves there’s Many Ways to Slice It
- ReactOS: Dipping A Toe In A Millennium-era Open Source Dream
- A DIY Functional F-35 Is No Simple Task
- Adapter Brings M.2 WiFi Cards to the Pinebook Pro
- Breadboard Computer Plays Snake on Character Display; Also In A Browser!
- Brain Transplant Makes One Arcade Machine Play Games From Another
- Hackaday Links: April 26, 2020
- Snakes And Ladders: Game Boy Emulator In Python
- Custom Bluetooth Joystick in a Nunchuk Shell
- Cable Driven Robotic Joint
- Human-Powered Laser Gun Makes Battery-Free Target Practice
- Fuel From Water Using Only an Arc Welder
- A LoRa IM-Me For The End Of The World
- Tired of Fruit Ninja? Try Vegetable Assassin Using an ESP32 Sword
- Checking In On Relatives Using Old Android Tablets
- KiCad Panelization Made Easy
- OpenScan 3D Scans All Of The (Small) Things
- You Need More Weird
- Signal The End Of A Print With MIDI Of Your Choice
- In-Depth Design Of A Flyback Converter
- Raspberry Pi Cluster Shows You The Ropes
- Odd Crosley Radios From The 1920s
- GPU Turned Into Radio Transmitter To Defeat Air-Gapped PC
- A CR2032 Battery Eliminator
- Queue Up Your Tracks with a Well Placed Hexagon
- Core Devs Say a Fond But Firm Farewell To Python 2
- Hackaday Podcast 064: The COBOL Cabal, the Demoscene Bytes, and the BTLE Cure
- Build the Baddest Keypad on the Block with LEGO
- This Week in Security: Nintendo Accounts, Pernicious Android Malware, and an iOS 0-day
- Automate Your Xbox
- Debugging for Sed — No Kidding
- Coffee Maker Gives Plants an Automatic Drip
- Freeze Laser Beams — Sort Of
- The Rusty Nail Award for Worst WiFi Antenna
- Researchers Break FPGA Encryption Using FPGA Encryption
- How To Keep Unique Equipment Running When Parts Run Out
- So. You Bought A VNA. Now What?
- Pouring Creativity Into Musical Upcycling Of Plastic Bottles
- The Back and Forth of Windshield Wipers and Patent Lawsuits
- 3D-Printed COVID Stuff That’s Not Face Shields or Ventilators
- Underwater Crawling Soft Robot Stays in Shape
- Trampoline Bounce Counter Has Raspberry Pi Automate Away Your Parental Duties
- Machine Learning Algorithm Runs on a Breadboard 6502
- Millennium Falcon Docking Bay Doubles as Table
- Servo-Powered 7-Segments Choreograph This Chronograph
- Lock Your Keys in the Car On Purpose with Aluminum Foil
- Printed It: Collet Drill Stop
- 3D Print Your Way to a Bartop Arcade Cabinet
- Limiting Factor Submersible Is In a League of Its Own
- New Part Day: The MSC313E is a Computer on a Chip
- Program Guesses Your Regular Expression
- A Jaw-Dropping Demo in Only 256 Bytes
- Have JBC Soldering Handle, Will USB-C Power Deliver
- ESP32 Refines Game Boy Bluetooth Adapter
- Rapid Prototyping System Gives Wheels to Wearables
- New Part Day: An Open Source Ethernet Switch in the Palm of Your Hand
- New Contest Puts PSoC Boards in the Hands of 50 Entries
- Maker Therapy Joins the Fight Against COVID-19
- Searching for Alien Life with the Sun as Gravitational Telescope
- Rock Out with Toilet Paper Rolls
- Right To Repair: Tractor Manufacturers Might Have Met Their Match In Australia
- Heavyweight Cyberdeck Is In A Class Of Its Own
- Treating Vertigo But Not The Catchy Pop Song
- Tubes Have Character with a Tek 570
- Dissecting a Mechanical Voltage Regulator
- A Basketball Hoop That Never Lets You Brick
- COBOL Isn’t The Issue: A Misinterpreted Crisis
- Hacking Apollo Hack Chat
- Measuring Sharpie Thickness… The Ink Itself, Not the Pen!
- Inputs of Interest: the Differently Dexterous DataHand Directionalizes Digits
- Test Unknown Fuses Without Destroying Them
- Roll Your Own Automation with ESPHome
- Magnetic Bubble Memory Farewell Tour
- Gain An Understanding of Injection Molding’s Design Gotchas
- Hackaday Links: April 19, 2020
- DIY Magsafe Charger Feeds Off 12 V Solar Battery
- Huge 3D-Printed LEGO Go Kart Makes You the Minifig
- KVM Uses Many Arduinos
- A Broken Inductor As A Bike Chain Sensor
- Enforce Social Distancing with High Voltage
- A Hoverboard As An Assistive Device
- Wood and Carbon Rods Used for This Handsome and Effective Microphone
- An FPGA And A Few Components Can Make A Radio
- 3D Printed Speakers With Many Lessons Learned
- Fixing An Agilent Oscilloscope Power Supply
- The Game That Launched 1,000 Hackers
- Get Back Out There, Robotically
- Mathematical Proof the Eagle in the USPS Logo is FAST!
- Model Rocket Launcher Is So Serious, It Has a Briefcase
- ’54 Motorcycle Saved By Electric Conversion
- RGB Kitchen Uses Pots to Stir Up Color
- Perfect Wire Hose Clamps With A Simple DIY Tool
- Contest Winners: Machine Learning on All Kinds of Gadgets
- How Can Heavy Metal Fly?
- Hackaday Podcast 063: Magnetic Gears, AI Green Screen, Plasma <3 Sharpie, and a Rubbery Drivetrain
- Getting Your Morning Mix Exactly Right, Every Time
- This Week in Security: Git, Patch Tuesday, Anti-Cheat, and Vulnerable Documentation
- Dropping a Glider From 18,000 Feet
- A Thermal Camera with a Vintage Twist
- Econet – Britain’s Early Educational Network
- The Three Shell Mystery Finally Solved!
- Automatic Timelapses, Made Educational and Easy
- Puttering Around in a Converted Golf Cart
- As A Matter of Fact, It’s All Dark
- How To Get Into Cars: Forced Induction
- Software Shortcut Keyboard Registers Many Macros
- Google and Apple Reveal Their Coronavirus Contact Tracing Plans: We Kick the Tires
- Reverse Engineering a Saab’s In-Dash Display
- A Dangerous Demonstration of the Power of Radio
- LED Clock Strips Time Down to Pulses of Light
- This Camera Captures Piezo Inkjet Micro-Drops for DIY Microfluidics
- Pulse Visualizer is a Real Work of Heart
- SpaceX Offers NASA a Custom Moon Freighter
- CPAP Firmware Hack Enables BiPAP Mode; Envisions Use as Temporary Ventilator
- Nintendo Switch Built Completely from Replacement Parts
- The Smallest Large Display Is Projected Straight Onto Your Retina
- Logging Into Linux with a 1930s Teletype
- Buyer Beware: This LED Bulb Sold as Germicidal Doesn’t Emit UV-C
- The Drone That Flies In Any Orientation
- Printed Brain Implants Give New Meaning to Neuroplasticity
- Robot Arm Sucks in a Good Way
- Capture Device Firmware Hack Unlocks All The Pixels
- Reverse Engineering an RGB Keyboard Under Linux
- Pluto Might Not be a Planet, but it is an SDR Transceiver
- PCB Bring-Up Hack Chat
- Edge-Lit 7-Segments Clock the New Normal
- So What is Protein Folding, Anyway?
- Altium has its 2kicad Moment
- NASA Needs Help from Gamers and Citizen Scientists
- Quieting Down A Bandoneon Accordion With MIDI
- Simple Demo Shows the Potential of Magnetic Gears
- John Horton Conway, Creator of Conway’s Game of Life, Has Died
- Using Spiral Mode to Rapidly Print Enclosures
- A Tidy Little OBD Display For Your Car
- Yeast is a Hot Commodity; Brewing and Breadmaking During Lockdown
- Don’t Let your PLA Filament Hang Loose with this 3D-Printed Surfboard
- Will 2020 (Finally) be the Year of Electronic Paper?
- Hams Cross the Atlantic on UHF
- Three years of HardwareX: Where are they now?
