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richard-hogbenRichard Hogben 03/07/2014 at 19:19293 Comments

Your Hackaday Profile is the best way to express yourself. Fill it out completely so people can learn more about you.

Basic profile info

When you first sign up to Hackaday.io, we ask you to enter some basic info about yourself such as: your username (which becomes your vanity url), location, a word or two about yourself, tags for others to find you easily, and external links to your profiles on other networks. You can always change these by going to Edit my Profile

My Projects & Projects I contribute to

When you Add a Project, it will appear on your profile under the section My Projects available under profile drop-down menu. We'll highlight only the most liked projects and the rest will be visible by clicking on View all projects.

We highly encourage collaboration. That's why we have a contributors list when creating projects. If you are part of a project, we'll highlight that project on your profile.

Things I've built

You can tell Hackaday.io users about your projects in two ways: by adding a project, or by listing them on your Things I've Built section. This section is for projects that you don't have enough material to document. All you have to do is upload one small image and write a brief summary about your project.

My pages

Whenever you have something to say to the world, or just want to rant, you can Create a Page about it. Think of this section as your personal blog. Like projects and profiles, pages also have comments feature.

Mentions

You can be mentioned by or mention another user by using the '@' followed by username of the user. Mentions can be made in many areas across the Site, such as: Comments, Messages, project logs, Details, Stack etc. If a user mentions you anywhere on the site (except Messages), you will be notified via email and on your Private Feed.

Bits

It's 2016. There was no way we could name this guestbook. Write a bit on your profile, on other's profiles, say something useful or give feedback.


What are you working on? What cool things have you built? Document them, share with the universe, get feedback, find collaborators.

Basic project info

When adding a project, we ask you to enter some basic details like name of the project, photos, a short description, tags so people can discover your project, external links (i.e. project homepage, GitHub, social links, etc.) and team members.

When you add team members to your project, these members will be able to update some parts of your project page, like the project logs. They will also appear on the Team section of the project page. Fellow users who would like to contribute can also request you to join.

Private Projects

You can create your project in private mode if you are not yet ready to show it to the world. A project can be made private by simply changing the tag inside Edit project page to 'PRIVATE'. All projects are public by default.

Details

The project details section is where you can write everything about your project. Most people use this section to explain how their builds work.

Project logs

Logs are a great way to keep your project followers up to date. It logs the progress of a project from start to finish.

Components

The components list is an easy way to show all the parts/items you used in your project. It also lets you add the quantity of parts used.

Build Instructions

If you feel like sharing how to build your project in a step by step guide, Instructions is the tool you are looking for.

Discussions

As the name suggests, the project discussions section is where visitors can leave feedback or ask questions. This section is available for individual logs and Build Instructions of a project too. Whenever someone leaves a comment, you'll get an email notification (assuming you did not disable email notifications) and you'll see it on your Private Feed.

Mentions

Any project can be mentioned by using the '#' followed by the project name. If your project is mentioned, you will be notified on your Private Feed and via email. Projects can be mentioned in all the areas where users can be mentioned.

Gallery

If there's one place you want to go to view all media related to a project, this is it. You can view, share and download images and videos of a project by clicking on 'View Gallery' right below the main project photo.


You can follow projects and people on Hackaday.io to stay up to date. Just look for the Follow button on the project page or the person's profile.

When you follow someone, you'll see activities from them on your Private Feed page. This works the same for other user's projects; follow the ones you like and you'll know about any updates to the project, the addition of new build logs, etc.


Just saw a cool project? Like it! Likes are a way of saying "This project is cool". If you collect more likes, your project will eventually have more visibility. Users can sort projects by 'Most liked' in the project listing page.


Hackaday.io uses Redactor editor to make editing easy. It is a toolbar that is available as you scroll down the page. All options have helpful tool-tips.

Features of the editor are:

Links

You can turn any text into a link by using the context menu. To do this, simply select the text, and click on the link icon of the context editor.

Images

As with links, you can add images from the context menu. But a simpler way is to just drag and drop images from your device!

Copy & Paste

One of the coolest things about the editor is that you can copy any styled text from another page (i.e. your blog) and paste it to Project Details, Logs or similar pages and it'll match our styling. This should work perfectly in most cases, but be sure to double check before publishing your content.

