Eye Tube Tests Capacitors
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/26/eye-tube-tests-capacitors/
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/26/eye-tube-tests-capacitors/
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Eye Tube Tests Capacitors
Most component testers require removal of a component to test it. [Mr Carlson] recently restored an old Paco C-25 in-circuit capacitor tester. He does a very complete video tearing it down and show…
PobDuino Makes the Most of Grove
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/27/pobduino-makes-the-most-of-grove/
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/27/pobduino-makes-the-most-of-grove/
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PobDuino Makes the Most of Grove
The chassis of a toy robot serves as the base of a robot built by [Jean Noel]. Called #PobDuino, the robot features two Arduino-compatible boards under the hood. First, a Seeeduino Lotus, a Arduino…
Play with a Papercraft Electronics Activity Book
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/27/play-with-a-papercraft-electronics-activity-book/
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/27/play-with-a-papercraft-electronics-activity-book/
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Play with a Papercraft Electronics Activity Book
As conductive ink becomes readily available and in greater varieties, we’re starting to see some intriguing applications. [Marion Pinaffo] and [Raphaël Pluviange] created a book of papercraft…
Telepresence Robot 2000 Leagues Under the Sea
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/27/telepresence-robot-2000-leagues-under-the-sea/
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/27/telepresence-robot-2000-leagues-under-the-sea/
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Telepresence Robot 2000 Leagues Under the Sea
Telepresence robots are now a reality, you can wheel around the office and talk to people, join a meeting, see stuff and bump into your colleagues. But imagine if telepresence were applied to deep …
Dog-Operated Treat Dispenser
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/27/dog-operated-treat-dispenser/
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/27/dog-operated-treat-dispenser/
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Dog-Operated Treat Dispenser
Every good dog is deserving of a treat. [Eliasbakken]’s dog [Moby] is a certified good boy, so he designed a dispenser with a touchscreen that his dog can boop to treat himself when he isn&#…
Building a DEF CON Badge in Two Weeks
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/27/building-a-def-con-badge-in-two-weeks/
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/27/building-a-def-con-badge-in-two-weeks/
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Building a DEF CON Badge in Two Weeks
DEF CON is starting right now, and this is the year of #badgelife. For the last few years, independent hardware wizards have been creating and selling their own unofficial badges at DEF CON, but th…
Hackaday Prize Entry: The Arduino Powered LED Persistence Of Vision Rechargeable 3D Printed Fidget Spinner
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/27/hackaday-prize-entry-the-arduino-powered-led-persistence-of-vision-rechargeable-3d-printed-fidget-spinner/
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/27/hackaday-prize-entry-the-arduino-powered-led-persistence-of-vision-rechargeable-3d-printed-fidget-spinner/
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Hackaday Prize Entry: The Arduino Powered LED Persistence Of Vision Rechargeable 3D Printed Fidget Spinner
It had to come to this. For his entry into this year’s Hackaday Prize, [Sean Hodgins] created a persistence of vision fidget spinner. This isn’t just any PoV fidget spinner — this…
Tell Time With a Reverse-Sundial Watch
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/27/tell-time-with-a-reverse-sundial-watch/
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/27/tell-time-with-a-reverse-sundial-watch/
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Tell Time With a Reverse-Sundial Watch
[Xose Pérez] set out to make a sundial wristwatch by combining a magnetometer a small nylon bolt for the gnomon, but it doesn’t work like you’d think. Instead of using the magnetometer …
3D Printed Gearbox Lifts An Anvil With Ease
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/27/3d-printed-gearbox-lifts-an-anvil-with-ease/
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/27/3d-printed-gearbox-lifts-an-anvil-with-ease/
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3D Printed Gearbox Lifts An Anvil With Ease
How strong can you make a 3D-printed gearbox. Would you believe strong enough to lift an anvil? [Gear Down For What?] likes testing the limits of 3D printed gearboxes. Honestly, we’re amazed.…
Unholy Mashup Of SpaceMouse And Sculpt Keyboard Is Rather Well Done
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/27/unholy-mashup-of-spacemouse-and-sculpt-keyboard-is-rather-well-done/
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/27/unholy-mashup-of-spacemouse-and-sculpt-keyboard-is-rather-well-done/
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Unholy Mashup Of SpaceMouse And Sculpt Keyboard Is Rather Well Done
What do you do if you have a pair of input device peripherals for your computer, but they are from different manufacturers and thus not available as a single unit? If you are [Marco van Nieuwenhove…
