Quiet Your Drums With An Electronic Setup Playing the drums requires a lot of practice, but that practice can be incredibly loud. A nice workaround is presented by [PocketBoy], in converting an acoustic kit to electronic operation …read more #hacking #projects image
Australia’s New Asbestos Scare In Schools Asbestos is a nasty old mineral. It’s known for releasing fine, microscopic fibers that can lodge in the body’s tissues and cause deadly disease over a period of decades. Originally …read more #hacking #projects image
How To Design 3D Printed Pins that Won’t Break [Slant 3D] has a useful video explaining some thoughtful CAD techniques for designing 3D printed pins that don’t break and the concepts can be extended to similar features. Sure, one …read more #hacking #projects image
3D Printing and the Dream of Affordable Prosthetics As amazing as the human body is, it’s unfortunately not as amazing as e.g. axolotl bodies are, in the sense that they can regrow entire limbs and more. This has …read more #hacking #projects image
The New Pebble: Now 100% Open Source The Pebble was the smartwatch darling of the early 2010s, a glimpse of the future in the form of a microcontroller and screen strapped to your wrist. It was snapped …read more #hacking #projects image
Sensor Package Aims To Predict Acid Rain Acid rain sucks, particularly if you run a fancy university with lots of lovely statues outside. If you’d like to try and predict when it’s going to occur, you might …read more #hacking #projects image
All Handheld Antennas Are Not Born The Same If you own a handheld transceiver of any type then the chances are it will come with a “rubber duck” style antenna. These flexible rubber-coated antennas are a compromise in …read more #hacking #projects image
A Deep Dive into Using PIO and DMA on the RP2350 Here’s a fun rabbit hole to run down if you don’t already have the RP2040/RP2350 PIO feather in your cap: how to serve data without CPU intervention using PIO and …read more #hacking #projects image
Retrotechtacular: The $550K Video Conferencing System Used to Make Bee Movie The modern office environment has shifted in recent years. Employees are routinely asked to collaborate with co-workers half way around the globe and be camera ready, or whatever passes for …read more #hacking #projects image
Tiny Little TV Runs On ESP32 Few of us keep big old cathode ray tubes in the house anymore, but we can still appreciate the form factor of the classic TV. Indeed, the Tinytron from [t0mg] …read more #hacking #projects image