Kinethreads: A Low Cost Haptic Exo-Suit There have been lots of haptic vest devices over the years, though the vast majority have been very simple. Many existing suits pack in a few speakers or vibration motors …read more #hacking #projects image
Drones At Danish Airports, A Plea For Responsible Official Response In Europe, where this is being written, and possibly further afield, news reports are again full of drone sightings closing airports. The reports have come from Scandinavia, in particular Denmark, …read more #hacking #projects image
How Many Phones Sport a 5 and 1/4 Diskette Drive? This One. It all started with a sarcastic comment right here on Hackaday.com: ” How many phones do you know that sport a 5 and 1/4 inch diskette drive?” — and [Paul …read more #hacking #projects image
NEC V20: The Original PC Processor Upgrade In the early 1980s, there was the IBM PC, with its 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 processor. It was an unexpected hit for the company, and within a few years there …read more #hacking #projects image
Bluetooth Earrings Pump Out The Tunes When you think of a Bluetooth speaker, you’re probably picturing a roughly lunchbox-sized device that pumps out some decent volume for annoying fellow beachgoers, hikers, or public transport users. [Matt …read more #hacking #projects image
Whither the Chip Shortage? Do you remember the global chip shortage? Somehow it seems so long ago, but it’s not even really been three years yet. Somehow, I had entirely forgotten about it, until …read more #hacking #projects image
Bringing Bluetooth to the Zune The Zune might have joined the portable media player game too late to ever really be competition for the iPod, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t pick up some devoted …read more #hacking #projects image
An LED Sphere For Your Desk The Las Vegas Sphere is great and all, but few of us can afford the expense to travel to out there to see it on the regular. If you’re looking …read more #hacking #projects image
UNIX for a Legacy TI Although now mostly known as a company who cornered the market on graphing calculators while only updating them once a decade or so, there was a time when Texas Instruments …read more #hacking #projects image
The 19th Century Quantum Mechanics While William Rowan Hamilton isn’t a household name like, say, Einstein or Hawking, he might have been. It turns out the Irish mathematician almost stumbled on quantum theory in the …read more #hacking #projects image