An Open Source Electromagnetic Resonance Tablet Drawing tablets have been a favorite computer peripheral of artists since its inception in the 1980s. If you have ever used a drawing tablet of this nature, you may have …read more #hacking #projects
Atari Brings the Computer Age Home [The 8-Bit Guy] tells us how 8-bit Atari computers work. The first Atari came out in 1977, it was originally called the Atari Video Computer System. It was followed two …read more #hacking #projects image
When Electricity Doesn’t Take the Shortest Path Everyone knows that the path of least resistance is the path that will always be taken, be it by water, electricity or the feet of humans. This is where the …read more #hacking #projects image
Old Windsurfers Become New Electric Surfboards Windsurfing has experienced a major decline in popularity in the last few decades as the sport’s culture failed to cater to beginners at the same time that experienced riders largely …read more #hacking #projects image
Hacking the Krups Cook4Me Smart Cooking Pot for Doom With more and more kitchen utilities gaining touch screens and capable microcontrollers it’d be inconceivable that they do not get put to other uses as well. To this end [Aaron …read more #hacking #projects image
Playing Factorio on a Floppy Disk Cluster While a revolutionary storage system for their time, floppy disks are not terribly useful these days. Though high failure rates and slow speeds are an issue, for this project, the …read more #hacking #projects image
Finding A Way To Produce Powerful Motors Without Rare Earths The electric vehicle revolution has created market forces to drive all sorts of innovations. Battery technology has progressed at a rapid pace, and engineers have developed ways to charge vehicles …read more #hacking #projects image
Great Trains, Not So Great AI Chatbot Security A joy of covering the world of the European hackerspace community is that it offers the chance for train travel across the continent using the ever-good-value Interrail pass. For a …read more #hacking #projects image
Ask Hackaday: Do You Curb Shop Components? I’m not proud. When many of us were kids, we were unabashedly excited when trash day came around because sometimes you’d find an old radio or — jackpot — an …read more #hacking #projects image
An SD Card of Your Own For Microcontroller Projects If you’ve wiring up a microcontroller and need some kind of storage, it’s likely you’ll reach for an SD card. Compared to other ways of holding data on your project, …read more #hacking #projects image