Drone control links are, from a radio signals perspective, nothing short of amazing: using a transmitter capable of transmitting, at most, one watt, a protocol such as ExpressLRS (ELRS) can …read more
ethan1110lin got tired of lukewarm water and designed a device that notifies them when their water reaches the perfect temperature. Check out the project details on instructables. So what can you do? Or, as a matter of…
Making a film camera is a project within the reach of almost anyone, from the experimenter with cardboard and sticky tape, to the machinist with an aluminium billet. But 3D …read more
Coming in October, Art of Manga will bring over 600 drawings from influential manga artists to the East Coast. And Yes! cosplay is encouraged, safely. Art of Manga is the first major exhibition in the Americas to…
If you’ve got a cheap ham rig, it might not be very practical for you to receive certain transmissions out of the box. However, if you were to hack in …read more
On Hackaday last week, and on the podcast, we were talking about one of the educational toys of yesteryear that launched a thousand careers, at least if the comment section …read more
Chris Staecker on YouTube presents the Digi-Comp I, a plastic mechanical computer from 1963. This educational toy used logic rods and tubes to simulate binary computation, offering a tangible introduction to programming…
These days, it’s plenty easy to build a Geiger counter with a microcontroller that has a nice fancy display and a simple digital readout for how many radiations you’re likely …read more
[GRMNT] decided to bring his grandpa’s beautiful road bike into the future by making a sleeper e-bike conversion. Going into the project, [GRMNT] didn’t really know what he was working …read more
[Joseph DiGiovanni] is the owner of a Litter Robot 4. It’s a convenient mechanized litter box for cats that can clean itself to reduce unwelcome odors inside the home. He …read more
The ESP32-S31 microprocessor is getting Linux support from Espressif Systems. The ESP32-S31 dual-core RISC-V microprocessor was first unveiled in March, two ESP32-S31 development boards followed in May, and mass…
A fun way to think about a national electrical grid is as a massively upscaled electrical circuit, one in which you have multiple power supplies injecting AC power, with various …read more