Hi guys! I'm a developer by trade and I'm looking to make a I'm currently building a device that will analyze drill bit efficiency/wear-and-tear via audio and raise a warning when its over a certain threshold, and I'm planning to put the whole thing...
I need a fire suppression system for my DIY CNC enclosure. I intend to run long unattended jobs and would like some piece of mind so I need some sort of automatic fail-safe fire suppression system inside the enclosure. There's a few commercial options...
I have a 11×2 ft long led display that I need help figuring out how to program. Any help would be appreciated. I'm a 3rd year electrician with no idea how to play with electronics.
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Hello All, I maintain a blog about the polywell. For those who do not know, the Polywell is an idea for a fusion reactor. It is based off the fusor (a concept some of you guys are building and talking about on the project page). I have some fusion/polywell...
I impulsed a sleeve of programmed chips, with stickers covering what they were. They are a Motorola XC68HC705C9CP microcontroller in a 40-pin DIP package. http://www.elnec.com/device/Motorola/MC68HC705C9+%5BPLCC44%5D/ ^Any one know of a dedicated site...
I'm too impatient to wait for Valve to put out documentation on their Lighthouse VR tracking technology and want to at least get a leg up on making my own tracked objects. If you don't know, Lighthouse sweeps the room with a hundred broad laser lines...
I'm comfortable with electronics and 3D modeling. It's long past time for a 3D printer. I've used Shapeways for a few projects but it's fairly expensive and (much worse) quite time-consuming. As ya'll know, shorter lead times = $$$. I don't need...
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...
Liveboot is still useful, small utilities can liveboot and run wonderfully as a system to learn on, sandbox small projects on, or even to install from or repair systems with. We've even got some hacks for persistence, where your settings stay the...
Graphic adventure games. This has always been my favorite genre. I am talking the classic point-and-click 2D games of Sierra and LucasArts all the way up to the more modern and beautiful graphic adventure games put out by so many independent houses.I've...
I designed and built an ultrasonic system for my Hackaday prize entry (https://hackaday.io/project/4689-improve-the-haber-process). My goal was to have a system for exploring the Haber process, which I now have.The specs and design...
i made a Pov fan and I am trying to take a video of it with my mobile phone to publish the project here. My problem is that the frame rate of the video recording is too fast compared to my Pov and doesn't look OK in the video. I am looking...
I needed to connect a touch pad to the touch sensor IC with a wire long about 15 cm. Both the wire and the pad are sensible to the touch and this may be annoying as the user can activate the touch switch placing his hand near the wire instead to the...
I make sensors by cutting the top off of a metal power transistor and using the base-emitter junction as a PIN diode. This works very well for detecting Alpha particles (and photons).Alphas would be blocked or attenuated by an oxide layer,...