- Touch Face, Lights Chase, Sirens Race
- Homebrew Loop Antenna Brings the Shortwave World to You
- Stitching Up Custom Belts
- Hackaday Links: April 12, 2020
- Quarantine Clock Focuses On The Essential
- Belt the Quarantine Blues Into a Homemade Mic
- Disinfect PPE on the Cheap With This Hardware Store UV-C Cabinet
- Clever Suction for Robot Arm Automates Face Shield Production
- 8mm Film Scanner Grows Into a Masterpiece
- Software-Defined Radio Made Easy
- $100k to Crack a Bitcoin Wallet
- Bike Lock Secures Car
- Unique Musical Instrument Defies Description
- LIDAR Built on Familiar Platform
- Table Tennis Ball Lamp Serves Up Style
- The Key To This City Opens A Real Lock
- Harvesting Energy From Ambient Moisture
- Planetary Gears Tell Time In This Ornamental Clock
- Background Substitution, No Green Screen Required
- Seven-Segment Single-Steps Through the Time
- Classic Leica Film Camera Turns Digital
- Plasma Cutter + Sharpie is Surprisingly Useful
- COVID-19 And The State of the Climate
- Hackaday Podcast 062: Tripping Batteries, Ventilator Design, Stinky Prints, and Simon Says Servos
- 3D Printing Fishing Lure Molds
- This Week in Security: Zoom (Really This Time), Fingerprints, and Bloatware
- Iceland Is Doing Its COVID-19 Proximity Tracing The Open Source Way
- Accessible Controller Plays Around with Modularity
- A Fantastic Raspberry Pi Handheld Just Got Better
- Controlling A Building Sized Pipe Organ With Midi
- Tell Time like It’s 1960 With This All-Transistor Digital Clock
- The Evolution of a 3D Printed Off-Road R/C Car
- A Gambler’s Bottle Opener
- No Windshield? No Problem, Says McLaren
- Ultrasonic Sensor Helps You Enforce Social Distancing
- What Does a Dependable Open Source Ventilator Look Like?
- Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing
- Adding RGB To A CRT
- Warm Up to Cooking With a Recipe-Randomizing Toaster
- The Libre Space Foundation Reviews Software Defined Radios
- Teardown Of Oddball Night Vision Shows Off Retro-futuristic Vibe
- Impressive Lever-Press Espresso Machine Has Finesse
- From the MacGyver Files: Using a Stepper Motor as an Encoder
- The Real Lessons About 3D Printed Face Shields: Effective Engineering Response in Times of Crisis
- What Day Is It?
- On 5G And The Fear Of Radiation
- A Hacker’s Guide to JTAG
- Industrial Robot Given New Life and Controller
- Machine Vision Keeps Track of Grubby Hands
- Learn PDP-11 Assembly for Fun but Probably No Profit
- PCB Mill Turns Out Stylish Necklace
- Simon Says, But With Servos
- BINA-VIEW: A Fascinating Mechanical Interference Display
- Linux Fu: Tracing System Calls
- Nixie Clock Turns Boombox
- 3D Printering: When Resin Printing Gets Smelly
- Real Engineering Behind Ventilators
- Reliability Check: Consumer and Research-Grade Wrist-Worn Heart Rate Monitors
- Help Save The National Videogame Museum
- Compiling C to PowerPoint
- Flexible Build Platforms Work For FDM, How About SLA?
- Subwoofer Gets Arduino Brain Transplant
- Offline Dinosaur-Jumping Becomes a Real Workout
- Getting To Space Is Even Harder During a Pandemic
- Brainstorming COVID-19 Hack Chat
- Put an Open Source Demon in Your Pocket
- Navigating Self-Driving Cars By Looking At What’s Underneath The Road
- Download A Bit Of Sinclair History
- Global Status Board Keeps Eye on COVID-19 Situation
- An Arduino-Free Automatic Alcohol Administrator
- Harry Potter Wand Hack Makes Magic Real
- Hackaday Links: April 5, 2020
- DIY Closed-Cell Silicone Foam
- Making an Arduino Ventilator? Read This First
- Data Glove Gets a Grip On Gesture Input
- The CLUE Tracker Points You To a Target, using CircuitPython
- Turn Off Those Batteries With Their Protection Chip
- R/C Toilet Paper Roll is the Hero we Deserve
- An Adapter to Solve Your ESP-01 Breadboard Woes
- Typing By Slamming Your Laptop Closed. Repeatedly
- NeoPixel Matrix Simulation Lets You Virtually Groove to the Lights
- Self-Glowing Ring Is Its Own Battery
- Can Solid Save the Internet?
- Open Source Telescope Controller Puts Smart Features in Old Telescopes
- Is This The Oldest Still-Working Geostationary Satellite?
- Oscilloscope and Microscope Augmented With Ghosts
- Making Aerogel, It’s Not For The Faint-Hearted
- A Touchless Handwashing Timer Comes In Handy
- LED Heart Beats With The Beholder
- Charging Pad Flips For Solar Power
- Cellular Tracking Used During COVID-19 Pandemic
- Hackaday Podcast 061: Runaway Soldering Irons, Open Source Ventilators, 3D Printed Solder Stencils, and Radar Motion
- Minimalist Magnetic Minute Minder Mesmerizes
- This Week in Security: OpenWrt, ZOOM, and Systemd
- Full-Colour, Full-Motion Video – On An Audio Cassette!
- ESP8266 and Sensors Make for a Brainy NERF Ball
- Infinite Flying Glider
- Teaching Science With An Empty Soda Bottle
- The ATtiny Series Is A Great Companion In Isolation
- DIY ESP32 Alarm System Leverages 433 MHz Sensors
- Wheelbarrow Bass Drives a Sound Garden
- FDA Says PPE Can Be Reused After Trip Through Shipping Container Decontamination System
- Autonomous 3D Rover With Tank Tracks Rules The Fields. Almost
- Star Trackers: Telling Up From Down In Any Space
- Peel Apart Your ISP’s Router
- Particle Sniffer For Pollution Point Sources
- Using the Steam Controller with LEGO Motors
- Teaching Robots Workplace Etiquette
- Making PCBs With A Vinyl Cutter
- A Digital Pitch Pipe Gets You In Tune
- Impractical Switches for the Bored Maker
- Stay Smarter Than Your Smart Speaker
- Accurate Dispensing Of Toilet Paper Will Get Us Through The Crisis
- Gold Cables Really Do Work The Best
- Fail of the Week: How Not to Die of Boredom During Isolation
- Empanada Becomes Impractical, Delicious Synth
- Handheld 3D Scanning, Using Raspberry Pi 4 and Intel RealSense Camera
- Shoot the Moon with this Homebrew Hardline RF Divider
March 2020
- Magnets Turn Flexible PCB Into Electric Grasshopper
- Using A Vending Machine Bill Acceptor With Arduino
- Chatty Coaster Agitates, In A Friendly Way
- Perhaps August Dvorak Is More Your Type
- Reverse Engineering a Ceiling Fan Remote
- Behind The Scenes Of Folding@Home: How Do You Fight a Virus with Distributed Computing?
- 3D Metal Printer uses Welding Wire
- Fail of the Week: In CAD, Remember to Model the Environment
- DIY Bagpipes Made From Common Household Items
- Maxing Out Browser Tabs With 2TB Of Memory
- Professional Ventilator Design Open Sourced Today by Medtronic
- Printed Door Handle Turns Key With a Servo
- Teardown of Costco Ceiling Light Reveals Microwave Motion Sensor and Hackable Design
- SOLID Promises A New Approach To How The Web Works
- Laser Artistry Hack Chat
- Designing Printed Adapters For Power Tool Batteries
- Coronavirus Testing Follow-Up: Rapid Immunologic Testing
- Vinyl Cutter Migrates from Scrapbooks to Gaskets
- Ammo Can Battery; 50 Ah LiFePO4 Clad in Army Green
- Rock Out While You Knock Out Germs
- Can You Print With Highlighter Ink?
- Hackaday Links: March 29, 2020
- Custom Drill Press Table Eliminates Hassles
- NIH Approved 3D-Printed Face Shield Design For Hospitals Running Out Of PPE
- Pumping Concrete
- How To Try Generative Optimization at Home
- Got Me Feeling Blue
- Ondophone On Point
- A Really Garbage Project
- An Open Source Shipboard Computer System
- Poor Maintenance Could have Led to Fatal B-17 Crash
- A 1950s Ampex Tape Recorder Microphone Preamplifier Restoration
- COVID-19 Statistics: Reading the Tea Leaves
- BCD To I2C: Turning A Nixie Counter Into Whatever You Want It To Be
- A Soldering LightSaber For The Speedy Worker
- Trimmed PCB Makes The Ultimate Portable N64
- NASA Spinoff Prints Electronics
- Microbatteries On The Grid
- Can Solder Paste Stencils be 3D Printed? They can!
