Building a Low-Cost Satellite Tracker Looking up at the sky just after sunset or just before sunrise will reveal a fairly staggering amount of satellites orbiting overhead, from tiny cubesats to the International Space Station. …read more #hacking #projects image
FLOSS Weekly Episode 856: QT: Fix It Please, My Mom is Calling This week Jonathan chats with Maurice Kalinowski about QT! That’s the framework that runs just about anywhere, making it easy to write cross-platform applications. What’s the connection with KDE? And …read more #hacking #projects image
Elli Furedy Brings Cyberpunk Games to Life When you’re designing a bounty hunter game for a five-day cyberpunk live-action-role-play out in the middle of the Mojave desert, you’ve got to bring something extra cool. But [Elli]’s Hackaday …read more #hacking #projects image
The Busch Electronic Digital-Technik 2075 Digital Lab from the 1970s In a recent video, [Jason Jacques] demos the Busch Electronic Digital-Technik 2075 which was released in West Germany in the 1970s. The Digital-Technik 2075 comes with a few components including …read more #hacking #projects image
Chinese Regulators May Kill Retractable Car Door Handles That Never Should Have Existed Headlights. Indicators. Trunk releases. Seatbelts. Airbags. Just about any part of a car you can think of is governed by a long and complicated government regulation. It’s all about safety, …read more #hacking #projects image
MicroCAD Programs CAD We love and hate OpenSCAD. As programmers, we like describing objects we want to 3D print or otherwise model. As programmers, we hate all the strange things about OpenSCAD that …read more #hacking #projects image
There’s Nothing Backwards About This Laser Cut Retrograde Clock It’s clock time again on Hackaday, this time with a lovely laser-cut biretrograde clock by [PaulH175] over on Instructables. If you’ve never heard of a ‘biretrograde clock,’ well, we hadn’t …read more #hacking #projects image
A Bird Watching Assistant When AI is being touted as the latest tool to replace writers, filmmakers, and other creative talent it can be a bit depressing staring down the barrel of a future …read more #hacking #projects image
Boosting Antihydrogen Production using Beryllium Ions Antihydrogen forms an ideal study subject for deciphering the secrets of fundamental physics due to it being the most simple anti-matter atom. However, keeping it from casually annihilating itself along …read more #hacking #projects image
DIY Test Gear from 1981 We can’t get enough of [Bettina Neumryn’s] videos. If you haven’t seen her, she takes old electronics magazines, finds interesting projects, and builds them. If you remember these old projects, …read more #hacking #projects image