Hackaday Podcast Episode 349: Clocks, AI, and a New 3D Printer Guy Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams met up to cover the best of Hackaday this week, and they want you to listen in. There were a hodgepodge of hacks …read more #hacking #projects image
Weird Email Appliance Becomes AI Terminal The Landel Mailbug was a weird little thing. It combined a keyboard and a simple text display, and was intended to be a low-distraction method for checking your email. [CiferTech] …read more #hacking #projects image
This Week in Security: Hornet, Gogs, and Blinkenlights Microsoft has published a patch-set for the Linux kernel, proposing the Hornet Linux Security Module (LSM). If you haven’t been keeping up with the kernel contributor scoreboard, Microsoft is #11 …read more #hacking #projects image
NASA May Have Lost the MAVEN Mars Orbiter When the orbit of NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft took it behind the Red Planet on December 6th, ground controllers expected a temporary loss of signal (LoS). …read more #hacking #projects image
Consider This Pocket Machine For Your iPhone Backups What if you find yourself as an iPhone owner, desiring a local backup solution — no wireless tech involved, no sending off data to someone else’s server, just an automatic …read more #hacking #projects image
DIY Synth Takes Inspiration From Fretted Instruments There are a million and one MIDI controllers and synths on the market, but sometimes it’s just more satisfying to make your own. [Turi Scandurra] very much went his own …read more #hacking #projects image
Step into my Particle Accelerator If you get a chance to visit a computer history museum and see some of the very old computers, you’ll think they took up a full room. But if you …read more #hacking #projects image
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