Raise Bikes to the Heavens with Humble Garage Door Opener Biking can be an incredibly rewarding hobby, but what do you do with all of your expensive pieces of metal and composite when you aren’t hitting the trails? They take …read more #hacking #projects image
How to Make Big Cabinets on a Small CNC Router It’s easy to build big wooden furniture if you have a massive industrial CNC router, but few of us are so lucky. However, you can still build sizable stuff with …read more #hacking #projects image
Magnus Effect Drone Flies, Looks Impossible By now we’re all familiar with the quad-rotor design most popular among modern drones, and of course there are many variants using more or less propellers and even fixed-wing drones …read more #hacking #projects image
A Holographic Seven-Segment Clock Seven-segment displays are one of the most ho-hum ways to display the time. They were cool for a little bit in the 70s, but by now, they’re a little bit …read more #hacking #projects image
Has Steampunk Delivered the Hoverboard? The hoverboard, one of the teen crazes of the last decade, is both a marvel of technology and a source of hacker parts that have appeared in so many projects …read more #hacking #projects image
DIY Light Panels Work With Home Assistant There are a few major companies out there building colorful LED panels you can stick on your wall for aesthetic purposes. Most commercial options are pretty expensive, and come with …read more #hacking #projects image
On the Benefits of Filling 3D Prints With Spray Foam Closed-cell self-expanding foam (spray foam) is an amazing material that sees common use in construction. But one application that we hadn’t heard of before was using it to fill the …read more #hacking #projects image
A Flexible Light Inspired by IKEA The IKEA SMÅSNÖRE is a flexible silicone rod with an embedded LED strip, attached at each end to a base. It’s eye-catching enough, and it has the useful property of …read more #hacking #projects image
Building a Simple Ribbon Synth The usual input device for playing a synthesizer is the good old piano keyboard. However, you don’t have to stick to such pedestrian interfaces when making music. [Daisy] has a …read more #hacking #projects image
Hacky Thanksgiving It’s that time of year when we eat perhaps a little too much food, and have maybe just a few too many sips of red wine. But it’s also when …read more #hacking #projects image