2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Nail Your Next Decal One of the hardest parts of a project — assuming it makes it that far — is finishing it up in an aesthetically pleasing manner. As they say, the devil …read more #hacking #projects image
Announcing the 2025 Hackaday Superconference Communicator Badge It’s the moment you hard-core hardware nerds have been waiting for: the reveal of the 2025 Hackaday Supercon Communicator Badge. And this year, we’ve outdone ourselves, but that’s thanks to …read more #hacking #projects image
10 Cent Microcontroller Makes Music Compared to the old 8-bit Arduinos, it’s incredible how cheap modern microcontrollers like the ESP32 have become. But there are even cheaper options out there if you don’t need that …read more #hacking #projects image
Built-In Batteries: a Daft Idea With an Uncertain Future Having a gadget’s battery nestled snugly within the bowels of a device has certain advantages. It finally solves the ‘no batteries included’ problem, and there is no more juggling of …read more #hacking #projects image
Why Does the FCC Care About Computers? Unless you are over a certain age, you probably take it for granted that electronic gadgets you buy have some FCC marking on them. But it wasn’t always true. [Ernie] …read more #hacking #projects image
Making a Clock With a Retooled Unihiker K10 The Unihiker K10 is intended to be a small single-board solution for light AI and machine learning tasks. However, you don’t have to use it in that way if you don’t …read more #hacking #projects image
ESP32 Invades Old TV Box: Forecast More Than Just Channels Obsolete hardware is all around us, and some of it has some pretty interesting tech buried within. One such device is an old Belgacom TV Box. Instead of using the …read more #hacking #projects image
UK’s MAST Upgrade Tokamak Stabilizes Plasma with Edge Magnetic Fields Although nuclear fusion is exceedingly easy to achieve, as evidenced by desktop fusors, the real challenges begin to pop up whenever you try to sustain a plasma for extended periods …read more #hacking #projects image
Tinkercad in Color Tinkercad is famous for having lots of colors in the interface. But once you export an STL, that file is notoriously monochrome. If you are printing with a single color …read more #hacking #projects image
Handheld PC Build Is Pleasantly Chunky The cool thing about building your own computer is that you don’t have to adhere to industry norms of form and function. You can build whatever chunky, awesome thing your …read more #hacking #projects image