Hackaday Prize Entry: 3D Prints For The Visually Impaired
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/19/hackaday-prize-entry-3d-prints-for-the-visually-impaired/
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Hackaday Prize Entry: 3D Prints For The Visually Impaired
Students with visual impairments can have difficulty with visual and spatial relationships. 3D printers can print almost everything, and with a lot of CAD work, this project in the Hackaday Prize prov...
How To Find, Buy, And Renovate A Titan II Missile Silo
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/20/how-to-find-buy-and-renovate-a-titan-ii-missile-silo/
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/20/how-to-find-buy-and-renovate-a-titan-ii-missile-silo/
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How To Find, Buy, And Renovate A Titan II Missile Silo
Why would you want to live in a missile silo is the wrong question. Why wouldn’t you want to live in a missile silo is the right question. You’ll have weird, antiquated machinery hangin…
Brew a Cup of Coffee Without Electricity!
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/20/brew-a-cup-of-coffee-without-electricity/
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/20/brew-a-cup-of-coffee-without-electricity/
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Brew a Cup of Coffee Without Electricity!
So, wether you've blown your house's breakers while cranking up the power on your latest project or a storm has brought low the local power grid, what do you do if you desperately need coffee with no ...
Are Today’s Engineer’s Worse?
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/20/are-todays-engineers-worse/
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/20/are-todays-engineers-worse/
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Are Today’s Engineers Worse?
Today’s engineers are just as good as the ones that came before, but that should not be the case and there is massive room for improvement. Improvement that can be realized by looking for the best …
Navigation Thing: Four Days, Three Problems, and Fake Piezos
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/20/navigation-thing-four-days-three-problems-and-fake-piezos/
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/20/navigation-thing-four-days-three-problems-and-fake-piezos/
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Navigation Thing: Four Days, Three Problems, and Fake Piezos
The "Navigation Thing" was designed and built by [Jan Mrázek] as part of a night game activity for high school students during week-long seminar. A night-time path through a forest had stations with ...
RPi Show and Tell Saturday and NYC Meetup on Monday
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/20/join-hackaday-for-an-nyc-meetup-on-monday/
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/20/join-hackaday-for-an-nyc-meetup-on-monday/
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RPi Show and Tell Saturday and NYC Meetup on Monday
Join Hackaday for the vanguard of cool emerging technologies next week at our meetup in New York.
Like all our meetups, we've gathered some of the neatest technologists to spill the beans on what ...
Like all our meetups, we've gathered some of the neatest technologists to spill the beans on what ...
Chemical Nomenclature
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/20/chemical-nomenclature/
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/20/chemical-nomenclature/
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Chemical Nomenclature
Looking at the ingredient list of some popular processed foods will produce a puzzled look on the typical hacker's face. Tricalcium phosphate, thiamine mononitrate, zinc proteinate, pyridoxine hydrocl...
UK IT Specialist Unable to Boil Water, Make Tea
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/20/uk-it-specialist-unable-to-boil-water-make-tea/
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/20/uk-it-specialist-unable-to-boil-water-make-tea/
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UK IT Specialist Unable to Boil Water, Make Tea
In our latest episode of "IoT-Schadenfreude Theater" we bring you the story of [Mark], a British man who can't boil water. Or more specifically, a man who can't integrate MQTT with Amazon Echo, or IFT...
Wooden Puzzle Book Will Twist and Dazzle Your Brain
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/20/wooden-puzzle-book-will-twist-and-dazzle-your-brain/
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/20/wooden-puzzle-book-will-twist-and-dazzle-your-brain/
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Wooden Puzzle Book Will Twist and Dazzle Your Brain
In what might be one of the coolest applications of laser cutting, joinery, puzzles, writing, and bookbinding, [Brady Whitney] has created the Codex Silenda -- a literal puzzle book of magnificent pro...
Hajime, Yet Another IoT Botnet
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/20/hajime-yet-another-iot-botnet/
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/20/hajime-yet-another-iot-botnet/
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Hajime, Yet Another IoT Botnet
Following on the heels of Mirai, a family of malware exploiting Internet of Things devices, [Sam Edwards] and [Ioannis Profetis] of Rapidity Networks have discovered a malicious Internet worm dubbed ...