- Supercon Talk: Mike Szczys Runs Down the State of the Hackaday 2019
- Phantom Express: The Spaceplane That Never Was
- Hackaday Podcast 060: Counting Bees, DogBox Transmissions, and the Lowdown on Vents, BiPAP, and PCR
- Self-Playing Whistle While You Work From Home
- This Week in Security: 0-Days, Pwn2Own, iOS and Tesla
- Faking Your Way to USB-C Support on Laptops Without It
- Measuring UV-C For About $5
- Launch Console Delivers Enjoyment To Software Deployment
- What’s In A Name For A Tool Battery Pack?
- Introducing The Hackaday Calendar Of Virtual Events
- Put Down New Roots From Home With A Free-Form Tree Of Life
- It’s Not An Arc Lamp, It’s A Lamp Arc
- What Does GitHub’s npm Acquisition Mean For Developers?
- Whirling Shutters on This Field Mill Measure Electrostatic Charges at Distance
- Stay Informed: How to Pull Your Own COVID-19 Data
- [Ben Krasnow] Rolls Old School Camera Out for Photolithography
- Two Perspectives on James Clerk Maxwell and His Equations
- Automating Hand Sanitizer — If You Can Find Any
- Table Held Up by Strings Teaches Physics
- Silicone and AI Power This Prayerful Robotic Intercessor
- Cesium Clock Teardown, or Quantum Physics Playground
- Electromagnetic Field 2020 Cancelled
- GSM Module Does More Than Advertised
- Geofence Warrant Sends Bicyclist’s Privacy Over the Handlebars
- Thunder Pack Is a Bolt of Lightning for Wearables
- Ventilators 101: What They Do and How They Work
- Ken Shirriff Unfolds a Nuclear Missile Guidance Computer with Impressive Memory
- Hack The Quarantine, Not Just The Medical Equipment
- Another PC Power Supply Project
- Quantum Sensor Receives from 0 Hz to 1000 GHz
- Equipping A Workshop Using Plywood And Handheld Power Tools
- LIDAR System Isn’t Just A Rangefinder Anymore
- Another Blinky Light Project — with a COVID-19 Twist
- Wind Farms In The Night: On-Demand Warning Lights Are Coming
- Turn by Wire is a Machinist’s Sixth Sense
- Coronavirus Testing: Just the Facts
- Breaking Into a Secure Facility: STM32 Flash
- Inverse Kinematics Robot Arm Magna-Doodles The Time For You
- Ingenious Hacks That Brought The Original Prince Of Persia To Life
- The Drone That Can Play Dodgeball
- LEGO My Colorful Custom Clock
- MIT Ventilator Designed with Common Manual Resuscitator; Submitted for FDA Testing
- A Boring Tale With Six Sides
- The New Xbox: Just How Fast Is 12 teraFLOPS?
- Side-Channel Attacks Hack Chat with Samy Kamkar
- Gyroscopic Wi-Fi LED Die is Pretty Fly
- Ask Hackaday: What Should We Be Doing During Coronavirus Lockdown?
- ESP32-S2 Samples Show Up
- Classic Macintosh Gets an iPad Infusion
- Compliant Quadruped Legs Using Servos
- Eavesdropping Assistant Disturbs The Sound Of Silence
- Hackaday Links: March 22, 2020
- A NES Motherboard For The Open Source Generation
- New Part Day: Battery-Less NFC E-Paper Display
- Coronavirus and Folding@Home; More on How Your Computer Helps Medical Research
- Motorized LEGO Train Gets Qi Charging in the Track
- Bee Counter Will Have You Up to Your Nectar In Hive Data
- High Power LoRa and Tropospheric Reflection Experiments
- How Constant Is Your Choice Of Lights?
- Screwy Math For Super Fine Adjustments: Differential Screws
- The Fart Box, a Synthesizer Not Quite Like Others
- Compact Slayer Exciter For Your High Voltage Needs
- Living in Corona Times
- Stylish Mic Is Metal Printing Done Right
- Google’s Pigweed for ARM development is a nice surprise
- Expansion Board Puts Spotify On The Amiga 500
- Thermochromic Display Tells You the Temperature Despite Your Current Mood
- This V8 Makes a Shocking Amount of Power
- 3D Printed Dogbox Transmission Kicks Your Desk Into High Gear
- Keep the Family at Bay While Working from Home with this WiFi Do Not Disturb Dongle
- Linux Fu: Mapping Files
- Hackaday Podcast 059: Hydraulic Rockets and Presses, Machine Vision That Bounces and Stares, and Smart Speakers That Listen to You
- Prusa Advises on Printed Medical Devices, Releases Face Shield
- This Week in Security: Working From Home Edition
- Pop A Wheelie With Your Electric Skateboard, The Hacker Way
- “Glixie” Puts a New Spin on Glow-In-The-Dark Displays
- An Armored Vehicle From Foam Core And Big Box Toys
- Rubber Bands Can Secure Your Sanity
- Baby Keyboard Is Really Three Boards
- Handwashing Timer Makes Sure the Suds Stay On Long Enough
- A 555 and a Lighter Make High Voltage
- The Corona Clock
- Do You Smell What the Magic Chef Is Cookin’?
- Thousands Of Internet-Connected Satellites Above Us, What Could Possibly Go Wrong!
- Saving 4 Patients with just 1 Ventilator
- Sweet Streams Are Made Of These: Creating Music On The Command Line
- Seven-Segment Shelves Do Double Duty
- GitHub On The Go
- Homemade Masks In A Time of Shortage
- You’ll Flip For This Toggle Switch Handheld Game
- AvoRipe Takes A Firm Grip On The Ultimate First World Food Problem
- Join Team Hackaday to Crunch COVID-19 Through Folding@Home
- A Practical Dual-Arm SCARA 3D Printer
- Teardown: Cobra XRS 9740 Radar Detector
- Can A CPAP Fan Become A Ventilator?
- Hearing Plants Giggle Is Just As Creepy As You Think
- This Is Not An Argument Bot
- Open-Source ARM Development Simplified
- 3.2 GHz Vector Signal Generator Tear Down
- A Smart Controller For Your DIY UV Cure Box
- Used Soda Stream Cylinder Becomes DIY Canned Air
- Yet More Takata Airbags Are Causing Fatalities Despite Different Propellant Chemistry
- Custom Reddit Keyboard Only Needs One Hand
- Northrop Grumman Tests Space Tow Truck
- Can Lego Break Steel?
- Using Additives For Better Performing Epoxy
- Patterned Plywood Makes For Attractive Speakers
- Dissecting China-Sourced Vintage HP 1970s ICs: Genuine Or Not?
- Custom Logo Display Pushes Nixie Tube Technology
- A DIY Stun Gun You Probably Shouldn’t Build
- Silo Launched Model Rocket Goes Thoomp
- Where Do You Get Your Neutrons? Neutron Sources for Nuclear Fusion, Science, Medicine, and Industry
- Amateur Radio Homebrewing Hack Chat
- Hot Wire Ribbon Cutter Ceremoniously Heats Up Productivity
- Review: The Riden RD6006W DC Power Supply Module
- 3D Printed Parts Keep Respirators Operational During COVID-19 Epidemic
- Drones Can Undertake Excavations Without Human Intervention
- Link Coupling Antenna Tuner Wordless Workshop
- Watchman Watches You Watching Him Watch You
- Hackaday Links: March 15, 2020
- Robotic Eels Take Care of Undersea Pipelines
- Repurposed UV Curer Makes Your Prints Hard as Nails
- A Practical Look at Chokes for EMI Control
- Rover Runs Slow And Steady On Solar Power
- Digital Designer Teaches High School
- Powering Neon with a Joule Thief
- Get Your Weather Images Straight from the Satellite
- Manual To Hydraulic Press, With A Paint Sprayer
- The Ultimate Game Boy Talk
- Corona Cancels Cons
- Civilian RC Car Uses Lego NXT and Ada
- Honeywell May Pull into the Quantum Computer Lead
- Hybrid Supercapacitors are — well — Super
- This Barometer Looks Mighty Fine, Rain or Shine
- Hearing Aid Reads Your Mind
- LED Shirt Does It With Tulle
- This Compact Pi Terminal Will Show You the Way
- Slippy Slapper Uselessly Uses All the Arduinos
- Hackaday Belgrade Conference Postponed
- Retrotechtacular: Mobile Phones 1940s Style
- Hackaday Podcast 058: Motorheads, 3D Prints that Bend Metal, and Homebuilt Onewheel Deathmachines
- An Epic Story Of 1980s FPV Flight
- This Week in Security: SMBv3, AMD and Intel, and Huawei Backdoors
- Plastic Cleanup via Retrobrighting
- Inside a CAN Bus Mileage Manipulator
- One Anti-Static Ring to Delight Them All
- MessagePack Is A More Efficient JSON
- Build Your Own Mouse For High Performance
- Welcome To The Open Hardware (Virtual) Summit
- Vocal Effects On The Arduino Uno
- The Hacker Hotel 2020 Badge
- Augmented Reality Aids in the Fight Against COVID-19
- Interplanetary Whack-A-Mole: NASA’s High-Stakes Rescue Plan for InSight Lander’s Science Mission
- Ultimate Medical Hackathon: How Fast Can We Design and Deploy an Open Source Ventilator?