Edit Hex in the Browser
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/27/edit-hex-in-the-browser/
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/27/edit-hex-in-the-browser/
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Edit Hex in the Browser
If you can’t stand the thought of using an application in your browser, you might as well jump ahead to the comments and start flaming. Still with us? Imagine this scenario. You are at the of…
Give Your Bench Power Supply A Helping Hand
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/28/give-your-bench-power-supply-a-helping-hand/
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/28/give-your-bench-power-supply-a-helping-hand/
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Give Your Bench Power Supply A Helping Hand
[Sverd Industries] have created a pretty cool bench power supply integrating soldering helping hands into the build. This helps free up some much-needed bench space along with adding that wow facto…
Four Chords Should Be Enough For Anyone
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/28/four-chords-should-be-enough-for-anyone/
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/28/four-chords-should-be-enough-for-anyone/
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Four Chords Should Be Enough For Anyone
You might be surprised at how many pop songs are exactly the same. Cat Scratch Fever is the exact same song as Smoke on the Water. Even one of Yeezy’s songs is strikingly similar to a weird 9…
North Carolina Hackerspace Destroyed by Fire, Members Vow to Rebuild
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/28/north-carolina-hackerspace-destroyed-by-fire-members-vow-to-rebuild/
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/28/north-carolina-hackerspace-destroyed-by-fire-members-vow-to-rebuild/
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North Carolina Hackerspace Destroyed by Fire, Members Vow to Rebuild
There’s something about old industrial buildings that just seems to attract hackerspaces. It could be the open floor plans typical in buildings that used to house big manufacturing operations…
OpenEMS Makes Electromagnetic Field Solving… Merely Difficult
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/28/openems-makes-electromagnetic-field-solving-merely-difficult/
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/28/openems-makes-electromagnetic-field-solving-merely-difficult/
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OpenEMS Makes Electromagnetic Field Solving… Merely Difficult
To ordinary people electronics is electronics. However, we know that the guy you want wiring your industrial furnace isn’t the guy you want designing a CPU. Neither of those guys are likely t…
Where a Wood Shop Goes, a Hackerspace Follows
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/28/where-a-wood-shop-goes-a-hackerspace-follows/
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/28/where-a-wood-shop-goes-a-hackerspace-follows/
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Where a Wood Shop Goes, a Hackerspace Follows
The 2×4 Contest at my local hackerspace captured my interest. The challenge was to build something cool out of a single eight-foot 2×4 with the winner getting free wood storage in the spa…
Stealing Joules From An Aluminium-Air Battery
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/28/stealing-joules-from-an-aluminium-air-battery/
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/28/stealing-joules-from-an-aluminium-air-battery/
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Stealing Joules From An Aluminium-Air Battery
While batteries are cheap and readily obtainable today, sometimes it’s still fun to mess around with their less-common manifestations. Experimenting with a few configurations, Hackaday.io use…
Arduino vs. Arduino: Musto Out, Banzi In
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/28/arduino-vs-arduino-musto-out-banzi-in/
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/28/arduino-vs-arduino-musto-out-banzi-in/
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Arduino vs. Arduino: Musto Out, Banzi In
Federico Musto, who until two days ago owned the largest part of Arduino AG has been bought out, having today been replaced by a combination of Massimo Banzi and Fabio Violante. This should bring t…
Quick Hack Cleans Data from Sump Pump
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/28/quick-hack-cleans-data-from-sump-pump/
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/28/quick-hack-cleans-data-from-sump-pump/
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Quick Hack Cleans Data from Sump Pump
Nobody likes to monitor things as much as a hacker, even mundane things like sump pumps. And hackers love clean data too, so when [Felix]’s sump pump water level data was made useless by a ne…
Edge-lit Pendants Show Two Layers are Better Than One
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/28/edge-lit-pendants-show-two-layers-are-better-than-one/
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/28/edge-lit-pendants-show-two-layers-are-better-than-one/
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Edge-lit Pendants Show Two Layers are Better Than One
Engraved acrylic lights up nicely with LED lighting. Simply engrave clear acrylic with a laser engraver, then edge-light the acrylic and watch the engraving light up. This badge made by [Solarbotic…