Automatic Soap Dispenser Hides Arduino Board
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/25/automatic-soap-dispenser-hides-arduino-board/
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Automatic Soap Dispenser Hides Arduino Board
If you’ve been hanging out here at Hackaday for awhile, you’ve certainly seen projects that were based around the concept of putting a miniature computer inside the carcass of some othe…
How a Microcontroller Hiding in a USB Port Became an FPGA Hiding in the Same
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/25/how-a-microcontroller-hiding-in-a-usb-port-became-an-fpga-hiding-in-the-same/
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/25/how-a-microcontroller-hiding-in-a-usb-port-became-an-fpga-hiding-in-the-same/
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How a Microcontroller Hiding in a USB Port Became an FPGA Hiding in the Same
When you think of microcontroller development, you probably picture either a breadboard with a chip or a USB-connected circuit board. But Tim Ansell pictured an ARM dev board that is almost complet…
Achieving Zen the Arduino Way
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/25/achieving-zen-the-arduino-way/
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/25/achieving-zen-the-arduino-way/
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Achieving Zen the Arduino Way
The purpose of a Zen garden, those stylized landscapes created by painstakingly placing rocks and raking gravel into perfect patterns, is the doing of the thing. Making sure every line is perfectly…
The Umbrella That Tells You The Weather
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/25/the-umbrella-that-tells-you-the-weather/
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/25/the-umbrella-that-tells-you-the-weather/
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The Umbrella That Tells You The Weather
Most people can tell you the various uses of the umbrella — it keeps the rain off, pokes sleeping train passengers awake, and can be used as an improvised defensive weapon when tension in the…
Fail of the Week: Hard Lessons in 3D-Printed Bushings for a Giant RC Car
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/25/fail-of-the-week-hard-lessons-in-3d-printed-bushings-for-a-giant-rc-car/
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/25/fail-of-the-week-hard-lessons-in-3d-printed-bushings-for-a-giant-rc-car/
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Fail of the Week: Hard Lessons in 3D-Printed Bushings for a Giant RC Car
Can you turn 47 pounds (21 kg) of PLA filament into a gigantic working 3D-printed RC car? No, no you can’t — at least not if you eschew proper bearings in favor of printed bushings. Tha…
Cortex 2 is One Serious 3D Printed Experimental Rocket
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/25/cortex-2-is-one-serious-3d-printed-experimental-rocket/
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/25/cortex-2-is-one-serious-3d-printed-experimental-rocket/
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Cortex 2 is One Serious 3D Printed Experimental Rocket
Rocketry is wild, and [Foaly] is sharing build and design details of the Cortex 2 mini rocket which is entirely 3D printed. Don’t let that fool you into thinking it is in any way a gimmick; t…
Kinetic Wire Animatronics Bend It Like Disney
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/26/kinetic-wire-animatronics-bend-it-like-disney/
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/26/kinetic-wire-animatronics-bend-it-like-disney/
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Kinetic Wire Animatronics Bend It Like Disney
The House of Mouse has been at the forefront of entertainment technology from its very beginnings in an old orange grove in Anaheim. Disney Imagineers invented the first modern animatronics in the …
Delicious Vector Game Console Runs Pac-Man, Tetris, and Mario
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/26/delicious-vector-game-console-runs-pac-man-tetris-mario-and-then-some/
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/26/delicious-vector-game-console-runs-pac-man-tetris-mario-and-then-some/
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Delicious Vector Game Console Runs Pac-Man, Tetris, And Mario
The only question we have about [mitxela]’s DIY vector graphics game console is: Why did he wait five years to tell the world about it? Judging by the projects we’ve seen before, from h…
Ooops, Did We Just Close An Airport Over A UFO Sighting?
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/26/ooops-did-we-just-close-an-airport-over-a-ufo-sighting/
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/26/ooops-did-we-just-close-an-airport-over-a-ufo-sighting/
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Ooops, Did We Just Close An Airport Over A UFO Sighting?
