It’s a Clock! It’s a Puzzle! It’s The GoonieBox!
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It’s a Clock! It’s a Puzzle! It’s The GoonieBox!
[Dr.Duino] recently completed the latest piece of what he calls "Interactive Furniture" - the GoonieBox. It took over 800 hours of design and assembly work and the result is fascinating. Part clock an...
Design and Hacking Drilldown: SuperCon Badge
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/17/design-and-hacking-drilldown-supercon-badge/
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Design And Hacking Drilldown: SuperCon Badge
One can imagine a political or business conference without an interactive badge — but not a hacker conference. Does this make the case for hackers being a special breed of people, always havi…
A DIY, Visual Alexa
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/17/a-diy-visual-alexa/
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A DIY, Visual Alexa
Talking to computers is all the rage right now. We are accustomed to using voice to communicate with each other, so that makes sense. However, there's a distinct difference between talking to a human...
This Miniscule IR to HID Keyboard Hides in a Key Cap
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/17/this-miniscule-ir-to-hid-keyboard-hides-in-a-key-cap/
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This Miniscule IR to HID Keyboard Hides in a Key Cap
Shards of silicon these days, they’re systematically taking what used to be rather complicated and making it dead simple in terms of both hardware and software. Take, for instance, this IR to…
Rotating Frame Will Change Your View of Vertical Images
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/17/rotating-frame-will-change-your-view-of-vertical-images/
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Rotating Frame Will Change Your View of Vertical Images
[Tim] was tired of compromising his portrait-oriented digital photos by shoehorning them into landscape-only frames. Unable to find a commercial solution, he built his own rotating digital photo frame...
Hackaday Prize Entry: Tongue Computer Interface
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/17/hackaday-prize-entry-tongue-computer-interface/
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Hackaday Prize Entry: Tongue Computer Interface
The Hackaday Prize is a celebration of the greatest hardware put together by the greatest hackers on the planet. If you go over the entries, you'll find user interfaces for everything. Need a wheelcha...
Monstrous Suit of Power Armor 3D Printed over 140 Days
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/18/monstrous-suit-of-power-armor-3d-printed-over-140-days/
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Monstrous Suit of Power Armor 3D Printed over 140 Days
[hirocreations] printed an entire suit of enormous Fallout power armor on his Monoprice Maker Select 3D printer, which took some 140 days and over 120 pounds of IC3D PLA filament. Happily, [hirocre…
What’s The Deal With Atmel And Microchip?
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/18/whats-the-deal-with-atmel-and-microchip/
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What’s The Deal With Atmel And Microchip?
It’s been nearly a year since Microchip acquired Atmel for $3.56 Billion. As with any merger, acquisition, or buyout, there has been concern and speculation over what will become of the Atmel…
Electromagnetic Pulse: Pure Hollywood?
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/18/electromagnetic-pulse/
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Electromagnetic Pulse: Pure Hollywood?
Imagine you’re in charge of a major heist. Right as your crew is about to rob the main vault, you need all of the electronics in the building to fail at exactly the right moment with no other…
Will the Real Schrodinger’s Cat Please Stand Up
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/18/will-the-real-schrodingers-cat-please-stand-up/
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Will the Real Schrodinger’s Cat Please Stand Up
The story of Schrodinger's cat is well known, and one of quantum theory's most popular phrases on the world stage. You can find his cat on t-shirts, bumper stickers, internet memes and the like. Howev...
Germans React to UK’s micro:bit
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/18/germans-react-to-uks-microbit/
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Germans React to UK’s micro:bit
Getting kids interested in programming is all the rage right now, and the UK is certainly taking pole position with its BBC micro:bit, just recently distributed to every seventh-grader in the land.…
Turning Broken Toy Into Laser Target Practice
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/18/turning-broken-toy-into-laser-target-practice/
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Turning Broken Toy Into Laser Target Practice
[Mathieu] wrote in with his laser target practice game. It's not the most amazing hack in the history of hackery, but it's an excellent example of the type of simple and fun things you can do with jus...
The BITX Transceiver Comes Of Age
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/18/the-bitx-transceiver-comes-of-age/
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The BITX Transceiver Comes Of Age
There was a time when the idea of building your own single-sideband transceiver was too daunting for all but the most hardcore of amateur radio constructors. After all the process of creating SSB is c...
Hackaday Prize Entry: Simpsons Hands
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/18/hackaday-prize-entry-simpsons-hands/
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Hackaday Prize Entry: Simpsons Hands
The creators of this Hackaday Prize entry say every month a new 3D-printed prosthetic solution comes on the scene. That doesn't mean they're not doing something different with their entry; yes, they'...
Scissors Make Great Automatic Cable Cutters
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/19/scissors-make-great-automatic-cable-cutters/
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Scissors Make Great Automatic Cable Cutters
The team at [2PrintBeta] required a bunch of cables, heat shrink, and braid to be cut for their customers. They looked into an industrial cable cutter, but decided the price was a little too high, …
A Win For The Raspberry Pi Compute Module
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/19/a-win-for-the-raspberry-pi-compute-module/
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A Win For The Raspberry Pi Compute Module
News comes from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, of something of a coup for their Compute Module product. Support for it is to be integrated into NEC's line of commercial displays, and the electronics gia...
Tripping Out: A Field Guide to Circuit Protection
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/19/tripping-out-a-field-guide-to-circuit-protection/
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Tripping Out: A Field Guide to Circuit Protection
My introduction to circuit protection came at the tender age of eight. Being a curious lad with an inventive – and apparently self-destructive – bent, I decided to make my mother a lamp…
The Micro:Bit Gets A Foundation
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/19/the-microbit-gets-a-foundation/
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The Micro:Bit Gets A Foundation
It has been announced that the BBC are to pass their micro:bit educational microcontroller board on to a non-profit-making foundation which will aim to take the project to a global audience. The litt...
Newsflash: A Bunch of Arduinos is Not an Autonomous Car
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/19/newsflash-a-bunch-of-arduinos-is-not-an-autonomous-car/
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Newsflash: A Bunch of Arduinos is Not an Autonomous Car
Nobody's perfect. Sometimes you're up late at night writing a blog post and you stumble upon an incredible story. You write it up, and it ends up being, well, incredible. IEEE Spectrum took the bait o...
Retrotechtacular: Whatever Happened To The Paper Mobile Phone
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/19/retrotechtacular-whatever-happened-to-the-paper-mobile-phone/
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Retrotechtacular: Whatever Happened To The Paper Mobile Phone
It was one of the more interesting consumer tech stories floating around at the turn of the century, a disposable cell phone manufactured using a multi-layer folded paper circuit board with tracks …