2021
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2021 3,550
December 2021
- This Week in Security: The Log4j That Won’t Go Away, WebOS, and More
- 3D Printering: Adding A Web Interface Where There Was None Before
- Hackaday Podcast Wishes You Happy New Year
- A Tidy Cyberdeck That You Could Take Anywhere.
- The No-MCU Fan Controller
- Threaded Wires Save Phone Numbers
- Customisable Micro-Coded Controller Helps With In-Circuit Debugging
- CD Player Powered 555 Piano Goes Accordion To Plan
- Taking a Close Look at Hawkeye’s Workbench
- Electric Wheelchair Dump Truck Hack Really Hauls
- Remoticon 2021: Uri Shaked Reverses the ESP32 WiFi
- When A Ball Robot Becomes Two Wheels
- New Cars Will Nickel-and-Dime You – It’s Automotive As a Service
- ESP32 Pretends To Be GPU; Gives You A Ransomware Scare
- 3D Printed Model Roller Coaster Accurately Simulates the Real Thing
- Peering Into The Murky Depths of Alder Lake
- Robot Delivery to your Door
- Snap-Together Macropad Does It Without Solder
- Build Your Own High-Temp Oven Thermometer
- Foam Surfboard From Scratch
- Astronaut Food is Light Years Beyond Tang and Freeze-Dried Ice Cream
- Modern Toilet Generates Energy
- The Current State Of Play In Autonomous Cars
- Rats Learn to Play DOOM in This Automated VR Arena
- The Three Cent Motor Controller
- 1950s Vacuum Tube Computer Replica Communicates Through USB
- UV Printing PCBs
- Clear Off the Coffee Table, It’s Pinball Time
- Enter the Matrix with This Custom PC Side Panel
- DIY Infrared Calculator Printer
- Linux Fu: Don’t Share Well With Others
- The Pinouts Book is Here, and It’s Just What You Need
- Quantum Atomic Interferometer For Precision Motion Sensing
- Laser Doping His Way to Homemade Silicon Chips
- Turing Ring is Compact
- Custom Christmas Light Controller Blocks Blinks
- Voice Command Made Mostly Easy
- Single Bit Computer from Vacuum Tubes
- Taste the Television: TTTV
- Whipping Together A Little Ray Tracer Racer
- It’s Printable, It’s Programmable, It’s E. coli
- rC3 2021: Now Here, Nowhere
- The Label Says HDMI 2.1 But That Doesn’t Mean You’ll Get It
- First Hacks: The Brand New Nokia 5G Gateway Router
- Diving the Depths of Ma Bell
- Maximum Throughput Benchie
- Belgian Railway Time For Your Home
- Hackaday Links: December 26, 2021
- Planning Custom Aluminum Enclosures With OpenSCAD
- 6502 Goes FPGA (Again)
- BIOS Flashing Journey Writeup Puts Tutorials To Shame
- Realtime Shadows on N64 Hardware
- Seoul Introduces Self-Driving Taxis
- DIY High Flow 3D Printing
- Cast Your Own Holiday Chocolate Bunny, or Rather Mouse
- Mico is a USB Microphone Based on a Pi Pico
- 3D Printing Gets Tiny
- Mini Linear Actuators From DVD Drive Parts
- Blender? No, Grinder
- 3D Prints With A Mirror Finish
- Do You Need a Cycloidal Drive?
- Hacking Film Processing with Coffee
- A CMOS Ring Modulator Pedal
- Tiny 3D Printed Magnets Show Patterns
- When Hacking and Biosensing Collide
- Santa’s Beard-Combing Robot
- Hackaday Podcast Super-Short Holiday Edition
- The Legend of Zelda: Decompiled
- Peltier Snow Globe Features Snowman Who Dresses Himself in Real Frost
- FlyBrainLab: Google Earth But For A Drosophila Fly’s Brain
- Ring In the New Year with DIY Bagpipes
- Lisp in 436 Bytes
- Fixing A Freezer Design Flaw With A Little Bit Of Heat
- WS2812s on a 6502
- Simple Upgrades Make an Old Industrial Sewing Machine New Again
- Keynote Video: Jeremy Fielding Wants To Help You Get Moving
- OpenCV Knows Where Your Hand Is
- How To Get Into Cars: E85 Fuel
- Back-to-Back Belts Drive Filament in This Unique Extruder Design
- A Simple 3D Printed Gear Clock Shows Off How It Works
- Experiments with a Nernst Lamp
- New Holographic Display Hacks the Light Field
- Frame Antenna Works the Low Bands
- Turbocharger Jet Engine Relies on Wood Pellet Ignition
- How To Forge A Skillet From Scratch
- Tech in Plain Sight: Primitive Engineering Materials
- Stencil Vacuum-Assist Helps Avoid the Heartbreak of Smeared Solder Paste
- The Dreamcast Legacy
- You Can 3D Print A Working Reciprocating Steam Engine
- Linux for the Paranoid Does the Work for You
- Shake with Your New Robot Hand
- Laser Sees Through Keyhole
- Bubble Lights Made From Scratch
- Make Your Own Chain Link Fencing
- Li-ion Battery Low-Level Intricacies Explained Excellently
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Hole-y Keyboard
- Where the Rubber Meets the Computer
- Plastics: Photopolymers for 3D Printing and Beyond
- Ground Effect Aerodynamics On An RC Car
- A Label Maker That Uses AI Really Poorly
- Hydrogen Generation Made Easy
- The Assassin’s Teapot Is A Mischievous Design
- Concrete with 3D Printed Foam Forms
- All Hail Your New Giant 555 Timer Overlord
- “Window to the World” Brings Far-Off Places to Your Home
- Know Audio: Mixtapes, Tape Loops, And Razor Blades
- Building MS-DOS From Scratch Like It’s 1983
- Is Cloud Seeding Good, Bad, or Ugly?
- An All In One Cube PC For A 1990s That Never Quite Happened
- A Particularly Festive Chip Decapping
- HDD Vending Machine Works Like A Vending Machine Should
- The Inspirer Keeps Your Mood Up With Inspirational Quotes And Soothing Music
- Hackaday Links: December 19, 2021
- Game Boy Camera Gets Ridiculously Good Lens
- Your Next Oscilloscope Might be Optical
- Tiny Switch Ornament Plays GIFs with an ESP32
- Restoring A Vintage IBM I/O Tester
- Kamehameha!! PCB Badge
- When Does Car Hacking Become “Tampering”? The British Government Seeks Guidance
- OpenDog Version 3 Is Ready To Go Walkies
- Be Mesmerized By The Latest Time Twister
- When Dell Built A Netbook With an x86 System-on-Module
- ESP8266 Based WiFi Game Boy Cartridge Browses WikiPedia
- The End of the Electromechanical Era
- A Well Documented BreadBoard Computer Shows Dedication
- 3D Printed Parts Hold Up To Steam Heat
- SDR Toolkit Bends Weather Station To Hacker’s Whims
- The Second Worst CAD Package Ever
- Implementing A CPU Using 555 Timers And Logic Synthesis
- 3D Printing A Cyclonic Dust Separator
- Building a Custom Branding Iron With Swappable Date Blocks
- Error Codes and the Law of Least Astonishment
- Hackaday Podcast 149: Ballerina Bot Balances, Flexures Track Cat Food, PCB Goes Under the Knife, and an ATtiny Does the 555
- Gluggle Jug Is Neat Application of Hydrodynamics
- This Week in Security: Log4j, PDF CPU, and I Hacked Starlink
- Simple Mods Turn 3D Printer into Electrochemical Metal Cutter
- DIY Mechanical Flux Dispenser Syringe Has Fine Control
- Add Smarts To Your Old Capsule Coffee Maker
- Gone: Google Toolbar (2000-2021)
- Weather Station Dumps CR2032 Cells, Gains 18650
- Motorized Device Helps Swap Out Hard-To-Reach Light Bulbs
- Using Fishing Wire To Hold In Pin Headers Is A Nifty Trick
- Keynote Video: Elecia White Finds Treasure in the Memory Map
- A Hacker’s Journey in Developing a New VR Controller
- PinePhone Malware Surprises Users, Raises Questions
- Tesla Model S Gets Boost with Jet Engine Upgrade
- Christmas Lithophanes Make Neat Decorations
- RC Sub Built With A Water Bottle
- Christmas Tree PCB Just the Trick For Festive Glee
- Wii Meets Its End In Breadcrumb Jail
- Heavy-Duty Starter Motor Powers An Awesome Drift Trike
- DIY Glasses Aim To Improve Color Vision
- The Real Science (Not Armchair Science) Of Consciousness
- A Nixie Clock, the Hard Way
- The Seductive Pull Of An Obsolete Home Movie Format
- You Can Always Use An ATtiny Instead Of A 555
- Google’s T-Rex Game Ported To The ESP32
- A Slim 7400 Logic VGA Board For All Your Retro Needs
- A Programming Language To Express Programming Frustration
- PCB Microsurgery Puts the Bodges Inside the Board
- Fabulous Flexure Mechanism Makes for Resetting Cat Calendar
- What Really Goes Wrong With Your Tablet
- Orbital Safety: The Challenges Of Surviving Space Junk
- Automated Turret Keeps Dorm Clean, RoboCop Style
- Teardown: Verizon AC791L Jetpack 4G Mobile Hotspot
- Oh Deere, Is That Right To Repair Resolution Troubling You?
- DIY Semi Auto Grinder Builds Itself (Sort Of)
- Pit Your Wits Against British Spooks
- Measuring Air Quality Using Mobile Sensors for the Masses
- A Self Righting Balancing Robot Configured The Easy Way
- An Open Source Detector For Identifying Plastics
- USB LED Christmas Tree is Making Spirits Bright
- Ask Hackaday: Are Extruders the Only Feasible Tools for Toolchanging?
- Design for Test Hack Chat
- Adding Wire Races Improves 3D-Printed Bearings
- Mining and Refining: From Red Dirt to Aluminum
- New Pi Zero Gains Unapproved Antennas Yet Again
- Active Pickguard Makes For A Great Guitar Mod
- [Kerry Wong] is Really into Scope Meters
- Differential Probe Clocks at 100MHz and $200
- Hackaday Links: December 12, 2021
- Resin Stacking Proves Messy And Difficult
- Atari 130XE Keyboard Now Goes Clack
- A Nested Gear Clock
- Customize These 3D Printed Cases
- Wearables Can Detect the Flu? Well…Maybe…
- A DIY Biometric Device with Some Security Considerations
- We All Live in a PVC Submarine
- Vacuum Forming with 3D Printer Filament
- Getting Familiar With Round Displays
- Has DIY become Click and Buy?
- Snip Your Way to DIY PCB Castellations
- Controller Swaps Can Save an HDD If You Do It Right
- Arduino Drives Faux Spirograph
- Build Your Own Submarine
- Ninja Art: PCB Nightlight Jutsu!
- Lasers Make PCBs the Old Fashioned Way
- An NFC Antenna Ring With A Chip As Its Jewel
- Today Is My Last Day at Hackaday; Thanks for All the Hacks!
- Hackaday Podcast 148: Pokemon Trades, Anniversary iPod Prototype, Stupid Satellite Tricks, and LED Strip Sensors
- DIY Analog Synth Looks Like Fun
- This Week in Security: Printing Shellz, ms-officecmd, And AI Security
- Digital Painting On An iPad With Real Brushes
- 3D Printing Delivers “Glass” Eyes in Record Time
- Sound-Reactive Mannequin Arms Make For Creepy Lounge Decor
- Apple Falling Division
- BEAM Bird Pendant Really Chirps
- The Ins and Outs of Casting Lenses from Epoxy
- Could India Be The Crucial Battleground For Open Access To Scientific Research?
- Keynote Video: Dr. Keith Thorne Explains the Extreme Engineering of the LIGO Hardware
- Wearable Sensor for Detecting Substance Use Disorder
- The Challenges Of Finding A Substitute For Human Blood
- Molding Complex Optics in a Completely Fluid System
- Ham Radio SSB Transceiver Fits in Pocket
- MAC TIP Diagnoses Your Old Zip and Jaz Drives
- Almost-Modern TeleType is Silent
- (Getting Rid Of) The Ghost In the LED
- An Easy Music Visualizer With the Arduino Nano
- 3D Printed Lithographic Moon Lamp
- Fail of the Week: Hackaday Writer Attempts XBox Repair
- Squishy Robot Hardware Does Well Under Pressure
- Made to Spec: the Coming Age of Prototyping as a Service
- Four Band Digital HF SDR Transceiver Offers High Performance for Only $60
- Rubber Tyres Before There Were Tyres
- Modern Features In Classic Radio
- Assistive Tech and Video Games
- Complete Hobo Stove Cooking System Could Get You Through the Apocalypse
- Simple Design Elevates this Mechanical Dot Matrix Display
- Multimeters Go Big Screen
- Spacing Out: Telescopes, Politics, and Spacecraft Design
- Retro Reproduction Captures the Style of the Sol-20
- Microsoft’s Minimal Mouse May Maximize Masochism
- Bridging Game Worlds With The ‘Impossible’ Pokémon Trade
- Cracking the Spotify Code
- Adding Optical Audio to the Raspberry Pi with One Chip
- My Major is Gaming…
- Guitar Pickguard Adds MIDI Capabilities
- Cardboard vs. Laser Shootout: A Tale of Speed and Power Settings
- Classic Colorimeter Clone Calibrates Cuvettes’ Contents
- Big Wind is The Meanest Firefighting Tank You Ever Saw
- Touchscreen-Powered USB Hub Selectively Powers Down Devices
- TTL And CMOS Logic ICs: The Building Blocks Of A Revolution
- Secret Ingredient for 3D-Printed Circuit Traces: Electroplating
- Tricked-Out Breadboard Automatically Draws Schematics of Whatever You Build
- Bass Guitar Gets Shapeshifting Pickups
- Back To the Future We Go With This Flux Capacitor PCB Badge
- Hackaday Links: December 5, 2021
- Rolling-Screw Extruder Goes Brushless
- Is The Game Up For Baofeng In Europe?
- Hackvent Calendar Will Open the Door and Get Your Kids Soldering
- Get Down To Some African Tunes With This HomeBrew Synth
- Keep The Sparks Away With a Plasma Cutting Table
- Researchers Use Wearable to Detect and Reverse Opioid Overdoses in Real-Time
- An Overly Complicated Method of Tracking Your Favorite Sports Team
- Shady Air Umbrella Given New Lease On Life
- Make Your Own BLE-Enabled iOS App From Scratch
- Full Color 3D Printing With The Help Of An Inkjet Head
- Finally, A Use for Old Cellphones
- Abandoned Airplane Takes Off Again As Luxury RV
- Two Wire Sensors on LED Strips
- Wake-Up Robot Does It Gently
- Is It Finally Time for Christmas Decorations?
- Paper Plate Surround Sound System
- Printed Sewing Machine Parts Extend Singer’s Range
- This Ham Radio is Unsafe at Any Frequency
- Building the DIY HP41C: A Field Report
- Hackaday Podcast 147: Animating Traces, Sucking and Climbing, Spinning Sails, and Squashing Images
- Moon Bouncing And Radar Imaging With LoRa
- This Week in Security: GoDaddy, Tardigrade, Monox, and BigSig
- iPod, Therefore I Am: Looking back at an original iPod Prototype
- Homebrew 16 Bit Computer Reinvents All The Wheels
- Smart Ruler Has Many Features
- Play Runescape IRL
- The Safest Model Roller Coaster
- Impressive Hack Turns Bolt Into Pneumatic Engraver
- Clever Motherboard Hack Brings Late 90’s Motherboard Into the Early 2000’s
- Motorsports Are Turning To Alternative Fuels
- Low Buck PVC ROV IS Definitely a MVP
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Cat Keyboard
- Play Doom or GTA V With Your Own Custom Controller and Xbox Emulator
- Two Mars Orbiters Chatted for Atmospheric Science
- Listening to the Sounds of an 1960s Military Computer
- Don’t Walk Past This 3D Printed Pedestrian Crossing Light
- SuperCapacitors vs Batteries Again
- Remembering Sanjay Mortimer, Pioneer and Visionary in 3D Printing
- Supersonic Projectile Exceeds Engineers Dreams: The Supersonic Trebuchet
- The Medieval History Of Your Favourite Dev Board
- The 555 Timer Contest Returns!
- 3D Printed Generator Build Highlights The Scientific Method
- Ask Hackaday: Why Don’t Automakers Make Their Own EV Batteries?
- Korean Facial Recognition Project Faces Opposition
- Nuclear Missile Silo Keyboard Re-Launched In USB
- Running Octoprint on a PinePhone Turns Out to be Pretty Easy
- Turbo Rascal is the Retro Pascal Compiler We Always Wanted
- Recycled Parts Round Out Soap Shaped Electric Car
November 2021
- Two-Stage Dust Collector Recycles Blasting Media
- Giving Flip Dots the Oil Treatment to Shut Them Up
- What’s The Deal With UEFI?
- Watch Blender Plugin Make Animated PCB Traces (and More)
- Linux Fu: The Ultimate Dual Boot Laptop?
- Buy A Piece Of The Pi?
- A Super Speedy Lightweight Lossless Compression Algorithm
- HPi95LX Puts Linux in your Palm
- Do You Really Need To Dry Filament?
- Scrolling Name Badge Is Sure to Break the Ice
- Spatial AI and CV Hack Chat
- Detect Starlink Satellites Passing By
- But Think of the (World Wide) Users!
- Wireless LEDs Aren’t Really Magic
- Prusa XL Goes Big, But That’s Only Half the Story
- Samsung Bricks Smart TVs
- How To Easily Set Up Secure OTA Firmware Updates on ESP32
- Z80 Video Output Via The Raspberry Pi Pico
- The Calculator Charm: Calculatorium Leviosa!
- Automating Mobile Games With A Robot Arm
- Generate Fully Parametric, 3D-Printable Speaker Enclosures
- The Trials and Tribulations of SLA Printing a Portable Wii Handheld
- Scale Buildings With The Power Of Suction
- It’s Nice Having Someone To Talk To
- This Raspberry Pi Mini ITX Board Has Tons of IO
- Replacement Motherboard Brings New Lease of Life to Classic Thinkpads
- Another Way to Recycle Those Empty Beverage Cans
- Magnus Effect Propels This Flettner Rotor Boat
- Want Octoprint But Lack a Raspberry Pi? Use an Old Android Phone
- Ham Radio Gets Brain Transplant
- Perovskites Understood
- Indoor Blimp Sails Through The Air Using Ultrasonic Transducers
- PiGlass v2 Embraces the New Raspberry Pi Zero 2
- Spiral Music Visualization
- Finally, Tame The Si5351!
- Analyzing Starlink Satellite Downlink Communications With Software Defined Radio
- Impressive Off-Grid Hydroelectric Plant Showcases The Hacker Spirit
- The Unofficial Guide To (Avoiding) Electrocution
- Hackaday Podcast 146: Dueling Trackballs, Next Level BEAM Robot, Take Control of Your Bench, and Green Programming
- Vision Impaired Electronics Engineer Shows The Way To Get Things Done
- A Rotary Phone As A Computer Peripheral
- Solder Paste Dispenser Without Giant Compressor
- Fifty Shades Of Brown: 3D Printing With Sugar
- Bring A Minitel Terminal Back To Life WIth An ESP32
- Ken Shirriff Breaks Open the Yamaha DX7
- ESP32 Brings Air Purifier Online with Home Assistant
- Inverted Pendulum Balanced On A Drone
- Surfboard Gets Jet Upgrades
- N-Gage Controller Uses All The Buttons
- Find Your Way In The Starry Skies With DobsonianDSC
- PicoMite Gives Your Pico a Deluxe BASIC
- Build Your Own HP41C
- Bluetooth Record Player Puts a New Spin On Vinyl
- Science vs Internet Trolls: Testing Another Kind of File System
- Oscilloscope Probes Itself To Add Video
- A Flip Clock That Flips Up, Not Down
- Mechanical Musical Sculpture Recalls the Four Muses
- Why Deep Frying Turkey Can Go Very Wrong
- E-MonoWheel
- You Can’t Upgrade Soldered-On Laptop RAM? Think Again
- Cracking Open the Prince Floppy After the Purple Reign
- Observing a Plant’s Vascular System with X-Ray Video
- Live Jam Kit Helps Electronic Musicians Stay In Sync
- Charging Phones with the Power of Paper Pulp
- Significantly Improved Egg Timer Makes Pictionary Better
- Firefox Brings the Fire: Shifting from GLX to EGL
- ESP32 Pac-Man Clock Keeps Track of How Long You Watch It
- Retrotechtacular: Office Equipment from the 1940s
- Ender 3 Meets MIG Welder to Make a Metal Benchy — Kind Of
- DIY High Flow 3D Printing Nozzle
- A PDP 11 by Any Other Name: Heathkit H11 Teardown and Repair
- Visualizing WiFi with a Converted 3D Printer
- Shop-Built Rig Measures Strength of Wood Accurately
- GBA Remote Play Upgrade Lets You Play PlayStation On The Bus
- Simple But Stylish Numitron Clock Can Display Time, Date and Temperature
- PFAS: The Organofluorines Your Biochemist Warned You About
- Retrotechtacular: Junior Missile Men of the 1960s
- Blue Origin Rolls Out Test Article For Next-Gen Rocket
- Tomatoes Are Not Guncotton
- Arduino Plays the Glasses
- Slick Keyboard Built With PCB Magic
- Beaded QR Code Bracelets Weave a Storytelling Interface
- Hackaday Links: November 21, 2021
- Magic in VR That Depends On Your Actual State of Mind
- Taking the Bark Out Of Reverb With Wood Scraps
- Polymer Discovery Gives 3D-printed Sand Super Strength
- A Trackball So Good You Can’t Buy It
- Light-Tracking BEAM Robot Can See The Light
- PSSST! Here’s A Novel SSB Radio Design With Only Seven Transistors
- FlowIO Takes Top Honors in the 2021 Hackaday Prize
- Cheating a Pedometer The Easy Way
- The (Sodium Chloride) Crystal Method
- The Pros And Cons Of A Power Flush Toilet
- Hackaday Remoticon: What’s Happening Right Now
- Remoticon is On!
- It’s Doom, This Time On A Bluetooth LE Dongle
- iPod Mod Puts Pi Zero in New Bod
- PinePhone Speed Up Takes Soldering
- Arduino + Ham Radio = Texting
- Run UNIX On Microcontrollers With PDP-11 Emulator
- Electric Mini Rat Rod Starts ‘Em Young
- The Silent Dripper Dispenses Water Without Making Any Sound
- Hackaday Remoticon: What’s Happening Right Now
- Hackaday Podcast 145: Remoticon is On, Movie FX, Cold Plasma, and The Purest Silicon
- Popsicle-Stick Piano Sounds Sweet
- This Week in Security: Intel Atoms Spill Secrets, ICMP Poisons DNS, and The Blacksmith
- Change Desktop Environments on… iOS?
- Cheap Big Servo For Robot Arm
- N64 Mini PC Conversion Includes All The Trimmings
- There were Almost Jet Packs on the Moon
- Isolated Oscilloscope Design Process Shows How It’s Done
- Minty Tunes Is Wireless Audio In An Altoids Tin
- YOU Are A Projection of Your Influences
- Privacy Report: What Android Does In The Background
- Video Gaming Like It’s 1983: New Game Cartridges From Atari
- Know Audio: Get Into The Groove
- Star Trek Tap Controller, Take Two
- C is the Greenest Programming Language
- What It Takes: Turning A Hatchback Into A Race Car
- Linux: Coming Soon to M1 Macbooks
- Nixie Tube Indicator Tells You How Many Tasks You’ve Got Left to do
- Finally, A Piano BBQ Grill That You Can Drive Around the Workshop
- Friday: Getting Social with Discord and Bring-a-Hack
- SCPI: On Teaching Your Devices The Lingua Franca Of Laboratories
- How to Make a Classy, Brassy Cardboard Pulp Mold
- Russian Anti-Satellite Weapon Test Draws Widespread Condemnation
- Arduino Library Makes Digital Rain Like It’s 1999
- NTP, Rust, and Arduino Make a Phenomenal Frequency Counter
- Cramming a DS Inside a Gameboy
- Hacking Multiplication with Karatsuba’s Algorithm
- Quick and (Not Very) Dirty Negative Voltage Supply
- Jigglypuff Sensor Breathes CO2 So You Don’t Have To
- Binaural Hearing Modeled with an Arduino
- Microplastics Are Everywhere: Land, Sea and Air
- 3D Printed Marble Music Machine Looking Good Already
- Tech in Plain Sight: Eyeglasses
- For All Their Expense, Electric Cars Are Still The Cheapest
- Making Your Own Touchpad With PWM and Rust
- Pluto Spectrum Analyzer Uses Command Line
- Machine Learning Shushes Stressed Dogs
- Designing Electronics That Work
- Extending an E-Bike Range from Good to Wheelie Good
- Circuit Sculpture Lamp is a Colorful Cube Companion
- DJ Jackalope Live Set will Close Out Hackaday Remoticon
- Vacuum “Tube” Might Replace GPS One Day
- Mining and Refining: Pure Silicon and the Incredible Effort It Takes to Get There
- Teensy MIDI Air Harp Sounds Huge
- Treasure Hunting with a Handful of Common Components
- Propel Paper Planes, Bisect Sausages With Electromagnets
- Hexagonal Mirror Array Hides Hidden Message
- Hackaday Links: November 14, 2021
- Forget Radio! Transmitting with Neutrons
- Tiny Talisman Warns Wearer About UV Exposure
- Those Bullet Effects in Terminator 2 Weren’t CGI
- Stardew Valley Preferences Bot is a Gift to the Player
- Arcade Machine Pack And Play
- Prototyping Your Way to Better Prototypes
- Bluetooth RC Car Packs In A Few Sensors
- Improving a Mini-Lathe with a Few Clever Hacks
- OpenGL Machine Learning runs on Low-End Hardware
- A One-Servo Mechanical Seven-Segment Display
- Peek Behind the Curtains: Conference Badge Design
- Using VHDL To Generate Discrete Logic PCB Designs
- Gimballed Omnirotor Goes Over Great Obstacles
- The Spiced (Cider) Must Flow
- Exploring the Healing Power of Cold Plasma
- A Guide To Designing A Custom RC Controller
- Low-Cost Computer Gesture Control with an I2C Sensor
- Centaur Costume Features Drinks Cooler And Walking Legs
- Halloween Game Lets You Shoot Zombies With a Laser-Powered Crossbow
- Hackaday Podcast 144: Jigs Jigs Jigs, Fabergé Mic, Paranomal Electronics, and a 60-Tube Nixie Clock
- Automated Air Cannon Shoots Smoke Rings
- This Week in Security: Unicode Strikes, NPM Again, and First Steps to PS5 Crack
- Is This 12-layer PCB Coil The Next Step In Ferrofluid Displays?
