Curbing Internet Addiction In A Threatening Manner
https://hackaday.com/2019/07/15/curbing-internet-addiction-in-a-threatening-manner/

Those who have children of their own might argue that the youth of today are getting far too much internet time. [Nick] decided to put an emergency stop to it and made this ingenious internet kill switch to threaten teenagers with. Rather unassuming on the outside, the big red button …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/07/15/curbing-internet-addiction-in-a-threatening-manner/)

New Space Abort Systems go Back to the Future
https://hackaday.com/2019/07/15/new-space-abort-systems-go-back-to-the-future/

Throughout the history of America’s human spaceflight program, there’s been an alternating pattern in regards to abort systems. From Alan Shepard’s first flight in 1961 on, every Mercury capsule was equipped with a Launch Escape System (LES) tower that could pull the spacecraft away from a malfunctioning rocket. But by …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/07/15/new-space-abort-systems-go-back-to-the-future/)

Project Egress: A Bracket And A Bell Crank For The Latches
https://hackaday.com/2019/07/15/project-egress-a-bracket-and-a-bell-crank-for-the-latches/

Put yourself in [This Old Tony]’s shoes: you get an email out of the blue asking you to take part in making a replica of a 50-year-old spacecraft. Would you believe it? He didn’t, at least not at first, but in the end it proved to be true enough that …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/07/15/project-egress-a-bracket-and-a-bell-crank-for-the-latches/)

Alan Turing To Be The Face Of Fifty Quid
https://hackaday.com/2019/07/15/alan-turing-to-be-the-face-of-fifty-quid/

The Bank of England has announced that the new face of the £50 note is to be Alan Turing. This news follows a round of public nominations for a scientist to fill the space, and Turing was in the running with some stiff competition from the likes of Stephen Hawking …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/07/15/alan-turing-to-be-the-face-of-fifty-quid/)

Review: Shi Yi Tool Sy365-8 Desoldering Iron, Second Cheapest You Can Find
https://hackaday.com/2019/07/15/review-shi-yi-tool-sy365-8-desoldering-iron-second-cheapest-you-can-find/

Is the second cheapest tool you can find any better than the cheapest one?
Readers with long memories will recall there was a time when I amused myself by tacking inexpensive tools or electronic devices to my various orders from the Chinese electronic Aladdin’s Cave. Often these inexpensive purchases proved …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/07/15/review-shi-yi-tool-sy365-8-desoldering-iron-second-cheapest-you-can-find/)

Low-Level Analog Measurement Hack Chat
https://hackaday.com/2019/07/15/low-level-analog-measurement-hack-chat/

Join us on Wednesday 17 July 2019 at noon Pacific for the Low-Level Analog Measurement Hack Chat with Chris Gammell!
A lot of electronics enthusiasts gravitate to the digital side of the hobby, at least at first. It’s understandable – an Arduino, a few jumpers, and a bit of code …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/07/15/low-level-analog-measurement-hack-chat/)

Arduboy in a Dreamcast VMU
https://hackaday.com/2019/07/15/aruboy-in-a-dreamcast-vmu/

The Arduboy is a tiny, credit-card sized sized video game console that you can build yourself. The Dreamcast VMU was also a tiny, pocketable video game system, but really that’s just where we stored our saves for Crazy Taxi. What do you get when you combine the two? [sjm] did …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/07/15/aruboy-in-a-dreamcast-vmu/)

The Trials And Tribulations Of Building An IOT Garage Door Opener
https://hackaday.com/2019/07/15/the-trials-and-tribulations-of-building-an-iot-garage-door-opener/

Garage doors can be frustrating things, being a chore to open manually and all. Many people opt to install a motorized opener, but for some, even this isn’t enough. Hooking up a garage door to the Internet of Things has long been a popular project, and [Simon Ludborzs] decided to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/07/15/the-trials-and-tribulations-of-building-an-iot-garage-door-opener/)

Hiding Data in Music Might be the Key to Ditching Coffee Shop WiFi Passwords
https://hackaday.com/2019/07/15/hiding-data-in-music/

In a move guaranteed to send audiophiles recoiling back into their sonically pristine caves, two doctoral students at ETH Zurich have come up with an interesting way to embed information into music. What sounds crazy about this is that they’re hiding data firmly in the audible spectrum from 9.8 kHz …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/07/15/hiding-data-in-music/)

Getting MIDI Under Control
https://hackaday.com/2019/07/15/getting-midi-under-control/

