What if you don’t put airfoils on a central, spinning axis, but instead have them careen around a circular track? If you’re a company called Airloom, you’d say that it’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/11/26/airlooms-whacky-wind-clothesline-turbine-idea/)
Come for the PCB Holder, Stay for the Tour of FreeCAD
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/26/come-for-the-pcb-holder-stay-for-the-tour-of-freecad/
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/26/come-for-the-pcb-holder-stay-for-the-tour-of-freecad/
PCB holders are great tools. Not only is the PCB Solder Fren from [PistonPin] a nice DIY design, it offers some insight into the parts design process with FreeCAD. The …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/11/26/come-for-the-pcb-holder-stay-for-the-tour-of-freecad/)
Robot Goes to Summer Camp
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/26/robot-goes-to-summer-camp/
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/26/robot-goes-to-summer-camp/
There are a lot of hobby and educational robots that have a similar form factor: a low, wide body with either wheels or tracks for locomotion. When [Alexander Kirilov] wanted …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/11/26/robot-goes-to-summer-camp/)
3D Printing a Nifty Sphere Without Supports
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/26/3d-printing-a-nifty-sphere-without-supports/
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/26/3d-printing-a-nifty-sphere-without-supports/
[DaveMakesStuff] demonstrates a great technique for 3D printing a sphere; a troublesome shape for filament-based printers to handle. As a bonus, it uses a minimum of filament. His ideas can be …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/11/26/3d-printing-a-nifty-sphere-without-supports/)
Tiny Speaker Busts Past Sound Limits with Ultrasound
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/27/tiny-speaker-busts-past-sound-limits-with-ultrasound/
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/27/tiny-speaker-busts-past-sound-limits-with-ultrasound/
Conventional speakers work by moving air around to create sound, but tiny speakers that use ultrasonic frequencies to create pressure and generate sound opens some new doors, especially in terms …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/11/27/tiny-speaker-busts-past-sound-limits-with-ultrasound/)
Voice-Over-LTE: The Reason Why Your Phone May Soon Stop Working
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/27/voice-over-lte-the-reason-why-your-phone-may-soon-stop-working/
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/27/voice-over-lte-the-reason-why-your-phone-may-soon-stop-working/
Although wireless standards like 3G, 4G, and 5G are mostly associated with mobile internet, they also include a phone (voice) component. Up till 4G this was done using traditional circuit-switched …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/11/27/voice-over-lte-the-reason-why-your-phone-may-soon-stop-working/)
How Do You Prove an AI Didn’t Make Your Art?
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/27/how-do-you-prove-an-ai-didnt-make-your-art/
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/27/how-do-you-prove-an-ai-didnt-make-your-art/
In the world of digital art, distinguishing between AI-generated and human-made creations has become a significant challenge. Almost overnight, tool sets for generating AI artworks became commonly available to the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/11/27/how-do-you-prove-an-ai-didnt-make-your-art/)