- An RF Engineer’s FPGA Learning Journey
- There Really Was A Sewing Machine Controlled By A Game Boy
- Java On GPUs And FPGAs
- 3D Printed Swirl Rocket Injector Turns up the Heat
- Design And Construction With Copper Pipe
- Three Tales of Making It in Electronics Design and Manufacturing
- Retrotechtacular: Automotive Suspension is All About Waves
- Custom Tibia Keyboard For a Leg Up In the Game
- Smart Speakers “Accidentally” Listen Up to 19 Times A Day
- Getting 1000 FPS Out Of The Raspberry Pi Camera
- Chip Decapping the Easy Way
- Surviving The Apocalypse With A Briefcase Full Of Pi
- Open-Source Collaboration Tackles COVID-19 Testing
- IoT Cassette Scroller Never Needs a Pencil
- A Stylish Coffee Table Featuring Conway’s Game Of Life
- Forming Sheet Metal Parts with 3D Printed Dies
- EU Duty Changes, A Whole VAT Of Trouble For Hackers?
- Bolts, Brass, and Machining Chops Make Up This Tiny Combination Safe
- How To Get Into Cars: Handling Mods
- Solar Panel Keeps Car Battery Topped Off Through OBD-II Port
- The Best Voltage And Current Reference This Side Of A Test Lab
- Divvy Out The Crypto With This Physical Bitcoin Faucet
- A Reminder Not To Touch Your Face
- 3D Printed Tooling Punches Above Its Weight With Added Hardware
- Wood-Turning A Bladeless Fan
- Fear of Potato Chips: Samy Kamkar’s Side-Channel Attack Roundup
- Dexter Robot Arm Embraces New Manufacturing with First Micro-Factory
- PCB Finishes Hack Chat
- John Deere And Nebraska’s Right To Repair, The Aftermath Of A Failed Piece Of Legislation
- The Legacy of One of Science’s Brightest Stars: Freeman Dyson
- See the Damage 250-Pound Combat Robots Get
- Don’t Scrape Magnet Wire, Do This Instead
- Homebuilt Onewheel Uses Hoverboard Parts
- Tiny Duck Hunt Looks Like Big Fun
- Hackaday Links: March 8, 2020
- A Wireless Controller for the Mostly Printed CNC
- Bus Sniffing Leads to New Display for Vintage Casio
- Robot Fights Fire With IR
- Velocity Based Training, With A Camera
- Smashed Laptop Becomes Stylish All-In-One
- Z80 Computer Is Both Arduino And Shield
- If coffee == true {
- That Retro Video Look, Without The Tapes
- An 8085 Retrocomputer From The Heart
- A Calculator in 2020?
- Vanquish Your Foes With Lego Playing Card Machine Gun
- A Super-Brain for an E-bike
- Tweet Your BBC Basic Code to the Cloud
- Using Voice Commands To Start A Jeep
- A Quick And Easy Recipe For Synthetic Rubies
- DARPA Challenge Autonomous Robot Teams To Navigate Unfinished Nuclear Power Plant
- ESP8266 Adds Web Control To Old Home Theater
- Mithro Runs Down Open Source FPGA Toolchains
- From Hacker Hotel 2020: Badges, Sharks, Tentacles, Old-School Hacking, And Much More
- Hackaday Podcast 057: Dismantled LCD Panels, Unexpected Dynamometer, a Flappy POV, and Dastardly Encryption
- Mini RC Helicopter Becomes Even Smaller Submarine
- This Week in Security: Let’s Encrypt Revocation, Ghostcat, and the RIDLer
- Farewell SETI@Home
- Dumpster Finds Combined into 4K Desktop Monitor
- Pump Up The (Windows) Volume With Physical Sliders
- Brute-Forced Copyrighting: Liberating All The Melodies
- Robotic Ball Bouncer Uses Machine Vision to Stay on Target
- 144 7-Segment Displays Combine To Form A Mighty Clock
- Debugging Electronics: To Know Why It Didn’t Work, First Find What It Is Actually Doing
- 3D Printering: Getting Started Is (Still) Harder Than It Needs To Be
- Blister Pack With Jet Fighter Toy Is A Business Card
- US Navy Looking To Retire Futuristic Prototype Ships
- Camera and Code Team Up to Make Impossible Hovering Laser Effect
- Clean Air And A Gentle Breeze In Your Hoodie
- CherryPi Mechanical Keyboard Warrants A Long Look
- Procedurally Generating Marble Runs
- Lighting Up a Tiny Train Needs Tiny Tools
- Visualizing Energy Fields with a Neon Bulb Array
- Raising the Titanic’s Radio Room
- Gorgeous Clock, And Not A Line of Code in Sight
- Write Once, Run Everywhere: Cross-Platform Programming Done Right
- Dog-Harnessing the Power of Walkie Talkies
- Wire Wrapping Skills Put to Use for Sign Making
- Stop ‘n Go DUPLO
- A(nother) Minimalist Window Manager
- DIY Large Format Book Press Puts on the Pressure
- New Depths For iMac Repair
- Train All the Things Contest Update
- Inputs of Interest: My First Aggressively Ergonomic Keyboard
- Just When You Thought There Was Nothing New In Nixie Clocks…
- Expanding, and Eventually Replacing, the International Space Station
- A Honeycomb Patching Robot Powered by Arduino
- Evolution of a Backpack VR System
- Esper Makes Virtual Reality From Live Reality
- Arduino Drives Astronomy Dome
- Multi-Band Receiver On A Chip Controlled By Arduino
- This DIY Dynamometer Shows Just What A Motor Can Do
- Scott Shawcroft Is Programming Game Boys With CircuitPython
- The Last Scientific Calculator?
- On-Demand Manufacturing Hack Chat
- Giant Clock Made In the Nick of Time
- Project Rubicon: The NSA Secretly Sold Flawed Encryption for Decades
- ESP32 Rover With PCB Chassis is Ready to Roll
- Generate Power as You Ride with a Bicycle Planar Alternator
- A Minimal ESP8266 Digital Picture Frame
- Never Miss A Doorbell With This Notifier
- Hackaday Links: March 1, 2020
- A Patch Antenna Is Just A Rectangle, It Should Be Easy To Design, Right?
- The High Seas are Open Source
- DIY Monochrome LCD Hack Doesn’t Go as Planned
- Single Bolt Transformed into a Work of Art
- Assistive Specs Help Jog Your Memory
- A Tin Can Phone, but with Magnets
- Adora-BLE Synth Wails Without Wires
- Converting an Atari 2600 into a Home Computer; Did That Ever Work?
February 2020
- Media Streamer With E-Ink Display Keeps it Classy
- Desktop PCB Mill Review
- The IoT Trap
- Watch Linux Boot On Your Hackaday Superconference Badge
- A 3D-Printed Bass Guitar
- A Mini USB Keyboard That Isn’t A Keyboard
- Casual Tetris Comes In At $9
- OpenSource GUI Tool For OpenCV And DeepLearning
- Using IR LEDs To Hide In Plain Sight
- Latest FlexLED Milestone Refines the POV Display
- Building Cameras For The Immersive Future
- Last Call for Hackaday Belgrade Proposals Grants You a Four-Day Reprieve
- This Week in Security: Chrome Bugs and Non-bugs, Kr00k, and Letsencrypt
- Hackaday Podcast 056: Cat of 9 Heads, Robot Squats, PhD in ESP32, and Did You Hear About Sonos?
