A Steam Machine Clone For An Indeterminate but Possibly Low Cost For various reasons, crypto mining has fallen to the wayside in recent years. Partially because it was never useful other than as a speculative investment and partially because other speculative …read more #hacking #projects image
Qron0b: a Minimalist, Low-Power BCD Wristwatch Over the decades we have seen many DIY clocks and wrist watches presented, but few are as likely to get you either drawing in the crowds, or quietly snickered at …read more #hacking #projects image
Adding Solar Power to an Electric Tractor In my country, we have a saying: the sun is a deadly lazer. Well, it’s not so much a folk saying as a meme, and not so much in one …read more #hacking #projects image
Jailbreaking the Amazon Echo Show As locked-down as the Amazon Echo Show line of devices are, they’re still just ARM-based Android devices, which makes repurposing it somewhat straightforward as long as what you want is …read more #hacking #projects image
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 think humanely possible, and got the flu. But …read more #hacking #projects image
Low-Cost, Portable Streaming Server Thanks to the Raspberry Pi, we have easy access to extremely inexpensive machines running Linux that have all kinds of GPIO as well as various networking protocols. And as the …read more #hacking #projects image
Liquid CO2 For Grid Scale Energy Storage Isn’t Just Hot Air There’s folk wisdom in just about every culture that teaches about renewable energy — things like “make hay while the sun shines”. But as an industrial culture, we want to …read more #hacking #projects image
Print Your Own Standardized Wire Spool Storage Hardware hackers tend to have loads of hookup wire, and that led [firstgizmo] to design a 3D printable wire and cable spool storage system. As a bonus, it’s Gridfinity-compatible! There …read more #hacking #projects image
Making the Fastest LEGO Technic Air-Powered Engine Just because LEGO Technic is technically a toy doesn’t mean that you cannot do solid engineering with it, like building air-powered engines. After first building a simple air-powered piston engine, …read more #hacking #projects image
Terminal-Based Web Browsing with Modern Conveniences Programmers hold to a wide spectrum of positions on software complexity, from the rare command-line purists to the much more common web app developers, and the two extremes rarely meet. …read more #hacking #projects image