- — Steamy Hack Chat Vents Some High Pressure Wisdom
- Ask the average person about steam power and theyll probably imagine a bygone era, a time when the sky was thick with smoke belched out by coal-burning locomotives and paddle-wheel read more
- — Hackaday Podcast 182: Sparkpunk Photography, Anti-Xiomi Air Filters, and Keyfob Foibles
- Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi are here to bring you the best stories and hacks from the previous week (and maybe a little older). Things kick off read more
- — Tracing In 2D and 3D With Hall Effect Sensors
- Pantographs were once used as simple mechanical devices for a range of tasks, including duplicating simple line drawings. [Tim] decided to make a modern electronic version that spits out G-Code read more
- — This Week in Security: Secure Boot Bypass, Attack on Titan M, KASLR Weakness
- Its debatable just how useful Secure Boot is for end users, but now theres yet another issue with Secure Boot, or more specifically, a trio of signed bootloaders. Researchers at read more
- — Every Frame a Work of Art With This Color Ultra-Slow Movie Player
- One of the more recent trendy builds weve seen is the slow-motion movie player. We love them displaying one frame for a couple of hours to perhaps a full read more
- — Mecanum-Wheeled Robot Chassis Takes Commands From PS4 Controller
- Mecanum wheels are popular choices for everything from robots to baggage handling equipment in airports. Depending on their direction of rotation, they can generate forces in any planar direction, providing read more
- — I’m Your Overlord, May I Take Your Order?
- If youve ever been at an eatery and thought the server was a bit robotic, you should try San Franciscos Mezli. The restaurant claims to be the first one to read more
- — The Tools to Fight Against Single-Use Plastic
- Imagine for a moment that you design products for a living. But you cant design all the things, so you have to buy some of your stuff from big-box stores read more
- — LCD Monitor Plays the Hits
- In the old days, it wasnt uncommon to put an AM radio near a computer or a monitor and deliberately cause interference to have a crude form of sound generation. read more
- — Angled Drill Guide Helps You With Those Tricky Holes
- If youve ever tried to drill a hole on an angle with a power drill, youve probably drilled some pretty shocking holes. To do it right, you really need some read more
- — Put 3D Metal Printing Services To The Test, By Making A Watch
- Have you ever been tempted by those metal 3D printing services? [Carter Hurd] has, and puts them to the test with a wristwatch. (Video, embedded below.) Its fair to say read more
- — Cute NFL Standings Tracker Uses Little Mini Helmets
- If youre a die hard sports fan, theres nothing you love more than staying abreast of developments in the league, from top to bottom. [Kiu] had a family member that read more
- — Bufferbloat, the Internet, and How to Fix It
- Theres a dreaded disease thats plagued Internet Service Providers for years. OK, theres probably several diseases, but today were talking about bufferbloat. What it is, how to test for it, read more
- — ESP8266 Smart Vents Keep Tabs On Home Temps
- Have you ever found that, despite having a central heating and air conditioning system, that not all the rooms in your home end up being the temperature you want them read more
- — A Particularly Polished ATX Bench Power Supply
- Lets be real, yanking the ATX power supply out of an old desktop computer and turning it into something you can use on the workbench isnt exactly an advanced project. read more
- — Circuit-less PCB Featured as Faceplate for a Digital Clock
- If theres no circuitry on a printed circuit board, does it cease being a PCB and perhaps instead become just a PB? Call them what you will, the fact that read more
- — An eMMC Gives Up Its Secrets
- An increasing phenomenon over the years since mobile phones morphed from simply telephones into general purpose pocket computers has been that of the dead device taking with it some treasured read more
- — PrusaSlicer Now Imports STEP Files, Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal
- PrusaSlicer has a new feature: the ability to import a CAD model for 3D printing. Starting in version 2.5.0-beta1, PrusaSlicer can import STEP format 3D models. An imported STEP file is read more
- — RollBack Breaks Into Your Car
- Rolling codes change the signal sent by car keyfobs unpredictably on every use, rendering them safe from replay attacks, and we can all sleep well at night. A research team read more
- — Chips Remembered: The Scenix/Ubicom/Parallax SX
- If you are a bibliophile, going to a used bookstore is a distinctly pleasant experience. Sure, you might discover an old book that you want to read. But at least read more
- — We’re Hiring: Come Join Us!
- You wake up in the morning, and check Hackaday over breakfast. Then its off to work or school, where youve already had to explain the Jolly Wrencher to your shoulder-surfing read more
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