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A bartop arcade and media center for my step father "Murph"

Murphcade

I bought this dremel for 40 bucks a few years ago, now it worked great up until the battery life declined drastically. I then upgraded it

Battery upgrade for a dremel

I always forget to turn off the light, no longer bother to turn the lights

Arduino controlled door trigger light bulb

One Dimensional Pong on the Arduino

Arduino X-PONG

Super-cheap moving paper robot driven by a USB charged super-cap powered vibration module. Allows robots to be created from almost anything.

The Crafty Robot

8x8 LED matrix wearable

Trinket

Easily play back CD quality audio (or worse) with enormous storage using a microSD card

PIC32 Stereo Audio Player with microSD card

WiFiMCU is developed based on EMW3165. Run the Lua script directly

WiFiMCU=STM32F4+WiFi(Broadcom)+Lua

This project outlines how to do advanced PCB making at home with proper tooling. Tooling includes a laminator and hobby laser.

PCB /SMT MAKER LAB @ Home

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

Using only a single wire to increase sensitivity, an Arduino's ADC can be used to detect motion!

Detecting Motion With AC/Static Electricity

Connor Nishijima

The 2015 Hackaday Prize

A 3d printed socket that will allow for on-location calibration of replacement arms.

Calibrated Prosthetic Socket for 3D Printed Arms

Daniel R. Dugan

A Burning Man Art Car Project by a group of D.C. (Not Washington!) Burners

"The Deep" - D.C.'s Sonic Jellyfish Art Car

Application framework for solving and sharing technical problems.

OneSolver.com

Raster 2 Laser GCode generator is an extension to generate Gcode for a laser cutter/engraver (or pen plotter).

Raster 2 Laser GCode generator

Taking stepper music to absurd levels, with a dash of Christmas cheer

Christmas Orchestra

Jeremy Weatherford

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

you can make your telepresence robot (Arduino based) if you go through the steps below

Easy Build my own useful Robot For Less Than $100

A Windows-based solution for volume control based on hand gestures.

Gesture Based PC Volume Control

Pretty simple, essentially 32' of EL wire and a battery inverter

Glow Jacket

Jasmine Brackett

An omnidirectional camera and software that can automatically create live 3D environments

Quamera

The 2015 Hackaday Prize

The idea is to take the water used in a shower to use for flushing the toilet, there is no sense in using drinkable water for that

Shower water repurposer

To program or test ESP-12 or ESP-14 before installation, then plug adapter into breadboard and the ESP into adapter. Unplug when done.

ESP-12 and ESP-14 adapter to DIL

ENDUANCE ROBOTS

The best engraving with a diode laser

georgefomitchef

Reshaping the Internet Access into a Cooperative Utility

Off-Grid Open Community Mesh Network

And a tiny microcontroller

Breadboard VGA from TTL and SRAM

Marcel van Kervinck

Set Up VPN on Raspberry Pi

Make your own Raspberry Pi VPN

An video presentation of a special gameboy cartridge , allowing to send the GB display on any screen within 10 meters (aka ironman hack)

The "Sooo easy universal hacking button"

i void warranties

An Arduino based audio spectrum visualizer using MSGEQ7 ICs and displayed on Bi-color LED Matrix displays

Arduino based LED Matrix Audio Spectrum Visualizer

Home Automation and Monitoring System with many sensors and actuators to keep your home safe

ED-E: Home Automation and Monitoring System

Tyler Spadgenske

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

A Project to Test Low-Cost ESP8266 Wifi Module with Easy PC Program for Beginners

ESP8266 Test Program

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

Open hardware and software blood glucose meter using electrochemical test strips

Open source Arduino blood glucose meter shield

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

The ZEN of simplicity Making the Complex...Seem Simple

DAV5 V2 Spectrometer

David H Haffner Sr

Learn about FFTs and frequency domain processing! No actual monkeys were harmed during the production of this project

MonkeyListen - An Audio Spectrum Analyzer Display

Let's find out if I can use my little X-carve to build a bigger and better CNC router.

Building a Shapeoko 3 from Scratch

Wake up to the soothing glow of Organic LEDs

SunRise

The 2015 Hackaday Prize

interface which takes vga video from usb2vga and transforms it in a signal suitable for controlling addressable leds (ws2812b)

usb2vga to addressable leds

An MPC style MIDI controller featuring a 4x4 FSR matrix and based on Teensy 3.0, fully compatible with the Teensy Audio Adaptor Board

DIY USB MIDI controller MPC style

The 2015 Hackaday Prize

Connecting people through lights controlled by their mind's power to focus: the tech breakdown of the art piece

Focus

George Profenza

First-Aid administration guide-app, for Road Accident Victims.

