The Value of a Worked Example I was looking over the week’s posts on Hackaday – it’s part of my job after all – and this gem caught my eye: a post about how to make …read more #hacking #projects image
eVTOL for Everyone While most of the world’s venture capital is off chasing anything with “AI” in the name in what many think looks increasingly like an inflated spherical film of soap molecules, …read more #hacking #projects image
If It Ain’t Broke… Add Something to It Given that we live in the proverbial glass house, we can’t throw stones at [ellis.codes] for modifying a perfectly fine Vornado fan. He’d picked that fan in the first place …read more #hacking #projects image
Intel GPUs on Raspberry Pi Is So Wrong it Feels Right While you might not know it from their market share, Intel makes some fine GPUs. Putting one in a PC with an AMD processor already feels a bit naughty, but …read more #hacking #projects image
Precision Current Sources by the Numbers It isn’t unusual to expect a precisely regulated voltage in an electronic project, but what about times when you need a precise current? Over on EDN, prolific [Stephen Woodward] explains …read more #hacking #projects image
Building a Drivable, Life-Size 3D-Printed LEGO Technic Buggy It’s part of the great circle of life that toys and scale models that provide a reflection of macro-sized objects like vehicles and buildings will eventually be scaled up again …read more #hacking #projects image
Meet Me on My Rotary Phone We suspect kids today — and some adults — are confused about phone terminology. In today’s world, “hanging up” and “dialing,” for example, are abstract words without the physical reference …read more #hacking #projects image
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: The VIA Makes Noise, Again In the days of 8-bit home computing, the more fancy machines had sound chips containing complete synthesizers, while budget machines made do with simple output ports connected to a speaker …read more #hacking #projects image
Hackaday Podcast Episode 345: A Stunning Lightsaber, Two Extreme Cameras, and Wrangling Roombas It’s a wet November evening across Western Europe, the steel-grey clouds have obscured a rare low-latitude aurora this week, and Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List for this week’s …read more #hacking #projects image
WWII Secret Agents for Science We always enjoy [History Guy]’s musing on all things history, but we especially like it when his historical stories intersect with technology. A good example was his recent video about …read more #hacking #projects image