Clock Plays a Game of Pong with Itself to Pass the Time
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/24/clock-plays-a-game-of-pong-with-itself-to-pass-the-time/
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/24/clock-plays-a-game-of-pong-with-itself-to-pass-the-time/
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Clock Plays a Game of Pong with Itself to Pass the Time
Would you play a game of Pong where each set lasts exactly one minute and the right player is guaranteed to win 60 times more than the left player? Of course not, but if you were designing a clock …
Nvidia Transforms Standard Video Into Slow Motion Using AI
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/25/nvidia-transforms-standard-video-into-slow-motion-using-ai/
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/25/nvidia-transforms-standard-video-into-slow-motion-using-ai/
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Nvidia Transforms Standard Video Into Slow Motion Using AI
Nvidia is back at it again with another awesome demo of applied machine learning: artificially transforming standard video into slow motion – they’re so good at showing off what AI can …
The Electric Vehicles Of EMF Camp
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/25/the-electric-vehicles-of-emf-camp/
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/25/the-electric-vehicles-of-emf-camp/
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The Electric Vehicles Of EMF Camp
There is joy in the hearts of British and European hardware and software hackers and makers, for this is an EMF Camp year. Every couple of years, our community comes together for three summer days …
SiFive Releases Smaller, Lower Power RISC-V Cores
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/25/sifive-releases-smaller-lower-power-risc-v-cores/
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/25/sifive-releases-smaller-lower-power-risc-v-cores/
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SiFive Releases Smaller, Lower Power RISC-V Cores
Today, SiFive has released two new cores designed for the lower end of computing. This adds to the company’s existing portfolio of microcontrollers and SoCs based on the Open RISC-V ISA. Over…
Lost in Space Gets 3D Printing Right
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/25/lost-in-space-gets-3d-printing-right/
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/25/lost-in-space-gets-3d-printing-right/
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Lost in Space Gets 3D Printing Right
When it has become so common for movies and television to hyper-sensationalize engineering, and to just plain get things wrong, here’s a breathe of fresh air. There’s a Sci-Fi show out …
Dust to Dust and Jello to Jello: the Journey of a Very Strange Knife
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/25/dust-to-dust-and-jello-to-jello-the-journey-of-a-very-strange-knife/
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/25/dust-to-dust-and-jello-to-jello-the-journey-of-a-very-strange-knife/
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Dust to Dust and Jello to Jello: the Journey of a Very Strange Knife
How do you feel about Jello? It’s alright tasting, but it’s much more about how jiggly it gets. Nobody — probably — would eat Jello if it was a hard candy. It would quickly …
A Real Time Data Compression Technique
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/25/a-real-time-data-compression-technique/
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/25/a-real-time-data-compression-technique/
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A Real Time Data Compression Technique
With more and more embedded systems being connected, sending state information from one machine to another has become more common. However, sending large packets of data around on the network can b…
Adding Smarts To Dumb Brushed Motors
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/25/adding-smarts-to-dumb-brushed-motors/
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/25/adding-smarts-to-dumb-brushed-motors/
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Adding Smarts To Dumb Brushed Motors
A big part of the Hackaday Prize this year is robotics modules, and already we’ve seen a lot of projects adding intelligence to motors. Whether that’s current sensing, RPM feedback, PID…
Apple Coin Bank Plants the Seed of Saving
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/25/apple-coin-bank-plants-the-seed-of-saving/
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/25/apple-coin-bank-plants-the-seed-of-saving/
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Apple Coin Bank Plants the Seed of Saving
Consider the piggy bank. Behind that innocent, docile expression is a capitalistic metaphor waiting to ruin your fond memories of saving for that BMX bike or whatever else it was that drove home th…
Makerbot Printer Reborn As PCB Engraver
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/25/makerbot-printer-reborn-as-pcb-engraver/
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/25/makerbot-printer-reborn-as-pcb-engraver/
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Makerbot Printer Reborn As PCB Engraver
Makerbot 3D printers were among the first to hit the market, so it makes sense that old and broken ones now litter the shelves of hackerspaces and home workshops alike. Rather than throw his one ou…
Conquering The Earth With Cron
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/25/conquering-the-earth-with-cron/