Good Samaritan

This solution has a number of unique benefits, a sensor platform with webserver, powered over Ethernet, accessible and programmed by browser

IoT Ethernet Sensor using Power over Ethernet

Sheldon Kit would make your Raspberry Pi or Chromecast into All-in-one computer. Also it is a great second monitor on your desk

Sheldon Kit - The Mini HD Monitor

DIY touch based NES controller

AirVolt will be first radio wave charger with the radius of operation of up to 9 meters.

AirVolt

Official Hackaday Prize Entry

Speculating on the details of real-time murders in Venezuela. Art Installation

Murder Machine

The 2017 Hackaday Prize

Earrings, necklace, pendant ...

Supercapacitor powered LED jewelry

The 2017 Hackaday Prize

Electronic band-aid for monitoring fever and dispensing an antipyretic and anti-inflammatory drug

Sense-Aid

DIY camera with an OpenMV module and thermal printer

DIY instant camera

Fabien-Chouteau

Set up CrashPlan on Raspberry Pi and make it your Raspbian backup tool using ExaGear Desktop

CrashPlan on Raspberry Pi

open source delta printer using

How to design your own HAT module including ID EEPROM.

Designing a Raspberry Pi HAT

Ubuntu Mobile app enabled Robotics( Raspberry Pi and arduino involved)

MrRobot

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

The HydraBus is an open source evolutive multi-tool which help you to Analyze/Debug/Hack/PenTest all types of electronic bus/chipset

HydraBus

Benjamin Vernoux

Turn your TI Launchpad into a capable Synthesizer by adding MIDI and the MeeBlip Anode audio circuitry as a 40-pin Boosterpack.

MeeBooster

using passive bluetooth as a proximity detector

bluetooth lowjack

ridingintraffic

The 2017 Hackaday Prize

Original design v-tail quadcopter, all pieces 3D printed. 2213 935kv motors running 10.5 inch props with a 4400mah battery.

Raptor V-Tail Quadcopter Drone

The 2015 Hackaday Prize

The SmartWindow automatically determines when a window should be opened or closed, based on the indoor/outdoor temperature and weather.

Weather Controlled SmartWindow

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

It is absolute great Arduino board !!!!

D21XXXL arduino M0 Zero compatible XXXL board

The 2017 Hackaday Prize

A script that automates the process of signing git sources via GPG

Simplifying Source Code Signing with GPGit

I want to create a system which runs through the i/p given by the user and according to the gestures it will perform the defined activity.

Gesture recognition technology

LTPP3 is a Linux-based Tibbo Project System board with Ethernet, as well as optional Wi-Fi* and GPRS** connectivity.

Size 3 Linux Tibbo Project PCB (LTPP3)

Correcting Home Theater Sound Imaging when Sitting in Different Directions on an L-Shaped Couch

Home Theater Speaker Rotator

The 2017 Hackaday Prize

A multi-function ESP32 board with Ether (100BASE-TX), CAN-bus, and OLED, and LiPo charger and FTDI

ESP32 monster board

A 3D Raycasting engine to run on an Arduino with a 32x16 LED matrix panel instead of a screen.

Arduino LED Raycaster

Official Hackaday Prize Entry

Plant Friends is a wireless plant environmental monitor system. It uses the Raspberry Pi and the Moteino and comes with an Android app!

Plant Friends

A non-profit org dedicated to one of the three principle resources needed for self-reliant and resilient communities (food, fiber, fuel).

Cascadia Fibershed

The 2015 Hackaday Prize

ProtoVoltaics Pick and Place Machine Project

Pick and Place Machine

ROS based 2WD, 4WD, Mecum Drive, and Ackermann Steering robots.

Linorobot - 3 New ROS compatible platforms

Juan Miguel Jimeno

An analog cross-point switch with adjustable output attenuation.

ViamSonus (Audio router)

A dynamic website for giving you Wikimedia projects to work on based on your skills

What can I do for Wikimedia

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

A full FPGA system in one square inch area

The 'Configum' module

The Scrapyard and Arduino make a great combination!