One small thing about copy & paste: if you do this from a page with images, your images will not be uploaded to Hackaday.io. Instead they would be linked to the original page. In most cases, this is not a problem but if something happens to the original page, your images won't be visible on Hackaday.io either. To prevent this, you may want to add your images manually.

Videos

Have a video you want to add to your project or page? If it's hosted on YouTube or Vimeo, simply get the URL of your video and paste it in the editor when you are adding your content. After pasting the URL, pressing Enter will turn the link into an embedded video.

Code snippets

A code snippet can be added by clicking on the code icon and choosing the language. This can later be edited as well.

Styling

There are many options for styling your text. The styling options can be applied after entering the text. Options such as bold, italic, headers, tables and lists are available for representation. Separators and 'Read More' are available for organizing the text well.

Discussions

jlbrian7 wrote 06/13/2016 at 00:24 point

I bet the stack is part of the hackaday robot.

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H wrote 06/12/2016 at 06:36 point

Man I wish there was an actual list of the people I'm following, my feed is really cluttered with pointless stuff so I can't check up on projects that post rarely.
Guess I'll just bookmark projects in my browser instead.
Edit: oh wait everything in my feed is people I don't even follow. This Hackaday follow/like system is garbage

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jaromir.sukuba wrote 06/12/2016 at 10:29 point

Aren't you switched into "global feed", instead of "my feed"?

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H wrote 06/12/2016 at 23:52 point

No. Check your feed, every time anyone adds something to the "stack" (https://hackaday.io/stack) it appears in the personal feed. 

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jaromir.sukuba wrote 06/13/2016 at 02:27 point

yes, the thing about stack is known to me, but I wouldn't call it all garbage - perhaps I'm just used to quirks of the .io site over the time. By the way, there is dedicated feedback site https://hackaday.io/project/37-feedback-hackadayio 

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Meenee wrote 05/11/2016 at 02:45 point

wth is this

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a.mak1996g wrote 04/27/2016 at 12:16 point

please help me

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jareklupinski wrote 04/27/2016 at 12:59 point

ok

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SecUpwN wrote 04/27/2016 at 08:54 point

Good morning Hackaday developers, would you please be so kind and improve the editor for Hackaday projects? One thing that really annoys me, is that you cannot remove horizontal rules once you added them. I'd prefer if you add an option for GitHub flavoured markdown editing.

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Samuel A. Falvo II wrote 05/12/2016 at 16:45 point

+9001 !!

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Muhammad Bilal wrote 04/20/2016 at 11:00 point

Respected authorities




I want to inform you that my project with the name "Life is a state of mind"
has been deleted from my account.




Don't know who has deleted my project




Last night it was there in my profile.




Kindly resolve the issue as soon as possible

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danjovic wrote 12/20/2015 at 12:12 point

Well, I do have a suggestion: Retrocomputing Projects, for those projects who gave a new breath to antique machines, either by adding new peripherals or by replacing obsolete parts, even for complete rebuilds in modern platforms like FPGAs or other forms of hardware emulation.

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Jason Westervelt wrote 12/20/2015 at 12:42 point

Yay retro.  These old CPUs are great for learning because they lack the complexity of newer devices.

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Yann Guidon / YGDES wrote 12/20/2015 at 14:01 point

There is already a list of concerned people in the #Hackaday TTLers :-D

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Mike M wrote 12/20/2015 at 21:17 point

What I liked back then is memory and cpu wasn't easy to come by. So you had to squeeze every bit out of what you had. Today they just throw the easiest cheapest program at a problem. They tend to be hogs on both memory and cpu.

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jaromir.sukuba wrote 12/21/2015 at 00:33 point

well, there already is list for similar projects https://hackaday.io/list/2402-homebrew-computers

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Benchoff wrote 12/21/2015 at 01:22 point

I think there's enough of a difference between 'retrocomputing' and 'homebrew' to warrant another list.

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Ivan Lazarevic wrote 12/20/2015 at 01:27 point

only website admins can create lists for now

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James Cannan wrote 12/19/2015 at 21:29 point

How does one go about creating a new list? Are there any rules or regulations for creating a list?

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 12/20/2015 at 06:04 point

Hey James, only Hackaday admins can make lists at the moment. if you have a list to suggest, pm me. Cheers. 

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Malhar Deshmukh wrote 11/24/2015 at 12:52 point

I don't have PC with internet connection.I can write on my phone only.please fix the editor.I am unable to add space while writing this.the space added in this comment is by autocorrect of my phone.there are many issues while editing from phone.I'll tellyou the issues.

