Designing a Simpler Cycloidal Drive Cycloidal drives have an entrancing motion, as well as a few other advantages – high torque and efficiency, low backlash, and compactness among them. However, much as [Sergei Mishin] likes …read more #hacking #projects image
Amiibo Emulator Becomes Pocket 2.4 GHz Spectrum Analyzer As technology marches on, gear that once required expensive lab equipment is now showing up in devices you can buy for less than a nice dinner. A case in point: …read more #hacking #projects image
Extremely Rare Electric Piano Restoration Not only are pianos beautiful musical instruments that have stood the test of many centuries of time, they’re also incredible machines. Unfortunately, all machines wear out over time, which means …read more #hacking #projects image
Jenny’s Daily Drivers: Haiku R1/beta5 Back in the mid 1990s, the release of Microsoft’s Windows 95 operating system cemented the Redmond software company’s dominance over most of the desktop operating system space. Apple were still …read more #hacking #projects image
tinyCore Board Teaches Core Microcontroller Concepts Looking for an educational microcontroller board to get you or a loved one into electronics? Consider the tinyCore – a small and nifty hexagon-shaped ESP32 board by [MR. INDUSTRIES], simplified …read more #hacking #projects image
Creating User-Friendly Installers Across Operating Systems After you have written the code for some awesome application, you of course want other people to be able to use it. Although simply directing them to the source code …read more #hacking #projects image
Iteration3D is Parametric Python in the Cloud It’s happened to all of us: you find the perfect model for your needs — a bracket, a box, a cable clip, but it only comes in STL, and doesn’t …read more #hacking #projects image
Building Rust Apps For Cheap Hackable Handheld Console The age of cheap and powerful devices is upon us. How about a 20 EUR handheld game console intended for retro game emulation, that runs Linux under the hood? [Luiz …read more #hacking #projects image
Reverse Sundial Still Tells Time The Dutch word for sundial, zonnewijzer, can be literally translated into “Sun Pointer” according to [illusionmanager] — and he took that literal translation literally, building a reverse sundial so he …read more #hacking #projects image
3D Printed Part Causes Light Aircraft Crash Aircraft parts generally have to meet very specific standards, because if certain parts fail, the aircraft falls out of the sky. This usually ends poorly, and is best avoided by …read more #hacking #projects https://hackaday.com/2025/12/10/3d-printed-part-causes-light-aircraft-crash/ image