2025 Hackaday Supercon: Two New Workshops, Costume Party, Lightning Talks, and a New-Space Panel So much news, so little time left until Supercon! We hope you all have your tickets. If not: Workshop and general admission tickets are on sale now. We’re getting down …read more #hacking #projects image
British Train Departures As They Should Be Viewed The first generation of real-time train information screens for British railways came in the form of suspended color CRTs in familiar rounded fiberglass housings. They were a ubiquitous sight across …read more #hacking #projects image
Ore Formation: Return of the Revenge of the Fluids In the last edition of our ongoing series on how planets get ore– those wonderful rocks rich in industrial minerals worth mining– we started talking about hydrothermal fluid deposits. Hydrothermal …read more #hacking #projects image
Budget Stream Deck Clone is Ripe for Hacking The original Stream Deck was a purpose-built device to make it easier to manage a live video stream on the fly. Since its release, many other similar products have hit …read more #hacking #projects image
Reverse Engineering STL Files with FreeCAD If you think about it, STL files are like PDF files. You usually create them using some other program, export them, and then expect them to print. But you rarely …read more #hacking #projects image
Putting a Teensy to Task as a Transputer Link One downside of working with the old Inmos Transputer devices is the rarity and cost of the original silicon. Obviously, you can’t sidestep the acquisition of the processor—unless you emulate—but …read more #hacking #projects image
The Lambda Papers: When LISP Got Turned Into a Microprocessor During the AI research boom of the 1970s, the LISP language – from LISt Processor – saw a major surge in use and development, including many dialects being developed. One …read more #hacking #projects image
High Performance Motor Control With FOC From the Ground Up Vector Control, also known as Field Oriented Control or FOC is an AC motor control scheme that enables fine-grained control over a connected motor, through the precise control of its …read more #hacking #projects image
Blinking An LED With a Single Transistor Let’s say you want to blink an LED. You might grab an Arduino and run the Blink sketch, or you might lace up a few components to a 555. But …read more #hacking #projects image
Fail of the Week: Beaker to Benchy More Bothersome than Believed Making nylon plastic from raw chemicals used to be a very common demo; depending where and when you grew up, you may well have done it in high school or …read more #hacking #projects image