Real Scania Truck Home Simulator

Jeroen van der Velden

16 player JS Joust and a ton of other features all running on a Raspberry Pi.

Raspberry Pi JS Joust

Track and Trace anything with the Arduino AnyTracer of only 25 x 25 mm! It is the smallest, complete GPS GSM tracker in the entire world.

Arduino AnyTracer

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

A remote controlled robot transmitting live video streams to your browser.

Outdoor robot

The 2017 Hackaday Prize

HeartyPatch is a fully open-source, IoT connected, BLE enabled heart-rate variability & ECG patch with great accuracy

HeartyPatch: A single-lead ECG-HR patch with ESP32

Ashwin K Whitchurch

an open-source seizure predicting algorthim

epilepsy master-alpha

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

15% of the population or 21 million in the US could save $100 a year

Thomas Atmospheric Dryer

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

A functional prototype of the the most badass vehicle known - The Batpod.

ProjectLincoln - Azrael

Abhijeet Khandagale

Official Hackaday Prize Entry

The HMD is bluetooth enabled and compatible with both Linux and Android.

$60 bluetooth head mounted display.

Robotic chess player

ChessM8

Keyduino is an Arduino compatible development board with built-in NFC (Near-Field Communication).

KeyDuino

Pierre CHARLIER

A box to convert an amateur radio 70cm serial stream to telnet over WiFi.

70cm Serial WiFi Bridge

Flight-proven Do-it-yourself Spacecraft

Rocketometer

Draw patterns on the surface of a table using glow-in-the-dark paint and a laser pointer.

Laser Table

Lift is mounted on right door, front-seat passenger place is used for rollator, seat removed.

Rollator lift for small car

A robot that uses OpenCV to track a wide variety of objects and shapes.

SortME the Computer Vision Robot

Trevor Sherrard

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

My little sister needs a sample player for a show in just a couple of days. Can I make it happen?

Quick Sample Player

Control Voltage and Volume Pedal hacked from dead Wah.

Korg Delta CV & Volume Pedal Hack

Inspired by a full size White Water pinball (made by Williams), I constructed a (reduced scale) digital pinball that runs many, many games!

Digital Pinball

This project aims to design an efficient hardware Mandelbrot Set calculation engine, and dynamically render it based on FFT audio analysis.

Let Mandelbrot Set "Dance" with Music

Complete anti-theft alarm compatible with any kind of sensors, with RFID recognition, GSM and web server, based on Arduino Mega.

Arduino anti-theft alarm shield

Multi-purpose Personal Office Assistant powered with 5 XL-320 motors, OpenCM9.04 , RasperryPI 3, Sound board, Sonar , OpenCV

Terminator Wall-e Raspberry/OpenCM9.04/Dynamixel

Stefano Filippone

An accelerometer/gyro goes onto an Arduino board and transmits the angular motion of the skateboard via bluetooth to a VR game.

VR Skateboard with Arduino and Google Cardboard

matthewhallberg

The 2015 Hackaday Prize

TerraSpider is part of wireless robotic system capable of designing, repairing and maintaining vast landscapes over extended periods of time

Terra Spider

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

A complete solution to add lights to Dual Line Sport kites to be used by Austin End of the Line Kite team

Team Kite Light System

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

How I built a polariscope for my Lego Optics lab.

Lego Optics Lab: Polariscope

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

The DIY laptop built entirely from PCB

ELLO 2M

There's always room for Pi in your Amateur Radio Go Kit. Top it off with the Pi-Go and plug right into your station power - or even your car

Pi-Go

The 2015 Hackaday Prize

THIS PROJECT IS DESIGN FOR DOCTOR AND NURSES IN HOSPITAL TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANT REQUIREMENT OF THE DEAF PERSON.

HAND GESTURE FOR DEAF PERSON USING LABVIEW

An open-source, active motion capture suit

MotioSuit

Alvaro Ferrán Cifuentes

The SAM 15x15 is an Arduino development board, with the same powerful controller as the Arduino Zero: the SAMD21G18.

