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Rotary potentiometers, switches, and encoders all share a basic design: adjustment is done via a shaft onto which a knob is attached, and knobs are sold separately. That doesn’t mean …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/01/14/make-your-own-pot-and-encoder-knobs-without-reinventing-them/)
Anybody who has ever seen a video wall (and who hasn’t?) will be familiar with the idea of making large-scale illuminated images from individual coloured lights. But how many of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/01/14/smart-led-curtain-brings-sprites-to-your-windows/)
There’s an old series of jokes that starts with: “How do you put an elephant in a refrigerator?” The answer is to open the door, put the elephant inside, and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/01/14/conductive-ink-based-on-a-simple-idea/)
[David Johnson-Davies] has a lofty goal of building a small device to give to younger hackers on a semi-yearly basis. So this last year, he designed and created The Number …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/01/14/a-number-maze-for-younger-hackers/)
The Altair 8800 arguably launched Microsoft. Now [Dave Glover] from Microsoft offers an emulated and potentially cloud-based Altair emulation with CP/M and Microsoft Basic. You can see a video of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/01/15/microsoft-returns-to-the-altair/)
When most of us think of glove controllers, the first which comes to mind is Nintendo’s PowerGlove, which promised much more than it delivered. But the idea persists, and from …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/01/15/a-flex-sensor-for-a-glove-controller-using-an-ldr/)