What's the worst thing that could happen if you strapped a chainsaw motor to a tricycle? Turns out the worst that happened to [ThisDustin] and his friends is that it turned out hilariously awesome.
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A few weeks ago we published an article on the newly released Keysight 1000X, an oscilloscope that marks Keysight’s late but welcome entry into the hacker-centric entry-level market. Understa…

For those that suffer them, seizures are a dangerous thing. Outside the neurological effects, there is always the possibility of injury from the surrounding environment as well – consider the…

[bd594] likes to make strange objects. This time it's a robotic glockenspiel and hacked HDD's. [bd594] is no stranger to Hackaday either, as we have featured many of his past projects before inclu...

Inspiration can strike from the strangest places. Unearthing a forgotten Melexis MLX90614 thermopile from his  'inbox,' [Saulius Lukse] used it to build a panoramic thermal camera.

[Lukse] made us...

Craft stores are often the source of odd inspiration. In the stained glass section, we've seen the copper foil, and even used it to prototype some RF circuits on the tops of shoeboxes. However, we cou...

Have you ever wondered how you could look at a chip and map out its schematic? [Robert Baruch] wants to show you how he does it and he does in a new video (see below).  The video assumes you know h…

For those who love to hike, no excuse is needed to hit the woods. Other folks, though, need a little coaxing to get into the great outdoors, which is where geocaching comes in: hide something in the w...

QNX has a long checkered history as an embedded operating system. QNX was always famous for being a real time operating system with a microkernel architecture. That is, kernel functions run as a se…

Starting up a new hackerspace from the ground up is a daunting task. Before you even think about the fun stuff like tools and a space, you've got a ton of social engineering to do. Finding like-minde...

Surface mount diodes are simple enough -- all you need to do is make sure you have the anode and cathode in the right order when you place them on the pad when you solder them. These SMD diodes come i...

Learn the ins and outs of multi-core microcontrollers as Chip Gracey leads this week's Hack Chat on Friday 5/5 at noon PDT. Chip founded Parallax and has now been working for more than a decade on...

Just two weeks ago our favorite supplier of cheap ESP8266 boards, WeMos, released the long-awaited LOLIN32 ESP-32 board, and it’s almost a killer. Hackaday regular [deshipu] tipped us off, an…

For the millions of people suffering from Parkinson’s and other causes of hand tremor, there is new hope in the form of [mohammedzeeshan77]’s entry into the Hackaday Prize: a glove that…

One of the smash hits of the 1970s arcade was Atari's Lunar Lander. A landing craft in orbit around a moon would descend slowly towards the surface, and through attitude and thrust controls the playe...

Festo has released a video showing the workings of their BionicCobot, a pneumatic robot arm developed for lending a helping hand to humans at a workstation. Since it works intimately with humans, it h...

You’ve probably heard that Rust is a systems programming language that has quite the following growing. It purports to be fast like C, but has features like guaranteed memory and thread safet…

Transmission lines are the kind of thing that seems to confuse beginners. After all, the fact that short-circuits can have infinite impedance and open-circuits can behave like a short is not intuit…

Here’s a classic “one thing led to another” car hack. [Alexandre Blin] wanted a reversing camera for his old Peugeot 207 and went down a rabbit hole which led him to do some extre…

[Niko1499] had a plan. He’d built a cool hardware controller for the game Kerbal Space Program (KSP). He got a lot of positive reaction to it and decided to form a company to produce them. As…

Everywhere we look in our everyday lives, from our bench to our bedroom, there are the ubiquitous electrical cords of mains-powered appliances. We don't give our electrical devices a second thought, b...