- M5Paper Gets Open Source Weather Display Firmware
- Three-Dimensional Design Yields Compact Seven-Segment Hex Displays
- Palm OS: Reincarnate
- LEDBOY Is a Retro-Modern Handheld Game
- Build Your Own HV Capacitors
- Motorcycle Rally Computer Goes Open Source
- So. What’s Up With All These Crazy Event Networks Then?
- Rolling Your Own Long-Range IoT Sensor Network
- Scientific Honesty and Quantum Computing’s Latest Theoretical Hurdle
- Trying and (Mostly) Failing to 3D Print a Hydrofoil
- The Game Of Life Moves Pretty Fast, If You Don’t Use Stop Motion You Might Miss It
- 8″ Floppy on Your PC?
- Linux on the Windows 11 Desktop
- Arduino Piano Tuner is Pitch Perfect
- Kinetic Log Splitter Gets The Job Done Kinetically
- The Hackaday Remoticon 2 Badge: An Exercise In Your Own Ingenuity
- Sulfur Hexafluoride: The Nightmare Greenhouse Gas That’s Just Too Useful To Stop Using
- A Breathtaking Circuit Sculpture Clock
- NFC Performance: It’s All In The Antenna
- Hacked Punch-Out Controlled With Actual Punches
- 3D Printed Absolute Encoder is Absolutely Wonderful
- IBM PCjr From 1984 Keeps Today’s Clocks Running in Sync
- Faster IPA Recycling for Your Resin Print Workflow
- Most FDM Printers are also Filament Dryers (with a Little Help)
- Streamline Your SMD Assembly Process With 3D-Printed Jigs
- This $0 Filament Drybox Needs Nearly No Parts
- NASA’s New Moon Missions Are Happening Really Soon
- Not Your Average Nixie Tube Clock
- Teardown: Analog Radionic Analyzer
- Flip-Dot Oscilloscope is Flippin’ Awesome
- Development Of Magnetic Locking Idea Shows Great Progress
- Pokemon Time Capsule
- South Korean KSLV-2 Nuri Rocket Almost Orbits
- Visualizing Audio With an LCD VU Meter
- Reballing And A Steady Hand Makes A Raspberry Pi 800
- Last Call for Hackaday Remoticon Shirts
- Own the Night with This Ludicrously Bright DIY Flashlight
- Linux Fu: Automatic Header File Generation
- Heavy-Copper PCB Hack Chat
- Adafruit AVRProg Grows UPDI Interface Support
- Smaller is Sometimes Better: Why Electronic Components are So Tiny
- The Raspberry Pi CM4 Begets A Form Factor
- Adding Brakes to Actuated Fingers
- Flip-Chip KiCad Templates
- Got Anything To Talk About? These Dutch Hackers Want You To Say It To Them
- Hackaday Links: November 7, 2021
- Halloween Hack Requires Minimum Code, Produces Maximum Fun
- DIY Wunderwaffe and Others Make Up This Open-Source Arsenal
- Annoy Yourself into Better Driving with This Turn Signal Monitor
- This Robot Can’t Keep Its Eyes Off The Money
- Heathkit IM-13 VTVM Repair
- SPAM-1 is a Well-Documented Discrete CPU With an Impressive Software Library
- Solar Cells, Half Off
- Cheap DIY Mic Sounds (And Looks) Damn Good
- ‘Tiny Wake-Up Light Is Hugely Bright
- Groovin’ With a Gesture-Controlled MP3 Player
- Separating Ideas From Words
- 3D-printed Fan Mount Keeps Server GPU Cool in Desktop Case
- Louisville Slugger Puts This Bass on Base
- Unique Pomodoro Timer Displays Quotes While You Work
- The Linux x86 Journey to main()
- Automation allows you to leaf your plants alone
- Pulp-Molding: A Use For Cardboard Confetti
- DIY CNC Uses Lots of 3D-Printed Parts
- ETH0 Autumn 2021: Tiny Camp Manages COVID Precautions Indoors
- Hackaday Podcast 143: More Magnesium Please, Robot Bicep Curls, Malamud’s General Index, and Are You Down with EMC?
- Homebrewed Voice Assistant Keeps An Eye On Air Quality
- This Week in Security: The Battle Against Ransomware, Unicode, Discourse, and Shrootless
- The Metabolizer Is Turning Trash Into Treasure Even Faster Now
- Battle Robot Uses Carbon Fiber to Save Weight
- Prepare For Wildfire Season With an Air Quality Monitor
- Brain Implant Offers Artificial Vision to the Blind
- Back-to-the-Office Ergo Brings a Bit of Home Sweet Home
- Big RGB LED Cube You Can Build Too
- 3D-Printed Braiding Machine Will Show You the Ropes
- Three More Remoticon Speakers Complete the Lineup
- Spooky Winners of the Halloween Hackfest Contest
- Curious Marc Takes on Sewing Machine Repair
- Weird Al’s Monster Battlestation Is Now Just A Reasonably Fast PC
- Mach 20 In A Wind Tunnel: Yes, It’s Rocket Science
- Focus Flower Motivates By Squirting Water In Your Face
- Vintage Computers With a Real Turbo
- More Software-Defined Radio Projects Using DragonOS
- Hacking the Mekamon Robot To Add New Capabilities
- Building a Heavy-Duty Log Splitter, One Piece at a Time
- Fluidized Bed in a Pringles Can Paints Parts Inside And Out
- Keep Calm and Hack On: The Philosophy of Calm Technology
- Here Are the Ten Finalists For the Hackaday Prize Wildcard Challenge
- Simplify 3D Printer Wiring With CAN Bus
- Python Ditches the GILs and Comes Ashore
- Autonomous Drone Dodges Obstacles Without GPS
- Liberating the ESP8266 from its Development Board
- Cute Little iMac Clone Runs MacOS on a Tiny Screen
- Malamud’s General Index: Research Gist, No Slap On the Wrist
- Tiny Open Hardware Linux SBC Hides In Plain Sight
- Computer Vision Lets You Skip Songs with a Glance
- Flying Blind: Taking Flight Simulation To A New Level In Accessibility
- How To Get Into Cars: Endurance Racing Builds
- Hardware Project Becomes Successful Product for Solo Developer
- 30 Days of Terror: the Logistics of Launching the James Webb Space Telescope
- Hedgehog Gesture Sensor Built With Cheap Time-of-Flight Modules
- Janksy Robot Paints Murals One Dot at a Time
- Modded GBA SP Does its Best Switch Impression
- Supersonic Baseball Hitting a Gallon of Mayo Is Great Flow Visualization
- Waterjet-Powered Speedboat For Fun And Research
- Building a Bicycle Dash Cam With Advanced Capabilites
- Smoothing Out Foam Parts with Lots of Gesso
- Shall We Play a Game?
- Magnesium: Where It Comes From And Why We’re Running Out
- Retro Memory Hack Chat
- An Emulator for OBP, the Spaceflight Computer From the 1960s
- The Pi Zero 2 W is the Most Efficient Pi
- DC UPS Keeps the Internet Up
- Hacking an Obsolete Yet Modern Calculator
- Cherry Pomodoro Timer Forces You to Follow
- Building A Kinetic Sand Art Table
October 2021
- Hackaday Links: October 31, 2021
- Extracting Data from Smart Scale Gives Rube Goldberg A Run For His Money
- Raspberry Pi Reads What It Sees, Delights Children
- A Builders Guide For The Perfect Solid-State Tesla Coil
- Dante’s Inferno Arcade Reveals Your True Fate
- A Fascinating Plot Twist as Researchers Recreate Classic “Primordial Soup” Experiment
- A Hackable Keyboard That Even Has Screens
- Handwriting Robots are Sending Snail Mail
- This Smart Watch Keeps An Eye On Ambient CO2 Levels
- Modified Toggle Switches Grace Hyper-Detailed Cockpit Simulator Panels
- ESP32 Internet Radio is no Game
- Dream Bigger, Predict the Future
- Skeleton Watches You Intensely Because It’s Halloween, Okay
- Cheap Caliper Hack Keeps ‘Em Running Longer
- EMC Tutorial Puts You in the Loop
- This Eyeball Watches You Thanks To Kinect Tracking
- World’s Cutest Pomodoro Timer Is Also a Clock
- Muggle Uses E-Paper For Daily Prophet Replica
- All Aboard! The Railroad Keyboard Is Now Serving Open Sourceville
- How Practical is Harvesting Water from the Air?
- Hackaday Podcast 142: 65 Days of Airtime, Racecars Staring at the Ceiling, a Pushy White Cane, and Soapy Water Rockets
- Can 3D Printed Press Tools Produce Repeatable Parts?
- This Week in Security:Use-After-Free For Dummies, WiFi cracking, and PHP-FPM
- Fixing a Broken Game Installer By Sheer Force Of Will
- VCF East 2021: The Early Evolution of Personal Computer Graphics
- Turn A Parking Sensor Into An Anemometer
- RC Minecraft Boat Patrols the Pool For Treasure
- Soil Sensor Shows Flip-Dots Aren’t Just for Signs
- Oscilloscope Clocks: Now In Color!
- Eye-Tracking Device is a Tiny Movie Theatre for Jumping Spiders
- Four More Talks Added to the 2021 Remoticon Lineup
- GamecubePC Packs Plenty of Punch Into GameCube Plastics
- Speaker ‘Stun Gun’ Aims To Combat China’s Dancing Grannies
- Really Robotic Robot Costume Will Probably Win the Contest
- Taking A Stroll Down Uncanny Valley With The Artificial Muscle Robotic Arm
- New Raspberry Pi Zero 2 Upgrades to Quad-Core Processor
- Halloween-Themed Talking Clock Relies on Pi Pico
- A Tidy Clamshell Keyboard for the Pinephone
- Ethernet Cable Turned into Antenna to Exploit Air-Gapped Computers
- Heavy Metal Lathe Build Doesn’t Spare the Steel
- VCF East 2021: Preserving Heathkit’s 8-Bit Computers
- 3D Printed Printing Plates Made Using Modern Tools
- Tech in Plain Sight: Air Conditioning
- ESP32 Clock Takes Time to Give Weather Info, Too
- Vintage Arcade Used Negative Voltage to Turn Volume Up to 11
- Add Mycelium To Your Mesh Networks
- Simple Electronic Hacks Inspire Doing More With Less
- There’s Not a Cassingle Thing Missing From This Cassette Deck Masterclass
- 3D Printer Bed Probing Using a Tact Switch and Coin Cell
- SuperSlicer Reviewed: Another 3DP Slicer?
- How Much is That Shirt in the (Atmospheric) Window?
- Smart Flower Pot Build Is All About That Base
- Being Green, It’s A Rich Man’s Game
- This Really Really is Your Last Chance to Enter the 2021 Hackaday Prize (Really!)
- Spider-Man Swings A Little Closer To Reality
- Classic 80s Text-To-Speech on Classic 80s Hardware
- Surf Sensor Adds Depth To Finding The Ultimate Wave
- Building a Water Rocket That Lands Via Parachute
- Drawing Robot Creates Portraits Using Pen, Paper and Algorithms
- Modified Car Alternator Powers Speedy DIY e-Bike
- Mastering Memory for Microcontrollers: Elecia White to Deliver Remoticon Keynote
- Fast Indoor Robot Watches Ceiling Lights, Instead of the Road
- VCF East 2021: Novasaur TTL Computer Sets the Bar
- Soft Robotics Hack Chat
- The Longest Ever Flight Was Over 64 Days In A Cessna 172
- Fail of the Week: Alternator Powered Electric Go-Kart doesn’t Go
- Tackle the Monkey: Raspberry Pi Gets Round Screen
- Mesmerizing Mechanical Seven-Segment Display
- Omni-Wheeled Cane Steers the Visually-Impaired Away From Obstacles
- The Humble NE-2 Neon Lamp Has A New Trick
- Hackaday Links: October 24, 2021
- Is a Diode a Switch?
- Tricky Screw Heads Have Disappearing Slots
- Dactyl Chimera Leaves the Learning out of the Curve
- Capacitive Touch Controller for FPGAs
- Bring That Old Hi-Fi Into The 2020s
- This Arduino Terminal Does All The Characters
- Gravity-Defying Water Drop Display Shows Potential
- Automating Pool Monitoring And Chemical Dosing
- ESP32-Cam Makes a Dandy Motion Detector
- An Echo Dot for the 1980s
- In Search of The First Comment
- Chip Tester Knows if Your Old Chips are Working
- You Can Build A Lego Rubik’s Cube
- Vacuum Forming with 3D Printed Buck Tutorial
- Supply Chain Attack: NPM Library Used By Facebook And Others Was Compromised
- 3D Printer Cuts Metal
- Vizio In Hot Water Over Smart TV GPL Violations
- Testing 3D Printed Cutting Blades Is Scary Work
- Retrotechtacular: This 15th-Century Siege Cannon Might Kill You Instead Of The Target
- Hackaday Podcast 141: LowFER Badges, Outrun Clocks, Dichroic Lamps, and Piano Action
- Mystery HP Gear Teardown
- This Week in Security: Argentina, MysterySnail, and L0phtcrack
- Quick Reaction Saves ESA Space Telescope
- An Open Source Game Boy Printer That Doesn’t Print
- New Part Day: Raspberry Pi LEGO HAT
- Mechanical Linkage CAD for Everyone
- Oculus Go VR Headset Gets Root Access, No Jailbreak Needed
- Building A Devil’s Toothpaste Rocket Motor
- Smokeless Burn Barrel Makes Your Backyard Fire Much Cleaner
- Going Forward To The Land: Technology For Permaculture
- Announcing the Next Round of Remoticon Talks
- 3D Printable Scope Probe Adapts To Your Needs
- The Incredible Tech of the Vacuum-Seal Flask
- Build a Moon Phase Clock That Looks Like The Real Thing
- British Licence Plate Camera Fooled By Clothing
- Raspberry Pi Tablet Gets Radio Surgical Enhancement
- Bright Lightbulb Saves Old Radios
- Quit Hunching Over Your Screen With A Little Robotic Help
- Building A Hammer Powered By Gunpowder
- Labyrinthian Circuit Sculpture Evokes Moods With Sound and Light
- Tech in Plain Sight: Glucose Meters
- Refining the Greatest Joystick of the 1980s
- Know Audio: It All Depends On The DAC
- KiCad Team Releases Warning Regarding Domain Name
- Spinning Threads Put the Bite on Filament in This Novel Extruder Design
- Audio Tape Interface Revives Microcassettes as Storage Medium
- Flickering Jack o’ Lantern Is An Easy Beginner Build
- Sign Detects RF to Show You are on the Air
- The Calls Are Coming From Inside the House (or Workshop)
- ESP32 Clock Pushes Outrun Graphics over Composite
- Turning Old Masks into 3D Printer Filament
- VCF East Roars Back to Life
- The Quadrivium EnsembleBot Is A Labour Of Love
- The Low-Down on Long-Wave: Unlicensed Experimental Radio
- The PinePhone Pro Is Here. But it’s Still Probably Not The Year Of Open-Source Linux On The Smartphone
- Drone and High Voltage Spin Up This DIY Corona Motor
- POLF: Retro 3D Game Uses Only a Character Display
- A Microwave Frequency Doubler
- Laser Pointer and Arduino Make a Minimalistic Shooting Game
- Build a Dog Ball Launcher That Kinda Looks Like a Dog
- The HP3458A: King of Multimeters for Three Decades
- They Milk Cows, Don’t They?
- Making Your Projects Move: Jeremy Fielding To Deliver Remoticon Keynote
- Arduino Brings USB Mouse to Homebrew computer
- Electric Vehicles, the Gasoline Problem, and Synthetic Fuels
- Play DOOM Using Web Browser Checkboxes (Finally)
- Printable Caliper Jaws Increase Precision, Deflect Derision
- An Easy Fix for Inconsistent Layers in Cheap 3D Printers
- Arduino Nano Floppy Emulator For When Your Disk Is Not Accessible
- Hackaday Links: October 17, 2021
- QB64 Hits Version 2.0, Gets Enhanced Debugging
- Vise Tripod Lets You Put The Tool Where You Need It
- Machining Wood Inlays, No CNC Required
- A Redesigned ZX Spectrum Desktop Computer That Works Surprisingly Well
- Electronic Covid Test Tear Down Shows Frustrating Example of 1-Time-Use Waste
- The Wireless PS/2 Keyboard That Never Was
- It’s A Hack: Air Scrubber Controlled Using The Room Lighting
- The Simplest Way To Spot 2.4GHz RF
- Fail of the Week: Magnetic Levitation
- PineTime Smartwatch and Good Code Play Bad Apple
- Where You Are Influences What You Invent
- Unique Seven-Segment Display Relies on FR-4 Fluorescence
- The Pi 400 As A PC Peripheral
- Learn DMX512 Basics
- Better History Through X-Rays
- OAK-D Depth Sensing AI Camera Gets Smaller and Lighter
- Here’s A 100 MHz Pin-Compatible 6502 Replacement
- Hackaday Remoticon: Call for Proposals Extended to October 20th
- Electroplating Carbon Fibers Can Have Interesting Results
- Carbon Sequestration As A Service Doesn’t Quite Add Up
- Hackaday Podcast 140: Aqua Battery, IBM Cheese Cutter, Waiting for USB-C, and Digging ADCs
- 3D Print a Custom T-Shirt Design, Step-by-Step
- This Week in Security: The Apache Fix Miss, Github (Malicious) Actions, and Shooting the Messenger
- Why Wait For Apple? Upgrade your iPhone With USB-C Today!
- FPGA Boards Add VGA and HDMI Interfaces to the Original Game Boy
- Hack Your Sodastream With A Giant CO2 Canister
- RISC-V in… Typescript?
- Printed Piano Mechanism Sure is Grand
- Valve Reluctantly Shows How To Mod the Steam Deck
- These First Remoticon Speakers Are Just a Taste of What’s to Come
- Thingiverse Data Leaked — Check Your Passwords
- Hacking an IKEA Lampshade Into a Stunning Dichroic Lamp
- Basics Of Remote Cellular Access: Watchdogs
- Art Project Fast And Fouriously Transforms Audio Into Eye Candy
- The Compute Module Comes Of Age: Say Hello To The Real Cutting Edge Of Raspberry Pi
- 3D Printing Toothpaste In the Name of Science
- A Deep Dive Into The Sound Of An Apple II
- Spilled OJ Does a Number on Zelda Game Boy Cartridge
- Solar Power Goes Back to 1910 Tech
- Solder Paste Stencilling That Doesn’t Suck
- Tiny TV Tells the Temperature Tale
- G10 is the 3D Print Surface You Crave
- Space Age Road Rage: Right Of Way Above The Karman Line
- DOOM Played By Tweet
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Curved Typewriter
- Adding Wireless Charging to the Switch Lite
- Software Removes the Facebook from Facebook’s VR Headset (Mostly)
- Vintage Radio Gets Internet Upgrade
- IBM Cheese Cutter Restoration
- This Homemade Mass Spectrometer Works
- 3D Printed Adapter Puts Slides in their Best Light
- The Beauty of Dance, Seen Through the Power of Touch
- Showdown Time For Non-Standard Chargers In Europe
- Ultrasonic Array Powers This Halloween Spirit Writer
- A Tritium Story: How Afraid Should You Be Of Hydrogen’s Big Brother?
- Ford Maverick Welcomes DIY Spirit
- Bendable Colour ePaper Display Has Touch Input Too
- Sinclair Pocket TV Teardown
- IBM Attempts an Uncrewed Atlantic Crossing (Again)
- The M5Stack Color Maker Can Mix Paint to Match Your Subject
- DIY Anemometer For Projects Big and Small
- Resin Printing Hack Chat
- Can’t Spill Coffee On Your Keyboard If It’s Already Inside
- Automate the Freight: Autonomous Ships Look for Their Niche
- Keith Thorne, Engineer at LIGO, to Deliver Remoticon Keynote
- Magnetic Experiments Shows Gradients
- Things are looking brighter! But not the stars
- Tiny Winged Circuits Fall With Style
- Handheld Bandsaw Gets Standup Conversion With Scrap Lumber
- GPS? With Starlink, We Don’t Need It Any More!
- Arduino Becomes Superhet with a Little Help From Friends
- Hackaday Links: October 10, 2021
- With Luos Rapid Embedded Deployment Is Simplified
- A Bike Trailer For Any Expedition
- Axial Flux Motors for Electric Vehicles
- Autonomous Ground Effect Vehicle Demonstrator Aims To Speed Up Maritime Shipping
- 1981 Called, Here’s Your Software
- Borehole Camera Rig Makes Life Easier In Mining
- Dial A for Arduino
- Single Event Upsets: High Energy Particles From Outer Space Flipping Bits
- Drive High-Impedance Headphones With This Stylish USB DAC
- Making Coffee with Hydrogen
- Hackers and China
- When Benchies Fly
- Nifty Chip Adapter Does The Impossible
- Model F Keyboard Restoration Goes the Extra Mile
- Python Provides Classic Basic
- 3D Printed Preschooler Proof MP3 Player Takes A Beat-ing
- Minitel Terminal Becomes Mini Laptop
- Homebrew Circuit Explores the Mysteries of Analog-to-Digital Conversion
- Can We Repurpose Old Wind Turbine Blades?
- Hackaday Podcast 139: Furter Burner, Glowing Potato Peeler, Hacked Smartwatch, and The Last Atlas
- Hacked Set of Instruments Saves Musician’s Gigs
- This Week in Security: Apache Nightmare, REvil Arrests? And the Ultimate RickRoll
- Power Your Home With a Water Battery
- LED Matrix Hourglass Knows Which Way is Up
- Groovy TV Gets A Very Brady Makeover
- LEONARDO: The Hopping, Flying Bipedal Robot
- Building Your Own Filing Machine From A Kit
- C-Clamp Becomes Light-Duty Arbor Press
- Halloween Build: Exquisite Ray Gun has Sound Effects
- Linux Fu: Globs vs Regexp
- Meet the Winners of The Hackaday Prize Round Four: Redefine Robots
- World’s Cheapest and Possibly Worst IR Camera
- Creating Methane From Captured Carbon Dioxide And The Future Of Carbon Capture
- DIY Solar Ebike Goes Around the World, We Hope
- MicroGPS Sees What You Overlook
- BBC micro:bit Reads Morse Code with MakeCode
- Retrotechtacular: 3D-Printed Buildings, 1930s Style
- Using a PCB to Reflow PCBs – Take 2!
- Dave the Drive-able Duck Does Donuts
- Making the Most of Your Resin Printer Investment
- Decoding SMD Part Markings
- Vintage Computer Festival East Reboots This Weekend
- Furter Burner Cooks The Wieners Just So
- 3D Printering: Corrugated Plastic for Cheaper & Easier Enclosures
- Building A Multi-Ton Power Loader For Fun
- Atari ST Still Manages Campground Reservations After 36 Years
- BreadBin is an 8-bit TTL CPU on a Breadboard, in a Bread Bin
- Repairing Underground Power Cables
- Mini Camera Crane For Your Workbench
- Investigating a Defective USB Power Bank Module
- Demonstrating ThermoAcoustics With The Rijke Tube
- Yes, You Can Put Out A Burning Gas Well With A Nuclear Bomb
- Raspberry Pi Plots World Wide Earthquakes
- Need a New Programming Language? Try Zig
- How Does A Sail Drone Bring Home Hurricane Footage In Record Time?
- Hackable Smart Watch is Also Open Source
- Kinetic Synth-Kebab Sculpture Plays Punk Sequentially
- What’s On Your Bank Card? Hacker Tool Teaches All About NFC and RFID
- Removing Threadlocked Screws with a Soldering Iron
- Bicycles Are Bad At Towing, Even With Crawler Gears
- Enraged Rabbit Project is a Filament Cocktail Special
- Snails, Sensors, and Smart Dust: The Michigan Micro Mote
- Hackaday Remoticon: Tickets and T-Shirts!
- Using Arduinos To Drive Undocumented Displays
- Counting Down to the Final Atlas Rocket
- Flame-Spitting Dragon Head Heats Up Halloween
- This Audio Mixer Is A Eurorack
- Maakrapu is a Buggy Drawn by a Five-Legged Beast
- Telepresence Robot For “Doing The Rounds”
- Hackaday Links: October 3, 2021
- Laser Theremin Turns Your Hand Swooshes into Music
- Forget Digital Computing, You Need An Analog Computer
- Supercapacitor E-Bike With DIY Motor
- What Goes Into a High Voltage Diode?
- Some Pleasing Experiments in 8-Bit Video Cards
- Mini Laser Engraver Could Carve Out a Place on Your Desk
- Steppers and ESP32 Make This Retro-Modern Flip-Clock Tick
- A Glowing Potato Peeler Makes A Nernst Lamp
- 2021 Chaos Communication Congress Cancelled
- 3D Printed VTOL Craft Can Land And Recharge Itself, And Team Up With Other Drones
- Get Yer Halloween On!
- Wild Lego-Bot Pronks About your Patio
- Water is the Secret Ingredient When Laser Cutting Ceramics to Make Circuits
- Mouse and Keyboard Controls On The N64
- Drone Replaces Kite in Recreation of Famous Atmospheric Electricity Experiment
- Secret Keychain Safe Looks Just Like A Bolt
- Minimalist Timer Counts Down With LED Matrix
- Pixel Pump Pick & Place Positions Parts Precisely
- Flaw in AMD Platform Security Processor Affects Millions of Computers
- Hackaday Podcast 138: Breakin’ Bluetooth, Doritos Rockets, Wireless Robots, and Autonomous Trolling
- Why Make a Combat Robot that Walks?
