Building a Wall-Mounted Sound Visualizer Visualizers used to be very much in vogue, something you’d gasp in at amazement when you’d fire up Winamp or Windows Media Player. They’re largely absent from our modern lives, …read more #hacking #projects

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Building A Wall-Mounted Sound Visualizer

Visualizers used to be very much in vogue, something you’d gasp in at amazement when you’d fire up Winamp or Windows Media Player. They...

Drunken eBay Purchase Becomes Motorized, Speaking Dalek Not every impulsive purchase on eBay leads to possession of a wooden Dalek, but when a friend did exactly that, [Tony Goacher] did his part to turn ‘Dalek Bob’ into …read more #hacking #projects

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Drunken EBay Purchase Becomes Motorized, Speaking Dalek

Not every impulsive purchase on eBay leads to possession of a wooden Dalek, but when a friend did exactly that, [Tony Goacher] did his part to turn...

Simulating Driven-Dissipative Quantum Spin Dynamics on Consumer Hardware Physics simulations using classical mechanics is something that’s fairly easily done on regular consumer hardware, with real-time approximations a common feature in video games. Moving things to the quantum realm …read more #hacking #projects

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Simulating Driven-Dissipative Quantum Spin Dynamics On Consumer Hardware

Physics simulations using classical mechanics is something that’s fairly easily done on regular consumer hardware, with real-time approximati...

Mini Battery-Powered Vapor-Compression Air Conditioner When you think of air conditioners, you tend to think of rather bulky units, with the window-mounted appliances probably among the most compact. There’s however no real minimum size limit …read more #hacking #projects

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Mini Battery-Powered Vapor-Compression Air Conditioner

When you think of air conditioners, you tend to think of rather bulky units, with the window-mounted appliances probably among the most compact. Th...

Pocket-sized Test Pattern Generator Helps Check those CRTs [Nicholas Murray]’s Composite Test Pattern Generator is a beautifully-made, palm-sized tool that uses an ESP32-based development board to output different test patterns in PAL/NTSC. If one is checking out old …read more #hacking #projects

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Pocket-sized Test Pattern Generator Helps Check Those CRTs

[Nicholas Murray]’s Composite Test Pattern Generator is a beautifully-made, palm-sized tool that uses an ESP32-based development board to out...

Retrotechtacular: IBM’s The World of OCR Optical Character Recognition (OCR) forms the bridge between the analog world of paper and the world of machines. The modern-day expectation is that when we point a smartphone camera at …read more #hacking #projects

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Retrotechtacular: IBM’s The World Of OCR

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) forms the bridge between the analog world of paper and the world of machines. The modern-day expectation is tha...

Hackaday Podcast: 2025 Holiday Placeholder Edition This week the Hackaday Podcast is on vacation, but we’d like to wish you all happy holidays and a great 2026.  Thanks for tuning in!  We’ll be back next week. …read more #hacking #projects

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Hackaday Podcast Ep 351: Hackaday Goes To Chaos Communication Congress

Elliot was of at Europe’s largest hacker convention: Chaos Communication Congress. He had an awesome time, saw more projects than you might t...

3D Printed PC Case Focuses On Ease Of Access There are all kinds of fun, glowing PC cases on the market these days. However, if you want something that focuses on serviceability over flash while still looking stylish, you …read more #hacking #projects

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3D Printed PC Case Focuses On Ease Of Access

There are all kinds of fun, glowing PC cases on the market these days. However, if you want something that focuses on serviceability over flash whi...

NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support on Linux, Causing Chaos on Arch Linux It’s no surprise that NVIDIA is gradually dropping support for older videocards, with the Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs most recently getting axed. What’s more surprising is the terrible way that …read more #hacking #projects

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NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux

It’s no surprise that NVIDIA is gradually dropping support for older videocards, with the Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs most recently getting axed. ...

PC Watercooling Uses Everything But CNC Machining Names and labels are difficult. Take this “3D Printed” water-cooling loop by [Visual Thinker] on YouTube. It undeniably uses 3D printing — but it also uses silicone casting and laser-cut …read more #hacking #projects

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PC Watercooling Uses Everything But CNC Machining

Names and labels are difficult. Take this “3D Printed” water-cooling loop by [Visual Thinker] on YouTube. It undeniably uses 3D printin...