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/25/conquering-the-earth-with-cron/
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Conquering The Earth With Cron
The GOES-R series of Earth observation satellites are the latest and greatest NASA has to offer. As you might expect, part of the GOES-R job description is imaging Earth at high-resolution, but the…
The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Train Whistles
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/25/the-hills-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-train-whistles/
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/25/the-hills-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-train-whistles/
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The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Train Whistles
In Northern England, the hills used to be home to steam trains. The trains have long faded into history, but the sound of their whistle is making a brief return. Artist [Steve Messam] has created &…
Everything You Didn’t Know You Were Missing About Bias Tees
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/26/everything-you-didnt-know-you-were-missing-about-bias-tees/
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/26/everything-you-didnt-know-you-were-missing-about-bias-tees/
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Everything You Didn’t Know You Were Missing About Bias Tees
Do you need a bias tee? If you want to put a DC voltage on top of an RF signal, chances are that you do. But what exactly are bias tees, and how do they work? If that’s your question, [W2AEW]…
No Caffeine, No Problem: A Hand-Soldered Chip-Scale Package
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/26/no-caffeine-no-problem-a-hand-soldered-chip-scale-package/
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/26/no-caffeine-no-problem-a-hand-soldered-chip-scale-package/
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No Caffeine, No Problem: A Hand-Soldered Chip-Scale Package
It’s said that the electronic devices we use on a daily basis, particularly cell phones, could be so much smaller than they are if only the humans they’re designed for weren’t so …
Putting Crimpers to the Test: How Good Are Our Crimp Tools?
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/26/putting-crimpers-to-the-test-how-good-are-our-crimp-tools/
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/26/putting-crimpers-to-the-test-how-good-are-our-crimp-tools/
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Putting Crimpers To The Test: How Good Are Our Crimp Tools?
Almost every project of mine from the last quarter century, if it has contained any wiring, has featured somewhere at least one crimp connector. There are a multiplicity of different types of crimp…
PIC Powered PicoBat Picks Up Pulsed Power
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/26/pic-powered-picobat-picks-up-pulsed-power/
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/26/pic-powered-picobat-picks-up-pulsed-power/
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PIC Powered PicoBat Picks Up Pulsed Power
In 2012, [Bruno] wanted to detect some bats. Detect bats? Some varieties of bat (primarily the descriptively named “microbats”) locate themselves and their prey in space using echolocat…
LEGO: The Kristiansen Legocy
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/26/ole-kirk-kristiansen-and-the-lego-frontier/
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/26/ole-kirk-kristiansen-and-the-lego-frontier/
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LEGO: The Kristiansen Legocy
Whether you are young, old, or a time traveling Vulcan, something unites all of us globally: the innocent LEGO blocks that encourage creativity over spoon-fed entertainment. Have you noticed the ex…
Controlling Robotics Visually
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/26/controlling-robotics-visually/
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/26/controlling-robotics-visually/
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Controlling Robotics Visually
The world — and the Hackaday Prize — is filled with educational robots. These are small, wheeled robots loaded up with sensors, actuators, a few motor drivers, and some sort of system t…
Building A Mini Electric Bike In Between Projects
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/26/building-a-mini-electric-bike-in-between-projects/
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/26/building-a-mini-electric-bike-in-between-projects/
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Building A Mini Electric Bike In Between Projects
What do you do when you suddenly find you have some free time because you’re waiting on parts or have run up against other delays for your current project? If you’re [James Bruton], you…
Hackers Want Cambridge Dictionary to Change Their Definition
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/26/hackers-want-cambridge-dictionary-to-change-their-definition/
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/26/hackers-want-cambridge-dictionary-to-change-their-definition/
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Hackers Want Cambridge Dictionary to Change Their Definition
Maybe it’s the silly season of high summer, or maybe a PR bunny at a cybersecurity company has simply hit the jackpot with a story syndicated by the Press Association, but the non-tech media …