- This Week in Security: OpenOffice Vulnerable, iOS Vulnerable, Outlook… You Get The Idea
- Giant Working NERF Gun Runs on Tiny Arduino
- Awesome Python Video Tutorials Keep You Motivated
- The Ultimate BRRRT Simulator: Fully Featured A-10 Warthog Cockpit
- Fourier Transforms (and More) Using Light
September 2021
- Super 8 Camera Brought Back To Life
- Expanding on the Creation of Collapsible Containers
- MicroSynth Mixes All-Analog Fun with a Little Business
- NASA Sets Eyes on Deep Space With Admin Shuffle
- Make this Halloween a Spider-Stomping Good Time
- The Coming Copper Shortage: Aluminium or Carbon Nanotubes to the Rescue?
- What’s In A Raspberry Pi Processor Update?
- Automate your Graffiti with the Graffomat!
- Convention Plays Pokemon on Giant Color Game Boy Costume
- Shortwave Radio Picks up Sideband
- Robust I2C and SPI In Space Thanks To Bus Isolation
- Raspberry Pi Pico Makes For Expeditious Input Device
- IC Shortage Keeps Linux Out Of Phone Charger, For Now
- 101 Uses for an Everready — Flashlight History
- Plotting to Restore a r0tring CS-50
- Teardown: Sling Adapter
- BFree Brings Intermittent Computing To Python
- Is Your Movie too Loud? Can’t Hear the Dialogue? This Circuit can Help.
- Sew-able Carbon Nanotube Thread Could Spin a Lot of Awesome
- Excel Ray Tracing with Help from C
- A Coolant Leak The Likely Culprit For Aussie Tesla Battery Bank Fire
- Printed Adapter Puts Vintage Lens Back to Work
- Microwave Ovens: Need More Power? Use Lasers Instead!
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One Where Shift Happens
- Is Lab-Grown Coffee Worth a Hill of Beans?
- Gopher, the Competing Standard to WWW in the ’90s is Still Worth Checking Out
- Erasable Pen Ink Adds Colors To 3D Prints
- NASA is Looking for a Next-Gen Astronaut Van
- Put a Landscape Scanner On Your Bike And Ride
- Homebrew Wattmeter Pays Homage to Sturdy Original
- TICO Robot Plays Tic-Tac-Toe by Drawing on a Tiny Whiteboard
- Project HERMITS Robots Mimic Crabs With Mechanical Shells
- It’s Wildcard Time, Your Last Chance to Enter the Hackaday Prize!
- E3D On Patents And Not Being Evil About Them
- Hurricane Hunting from Outer Space
- Robot Dogs Hack Chat
- DuoLux Is A Stylish Lamp And You Should Definitely Print Your Own
- Commonwealth Fusion’s 20 Tesla Magnet: A Bright SPARC Towards Fusion’s Future
- How Good Are The Head(amame) 3D Printed Headphones?
- 3D Printed Research Robotics Platform Runs Remotely
- Columbia Decides 3D Printed Food Tastes Like Chicken
- Automated Window Blinds Using MQTT and Home Assistant
- Hackaday Links: September 26, 2021
- Arduino Orchestra Plays The Planets Suite
- How To Get Into Computer Game Development In 1982
- FPGA Retrocomputer: Return To Moncky
- Elderly Remote Keeps Things Simple
- Reinforced Concrete: Versatile At Any Size?
- COVID Green Pass Validator with Raspberry Pi
- The Simplest FT8 Transceiver You’ll Ever Build
- Making Linux Offline Voice Recognition Easier
- Design and Build Your Own Circular Slide Rule
- A Promising Start for the Doritos Space Program
- Embrace the New, But Don’t Forget the Old
- Tiny BEAM Robot Smiles Big at the Sun
- A Toy Jeep For After The Apocalypse
- Classic Chip Line-Up Powers This Fun Dub Siren Synth
- Adversarial Makeup: Your Contouring Skills Could Defeat Facial Recognition
- Modern Tube Tester Uses Arduino
- Making a Metal Hand Doorknob
- Final Weekend of Robots in the Hackaday Prize
- Open Source Autopilot For Cheap Trolling Motors
- NYT Crossword Decision Puzzles Many
- Hackaday Podcast 137: Maximum Power Point, Electric Car Hacking, Commodore Drive Confidential, and Tesla Handles
- Captivating Clock Puts Endangered Displays On Display
- This Week in Security: Somebody’s Watching, Microsoft + Linux, DDoS
- This (Obsolete Technology) Museum is (Not) Obsolete
- Handheld Bot Takes the Tedium Out of Guitar Tuning
- The Most Important Device In The Universe Is Powered By A 555 Timer
- Making Tea Pots With Antique Machinery
- Upcycling a VFD
- Exploring an Aftermarket LED Headlight Retrofit Kit
- Rescuing a Wacom Digitizer From A Broken Lenovo Yoga Book
- The Astronomical Promises of the Fisher Space Pen
- Meet the Marvelous Macro Music Maker
- RORO Vessels: Driving Cars Across the Ocean
- Bluetooth Vulnerability: Arbitrary Code Execution On The ESP32, Among Others
- Download From NFC Datalogger, No App Required
- Even Faster Fourier Transforms On the Raspbery Pi Zero
- 3D Printed Sensor Detects Glyphosate
- 3D Printed Rocket’s Features are Out of this World
- Firmware Find Hints At Subscription Plan for reMarkable Tablet
- An Entirely Frivolous Way To Measure Data
- Ask Hackaday: What Can Only a Computer Do?
- Home Automation Terminal With Cyberpunk Style
- Astro Pi Mk II, the New Raspberry Pi Hardware Headed to the Space Station
- Building a Custom Linux Single Board Computer Just To Play Spotify
- Is there a Simpler Aircraft Than This Electric Paramotor?
- Retro TV Shows off Family Memories with Raspberry Pi
- Spooky Coffin Bell Spooks Passers By on Halloween
- Cooking Up a Batch of Homebrew Welding Gas
- Mini Wireless Thermal Printers Get Arduino Library (and MacOS App)
- Bringing the Quake Flicker to Life with a Hacked Light
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Grabbity Gloves
- Toilet-Training Cows is No Bull
- Mechanisms Behind Vaccine Side-Effects: the Science that Causes That Sore Arm
- Interactive Clips for Game Boy: Sit Back and Watch or Take Control
- Up Close and Personal With an Unusual 3D Printer Kit
- Fight Disease With A Raspberry Pi
- Broadband Across the Congo
- Raspberry Pi With Some Serious Graphical Muscle
- Mastering Stop Motion through Machine Learning
- Open Source Hot Rod Mod Gives More Power To EV Owners
- Hacking When It Counts: Surgery Fit to Save a Future King
- Drunk Wall Clock Uses Convoluted Circuits to Display Time
- Green Roofs Could Help Improve Solar Panel Efficiency
- Banksy-Like Stock Tracker Shreds Your Money When the Market’s Down
- Self Balancing Robot Needs a Little Work
- The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Drive Talk: A Deep Dive Into Disks, Controllers, And Much More
- Tracking Maximum Power Point for Solar Efficiency
- Hackaday Links: September 19, 2021
- PCB Metro Maps Are a Gorgeous Labor Of Love
- Recharged Dehumidifier Put Back Into Service
- Lego Submarine Gets Balloon Ballast System
- Optical Theremin Makes Eerie Audio with Few Parts
- Electric “Radial” RC Aircraft Motor
- We’d Like, Totally Carry This Retro Boombox Cyberdeck on Our Shoulder
- Dynamicland Makes The Whole Building The Computer
- Line Following Robot uses PID for Speed
- Cast-in-Concrete Clock Upgraded After Thirteen Years
- Solar Powered Autonomous Tugboat For Rescuing Autonomous Vessels
- Finding the Right Hack is Half the Battle
- Silky Smooth Resin Printer Timelapses Thanks to Machine Vision
- Unique Clock Doubles as a Development Board
- Automatic Microfiche Scanner Digitizes Docs
- 3D-Printing Complex Sensors and Controls with Metamaterials
- Banish Early Morning Zombification With The zom-b-gone!
- Putting an Afterburner on an Electric Ducted Fan
- DIY Laser Speckle Imaging Uncovers Hidden Details
- Retrotechtacular: The Dangers of Confined Spaces
- Hackaday Podcast 136: Smacking Asteroids, Decoding Voyager, Milling Cheap, and PS5 Triggered
- RoboTray is a Secret Tea Butler
- This Week in Security: Office 0-day, ForcedEntry, ProtonMail, and OMIGOD
- Add-On Lets FDM 3D Printer Wash And Cure Resin Parts
- Triple Monitor Luggable PC Is An All In One Powerhouse
- A CRT Monitor Restoration
- Tesla Door Handle Improvements
- Taking A Deep Dive into SPI
- Farewell Sir Clive Sinclair; Inspired a Generation of Engineers
- Hacking a Robot Vacuum to Write a Replacement App
- Powering Up With USB: Untangling The USB Power Delivery Standards
- Continuous Resin Printer Shows The Speed
- Ask Hackaday: What’s the Best Way To Heat a Tent with a Laptop?
- So, Why Are Hyperlinks Blue, Anyway?
- An RF Remote Is No Match For A Logic Analyser!
- Ferranti’s Ghost Tours The Chip Factory That Made The ULA
- A 3-6-9 Antenna Pulls in the Signals
- Laptop Gets Fixed by Simply Removing Problem Component
- Take a Look at This Optical Keyboard
- 3D Printed Scooter Zips Around
- The Many Ways To Solve Your Enclosure Problems
- Smart Home Hack Breaks Down Walls Figuratively And Literally
- Monoclonal Antibodies: The Guided Missiles of Medicine
- Bringing a Ruined Game Boy Cart Back To Life with Tons of Soldering
- German Experiment Shows Horses Beating Local Internet Connections
- Useless Machine Is A Clock
- Hacking the Wooly Mammoth
- Harp Uses Frikin’ Lasers
- Gorgeous Battery Welder Hits The Spot
- Lithium Mine To Battery Line: Tesla Battery Day And The Future Of EVs
- The World’s First Autonomous Electric Cargo Ship Is Due to Set Sail
- 3D Objects without Scanning
- A Rant on Personal Software Projects
- What’s Cooler Than A 7-Segment Display? A 7200-Segment Display!
- Salvaging Working LEDs from “Dead” Light Bulbs
- The Labor of Love That Is Recovering Lost Software
- Ray Casting 101 Makes Things Simple
- Vektor Kollektor Inspector
- clOCkTAL: For When Reading A Clock Is Just Too Easy
- GLaDOS Voice Assistant Passive-Aggressively Automates Home
- Even Bees Are Abuzz About Caffeine
- Cisco Router Repair Revives Piece of Internet History
- Pinning Tails on Satellites to Help Prevent Space Junk
- Firmware Modding Your Vintage Nokia Handset
- How the PS5’s Genuinely Clever Adaptive Triggers Work
- Documentation is Hard, Let the SkunkWorks Project Show You How to Do It Well
- Overengineering A Smart Doorbell
- Hackaday Links: September 12, 2021
- Successfully Crowdfunded Hardware: Everything Behind The Scenes
- Massive Cleaning Effort Saves Acid-Drenched Atari
- Making a Car Key From a Ratcheting Wrench
- Using Homebrew Coils to Measure Mains Current, and Taking the Circuit Breaker Challenge
- Hey, MiSTer Emulator, Gimme Almost Any Classic Platform!
- 3D Printed Hat Blasts The Rain Away
- You Can 3D Print Your Own RC Motorbikes
- EM-Glitching For Nintendo DSi Boot ROMs
- THICC GBA SP Mod Gets Easy Install Ahead of Release
- Don’t Sleep On The Lawn, There’s an AI-Powered, Flamethrower-Wielding Robot About
- Pick Up the Ball and Run With It
- Flip-Top Foundry Helps Manage the Danger of Metal Casting
- Save That Old VGA Monitor From The Trash
- Retro Stereo SID Synth Looks and Sounds Sensational
- GNU Radio Decodes Voyager Data
- Old School Fastener Tutorial Is Riveting
- IC Clock Uses Ammeters for a Unique Time-Telling Display
- Minimal Mill: The Minamil
- NASA Are Squaring Up Against the Asteroid Threat
- Hackaday Podcast 135: Three Rocket Hacks, All the Game Boy Gates, and Depth Sounding from a Rowboat
- Creating Video From a ROM
- This Week in Security: Ghoscript in Imagemagick, Solarwinds, and DHCP Shenanigans
- Acousto-Optic Filter Uses Sound to Bend Light
- Putting Thousands Of Minecraft Players on the Same Server
- VinyGo Stereo Vinyl Recorder Will Put You in the Groove
- Aerodynamic Buoyant Blimp Budges Into Low Cost Cargo Commerce
- Musical Cyberdeck is Part Synth, Part MIDI Controller, and All Cool
- Drill Press Runs Faster On a Treadmill Motor
- RPi Python Library Has Retro Chiptunes and Speech Covered
- Historical Hackers: The Hacker of Cragside, Circa 1870
- 2021 Hackaday Remoticon: Call for Proposals
- Building An X-Ray Machine
- Teardown: Impassa SCW9057G-433 Alarm System
- AI Powered Coffee Maker Knows A Bit Too Much About You
- Highly Configurable Open Source Microscope Cooked Up In FreeCAD
- Spooky USB Baby Types Out Messages From Beyond
- Brain Interface Uses Tiny Needles
- Custom Joystick Build Guide Should Point You in the Right Direction
- Arduino Powered Heat Pump Controller Helps Warm Your Toes
- Clickspring Imagines the Workshop That Built the Antikythera Mechanism
- Books You Should Read: Bil Herd’s Back Into The Storm
- Love Letter to Commodore 64 Ads Takes Us Down Memory Lane
- The Dark Side Of Package Repositories: Ownership Drama And Malware
- Game Like It’s 2021 On A McDonald’s Touchscreen Table
- Controlling External Monitors On M1 Macs With Undocumented APIs
- An Inexpensive FM Receiver for the Raspberry Pi
- Don’t Bristle; Teethbrush Won’t Hurt You
- IKEA Wardrobe Holds Entire Hardware Workspace
- GateBoy is a Game Boy Emulated at Gate Level
- Rugged Solar Generator Packs a Punch
- New Engines Could Propel The B-52 Beyond Its 100th Birthday
- Industrial Design Hack Chat
- One Man’s Quest to Build a Baby Book With Brains
- Review: Hands on with the Swarm Satellite Network Eval Kit
- Getting a Fly’s-Eye View with Microfabricated Lens Arrays
- Pandemic Gives Passersby a Window on Cyborg Control
- Smart Laser Cutter Ad-on Detects Material Optically
- This Electronics Overview Guides New Hackers in the Right Direction
- Homebrew Sounder Maps the Depths in Depth
- M4 Breadstick is a Tasty Prototyping Alternative
- Tiny ESP32 Strider Walks The Walk
- Small Scale Mad Max: Danny Huynh’s Dystopian Animatronics
- Lightning Detector Keeps a Tally
- How to Get Good With Wood
- Injection Molding Silicone Parts for Under $50
- Stranger Things Message Board Passes the Time by Spelling it Out
- Hackaday Links: September 5, 2021
- Building a Levitating Turbine Desk Toy
- Three-Stage Thrust Vectoring Model Rocket With Tiny Flight Computers
- Build Yourself A Nifty Cable Smartphone Mount
- Building an Aluminum RC Truck from Scratch
- Interactive LED Shoes That Anyone Can Build!
- ‘Quiet on the Set’ Goes for Objects, Too
- Giving A Console Controller Mouse-Like Precision Aim
- Fan Lets RC Car Drive on the Ceiling
- 3D Printed Synth Kit Shares Product Design Insights
- Animatronic Puppetry Controller Skips Joystick Or Keyboard
- Getting Back into Hackerspaces
- Motorcycle Simulation Rig Is Off To The Races
- Making OLED Displays in the Home Lab
- Retro Shield Replaces Springs With Jumpers, Includes Blinkenlights!
- Smooth Servo Motion For Lifelike Animatronics
- An Earthquake Display To Keep You Abreast of Rumblings Worldwide
- Arduino Measures 20V Signals Using Quantizer
- Wearable Scope Lets Your Fingers Do The Probing
- Troubleshooting: A Method For Solving Problems The Right Way
- Hackaday Podcast 134: Hackers Camping, Metal Detecting, 360° Hearing, and Pocket Computing
- The BornHack Badge Gets A Bubble
- This Week in Security: Ransomware Decryption, OpenSSL, and USBGadget Spoofing
- Bartop Arcade Machine That Isn’t Afraid Of Change
- Coaxcopter to Carry Man
- Pi Pico Emulates ROM for Speedy Retro Hacking
- Making Web Pages with Word?
- A Giant Engine Needs A Giant Engine Stand
- Extending Bicycle Will Let You Stand Out Above The Crowd
- A Microcontroller Friendly AR Headset On The Cheap
- Japanese Rocket Engine Explodes: Continuously and On Purpose
- Perusing the People’s Computing Company
- Pining for a De-Googled Smartphone
- Google Maps, Now On The NES
- Neat Little Airboat Built From Old Drone Parts
- Upgrade Board Adds GPIO Pins To Your Replica PDP-11
- Detect Lightning Strikes with an Arduino
- Measuring LED Flicker, With Phototransistor and Audio App
- ARM’s Chinese Venture Goes Sour
- See the Unseen With this Magnetic Field Visualizer
- So How Does a Rocket Fly Sideways, Anyway?
- Big ‘F’ Key to Pay Big Respects
- The Postmortem Password Problem
- New Part Day: DLP300s The Next Big Thing For Low Cost Resin Printing?
- Test for 3D Printer Runaway
- Building A Hundred-Year-Old Radio Transmitter
- One Wood Ring To Rule Them All
August 2021
- 3D Printing Your Own Sturdy Lens Caps
- Simple Tactile Drawing Pad is Quite Impressive
- Calculate Like It’s 1989 With This HP15C Emulator
- Reporting From BornHack 2021: Hacker Camps Making It Through The Pandemic
- Ten Winners of the Hackaday Prize Supportive Tech Challenge
- Better 3D Scans Through a Slowed Down Turntable
- Linux Fu: User Space File Systems — Now for Windows, Too!
- Motorola 68000 SBC Runs Again with a Raspberry Pi on top
- Small Footprint Scara Laser Engraver has Massive Build Area
- CRISS CP/M Provides Modern Hardware for a Classic OS
- Printing Ceramics Made Easier
- Chordie Chording Keyboard Speaks No Qwerty
- Impromptu Metal Detector Built From the Junk Bin
- Capacitive Mouse Built for a Friend Makes for a Touching Tale
- Fusion Ignition: What Does The NIF’s 1.3 MJ Yield Mean For Fusion Research?
- Regen Receiver with Few Parts
- 3D Printering: Is Hassle-Free Bed Leveling Finally Here?
- Hacker Claims Honda and Acura Vehicles Vulnerable to Simple Replay Attack
- Raspberry Pi and ESP32-S2 Team Up For mutantC_V4
- Dyson Award Goes To Emergency Medical Device for Treating Stab Wounds
- Nokia LCD Goes Transparent for Hands-Free Reminders
- Hackaday Links: August 29, 2021
- Bake It To ReMake It: Cooking Old Magnetic Tape to Recover Data
- Clever Mechanism Easily Automates Pulling the Blinds
- DIY Machine Enables PEMF Therapy on a Budget
- The Curious Case Of The Radio Amateur And The Insulin Pump
- 1949 Gyroscope Spins Up Again
- IRC Server for MS-DOS
- Turning Heat into Electricity
- Clearing the Air about Proprietary Consumables with a Xiaomi Filter DRM Resetter
- Binary Clock Lets the Nixies Glow
- Never Lose a Piece With 3D Printed Sliding Puzzles
- Who Owns the Machine Anyway?
- Grappling Hook Robot Swings Like Spiderman
- eBike Conversion on a Budget Uses Skateboard Motor
- Simple Fan Controller Helps Apple II to Beat the Heat
- Cable Modem Turned Spectrum Analyzer
- AI Generating Paintings Off To A Flying Art
- Custom Soldering Fume Fan Doesn’t Skimp on Features
- Customized Work-From-Home Lighting
- Ask Hackaday: What is Amazon Thinking by Entering the Palm-Reading Business?
- Hackaday Podcast 133: Caustic Lenses, Not Ice-Cream Automation, Archery Mech Suit, and the Cheapest Robot Arm
- Resin 3D Prints Get a New Look with Paint Injection
- This Week in Security: Through The Mouse Hole, Zoom RCE, and Defeating Defender
- Consoles, Consoles On The Wall, Can Alexa Help Me Play Them All?
- Ambi-Alice Goes Down the Rabbit Hole of Ambisonic Microphones
- Digging into an ATtiny Simulator Bug with GDB
- Making High Quality Copies Of Existing Parts Using A Silicone Mold
- A Simpsons TV For a Golden Age
- Ferrofluid Display Gets New, Better Driver Circuitry
- Universal Bio-Electrical Signal Amplifier Makes Reading Body Signals Easy
- FM Radio, The Choice Of An Old Generation
- Custom Keyboard from a Cash Register
- Hands-On: MNT Reforms the Laptop
- Proto-PDA Regains Its Memory with the Help of a Raspberry Pi Pico
- Razer Mouse Grants Windows Admin Privileges
- Can Metal Plated 3D Prints Survive 400,000 Volts?
- Welcome to Our New Robot… Nurses
- DIY Wigglegram Camera Lens Sends a Message to Big Photo
- Pokemon Time Machine Lets You Really Catch ‘Em All
- This Modular Differential Probe Shows Great Attention To Detail
- Tech in Plain Sight: Check Digits and Human Error
- Pedal Operated Cable Cam For Hands Free Video
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Index Typewriters
- Deceptively Simple Process Turns Bottles into Filament
- Eavesdropping by LED
- Compact Sensor Keeps You Safe by Watching CO2 Levels
- SQLite on the Web: absurd-sql
- Celebrate mRNA Vaccine With This Badge That Blinks the Nucleotide Code
- Fail of the Week: Learning How Not to Silver Solder
- Sparkpad Sparks Joy for Streamers
- Know Audio: Amplifier Nuts And Bolts
- Game Boy Advance SP Case Mod Adds Battery Capacity and Modern Interfaces
- As ISS Enters Its Final Years, Politics Take Center Stage
- How Do You Make a Raspberry Pi on a Stick?
- Wood and Glue Scale Kayak is Super
- Wooden Monowheel Build Is Simplicity Itself
- Nothing Should Cloud the Build of This Wieldy Weather Widget
- Automatic Nut Sorter for a Tidy Workspace
- School Surplus Laptop BIOS Hacked to Remove Hardware Restrictions
- Redefine Robots is the Newest Hackaday Prize Challenge
- Drone Hits Plane — And This Time It’s A Real (Police) One!
- Freezing Out Ice Cream Machine Competition
- ESP32 Video Input Using I2S
- Open-Source Insulin: Biohackers Aiming for Distributed Production
- Math, Optics, and CNC Combine to Hide Secret Images in Acrylic
- PS2 Gets the Ginger Portable Treatment
- RGB LED Matrix Helps Etch-a-Sketch Scratch Out a 21st Century Existence
- Artful Nixie Bot Sculpture Sees, Thinks, and Talks
- Hackaday Links: August 22, 2021
- 3D Printing Liquid Crystal
- DIY LED Cube for the Masses
- 80’s Omnibot Goes RC And Gets a Modern Refresh
- ESP32 is the Brains Behind this Art Installation
- Electromagnetic Interference For Fun And Profit
- Two-Part Primer in a Can is a DIY Dream Come True
- Keep Cool with this Face-Following Fan
- Magnets Could Give Prosthetic Control a Leg Up
- Modern Tape Echo Made Easy
- Interactive Musical Art Installation Mixes Vintage, Modern, Lasers, and…Bubbles? Bubbles.
- Keep Scraps Around
- Pint-sized sumo robot is adorable, accessible and totally awesome
- Occam’s Razor: Gardening Edition
- Traditional Analogue And An FPGA Make This Junkbox HF Receiver A Bit Special
- Re-Engineering an RC Helicopter via Tinkercad
- Spaghetti Detective Users Boiled by Security Gaffe
- RealSense No Longer Makes Sense For Intel
- Last Chance to Reimagine Supportive Tech for the Hackaday Prize is This Weekend!
- Get Your Flex On With The FlowIO Platform
- Bitcoin In For Bumpy Ride As China Crackdown Shakes Things Up
- Hackaday Podcast 132: Laser Disco Ball, Moore’s Law in Your Garage, Cheap Cyborg Glasses, and a Mouse That Detects Elephants
- Dedicated Box Makes YouTube More TV-Like
- This Week in Security: Breaking Apple ID, Political Hacktivism, and Airtag Tracking
- Inkplate Comes Full Circle, Becomes True Open Reader
- Arduino Caller ID Display is Better Late than Never
- The Stretch Limo Of Game Boys
- Beginning the Machine Shop Journey with a DIY CNC
- Minimalist Robot Arm Really Stacks Up
- A 3D-Printed Block And Tackle For Those Annoying Lifts
- Building An Archery Mech Suit To Skip Practice
- Neuromorphic Computing: What Is It and Where Are We At?
- Why You Can’t Make a Wearable Display With a Transparent OLED
- Where’s that Radio? A Brief History of Direction Finding
- Manitoban Makes Open Software Demo of Proprietary Vaccine Verification Systems
- Custom Compression Squeezes Classic Computer Choruses Into A Tiny Controller
- Commander X16: A Dreamy 8 bit Computer Comes Closer To Reality
- Phased Array Levitation Is Science in Action
- DIY Source Measurement Unit Shows All The Details
- Build an Amphibious Robot Using Pool Noodles for Wheels
- Raspberry Pi Powered Standing Desk Rises To New Heights
- Golden Rice’s Appearance On Philippine Store Shelves And The Rise Of Biofortification
- Design Improvements Make DIY Oxygen Concentrator Even Better
- Airdropping Live Fish Is A Thing And It Looks Magnificent
- Boat Brings Bathers Beverages
- Running Six VGA Projectors From a Single ESP32
- Boston Dynamics Atlas Dynamic Duo Tackles Obstacle Course
- Spiffy Summer Project Sources Solar Sounds From Scraps
- Casting Silicone Parts With 3D-Printed Inserts For Stiffness
- Custom Isolated Variac is Truly One of a Kind
- Why Buy A New Scope When You Can ‘Just’ Build One?
