Building a High-Performance Shifter for Sim Racing These days, sim racing is more realistic than ever. There are better screens, better headsets, and better steering wheels with better force-feedback, all of which help make you feel like …read more #hacking #projects image
Printing With Metal on the Ender 3 Using Only a Friction Wheel Printing metal as easily as it is to printed with thermoplastics has been a dream for a very long time, with options for hobbyists being very scarce. This is something …read more #hacking #projects image
Mesh “Lens” Lets Your Camera Make Weird Pixel Art We seldom talk about 3D printing lenses because most techniques can’t possibly produce transparent parts of optical quality. However, you can 3D print something like a lens, as [Luke Edwin] demonstrates, …read more #hacking #projects image
Abusing x86 SIMD Instructions to Optimize PlayStation 3 Emulation Key to efficient hardware emulation is an efficient mapping to the underlying CPU’s opcodes. Here one is free to target opcodes that may or may not have been imagined for …read more #hacking #projects image
Disposable Camera Viewfinder Becomes 3D Printed Lens Disposable cameras are a fun way to get into classical photography. However, they can also be a valuable source of interesting parts that can be put to other uses. For …read more #hacking #projects image
DIY E-Reader Folds Open Like a Book There are plenty of lovely e-readers out on the market that come with an nice big e-paper display. There aren’t nearly as many that come with two. [Martin den Hoed] developed the …read more #hacking #projects image
Roll Your Own Hall Effect Sensor If you read about Hall effect sensors — the usual way to detect and measure magnetic fields these days — it sounds deceptively simple. There’s a metal plate with current …read more #hacking #projects image
Silicon-Based MEMS Resonators Offer Accuracy in Little Space Currently quartz crystal-based oscillators are among the most common type of clock source in electronics, providing a reasonably accurate source in a cheap and small package. Unfortunately for high accuracy …read more #hacking #projects image
Nixie Tube Dashboard is Period-Appropriate Hack to Vintage Volvo There’s no accounting for taste, but it’s hard to argue with The Autopian when they declare that this Nixie tube dash by [David Forbes] is “the coolest speedometer of all …read more #hacking #projects image
Exploring Modern SID Chip Substitutes Despite the Commodore 64 having been out of production for probably longer than many Hackaday readers have been alive, its SID audio chip remains a very popular subject of both …read more #hacking #projects image