Many people believe that the best way to fight poverty on a global basis is to create ways for impoverished people to participate in the global economy. This is one possibility. Let's say that you are in a developing nation and you would like to participate...
The world’s biggest open source hardware 3-D printer festival is this weekend in Goshen, Indiana (USA): 2018 Midwest RepRap Festival (MRRF) Friday, March 23, 2018 at 3:00 PM – Sunday, March 25, 2018 at 6:00 PM (EDT) What is MRRF? It’s...
What is MIMO technology MIMO is Multi Input Multi Output technology. By using multiple antennas, it can achieve higher throughput and transmission distance than a single antenna at the same radio transmission power. MIMO is one of several forms of smart...
The Bio-Metric Time Clock features a 4.3" color touchscreen display, 3G cellular capabilities, silicon fingerprint sensor, accelerometer, and GPS. This project has a custom PCB to provide the functionality needed for the features of this device...
@Adam Vadala-Roth has created a couple BeagleBone projects that others may find useful:Beaglebone Black and Breadboard PlateA 3D printable plate that holds a Beaglebone black compatible board and a breadboard together side by side.Vintage Parallax Robot...
For Hackaday's Create Day 2018 we at CrashBang Labs will be doing a build of the Lipsync mouse. This device is a mouth operated joystick with a puff and sip switch for clicks. It allows paraplegics and others with limited use of their hands to operate...
I've been working on a software project recently called http://www.gears.academy/ and the idea is to accumulate all the knowledge I can about how gears work, how they're designed, and how you can 3D print them.In order to help convey the ideas,...
I was putting together a few more 8042 boards since the original order netted me 5 PCBs and they were panelised 2 per PCB. One didn't work with the same EPROM as the others. Today I compared it with a working board and noticed that the crystal capacitors...
I started my journey by learning about Android, rooting and custom ROMS. Around late ~2016 I started learning Linux with a Raspberry Pi 3B. It began with trying out things like wine and emulation. One of the things I wanted to do was running x86 programs...
Michael Weinberg of the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) published this blog post for the 2017 Open Hardware Summit last week in Denver: A Quick and Dirty Guide to Open Source Hardware Licensing Open source hardware isn’t...
Arc Badge was born out of failure. Post DEF CON or really any major conference where a lot of creative people are in the same place, you can't help but leave with a dozen sparks of inspiration. Some of those sparks never go beyond the...
The recent increase in availability of creator tools and services over the past few years has allowed many low-risk entry points for hobbyists, amateur product developers, and DIYers of all backgrounds to crack the often-mysterious seal surrounding hardware...
RAMPS: What Is It and What's It For? RepRap Arduino Mega Polulu Shield, or RAMPS, is a board that serves as the interface between the Arduino Mega — the controller computer — and the electronic devices on a RepRap 3D printer. The computer...
Tactical Snacks made his own and it appears to be well designed and made from some parts ordered through Protolabs.http://tacticalsnack.blogspot.com/2017/03/little-stick-vise.html?m=1A pretty cool Stickvise inspired tool was made by pa4tim in the Netherlands. ...