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

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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 country as...

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

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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...

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

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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...

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

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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 netw...

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

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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&...

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

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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 bo...

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

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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. ...

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

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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 develop...

Putting a Cheapo 1800W DC-DC Boost Converter to the Test These days ready-to-use DC-DC converters are everywhere, with some of the cheaper ones even being safe to use without an immediate risk to life and limb(s). This piques one’s curiosity …read more #hacking #projects

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Putting A Cheapo 1800W DC-DC Boost Converter To The Test

These days ready-to-use DC-DC converters are everywhere, with some of the cheaper ones even being safe to use without an immediate risk to life and...

Building a Steam Loco These Days is Nothing But Hacks The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)’s T1 class is famous for many reasons: being enormous, being a duplex, possibly having beaten Mallard’s speed record while no one was looking… and being in …read more #hacking #projects

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Building A Steam Loco These Days Is Nothing But Hacks

The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)’s T1 class is famous for many reasons: being enormous, being a duplex, possibly having beaten Mallard’s...