- Teardown: 3D Printed Space Shuttle Lamp
- Packing Heat with a Homemade Portable Soldering Iron
- Of Lasers and Lightning: Thwarting Thor with Technology
- WWII Hydrogen Peroxide Rocket 3D Print
- Take Note: An e-Paper Tablet From Pine64
- Retrotechtacular: Amiga Pips the PC for Mission-Critical Computing at NASA
- Tesla Automatic Driving Under Scrutiny by US Regulators
- DIY Handheld Game Puts its Brains on a Removable Cart
- New Part Day: Raspberry Pi HAT for IEEE1588 Precision Time Protocol
- Voice-Controlled Smart Home From the Foundation Up
- Valve Sells Software, So What’s With All The Hardware?
- Game Development Hack Chat
- Solving Ultra High Vacuum Leaks Has An Elementary Solution
- Linux Fu: Walk, Chew Gum
- Tree of Life Branches Out with a Twist
- The Faux-Vintage Becomes Vintage
- Light Painting With An 19th Century Inspired Plotter
- Robot Pet is A Chip Off The Old Logic Block
- Hackaday Links: August 15, 2021
- Solar Display Case is a Portable Triple Monitor Setup
- A Cold Gas Thruster On an RC Car
- Solar Fueled Emergency Power Pack
- 3D Printed Fabric Stiffens on Demand
- Touchscreen Makes For A Neat Wavetable Synth
- Yo Dawg, We Heard You Like Retrocomputers
- Making Ferroelectric Solar Cells Better
- 3D Printed Smart Glasses Put Linux in Your Face
- The Zeloof Z2 Intergrated Circuit Has 100 Transistors
- Surplus Syringes Make Satisfactory Tuner for Amateur Radio Experimentation
- Goals and Goalposts
- Reverse Engineering a Topfield VFD Front Panel
- Pomodachi: A Productivity Pet You Feed By Working
- USB Mouse Hack for Pachyderm Protection
- Google’s Periodic Table
- Filtering Coffee Through 3D Printed Glass
- Hacked IKEA Air Quality Sensor Gets Custom PCB
- Rotary Time Tracker Puts a New Spin on Productivity
- Retrotechtacular: LA’s Hilarious Subway Safety Film From 1992
- Hackaday Podcast 131: Have a Heart, Transputer Pi, Just the Wing, and a Flipped Cable Fries Radio
- Audio Cassette Tape Data Retrospective
- This Week in Security: John Deere, ProxyLogin Detailed, And Pneumatic Tubes
- DOOM On a Desk Phone is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
- No Hole in One: Perseverance Strikes Out on First Mars Core Attempt
- Virtual Racers Battle it Out on Portable WS2812 Track
- Arduino Finds Treasure
- How to Make Resin Prints Crystal Clear
- Incredibly Slow Films, Now Playing in Dazzling Color
- A Digital White Cane for the Visually Impaired
- Tesla’s Megapack Battery Burned for Days in Grid Storage Fire
- Who Needs Pin Headers?
- Review: Mini AMG8833 Thermal Camera
- Minimum Viable Quad Build Shows What Starting from Nothing Can Accomplish
- 3D Prints of Steel — Um — PLA, Rather
- Thrashed, Damaged NES Controller Gets Brought Back To Life
- Materials for Self Learners
- Wireless Earbuds Charge Themselves
- 3D Printing Steel Parts At Home Via Special Filaments
- A Stress Monitor Designed Specifically to Help You Work From Home
- Figuring Out Earth’s Past Climate Through Paleoclimatology And Its Lessons For Today
- Xbox Flexure Joystick Puts You In the Pilot’s Seat
- Should You Be Able to Repair It? We Think So.
- Practical Print Makes iPad a Magnificent Eye Piece
- A Whole Lot of Stepper Motors Make the Most Graceful 7-Segment Displays
- Homebrew ROM Reader Saves Data from a Vintage Minicomputer
- FreeBSD Experiment Rethinks the OS Install
- ESP8266 Network Meters Show off Unique Software
- Making a Left-Handed NES Controller
- Building An Army Of Faux Cameras in the name of Art
- Charles Lindbergh the Famous… Inventor?
- New Contest: Halloween Hackfest
- Workshop Organization with Panels
- China MagLev Train Aspirations Boosted by New 600 km/h Design
- Tamagotchis Everywhere
- Hiding Links in Plain Sight with Bookmark Knocking
- Taking a Walk Down [Computer] Memory Lane
- Animation in Education, 1950’s Style
- Relay Logic Nixie Tube Clock Checks All The Boxes
- Improving OLED VU Meters with a Little Physics
- Using a Laser to Blast Away a Bayer Array
- A New Flying Car Illustrates The Same Old Problems
- Vintage Displays Hack Chat with Fran Blanche
- So You Can Solder Small SMD Devices. The Question is, Just How Small?
- Permanent Artificial Hearts: Long-Sought Replacements May Not Be Far Away
- This Old Mouse: Building a USB Adapter for a Vintage Depraz Mouse
- Custom Camera Flash Is Built for Stealth
- From Tube And Wing To Just Wing: The Future Of Airliners
- Accurate Digital Clock Keeps Ticking with FPGA
- Hackaday Links: August 8, 2021
- ReactOS Is Going Places, With More Stable AMD64, SMP, And Multi-Monitor Support
- Wristwatch PCB Swaps Must Be In the Air
- A SNES Music Player You Can Control With A Browser
- Building a Solar Powered Game Boy Pocket
- Giant CNC Machine Measures A Full Cubic Meter
- The Magnetosphere Has a Ton Of Energy. Can A Guitar Amp Company Tap Into It?
- Nintendo Zapper Reborn as Home Automation Remote
- RAMPS Rebuild Keeps Robox 3D Printer Out of Junk Bin
- Helicopter Seed Robot Can Also Drop Like A Rock
- MULTICS Gets A New Release… 52 Years After Launch
- Hearing the Unhearable
- Capstan Drive is Pulling the Strings on this Dynamic Quadruped
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Radioactive Lenses
- Game Boy Color Makes Itself at Home in a DMG-01
- Retro Computers From Paper
- Pen Plotter is About as Simple as It Can Get
- Cool Binary Clock Uses Old-School LEDs and a Fancy Graphic PCB
- A Trio Of Photodiodes Make A Radiation Detector
- Hands-On: Whiskey Pirates DC29 Hardware Badge Blings with RISC-V
- Hackaday Podcast 130: Upside Down 3D-Printer, Biplane Quadcopter, Gutting a Calculator Watch, and GitHub CoPilot
- Cyclocopter Flies With Eight Spinning Horizontal Wings
- This Week in Security: Insecure Chargers, Request Forgeries, and Kernel Security
- Overhauling a Battle Bot
- sBITX: Hackable HF SDR For The Raspberry Pi
- Vintage Test Equipment Addiction Justified
- Raspberry Pi Pico Used as a Transputer
- Kinesis + Teensy = QMK Advantage Over your Keyboard
- Custom Caliper Tracks for When You’re Going the Distance
- Magnus-Effect RC Aircraft Is A Lot Harder Than It Looks
- Hands On: DEF CON 29 Badge Embraces the New Normal
- Vintage Computer Festival West is This Weekend
- Linux Fu: The Windows X11 Connection
- This is a 3D Ink Jet Printer
- Knowing the Bits and Bytes that Make Images Live in Memory
- Light Bulb Plant Propagation Station is a Bright Idea
- Phase Coherent Beamforming SDR
- Upgrade A 3D Printed CNC Milling Machine By Using It
- Working LEGO Space Computers are a Chip off the Old Block
- Cablecam Is An Exercise In System Integration
- New Part Day: An ESP With ZigBee
- Better Mousetraps (or Screw Drives) Don’t Always Win
- We’re Hiring: Come Join Us!
- Semiconductor Shortage? Never Mind That, There’s A Vacuum Shortage!
- Inputs of Interest: SafeType™ Vertical Keyboard with Mirrors Puts Pain in the Rear-View
- Raspberry Pi Crammed Into Old Film Camera
- Mega Man Hack Drops Charge Shot, Adds Classic Style
- Rocket League Inspired Homebrew Reverses onto Nintendo GameCube
- Fail of the Week: Flipped Cable Leads to Fried Radio
- Wooden Keyboard with Scrabble Tiles Goes the Extra Mile
- 3D Printer Automated Bed Swapping System Loads From A Magazine
- 3D Printing May Disprove Lord Kelvin
- Gladys West Modelled the Earth So That We Can Have GPS
- Reminder: Bring-A-Hack is This Thursday August 5th
- Tool Generates Interactive PCB Diagrams from KiCAD
- Murata To Deliver Solid State Batteries to Market In the Fall
- Strangest Upside-Down 3D Printer Fits In A Filament Box
- Custom RISC-V Processor Built in VHDL
- EXPS/2 Keyboard Adapter Translates PS/2 and USB to MSX
- Levitation by Sound
- Dedicated LED Animation Framework For ESP32
- Single-Wheel Motorcycle Trailer
- Mag-Lev Switches Are the Future of Clacking
- AND!XOR’s DEF CON 29 Electronic Badge is an Assembly Puzzle
- VTOL Tailsitter Flies With Quadcopter Control Software
- GitHub Copilot And The Unfulfilled Promises Of An Artificial Intelligence Future
- Home Depot Is Selling Power Tools That Require Activation In-Store
- Apollo DSKY Display Glows Again
- Living the Dream: New PCB for a Dirt-Cheap Calculator Watch
- Custom Instrument Cluster for Aging Car
- Hackaday Links: August 1, 2021
- Retrotechtacular: Understanding Protein Synthesis Through Interpretive Dance
- Ostrich Robot Machine-Learns Itself To 5K
- Hacking a PIC to Redefine a Microphone’s Transmit Frequency
- The O’Scope Restoration
- Stereo Recording Made Easy With A 3D-Printed Mount
- An Epic Tale Of Reset Line Detective Work
- A Satellite Upconverter Need Not Be Impossible To Make
July 2021
- Retrotechtacular: Mechanical TV From The People Who Made It Happen
- One Of The Largest Large Format Cameras You Will Ever Have Seen
- British Big Rigs Are About To Go Green
- The Man-Machine
- A LiPo Cell Makes A 4AA Pack For A GameBoy
- Developing The First ICs In Orbit
- Build That Catan Board You Designed
- Rare Radio Receiver Teardown
- Step ‘n Snack Fanny Pack Motivates with M&Ms
- Charger Caddy Shows What 3D Printers Were Meant For
- Build A Barebones 68000
- Fresh Paint or Patina of Ages, That’s The Antique Question
- Hackaday Podcast 129: Super Clever 3D Printing, Jigs and Registration Things, 90s Car Audio, and Smooth LED Fades
- Mobile Sauna for On-The-Go Relaxation
- This Week in Security: Fail2RCE, TPM Sniffing, Fishy Leaks, and Decompiling
- Streaming Video From a Mouse
- Here’s How to Sniff Out an LCD Protocol, But How Do You Look Up the Controller?
- Cloud-Based Atari Gaming
- 3D Printed Material Might Replace Kevlar
- Create Large Scale Domino Art With A Robot
- Pinewood Derby Scale Measures CG
- Bright Bike Light Might Make Them Back Off
- Fail of the Week: The Metal Hot End Upgrade
- New Video Series: Raspberry Pi Pico and RP2040 Deep Dive with Uri Shaked
- 3D-Printed Tooling Enables DIY Electrochemical Machining
- Know Audio: Amplifiers And Distortion
- 3D Printer Add on Makes Sharp(ie) Colors
- Orbiter is Now Open Source
- Tabletop Basketball With Tentacles
- Liquid Nitrogen Isn’t Suitable For Steam Engines
- Video Feedback Effects Make A Glorious Spectacle in HD
- Scanning Medium Format Film on a 35mm Scanner
- Swamp Gas Will Get You Home
- How To Modify Your Car Stereo for Bluetooth or Aux-In
- Workshop Tools Are Available in First-Class
- More Than Just Hubble: the Space Observatories Filling The Skies Today And Tomorrow
- It Takes A Lot To Build A Hacker’s Laptop
- Emulating the IBM PC on an ESP32
- Rooting The Atari VCS 800
- Black and White TV Was Hiding A Special Input Board
- FTC Rules on Right to Repair
- Building a Stump Grinder from the Ground Up
- See This Hybrid Approach to Folded 3D Printed Mechanisms
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the one with the Mad Model M
- Ten Projects Won the Refresh Work-From-Home-Life Round of the Hackaday Prize
- Cool WS2811 Trick Makes LED Art Installation Smooth
- Hands-On Review: tCam-Mini WiFi Thermal Imager
- Classroom Surplus Becomes Linux Powerhouse
- Vintage Monochromator Makes Monochromatic Light, Mechanically
- A Single SSD’s Journey from System 7 to High Sierra
- If Society Is In Danger Of Collapse, Here’s How We Should Do Our Bit
- Building An Electronic Tester For Measuring Arrow Stiffness
- WiFiWart Boots Linux, Moves To Next Design Phase
- Little Quadruped Uses Many Servos
- Linux Fu: Superpowers for Mere Mortals
- How To Build With Acrylic Using the Tools You Have
- RNA Therapeutics And Fighting Diseases By Working With The Immune System
- Get Some Close Air Support With A Nerf Drone
- Seeing Inside a Gas Regulator
- A Simple Sun Tracker With Very Few Parts
- Parts Shortage Forces Creativity for this Recursive Clock of Clocks
- Hackaday Links: July 25, 2021
- Portable GPS Time Server Powered by the ESP8266
- Why Make Coffee When You’re Tired? Let a Robot Do It for You
- Automatic Coil Winder Gets it Done with Simple Hardware and Software
- Quiet Wings, with Shape Memory Alloy
- Dominate Video Calls with Game Boy Camera Webcam
- Simple Tip Helps with Powder Coating Perfection on Difficult Parts
- Solder Bridges Aid Desoldering
- Monowheel Balancing Robot Can’t Turn (Yet)
- Walk the First 3D-Printed Bridge and Be Counted
- Avoid Awkward Video Conference Situations With PIR and Arduino
- Learning to Desolder Gracefully
- ESP8266 Adds WiFi Logging to IKEA’s Air Quality Sensor
- How the Flipper Zero Hacker Multitool Gets Made and Tested
- Joker Monitor Keeps an Eye on Hazardous Gas Levels
- PnPAssist: A “Smart” Build Platform For Manual PCB Assembly
- A Nerf Ball Turret Complete With FPV
- Arm Researchers Announce the PlasticArm
- New Privacy Policy Gets Audacity Back on Track
- Are Hackers Being Let Down In Education?
- Hackaday Podcast 128: 3D-Printing Injection Molds, Squiggly Audio Tape, Curvy Mirrors, and Space Cadets
- 3D Printed Roller Coaster Looks Pretty Darn Fun
- This Week in Security: NSO, Print Spooler, and a Mysterious Decryptor
- LEGO Pole Climbers Are Great Study In What It Takes to Go Vertically Upwards
- Tardygrade Walker Is a Lesson In 3D Printed Design
- A Simple LEGO Automatic Transmission
- What Kind of GPU Are You?
- Rover Uses Different Kind Of Tracks
- Detecting Ripeness in Fruit and Vegetables Via Neural Networks
- New Video Series: Designing with Complex Geometry
- Who Flew Across the Atlantic First? The Airborne Boats of 1919
- No Mask Required: Bring-A-Hack is Back August 5th
- Lord Kelvin’s Contraption Turns Drips into Sparks
- Avoiding Repetitive Stress Injury: Invest in Yourself Now, Or Pay Later
- Modified 3D-Printer Solders Through-Hole Components
- Magnetic Bearings Put the Spin on This Flywheel Battery
- Raspberry Pi Server Cluster in 1U Rack-Mount Case
- Miller (Effect) Time
- A New Spin on 360 Degree Displays
- Clever PCB Brings Micro USB To The Arduino Uno
- ZeroBug: From Simulation To Smooth Walking
- Retrotechtacular: Nuvistor, Vacuum’s Last Gasp
- Precise Sundial Tells Time to the Minute
- What Exactly is a Gaussian Blur?
- It’s Linux – But On An ESP32
- Giving Control Of A Smartphone Robot To A Raspberry Pi
- Injection Molds from Your 3D Printer
- AppCAD Does Transmission Lines
- Live Energy Monitor Helps Plan Power-Hungry Appliance Use
- DIY Fume Extractor Keeps Air Clean While You Solder
- One Giant Button to Mute Them All
- The Story Behind Ohm’s Law
- Ball Balancing Wheel Puts a Spin on Inverted Pendulums
- This Group of Women Tried to Break into Astronaut Program in 1960s; One Just Made It
- Extracting the WiFi Firmware and Putting Back a Keylogger
- The Gatwick Drone: Little By Little, The Story Continues To Unravel
- Smart Mirror Talks to 3D Printers
- Software Defined… CPU?
- DIY Camera Dolly Costs More Time than Money
- Reimagine Supportive Tech for the Newest Hackaday Prize Challenge
- An OLED Photo Frame Powered by the ATtiny85
- SOL75 Uses AI to Design Standard Mechanical Parts
- The Newlib Embedded C Standard Library And How To Use It
- Python Your Keyboard Hack Chat with Adafruit
- Samsung Shuttering Original SmartThings Hubs
- A Look Back on a Decade of Kerbal Space Program
- 3D Print in the Air with a Little Software Support
- Improving Cheap SDR Antennas
- It’s Super Easy To Build Yourself a USB-C Variable Power Supply These Days
- The Internet – On A Casio Calculator!
- Hackaday Links: July 18, 2021
- Faulty Electrolytic Caps Don’t Always Look Bad
- MIDI Mouse Makes Marvelous Music
- The Hidden Sounds Of The Past
- DeWalt Literal Hack Upgrades Battery
- Arduino Cable Tracer Helps Diagnose Broken USB Cables
- Control an IRL Home From Minecraft
- PNG Image Decoding Library Does it With Minimal RAM
- CNC Saves Water Cooling Setup
- Reinvented Retro Contest Winners Announced
- Tales from the Global Chip Shortage: Smoothieboard
- Open Source is Choice
- Soviet Scientific Calculator Gives Up Its Cold War-Era Secrets
- Finding Fractals in the 1930’s
- Fixing Joy-Con Drift with Recycle Bin Parts
- Interpreters in Scala
- A Cheap Dipole Antenna from an Extension Cord
- Final Weekend for Work-From-Home Challenge of the Hackaday Prize
- Making Custom Curved Mirrors at Home
- The Fix is In: Hubble’s Troubles Appear Over for Now
- Just What Have We Become?
- Hackaday Podcast 127: Whippletree Clamps, Sniffing Your Stomach Radio, Multimeter Hum Fix, and C64 Demo; No C64
- Inside A 20-Watt Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier From Apollo
- This Week in Security: REvil Goes Dark, Kaseya Cleanup, Android Updates, And Terrible Firmware
- Cracking a GBA Game With NSA Tools
- Repair Hack Saves Tesla Owner from Massive Bill
- Analog Camera Goes Digital
- You are Doomed to Learn WebAssembly
- Overdriving Vacuum Tubes and Releasing the Magic Light Within
- Foam F-35 Learns to Hover
- DIY PECS Board Uses Pictures to Communicate
- Recycling Will Be Key To The Electric Vehicle Future
- New Video Series: Learning Antenna Basics with Karen Rucker
- A Perfect Clock For Any Hacker’s Ohm
- Black Starts: How the Grid Gets Restarted
- Amazon Drones Don’t Go Far
- Using Ghidra To Extract A Router Configuration Encryption Key
- Down the Fabrication Rabbit Hole to Build a Recumbent Bike
- Peeking Inside a Volcano Sensor
- Design A Custom Enclosure Using Modelling Clay And Photogrammetry
- Analog Style VU Meter with Arduino and OLED Display
- End Of An Era: NTSC Finally Goes Dark In America
- The Case of the Mysterious Driveline Noise
- Big 3D-Printed Lamp Tries Some New Features
- Hands On With the Raspberry Pi POE+ HAT
- Tetris Handheld Powered By Tritium Cell, Eventually
- Fixing Noisy Measurements On An Owon XDM2041 Bench Multimeter
- PlayStation Games on the GBA, With a Few Extra Steps
- Retrotechtacular: The Secret Life of the Electric Light
- Stop Touching My Face
- Wobble Disk Coffee Roaster Looks Good in Wood
- Responsive Paintings Do It with Heat and Light
- Virginia Apgar May Have Saved Your Life
- 3D Printed CNC Knee Mill
- Muse Group Continues Tone Deaf Handling of Audacity
- The Linux Kernel 5.14 Audio Update
- NFC Who’s at the Door
- Human-Following Utility Trailer
- High-Tech Paperweight Shows off Working 60s-era Thin-Film Electronics
- Revolving Plant Tower is Solar-Powered
- A Capable Nerf Launcher Robot
- Get Yourself A Pupper (For Education)
- Teardown: VTech Smart Start
- SCADA Security Hack Chat
- Chip Transplant Brings Timex 2048 Back from Grave
- As Chinese Wheels Touch Martian Soil And Indian Astronauts Walk Towards The Launch Pad, Can We Hope For Another Space Race?
- 3D-Printed, Hot-Swap Keyboard PCB Generator is Super Cool
- The First New Vacuum Tube Computer Design For Well Over Half A Century
- Making Teeny Clamps With Hand Tools
- CAN bus Wireless Hacking / Dev Board
- Hackaday Links: July 11, 2021
- Digital Audio for Microcontrollers Doesn’t Come Much Simpler Than a WART
- Motorized Camera Slider Gives Your Shots Style
- Tuning into Medical Implants with the RTL-SDR
- Discount Microfluidics from a $9 Spree at the Dollar Store
- But Does It Run TOOM?
- Wing Can Expand To Fly Really Slow for Short Take-Off and Landing
- Astronomical Clock Uses Your Spare Clock Motors
- Is It A Cyberdeck Or A Vintage Toshiba?
- Skin-Mounted Wearable Bend Sensor Gets Close and Personal
- Building a Big Ol’ Powerful Wheelbarrow
- You Can’t Fix What You Can’t Measure
- Fractal Vise Holds Odd-Shaped Objects Tight
- Up Close and Personal With Some Busted Avionics
- Home Automation for Fans of Quick-and-Dirty Solutions
- 3D Printed Copper Rocket Nozzle Costs Under Two Grand
- Custom Car Horn Makes Many Sounds
- 3D Printed Parts Make for a Quick Electric Scooter Build
- Raspberry Pi Cameras Stand in for Stereo Microscope
- Checking Up On Earth’s Sister Planet: NASA’s Upcoming Venus Missions
- Hackaday Podcast 126: Cable 3D-Scanner, Tesla Charger Robot, Ultrasonic Anemometer, and a Zoetrope
- Eliminate Vertical Stabiliser with ArduPlane
- This Week in Security: Print Nightmare Continues, Ransomware Goes Bigger, And ATM Jackpots!
- 10 Gigabit Ethernet for the Pi
- Zooming Through the Mandelbrot Set On An Atari
- DIY Forth on Arduino
- The Nuclear Powered Car from Ford
- Reverse Engineering A Very Cheap Fitness Band
- Hacked on SO-DIMM Slot was Worth a Shot
- Laser Augmented Reality Glasses Show You The Way
- Tech Hidden in Plain Sight: Cruise Control
- Bringing The Game Boy Camera Into The 21st Century
- Electric Land Speed Racing Can Be Lightning Fast
- C64 Demo, No C64
- Dial-a-SID Is a Glorious Chiptune Jukebox
- Hamster Trades Crypto Better than You
- Drink Water on Schedule or Else Flood Your Desk
- A Plastic Injection Machine You Can Use At Home
- EMOJO Chatbot Will Be There for You
- Did You Meet Pepper?
- Leggo My Nintoaster!
- What’s Chia, and Why is it Eating all the Hard Drives?
- StarLink Terminal Unit Firmware Dumped
- SimpleFOC Demystifies Precision BLDC Motor Control
- Recognising Bird Sounds With A Microcontroller
- Evan Doorbell’s Telephone World
- See-Through Carburetor Gives A Clear Demonstration
- E-Paper Pocket Map Goes Where Your Phone Can’t
- USB Power Bank’s Auto-Off Becomes Useful Feature In Garage Door Remote
- Linux Fu: PDF for Penguins
- Lightwave Multimeter Teardown
- TerraPower’s Natrium: Combining A Fast Neutron Reactor With Built-In Grid Level Storage
- Open Source Ultrasonic Anemometer
- Bellow-Cooled PC Is A Well Engineered Display Piece
- How To Drive Smartphone Screens Over HDMI
- You Can Put Toothpaste In the Tube (With Effort)
- Wooden Linear Clock Aided By GPS
- DIY Air Quality Sensor
- How to Make a Collapsible Container Without Breaking Down
- Microfluidics for Biohacking Hack Chat
- A New Spin on Empty Filament Spools for Part Storage
- Messaging on Signal Via The ESP32
- Litter Buggies Haul Trash Off The Beach
- Convert Your Mouse Into A Paddle Controller
- Iron Becomes SMD Hot Plate
- Hackaday Links: July 4, 2021
- Hacking a Thermal Imager for Dual-use of the Thermal Sensor
- Machine Extrudes Filament
- Vintage Remote Control Gets Bluetooth Upgrade
- This Arduino isn’t Color Blind
- Extreme Canine Mask For Protection From Foxtails
- Internet Chess on a Real Chessboard
- Hacking Old Honda ECUs
- E-Ink Equipped Sourdough Starter Jar
- WiFiWart Linux Pentesting Device Gets First PCBs
- Your PC Sound Card As A Sensor Input
- The Devil is in the Details
- A Custom Raspberry Pi Spotted In The Wild
- 3D Zoetrope Uses Illusion to Double the Frames
- Understanding Custom Signal Protocols with Old Nintendos
- $10 000 Physics Wager Settles The Debate On Sailing Downwind Faster Than The Wind
- From Printer to Vinyl Cutter
- An OSHW IR Remote Control Powered by the ATtiny13A
- Throne of Dev: an Endgame Office Chair
- The Trouble with Hubble: Payload Computer Glitch Stops Science at the Space Observatory
- Hackaday Podcast 125: Linux Users Talking Windows 11, Pop Bottle Filament, Old Phones with Modern Guts, and Eavesdropping in RF
- Discarded Plastic Laser-Cut And Reassembled
- This Week in Security: Bad Signs from Microsoft, An Epyc VM Escape
- A Robot To Top Up Your Tesla
- Dumping 90’s Honda ECU Programming With Arduino
- This Horrifying Robot is Here to Teach You a Lesson
- Quick and Simple Morse Decoder
- Automate the Farm with Acorn
- ESP32 Turned Handy SWD Flasher for nRF52 Chips
- Wiggling Screen and DLP Power This Volumetric POV Display
- Could Airships Make A Comeback With New Hybrid Designs?
