In this weeks Hacklet we're looking at household hacks. Not necessarily globally connected home automation hacks, but task specific hacks that we want in our lives yesterday!We've all had it happen, you're burning the midnight oil on a project when you...
This week's Hacklet is dedicated to arcade games. The arcade parlors of the 80′s and early 90′s may have given way to today's consoles and PC games, but the classic stand-up arcade cabinet lives on! Plenty of hackers have restored old arcade cabinets,...
This weeks Hacklet is all about being there when you can't through the magic of telepresence. More than just teleconferencing, telepresence takes things a step further to put the user in a remote space. That might be a robot platform, VR goggles, or...
This week on The Hacklet we're featuring some of the best keyboard hacks from Hackaday.io!Hackers are really into their keyboards. Everyone has a favorite, and those favorites vary wildly. Mechanical, soft touch, ergonomic, QWERTY, DVORAK, chorded, you...
In three words, Hackers love clocks. Not only do we think that digital watches are still a pretty neat idea, we love all manner of timepieces. This episode of The Hacklet focuses on the clock projects we've found over on Hackaday.io.We start with [rawe]...
Amateur, or ham radio operators have always been hackers. For much of the early 1900′s, buying a radio was expensive or impossible. Hams would build their own rigs, learning electronics and radio theory along the way. Time moves on, but hams keep hacking....
Hey, did you know that Hackaday.io is continuously being updated and improved? One of the coolest features this week is the new LaTeX based equation editor. That's right, you can now put symbols, equations, and all sorts of other LaTeX goodies into your...
We asked, you listened! Last weeks Hacklet ended with a call for more Halloween themed projects on Hackaday.io. Some great hackers uploaded awesome projects, and this week's Hacklet is all about featuring them. Every one of our featured projects was...
Everyone loves arcade games, and it didn't take long for designers to figure out that people would love to take the fun home. The home gaming console market has been around for decades. Through the early days of battery-powered pong style consoles through...
The transistor may rule the electronics world today, but before solid state moved in, vacuum state was king. Tubes, or valves if you're from Europe, were the only way to fly. Every good hacker knew their triodes from their tetrodes and their pentodes....
Experimenting with embedded Linux used to mean reformatting an old PC, or buying an expensive dev board. In February of 2012, the Raspberry Pi was released, and it has proven to be a game changing platform. According to the Raspberry Pi Foundation, over...
Few devices have hit the hacker/maker word with quite as large a bang as the ESP8266. [Brian] first reported a new $5 WiFi module back in August. Since then there have been an explosion of awesome projects utilizing the low-cost serial to WiFi module...
Arduino is one of those boards that has become synonymous with hacking and making. Since its introduction in 2005, over 700,000 official Arduino boards have been sold, along with untold millions of compatible and clone boards. Hackers and makers around...
It's beginning to look a lot like the holidays around here. That means it's time for holiday hacks here on The Hacklet! This week we're looking at the coolest festive hacks created by YOU on Hackaday.io!We start with [charliex] and Cypress PSOC 4 + ESP8266...
FPGAs, CPLDs, PALs, and GALs, Oh My! This week's Hacklet focuses on some of the best Programmable Logic projects on Hackaday.io! Programmable logic devices tend to have a steep learning curve. Not only is a new hacker learning complex parts, but there...