one of the greatest trends in whatever market ‘Maker’ stuff belongs to is the Legofication of electronics. building electronics is hard, if you haven’t noticed. Anything that turns transmission lines, current loops, and RF wizardry into something a five-year-old can use has evident applications to education. For his Hackaday prize entry, [Jeremy Gilbert] is building […]
If all [Blake] wished to do is scroll “Blake likes Kim” on some LEDs he could have stopped with the breadboard version of the project. Or hastily craft a cardboard heart around the marquee. but he really just used this heart-shaped electronics project as an reason to get his feet wet with several different kinds of […]
You can find rubidium frequency standards all over eBay and various surplus dealers. They’re actually quite interesting devices, able to generate a 10 MHz sine wave with enough precision to be a serviceable atomic clock. While these standards can find themselves very useful in a lab, they’re only a component, and not a working-out-of-the-box device. […]
In a bit of punky, steam-based tinkering, Brittish engineer [Geoff Hudspith]’s obsession for steam as well as enthusiasm for cycles fused into the Hudspith steam Bicycle. Built as well as improved over the past thirty years, the custom-made steam engine uses a petrol as well as kerosene mix for fuel, reaching a top speed of […]
many of the time we feature hokey film footage in our Retrotechtacular series, but we think this hack is as amazing today as it was fifty years ago. [Clint] wrote in to tell us about operation Red Line. It was an experiment carried out may 3rd and 4th, 1963, which implies the 50th anniversary just […]
Derek Anderson enjoys building robot prototypes utilizing the LEGO Mindstorms kit, however he discovered his development hampered by the RCX’s very little processing power as well as connections. He made a decision to develop a custom-made LEGO style housing for a Gumstix waysmall computer. He has experience milling custom-made LEGO parts so this was an […]
Did you see my links yesterday? I screwed up the timestamp and sent the post back in time. then my Gentoo install ran out of disk space and chose to eat itself. Here’s what you can delete to make room on your Gentoo install. now I’m doing a long needed “emerge -vuDN world”. I’ll let […]
[Ronald] had to scramble to get his submission in, however we’re delighted he did. His demo video shows the screen of a 1980’s CD player working with music player Daemon. It’s truly just the original screen itself that works, however the job is not yet finished. However, is far sufficient along to show our URL […]
When [Robert] realized Adafruit is now selling analog comments servos, he decided he just had to make a programmable robot arm that might be trained like the commercially offered Baxter robot. The neat thing with the analog comments servos is it takes all the complexity out of training a robot. All you have to do […]
After browsing Amazon one day, [Dave] discovered a extremely fascinating piece of kit: a small, 1.5″ digital photo frame. They’re not extremely complex, just an LCD, a few buttons to cycle the picture, as well as a battery to keep whatever portable. He chose the very best utilize of this tech would be a small […]