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Michael O'Toole wrote 08/14/2015 at 05:10 point

When writing project details blank lines separating paragraphs are being removed (except between first and second paragraphs) resulting in things being a bit cluttered... I am forced to use horizontal rules and that's over kill and not really desirable...

Update... when I deleted the horizontal rules I got the blank line back... go figure...

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baltsar wrote 04/26/2015 at 13:32 point

foreman

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James wrote 04/23/2015 at 06:06 point

Is there any way to add a file to a project? (eg: add a zip file of the project source code or hex binary or .MOD / .XM / .mp3 test file or whatever?). It's kind of painful to have to put these files somewhere else on the web and then link to them.

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Aleksandar Bradic wrote 04/23/2015 at 14:37 point

Hi James,

We're working on it! Should be in soon. (btw - .mod/.xm - nice! maybewe should have an embedded tracker player ;))

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SG wrote 06/14/2015 at 09:24 point

We could just post links on our projects like dropbox invites

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baltsar wrote 04/26/2015 at 13:31 point

Not these days.

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MechaTweak wrote 03/26/2015 at 02:33 point

Spell checker doesn't seem to work on my project editor.  If I right click on the text editor, I see the option to turn it on or off, but it doesn't seem to do anything.  Am I doing something wrong?

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Thomas Snow wrote 03/07/2015 at 18:16 point

When does the "# of views" (little eyeball icon) show up on your project?

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Christoph wrote 02/10/2015 at 20:50 point

When editing a project log the editor seems to mess up paragraphs. I can't insert a paragraph (an additional empty line occurs) and the paragraphs are totally ommitted after publishing, so I get no paragraph at all.

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Eric Hertz wrote 03/08/2015 at 04:44 point

Not sure if it's related, but I have oddities with paragraphs, as well... Sometimes typing within a paragraph will seemingly randomly insert a Return. I did a copy-paste to a text editor and found it's somehow inserting some stray <CR> or <LF>, whereas actually-entered Returns usually result in a pair. (Linux here). I have no clue where these strays are coming from, and when they stray, they're almost impossible to get rid of.

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Chace Butterworth wrote 02/07/2015 at 05:44 point

I've posted my git link into description for the time being, but I'd really like to use your external links feature. Am I missing something? I named it and then posted the url: 'https://github.com/Chaceb94/esp-lightswitch' , but when I publish the project it still doesn't appear on the page.

Take a look: 'http://hackaday.io/project/4206-esp8266-light-switch-temp-logger'

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davedarko wrote 02/07/2015 at 11:40 point

Seems to work now? The links are below the pictures.

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Stefan Lochbrunner wrote 02/07/2015 at 13:08 point

I am seeing the same problem but only in Firefox though, the link should show up when using Chrome. Devs already know about it.

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Chace Butterworth wrote 02/07/2015 at 17:17 point

You guys are right. I can see it on my mobile now that I looked. I am not seeing it on my desktop running Ubuntu 14.04 and 'google-chrome-stable', but I think chrome for ubuntu is still beta so it makes sense.

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Stefan Lochbrunner wrote 02/07/2015 at 18:06 point

Interesting. Hey @Jasmine, could you please relay the above info regarding OS and browser to the devs, too? This probably should have been posted in #Feedback - Hackaday Projects but it's not like I haven't made the same mistake 2 months earlier ;)

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 02/07/2015 at 19:14 point

will do. Thanks for letting me know

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Stefan Lochbrunner wrote 12/05/2014 at 23:04 point
Am I missing an obvious way to add an image caption? Adding the caption as image title isn't quite cutting it, is it?

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bfoz wrote 09/26/2014 at 06:27 point
Is there a way to save a project as a draft instead of immediately publishing it? My "Add Project" page has buttons for "Publish" and "Cancel", but I don't see anything related to saving without publishing.

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Stefan Lochbrunner wrote 12/05/2014 at 23:00 point
+1

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Alex365 wrote 12/06/2014 at 11:00 point
+1

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hackhead79 wrote 02/04/2015 at 19:03 point

+1

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dev kumar wrote 07/24/2014 at 07:03 point
Hey! I'm a gamer and dreamer too! I had a question, I'm looking to take a snes rom or other roms and making them work on an android device without an emulator. Also I have a few ideas that I would like to run by you if you have the time

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