- A Simple Yet Feature-Packed Programmable DC Load
- Astra Readies Secretive Silicon Valley Rocket; Firm Exits Stealth Mode, Plans Test Launch
- What Time Is It? Infinity Time
- A Tetris To Be Proud Of, With Only A Nano
- The ZX Spectrum Next Arrives
- Writing Arduino Libraries, An Expert View
- MIL-SPEC Keyboard Now Salutes USB
- RC Ground Effect Vehicle Skims Over the Water
- Raspberry Pi 4 Offers Up 2 GB for the Price of One
- Hands-On: Smarty Cat is Junior’s First Slide Rule
- Nixies Adorn a Cold War Relic to Make a Geiger Clock
- Recording Video In The Era Of CRTs: The Video Camera Tube
- Tangential Oscillating Cutting Knife Makes Parts from the Ups and Downs
- Gripper Uses Belts To Pinch And Grasp
- Magnets Make Prototyping E-Textiles a Snap
- Be Wary Of Radioactive Bracelets And Similar
- OpenChronograph Lets You Roll Your Own Smart Watch
- LoRa Mesh Network with Off-the-Shelf Hardware
- Developing Retro Games For Conference Badges With Kate Morris
- Just How Can You Lose Something The Size Of A Cargo Ship?
- $80 Dual Extrusion Kit Might Work with Your 3D Printer
- Parking Meters That Were a Bit Too Smart for their Own Good
- Now You Can Be Big Brother Too, With A Raspberry Pi License Plate Reader
- Sonic The Self-Balancing Robot: Face-Plants And The Challenges Of Sensor Integration
- Gravity-Defying Water Droplet Fountain Gets An Upgrade
- OpenAstroTracker Turns Your DSLR Into An Astronomy Instrument
- Self-Playing Kalimba V2 Thanks to Readers Like You
- Levitating Starship Model Comes In For a Landing
- LoRa Tutorials For The DIY Masses
- Review: Unnamed Chinese DDS Function Generator
- Flashing Sonoff Devices With Tasmota Gets Easier
- A Farewell to Hackaday’s Favorite Falcon 9 Booster
- Ghost Frame Shows People (and Cats) That Don’t Exist
- Little Printer Dispenses Short Stories
- Origami Butterfly: A Flex PCB Adventure Unfolds
- Printing Liquid Concrete
- The Newbie’s Guide To JTAG
- Stomp Switches Let You Skip Tracks Hands-Free
- Bitluni Brings All the ESP-32 Multimedia Hacks to Supercon
- New Part Day: Ooh, the Things You Can Do With a CLUE
- Hacking USB Hack Chat
- DJ Hero Controller Gets a New Gig
- Ethics Whiplash as Sonos Tries Every Possible Wrong Way to Handle IoT Right
- A Rope Maker You Can 3D Print At Home
- Multiple 3D Printers, and One Pi to Rule Them All
- A Z80 Computer At The Next Level
- Reaching Serenity: Porting Git To A Homebrew Operating System
- Hackaday Links: February 23, 2020
- An Open Source Ebike
- The Smallest Cell Phone Picture
- Raspberry Pi Slips Out New PCB Version With USB C Power Fix
- 3D Printed Breadboard Helper Makes Wiring Neater and Easier
- Make a Vintage-Looking Clock in a Flash
- Gesture Control The Easy Way
- 3D Printable Nameplates From Your Web Browser
- A High Performance Ski-Sled For The Big Kids
- Fun-Size Tesla Might Be The World’s Smallest
- This Mallet Has Backwards Dovetails… That’s Impossible!
- PaintBot Does The Art For You
- Espresso Machine Now Powers Plants
- Introducing The XFM2: A New FM Synthesizer Board
- Restoring the Coolest Laptop Ever
- How To Slice Lightweight Aircraft Parts For 3D Printing
- Arkanoid Clock Is Exactly What It Sounds Like
- Steel Pegboard Makes For A Tidy Charging Station
- Software Defined Everything with Mike Ossmann and Kate Temkin
- Learning Morse Code the Ludwig Koch Way
- Hackaday Podcast 055: The Most Cyberpunk Synthesizer, Data in Your Cells, Bubbly in Your Printer, and the Dystopian Peepshow
- ATtiny Name Badges Are Hugely Creative
- This Week in Security: DNSSEC Temporarily Lost their Keys, FIDO, And One Weird Windows Trick
- Relive the Glory Days of Cable TV with This Retro Weather Feed
- Bluetooth Intervalometer Makes Time Lapses Easy
- Irrigation Controller Uses Google Calendar To Make Things Easy
- Stout Homebrew Radio Pumps Out 200W of AM Goodness
- DARPA Subterranean Challenge Urban Circuit Now Livestreaming
- A Turing-Complete CPU From RAM
- DIY Power Station Puts Ryobi Batteries to Work
- We Ruined Status LEDs; Here’s Why That Needs to Change
- LEGO Microtonal Guitar: Building Blocks of Music Theory
- How Does Starlink Work Anyway?
- Counter-Strike Gets the RGB LED Treatment
- The Art Of USB Dongle Repair
- Password Keeper Uses Off-The-Shelf Formfactor
- Solid State Relay Simulation, Explained
- The CarolinaCon 16 Badge Slithers Into Life
- Lil’ ESP32 Bot Does Remote Surveillance, And It’s Easy
- Machine Inside of a Chip: How Sprite_TM Built the FPGA Game Boy Badge
- Inputs of Interest: Ears to Communication for Everyone
- 3D Print Your 3D Scanner
- MakerBot Targets Schools With Rebranded Printers
- Hacked Prosthesis Leads to Mind-Controlled Electronic Music
- Gear up Your Gear Knowledge with Gears
- MNIST Clock Uses Famous Training Database
- Everything You Wanted to Know About 3D Printing Support but Were Afraid to Ask
- Adding A Digital Readout To A Wood Lathe
- MQTT And The Internet Of Conference Badges
- Foxie Clock Works In Two Ways
- The TMS1000: The First Commercially Available Microcontroller
- Open-Source Neuroscience Hardware Hack Chat
- Film Negative Viewer Has Many Positives
- DNA Now Stands for Data and Knowledge Accumulation
- How Many LEDs Can You Drive?
- Insecure Surveillance Cameras Provide Dystopian Peep Show
- Wearable Cone of Silence Protects You from Prying Ears
- What Does Your Necklace Say?
- Cable Operated Blast Door Needs No Power
- Sherbet Custom Game Pad is Smooth and Sweet
- Transparent LCD Makes Everything Look Futuristic
- Why Some Chips Have Inconvenient Pinouts
- Electrification Of A Cheap Bead Roller
- Bubbly Filament Works Better Than You Think
- Amp Volt Ohm Meter Model 8 Mark III from the 1960s
- Closed Ham Radio Peripheral Reveals Its Windows Secrets
- Hackaday Links: February 16, 2020
- DIY Dispenser Places Solder Paste Without The Mess
- A Cheap And Easy GoPro Mount For Model Rocketry
- Have LED Bulbs Reached Their Final (and Cheapest) Form?
- Make A Set Of Headphones From Scratch
- Making Your Own Maple Syrup Just Got A Little Easier
- GitHub goes GUI-less
- Wall Panels With 3760 Antennas Can Increase Wireless Range
- Sequence Your Beats With The Magic Of Magnets
- AAA Powered LoRa Mailbox Sensor Goes the Distance
- 3D Printing Skin or Maybe a Dermal Regenerator
- A Nifty Tool For Separating Magnets
- Gravity-Defying Cosmetics Explained By Science!
