From Project To Kit: So You Want To Sell Electronic Kits

Vydáno 29. 7. 2016

Many of us have enjoyed building electronic projects that come not from our own inspiration or ingenuity but from a ready-made kit. It makes sense, after all in buying a kit you should receive a tried-and-tested design that you can assemble without some of the heartache associated with getting a…... [Continue...]
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3-Phase BLDC Motor Controller will Run you $20 in Parts

Vydáno 29. 7. 2016

If you’re an active shopper on RC websites, you’ll find tiny motors spec’ed at hundreds of watts while weighing just a few grams, like this one. Sadly, their complementary motor controllers are designed to drive them at a high speed, which means we can only hit that “520-watt” power spec by operating…... [Continue...]
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This NES Emulator Build Lets You Use Cartridges to Play Games

Vydáno 29. 7. 2016

You may not remember this, but Nintendo hardware used to be a pretty big deal. The original Game Boy and NES both had remarkable industrial design that, like the Apple II and IBM Thinkpad, weren’t quite appreciated until many years after production ended. But, like many of you, [draftmike] had…... [Continue...]
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Hackaday Prize Entry: Profiling Underwater Light

Vydáno 29. 7. 2016

The goal for the Citizen Science portion of the Hackaday Prize is to empower people to create their own devices to perform their own analyses For [Adam]’s project, he’s designing a device that measures the health of waterways simply by looking at the light availability through the water column. It’s called PULSE, the…... [Continue...]
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20kW Light Is As Bright As You’d Expect

Vydáno 29. 7. 2016

[Photonicinduction] purchased a very very bright light. This 20,000 Watt half meter tall halogen will just about light the back of a person’s skull with their eyes closed. These are typically used to light film sets. Most people couldn’t even turn such a light on, but [Photonicinduction] is a mad scientist.…... [Continue...]
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Progress on the LDMOS amplifier

Vydáno 29. 7. 2016

An update on Pete’s (N6QW) LDMOS amplifier project we covered previously: The real value of the breadboard test system is that it enables you to find/discover things that were not so obvious. Currently I have the Start & Stop buttons wired to the Arduino. I also have all six of…... [Continue...]
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Walking the 32bit path to a blinky LED

Vydáno 29. 7. 2016

Sjaak writes: The battle isn’t AVR Atmega vs Microchip PIC anymore.. More and more people are moving to ARM chips. As easy as it sounds but it isn’t. ARM is an company that invented the ARM chips, but doesn’t has a silicon fab, instead they license the design to several…... [Continue...]
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Opto-isolated laser controller build

Vydáno 28. 7. 2016

Scott Harden built his own opto-isolated laser controller and wrote a post on his blog detailing its assembly: My goal was to utilize a free hardware output line to signal to a device that I build to modulate the laser in a special way. This way there would be no…... [Continue...]
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New Chip Alert: RTL8710, A Cheaper ESP8266 Competitor

Vydáno 28. 7. 2016

Almost exactly two years ago, shocking news thundered across the electronics blogosphere. There was a new WiFi module on the block. It was called the ESP8266, a simple serial device capable of taking care of an 802.11 network and a WiFi stack, giving any project with a microcontroller access to…... [Continue...]
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DEF CON Meetup At The Grave Of James T. Kirk

Vydáno 28. 7. 2016

DEF CON is just around the corner, and that means in just a few days thousands of hardware hackers will be wandering around the casinos in Vegas. Yes, in a mere handful of hours, the tech literati will be accosted by the dead, disaffected eyes of dealers and the crass…... [Continue...]
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Squirrel Café To Predict The Weather From Customer Data

Vydáno 28. 7. 2016

Physicist and squirrel gastronomer [Carsten Dannat] is trying to correlate two critical social economical factors: how many summer days do we have left, and when will we run out of nuts. His research project, the Squirrel Café, invites squirrels to grab some free nuts and collects interesting bits of customer data in return.…... [Continue...]
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Repaired Manned Multicopter Flies without Horrifying Crash

Vydáno 28. 7. 2016

[amazingdiyprojects] has been making lots of test flights in his crazy eight propeller gasoline powered danger bucket. We last covered the project when he had, unfortunately, wrecked the thing in a remote-controlled test flight.  He later discovered that the motor’s crankshaft bearings had, well, exploded. The resulting shrapnel destroyed the motor and…... [Continue...]
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Computer-Designed Portraits, Knit By Hand!

Vydáno 28. 7. 2016

Artist [Petros Vrellis] has done something that we’ve never seen before: his piece “A New Way to Knit” lives up to its name. What he’s done is to take the traditional circular loom, some black thread, and toss some computing at it. And then he loops the string around and…... [Continue...]
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All-terrain Hoverboard Junk Pile Build

Vydáno 28. 7. 2016

If you’re anything like us, chances are pretty good you’ve got at least one underused piece of fitness gear cluttering up your place. Rather than admit defeat on that New Year’s Resolution purchase, why not harvest the guts and build an all-terrain hoverboard for a little outdoor fun? The fitness…... [Continue...]
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Hackaday Prize Entry: A Suite Of Lab Instruments

Vydáno 28. 7. 2016

For their Hackaday Prize entry, [Jithin], [Praveen], [Varunbluboy], and [Georges] are working on SEELablet, a device that will equip budding citizen scientists with control and measurement equipment. One of the best ‘all-in-one’ lab devices is National Instruments’ VirtualBench, a device that’s an oscilloscope, logic analyzer, function generator, multimeter, and power…... [Continue...]
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FPGA Drives Old Laptop Screen

Vydáno 28. 7. 2016

Every year, new models of laptops arrive on the shelves. This means that old laptops usually end up in landfills, which isn’t exactly ideal. If you don’t want to waste an old or obsolete laptop, though, there’s a way to reuse at least the screen out of one. Simply grab…... [Continue...]
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Build a Foam Cutter Right Now

Vydáno 27. 7. 2016

Cutting foam is difficult with traditional methods. The best way is with a hot wire. If you read Hackaday, it is a good bet you can figure out how to use electricity to make a wire hot without any help. However, there’s something  clever about [MrGear’s] minimal build. As you…... [Continue...]
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DIY Smart Home Device Means No More Fumbling in the Dark

Vydáno 27. 7. 2016

Smart home tech is on the rise, but cost or lack of specific functionality may give pause to prospective buyers. [Whiskey Tango Hotel] opted to design their own system using a Raspberry Pi and Bluetooth device connectivity. Combining two ubiquitous technologies provides a reliable proximity activation of handy functions upon one’s…... [Continue...]
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