- Jigsaw Puzzle Lights Up With Each Piece
- Social Engineering and Menus
- Sub-mm Mechanical 3D Scanner With Encoders And String
- Pi Pico Game Boy Flash Cart Gets Slim RP2040 Upgrade
- Smart Camera Based on Google Coral
- MIT’s Knitted Keyboard is Quite a Flexible MIDI Controller
June 2021
- Installing Linux like it’s 1989
- Machine-Vision Archer Makes You the Target, If You Dare
- PinThing Mechanizes Pin Art
- Adding A Gentle Touch To Prosthetic Limbs With Somatosensory Stimulation
- Astronomic Patio Light Timer
- China’s Mars Rover Goes Exploring
- Handheld Hackintosh Runs Mac OS on LattePanda
- Robotic Ball-Bouncing Platform Learns New Tricks
- The Incredible Mechanical Artistry Of François Junod
- The Game Boy As You Have Never Seen It Before Is Newest from [Sprite_tm]
- Ball CVT Drives Robot From A Constant Speed Motor
- SMART Response XE Turned Pocket BASIC Playground
- Just How Vulnerable to Accidental Erasure are EPROMs Anyway?
- Kathleen Lonsdale Saw Through the Structure of Benzene
- PetBot: Turn PET bottles Into Filament
- The Great Windows 11 Computer Extinction Experiment
- Garage Semiconductor Fab Gets Reactive-Ion Etching Upgrade
- Just How Did 1500 Bytes Become the MTU of the Internet?
- Tiny Operating System For Tiny Computer
- Slice Your Next FPGA Design
- Retrofitting Fast Charging To A Nissan Leaf EV
- A Modern Take on the “Luggable” Computer
- Ten Projects Won the Rethink Displays Round of the Hackaday Prize
- Despite Uncertainty, WWII Warbirds Resume Tours
- Lego Microscope Aims to Discover Future Scientists
- We All Need a Win Sometimes, So Make Them Yourself
- A Phone That Old Shouldn’t Be Running Android
- Measuring Planck’s Constant with LEDs and a DMM
- Miata Sci-Fi Digital Dash
- Turning a MIG Welder into a Metal 3D Printer
- Hackaday Links: June 27, 2021
- AD409 Microscope Review
- Listen To The RF Around You
- Electric RC Plane Flies For Almost 11 Hours
- Video De-shaker Software Measures Linear Rail Quality
- Mechanical 7-Segment Display Uses a Single Motor
- Coding a Custom Driver For The Adafruit Mini Thermal Printer
- Emulating a Power Grid
- Custom 3D Printer Cart Hides Clever Features
- LoRa Messenger in Nokia’s Shell
- Raspberry Pi Pico Oscilloscope
- How Did I Live Without a Microscope?
- Can the Solenoid Engine Power a Car?
- Random Numbers From A Smoke Detector
- PiNet — One Small Project Grows Unexpectedly
- Some of The Many Ways To Build AM Transmitters And Receivers
- A Custom Clock with LED Filament Hands
- Casting A Simple 3D Print in Aluminium
- Will We Soon Be Running Linux On SiFive Cores Made By Intel?
- Know Audio: A Loudspeaker Primer
- Hackaday Podcast 124: Hard Drivin’ with Graphene, Fooled by Lasers, Etching with Poison Acid, and All The Linux Commands
- Game Boy Color Gets A Rechargeable Battery
- This Week in Security: Schemeflood, Modern Wardialing, And More!
- 3D Printed Mecanum Wheels For Hoverboard Motors
- Simulating the Game Boy Printer’s Actual Paper Output
- Review and Teardown of Economical Programmable DC Power Supply
- Rocky Linux Is Ready For Prime Time!
- Hacked AC Window Unit Split in Half to Cool the Garage
- Fat Tire Bike Turned Hubless
- Active Ball Joint Uses Spherical Gear
- ISS Gets Roll-Out Solar Panels in Post-Shuttle Fix
- Mechanically Multiplexed Flip-Dot
- You Can’t Put the Toothpaste Back In the Tube, But It Used to Be Easier
- A Pi USB Webcam That Was Born to Boot Quick
- Breaking Down the USB Keyboard Interface with Old-Fashioned Pen and Paper
- Gorgeous Specimen is the Final Word in Word Clocks
- Spectrum Display Uses Tiny CPU and Many LEDs
- John McAfee’s Wild Ride is Over
- Piezo Pickup Makes Wax Records Easy to Digitize
- Silicon Jumpers Make this Wire-Free Breadboard Programmable
- PipeWire, The Newest Audio Kid on the Linux Block
- Big Spinning Disk Makes a Small Color Video Display
- How Graphene May Enable The Next Generations Of High-Density Hard Drives
- Test Your ‘Blue Pill’ Board For A Genuine STM32F103C8 MCU
- The Compromises of Raspberry Pi Hardware Documentation
- Modifying a SNES Rom To Be Widescreen
- Print Your Own Flexures
- Flexible Prototyping for E-Textiles That Doesn’t Cost an Arm and a Leg
- DOOM Comes to the nRF5340
- Pi Pico-Powered ATX Motherboard
- Human Google: Ruth Freitag, Isaac Asimov, and Bibliographies
- Heatsink Makes VR Even Cooler
- Teardown: Franz Crystal Metronome
- Steady Hand Brings GBA Cart Back from the Grave
- Good Enough for the Spruce Goose, Good Enough for Satellites
- See Acorn Archimedes Get Repaired and Refurbished, in Glorious Detail
- A Collection of Linux Tools on Steroids
- VGA From Scratch On A Homebrew 8-bit Computer
- Forget Smart Watch; Build a Smart Hat
- Fake: A Laser Display Board Of Your Very Own
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Chinese Typewriter
- Microscopy Hack Chat with Zachary Tong
- Raspberry Pi Floppy Driver Uncovers Fishy Secrets
- Review: Inkplate 6PLUS
- RF Burns And Exploding PC Speakers: Sophos Looks At The Evidence
- Even with AC, Hazmat Suit isn’t Really Cool
- Rock-A-Bye Baby, On the Mechatronic Crib Shaker
- Arduino Nano Memory Upgrade with No Soldering
- Hackaday Links: June 20, 2021
- Raspberry Pi Hat Adds SDR with High Speed Memory Access
- Tiny Tesla Valves Etched in Glass
- 19 Coils Make Charging Wireless
- Compact M&M Sorter Goes Anywhere
- A Mini USB Display For Your PC Desktop
- Apollo Shift Register is Discrete
- Turning GameCube & N64 Pads Into MIDI Controllers
- iPod HiFi Gains New High Notes
- 1700 Regulatory Approvals Revoked in South Korea
- Vacuum Tube Magic Comes To The 741
- Growing Up With Computers
- Tell Time The Cistercian Way
- Is It A Plasma Tweeter Or A Singing Tesla Coil?
- A Model of Dry Humor
- 3D Printing Food University Style
- Check Soil Moisture At A Glance With This Useful Display
- Just How Water Resistant Is The Casio F91W?
- Formula 1 TV Broadcasting in 1:87 Scale
- Do You SpaceAPI?
- Hackaday Podcast 123: Radioactive Rhinos, Wile E. Coyote Jetpack, Radio Hacks 3-Ways, and Battery Welders on the Spot
- LED Matrix Glasses Built With The Help Of Graph Paper
- This Week in Security: Updates, Leaks, Hacking Old Hardware, And Making New
- Mistaken Identity — Piezo Actuators not Test Pads
- Blowing a 5000 A Fuse Takes Some Doing
- Scratch Built Tracked Robot Reporting for Duty
- The Regulatory Side of Rolling Your Own Moderate Solar Farm
- Using Heaters to Display Time
- Upgrading the PowerBook 100 With A Fresh New Battery
- A Tidy Octave Mod For The Casio SK-1
- How To Get Into Cars: Land Speed Racing
- The Ridiculous GameCube Keyboard Controller Gets Modded
- Where Are All The Cheap x86 Single Board PCs?
- Is that an EMP Generator in Your Pocket or Is My Calculator Just Broken?
- Cloned Memory Module Fixes Broken Scopemeter
- Retrotechtacular: Discovering Aerodynamics with the Chrysler Airflow
- Wood and Brass Drink Temperature Monitor Looks Good, Has Class
- Repairing a 300W CO2 Laser, One Toasted Part at a Time
- Sunlight-Based Life Clock Predicts Your Darkest Hour
- The Other First Computer: Konrad Zuse and the Z3
- Printable Hot-Swap Sockets Make Keyboard Building Even Cooler
- Review: Battery Spot Welders, Why You Should Buy A Proper Spot Welder
- Modular Box Design Eases Silicone Mold-Making
- An Automatic Shop Vac Dust Extractor
- APRS Implemented at Low Cost and Small Size
- Art with Technology Hack Chat
- Cheap, Expandable Floor Piano Plays with Heart and Soul
- Developing a Power Over Ethernet Stack Light
- 2:3 Scale VT100 Terminal Gets Closer to its Roots
- Alice Ball Steamrolled Leprosy
- Printed Catamaran
- Your 1958 Punch Card Machine Tested Tubes
- A Smart Light Bulb Running Doom is a Pretty Bright Idea
- Spam Caught, In A Tin Of Spam
- Z80 Family Reunion Discovered in Old PoS Card Swiper
- Smooth 3D Prints with Alcohol
- Friendly Webcam Robot Keeps an Eye on Privacy
- Custom Firmware Teaches USB Relay Board New Tricks
- Digital X-Ray Scanner Teardown Yields Bounty of Engineering Goodies
- Building Blocks: Relating Mechanical Elements to Electronic Components
- Today’s Challenge is All About Work-From-Home Life
- Alexa, Bring Me A Beer!
- Rhisotope: Addressing Poaching By Making Rhinoceros Horns Radioactive
- Game Boy Macro Build Retains DS Compatibility
- Recore Hacks the Hidden Microcontroller for 3D Printing
- You Have About Four Months To Find A Lost Satellite
- Gesture-Detecting Macro Keyboard Knows What You Want
- Hackaday Links: June 13, 2021
- Sawdust Printer Goes Against the Grain By Working with Wood Waste
- Translate Your CP/M Code to 8086, And Leave The 1970s Behind!
- Roller Skating, Wile E. Coyote-Style
- Mickey’s Big Timer Makes Glider Competitions Better
- Super Mario Bros. 35 Lives Again With A Fan-Made Server
- Waterslide Decals for Wingding Keycaps
- Bungee And Cam Assisted Actuator For OpenDog
- 3D Print An Entire PC Case
- Macro Model Makes Atomic Force Microscopy Easier to Understand
- Hacking The Lidl Home Gateway
- What Every Geek Must Know
- Raspberry Pi Zero Takes the Wheel in Miniature Fighting Robot
- A 3D Printer with an Electromagnetic Tool Changer
- TV Ambient Lighting Built for Awesome Performance
- Balloon Antenna Doesn’t Need a Tower
- Open-Source Method Makes Possible Two-Layer PCBs With Through-Plating at Home
- Recreating the Intercom from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- Recycling a Laptop Screen Into A Portable Folding Monitor
- Circuit VR: Arduino Virtually Meets Analog
- Hackaday Podcast 122: Faster Than Wind Travel, Sisyphish, ALU Desktop Calculator, and Mice in Space
- 12-Arduino Orchestra Plays Star Wars Fanfare
- This Week in Security: ALPACA, AN0M, Recovering Ransoms, and More
- A Massive Modular Smartwatch To Match Your Sci-Fi Fantasies
- VGA Library for the Raspberry Pi Pico
- A Dual Monitor Setup for the C64, and Yes, It’s VGA Compatible
- Ham Radio Traffic Logger Using A Bug In Baofeng Electronics
- Redox Redux: Split Keeb Gets a Num Pad
- A Self-Driving Bicycle is Something to Marvel At
- An Explanation of a Classic Semiconductor Riddle
- Survey of Simple Logic Simulators
- Final Weekend for Display Challenge of the Hackaday Prize
- Automatic Chessboard Lets Online Players Move The Pieces
- Injection-Molded Glass Breakthrough Shatters Ceiling of Work Methods
- Turning the Virtual Boy Into a Handheld Console
- Sand Hack Boosts Power on InSight Mars Lander
- Tiny Mechanical Keyboard, Powered by Pi Pico
- Robot Clings to Ceiling
- Old Phone Becomes MIDI Controller
- Restoring a Vintage Tube Tester to its Former Glory
- Improved Technique for Resistive Divider Keypads
- Historical Hackers: Ctesibius Tells Time
- 3D Printed Calipers Work like Clockwork
- What Is Ultra Wideband?
- Flat Transformer Gives This PCB Tesla Coil Some Kick
- Old DSLR Lens Becomes Useful Soldering Magnifier
- Nintendo DS Transformed Into Gameboy Macro
- Printer Uses Algae to Print Live Structures
- Custom Num Pad Does Double Duty as Macro Pad
- Arduino Compatible IR Blaster Keeps TVs At Bay
- Cerberus 2080 — Three-Headed Retro Computing Project
- Linux Fu: Databases are Next-Level File Systems
- Cold War Code Breaking Manual Teaches Impossible Puzzle Solving
- ISS Artificial Gravity Study Shows Promise for Long Duration Spaceflight
- The Epic Saga of Hacking Knights of the Round
- Tractors And The Right To Repair: It’s Going Global
- An Emulator That Only Plays One Game
- At MIT, Clothing Fiber Watches You
- Teach Your Air Compressor to Blow Eggs
- Hi-Fi Combines Best of 60s and 90s Technology
- Portable, Digital Scoreboard Goes Anywhere
- Intel’s ATX12VO Standard: A Study In Increasing Computer Power Supply Efficiency
- LED Matrix Hack Chat
- Triangle Tiles Form Blinky Networks Using Clever Interconnects
- Electric Vehicles Could Be The Grid Storage Solution We’ve Been Dreaming Of
- An ALU As A Desktop Calculator Has Stunning Style from Days Gone By
- Ryobi Power Packs as Ebike Batteries
- Aquarium Plotter Shows Sisyphish’s Submerged Sand Stripes
- Automated Sentry Turret For Your Secret Lab
- Hackaday Links: June 6, 2021
- QMESH: LoRa Mesh Networked Voice Communications
- Sailing Faster Than The Wind Itself
- Differential Drive Doesn’t Quite Work As Expected
- Is 32-bits Really Dead?
- Baby C-17 Sends Imaginations Soaring
- Enterprise Helm Commands the Entertainment Center
- Do Wristwatches Get Any Better Than A Cuckoo Clock?
- Huge Hand-Wired Ortho is a Beautiful Battleship Keyboard
- A Commodore 64 As You Have Never Seen One Before: Game Boy Form Factor!
- An Open-source Scientific RPN Calculator
- Wreck Your Mail Before You Check Your Mail
- A Vacuum Battery Made For Looks And Learning
- 3D-Printed Scale Model of Perseverance Rover Seems as Complicated as the Real One
- Dreamcast Homebrew Gets Boost from SD Card Cache
- Old Textbooks Galore
- Hacking A Solar Inverter RF Interface
- Riding Mower Repair Uncovers Miniature Culprit
- Home Automation Controller uses Chalk
- ShakeAlert Promises Earthquake Early Warning of About 10 Seconds
- Hackaday Podcast 121: Crazy Bikes, DIY Flip Dots, EV Mountain Climbing, and Trippy Tripterons
- Give 3D Printed Plastic a Well-Worn Metal Look
- This Week in Security: Ransomware, WeLock, and Amazon Arbitration
- Soldering Iron Plus Camera Gimbal Helps Cancel Out Hacker’s Hand Tremors
- An Exercise in Firmware Dumping With the GreatFET
- Lamp Sheds Light on Air Quality
- Gdbdiff: Diff-ing A Real RP2040 MCU Against An Emulated MCU
- Radio Build Goes Outside The Box
- Air Extractor Automatically Gives AC a Boost
- Miss The Predictive Text From Your Old Nokia? Build Your Own T9 Keypad
- How To Get Into Cars: Ice Racing Mods
- Retro Useless Clock Eventually Shows You the Time
- Mariner 4: Our First Up-Close Look at Mars
- Auto-Aiming Nerf Gun To Give You The Edge In Battle
- Adding a Laser Blaster to Classic Atari 2600 Games with Machine Vision
- Commodore Inspired Watch Puts BASIC on your wrist
- Optical Microscope Resolves Down to 40 Nanometers
- Trials Begin for Lozenge That Rebuilds Tooth Enamel
- Arduino Variometer in a Mint Tin
- Make Your Desoldering Easier by Minding Your Own Bismuth
- Know Audio: Start At The Very Beginning
- Full Size 3D-Printed Wind Turbine
- Fueling Up For Fusion: MAST’s Super-X, JET’s Deuterium-Tritium Experiments For ITER, And More
- How to Run a First-Generation Cell Phone Network
- DIY USB Microphone Seems Overkill; Is Surprisingly In-Depth
- Adding In-Game Reset to Classic Playstations
- Algae Gene Gives Blind Man Some Light-Based Sight
- Disposable Rocket Stove Keeps You Fueled in the Wild
- Arduboy on the Big Screen
- Anti-Gravity, Time Travel, and Teleportation: Dr. Hamming Gives Advice
- Satellite Communications Hack Chat
- Trippy Tripteron Kinematics Brainteaser
- Virgin Galactic’s Long Road to Commercial Spaceflight
- Not All SpaceX Software Goes To Space
- New Part Day: RP2040 Chips In Single Unit Quantities
- Teaching a Machine to Be Worse at a Video Game Than You Are
- Building Fallout’s Super Sledge
May 2021
- Handheld Multimeter Converted for Bench Top Use
- [Emily]’s Eerie Educational Electric Eyeball Entertains
- Tiny Gasoline Engine Fitted With A Custom Billet Waterpump
- A Look Back on the Oroville Dam with Practical Engineering
- Thin Coatings Require an Impressive Collection of Equipment and Know-How
- A Chainsaw Gives This Winch Some Grunt
- Smartphone App for Leftover Vaccinations
- Better Solvents Could Lead to Cleaner, Greener Perovskite Solar Cells
- Hackaday Links: May 30, 2021
- Neural Networks Emulate Any Guitar Pedal for $120
- Bicycle Flywheel Stores A Bit of Energy, Not Much
- Aircraft Compass Teardown
- Tiny PCB Motor Robot Is Making Its First Wobbly Moves
- Small Swedish Stores are Miniature Oases in a National Food Desert
- Spell Checking Your Programming from the Linux Command Line
- Chainsaw Cuts More Than Timber
- Retrotechtacular: The Drama of Metal Forming
- Reviving Old Recipe for Faraday Wax Keeps Vacuum Experiments Going
- Robot Moves In Any Direction On Ball Wheels
- Living Robots: Revisiting BEAM
- Solar Plane Is Like One Big Flying Solar Panel
- 3D Printed Flip Dots
- Build a New ZX81
- Web Assembly, Music Synthesis, and the Beauty of Math
- JTAG Hat Turns Raspberry Pi Into a Networked Debugger
- 3D Printing A Centrifugal Water Pump
- Put APIs to Work wth this ArduinoJson Walkthrough
- The Many Levels Of Autonomous Motoring
- Hackaday Podcast 120: Chip Shortage, VGA Glitching, Truly Owning Roku, and Omniballs
- 3D Printed Mars Rover Smiles for the Camera
- This Week in Security: M1RACLES, The Full Half-Double, and Patch Gaps
- World’s First RP2040 QWERTY Computer
- Can You Hot-Swap Flash Chips In A Consumer Router?
- TNDLPT Brings Tandy Sound To Any DOS Computer
- Deep Learning Enables Intuitive Prosthetic Control
- Investigating A New Chip In A Minimalist LED Lamp
- This ESP32 Bluetooth Page Turner Can’t Get Any Easier
- Finite Element Analysis vs Real World
- History of Closed Captions: Entering the Digital Era
- One Inkscape Plugin Collection To Rule Them All
- Electric Vehicles Do Battle On Pikes Peak
- Samsung Releases Minimum Viable Galaxy Upcycling
- WiFi Penetration Testing With An ESP32
- Obsessively Explaining the Visual Effects in Flight of the Navigator
- Yet Another Rigol DS1054Z Viewer
- Speech Recognition on an Arduino Nano?
- All-Wheel Drive Bicycle Using Hand Drill Parts
- ESP8266 Adds WiFi to a 433 MHz Weather Station
- Flat-Pack Pasta: Like Ikea Furniture Without the Weird Wrench
- Voidstar’s Vitals, Visualized for Video
- Teardown: RADICA i-Racer
- Disguising The PS5 With A Custom Wood And Carbon Fiber Enclosure
- NeoPill is The NeoPixel Emulator You’ve Always Wanted
- High Voltage Gives Metal Balls a Mind of their Own
- Ptychography Shows Atoms at Amazing Resolution
- Putting LEDs in Motorcyle Tail Light Shows How Trivial Becomes Tough
- 3D Printed Joystick Using Spherical Flexure Joint
- Robot Arm Adds Freedom to 3D Printer
- Getting Started with Aluminum Extrusions
- Custom Music Box Cylinder Puts a Spin on Romance
- Technical Audacity and the Phone Book
- RAM Fiddling Turns VGA Converter into Video Synth
- Simple MicroPython Game is a 30 Minute Game Dev Course
- Running Modern Linux from a Single Floppy Disk
- Self-Driving or Mind Control? Which Do You Prefer?
- Ground Effect Drone Flies Autonomously
- Optical Sensor Keeps Eye On Wandering Saw Blade
- Persistent Displays with UV Light
- Starlink: A Review and Some Hacks
- A High Torque 3D Printed Harmonic Drive
- Ask Hackaday: How Is The Chip Shortage Affecting You?
- Custom Keyfob Fixes Mazda Design Mistake
- Cocktail of Chemicals Makes This Blueprint Camera Unique
- Python Runs Through A Zombified 8-Bit AVR
- Iridescent Rainbow Chocolate, Just Add Diffraction Grating!
- Hackaday Links: May 23, 2021
- A High Power Wood Rocket In 5 Days
- RC Car Gets Fan-Assisted Downforce To Slay Tesla’s 0-60 Times
- Smart Guitar Will Practically Play Itself
- Design an Electronic Catan Board in a Day
- Modifying Lights for DIY Ambiance
- Adding Remote Controls To A Blackmagic Studio Camera Without Breaking The Bank
- Affordable Transilluminator Helps Visualize DNA
- Portable Drill Press
- A Close Look at USB Power
- Yee Haw: Full Set of Cowboy Emojis Now Available
- IRC Will Never Die
- 3D Printed Earth Clock Is Cute Replica of Our Delicate Planet
- DIY Insulating Nuts and Bolts
- Lithophane Lamp Has Us Over The Moon
- One Instruction to Rule Them All: C Compiler Emits only MOV
- Custom Macro Keyboard Looks Good in Wood
- Simple Probe Sniffs Out EMI
- New Part Day: ESP32-WROOM-DA
- Retrotechtacular: Double For Nothing
- Hackaday Podcast 119: Random Robot Writing, Slithering Snake Shenanigans, and Phased Array Phenomena
- Perfecting a 3D Printed Camera Motion Control Rig
- This Week in Security: Watering Hole Attackception, Ransomware Trick, and More Pipeline News
- Building A Quick and Dirty RC Mower With FPV
- With a Big Enough Laser, the World is Your Sensor
- Reading Floppies with an Oscilloscope
- Project Starline Realizes Asimov’s 3D Vision
- Spherical Keyboard Build Leaves Hacker Well-Rounded
- Shop Exhaust Fan Salvaged from Broken Microwave
- Roku TV Hacked To Run Philips Ambilight Setup
- Practical Sensors: The Hall Effect
- 3D Printing Omni-Balls For Robot Locomotion
- Freenode Debacle Prompts Staff Exodus, New Network
- Terminal Magic With Notcurses
- What NES Development Looks Like On The Apple II
- Inside the VIC-20
- PSA: Amazon Sidewalk Rolls Out June 8th
- JavaScript App Uses Advanced Math to Make PCBs Easier to Etch
- Thousands of Discrete MOSFETs Make Up This Compact CPU-Less Computer
- Transparent Hard Drive Gives Peek at the Platters
- River Cleanup Aims To Expand In Earnest To Tackle Plastic Pollution
- Linus Åkesson’s ‘A Mind Is Born’ Commodore 64 Demo In Just 256 Bytes
- Raspberry Pi RP2040: Hands-On Experiences From An STM32 Perspective
- Perfecting Paper Planes Peering Past Perspex Portals
- Repairing a Vintage HP 9825 the Hard Way
- Omnibot From the 80s Gets LED Matrix Eyes, Camera
- FIR Filters for Xilinx
- Toolchanging Printers Get a Nozzle Hanky Like No Other
- Send Old-Fashioned Pager Messages with New-Fashioned Hardware
- Making Minty Fresh Music With Markov Chains: The After Eight Step Sequencer
- Do You Really Own It? Motorcycle Airbag Requires Additional Purchase to Inflate
- 2021 Hackaday Prize Hack Chat; Join Us Live on Wednesday
- Tiny DeLorean Made from Lighters is a Total Gas
- 2021 Hackaday Prize: Rethink, Refresh, and Rebuild
- Spy Tech: CIA Masks in Five Minutes or Less
- Retro ISA Card Means Old, Slow Computers No Longer Need Old, Heavy Monitors
- A “Disgusting” 1980s Computer Restored
- The History of Neon Lights
- A Standing Desk on the Cheap
- Gaming Headset Gets Simple Wireless Charging
- Disgusting Apple II Monitors Live Again
- Telemetry Debate Rocks Audacity Community in Open Source Dustup
- Projecting Moving Images in Air with Lasers
- Gassing Up: Understanding the Liquid Fuel Distribution Network
- Soil Moisture Sensors, How Do They Work?
