hackaday 2 weeks ago Ask Hackaday: Solutions, or Distractions? HackadayAsk Hackaday: Solutions, Or Distractions?The “Long Dark” is upon us, at least for those who live north of the equator, and while it’s all pre-holiday bustle, pretty light...
hackaday 2 weeks ago Failed 3D Printed Part Brings Down Small Plane HackadayFailed 3D Printed Part Brings Down Small PlaneBack in March, a small aircraft in the UK lost engine power while coming in for a landing and crashed. The aircraft was a total loss, but thankfull...
hackaday 2 weeks ago A Musically-Reactive LED Christmas Tree HackadayA Musically-Reactive LED Christmas TreeRegular Christmas trees don’t emit light, nor do they react to music. If you want both things in a holiday decoration, consider this build fr...
hackaday 2 weeks ago Putting KDE On Raspberry Pi OS Simpler Than Expected HackadayPutting KDE On Raspberry Pi OS Simpler Than ExpectedRaspberry Pi boards are no longer constrained – these days, you can get a quad-core board with 8 or 16GB of RAM to go around, equip it with a...
hackaday 2 weeks ago MagQuest: Measuring Earthβs Magnetic Field with Space-Based Quantum Sensors HackadayMagQuest: Measuring Earth’s Magnetic Field With Space-Based Quantum SensorsRecently the MagQuest competition on improving the measuring of the Earth’s magnetic field announced that the contestants in the final phase ...
hackaday 2 weeks ago Making Glasses That Detect Smartglasses HackadayMaking Glasses That Detect Smartglasses[NullPxl]’s Ban-Rays concept is a wearable that detects when one is in the presence of camera-bearing smartglasses, such as Meta’s line...
hackaday 2 weeks ago G4 iMac Becomes a Monitor with a MagSafe Secret HackadayG4 IMac Becomes A Monitor With A MagSafe SecretThe G4 iMac is one of the more popular computers in the restomodding scene given its charm and unparalleled ergonomics. Most modern machines that p...
hackaday 2 weeks ago A Deep Drive Deep Dive Into a Twin-Rotor Motor HackadayA Deep Drive Deep Dive Into A Twin-Rotor MotorCompromise is key to keeping a team humming along. Say one person wants an inrunner electric motor, and the other prefers outrunner. What to do? We...
hackaday 2 weeks ago Keebinβ with Kristina: the One with the C64 Keyboard HackadayKeebin’ With Kristina: The One With The C64 Keyboard[Jean] wrote into the tips line (the system works!) to let all of us know about his hacked and hand-wired C64 keyboard, a thing of beauty in its ch...
hackaday 2 weeks ago Super Simple Deadbuggable Bluetooth Chip HackadaySuper Simple Deadbuggable Bluetooth ChipWe’re all used to Bluetooth chips coming in QFN and BGA formats, at a minimum of 30-40 pins, sometimes even a hundred. What about ten pins, w...