Build Your Own Compact Temp Gun Sometimes you need to know what temperature something is, but you don’t quite want to touch it. At times like these, you might want a temp gun on hand to …read more #hacking #projects image
USB DAC Comes With Graphic EQ [shiura] had a problem — they wanted a nice high-quality audio output for their computer, but they didn’t fancy any of the DACs that were readily available on the market. …read more #hacking #projects image
Hackaday Podcast Episode 347: Breaking Kindles, Baby’s First Synth, and Barcodes! This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over coffee to bring you the latest news, mystery sound, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the …read more #hacking #projects image
An Online Repository for KiCad Schematics In the desktop 3D printing world, we’re fortunate to have multiple online repositories of models that anyone can load up on their machine. Looking to create a similar experience but …read more #hacking #projects image
Damaged Pocket Computer Becomes Portable Linux Machine The Sharp PC-G801 was an impressive little pocket computer when it debuted in 1988. However, in the year 2025, a Z80-compatible machine with just 8 kB of RAM is hardly …read more #hacking #projects image
The Eleven-Faced Die That Emulates Two Six-sided Dice Rolling two six-sided dice (2d6) gives results from 2 to 12 with a bell curve distribution. Seven being the most common result, two and twelve being the least common. But …read more #hacking #projects image
Any Old TV Can Be A Clock With Arduino If you’ve got an old black and white TV, it’s probably not useful for much. There are precious few analog broadcasters left in the world and black and white isn’t …read more #hacking #projects image
US Patent Changes Promise Severe Consequences When someone creates a US patent, they go through a review process to stop the most blatant copies from previous patents or pre-existing work. After this, you may still have …read more #hacking #projects image
Designing PLA to Hold Over a Metric Ton There’s never been such a thing as being “too competitive” when it comes to competition. This is something that [Tom Stanton] from Tim Stanton (wait, what now), [Tom]’s 2nd channel, …read more #hacking #projects image
Hydrofoil Bikes Are Harder To Build Than You Think Hydrofoils are perhaps best known for their application on boring ferries and scary boats that go too fast. However, as [RCLifeOn] demonstrates, you can also use them to build fun …read more #hacking #projects image