Your Hackaday Profile is the best way to express yourself. Fill it out completely so people can learn more about you.Basic profile infoWhen you first sign up to Hackaday.io, we ask you to enter some basic info about yourself such as: your username (which...
With the influx of great projects on this site, we're going to step back once in a while to show off whats new, and highlight some of the neat stuff going on around the site. For this installment we start off with the Sci-Fi Contest, move on to some...
In this Hacklet, we talk about some car related hacks, making things light up, and a novel design for a 3D printer.Car HacksThere's been a few car hacks going on recently. First up is the SmartCar by [nGoline]. This is a little board that uses Bluetooth...
In this Hacklet, we take a quick look at the Sci-Fi Contest, play with high voltages, and fire the laser(s)!Sci-Fi Contest RoundupOur first Hackaday Projects contest has come to a close! We discussed many of the projects on the blog, the winners...
The Hackaday Prize is heating up! When we set up the prize, we expected to see some incredible entries, and you guys haven’t let us down. Projects like SatNOGS, which aims to create a global network of satellite ground stations, or OpenMV, a low-cost...
HackerspacesDid you know that Hackaday.io has a hackerspace index? That’s right, you can enter your local hackerspace’s info, pictures, videos, and social media links. Members and crew can link their hackaday.io profiles and drop comments about their...
This week’s Hacklet is all about lasers, which have been shining a monochromatic light for hackers since 1960. The first working laser was demonstrated by [Theodore Maiman], who was a hacker / maker himself, having learned circuits in his father’s home...
This week’s Hacklet is all about Hackaday.io projects which use MIDI, or Musical Instrument Digital Interface for the uninitiated. MIDI was designed from the ground up as an open communications standard for musical instruments. Nearly every major instrument...
This week on the Hacklet we’re looking at Hackaday.io projects that are all about animals! Hackers and makers are well-known animal lovers, in fact many a hacker can be found with a pet curled up at their feet, or on their keyboard![Brian's] cat Roger...
This week on the Hacklet, we’re spending some time looking at bugs and fire! First up we have [Noel] who is saving the bees with Bee-O-Neo-Tweet-O. Bees are incredibly important, both to Earth’s ecosystem and the food chain we humans need to survive....
In honor of DEFCON, this week we’re looking at some cryptography and reverse engineering projects over at Hackaday.io Every hacker loves a hardware puzzle, and [Tom] has created a tool to make those puzzles. His Hardware Reverse Engineering Learning...
We preempt this week’s Hacklet to bring you an important announcement.Hackaday.io got some major upgrades this week. Have you checked out The Feed lately? The Feed has been tweaked, tuned, and optimized, to show you activity on your projects, and from...
If hackers and engineers are notorious for anything, it’s for procrastinating. Many of us wait until the absolute last-minute to get things done. The Hackaday Prize has proved to be no exception to that. Anyone watching the newest projects could see...
This week’s Hacklet focuses on two wheeled thunder! By that we mean some of the motorcycle and scooter projects on Hackaday.io.We’re going to ease into this Hacklet with [greg duck's] Honda Sky Restoration. Greg is giving a neglected 15-year-old scooter...
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...