- Actively Balancing A Robot With A Gyroscope
- Rodriguez — IV Curve Tracer on the Cheap
- Magic Pyramids Blink Eternal with the Power of the Sun
- Hackaday Links: May 16, 2021
- Repurpose a Monitor Arm as Microscope Mount
- Thought Control via Handwriting
- Scratch Built Tricycle Maximizes Fuel Efficiency
- 3D Printed Tank Takes On The Elements
- Tape Cutter Makes Short Work Of Through-Hole Resistor Reels
- Vintage HP-25 Calculator Gets Wireless Charging
- Robotic Bartender Built With Industrial-Grade Hardware
- A Phased-Array Ultrasonic 3D Scanner From Scratch
- 3D Printing Espresso Parts
- Reverse-Engineering an Unknown Microcontroller in E Ink Displays
- Should I Automate This?
- Putting 3D Printed Chain Through Its Paces
- Using Ikea Guts to Add Sonos Compatibility To A Vintage Speaker
- Spacewar! on PDP-11 Restoration
- Random Robot Makes Random Art
- Automated Watering Machine Has What Plants Crave: Fertilizer
- Wood Enclosure Lends Warmth to This DIY Ribbon Microphone
- A Stackable Planetary Gearbox You Can Print At Home
- Increased Neutron Levels At Chernobyl-4: How Dangerous Is Corium?
- Hackaday Podcast 118: Apple AirTag Hacked, Infill Without Perimeters, Hair-Pulling Robots, and Unpacking the 555
- Go Ape with a Banana Macropad
- This Week in Security: Fragattacks, The Pipeline, Codecov, and IPv6
- Make Android’s New Power Menu Work on Your Terms
- Keep An Eye On Your Bike With This DIY GPS Tracker
- Apple Gets CP/M
- Nuclear Reactors Get Small
- 3D Printed Terminal Takes Computing Back in Time
- Pi Pico Project Plays Pong Perfectly
- 3D Printing Restores Bandsaw
- Something’s Up in Switzerland: Explaining the B Meson News from the Large Hadron Collider
- Less Stinky Resin Two Ways
- Toyota’s Hydrogen-Burning Racecar Soon To Hit The Track
- Realistic Mission Control Box is a Blast for All Ages
- Hybrid Rocket Engine Combines Ceramic Aerospike With 3D Printed Fuel
- Piggy Bank Slot Machine Puts a Spin on Saving
- 3D Printed Transistor Goes Green
- Sit Pretty on Would-Be Garbage with an Upcycled Chair
- Otters Deliver a High Power Stationary Audio Experience
- Seeing-Eye Shoes Pair Computer Vision with Haptic Feedback
- Historical Hackers: Emergency Antennas Launched by Kite
- Scanner Captures View-Master Discs as Glorious 3D Videos
- Simple Encryption You Can Do On Paper
- Mind-Controlled Flamethrower
- Testing 3D Printed Worm Gears
- Play Your Favorite Nokia Game On The Raspberry Pi Pico
- Simple GUI Menus in Micropython
- The Coffee Must Flow: Replacing A Spent Lithium Cell In A Coffee Machine
- Guitar with Hot-Swappable Pickups Lights Our Fire
- DIN Rails for… Everything
- The Mysterious Wobble of Muons
- 3D-Printed Desiccant Container Exploits Infill
- The Russian Woodpecker: Official Bird of the Cold War Nests in Giant Antenna
- Original Game Boy Powered Up with GBA Motherboard
- Smallest Discrete Transistor 555 Timer
- Sinclair BASIC for Today
- The Laser Power Record Has Been Broken
- Four Servo Fingers Play Simon Better Than You Ever Could
- Tetris For Game Boy Gets Online Multiplayer
- TrueTape64 Is A PC Interface For Your C64 Datasette
- The ARMv9 ISA, And What It Can Do For You
- Embedded Rust Hack Chat
- Apple AirTag Spills Its Secrets
- South Australia vs. Too Much Home Solar
- Building An Oxygen Concentrator: It Isn’t Rocket Science
- Mobile Electronics Workstation Has it All in a Small Package
- PHP Gets A Demoscene Engine Of Its Very Own
- Ello is A Tiny Computer With A C — Interpreter?
- Hackaday Links: May 9, 2021
- Artwork Spans Fifty Years of Display Technology
- Air-Assist Analysis Reveals Most Effective — and Quietest — Methods
- Polyphony On A Tiny Scale
- Fix Your Nokia’s White Screen Of Death
- A MIDI Controller — From A Twister Mat?
- Calibrating a VNA The Proper Way
- Finally An Inexpensive Route To Digital Radio Listening
- Leap Motion Controls Hands with No Glove
- MIT’s Hair-Brushing Robot Untangles Difficult Robotics Problem
- Using CanoPy to Visualize the CAN Bus
- Reinventing the Wheel
- Automate Your Poultry With CoopCommand
- A Dutch City Gets A €600,000 Fine for WiFi Tracking
- This POV Clock Combines a Nixie with a Pendulum
- The Fine Structure Constant in a Blink
- K’nex Pinball Machine is a Playable Work of Art
- A Trip Down the Vacuum Clamping Rabbit Hole
- Homemade Metal Band Saw
- How To Build A Turbo Car The Cheap, 90s Way
- Hackaday Podcast 117: Chiptunes in an RCA Plug, an Arduino Floppy Drive, $50 CNC, and Wireless Switches
- Improved Graphics-to-Drawing Tablet Conversion
- This Week in Security: BYOVD, Spectre Vx, More Octal Headaches, and ExifTool
- Pocket Sized Wii Sets the Bar for Portable Builds
- Auto Strummer Can Plectrum the Whole Flat-Strumming Spectrum
- Shake Up Your Magic 8-Ball with GIFs
- Finding Dark Ships via Satellite
- Adding MQTT To A Solar Powered PIR Light
- Coffee Stirrers Act as Lens for This Digital Straw Camera
- Building A Robotic Band To Make Up For Lack Of Practice
- SpaceX Drops the Ball on Catching Fairings
- Hacker Spends a Few Cycles Upgrading an Under-Desk Bike
- Ask Hackaday: If Aliens Came By, Would We Even Notice?
- Putting an Ultra-Tiny Linux Board in a Phone Charger…Eventually
- The Keyboard You Really Don’t Need Or Want
- VME Reverse Engineering
- Learn Engineering Concepts With Some Cool Animations
- A Wireless Speaker Pair From Dead Earbuds
- A DIY Enclosed Motorcycle To Keep You Dry In The Rain
- Using Docker to Sail Through Open-Source Xilinx FPGA Development
- Julius Sumner Miller Made Physics Fun for Everyone
- 3D Printed Camera Crane For The Workshop
- The Soviet RBMK Reactor: 35 Years After The Chernobyl Disaster
- Modified Microwave Cures Resin Parts With Style
- RCA Plug Plays Sixteen-Minute Chiptune Piece, All by Itself
- Lego Wheels And Tracks Benchmarked For Your Pleasure
- AVR Bare Metal with Lisp
- Prioritising Mechanical Multiplexer
- Robotic Gripper From A Squishy Ball
- Synth Gains Plug and Play Analog MUX
- Linux Fu: Mixing Bash and Python
- New Contest: Reinvented Retro
- Feel What The Temperature Is Like Outside Without Leaving Your Bed
- TypeMatrix EZ-Reach 2030 is Better Than Your Laptop Keyboard
- Soviet Super 8 Camera Hides Raspberry Pi Zero
- Enjoy an ASCII Version of Star Wars in the Palm of Your Hand for May the 4th
- Guitar Hero Robot Actually Shreds
- Silicon Carbide Chips can go to Hell
- ECG Project With All the Messy Safety Details
- Hoverboard Turned Heavy Duty Remote Control Rover
- Teaching a USBasp Programmer to Speak TPI
- After Years of Uncertainty, Stratolaunch Flies Again
- Open-Source Oxygen Hack Chat
- I2C Paper Tape Reader is Not What You Think
- Genetically Modified Mosquitos: Biohacking for Disease Prevention
- Commodore 64 Emulator in VR Delivers a Full 80s Experience
- Keep Livestock from Razing Your Field with an Overgrazing Shield
- Soundbar Bested by Virtual Android Bluetooth Sniffer
- Active Suspension On A DIY Racing Car
- Hackaday Links: May 2, 2021
- Reverse Engineering Self-Powered Wireless Switches
- The Amiga 2000 You Always Wanted
- Ingenuity Completes Fourth Flight on Mars, Gets a New Mission
- An Epic Quest to Put More Music on an iPod Nano 3G
- Pool Temperature Monitor Mollifies Fortunate but Frustrated Children
- Two-Player PVC Racing Rig Plays Daytona USA
- Coffee Cupping is a Grind — Spectroscopy Could Brew Better Beans
- This Bunny Reminds Toddlers That It’s Night Time
- Winners of Hackaday’s Data Loggin’ Contest: Bluetooth Gardening, Counting Cups, and Predicting Rainfall
- Could Seven Gamers Play Quake on Just One 1996 SGI Machine?
- If You Can Measure It, You Must Display It
- 3D Printer Control Board Packs a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4
- Apple-Picking Robot Stems From Labor Shortage
- Modding A Casio W800-H With A Countdown Timer
- VGA Graphics Card in 74xx Logic
April 2021
- Look Out Below! China’s Heavy-Lift Rocket Due for Uncontrolled Reentry Within Days
- An LED Heartbeat Display You Can Wear On Your Sleeve
- Homemade EDM Machine Moves from Prototype to Production
- Mice Develop Inside an Artificial Womb
- Hackaday Podcast 116: Three DIY Lab Instruments, Two Tickers, and a MicroCar
- Airports Are Now AirBNBs for Honeybees
- This Week in Security: Dan Kaminsky, Banned from Kernel Development, Ransomware, And The Pentagon’s IPv4 Addresses
- Looks Like a Pi Zero, Is Actually an ESP32 Development Board
- An Arduino With A Floppy Drive
- This DIY Split-Flap Display Does Both Time and Weather
- Shipping a CRT: Lessons Learned
- An Attempt At 3D Printing A Hybrid Rocket Engine
- RGB LED Rings Teach Old Dash New Tricks
- A $50 CNC
- Wireless MicroPython Programming with Thonny
- ASCII Schematic Diagrams
- Solar And Wind Could Help Support Ethiopia’s Grand Dam Project
- Print Your Own Wireless 2.1 Speaker System
- RC Ekranoplan Uses LIDAR to Fly In Ground Effect
- Measuring an Atom
- Open Source Pizza Compass Will Show You the Way
- Alone, But Not Lonely: Remembering Astronaut Michael Collins
- Winners of Hackaday’s Earth Day Contest: Solar LIC, Auto-Return Parafoil, & Water Flowmeter
- Lamps Double As Secret Surround Sound Speakers
- Clever Gas Mixer Gets Just the Right Blend for Homebrew Laser Tubes
- VCF Swap Meet Takes Step Back To Move Forward
- Grinding Coffee Beans the Machine Shop Way
- Exploring the World of Nintendo 3DS Homebrew
- CubeSat for Under $1000?
- Run Out Of GPIO On Your Pi? Don’t Despair!
- Boat Anchor Nixie Clock Plays the Cold Warrior Role Convincingly
- DIY Grader Box + Rocks = No Need for Shocks
- Supersized Van de Graaff Generator Packs a Punch
- How Best To Get Your Project On Hackaday
- Helicopter is Full of Compressed Air
- Ask Hackaday: Why Make Modular Hardware?
- Paper Pi Is an Ergonomic Cyberdeck Meant for Thumbs
- Review: Sequre SQ-D60 Temperature Controlled Soldering Iron
- Texture Adds Stiffness to 3D Parts
- The Evil Crow is Ready To Cause Some RF Mayhem
- Logic Flows, Literally, in this Water Adder
- Retrotechtacular: Renewable Energy, 1948 Edition
- Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Keycaps
- Pneumatic Can Crusher Awaits Your Command
- Indian Makers Respond To The COVID-19 Pandemic By Producing Oxygen Concentrators
- Linux Fu: A Little Bit of (Network) History Repeating Itself
- Disney Imagineering’s “Project Kiwi” Bears Groot
- Blocking Out The Sun: Viable Climate Countermeasure Or Absolute Madness?
- Build an ESP32 Stock Ticker To Watch Your GME Gains
- 3D-Printed Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope Measures Microns
- Keep In Touch With Grandma, With This Lo-Tech Interface
- Small Open Source Vehicle Hacking Platform
- Hackaday Links: April 25, 2021
- Arduino MKR Makes Nespresso Monitoring Easy
- An ESP32 Development Board For Sailors
- Forth Module the Size of a Stick of Gum
- Fertilizing Plants With A Custom 3D-Printed Pump
- 7000 RPM on a 3D-Printed Gearbox
- [Ken Shirriff] Picks Apart Mystery Chip from Twitter Photo
- Was Novell’s NE2000 Really That Bad?
- A Modern Mac Using An Ancient Mac Display
- Virtual Reality Experiment Tricks Your Feet Into Walking While Sitting Down
- Clay Pot MP3 Player Whipped Up With The Freedom-K64F
- Fail Of The Week: Mistaking Units for Values
- Hack the Cloud!
- Taking Reverse Engineering to the Skies: Cheap Drone Gets PX4 Autopilot
- WSPR May Hold The Key To MH370 Final Position
- Building A Gas-Powered Pressure Washer
- Debug ARM Virtually
- Modding A Hot Wheels Car Into A Radio Controlled Drift Weapon
- Ooohhh, That Smell: Arduino Monitors Air Quality
- Pi-Based Spectrometer Puts the Complexity in the Software
- “Paper” Bottles For Your Fizzy Drinks (And Bottle Rockets)
- Hackaday Podcast 115: AI is Bad at Linux Terminal, Puppeting Pico in Python, 3D Scanning Comes Up Short
- An Anamorphic Lens Adapter For Very Pretty Video
- This Week in Security: NAME:WRECK, Signal Hacks Back, Updates, and More
- This ESP8266 Dev Board Has A Surprising Story Behind It
- Stepper Motor Analyzer Reveals All
- Visual Raspberry Pi with Node-Red and TensorFlow
- Make Your Own Variable Inductor
- Heating A Home With Sunlight… And Water
- Turn On Your Lights With A Wave Of A Magic Wand
- LibreVNA Is A Quality Open Hardware Vector Network Analyser
- Hands-On With PineCube: An Open IP Camera Begging for Better Kernel Support
- Woofer-Based Parts Cleaner Bounces to the Beat
- The Fascinating World of Fasciation
- TR-109 Raspberry Picorder 2 Really Nails The Star Trek Aesthetic
- Faux Stained Glass Effect, With 3D Printing and Epoxy
- Gorgeous 6502 Celebrates Craftsmanship of the Early Homebrewers
- Compute Like it is 1975: 6th Edition Unix Reborn
- Build Your Own Bluetooth Notification Ticker
- A Hot-Swappable Battery Grip Keeps The Camera Rolling
- Ferrofluid Dances in Custom Bluetooth Speaker
- Hacking an Air Assist for the Ortur Laser
- BMW Pushing Hard For Solid-State Battery Tech; Plans Demo By 2025
- Auto Ball Launcher Will Be Your Dog’s New Best Friend
- ISO 8601: Ending the Date Wars and Confusing Everyone Equally
- Mythbusting Tidal’s MQA Format – How Does It Measure Up?
- Easy USB‑C Power For All Your Devices
- Battery Analyzer Puts Alkaline Cells to the Test
- A Useful Macro Pad For Microsoft Teams
- No-Nixie Nixie Clock
- You Won’t Believe How Much Tech is Hiding in this Desk
- Camera Hack Peels Back Layers of Embedded Linux
- What to Expect From 3D Scanning, And How To Work With It
- Incandescent 7-Segment Displays Are Awesome
- A Look At The Most Aerodynamic Cars Ever Built
- LED Hack Teaches DJI Mini 2 Drone New Tricks
- AI Makes Linux Do What You Mean, Not What You Say
- Adjustable, Piston-Damped Hammer
- Inside a DEC Hard Drive
- Smart Pet Feeder Is Well Engineered
- Large Format Lego Camera is a Bit Near-Sighted
- A Superheterodyne Receiver with a 74xx Twist
- The Wright Stuff: First Powered Flight on Mars Is a Success
- AVR Reverse Engineering Hack Chat
- 8-Bit Computer Addresses LEDs
- Space Propulsion: Separating Fact From Science Fiction
- Power Supply uses Thin Form Factor
- PiStorm Brings Modern Muscle To The Amiga
- DIY Wireless Serial Adapter Speaks (True) RS-232
- Exploring Op Amp Loading
- Hackaday Links: April 18, 2021
- Shapeshifting Streetlights Are The Future We Want To Live In
- This Pineapple Keyboard is the Bomb
- Bridging the PC and Embedded Worlds with Pico and Python
- Toggle Switch Puzzle Boggles the Mind, Opens the Box
- Heads Up: Smart Glass Multimeter
- DOS Gaming PC Gets Necessary Updates
- Guide to Mastering OpenSCAD Costs Roughly the Same as OpenSCAD
- Pedaling Away Under The Cover Of Your Desk
- Kitchen Bump Bar Plays Doom Between Orders
- A HALO of LEDs for Every Ear
- Junkbox Confidential
- E.T. Video Game Gets Re-Imagined in 10 Lines of BASIC
- Replacing an ESP8266 Clone with the Real Thing
- Three Ways to Detect the Silver Ball
- The Imperfect Bipolar Transistor
- Ambitious Spot Welder Really Pushes the Amps
- The Beat Goes On With this ESP32 Page Turner
- New Whitest Paint Might Help Fight Climate Change
- The False Alarm That Nearly Sparked Nuclear War
- Hackaday Podcast 114: Eye is Watching You, Alien Art, CNC Chainsaw, and the Galvie Flu
- Unmasking the Identity of an Unusual Nintendo DS
- This Week in Security: Pwn2own, Zoom Zero Day, Clubhouse Data, and an FBI Hacking Spree
- Detergent DRM Defeated on Diminutive Dishwasher
- DOOM on a Bootloader Is the Ultimate Cheat Code
- Tightly Packed Raspberry Pi Tricorder Impresses
- 3D Animation for All Thanks to Google AI
- Programming PALs in 2021
- Virtual Reality Gloves Aim To Improve Interactivity
- Heavy Metal Cyberdeck Has an Eye Towards Expansion
- The $50 Ham: A Simple WSPR Beacon
- Portrait of a Digital Weapon
- Crew Dragon’s Short Hop Begins the Era of Valet Parking at the ISS
- 3D Printing A Long Range Nerf Blaster
- WiFive55: More Than a Smart 555 Replacement
- A Faux BBS Gets Software On To Your Vintage Machines
- Morrowind Rebooted The Original Xbox Without You Ever Noticing
- Remote Controlled Car Gets Active Suspension
- Logic Chip Teardown From Early 1990s IBM ES/9000 Mainframe
- SV Seeker Is Recycling Batteries
- History of Closed Captions: The Analog Era
- You Need an Automated Overhead Camera Assistant
- Magna Announces Simple Drive Solution For Electric Pickup Trucks
- Gaming With 1 Horsepower Of Rumble Feedback
- Sanity Check your Engines with this Dynamometer
- A Lot of Effort for a Pi Laptop
- Treatment Triggers Teeth to Thrive
- Garage Door Controller Gets The IoT Treatment
- Homebrew RISC-V Computer Has Beauty and Brains
- Removable Extruder Pulls Out the Stops on Features
- Teardown: Linkimals Musical Moose
- New HackadayU Classes: Antenna Basics, Raspberry Pi Pico, and Designing Complex Geometry
- BEAM-Powered, Ball-Flinging Beam Has Us Beaming
- Weren’t We supposed To Live In Plastic Houses In The Future?
- An RP2040 Board Designed For Machine Learning
- Alien Art Drawn with Surprisingly Simple Math
- Imaging The past With Time-Travel Rephotography
- Why Pendulums Sync Up, And Other Mysteries Explained
- Space Shuttle Program: 40th Anniversary of the First Launch of Columbia
- Queen Victoria’s Secret (Teletype and COSMAC Elf)
- Eyecam is Watching You in Between Blinks
- Zinc Fever: A Look at the Risks of Working with Hot Metal
- Inside Smart Meters Hack Chat
- Sixty Years Ago Today: Yuri Gagarin Becomes The First Human In Space
- MicroLEDs: Lighting The Way To A Solid OLED Competitor
- Exhuming an Ancient Game From a Government Warehouse
- Playing the Interview Game
- High Current Measurement Probe For Oscilloscopes
- LED Brightness Adjustment Uses Itself as Sensor
- Hackaday Links: April 11, 2021
- Solar Stevenson Screen for Smart Sprinkler
- Keep Coffee Warm Through Induction Heating
- The Dynamotor Simplified
- A Fresh E-Ink Newspaper Delivered Every Morning
- New Part Day: Espressif ESP32-C6 Includes WiFi 6 and a RISC-V Core
- Learn Multirotors From First Principles
- Camera Zero Looks Cool, Runs Cool
- Scratch-Built Robot Arm Looks Like Something Off the Factory Floor
- Coffee Table Railroad Flips to Hide the Fun
- Antique Map of Paris With Modern Tech
- Orphaned IoT Sleep Tracker Resurrected as an Air Quality Monitor
- The Last Days of the Wild West
- Newest PlayStation Exploit Skips the Disc
- Dynamic Build Platforms for 3D Printers Remove Supports and Save Material
- NASA’s Lucy Stretches Its Wings Ahead of Trojan Trek
- Kerbal Space Program Goes to the Movies in Stowaway
- Engineering the Less Boring Way
- Laser-Cut Solder Masks from Business Cards
- Uplink System For High-Altitude Balloons
- Hamster Goes on Virtual Journey
- Linux Fu: Shell Script File Embedding
- Hackaday Podcast 113: Python Switching to Match, a Magnetic Dyno, a Flying Dino, and a Spinning Sequencer
- Is It A Lawnmower? Is It an RPi IRC Server? It’s Both!
- This Week in Security: The Facebook Leak, The YouTube Leak, and File Type Confusion
- Taking a Peek Inside the Newest Echo Show 10
- Stepper Motors Quick and Simple
- Three-Piece Cyberdeck Plays the Role of Military Computer That Never Was
- Hacking the Classroom
- Someone Get This Minimalist Wooden PC a Martini
- An Open Source Smart Watch You’d Actually Wear
- CNC Chainsaw
- Electric Vehicle 1900’s Style: New Leases on Old Tech
- 18650 Brings ESP8266 WiFi Repeater Along For The Ride
- Code Your Own Twitch Chat Controls For Robots — Or Just About Anything Else!
- Compute Module 4 NAS With Custom Carrier Board
- Big Clive Hacks LED Bulbs with OpenSCAD
- Fun While It Lasted, Falcon 9 Telemetry Now Encrypted
- Hydraulics Made Simple
- Shoot Above the Waves on This E-Foil Made from a Rifle Case
- Harmonic Drive Uses Compliant Mechanism to Slim Down
- The Simplest Wind Turbine Is The Most Satisfying
- Field Guide to Shipping Containers
- Diving into the Details of Keyboard Interfaces at the Gate-Level
- Review: What On Earth Is An Electromagnetic Radiation Tester And Why Would I Need One?
- AN ESP32 Walkie-Talkie, For Those Spy Radio Moments
- Soviet Axe Restoration: Replace or Repair?
- Fan-tastic Misuse of Raspberry Pi GPIO
- Forgotten Tech — Self Driving Cars
- This Custom Dynamometer Is A Stirling Example of Homebrewing
- ISS Astronaut Shows off SpaceX’s Stylish Spacesuit
- Raspberry Pi Spigot Puts Digits of Pi on Tap
- Mercedes Split Turbo Was a Game Changer In Formula 1
- Bring A Hack Is Back this Thursday!
- Open Source Electric Vehicle Charging
- Death Of The Turing Test In An Age Of Successful AIs
- Flight of the Pterothopter: A Jurassic-Inspired Ornithopter
- You Otter Be Able to Stream that Audio: Open Hardware Eclipses Chromecast Audio
- Arduino Plots Your Portrait With Style
- Portable Telescope Rolls Anywhere
- TCam-Mini: Adding Wireless To Flir Lepton Thermal Imaging Sensors
- Totally Useless Coffee Dispenser is Anything But
- Music Production Studio in a Box
- Spacing Out: StarShip Explodes (Again), Passenger Space Flight, Space Bugs, Astronaut Bone, and Martian Water
- Haptics Hack Chat with Nanoport Technology
- Solid Tips for Casting Colored Silicone Tires
- AI Upscaling and the Future of Content Delivery
- Giant Nintendo Switch Is Actually Playable
- Honey, I Shrunk the Arduino Core
- Decoding S/PDIF With A Microcontroller Brings A Few Headaches
- A Magnetic Field Strength Meter Using An Arduino
- Hackaday Links: April 4, 2021
- Pocket Cheat Sheets for Electronics
- A Big Ship Chop Shop On The Georgia Coast
- Cheat at Cornhole with a Bazillion-Dollar Robot
- Color-Changing Sutures Detect Infection
- Hiding Behind The Silkscreen: The Carolinacon 2021 Badge Has A Secret
- 3D Printer as Robot: The Functograph
- Satellite Ground Station Upcycles Trash
- Ford and HP Teamed Up to Drive Down Plastic Waste
- Reverse Engineering Silicon, One Transistor at a Time
- This Vintage LED Matrix Lives in a Gold Bathtub
- When the Right Tool is Wrong
- You Can Now Build Your Own Glowing LED D20 (with a Whopping 2,400 LEDs)
- Playing Snake On A PCB!
