F1 Light Box Helps You Know the Current Race Status [joppedc] wrote in to let us know that the Formula 1® season is coming to an end, and that the final race should be bangin’. To get ready, he built …read more #hacking #projects image
Standalone USB-PD Stack For All Your Sink Needs USB PD is a fun protocol to explore, but it can be a bit complex to fully implement. It makes sense we’re seeing new stacks pop up all the time, …read more #hacking #projects image
Lessons Learned After Trying MeshCore for Off-grid Text Messaging [Michael Lynch] recently decided to delve into the world of off-grid, decentralized communications with MeshCore, because being able to communicate wirelessly with others in a way that does not depend …read more #hacking #projects image
Bridging RTL-433 To Home Assistant If you’ve got an RTL-SDR compatible receiver, you’ve probably used it for picking up signals from all kinds of weird things. Now, [Jaron McDaniel] has built a tool to integrate …read more #hacking #projects image
Emulate ROMs at 12MHz With Pico2 PIO Nothing lasts forever, and that includes the ROMs required to make a retrocomputer run. Even worse, what if you’re rolling your own firmware? Period-appropriate EPROMs and their programmers aren’t always …read more #hacking #projects image
Something New Every Day, Something Relevant Every Week? The site is called Hackaday, and has been for 21 years. But it was only for maybe the first half-year that it was literally a hack a day. By the …read more #hacking #projects image
Electronic Dice Built The Old Fashioned Way If you wanted to build an electronic dice, you might grab an Arduino and a nice OLED display to whip up something fancy. You could even choose an ESP32 and …read more #hacking #projects image
Sudo Clean Up My Workbench [Engineezy] might have been watching a 3D printer move when inspiration struck: Why not build a robot arm to clean up his workbench? Why not, indeed? Well, all you need …read more #hacking #projects image
Blue Hedgehog, Meet Boing Ball: Can Sonic Run on Amiga? The Amiga was a great game system in its day, but there were some titles it was just never going to get. Sonic the Hedgehog was one of them– SEGA …read more #hacking #projects image
Adding Electronics to a Classic Game Like many classic board games, Ludo offers its players numerous opportunities to inflict frustration on other players. Despite this, [Viktor Takacs] apparently enjoys it, which motivated him to build a …read more #hacking #projects image