Meter Mods Make Radioactive Prospecting More Enjoyable While we often get a detailed backstory of the projects we cover here at Hackaday, sometimes the genesis of a build is a bit of a mystery. Take [maurycyz]’s radiation …read more #hacking #projects image
3D Printed “Book” Demonstrates Mechanical Actions A book of mechanical actions is a wondrous thing — mechanically inclined children have lost collective decades pouring over them over the generations. What could possibly be better? Why, if …read more #hacking #projects image
FLOSS Weekly Episode 848: Open the Podbay Doors, Siri This week Jonathan and Rob chat with Paulus Schoutsen about Home Assistant, ESPHome, and Music Assistant, all under the umbrella of the Open Home Foundation. Watch to see Paulus convince …read more #hacking #projects image
Retrotechtacular: The Ferguson System Of the many great technological leaps made in the middle of the 20th century, one of the ones with perhaps the greatest impact on our modern life takes a back …read more #hacking #projects image
Pill Sized Scoop of Your Internals Taking a look inside the human body has never been easier — just swallow a camera in the shape of a pill. However, what is not quite as easy is …read more #hacking #projects image
How Regulations Are Trying To Keep Home Battery Installs Safe The advent of rooftop solar power generation was a huge step forward for renewable energy. No longer was generating electricity the sole preserve of governments and major commercial providers; now …read more #hacking #projects image
Who Wants a Rusty Old Smartphone? If we’re talking about oxidized iron… probably nobody. If we’re talking about Rust the programming language, well, that might be a different story. Google agrees, and is working on bringing …read more #hacking #projects image
RTINGS 10-Year Equivalent TV Longevity Update With Many Casualties For the past two-and-half years Canadian consumer testing outfit RTINGS has been running an accelerated aging experiment across a large number of TVs available to a North-American audience. In their …read more #hacking #projects image
Dodecahedron Speaker Is Biblically Accurate Once upon a time, many radios and TVs only came with a single (mono) speaker. Then someone decided all audio hardware should have as many speakers as we have ears. …read more #hacking #projects image
How A Failed Video Format Spawned A New Kind of Microscope The video cassette tape was really the first successful home video format; discs just couldn’t compete back in the early days. That’s not to say nobody tried, however, with RCA’s …read more #hacking #projects image