Failed 3D Printed Part Brings Down Small Plane Back in March, a small aircraft in the UK lost engine power while coming in for a landing and crashed. The aircraft was a total loss, but thankfully, the pilot …read more #hacking #projects image
A Musically-Reactive LED Christmas Tree Regular Christmas trees don’t emit light, nor do they react to music. If you want both things in a holiday decoration, consider this build from [dbmaking].  An ESP32-D1 mini runs …read more #hacking #projects image
Putting KDE On Raspberry Pi OS Simpler Than Expected Raspberry Pi boards are no longer constrained – these days, you can get a quad-core board with 8 or 16GB of RAM to go around, equip it with a heatsink, …read more #hacking #projects image
MagQuest: Measuring Earth’s Magnetic Field with Space-Based Quantum Sensors Recently the MagQuest competition on improving the measuring of the Earth’s magnetic field announced that the contestants in the final phase have now moved on to launching their satellites within …read more #hacking #projects image
Making Glasses That Detect Smartglasses [NullPxl]’s Ban-Rays concept is a wearable that detects when one is in the presence of camera-bearing smartglasses, such as Meta’s line of Ray-Bans. A project in progress, it’s currently focused …read more #hacking #projects image
G4 iMac Becomes a Monitor with a MagSafe Secret The G4 iMac is one of the more popular computers in the restomodding scene given its charm and unparalleled ergonomics. Most modern machines that people squeeze in don’t have a …read more #hacking #projects image
A Deep Drive Deep Dive Into a Twin-Rotor Motor Compromise is key to keeping a team humming along. Say one person wants an inrunner electric motor, and the other prefers outrunner. What to do? Well, if you work at …read more #hacking #projects image
Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the C64 Keyboard [Jean] wrote into the tips line (the system works!) to let all of us know about his hacked and hand-wired C64 keyboard, a thing of beauty in its chocolate-brown and …read more #hacking #projects image
Super Simple Deadbuggable Bluetooth Chip We’re all used to Bluetooth chips coming in QFN and BGA formats, at a minimum of 30-40 pins, sometimes even a hundred. What about ten pins, with 1.27 mm pitch? …read more #hacking #projects image
PCB Design Review: TinySparrow, A Module For CAN Hacking, v2 A year ago, I’ve design reviewed an MCU module for CAN hacking, called TinySparrow. Modules are plenty cool, and even more so when they’re intended for remaking car ECUs. For …read more #hacking #projects image