- Finger Bend Is A Textile Flex Sensor You Can Sew At Home
- FreeCAD Takes Off With a Rocket Design Workbench
- Adjustable, Low-Impact Keeb is About as Comfortable as It Gets
- Micro Quadcopter Designed In OpenSCAD
- Smashed Amiga 2000 Gets New Lease On Life
- Python Will Soon Support Switch Statements
- Hackaday Podcast 112: We Have an NFT, Racing a Möbius Strip, and Syncing Video with OpenCV and Blender
- Electric Window Motor Becomes Mini Chainsaw
- This Week in Security: Ubiquity Update, PHP Backdoor, And Netmask
- Ultrasonic Sonar Detects Hidden Objects
- Slimming The Raspberry Pi Pico With a Hacksaw
- Over-Engineered Incandescent Numerical Display Shows Great Workmanship
- Vintage Spectrometer Gets Modern Interface Upgrade
- Sixteen Channel Retro Rotary Fader
- Off-The-Shelf Parts Make A Tidy Heater For Resin Printer
- Flashpen Is A High Fidelity Pen Input Device
- NFTs Are The Hope For A New Tomorrow!
- Extinguish Squeaks 24/7 with Refillable WD-40
- Hackaday Forced Into Light Mode
- Mining Bitcoin On The Nintendo Game Boy
- JIT vs. AM: Is Additive Manufacturing the Cure to Fragile Supply Chains?
- Haptic Feedback For FPS Games Relies on OpenCV
- One Bit CPU Runs at a Blistering 60Hz
March 2021
- Scratch-Built CO2 Laser Tube Kicks Off a Laser Cutter Build
- Classic Triumph Gets A Modern Digital Dash
- Spinning Up a Water Cooled 3D Printed Stirling Engine
- Direct Memory Access: Data Transfer Without Micro-Management
- Scanimate Analog Video Synths Produced Oceans of Motion Graphics
- The Difference Between 4WD and AWD
- Web Tool Cranks Up The Power on DJI’s FPV Drone
- Boston Dynamics Stretch Robot Trades Lab Coat For Work Uniform
- Sawblade Turned Beyblade Looks Painful To Tangle With
- Wires vs Words — PCB Routing in Python
- Custom Built 12-Port A/V Switch Keeps CRT Well Fed
- Pneumatic Actuator Made Out Of Lasercut Plastic
- A Floppy Controller For The Raspberry Pi
- Hershey Fonts: Not Chocolate, the Origin of Vector Lettering
- The Word Clock You Can Feel
- Google Calls It Quits With VR, But Cardboard Lives On
- High-End Case Mods To A PlayStation 5
- Putting Perseverance Rover’s View Into Satellite View Context
- The Sixtyforgan Proves That Church Organs Are Definitely Chiptune
- Moving Things with Electricity
- Oh Brother, Would You Look at This Cistercian Clock
- Put the Perfect Point on Your Tungstens with this Die Grinder Attachment
- Bluetooth PS3 Controllers Modernize the Nintendo GameCube
- A Few of My Favorite Things: Pens
- Physics of Lightning Hack Chat
- An AI-Free Way to Catch Wildlife on Camera
- Wet Country Wireless; How The British Weather Killed A Billion Pound Tech Company
- The Vibrating Reed Inverter: Possibly The Simplest Inverter You Can Make
- NVMe Boot Finally Comes to The Pi Compute Module 4
- Triton AR Headset Blends Stock and Printed Parts
- Should Have Used a Vacuum Tube 555
- Hackaday Links: March 28, 2021
- Code Talkers: Programming with Voice
- A Deep Dive into E-Ink Tag Hacking
- A Practical Electric Motorcycle, Made From A Motorcycling Classic
- Building the Dolphin Emulator in Ubuntu on a Nintendo Switch
- To Lovers of Small Boxes: a 3D Printable Design Just for You
- Super Mario Sunburn Mod Shines Up a GameCube Favorite
- An Ancient 8 Inch Floppy, With A PC
- Image Sensors Demystified by [IMSAI Guy]
- Homebrew 68K Micro-ATX Computer Runs Its Own OS
- Archery Release Becomes Reusable Balloon Cutdown Mechanism
- Putting Your Time In
- Don’t Fret Over the Ukulele
- Virtual Reality With A Dash of Live Shakespeare
- Raspberry Pi Zero Beams Back Video from 100,000 Feet
- Move Over Cesium Clock, Optical Clocks are Taking Over
- Skid Steer Robot Chassis Takes a Beating
- Nixie Shot Timer Adds Useful Elegance to Espresso Machine
- Real Time Object Detection for $59
- Bare-Metal STM32: Please Mind The Interrupt Event
- Hackaday Podcast 111: 3D Graphics are Ultrasonic, Lobotomizing Alexa, 3D-Printing Leaky Rockets, and Gaming the Font System
- Serial Silicone Molding
- This Week in Security: XcodeSpy, Insecure SMS, and Partial Redactions
- USB Comes to the ESP32
- Undocumented x86 Instructions Allow Microcode Access
- Data Blaster Is A Hip RPi Cyberdeck
- Speaker is Fully 3D Printed
- Earth Day Challenge: A Better Way to Wrangle Water
- Vibration Isolation Helps Improve FPV Video Feed
- CNC Scroll Saw Add-On Cuts Beautiful Wooden Spirals
- The $50 Ham: WSPR-ing Around the World
- The Future’s so Bright, You Gotta Wear Arduglasses
- How Fast is the Universe Expanding? The Riddle of Two Values for the Hubble Constant
- 3D Printed Wobbly Wheels Put Through Their Paces
- To Kill A Blockchain, Add Naughty Stuff To It?
- A Raspberry Pi Tablet, With A DSI Screen
- PCTG Filament Has Interesting Properties
- Coil Winding Machine Makes it Easy
- A Simple but Effective High-Flow Oxygen Concentrator from Hardware Store Parts
- 30-Year-Old Macintosh SE/30 Gets a Brand New Logic Board
- Ask Hackaday: How Do You Prepare?
- Removing Supervisor Passwords and Learning Python
- How The LIGO Observatory Detects Gravitational Waves
- Open Source Motion Controller for DIY Drones
- South Korean Mapping Satellite Reaches Orbit
- Traffic Jam In The Suez Canal; Container Ship Run Aground
- DIY I2C Tester
- 3D Printed Vortex Cooled Rocket Needs To Stop Leaking
- A Mobius Strip Track For Superconductor Levitation
- Hacking the Ortur Laser with Spoil Board, Z-Height, and Air Assist
- Fire at Renesas Plant Fuels Chip Supply Woes
- Digital PlayStation 3 Purchases May Only Live As Long As Your PRAM Battery Without Sony Servers
- Hey Google, is My Heart Still Beating?
- Machine Learning Current Sensor Snoops on MCUs
- A Crash Course on Sniffing Bluetooth Low Energy
- A Hi-Fi Speaker from some Foil and Magnets
- An Entire Game Inside of a Font
- Build-It-Yourself LC Meter
- Amazon Echo Gets Open Source Brain Transplant
- Lightweight OS For Any Platform
- A Lockdown Brightened By A Library Of Vintage Usborne Books
- MIDI All the Things Hack Chat
- Read Your Movies as Automatically Generated Comic Books
- How Laser Headlights Work
- Cursed USB-C: When Plug Orientation Matters
- Bringing Some Coulter To The Bench: Measuring Tiny Particles With Nanopore Sensing
- PCB Reflow with a PCB
- WebSerial: Browser Based Development For Your Boards and Electronic Badges
- Hackaday Links: March 21, 2021
- Arduino CLI for I/O Pin Testing
- Retrotechtacular: Manufacturing Philco Germanium Transistors
- Arduino and FPGA Done Differently
- Flip-Dots Enter the Realm of Fine Art
- The Long Journey Ahead for Linux on Apple Silicon
- Video Ram Transplant Doubles RTX 3070 Memory to 16 GB
- Arduino Serial vs SerialUSB
- A Handy Reference for Display Drivers and LCD Controllers
- Reproducing a Reproducer: Servicing a Cylinder Phonograph in the Year 2021
- A Milky Way Photo Twelve Years in the Making
- Machinist’s Accuracy vs. Woodworker’s Precision
- Get a Better Look at E3D’s Tool-changing 3D Printer Kit
- Negative Reinforcement: Drill Bits Edition
- Planetary Escape (-Room in a Box)
- A Technical (But Not Too Technical) Explanation of Landing Perseverance Rover On Mars
- Robot Arm Achieves Amazing Accuracy With Just Servos
- Clock-of-Clocks Adds Light-Pipe Hands for Beauty and Function
- Homebrew Grain Synth Has A Rad Step Sequencer
- Retrotechtacular: CT2, When Receiving Mobile Phone Calls Wasn’t A Priority
- Hackaday Podcast 110: One Unicode to Rule Them, Hacking Focus Stacking, Virtual Typing, and Zombie Weather Channel
- Surf’s Up, A Styrofoam Ball Rides the Waves to Create a Volumetric Display
- This Week in Security: Spectre in the Browser, Be Careful What you Clone, and Hackintosh
- Interfacing The Dreamcast Controller With Just An Arduino
- High Speed Flight In A Homebrew FPV Cockpit
- Wireless 360 Controllers Now On The Dreamcast
- An Algorithm for Art: Thread Portraits
- Industrial-Grade Storage Built With Laser-Cut Steel
- Wooden You Love to Build a Ribbon Microphone?
- LEGO Lunar Lander Animatronic Movie Released
- Getting Started With FreeRTOS And ChibiOS
- Visualise ESC Problems With LEDs
- New Part Day: Onion Tau LiDAR Camera
- Tether Tames Temperamental Typing
- Minimal UART Computer
- Phasors in LTSpice
- DIY B-Movie Robot is A-OK
- Cassette Lamp Is A Throwback To The Pencil-Winding Glory Days
- Running 57 Threads At Once On The Arduino Uno
- Science Officer…Scan for Elephants!
- The Devil is in the Details For This Open Air Laser
- Unicode: On Building The One Character Set To Rule Them All
- Experimenting With 3D Printed Rocket Nozzles
- Hacking a Digital Microscope Camera for Fun and Automated PCB Inspection
- Dreamcast Controller Adapter Even Works With Mice
- Custom Components in LTSpice
- Prototyping A Turbojet Engine In The Home Shop
- Bone Vibration Brings Typing into VR
- Raspberry Pi Cosmic Ray Detector
- Inputs of Interest: Marsback M1 is a Portable Party Peripheral
- Mini Hygrometer Packs e-Paper Display
- Design Solutions For The Heat Crisis In Cities Around The World
- Jet Powered Go Kart Built With RC Gear
- The Raspberry Pi Pico As An SDR Receiver
- Raspberry Pi Pico ADC Characterized
- PlayStation Unlocked with New Software Hack
- Resilient AI Drone Packs it all in Under 250 Grams
- Guitar Effects With No (Unwanted) Delay
- Retro Recreations Hack Chat with Tube Time
- There’s a Fungus Among Us that Absorbs Sound and Does Much More
- Cricut Decides to Charge Rent for People to Fully Use the Cutting Machines They Already Own
- Injecting Bugs with an Electric Flyswatter
- Rocket Lab Plans Larger Neutron Rocket For 2024
- Photorender your 3D Models
- Custom Dummy Load With Data Logging
- Reverse Engineering The Weather Channel’s Magic
- You Too Can Be A Railroad Baron!
- Hackaday Links: March 14, 2021
- How to Cobble a Wobble Disk Roaster Together
- Rare Diode Threatens Coast Guard’s Arctic Ambitions
- An Infrared-Activated Solder Fume Extraction Fan
- Your Plants Can Take Care of Themselves Now
- An Anti-Tamper Mesh Plugin for KiCad
- Web Pages (and More) via Shortwave
- It’s Not A Computer If It Doesn’t Have A Cartridge Slot
- Networked Nightlights Glow Together
- 3D-Printed Press-Forming Tools Dos and Don’ts
- Putting the Magic Smoke Back in a Cooked Scooter
- Balanced Design and How to Know When to Quit Optimizing
- Time’s Almost Up For The FrankenFMs: The Impending Switchoff of Analog TV
- Motorcycle Needs Custom Latching Switches for Turn Signals
- Battery of the Future, Now Buildable Yourself
- A Discrete Logic Word Clock
- A Different Kind of 3D Printer: Desktop Holograms
- Scratch-Built Rolling Tool Cabinet is a Metalworking Skill-Builder
- Keep Cool With This Open Source AVR Fan Controller
- RIP Lou Ottens, Developer Of The Compact Cassette And More
- Historical Hackers: Hero Builds Vending Machines
- Hackaday Podcast 109: Cars that Suck, a Synth Packed with 555s, X-ray Letter Reading, and Pecking at a PS/2 Keyboard
- DIY Telescope Courtesy of IKEA
- This Week in Security: APT Targeting Researchers, and Someone Watching All the Cameras
- E-Ink Laptop, First Steps
- Growing the World’s Largest Snowflake
- Raspberry Pi Hitches a Ride in a 1989 BMW Dashboard
- Getting On the Air With a 10-Minute-ish Ham Transmitter
- Building An LED Etch-A-Sketch
- NRF52 Weather Station Gives Forecast with Style
- Decoding the PS/2 Keyboard Protocol Using Good Old Fashioned Hardware
- Rex Wasn’t Really a PDA, It was the First Great Digital Rolodex
- 3D Printer Air Compressor is a Wankel
- Ask Hackaday: What’s Your Favourite Build Tool? Can Make Ever Be Usurped?
- Monitor SpaceX Rocket Launches With Software-Defined Radio
- Drone Boat Sails Seattle
- Playing Youtube Videos At Incredibly Low Resolution on LEDs
- Boxes.py Has Your Lasercut Box Needs Covered
- Cyberdeck Running On Apple Silicon, Though An A12 Not An M1
- Supersized Weather Station Uses Antique Analog Meters
- 3D Printed Lenticular Lens Makes 3D Display
- Allan McDonald’s Legacy And The Ethics Of Decision-Making
- Perlin Noise Helps Make Trippy Typographic Art
- Our Curious Relationship With Caffeine
- High-Altitude Balloon Tracker Does Landing Prediction with Pi Pico
- ESP8266-Powered Receipt Printer Puts RESTful API on Dead Trees
- Put More Scoot in Yer Scooter
- Laser Focus Made Easier with IR Filter
- DIY Furnace Smelts Magnetite Sand Into an Impressive Chef’s Knife
- Got Oxygen? Future Mars Missions are Relying on the MOXIE of Perseverance
- Roomba Gets Alexa Support with an ESP8266 Stowaway
- Amazing STARGᐰTE with DHD and Infinity Mirror Wormhole
- Credit for Clever Corner Clamp
- Teardown: Go Warmer USB Rechargeable Hand Heater
- Peek Into This Synth’s Great Design (And Abandoned Features)
- Full DIY: A UNIX Clone On TTL
- Arduino Micro Pushes Animal Crossing’s Buttons
- Laser Zap That Mosquito
- One Ring Light to Fool Them All into Thinking You’re Well-Rested
- A Soyuz Space Clock Replica
- Framed PONG is Picture Perfect
- What Can A $30 USB Spectrum Analyser Do For Me?
- Decapping Components Hack Chat with John McMaster
- A Scientist Made an Artificial Black Hole in the Lab, and You Won’t Believe What Happened Next
- Sea Level: How Do We Measure Global Ocean Levels and Do Rising Oceans Change that Benchmark?
- 3D Printing 90° Overhangs With Non-Planar Slicing
- AVR Configurable Custom Logic as a Frequency Divider at 4x Chip’s Clock Speed
- A Tiny Tube Amp For Not A Lot
- Head Lamp Gives Glowing Creature Comforts
- Hackaday Links: March 7, 2021
- The B-2 Bomber: Those Who Forget History Are Doomed To Reverse Engineer It
- Give Your Smart Home a Green Thumb with MQTT
- This Dual Extrusion System Rocks
- The Digital Radio Era (Partially) Ends In Ireland
- Tetris on Split-Flap Go Brrr
- Is That A Cat Or Not?
- The IEEE Builds a Smart Watch
- Waterjet-Cut Precision Pastry
- X-Ray Defeats Letterlocking — Unfolds and Reads Letter Sealed Since 1697
- NASA’s Perseverance Rover Makes Its First Martian Tracks
- 99% Inspiration, 99% Perspiration, and 99% Collaboration
- Lost a Lightweight Quadcopter? Here Are The Best Ways To Find It
- Print Chess Pieces, then Defeat the Chess-Playing Printer
- buttonpusher Automates Animal Crossing Tasks
- Explore the Cosmos with this DIY Digital Telescope
- Open-DIP Surgery Cuts Retro Chips Down to Size
- Get Apple to Track Your Bluetooth Devices For You
- Eyesight Guardian Polices Your Poor Pupils
- The Rise And Fall Of The Fan Car
- Hackaday Podcast 108: Eulogizing Daft Punk Helmets, Bitcoin Feeling the Heat, Squeezing Soft Robots, and Motorizing Ice Skates
- Elegant and Portable DIY Nightlight Becomes a Fixture for Hacker’s Kids
- This Week in Security: Text Rendering on Windows, GNU Poke, and Bitsquatting
- A New Open-Source Farming Robot Takes Shape
- Magnetic Angle Sensor Mods Make Encoder Better for Blasting
- RetroArch Open Hardware Aims for Plug-and-Play
- Smart Lid Spies On Sourdough Starter, Sends Data Wirelessly
- Homebrew Espresso Machine Has Closed-Loop Control
- Inspire Dev Kit Drops Price Of MSLA Printer To Just $30
- Serene Snowdecahedrons
- We’re Cloning Animals From the “Frozen Zoo”; Like A Seed Bank But For Animals
- Can Plants Bend Light to Their Self-Preserving Will?
- Arduboy FX Mod-Chip: Now You’re Playing with Power
- Volumetric OLED Display Shows Bladerunner Vibe, Curious Screen Tech
- 2:3 Scale VT100 is a Perfect Pairing for PDP-8/I Replica
- Retrotechtacular: Philips Factory Tour, circa 1930s
- Fueling with Ammonia
- Generator Runs On Natural Gas With Field Expedient Tip
- A Sympathetic Nail Violin
- Complicated and Useless Cancel Each Other Out
- What Uses More Power Than Argentina But Doesn’t Dance The Tango?
- Liquid Lite Brite Robot
- Using Phase Change Materials For Energy Storage
- Attack of the Flying 18650s
- Free to Good Home: FPGA Supercharged Audio/Video Synthesizer
- The 70s Are Calling to Shed Some Light
- Circuit Impedance Calculations Without Cumbersome Simulations
- Cycling Cadence Display With ESP32
- 3D-Printed Macro Pad Ditches the PCB With Slick Wiring Guides
- Wireless, Low Power E-Ink Weather Gadget
- Rube Goldberg’s Least Complicated Invention Was His Cartooning Career
- New Contest: Data Loggin’
- Fixing The Only Thing That’s Slow About Grand Theft Auto V
- An Homage To Daft Punk In Fan-Made Helmets Through The Years.
- Don’t Tase Me, Keeb!
- A FLIR One Pro Sees Again, Thanks To Some Nifty Soldering
- Lowering The Electricity Bill By Mining Cryptocurrency
- Open Source CAM Software In The Browser
- Machining a Honing Jig Will Keep Skills Sharp
- Shredding The Ice With Powered Skates
- Street-Legalize Your Ebike With A Magnet
- World’s First eVTOL Airport Will Land This November
- Putting Lasers to Work Hack Chat
- There’s Only One Way To Play A Star Wars Game
- Wind Turbines and Ice: How They’re Tailored for Specific Climates
- Electroplating 3D Printed Parts for Great Strength
- SVG To Gerber, Without The Pain
- Tim Hunkin Rides Again With The Secret Life Of Components
- Reliable Frequency Reference from GPS
- Hackaday Links: February 28, 2021
February 2021
- BGA Soldering and Inspection
- Hidden TV-Out On The Nintendo DS Lite
- Fail of the Week: How not to Build a Filament Extruder
- Nissan’s Office Pod Concept is a Productivity Paradise on Wheels
- OnShape to Robot Models Made Easier
- How to Monitor Blood Pressure Without Raising It
- A PCB for a Quarter?
- Pool Noodle Robot Shines A Light On The Pros and Cons Of Soft Robots
- Circle Full of LEDs Becomes a Clock
- Exploring The Open Source That Really Goes Into A RISC-V Chip
- Printing Yoda Heads: Re-Makers Riffing!
- A Very Modern Tube Headphone Amplifier
- Sounding the Humble LED
- Bottle Filler Perfectly Tops Your Cup
- The Famous Basic Computer Games Book Gets a 2021 Update
- 3D Printed Printing Press Turns You into Gutenberg
- Spectrogram Drawing For Fun And Coding
- This Week in Security: Mysterious Mac Malware, An Elegant VMware RCE, and a JSON Mess
- Hackaday Podcast 107: FTDI Plays Music, LED Dimming Ain’t Easy, Measuring Poop Calories, and Sketchy Laser Cutters
- Bad Week for Boeing: Reports of Third Engine Failure Causes Emergency Landing in Moscow
- Modified 3D Printer Makes A Great Microscope, Too
- Should I Use Wheels Or Tracks?
- DIY All-Transistor Addressable Pixel
- Homebrew Metrology the CERN Way
- Tired of Popcorn? Roast Coffee Instead
- Oddball x86 Instructions
- “MORPH” LED Ball is a There-Is-No-Spoon, Reality-Bending Art Installation
- Electric Airboat For Getting You Across Thin Ice
- Demonstrating The Mars Rover Pendulum Problem With A Drone On Earth
- 3D Printering: To Print Stainless, You Do Half the Work
- Fry’s Electronics Has Fizzled Out Completely
- May (No Longer) Contain Hackers: MCH 2021 Has Been Cancelled
- What If I Never Make Version Two?
- Turn An Ender 3 Into A Belt 3D Printer Of Your Very Own
- DIY USB-C Touch Monitor Is All Polished Brass
- Micro:bit Makes Cardboard Pinball More Legit
- Robotic Pool Cue Can Be Your Friend Or Your Foe
- Motor-Driven Movement Modernizes POV Toy
- Hacking a Non-Dimmable LED Fixture
- Taking A Capacitor Microphone To The Next Level
- Real-Time OS Basics: Picking The Right RTOS When You Need One
- Deleting The Camshafts From A Miata Engine
- Increasing the Resolution of the Electrical Grid
- 30 FPS Flip-Dot Display Uses Cool Capacitor Trick
- Audio Out Over A UART With An FTDI USB-To-TRS Cable
- Retro Dreamcast Rhythm Game Controller Built From Scratch
- Capstan Winch Central to This All-Band Adjustable Dipole Antenna
- dodowDIY Is A Homebrew Sleep Aid
- Ben Krasnow Measures Human Calorie Consumption By Collecting The “Output”
- Plasma Discharges Show You Where the Radiation Is
- Paul Taylor Opened the Lines of Telecommunication for the Hearing-Impaired
- Useful Build Tips For Making LED Panel Frames
- Hands on With the Ortur Laser Cutter
- Lighted Raspberry Pico Stream Deck is Easy as Pi
- Pelton Turbine Development For An Air Powered Model Helicopter
- LED Spectrum Visualizer Driven By Raspberry Pi
- 3D Print a PCB the Hard Way
- How To Design a Custom Generator Interlock Plate
- Stunning Footage of Perseverance Landing on Mars
- PVC Pipes Play “Popcorn” Perfectly
- Flapping Wings And The Science Of How Bees Can Fly
- DIY Neuroscience Hack Chat
- Improving Cheap Ball Screws
- A Brief History of Viruses
- Slick Web Oscilloscope is Ready in a Flash (Literally)
- Mastering The Tricky Job of Soldering SMA Connectors
- How Tiny Can A Microcontroller Dev Board Be!
- Beautiful and Bouncy RGB LED Skirt Reacts to Movement
- Hackaday Links: February 21, 2021
- Python Settles Bet About Best Strategy in Children’s Board Game
- Inside an Oscillator with [Ken Shirriff]
- Volumetric 3D Television Is Here!
- Apple II Talks to 3D Printer With a Little Modern help
- This Slimline Word Clock Uses Laser Etching to Keep Things Simple
- It’s Noodles All the Way Down: Ramen comes to 3D Printer Support
- How Did The Nintendo Virtual Boy Work?
- Vintage Calculator Design Shows Just How Much We Take for Granted Today
- A Look at The “Risky” Tech in NASA’s Martian Helicopter
- Google-Inspired USB-PD Sniffer for the DIY Crowd
- It Ain’t Broke, But Should I Fix It?
- Stochastic Markov Beats
- Launching an Open Source Keyboard; System76 has Published Their Design Files
- Writing Pretty Flux Patterns To Old Floppy Disks
- 3D Print Your Next Antenna
- Homebrew Doorknob Caps for High-Voltage Fun
- 12-Note Polyphony On An Arduino Synth
- Plotter uses Dual Disks
- Practical Sensors: The Many Ways We Measure Heat Electronically
- Hackaday Podcast 106: Connector Kerfuffle, Tuning Fork Time, Spinach Contact Prints, and Tesla’s Permanent Memory
- Custom Inlaid Retro Keycaps: Clay is the Way
- This Week in Security: ISNs, Patch Tuesday, and Clubhouse
- The Raspberry Pi Pico Can’t Run Linux. But It Can Run Fuzix.
- A Smart Way to Wire Smart Switches
- A Nerf Gun Upgrade
- An E-Book Reader, But Just For Haiku
- Slim Sypherdeck Skips the Keyboard, Packs x86 CPU
- Laser Galvos and an ESP32 Recreate Old-School Asteroids
- Dynamic Macro Keyboard Controls All the Things
- A Brief History of Optical Communication
- Coding A Dynamic Menu For Character LCDs on Arduino
- NASA Selects SpaceX to Launch Lunar Gateway
- Custom 3D Printed Vitamins are Just a Few Clicks Away
- Internet of Clams
- PS2 Gets Integrated HDMI
- DIY Bread Slice Paper Goes Against the Grain
- Building Replica Amigas to Preserve Digital Artwork
- A 3D Printed Camera Arm For Great 3D Print Timelapses
- Cosmic Ray Flips Bit, Assists Mario 64 Speedrunner
- James West Began 40 Years at Bell Labs with World-Changing Microphone Tech
- Ender V2 Layer Shift Problem Rectified With Cooling
- Minimal MQTT with Micropython
- This Stackable Pi Portable is Ready to Rumble
- Custom Firmware For IKEA’s ORSALA Lamp
- Arduino Announces Board Based On Raspberry Silicon
- Software Challenge’s Solution Shows Reverse Engineering in Action
- Hackaday Links: February 16, 2021
- Making a Toothbrush From Scratch, Right Down To The Bristles
- Using MIDI to Solve a Keyboard Shortcut Problem
- Trouble With The Texas Power Grid as Cold Weather Boosts Demand, Knocks Out Generators
- New Contest: Earth Day Challenge
- A Hydraulic Bench Vise, Made On The Bench
- BASIC: Cross-Platform Software Hacking Then And Now
- Continuous Excitation Piano Machine Looks Nervous, Sounds Grand
- Manned Electric Helicopter With 7 Tail Rotors
- Listening In On Muscles With The BioAmp EMG Pill
- The Tube Map, In Glorious 8-Bit!
