When is bitcoin going to be accepted in the store? Not because I'm some purist, but because it's what I have to spend. I could get many of the items elsewhere at bitcoin accepting merchants, but would like to support HAD.
I don't know about you, but I don't like being cooped up at home when I'm working on something.I like the idea that no matter where I go, whether at home, a coffee shop, my hackspace, a public park, or a hotel room in a foreign country, I can build something...
I need a lead acid battery charger for a 12V battery that is able to let the battery power a circuit with a stable 12V output when mains supply is off and charge the battery while powering the circuit when mains supply is on. Any ideas ? I'm planning...
The unofficial story of the A-10 Warthog, a very cool amalgam of technology begins with GE. Yes, General Electric, they bring good, and sometimes dangerous things to life. You see, they built an amazing chaingun cannon. This gun chews...
Never-mind my musings if you choose.What makes a hacker a hacker?Everyone has their own definition.Mine is simple.I 'break' ordinary things to make them do new things out of a desire to understand technology.That's it.
It occurs to me there seems to be a large number of projects out there building computers out of oldish hardware... Running CP/M, Apple II games, whatnot, on the original processor...(?) Some seem to do a lot of mixing-up: an old CPU, with new FPGAs...
Thought some of you might be interested in my project. I always seem to be short on SMT to DIP breakout boards so I started making my own. Please drop by and offer feedback, suggestions, or contributions.https://hackaday.io/project/5904-smt-to-dip-breakout-boards...
This is the idea, for a RC flying toy:A single propeller, or a small centrifugal compressor blows air into a reservoir which is the body of the flying machine. The reservoir can even be made of textile material. So it will...
Alliterations are awesome! Anyway, Arduino Arithmetic appears altered by the size of variables. This makes sense, but I can't understand why it varies just the way it does.I was starting to look into the speed of operations on ATMega328 for my project,...
Will anyone be attending or displaying at the National Maker Faire? We will be presenting our pick and place machine and pick and place feeders at the faire! Hope to see some of you there!
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Many of my projects don't end up "Completed", but are upgraded over over time. Some projects are complete enough (with instructions, etc) for others to build their own. Would these be considered "Completed" ?