An RPN Calculator and a Bonus VFD Clock From Casio Revival Have you heard the saying “the problem is the solution”? It seems to originate in the permaculture movement, but it can apply equally well to electronics. Take the problem [shiura] …read more #hacking #projects image
Reviving ReBoot With a Tape Deck Repair Do you remember ReBoot? If you were into early CGI, the name probably rings a bell, since when it premiered in 1994 it was the first fully computer-animated show on …read more #hacking #projects image
Bicycle Tows 15,000 Pounds An old joke in physics is that of the “spherical cow”, poking fun at some of the assumptions physicists make when tackling a new problem. Making the problem simple like …read more #hacking #projects image
Print Pixel Art to a Floppy Disk Here at Hackaday we love floppy disks. While they are by no means a practical or useful means of storing data in the age of solid state storage, there is …read more #hacking #projects image
Modifying a QingPing Air Quality Monitor for Local MQTT Access The QingPing Air Quality Monitor 2 is an Android-based device that not only features a touch screen with the current air quality statistics of the room, but also includes an …read more #hacking #projects image
Sleeping Rough in Alaska with a USPS Cargo Bike Out of all 49 beautiful US states (plus New Jersey), the one you’d probably least want to camp outside in during the winter is arguably Alaska. If you were to …read more #hacking #projects image
Ray Marching in Excel 3D graphics are made up of little more then very complicated math. With enough time, you could probably compute a ray marching by hand. Or, you could set up Excel …read more #hacking #projects image
Exploring Nintendo 64DD Code Remnants in Ocarina of Time What if you took a Nintendo 64 cartridge-based game and allowed it to also use a large capacity magnetic disc format alongside it? This was the premise of the Nintendo …read more #hacking #projects image
Are We Ready for AR Smart Glasses Yet? In a recent article from IEEE Spectrum, [Alfred Poor] asks the question what do consumers really want in smart glasses? And are you finally ready to hang a computer screen …read more #hacking #projects image
Quote Printer Keeps Receipts In the world of social media, “keeping receipts” refers to the practice of storing evidence that may come in handy for a callout post at a later date. For [Teddy …read more #hacking #projects image