Possible usage cases and also business models for the sign that makes it possible for location-dependent individual communication even inside structures are presently being fiercely debated. In-store advertising as well as discounts, mobile settlements,...
See current entries: sci-fi-contest tagEntry Deadline: 12:00:00am PDT on 4/29/14Let’s face it… you want an excuse to build something cool. In addition to the notoriety of winning a Hackaday contest, we have a number of very respectable prizes this...
Long ago, in a land called Kettering, OH, my 14-year-old self got bored, restless and discontent, but this was no ordinary case of adolescent ennui. I was jealous, longing, consumed by the desire to do one thing above all else. It was a crazy...
It seems like most HackADay projects involve Arduinos, in their various forms. I view Arduino as a gateway drug: it lets people start experimenting with micro controllers, but you will (probably) soon outgrow them. My first micro controller project,...
Like it or not, a whole new wave of Hardware Startups is coming our way. Crowdfunding campaigns are making it possible for everyone with an idea to "test the waters", tech-savvy Angel investors are eager to help successful ones cross over, and Venture...
DESCRIPTIONA gradually improving attempt to make a useful pcb mill out of a printer and other assorted garbage, with a minimal budget and no fancy tools. It works!, but let's see how much better it can be.DETAILSNOTE: This project is gradually improving....
Yesterday I was chasing duo/bicolor LEDs on ebay.com because I read about blue/red ones on Reactron Integron for Automobile from Kenji Larsen. It never occurred to me that they weren't only red/green ones anymore. Inspired by this I made a...
A friend told me once that her flatmate wanted to build a LED cube and I was like "pfff, I can do that..". I started to look for LEDs and stuff I would need, but had so much stuff laying around, that I said "use the stuff you already have" and harvested...
One of my focuses is to create work that will interact with the viewer. Project Ideas include:Robotic body parts (inspired by Sifi films and games) that light up twitch and make sounds when a viewer triggers it.A sound board made of hundreds of...
I thought I might as well share my thoughts on some new stuff I got from SparkFun.First up: the 50 watt soldering station. Apart from the metal dome for the brass sponge in the iron holder being loose, it's a solid iron. Adjustable temperature, fine...
Seems like every month I stumble over an idea and can't get rid of it. This time of year I always get nostalgic and thought about using the fubarino as an cartridge reader and programmer for simple eeprom cartridges. I'm already developing a little board...
SCIENCE: Franklin's many scientific contributions were in areas as diverse as health and medicine, geology, weather, oceanography, and electricity, and he invented practical devices ranging from the flexible catheter to bifocals to the lightning rod....
Good thing it was only a 7 Euro key-fob camera in 808 style, but I killed my time-lapse project with that. I wanted to wear this on the hackaday event taking pictures constantly with a harvested lipo from a macbook. I even shrunk it down from an arduino...
As you could have heard on 13. November 2014 (Thursday) there was a big Hack a Day event in Munich. For me it was something like Christmas and Birthday ;-)Just check out some Impressions...WorkshopsWorkplace :)People screwing together the #meArm sSome...
Attiny45 current logger My raspberry pi setup was meant to somewhat satisfy my needs for a computer on my vaccation while my macbook battery would be replaced in the mean time. But somehow it always fried and frustrated the hell out of me. I think that...