Magic Leap Finally Announced; Remains Mysterious
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Magic Leap Finally Announced; Remains Mysterious
Yesterday Magic Leap announced that it will ship developer edition hardware in 2018. The company is best known for raising a lot of money. That’s only partially a joke, since the teased hardw…
Microbalance Determines Alcohol Content
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Microbalance Determines Alcohol Content
With the holiday season upon us, it is useful to be able to determine just how much (or how little) spiking the office party punch has received. [Russell Smith] shows how he tried to determine the …
Retrotechtacular: Field Assembling Airplanes Like Wartime “Ikea”
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Retrotechtacular: Field Assembling Airplanes Like Wartime “Ikea”
Imagine it’s 1943, and you have to transport 1,000 P-47 fighter planes from your factory in the United States to the front lines in Europe, roughly 5,000 miles over the open ocean. Flying the…
Bringing A Christmas Lights Show Inside
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Bringing A Christmas Lights Show Inside
Instructables user [Osprey22] has been building towards this Christmas for years. Why? This year, he has brought an impressive musical Christmas light display inside, and at a fraction of the cost …
Building a Supersized Game Boy Advance
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Building a Supersized Game Boy Advance
Unless you really look closely at the image above, you might not realize you aren’t looking at a normal Game Boy Advance; which is sort of the point. Even though it retains the looks of the i…
Exporting Eagle Libraries to FOSS Tools
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Exporting Eagle Libraries to FOSS Tools
Since Autodesk’s acquisition, Eagle has been making waves in the community. The de facto standard for Open Hardware PCB design is now getting push-and-shove routing, a button that flips the b…
Printing Without Supports!
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Printing Without Supports!
If print supports have ever caused you grief, know that there’s an alternate printing method in the works. First: get yourself a vat of industrial gel in which to print. Rapid Liquid Printing…
Can This Commodore 64 Be Saved?
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Can This Commodore 64 Be Saved?
If you are a certain age, there’s a fair chance your first computer was a Commodore 64. These machines are antiques now, and [RetroManCave] received one from a friend’s loft in unknown …
Logic Analyzer Pushes the Limits of Miniaturization
https://hackaday.com/2017/12/22/logic-analyzer-pushes-the-limits-of-miniaturization/
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Logic Analyzer Pushes the Limits of Miniaturization
Careful not to sneeze while using this diminutive logic analyzer — you could send it flying across the bench. Undertaken more for the challenge than as a practical bench tool, [Uwe Hermann]&#…
Improving Cheap Laser Engravers For PCB Fabrication
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Improving Cheap Laser Engravers For PCB Fabrication
A few months ago, [Marco] picked up a cheap, cheap, cheap laser engraver from one of the familiar Chinese resellers. It’s a simple affair with aluminum extrusions, a diode laser, and a contro…
Coin Cells: The Mythical Milliamp-Hour
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Coin Cells: The Mythical Milliamp-Hour
Just how much metaphorical juice is in a coin cell battery? It turns out that this seemingly simple question is impossible to answer — at least without a lot of additional information. The pr…
Joule Thief Steals in Favor of Christmas
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Joule Thief Steals in Favor of Christmas
A lot of things tend to get stretched during the holiday season, like shopping budgets and waistbands and patience. This year, [Chris] is stretching the limits of both the mini breadboard and the h…
Art, Craft, Make, Hack, Whatever
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Art, Craft, Make, Hack, Whatever
Anyone who has spent much time reading Hackaday, or in the real world in or around a few hackspaces, will know that ours is a community of diverse interests. In the same place you will find a breat…
Rickroll The Masses With A Coin Cell Throwie
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Rickroll The Masses With A Coin Cell Throwie
If there is one educational institution that features on these pages more than any other, it may be Cornell University. Every year we receive a pile of tips showing us the engineering term projects…
VFD Puts the Suck Back into Desoldering Station
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VFD Puts the Suck Back into Desoldering Station
A dedicated desoldering station is a fantastic tool if you’re in the business of harvesting components from old gear. Having heat and suction in a single tool is far more convenient than futz…
Coffee Table Model Railroad With All the Bells and Whistles (and Lights and Sirens)
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Coffee Table Model Railroad With All the Bells and Whistles (and Lights and Sirens)
For some, the allure of a real, physical world that you create and control is overwhelming. Combine that with a love of trains, and you get the model railroad. Some are incredibly detailed, and it …
Turn a Car Into a Game Controller
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Turn a Car Into a Game Controller
The CAN bus has become a staple of automotive engineering since it was introduced in the late ’80s, but in parallel with the spread of electronic devices almost every single piece of equipmen…
Watch Video on a Oscilloscope with an ESP32
https://hackaday.com/2017/12/23/watch-video-on-a-oscilloscope-with-an-esp32/
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Watch Video on a Oscilloscope with an ESP32
[bitluni] got a brand new scope, and he couldn’t be happier. No, really — check the video below; he’s really happy. And to celebrate, he turned his scope into a vector display usi…
Control a Quadcopter over Websockets
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Control a Quadcopter over Websockets
Everyone’s favourite IOT module, the ESP8266, is often the go-to choice for any project that needs quick and cheap control over the web. [Andi23456] wanted to control his quadcopter using the…