Picture this: it’s late in the evening on a freezing cold, dark, and windy December night in southern England, and an airport worker at Gatwick — London’s second international air…
Bonanza of Keyswitch Datasheets Fills Our Decks with Clack
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/26/bonanza-of-keyswitch-datasheets-fills-our-decks-with-clack/
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/26/bonanza-of-keyswitch-datasheets-fills-our-decks-with-clack/
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Bonanza of Keyswitch Datasheets Fills Our Decks with Clack
Mechanical keyboards use switches of a few different types. But even those types include myriad variations. How’s a hacker to know just exactly what equipment is out there? For example, if yo…
A Daring Search for Answers in Soyuz Mystery
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/26/a-daring-search-for-answers-in-soyuz-mystery/
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/26/a-daring-search-for-answers-in-soyuz-mystery/
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A Daring Search for Answers in Soyuz Mystery
If you happened to tune into NASA TV on December 11th, you’d have been treated to a sight perhaps best described as “unprecedented”: Russian cosmonauts roughly cutting away the th…
Bottom of the Barrel Connector: Tell Us Your Socket Hacks
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/26/bottom-of-the-barrel-connector-tell-us-your-socket-hacks/
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/26/bottom-of-the-barrel-connector-tell-us-your-socket-hacks/
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Bottom of the Barrel Connector: Tell Us Your Socket Hacks
Sometimes you get an epiphany for a project that will change the world. A simple device, on a custom circuit board with inexpensive parts that will disrupt the status quo and make you a billion dol…
Make an Impression at the Bar with a CNC Coaster Plotter
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/26/make-an-impression-at-the-bar-with-a-cnc-coaster-plotter/
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Make an Impression at the Bar with a CNC Coaster Plotter
If you’re anything like us, your success with the opposite sex at the bar wasn’t much to brag about. But imagine if you had only had this compact CNC polar plotter and could have whippe…
Skeletal Robot Skips the Chassis
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/26/skeletal-robot-skips-the-chassis/
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/26/skeletal-robot-skips-the-chassis/
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Skeletal Robot Skips the Chassis
With the high availability of low-cost modular electronic components, building your own little robot buddy is easier and more affordable than ever. But while the electronics might be dirt cheap tha…
Portmanteau Spewing PunBot
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/26/portmanteau-spewing-punbot/
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/26/portmanteau-spewing-punbot/
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Portmanteau Spewing PunBot
When Python was created, [Guido van Rossum] knew that one day it would be fully realized and take its final form. Clearly, that day has arrived since there now exists a way to send a word query and…
Word Clock Don’t Need No Stencil Font
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/26/word-clock-dont-need-no-stencil-font/
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/26/word-clock-dont-need-no-stencil-font/
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Word Clock Don’t Need No Stencil Font
Word clocks use natural language to display the time. They’ve been in vogue in the last 20 years or so, as low-cost digital technology makes them particularly cost effective and easy to build…
Doomba Transports Your Living Room to Hell
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/27/doomba-transports-your-living-room-to-hell/
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/27/doomba-transports-your-living-room-to-hell/
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Doomba Transports Your Living Room to Hell
Despite being over 25 years old, the original DOOM is still a favorite among gamers and hackers alike. For years now, running the 1993 demonic shooter has been a critical milestone when hacking or …
Top Secret Teardown Reveals Soviet Missile Secrets
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/27/top-secret-teardown-reveals-soviet-missile-secrets/
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Top Secret Teardown Reveals Soviet Missile Secrets
Technology has moved at such a furious pace that what would have been most secret military technology a few decades ago is now surplus on eBay. Case in point: [msylvain59] picked up a Soviet-era K-…
2018: As The Hardware World Turns
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/27/2018-as-the-hardware-world-turns/
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/27/2018-as-the-hardware-world-turns/
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2018: As The Hardware World Turns
2018 is almost over, and we have another year in the dataset: an improbable number of celebrities died in 2016. The stock market is down, and everyone thinks a crash is coming. Journalists are bein…
HD Video and Telemetry Link Uses Standard WiFi Hardware
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/27/hd-video-and-telemetry-link-uses-standard-wifi-hardware/
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/27/hd-video-and-telemetry-link-uses-standard-wifi-hardware/
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HD Video and Telemetry Link Uses Standard WiFi Hardware
[GlytchTech] decided to implement his own Digital Data Link (DDL) for his drone experiments, and by using a Raspberry Pi Zero and some open-source software, he succeeded in creating a mostly self-c…