Hackaday Prize Entry: Antigravity Arm Floaties
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/20/hackaday-prize-entry-antigravity-arm-floaties/
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/20/hackaday-prize-entry-antigravity-arm-floaties/
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Hackaday Prize Entry: Antigravity Arm Floaties
A few years ago, [Mike] heard about orthotic devices for people in wheelchairs that make it easier to them to move their arms. His daughter had the opportunity to demo one of these devices, and the re...
3D Print An Enigma Machine That’s Close To The Real Thing
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/21/3d-print-an-enigma-machine-thats-close-to-the-real-thing/
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/21/3d-print-an-enigma-machine-thats-close-to-the-real-thing/
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3D Print An Enigma Machine That’s Close To The Real Thing
The Enigma machine as used by the German military during World War Two exerts a curious fascination among our community of hardware hackers and makers. Perhaps it is the mechanical complexity of th…
Send a Raspberry Pi Back in Time to 1980
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/21/send-a-raspberry-pi-back-in-time-to-1980/
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/21/send-a-raspberry-pi-back-in-time-to-1980/
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Send a Raspberry Pi Back in Time to 1980
One of our favorite hacker-scavengers on YouTube, [The Post-Apocalyptic Inventor], has been connecting his Raspberry Pi up to nearly every display that he’s got in his well-stocked junk pile.…
A Machine Shop in A Toolbox: Just Add Time
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/21/a-machine-shop-in-a-toolbox-just-add-time/
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/21/a-machine-shop-in-a-toolbox-just-add-time/
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A Machine Shop In A Toolbox: Just Add Time
You don’t need any fancy tools. A CNC machine is nice. A 3D printer can help. Laser cutters are just great. However, when it comes to actually making something, none of this is exactly necess…
Down the Rabbit Hole and Back Out Again: Serial Over Headphone Jack
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/21/down-the-rabbit-hole-and-back-out-again-serial-over-headphone-jack/
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/21/down-the-rabbit-hole-and-back-out-again-serial-over-headphone-jack/
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Down The Rabbit Hole And Back Out Again: Serial Over Headphone Jack
[ttsiodras] tells an epic tale of getting a custom Debian kernel installed on an Asus MemoPAD (ME103K) tablet. Skipping to the end of the saga, he discovers what looks like serial data coming out o…
Two-Stage Tentacle Mechanisms Part III: Putting it All Together
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/21/two-stage-tentacle-mechanisms-part-iii-putting-it-all-together/
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/21/two-stage-tentacle-mechanisms-part-iii-putting-it-all-together/
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Two-Stage Tentacle Mechanisms Part III: Putting it All Together
Welcome back to the final chapter in our journey exploring two-stage tentacle mechanisms. This is where we arm you with the tools and techniques to get one of these cretins alive-and-kicking in you…
You Might Not Be Able To Read This
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/21/you-might-not-be-able-to-read-this/
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/21/you-might-not-be-able-to-read-this/
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You Might Not Be Able To Read This
Early today, some party unleashed a massive DDoS attack against Dyn, a major DNS host. This led to a number of websites being completely inaccessible. DNS is the backbone of the Internet. It is the ph...
RadarCat Gives Computers A Sense of Touch
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/21/radarcat-gives-computers-a-sense-of-touch/
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/21/radarcat-gives-computers-a-sense-of-touch/
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RadarCat Gives Computers A Sense of Touch
So far, humans have had the edge in the ability to identify objects by touch. but not for long. Using Google's Project Soli, a miniature radar that detects the subtlest of gesture inputs, the [St. And...
Simple Game Boy iPhone Mod Is Simple
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/21/simple-game-boy-iphone-mod-is-simple/
https://hackaday.com/2016/10/21/simple-game-boy-iphone-mod-is-simple/
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Simple Game Boy iPhone Mod Is Simple
We've featured the work of [Modpurist] before, but his latest hack is wonderful in its simplicity. He wanted to create a more authentic Game Boy feel on his iPhone, so he printed out and stuck a skin...