- — Your QuickTake Camera And Your Modern PC
- An object of desire back in the mid-1990s might have been Apples QuickTake camera. In a form factor not unlike a monocular it packed a 640480 digital camera, the images read more
- — Electromagnetic Actuator Mimics Muscle
- Most electromagnetic actuators are rotating motors, or some variation on the theme, like servos. However, its possible to do linear actuation with electomagnetics, too. [Adrian Perez] demonstrates this with Linette, read more
- — Ask Hackaday: Is Shortwave on Life Support?
- Between World War II and Y2K, shortwave listening was quite an education. With a simple receiver, you could listen to the world. Some of it, of course, was entertainment, and read more
- — Hackaday Podcast Episode 281: Metal Clay, Desiccants, Silica Gel, and Keeping Filament Dry
- This week on the Podcast, its Kristinas turn to bloviate alongside Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams. First up in the news: our fresh new contest has drawn three entries already! Thats right, read more
- — You Can Program AVRs From The Commodore 64
- These days, most of our microcontroller boards come with bootloaders so you can squirt hex into them straight over USB. However, you dont need to do things this way. If youre read more
- — This Week in Security: EvilVideo, Crowdstrike, and InSecure Boot
- First up this week is the story of EvilVideo, a clever telegram exploit that disguises an APK as a video file. The earliest record we have of this exploit is read more
- — Building a Keychain Wii Looks Possible
- The original Nintendo Wii was not a big console, per se, but you could never hope to fit one in your pocket. Orcould you? As it turns out, console modders [Wesk] and read more
- — Can Cats Solve Puzzles?
- Cats, to those of us who appreciate their company, are fascinating creatures, with their infinite curiosity and playfulness. [Makers Muse] has a pair of half-grown-up kittens, and set out to read more
- — Car Becomes a Massive Bubble Machine
- Youve probably seen street performers or family members making giant bubbles at some point in your life. But what if you could go ever biggereven approaching a bubble of infinite read more
- — A Robot Face with Human Skin
- Many scifi robots have taken the form of their creators. In the increasingly blurry space between the biological and the mechanical, researchers have found a way to affix human skin read more
- — Cutting An IoT Fan Free Of The Cloud
- The cloud is supposed to make everything better. You can control things remotely, with the aid of a benevolent corporation and their totally friendly servers. However, you might not like those servers, read more
- — 3D-Printed RC Drift Car Comes With Smoke Effects
- Drift cars are cool, but theyre also expensive. If you dont have money for endless tires, fuel, and engine rebuilds, you might like to get involved at the RC scale read more
- — USB-C Powered Hotplate Is Not For Food
- Once upon a time, it was deemed mostly silly to try and schlep power from a computers ports. Then it was kind of amusing to do so with USB, and read more
- — Linux Fu: Failing Pipelines
- Bash is great for automating little tasks, but sometimes a little script you think will take a minute to write turns into a half hour or more. This is the read more
- — A Simple Liquid Level Indicator With a Single IC
- Often, the only liquid level indicator you need is your eyes, such as when looking at your cold beverage on a summers day. Other times, though, its useful to have read more
- — End of an Era: Sony Cuts Production Of Writable Optical Media
- The 1990s saw a revolution occur, launched by the CD burner. As prices of writeable media and drives dropped, consumers rushed to duplicate games, create their own mix CDs, and read more
- — Retro Inspired Cyberdeck Scrolls Around Cyberspace
- Its difficult to nail down exactly what counts as a real cyberdeck in this brave new era of bespoke computing. But at the minimum, most in the community would agree read more
- — Pnut: A Self-Compiling C Transpiler Targeting Human-Readable POSIX Shell
- Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS. Yet read more
- — Hacking an IoT Camera Reveals Hard-Coded Root Password
- Hacking at least the kind where youre breaking into stuff is very much a learn-by-doing skill. Theres simply no substitute for getting your hands dirty and just trying read more
- — Manually Computing Logarithms to Grok Calculators
- Logarithms are everywhere in mathematics and derived fields, but we rarely think about how trigonometric functions, exponentials, square roots and others are calculated after we punch the numbers into a read more
- — A Lenticular Clock Spells Out The Hours
- So many are the clock projects which cross the Hackaday threshold, that its very rare indeed to see something that hasnt already been done. We think weve not seen a read more
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