- The Red Dwarf Talkie Toaster Made Real
- Nixie Clock Claims to be Simplest Design
- RF Shield Turns Arduino (And PC) into Shortwave Radio
- Emergency Torch Runs Without Batteries
- This Servo Actuated Multimeter Does the Twist
- A Crash Course In Thermodynamics For Electrical Engineers
- It Ain’t Over ‘Til the Paperwork is Done: Test Driving TiddlyWiki
- Hackaday Podcast 054: Xenomorph Cookies, 101 Uses for Hot Glue, Rolling Robots, and a Clippy Computer
- Arduino Drives a 600-Character Display
- This Week in Security: Robinhood, Apple Mail, ASLR, and More Windows 7
- A Little Rewiring Teaches a Creality Ender 3 New Tricks
- $200 Resin Printer Reviewed
- Training A Dog to “Speak” With A Sound Board
- Taking Pictures of the Space Station with a Handheld Camera
- BBQ Burners Built From Scratch
- Simplify Your Life with This Pocket Rotary Cellphone
- Ultra-Rare Nintendo Play Station Prototype Hits Auction Block
- Sky is New Limit for Dot Com Domain Prices
- Tell Time Contest Winners: Clocks to Knock Your Socks Off
- Flywheel Stores Energy to Power an Airplane – Eventually
- Mars 2020 Rover: Curiosity’s Hi-Tech Twin is Strapped for Science; Includes a Flying Drone
- Emulating a Bluetooth Keyboard with the ESP32
- Star Wars Themed Laser Badge: All That Is Missing Is The Pew Pew Sound Effect
- Werewolf Ears With A Sense For Danger
- All Band Radio Uses Arduino and Si4730
- Laser Tachometer Knows How Fast You Were Spinning Back There
- Pneumatic Glove For Therapy And Experimentation
- In Pursuit of Haptics for a Better VR Experience
- Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators
- Hacked Protective Gear Keeps Doctor Safe in the Hot Zone
- 3D Printed Flip Clock is Worth a Second Look
- How To Get Into Cars: Basic Maintenance
- Sniffing Signals To Teach Old Speakers New Tricks
- Concrete Solder Squid is a Solid Solution
- Custom Firmware For Cheap Smart Bulbs Is A Cinch To Tinker With
- Name that Unknown RF Signal with a Little FFT Magic
- Portable Pizza Oven Does The Job, And Fast
- Build Your Own Active Load
- Cheap Strain Relief By Casting Hot Glue in a 3D Print
- HackIt: Why Aren’t We Hacking on the LED Printer?
- Airport Split-Flap Letters Carry On As Spotify Display
- First Space Cookies: Cosmic Cooking is Half-Baked
- Xbox Controller Provides Intro to SWD Hacking
- Classic Toy Helicopter Flies Again as DIY Version
- Fake That Fireplace Flicker With Flame Bulbs
- Welcome to McDonald’s; Would You Like 3D Printing Resin with That?
- Converted Car Lets Toddlers Tool Around
- Huge Seven Segment Display Made From Broken Glass
- Recreating Fast Oscilloscopes is a Slow Process
- New Part Day: The Wi-Fi Stepper Gets Ideas Working Faster
- DIY Radio Telescopes Hack Chat
- Building a Sound Activated Shop Fan with Arduino
- Ask Hackaday: What’s Your Coronavirus Supply Chain Exposure?
- A French Press You Can Take Out Camping
- Bringing a Swap Meet 3D Printer Back from the Dead
- Simple 3D Printed Robotic Arm Uses Compliant Mechanism
- C#, The Language For All Platforms – Now Including Windows 3.11 And DOS
- Hackaday Links: February 9, 2020
- Why Settle For the Standard Catan Board?
- Sort the Rainbow with an Algorithm Machine
- Rental Home Thermostat Gets Smart Upgrade Without Modifying the Dumb Controller
- See In The Dark, The Simple Way
- Hands-Free Oreo Dispenser, Now With Milk
- A Barn Find 6502 Is Restored
- Lightbulb Glows When You Have That Eureka Moment
- 3D Printing for Wire Paths Yields An Arduboy Minus The PCB
- A Modern Take on the “Paperclip Computer”
- Generate 3D Printable QR Codes With this Web Tool
- USB Password Keeper Runs on Tiny Chip
- A 3.3 V Tube Preamp Without An Inverter
- This PIC Is A Squarewave Generator
- A Very Buttoned Up Raspberry Pi Media Server
- Hacking Multiplication: Binary Multiply on Paper
- Stylish Outfit Packs A Solar Charging Rig
- A Laser Drawing Machine for Flashes of Creativity
- Mitch Altman Asks How You’re Using Your Life
- Turning a Problem Around: The Whitney Cotton Gin
- Hackaday Podcast 053: 1-Bit Computer is a Family Affair, This Displays is Actually Fabulous, and This Hoverboard is a Drill Press
- Automatic Component Tape Cutter For When Your Electronics Kit Hits The Big Time
- This Week in Security: Google Photos, Whatsapp, and Doom on Deskphones
- Music Player Erected from Floppy Disks
- Raspberry Pi Serves Up 24 Hour Simpsons Channel
- Rollbot Crams Ten Arms Onto One Wheel
- Laser Etches Solar Absorbing Material
- Watch Your Life Tick Away with This Lifetime Countdown Clock
- Custom Laser Tag Rifle Packs A Sonic Punch
- Tool Writes Your PWM Code for You
- Dutch Hackerspaces At Ten Years Old: Celebrating A Community With A Special Map
- Fallout-Inspired Clock Radio Helps You Party Like It’s 2077
- Troubleshooting a Symlink — A Whodunnit for the Git Record books
- Arduino Handheld Game System Gets a Grip
- A Network Attached VFD Tube Clock
- Lighting Up Your Spectrespecs
- Array of Useless Machines is Useless
- Micro Macro Keyboard Makes a Major Difference
- 3D Printed GIFs For Stop Motion Memes
- Debugging PCBs with Augmented Reality
- The $50 Ham: Going Mobile
- This Box Counts Your Blessings For You
- Tipping Points In The Climate System: The Worst Kind Of Positive Feedback
- An EV Motor Controller Home Build
- Serious Repair Work On The Amiga 600
- Writing Dance Bangers Like It’s 1990 Again
- Ham Antennas From MIT
- Solving The Mysteries Of Grounding While Improving A Power Supply
- Hoverboard Grows Up, Becomes Magnetic Drill Press
- China x86 Chips Hitting the Market
- Florence Nightingale: The Lady with the Data
- Nifty Soundbender Built From eBay Modules
- How To Hack A Portable Bluetooth Speaker By Skipping The Bluetooth
- Slice Through Your Problems with a Shukran
- Old Rotary Phone Gets Called Into Action
- Tiptoe Through the Tulip Mania
- How Many Smartphones Does It Take To Make A Traffic Jam?
- Unlocking Hidden Potential in IvyBridge ThinkPads
- Lathe and 3D Printer Help Repair Buried Buttons
- The Cult of Really Low-Power Circuits: Scrounging, Sipping, and Seeing Power
- Linux Fu: The Linux Shuffle
- Keeping Ham Radio Relevant Hack Chat
- Acrylic Mold Makes for Professional-Looking Silicone Keyboards
- Stinger: The Hacked Machine Gun of Iwo Jima
- Deploy Workaround Code To The Field When “The Field” Is Lunar Orbit
- AVRO’s Project 1794: A Canadian Flying Saucer
- Up Your Game With DIY Headset Motion Tracking
- Lego Space Station Designed by Fan
- Hackaday Links: February 2, 2020
- A Tiny USB Hub For All Your Hardware Modding Needs
- Pavlok Gets a Literally Shocking Teardown
- Microcontroller Studies the Blade
- Synthfonio Makes Music Easy Like Sunday Morning
- Growing Human Neurons Hooked Up To Electrodes
- A Mini SDR Receiver Using An Audio DSP
- Art Imitates DNA
- The Quest To Find A Second Life For Electric Vehicle Batteries
- Tricking The Brain Into Seeing Boosted Contrast in Stereo Imagery
- CNC Hot-Wire Cutter Gives Form to Foam
- What Everyone Else Did With Eight Bits, The Germans Did With Only One
- See-Through Catalytic Converter
- A Nano With An Otter’s Bite
- An Arcade Cabinet with Displays to Spare
- A 60 GHz Phased Array
- Fixing the Flicker Afflicting a Night Light
January 2020
- Water Switch Lamp Illuminates Current Flow
- Companion Bots Definitely Are the Droids You’re Looking For
- The Internet of Football
- Hackaday Podcast 052: Shorting Components, Printing Typewriter Balls, Taking Minimal Time Lapse, and Building a Makerspace Movie Prop
- The Multiyear Hunt for a Gameboy Game’s Bug
- This Week in Security: OpenSMTPD, Kali Release, Scareware, Intel, and Unintended Consequences
- Sonic The Hedgehog Self-Balancing Robot Can Bend At The Knees
- This Crossbow Fires Cannonballs!