Arduino Zero compatible SAMD21 board 15x15mm

Albert van Dalen

Using GL850G IC on a 2 layer board, made with KiCad

4 Port USB Hub

The 2017 Hackaday Prize

A 3d printer system that can be operated by multiple people that just spits out parts placed in the web based print queue

Robot 3D printer auto eject sys & web print queue

This is a friendly DIY Robot I made for a class at my university that uses Matlab over a closed connection to process images and sound

[Insert Robot name here] the Matlab Robot

The 2017 Hackaday Prize

A simple concept to localize a robot within some few meters with help of some external references (mirror)

Low cost Robot Localisation System (LRLS)

The 2015 Hackaday Prize

Open Source Platform for the Internet of Things. Focused on providing an awesome developer experience.

Open Source IoT Platform (thinger.io)

The 2017 Hackaday Prize

Graphical Development Environment for Arduino controller type boards

Visuino

The 2017 Hackaday Prize

RggBer is a FPGA based complete development kit dedicated to embedded vision

RggBer - open hardware for embedded vision

Weather Monitoring with Onion Omega, Its a powerful SBC. Comes with cloud connectivity, Ethernet, WiFi, uart , I2C & lot of GPIO.

Weather Monitoring Using Onion Omega and HIH7130

bhaskar.anil430

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

A site to automate part purchasing

Kitnic

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

(Mr.Robot's) fsociety inspired Mechanical keyboard. Wirelessly sense, assist and automate your good and bad computing activity.

The fsociety Keyboard

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

Remotely turn on/off your PC using a Raspberry Pi

PC Power

This is an educational public domain design developed for educators in the UK.

Breadboard Persistence of Vision

How to classify images quickly and accurately using your RPi with a camera and an internet connection

Classifying everything using your RPi Camera

Syma X5C Drone meets DJI FC40 WiFi 2.4GHz Camera bringing FPV to a cheapest level

Restyled Syma X5C Drone FPV Mod

ESP32 Module with A CP2102 http://www.analoglamb.com/product/esp32-development-board/

ESP32 Development Board

A rescue robot's victim detection is necessary to find helpless people in a rescue scenario.

Evaluation and Improvement of a Victim Detection

Transmit video without extra components.

ATTiny85 does NTSC over VHF

the intelligent... nevermind

IntelliServo

Alvaro Ferrán Cifuentes

This is a guide how to upload new firmware using Arduino IDE.

SONOFF - ESP8266 update firmware with Arduino IDE

A metal core LED ring that fits the RPi Zero and Rpi Camera.

RPI_ZERO_LED_RING

The 2017 Hackaday Prize

IoT Info hub displays current/forecast weather, waste collection calendar, links in garage door control, hot tub temp, currency state etc.

WIoT-2 Station

Official Hackaday Prize Entry

Control any TV, set top box, stereo or any other device which uses an IR remote through your smartphone with Speech Recognition!

Aergia: Android TV Remote(with Speech Recognition)

Jayvis Gonsalves

Arduino Umpire Mask

Emulation of a Z80 CP/M computer on an Arduino DUE

CPMDuino

Firetail is an open source UAV autopilot system for fixed wing remote controlled aircraft. It can turn RC planes into autonomous robots.

Firetail UAV System

WS2812FX is an extension of the Adafruit NeoPixel library with more than 40 named blinken effects.

WS2812FX - NeoPixel Effects Library

A quick, safe, reusable and easy to launch Air-Water Rockets

Air-Water Rocket Launcher

The 2017 Hackaday Prize

SD card secure RAID USB storage

Orthrus

Using embedded platforms and GPS & GPRS modules attached to my kids lunchbox or jacket, I will be able to monitor their geoposition.

Watch my kidOES!

a digital signal processor with integrated multi-channel amplifier for high-fidelity speakers.

DSP 01: hi-fi audio signal processor

In this article we would like to tell you about the little upgrades we made for it.

“Assemble your BB-8 robot” saga goes on.

George I Fomitchev

The 2017 Hackaday Prize

Internet enabled (IOT) weather station using the GPRS network

Arduino GPRS IOT Weather Station

Step-by-step instruction on running Skype on Raspberry Pi using ExaGear Desktop

Run Skype on Raspberry Pi

A 7 segment display with a nixie tube style.

Nixie inspired display

Internet of Things development board with LoRa communication

Marvin: Plug&play IoT development board

If i want data from one pen drive to another need a PC,think of small device that can connect both and transfer data

Easy Data Sharing

The 2017 Hackaday Prize

A line follower robot is as the name suggests a Robot that follows a line. Now this line can be either a dark one on a white surface.