- dRehmFlight: Customizable Flight Stabilisation For Your Weird Flying Contraptions
- A Volume Control From A VCR Drum
- Racing Game Crashes Into Its Next Life as a Sound Bender
- Signal Conditioning Hack Chat this Wednesday
- The Rotary-X Engine is a Revolution in Thermodynamics
- Print-in-Place Connectors Aim to Make Wiring Easier
- Ghidra Used to Patch Fahrenheit Into An Air Quality Meter
- Machine Learning Helps You Track Your Internet Misery Index
- The First Hacker Camp To Show up on Google Maps
- FreeTouchDeck Upgrades Its Hardware and Its Name: ESP32 Touchdown
- How to Bake Brownies With A Perfect Glossy Skin
- Stray Cat Shelter is Nicer Than Our First Apartment
- Truck Bed Liners Improve 3D Prints
- Legacy Digital Photos, With a Side of Murphy’s Law
- RFID Music Player Gets The Whole House Pumping
- Can You Code Without Google?
- Spinach Photo Prints
- Express Your Love with Candy and Engineering
- Making Printed Food More Palatable for Those Who Need It
- Open Source: It’s the Little Things
- Experiment With SFP Modules With This Handy Breakout
- Tuning Fork Keeps This Throwback Digital Clock Ticking
- Everything Old is New Again: Another 6502 Board is Born
- MIT Prints Robots with Lasers
- Your Own 11.2 GHz Radio Telescope
- IKEA Shelf Becomes Kid Friendly MP3 Player
- VGA Without The Hassle, From Your PlayStation One
- Europa Decision Delivers Crushing Blow to NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS)
- Hackaday Podcast 105: 486 Doom on FPGA, How Thick is Your Filament, Raspberry Pi Speaks Android Auto, and We’re Headed to Mars
- Building a Half Toy Half Model Tank Robot
- This Week in Security: Morse Code Malware, Literal and Figurative Watering Holes, and More
- Bitbanged DVI On A Raspberry Pi RP2040 Microcontroller
- PCB Mods Silence Voltage Warnings on the Pi 4
- GME-Tracking Rocketship For The Diamond-Handed Traders
- Nanotube Yarn Makes Strong Bionic Muscles
- PC Overclocking with an Air Conditioner
- Vacuum Forming Key Cap Covers Doesn’t Quite Work Out
- AOI By DIY
- Linux Fu: Serial Untethered
- Tiny Motors Enable Experimental Piano Performance
- Tesla Recalls Cars With eMMC Failures, Calls Part a ‘Wear Item’
- Phishing With Morse Code
- Restored Dreamcast is a SEGA Fan’s Dream Come True
- a Hair-Raising Twist on Infinity Mirrors
- 1938 Radio Has Awesome Dial
- Tonewheels Warble in This Organ-Inspired Musical Instrument
- 3D Printed Turbocharger Boosts Pulsejet Performance
- Simple Slide Whistle Gets a MIDI Makeover
- The $50 Ham: Digital Modes with WSJT-X
- Basic in 10 Lines or Less
- Would You Like Fries With Your Insect Burger, Ma’am?
- Android 10 Ported to the Nintendo Switch
- 3D Printer? Laser Cutter? CNC? Yes, Please
- An Out-Of-This-World Opportunity; Become An ESA Astronaut
- 3D Printer Makes Ham Antenna Portable
- Stay Focused with this Distraction Free Cyberdeck
- Reverse Engineering USB Protocols on a Function Generator
- Some Tips for Monetizing Work in Open Source
- The Modding, Restoration, and Demise of a $3M Analog Computer
- 3D Printed Butterfly Valve Helps Automate Fume Extraction
- Teardown: Bug Zapper Bulb
- Interfacing a Z80 CPU With the Raspberry Pi
- Cyberattack on Florida City’s Water Supply
- This Joy-Con Grip Steers Its Way To Sweaty Victory
- Building a Cheap Kubernetes Cluster From Old Laptops
- Recreating the Mac SE Logic Board
- VESA Arm Turned Low-Cost Overhead Camera Rig
- A Modern Homage To The TIL311 Display
- Getting Ready for Mars: The Seven Minutes of Terror
- Finishing Your Projects Hack Chat with Zack Freedman
- Hands-On: The RISC-V ESP32-C3 Will Be Your New ESP8266
- This Classy but Chaotic Gear Clock Keeps You Guessing
- The Bright Side of the Moon Lamp: It’s Any Colour You Like
- When Is Apple Beige Not Apple Beige?
- These Plastic Pavers Are Earth Savers
- Hackaday Links: February 7, 2021
- Holding A Mirror Up In Front Of GNU/Linux
- Simple Sensor Makes Filament Measurements a Snap
- An ESP Will Read Your Meter For You
- Ice40 Runs DOOM
- Sensing Danger with Spinach
- GBA Gets Homebrew USB Charging Upgrade
- The Future of Hydrogen Power… is Paste?
- PCB Bath Comes from Russia with Love
- Cap-Gun Lighter Built From Scratch
- Super Mario Original Sound Tracks Get High Quality Remaster Thanks To Gigaleak
- The Right Tools for the Job
- Proto-TV Tech Lies Behind This POV Clock
- Open-Source Thermostat Won’t Anger Your Landlord
- Building A Continuously Variable Transmission With Lego
- Sequencing DNA for Metagenomics
- Custom Ignition For A Citroën Mehari
- LoRa Messenger Does its Best BlackBerry Impression
- Raspberry Pi Takes Over Volvo’s Integrated LCD
- Using Your Phone as a Microscope on the Electronics Workbench
- Hackaday Podcast 104: Delicous AI, DVD Scanning Microscope, and Battery-Friendly Microcontroller Designs
- Arduboy Gets Even Smaller With New Nano Edition
- This Week in Security: Perl.com, The Great Suspender, And Google’s Solution
- Motor Controller Reverse Engineering Releases Smoke
- Hands On with the Voltera V-One PCB Printer
- Cooking Eggs With Hand Warmers
- Hacking Hardware Bitcoin Wallets: Extracting The Cryptographic Seed From a Trezor
- Bike Wheel Light Flashes Just Right
- Twisted Tea Launcher Refreshes at 104 MPH
- Reverse-Engineering an Elevator Control Panel Results in Clicky Goodness
- Feeling the KiCad 6 Electricity
- Mechanical Seven-Segment Display, Smaller and Better Than the Original
- Sewage Maceration Is As Gross As It Sounds
- Zoom Out of the Classroom with a Mushroom Button
- A Four-Year-Old Event Badge Makes An Environmental Sensor
- A Not-So-Alarming Clock
- Retrotechtacular: Design for Assembly, 1980s-Style
- Driving Upside Down With An RC Fan Car
- Orphaned Gimbal Gets Second Chance to Fly
- Brilliant Brick Prototyping
- The Bus That’s Not A Bus: The Joys Of Hacking PCI Express
- Transmit Your Gaze to This Fiber Optic LED Lamp
- Machine Learning in the Kitchen Makes for Tasty Mashup Desserts
- A USB-PD Laptop Conversion In Extreme Detail.
- Manual Pick and Place Turntable Makes Board Assembly Easier
- Youngster’s ESP32 Jukebox uses RFID to Queue Tunes
- Building a 60s Toy the Way it Should Have Been
- Arducam Now Working With the RPi Pico
- AM/FM Radio Gets Bluetooth Upgrade
- Building An Ultrasonic Levitation Rig
- Learn Bil Herd’s DIY Surface Mount Assembly Process
- Simple 3D Printed Seven-Segment Displays
- 3D Printering: Why Aren’t Enclosures Easier?
- “Alexa, Stop Listening to Me or I’ll Cut Your Ears Off”
- DVD Optics Power This Scanning Laser Microscope
- Upgrading the Batteries In A BMW i3
- This Isn’t Your Father’s Yellow Card
- Upgrading An Old MIG Welder Wire Feeder With Arduino
- Handy Tool Drains 18650 Cells So You Don’t Have To
- All The Best Computers From Cambridge Boot To Basic
- It Costs WHAT?! A Sounding Into Hearing Aids
- Mechanical Timekeeping Hack Chat with Clickspring
- Electric Candle Replaces Flame with Plasma
- Sirius XM Satellite Failure a Reminder that Space is Risky (And That Satellite Insurance is a Thing)
- Electronic Embroidery Birthday Card is a Celebration of Skills
- 13,000 Regular Expressions Make An Editor’s Life Easier
- Bugatti Concept Car Shows 3D Printed Strength
- Dazzling Desktop Dodecahedron
- Hackaday Links: January 31, 2021
January 2021
- Serial Studio: Easily Visualise And Log Serial Data
- OpenCV And Depth Camera Spots Weeds
- Old Gas Meter gets Smart with the ESP8266
- This Hot Air Gun Is Either A Work Of Genius Or Lethal, We Can’t Decide
- Mystery Box Gives Up Its Patented Secrets
- 3D Printing a Full Scale Fiberglass Speedboat
- Master Video Call Control Panel is Made of PCBs
- Scrappy: Drag Racing Bush Plane
- A Heat Reclaimer For Your Woodstove; The One Thing It’s Not Is Cool
- Nissan Gives Up root Shell Thanks to Hacked USB Drive
- Run the Math, or Try it Out?
- An Op-Amp From The Ground Up
- USB-C Charging on Your ThinkPad, One Step at a Time
- Giant DIY Mouse Sets the Ball Free
- SOUL Wants to Process Your Audio
- Add An Extra 8GB of VRAM To Your 2070
- Adding Remote Control To An Old Stereo
- Proofing Press Proves DIY is A-OK
- Why Blobs Are Important, And Why You Should Care
- Hackaday Podcast 103: Antennas for Everyone, a Clock Made of Chains, Magic Eye Tubes, and a Little Google Bashing
- The Last Few Analogue TV Stations In North America
- This Week in Security: Sudo, Database Breaches, and Ransomware
- Fire In The Palm Of Your Hand
- A Look At The Interesting RP2040 Peripheral, Those PIOs
- This Negative Reinforcement Keyboard May Shock You
- Controlling A Quadcopter With One Dead Motor
- Randonaut Device Tells You Where To Be And When
- A Physical Front Panel for Oscilloscope Software
- Modded Robot Vacuum Can Whistle While it Works
- Swine of the Times: Pig-to-Human Organ Transplants on Track for 2021
- Logic Meter Aims to Make Hobby Electronics Troubleshooting Easier
- Google Loon’s Internet Balloons Come Back To Earth After A Decade In The Stratosphere
- A Look at How Nintendo Mastered Dual Screens
- Open Source CubeSats Ease The Pain Of Building Your Own
- LED Hourglass Moves Like the Real Thing
- Goodbye 2020 Contest Winners Announced
- Apple Watch Gets Custom Transparent Case
- Decoding NOAA Satellite Images in Python
- 3D Printing an Ion Propulsion System
- Sony’s Electric Car Now Road Testing In Austria
- Raspberry Pi Zero Powers Spotify Streaming iPod
- Before Google, There was the Reference Librarian
- Chain Link Clock Drags Time Along
- Reconstructing Data From A Corrupt Apple ][ Floppy Disk
- Arduino Learns the Martial Arts with Nunchucks Input Device
- How to Keep Your Head Warm with a Skirt
- Dreaming of a Transparent (PCB) Christmas
- Chasing Down Bad Caps to Save a Troubled PSU
- How Does a Circuit Breaker Break?
- Cable Mechanism Maths: Designing Against the Capstan Equation
- Linear Pong Loses a Dimension but Remains Challenging
- What’s the Deal with Chromium on Linux? Google At Odds with Package Maintainers
- 3D Printed Box Gets Bigger
- Custom Bite Sensor Replaces Keyboard Expression Pedal
- Steam Engine Replica from LEGO
- Avoiding PCB Crosstalk
- How To Run Alternative Batteries On The DJI Mavic Mini
- Buzzer does Input and Output
- NASA Challenge Offers Prizes for Sprouting Astronaut Food Systems
- The Politics of Supersonic Flight: the Concord(e)
- ESP32-S2 and RP2040 Hack Chat with Adafruit
- Lenticular Lens Makes Things Invisible
- Failed Test Could Further Delay NASA’s Troubled SLS Rocket
- Repairing 200+ Raspberry Pis for a Good Cause
- Hide and Seek AI Shows Emergent Tool Use
- No More Cows: Iconic 1990s Download Site Finally Shuttered By Tucows
- What Makes A Good Antenna?
- Hackaday Links: January 24, 2021
- Physically Huge SD Card Technically Has Some Benefits
- Collapsible Pattern Projector is a Bright Idea
- Your NES Classic Mini Controller, On Your Desktop Computer
- A Big Set Of Logic Gates For Teaching The Basics
- An Alternator Powered Electric Bicycle Gives Rotor Magnetic Field Insight
- When Appliance Hackers Hit the Music Scene
- Naming Names
- OpenSCAD Prints Woodworking Aid
- Obstacle Climbing Rover Built With The Power Of Lego
- A Deep Dive into the Chemistry of Retrobright
- New Parts, New Hacks
- Low Cost Metal 3D Printing by Electrochemistry
- Two-Key Keyboard Build Log Starts Small, But Thinks Big
- A Computer in Your Pocket, 1980s Style
- Do Androids Search for Cosmic Rays?
- Casio F-91W, Going Dark
- ESP32 Inkplate Gives Kindle Displays a Second Chance
- mouSTer Brings USB to Retro Computers
- Meet the Magic Eye Vacuum Tube
- Hackaday Podcast 102: Raspberry Pi Microcontroller, Microphone Killswitch, and a 45-Degree 3D-Printer
- Porting Firefox To Apple Silicon: Tales From The Trenches
- This Week in Security: OpenWRT, Favicons, and Steganographia
- AMD’s Threadripper Is The Beating, Heating Heart Of “Most Powerful” DIY Laptop
- Fixing nRF24L01+ Modules Without Going (Too) Insane
- Game Boy Replica Built In Brass
- The US Air Force Wants Your 3D Scanner Ideas
- Keeping An Eye On The Water Heater Pilot Light
- Making Silicone Molds – Big Ones!
- Inflatable Hospital Isolation Wards
- A Few Of My Favorite Things: Amateur Radio
- Third Time’s the Charm for this Capable Cyberdeck
- Getting Closer to Metal 3D Printing
- The Sony ScopeMan, Possibly The Best Product They Never Made
- Raspberry Pi Enters Microcontroller Game with $4 Pico
- 3D Printed Pi Arcade is an Emulation Horn of Plenty
- A One-Transistor Ham Transmitter Anyone Can Build
- Oscilloscope Learns How to Speak Japanese, and VGA
- Multi-Channel Battery Monitor Aces First Sea Trial
- Automated Balcony Shade Uses NFC
- The Origin of Cut, Copy, and Paste
- DIY HEPA Fan Clears the Stale Office Air
- Blue Pill Vs Black Pill: Transitioning From STM32F103 To STM32F411
- 3D Printed Gesture-Controlled Robot Arm is a Ton of Tutorials
- Scanner Snooping Uncovers Focus Farce
- The (Probably) Most Thoroughly Commented Linker Script For The SAM D21 MCU
- Cura Plugin Offers Custom Support
- Pen Plotter Draws Maps Directly on the Wall
- Homebrew Relay Computer Looks Like it Could Be a Commercial Product
- Remoticon Video: Learning the Basics of Software-Defined Radio (SDR)
- A New Era of Spacecraft Delivers Science On Time
- ExpressLRS: Open Source, Low Latency, Long Range RC Protocol
- The $50 Ham: A Cheap Antenna for the HF Bands
- Start Your New Career In Robot Dance Choreography
- Mavic Mini Gets Custom Clear Case
- Apple II Prints Off The Breaking News
- Q Multiplier — Er… Multiplies Q
- Solar Safety Bag Lights Up the Night, Charges Your Phone
- Retrofitting USB-C to an iPod Nano
- Handheld Farkle Really Sparkles
- Pandemic Chip Shortages Are Shutting Down Automotive Production
- Movie Magic Hack Chat
- Robotic Fish Swarm Together Using Cameras and LEDs
- TV Detector Vans Once Prowled The Streets Of England
- A Miniature VT102 Running A Miniature PDP11
- On-Air Sign Helps Keep Your Broadcasts G-Rated
- LEDs From Dubai: The Royal Lights You Can’t Buy
- AT Keyboard Becomes Child’s Speaking Toy
- Hackaday Links: January 17, 2021
- Unknown Quantum Effect Makes Insulator Oscillate
- TRS-80 Model 100 Gets 64-Bit CPU and a Very Wide LCD
- AI Learns To Drive Trackmania
- Serving The Feline Masters: A Chair To Follow The Sunny Spot
- Arduino Wannabe Should Have Used a 555. Oh Wait, It Does.
- RGB Glasses Built From PCBs
- DIY LEGO Record Cleaner is Revolutionary
- 3D Printing Without Support Material Thanks To An Additional Axis
- Interference Patterns Harnessed for Optical Logic Gates
- USB-C Programmable Power Supply For Any Project
- Hackability Matters
- TV Turned Automatic Etch a Sketch with Raspberry Pi
- Doing WiFi With Software Defined Radio
- Lego Tank Fires Soccer Ball Cannon
- Manual Antenna Tuner Shows How Homebrewing is Done
- Extensive Modification of DSLR Includes High Quality Audio
- You’re Going To Flip Out Over This Rocket League RC Car
- A Surefire Way To Make Masks
- Circuit VR: Even More Op Amps
- Hackaday Podcast 101: Lasering and Milling Absolutely Everything
- Civil Defense Disco Ball Rocks Ground Zero
- This Week in Security: Ubiquiti, Nissan, Zyxel, and Dovecot
- Programmable Filament for Multicolor Printing
- A 136 Euro Pulse Jet For Some No-Firework Lockdown Fun
- Dynamic Map of Italy on a PCB
- Beam Dump Makes Sure Your Laser Path is Safely Terminated
- ESP32 Soil Monitors Tap Into Ultra-Low Power Mode
- OpenCV Spreads Smart Camera Joy To See Ideas Come To Life
- Basics Of Remote Cellular Access: Connecting Via VPN
- RISC-V Comes to the BeagleBoard Ecosystem with Upcoming Beagle V SBC
- 3D Printing Air Filter System Does a Lot
- Teardown: Tap Trapper
- Is Your Echo Flex Listening?
- Reachy The Open Source Robot Says Bonjour
- Handheld Slayer Exciter Wand Makes For Easy High Voltage Magic
- Stepping Down Voltage with Reliability
- Hacking a 3D Pen for Better Performance
- Hex Matrix Clock Does It With Six Sides
- Remoticon Video: Pigweed Brings Embedded Unit Testing, Library Integration to Commandline
- Making A Kid-Friendly Computer As A Present: Or How To Be The Cool Aunt At Christmas
- Sand Plotter Built With 3D Printer Parts
- NVMe Blurs The Lines Between Memory And Storage
- Custom Coil Lets Mouse Charge Without Wires
- It isn’t Rocket Science — Wait, Maybe it is
- Smart Power Delivery For Long LED Strips
- Extremely simple Tesla Coil with only 3 Components
- Vertical Mill Completes Scrapyard Lathe Build
- Remote Control Robot Deals Dominoes
- Visualizing Ionizing Radiation With DIY Plastic Scintillators
- Death of the Serial Squid: When do you Give Up?
- HackadayU Announces Rhino, Mech Eng, and AVR Classes During Winter Session
- Baby Yoda Becomes Personable Robot
- Spacing Out: Launch Successes And Failures, Next Stop Mars, Rocket Catching, & Space Stations
- 3D Printing in Five Axes Makes the World Flat
- Make Room For A New Arduino Competitor – With Native Brainf*ck!
- 3D Printed Pi Laptop Honors The Iconic GRiD Compass
- Growing Opals In The Lab
- Starlink Satellite Dish X-Rayed to Unlock RF Magic Inside
- Dangerous Greeting Cards You Probably Shouldn’t Send Anyone
- TabFS Makes Your Browser a File System
- Ask Hackaday: What’s in Your Fastener Bin?
- Plant Communication Hack Chat
- Bringing Modern Control To An Old Radio
- The V-Bomber Ejector Seat Controversy
- Laser Blasts Out High-Quality PCBs
- Retro Terminals Bring Some Style to Your Desktop
- Circuit Sculpture Vibration Sensor
- Wooden Cassette Tape Is a Veneer Stackup Seeking a few Good Walkmen
- Hackaday Links: January 10, 2021
- ESP8266 Socket is a Snap-Fit, Breadboard-Friendly Wonder
- Cyberpunk Mazda MX-5 Packs Onboard Cyberdeck
- Knockoff Kapton Nearly Sinks DIY Flex PCB Project
- Turning a Waffle Iron into a Reflow Station
- Careful Drilling Keeps Stadia From Listening In
- Lego Heist Bot Steals Keys
- South Korea Blankets Country with Free WiFi On All Public Transit
- Industrial Stack Light Keeps an Eye on Prusa Mini
- Six Degrees of Freedom Omnicopter With Ardupilot
- AVR Microcontroller Doubles Up as a Switching Regulator
- The Shell and the Microcontroller
- New Part Day: Espressif ESP32-S3
- Micromachining Glass with a Laser — Very, Very Slowly
- Replacement LED light build uses a few tricks
- Learning To Speak Peloton
- Helping Hands, Reinvented
- Old Kindle Shows HDMI Video, Eventually
- Remoticon Video: Basics of RF Emissions Debugging Workshop
- Bare-Metal STM32: Universal, Asynchronous Communication With UARTs
- Hackaday Podcast 100: Arduino Plays CDs, Virtual Reality in the 60s, and Magical Linear Actuators
- Solid Oak Arcade Cabinet: When Particle Board Won’t Do
- This Week in Security: Android Bluetooth RCE, Windows VMs, and HTTPS Everywhere
- FISHBOT Reels Them In So You Don’t Have To
- The Amiga 1000, Still Receiving New Peripherals 35 Years Later
- Party Canoe Lights Up The Water
- Companies Have New Take on Old Energy Storage Tech
- DIY Laser Tag System Comes With All The Bells And Whistles
- Building a Pocket Sized Python Playground
- Hands-Free Page Turning
- Active Camouflage Material Shows Promise at Hiding From Infrared or Visual Detection
- Rhythm Game Controller Can’t Be Beat
- The Day the Russians and Americans Met 135 Miles Up
- A Wi-Fi Enabled Dog!
- GPS Guided Parachutes For High Altitude Balloons
- A Tubular Fairy Tale You Control with Your Phone
- Turning a CMM Into A 3D Printer
- Electric Puzzle Board Lets You Assemble Circuits With Ease
- Automating Your Car With a Spare Fob and an ESP8266
- Powered Exoskeletons In Rough Terrain: An Interesting Aspect Of The Chang’e 5 Recovery Mission
- You Got Something On Your Processor Bus: The Joys Of Hacking ISA And PCI
- Bad Idea for Desoldering Actually Might be Pretty Smart
- Amazon’s Custom T-Shirt May Rub You the Wrong Way
- Heat Turns 3D Printer Filament into Springs
- Custom Controller makes Turbomolecular Pump Suck
- Xbox Controller Mod Gets Serious About Stick Drift
- AI on the Highway
- Burned out SKR E3 Mini Gets New Stepper Driver
- The Last Component Storage System You’d Ever Need
- Remoticon Video: Meta_Processing Is a Mashup of Text and Block Programming
- Inputs of Interest: DecaTxt Ultra-Portable Chording Keyboard
- New Micro YARH.IO Designed for Skilled Operators
- Review: Pine64 Pinecil Soldering Iron
- Raspberry Pi 4 Brings Cloud Gaming to Nintendo Switch
- [Ben Eater]’s Breadboarding Tips
- Raspberry Pi Tally Lights
- Adidas Going Natural with Mycelium Leather
- Building A Website-Controlled Christmas Tree
- Low-Cost Head Mounted Display from FPV Gear
- Simple AC Current Detector Built On A 9 Volt
- How To Get Into Cars: Drifting Mods
- Xolography: A Method To Improve The Accuracy Of Volumetric 3D Printing
- All The Good VR Ideas Were Dreamt Up In The 60s
- Tighten This Bolt in Any Direction You Want
- Never Forget To Turn On The Cooker Hood Again
- ABS Mercedes Rims Push The Limits Of 3D Printing
- Uncommon Bárány Chair Gets Fixed Up
- Hackaday Links: January 3, 2021
- Active Aero For A Radio Control Car
- Vintage Meters Reborn as Steam Punk Clock
- Dog Bowls Show the Versatility of Ceramic Slip Casting
- An Arduino And A CD-ROM Drive Makes A CD Player
- Blackboard Becomes Tidy Pen Plotter
- Listening To Long Forgotten Voices: An Optical Audio Decoder For 16 mm Film
- Checking in on Low-Cost CNC Machines
- Mattress-made MIDI Device Plays Exotic Tunes
- A Vintage Flip Clock Gets Some Modern Love
- Build an 8-bit CPU to Know “But How Do It Know?”
- How A Quadriplegic Patient Was Able To Eat By Himself Again Using Artificial Limbs
- Laser Etching Stainless Steel with Mustard
- A Gesture Recognizing Armband
- Metal Plating Plastic or Metal Parts
- Simple Christmas Tree Christmas Tree Ornament
- A Fresh Linux For The Most Unexpected Platform – The Nintendo 64
- DIY Injection Molding Press
- The Internet Of Christmas Tree Watering
- Domino Layer Lets You Focus On Toppling
- Number Bases Stretch the Mind
- Transforming Drone Can Be A Square Or A Dragon
- DIY 8-Bit Computer Knows All the Tricks
- Robotic Melodica Student Is Enthusiastic But Terrible
- Ambience Lamp Ripples Like Water