Full Scale Styrofoam DeLorean Finally Takes Flight It’s 2025 and we still don’t have flying cars– but we’ve got this full-scale flying DeLorean prop from [Brian Brocken], and that’s almost as good. It’s airborne and on camera …read more #hacking #projects image
Building Your Own DVB-S2 Receiver Generally, a digital TV tuner is something you buy rather than something you make yourself. However, [Johann] has always been quite passionate about the various DVB transmission standards, and decided …read more #hacking #projects image
Robot Balances Ball On A Plate Imagine trying to balance a heavy metal ball bearing on a cafeteria tray. It’s not the easiest thing in the world! In fact, it’s perhaps a task better automated, as …read more #hacking #projects image
Jenny’s Daily Drivers: KDE Linux Over this series test-driving operating systems, we’ve tried to bring you the unusual, the esoteric, or the less mainstream among the world of the desktop OS. It would become very …read more #hacking #projects image
This Device Is A Real Page Turner You can read e-books on just about anything—your tablet, your smartphone, or even your PC. However, the interface can be lacking somewhat compared to a traditional book—on a computer, you …read more #hacking #projects image
Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses and the New Glassholes It’s becoming somewhat of a running gag that any device or object will be made ‘smart’ these days, whether it’s a phone, TV, refrigerator, home thermostat, headphones or glasses. This …read more #hacking #projects image
iPhone Air Still Apparently Repairable Despite Its Compact Construction Miniaturization is a trend that comes and goes in the cellular phone space. For a while, our phones were all getting smaller, then they started getting bigger again as screens …read more #hacking #projects image
Restoring a Vintage Computer And Its Plotter Repairing vintage computers is bread-and-butter for many of us around here. The machines themselves tend to be fairly fixable, assuming spare parts are available and there hasn’t been too much …read more #hacking #projects image
Mandrel Magic: Small Box Assembly with 3D Printing Often, we face tedious tasks with no way around them. Sometimes, you just have to grit your teeth and push through. But small tweaks can make the onerous task a …read more #hacking #projects image
First Transistor Computer Reborn Ok, we’ll admit it. If you asked us what the first transistorized computer was, we would have guessed it was the TC from the University of Manchester. After all, Dr. …read more #hacking #projects image