- The Ohio Scientific 300 Trainer
- RemoteXY Simplifies Arduino Control
- This Is It For The Particle Mesh Network
- Poking Around the Wide World of Bluetooth
- Understand Linux htop Visually
- Retrotechtacular: Teasmade
- NFC for Your Home Automation
- The Spitzer Space Telescope Ends its Incredible Journey
- Unique Clock Finally Unites Hackers and Sequins
- SMA-Q2 Smart Watch Is Completely Hackable
- Lazydoro Mothers You Into Being Productive
- Tensors Explained
- Wire Loop And Amplifier Solve Audio Problem For The Hearing Impaired
- Building (And Testing) A DIY Air Purifier
- Burning Things With Big Lasers In The Name Of Security
- DDR-5? DDR-4, We Hardly Knew Ye
- Soviet Soyuz Clock Teardown
- Alternative Uses For Nuclear Waste
- Stylish Thermometer is DIY Hardware Perfection
- Harmonicade is a High-Scoring MIDI controller
- Dad Makes Xbox And Nintendo Work Together To Bridge The Accessibility Gap
- [Eric] Talks Crystal Radios
- ESP32-Cam Does Time Lapse
- Flicker Detector Lets You Hear What You Can’t See
- Factory Laptop with IME Disabled
- RF Modulation: Crash Course For Hackers
- Open-Source Medical Devices Hack Chat
- Clock Uses Custom LED Displays to Keep Myst Time
- Lead-Free Solder Alloys: Their Properties And Best Types For Daily Use
- Raspberry Pi 4 Benchmarks: 32- vs 64-bits
- New Part Day: SK6812 Mini-E. A Hand Solderable Neopixel Compatible LED!
- A Miniature Laptop You Can Build Yourself
- The Options for Low Cost ROV Tethers
- Carbide3D Router Teardown and Testing
- One Chip Does It All In This MacGuyver Synth
- Supercon Keynote: Megan Wachs Breaks Down RISC-V
- ESP32 Serial Interface Modernizes Old Equipment
- CRISPR Could Fry All Cancer Using Newly Found T-Cell
- Hackaday Belgrade Early Bird Tickets On Sale Right Now
- Machine Learning System Uses Images to Teach Itself Morse Code
- Review: SanErYiGo SH72 Soldering Iron
- It’s An LED Cube, But Maybe Not Quite What You Were Expecting
- All the Games in One Cartridge
- Can You Help 3D Print a Selectric Ball?
- Teardown And Analysis Of A Cheap Solar Lamp
- Hackaday Links: January 26, 2019
- Light The Way To Every Component
- CNC Etch-A-Sketch: Stop Motion is Logical Next Step
- Hubble Telescope Power Supply Tester on eBay
- Keeping a 3D Printed NAS Updated with the Times
- Put the Power of PCR in Your Pocket with this Open-Source Thermal Cycler
- Tracking Cancer Treatment with an ESP8266-Based Radiation Sensor
- A Custom Raspberry Pi 4 Arcade Cabinet
- Porting Quake to an iPod classic is no Easy Task
- Mr. Carlson Gets Zapped by Snow
- Failed: Air Umbrella
- Advanced Timber Architecture Gives New Life to Wooden Structures
- THAT Preamp
- A Commmand Center for Children with Sensory Needs
- Feel the Force with a Pocket Magnetometer
- Little Hex Tricks Make Little Displays a Little Easier
- Robo Pony Greets Hackerspace Visitors
- Broken 3D Printer Turned Scanning Microscope
- An Eight-Day Home Automation Hackathon is Inspiration for Getting More Projects Done
- New Part Day: LED Driver is FPGA Dev Board in Disguise
- Hackaday Podcast 051: Pointing With Your Tongue, C64 Touchpad, USB Killcord, and Audacity Does Everything
- Lessons Learned from a CubeSat Postmortem
- This Week in Security: Chrome Speech bug, UDP Fragmentation, and the Big Citrix Vulnerability
- A Raspberry Pi Terminal That’s Always Within Reach
- Students Use Low Tech Hacks on High Tech Parking Enforcer
- Pi 4 Emulator in a Durable, Dumpstered Cabinet
- A Simple Science Fair AM Transmitter
- A Pair of CRTs Drive This Virtual Reality Headset
- BinDayCator Lets You Know When To Take Out The Trash
- Spring Clamp Is Completely 3D Printed
- The Truth is in There: The Art of Electronics, the x-Chapters
- A Ploopy Pick and Place
- Nuclear Fusion At 100: The Hidden Race For Energy Supremacy
- Floating On The Breeze With A Full Size RC Paraglider
- COSMAC ELF Lives Again, in FPGA
- Vinyl Cut Your Way Into An Edge-Lit Glass Display
- Scorigami Bot Charts NFL History In The Making
- Paper Glows Up With This Origami Wall Piece
- Winners of the Take Flight with Feather Contest
- A Battery Sipping Cellular Mailbox Notifier
- Bringing the Blockchain to Network Monitoring
- P-51 Cockpit Recreated with Help of Local Makerspace
- Lovebox Gives Infinite Treats Sweeter Than Chocolate
- Review: Testdriving LibrePCB Shows That It’s Growing Up Fast
- How Efficient Can An Airplane Be? The Celera 500L Sets To Find Out
- A Retro Touch Pad You Can Use on Modern Computers
- A Beginner’s Guide to X-Ray Crystallography
- Form 3 SLA Printer Teardown, Bunnie Style
- HDD-Driven Chime Clock is Quite Striking
- Reverse Engineering Yokis Home Automation Devices
- New Contest: Train All The Things
- Tumble Polisher Smooths Parts With Ease
- CircuitPython Slithers Into 100th Board — the OHS 2020 Badge
- A Kill Cord To End Laptop Skulduggery
- Inputs of Interest: Tongues for Technology
- Fail of the Week: Padlock Purports to Provide Protection, Proves Pathetic
- Open Laptop Soon to be Open For Business
- Destroy My Vegetable Garden? Oh Hail No!
- Gradient Infill Puts More Plastic Where You Want It
- Random Numbers From Outer Space
- Electric Unicorn Is Our Kind Of Rideable
- Testing Your Grit: Tales of Hacking in Difficult Situations
- Teardown: BilBot Bluetooth Robot
- Austere Engineering Hack Chat
- ’75 Nixie Multimeter As Digital Dice
- New Year Habits – What Do You Do For Data Storage?
- See If Today’s Air Quality Will Conch You Out
- Tessellations and Modular Origami From Fabric and Paper
- TRS-80 Clone Uses Modern Parts
- RasterCarve Converts Images to CNC
- Hackaday Links: January 19, 2020
- Be Still, My Animatronic Heart
- Binary Advent Calendar Does More With Fewer Doors
- Experiments In Soft Robotics
- Play That Funky 3D Printer…
- Modular Solar-Powered IoT Sensors
- Another IoT Debacle: Charter Offers Home Insecurity
- Building a Better BitTorrent Client in Go
- DIY Lambo That Made The Real Lamborghini Take Notice
- Bask In The Glory Of This 336 LED Digit Display
- Breathtaking C64C Case Faithfully Recreates Original in Wood
- Bullet-proofing Your Car With An Affordable Composite Armor
- How to Grow (Almost) Anything
- Alexa Controls This Savage Pumpkin
- Home Safety Monitoring With IoT
- Exploring Early ’90s Video Game Architecture With Another World
- Get Compressed Air From Falling Water With The Trompe
- A Simple Auger Pet Feeder
- Jen Costillo Explains Why Hackers Thrive in a Recession
- Who Invented the Mouse? Are You Sure?
- Hackaday Podcast 050: Counterfeit Chips, Servo Kalimba, Resistor Colors, Pi Emulation, and SED Maze Solver
- Magic Acrylic Makes This Ring Stand Out
- This Week in Security: Windows 10 Apocalypse, Paypal Problems, and Cablehaunt
- A Water Cooled Gaming PC You Can Take With You
- Oceanography As Open As the Seas
- A Simple App Controlled Door Lock
- These Bit Twiddling Tricks Will Make Your Coworkers Hate You
- 74-Series Clock Gets A MEMS Heart
- Motorized Inline Skates Run On Makita Power
- A Strange Display Gives Up Its Secrets
- A SpaceX Falcon 9 will Blow Up Very Soon, and That’s OK
- Analyzing CNC Tool Chatter with Audacity
- Car Alternators Make Great Electric Motors; Here’s How
- Turn By Turn Driving Directions From A Turntable
- A Behind the Scenes Look at Small Scale Production
- The RFI Hunter: Looking for Noise in All the Wrong Places
- A Safer, Self-Healing Polymer Battery
- The Flexible Permanence of Copper Tape Circuits
- New Part Day: Arduino Goes Pro with the Portenta H7
- OWON Oscilloscope Teardown
- Automate Your Life with Node-RED (Plus a Dash of MQTT)
- Lego Drone Finally Takes Off
- Tetraethyl Lead: The Solution To One, And Cause Of Many New Problems
- What To Know When Buying Chips That Haven’t Been Made For Three Decades
- One ESP8266, One Battery, One Year… And Counting.