When [Mr. Sobolak] started his DIY Midi Fighter he already had experience with the MIDI protocol, and because it is only natural once you have mastered something to expand on the success and build something more impressive, more useful, and more button-y. He is far from rare in this regard. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/07/15/getting-midi-under-control/)

Hoverboard Circles Bastille Day
https://hackaday.com/2019/07/15/hoverboard-circles-bastille-day/

According to reports, a turbine-powered flying board buzzed around Bastille Day celebrations carrying its inventor [Franky Zapata] toting a rifle to promote the military applications of the Flyboard Air. You can see the video record, below.
We’ve heard the board costs a cool $250,000 so you may want to start …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/07/15/hoverboard-circles-bastille-day/)

Building A Development Board For The STM32 G0 Series
https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/building-a-development-board-for-the-stm32-g0-series/

When [Andy Brown] recently tripped over ST’s new G0 series of MCUs, he figured after some research that the best way to learn everything there’s to know about the STM32G0xx by making his own development board based around the STM32G081. The result is a Nucleo-style board, breaking out all pins …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/building-a-development-board-for-the-stm32-g0-series/)

Raspberry Pi Cyberdeck Inspired by Rare MSX
https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/raspberry-pi-cyberdeck-inspired-by-rare-msx/

When we see these cyberdeck builds, the goal is usually to just make something retro-futuristic enough to do William Gibson proud. There’s really no set formula, but offset screens coupled with large keyboards and a vague adherence to 1980s design language seem to be the most important tenets.
Granted the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/raspberry-pi-cyberdeck-inspired-by-rare-msx/)

Exploring The Raspberry Pi 4 USB-C Issue In-Depth
https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/exploring-the-raspberry-pi-4-usb-c-issue-in-depth/

It would be fair to say that the Raspberry Pi team hasn’t been without its share of hardware issues, with the Raspberry Pi 2 being camera shy, the Raspberry Pi PoE HAT suffering from a rather embarrassing USB power issue, and now the all-new Raspberry Pi 4 is the first …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/exploring-the-raspberry-pi-4-usb-c-issue-in-depth/)

A Baby’s First Year In Data, As A Blanket
https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/a-babys-first-year-in-data-as-a-blanket/

New parents will tel you that a baby takes a few months to acquire something close to a day/night sleep pattern, and during that time Mom and Dad also find their sleep becomes a a rarely-snatched luxury. [Seung Lee] has turned this experience into a unique data visualisation, by taking …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/a-babys-first-year-in-data-as-a-blanket/)

Say it With Me: Bandwidth
https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/say-it-with-me-bandwidth/

Bandwidth is one of those technical terms that has been overloaded in popular speech: as an example, an editor might ask if you have the bandwidth to write a Hackaday piece about bandwidth. Besides this colloquial usage, there are several very specific meanings in an engineering context. We might speak …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/say-it-with-me-bandwidth/)

Artificial Intelligence Powers A Wasp-Killing Machine
https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/artificial-intelligence-powers-a-wasp-killing-machine/

At the time of publication, Hackaday is of the understanding that there is no pro-wasp lobby active in the United States or abroad. Why? Well, the wasp is an insect that is considered incapable of any viable economic contribution to society, and thus has few to no adherents who would …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/artificial-intelligence-powers-a-wasp-killing-machine/)

Jigsaw Motor Uses PCB Coils For Radial Flux
https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/jigsaw-motor-uses-pcb-coils-for-radial-flux/

Electric motors are easy to make; remember those experiments with wire-wrapped nails? But what’s easy to make is often hard to engineer, and making a motor that’s small, light, and powerful can be difficult. [Carl Bugeja] however is not one to back down from a challenge, and his tiny “jigsaw” …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/jigsaw-motor-uses-pcb-coils-for-radial-flux/)

Hacking This Smart Bulb Is Almost Too Easy
https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/hacking-this-smart-bulb-is-almost-too-easy/

The regular Hackaday reader no longer needs to be reminded about how popular the ESP8266 is; they see the evidence of that several times a day. But what might not be quite so obvious is that it isn’t just us hacker types that are in love with the inexpensive IoT …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/hacking-this-smart-bulb-is-almost-too-easy/)

Neural Network In Glass Requires No Power, Recognizes Numbers
https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/neural-network-in-glass-requires-no-power-recognizes-numbers/

We’ve all come to terms with a neural network doing jobs such as handwriting recognition. The basics have been in place for years and the recent increase in computing power and parallel processing has made it a very practical technology. However, at the core level it is still a digital …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/neural-network-in-glass-requires-no-power-recognizes-numbers/)