Tiny-TS: Just How Small Can A Playable Synethesiser Get?

Vydáno 11. 12. 2016

The early electronic synthesizers were huge machines, racks of electronic modules that filled entire rooms. Integration of electronics over time successively reduced them, first to the size of a large piece of furniture, then to  tabletop consoles, to standalone keyboards, and to small MIDI black boxes taking their instructions from…... [Continue...]
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The Nest: Album Release Hidden In A Rock

Vydáno 11. 12. 2016

First there were vinyl records, then came cassettes, CDs, those failed audio-on-DVD formats, and then downloads. To quote the band, [Bateleur], “you can’t pay someone to take a CD these days.” So how do you release your new album? By hiding a Raspberry Pi in a semi-transparent fake rock on…... [Continue...]
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Speed Run [James Bruton’s] Star Wars Builds

Vydáno 10. 12. 2016

We’ve been following [James Bruton]’s builds here on Hackaday for quite a while and he has built some impressive stuff. We love how he often doesn’t cover everything up, leaving enough room to admire the working bits under the hood. Just in time for the release of the new Star…... [Continue...]
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Christmas Lights Done the Hard Way

Vydáno 9. 12. 2016

It’s that time of the year again when you gotta start worrying if you’ve been naughty enough to not receive any gifts. Hopefully, Blinky Lights will appease St. Nick. Grab a strip of RGB LEDs, hook them up to an Arduino and a Power supply, slap on some code, and Bob’s…... [Continue...]
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Retrotechtacular: The Incredible Machine

Vydáno 8. 12. 2016

They just don’t write promotional film scripts like they used to: “These men are design engineers. They are about to engage a new breed of computer, called Graphic 1, in a dialogue that will test the ingenuity of both men and machine.” This video (embedded below) from Bell Labs in…... [Continue...]
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Don’t Leave 3D Printers Unattended – They Can Catch Fire

Vydáno 7. 12. 2016

The holidays are almost here, and with that comes the traditional Mass Consumption of Consumer Goods and Gift Exchange. 3D printers are getting really good and really cheap, and it’s inevitable that a lot of 3D printers will be given as gifts this year. Be careful if you’re giving or receiving…... [Continue...]
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Building an IoT Drill Press for Reasons Unknown

Vydáno 6. 12. 2016

He’s a little cagey about the reasons, but [Ivan Miranda] plans to put a drill press on the internet. What could go wrong with that? We’ll take [Ivan] at his word that there’s a method to this madness and just take a look at the build itself, in the hopes that…... [Continue...]
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Sporty Cars Making Fake Engine Noise

Vydáno 5. 12. 2016

Following the monumental emissions-cheating scandal at VW, further horrible revelations demonstrate just how corrupt the modern automotive industry has become: many cars make fake engine noise. And we’re not just talking about those darn sneaky Priuses. Ford, BMWs, Porsche, and yes, Volkswagen are all doing it, to different degrees. Some…... [Continue...]
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Fripon is French for Meteorite Hunting

Vydáno 4. 12. 2016

Just a few weeks ago, we reported on a US NASA project to track the path and estimate the size of meteoroids in the sky using a distributed network of a handful of cameras. It turns out that there’s a similar French effort, and it’s even cooler: the Fireball Recovery…... [Continue...]
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Thwomp Drops Brick on Retro Gaming

Vydáno 3. 12. 2016

[Geeksmithing] wanted to respond to a challenge to build a USB hub using cement. Being a fan of Mario Brothers, a fitting homage is to build a retro-gaming console from cement to look just like your favorite Mario-crushing foe. With a Raspberry Pi Zero and a USB hub embedded in it, [Geeksmithing]…... [Continue...]
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Black Magic Probe: The Best ARM JTAG Debugger?

Vydáno 2. 12. 2016

We don’t always JTAG, but when we do, we use a Black Magic Probe. It’s a completely open ARM-chip debugging powerhouse. If you program the small ARM chips and you don’t have a BMP, you need a BMP. Right now, one of the main producers of these little gems is…... [Continue...]
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NixieBot Films Your Tweets

Vydáno 1. 12. 2016

[Robin Bussell]’s NixieBot is a mash up of new age electronics and retro vintage components and he’s got a bunch of hacks crammed in there. It’s a Nixie tube clock which displays tweets, takes pictures of the display when it encounters tweets with a #NixieBotShowMe hash tag, and then posts…... [Continue...]
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Lighthouse Locates Drone; Achieves Autonomous Battery Swap

Vydáno 30. 11. 2016

The HTC Vive’s Lighthouse localization system is one of the cleverest things we’ve seen in a while. It uses a synchronization flash followed by a swept beam to tell any device that can see the lights exactly where it is in space. Of course, the device has to understand the…... [Continue...]
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Build Your Own YouTube Play Button

Vydáno 29. 11. 2016

The only thing that matters in this world is the likes you get on social media platforms. To that end, YouTube has been sending out silver and gold play buttons to their most valuable creators. [Sean] hasn’t screamed into a microphone while playing Minecraft long enough to earn one of…... [Continue...]
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Quick Arduino Hack Lets Tach-less Car Display Shift Points

Vydáno 28. 11. 2016

A tachometer used to be an accessory added to the dash of only the sportiest of cars, but now they’re pretty much standard equipment on everything from sleek coupes to the family truckster. If your daily driver was born without a tach, fear not – a simple Arduino tachometer is well…... [Continue...]
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3D Printed R/C Lifeboat

Vydáno 27. 11. 2016

Radio control boats usually bring up thoughts of racing catamarans, or scale sailing yachts. This build takes things in a slightly different direction. A radio controlled lifeboat with a built-in First Person View (FPV) transmitter. [Peter Sripol] used to be one of the awesome folks over at Flite Test. Now…... [Continue...]
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The Most Flexible Synthesizer is DIY, Raspberry Pi

Vydáno 26. 11. 2016

[Ivan Franco] sent us this great synthesizer project that he’s working on. Or maybe it’s more like a synthesizer meta-project: a synthesizer construction set. You see, what Pryth has is a Raspberry Pi inside that’s running a custom distribution that includes SuperCollider to generate the sound, OSC for the communication…... [Continue...]
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Mintomat: An Overcomplicated Gumball Machine

Vydáno 25. 11. 2016

How do you get teenagers interested in science, technology, and engineering? [Erich]’s team at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences makes them operate three robots to get a gumball. The entire demonstration was whipped together in a few days, and has been field-repaired at least once; a green-wire fix was…... [Continue...]
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Open Source Pancakes

Vydáno 24. 11. 2016

It is definitely a first world problem: What do you do when creating a custom pancake requires you to put a design on an SD card and plug it into your pancake printer? This is what was nagging at [drtorq]. Granted, since he works for a publication called “The Stack” maybe…... [Continue...]
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