- Camcorder Viewfinder Converted to Diminutive Vector Display
- Particle Accelerators That Fit on a Chip
- Make A Mean-Sounding Synth From Average Components
- A Slightly Bent ESP8266 Sensor Platform
- Better Controls For Your Chromecast Through CEC
- A Vintage Phone In 2020
- A Replica from WarGames , But Not the One You Think
- Raspberry Pi 4 and the State of Video Game Emulation
- CircuitPython Now Working On Teensy 4.0
- Node-RED Laser Shooting Gallery Goes Anywhere
- In Soviet Russia, Doorbell Rings You
- Run Java On An Amiga
- Active Suspension R/C Car Really Rocks
- Finally, A Real Set Of Gamecube Joycons
- The Way of the PCB Artist: How to Make Truly Beautiful Circuit Boards
- Anti-Bacterial Plastic Wrap Clings to Hope of Stopping Superbugs’ Spread
- Habitable Exoplanets Hack Chat
- 3DBuzz Closes with a Final Gift
- Why Do Resistors Have a Color Code?
- Model S Motor and Volt Battery Go Together Like Peanut Butter and Jelly
- Additive, Multi-Voice Synth Preserves Sounds, Too
- A DNA-Based Computer Calculates Square Roots Up To 900
- Take Security Up a Notch By Adding LEDs
- Hackaday Links: January 12, 2020
- DIY Ionizer Clears the Air on a Budget
- Awakening A Dragon From Its Slumber
- Maze Solving Via Text Editing
- Generating Beetles from Public Domain Images
- A Supercapacitor Might Just Light Your Way One Day
- NanoVNA Tests Antenna Pattern
- This Artist Drags His Feet Across Sand and Snow
- Plucky Kalimba Plays Itself
- Printed Separator Separates Printed Pages
- An Arduino-Based Flute Playing Machine
- Stacks of Spring Washers Power the Drawbar on this CNC Mill Conversion
- Building a Real Wooden Table Saw
- This Ugly Christmas Sweater Can Set You On Fire
- A Simple POV Globe Via APA102
- Building a Low-Tech Website for Energy Efficiency
- Arduino Pedometer Counts Your Steps
- Retro PowerBook Gets a Mac Mini Transplant
- Using Lookup Tables to Make the Impossible Possible
- Hide Silent, Hide Deep: Submarine Tracking Technologies of the Cold War
- This Week in Security: Camera Feeds, Python 2, FPGAs
- Hackaday Podcast 049: Tiny Machine Learning, Basement Battery Bonanza, and Does This Uranium Feel Hot?
- Hardware Hack Makes Robocall Blocking Service Even Better
- DIY Autonomous Mower In The Wild
- A Luggable Computer for the Raspberry Pi Era
- HiFi Audio On The Commodore 64 – 48KHz, Yo!
- Don’t DIY This Surgical Robot At Home
- Add-On Makes ESP32 Camera Board Easier To Program
- Hiking Pole Turned Lightweight Yagi Antenna
- Mini Space Station Keeps Tabs on the Real One
- Living At The Close Of The Multiway Era
- Vintage Mini Inkjet Prints On-Demand ASCII Art
- BeOS: The Alternate Universe’s Mac OS X
- Possible Spyware on Samsung Phones
- Engineering Overkill Motorizes the Daily Grind
- 3D Printable Stick Shift For Your Racing Simulator
- It Turns Out, Robots Need Tough Love Too
- Fail of the Week: Thermostat Almost Causes a House Fire
- Making Custom 3D Printed Slide Switches
- Engineering Your Way to Better Sourdough (and Other Fermented Goods)
- Commercial Circuit Simulator Goes Free
- Titanium Coating Is Actually Pretty Straightforward
- The Barcode Revolution: Welcome To Our Automated World
- An ESP8266 Environmental Monitor in your USB Port
- The Ruscombe Gentleman’s Steam Bicycle
- Poking Around Inside A Pair of Classic Gaming Gifts
- Spintronic RAM Gets a Little Closer to SRAM
- Fabric(ated) Drum Machine
- Liquid Cooling Keeps This Electronic Load’s MOSFETs From Burning
- Guitar Hero Controller Gets A New Musical Life
- Choosing The Right Battery For Your Electric Vehicle Build
- DMCA-Locked Tractors Make Decades-Old Machines the New Hotness
- The Oldest Nuclear Reactor? Nature’s 2 Billion Year Old Experiment
- Tiny Machine Learning On The Attiny85
- How Low Can An ESP32 Go?
- The Internet Controls This Monster
- Full Duplex Radio Claimed Easier with Analog Module
- Reading Light Not Quite Powered By Your Favorite Hot Beverage
- A Homebrew Weller RT Soldering Station
- The Hacker History of Music Technologies
- Organic Audio: Putting Carrots as Audio Couplers To The Test
- 3D-Printed Tools Turn Bench Vise into Expedient Press Brake
- Continuous Integration: What It Is And Why You Need It
- Hackaday Belgrade: Call for Proposals
- Steampunk Motorcycle Runs On Compressed Air, Is Pure Hacking Art
- Embedding a Smart Switch in a Java Factory
- Creating a Custom Engagement Ring with 3D-Printing
- AirBass Lets You Jam Wherever
- Hackaday Links: January 5, 2020
- Converting a Drill Press Into a Milling Machine
- 3D Pens Can Make Ugly Drone Parts That Almost Work
- Space-Saving Servo Tester Console Looks Space-Worthy
- All You’ve Ever Wanted to Know about Compilers
- Arduino Wristwatch Has LED Hands
- 2D-Platform Seeks Balance with a Touch Screen
- 3D-Printed Moiré Illusion May Just Drive You Crazy
- Baby’s First Jukebox is Fun for Parents, Too
- Datacenter UPS Heads Home for Off-Grid Power Solution
- Altair 8800 Again Project
- City Clock Is Beautiful Tribute To Parisian Architecture
- OpenDog: Adding Force Sensitive Feet
- Making a Custom Caliper Case for Pros
- Diurnal Reef Control Realistically Insolates Your Aquarium
- Tracking Vaccination History With Invisible Tattoos
- Voltmeter Clock Looks Great On Display
- Unique 3D Printer Turned CNC Engraver
- You Could be a Manufacturing Engineer If You Could Only Find the Time
- The Quadratic Equation Solution a Few Thousand Years in the Making
- Hackaday Podcast 048: Truly Trustworthy Hardware, Glowing Uranium Marbles, Bitstreaming the USB, Chaos of Congress
- The Fun is On the Christmas Tree with This Playable Duck Hunt Decoration
- This Week in Security: ToTok, Edgium, Chrome Checks your Passwords, and More
- HoloLens Brings Video Game Kart Racing to Life
- A Programming Language That Lets You Code With Pixels
- Prolific Videos Show Altair 8800 Recreation
- LC Oscillators, Animated
- A Wireless Method For Pressing Tofu
- DIY Trommel Sifts Compost In Style
- Assistive Technolgy Switch is Actuated Using Your Ear Muscles
- Tony Brooker And Autocode – The First High-level Language
- Tales (and Advice) From Setting Up a Product Line
- Ask Hackaday: How Do You Keep the 3D Printer From Becoming eWaste
- Unlocking SIM Cards with a Logic Analyzer
- Roll the Bones Chernobyl Style
- Hacking An Arduino NFC Reader With WebUSB
- A New High-Performance Camera That Detects Single Photons
- Catapult Your Best Wishes With This 3D-Printable Card
- Explore this 3D World Rendered in ASCII Art
- Reducing the Risk of Flying with Hydrogen Fuels
- Happy 50th Birthday to All You Epoch Birthers
- Magnetic Circuits Are More Attractive Than Breadboarding
- Building a Giant Meta-Clock Made of Smaller Clocks
- PoE Powers Christmas Lights, But Opens Up So Much More
- Flip Phones Are Making a Comeback
- Macro Photography With Industrial Lenses