Line Follower Robot

increasing my cyborg-ness (2008 - present)

Bluetooth Headphones for Hearing Aids

The 2017 Hackaday Prize

The goal of this project is to explore the feasibility of making an AA battery powered by compressed air

A Compressed Air AA battery

The 2017 Hackaday Prize

A smart garment system incorporating an array of integrated sensors to help the user speak the language of movement.

myoSkin

My idea for a room based VR positioning system. The goal is for tennis court coverage to play "real" virtual tennis!

Room Based VR Positioning

Play game shows with your Raspberry Pi and some big pushbuttons.

Game Show Emulator

Tyler Spadgenske

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

This project creates an easily accessible digital library of animated books, empowering all children to independently explore reading.

Making books accessible to all kids

An orange pi zero powered smart speaker under $30

Low cost smart speaker

5V GVS Hat (card) for the Raspberry Pi Model B

GVS Sensor Hat (Card) for the Raspberry Pi

land-boards.com

A touch sensitive two LED flasher badge for teaching soldering/electronics.

Touch Activated Blinky Badge

Mahesh Venkitachalam

holographic clock projection DIY.

Holoclock

The 2017 Hackaday Prize

The project will be used to detect seizure via neurowaves and alert help

Neurowave Seizure Detection Device

The 2015 Hackaday Prize

Sitting for long periods has become more common in today’s life causing serious health issues. Sit.Up!

Sit.Up

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

A DIY 3D printer (big volume, inexpensive, lightweight and portable).

RigTig's Big 3D Printer

5v dummy loads made from nichrome toaster wire and bamboo skewers. Used on the 5v rail to stabilise ATX 12v output under load

5v Pre heater & dummy load for ATX powered 3DPrint

A simple, easy & free way to expose Raspberry Pi to the Web w/a real public SSL certificate + e2e encryption. No public IP/port forwarding.

IOT: Toggle LED with Real HTTPS to Raspberry PI

for a better life

SAVE NATURE SAVE FUTURE

bhaswanthkumar6

The 2015 Hackaday Prize

Millions of young athletes get concussions each year and 50% go undiagnosed, leading to brain injury. Impact detects these events early.

Impact

The 2015 Hackaday Prize

using hardware like floppy drives and 3D printers together to play any MIDI file

Unconventional Instrument Ochestra

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

It a spider hexapod with six legs, each leg has three servos to control. it has totally 18 DOF. you can program various movement for it.

Hexapod Spider Robot based on BBG wireless

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

Arduino uno, WIZnet W5500, Parking system

Parking System with Ethernet in arduino

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

A public viewing device for mixed reality experiences in the form factor of coin-operated binoculars.

Perceptoscope

I added a joystick I got from a 360 controller to an NES controller with a few transistors and modification to the analog.

Adding an analog stick to an NES controller

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

with Arduino and beyond. . .

Explore M3

simple adapter to program and test esp8266-12e using pogo pins for solderless connections

ESP8266-12E Programming & Testing Adapter

Ankit Bhatnagar

Monitor the air in your own backyard with a custom sensor board, Arduino Zero, Raspberry Pi and zymbit.connect software.

See the Air Your Community Breathes

New concept for a low budged linear servo made out of standard and 3D-printed parts.

3D-Printed DIY Linear Servo

Simple voltmeter using an Attiny85 and a dual counter to drive the 3x7 segments display

Voltmeter

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

A method to help Alzheimer or Senile Dementia patients to cope with temporary memory loss with a pre-recorded DVD in a portable player.

Altzhiemer Mitigator

The 2015 Hackaday Prize

Fixing terrible spectrum (missing cyan&green) of generic white LEDs to get perfect flat spectrum and impression of blue sky in the room.

Blue Sky + Corrected spectrum White LED fixture

Mikhail Svarichevsky

How I Assembled a Wheeled Telepresence Robot.” Endurance’s Technologies

The Start of the Project. Part 1.1.

George I Fomitchev

PlatformIO is an open source ecosystem for IoT development (Cross-platform IDE and unified debugger. Remote testing and firmware updates)

PlatformIO

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

Aditi is a connected bodysuit heating enabled incubator for preterm infants measuring Heart Rate, SpO2,Temp & Respiration comfortably.

ADITI:Affordable Diagnostic Thermal Incubator

Low power, battery operated ultrasonic parking aid.

Ultrasonic Parking Aid without Arduino

My attempt to get the smallest, simplest GameBoy style device, based on the pi Zero

GameBoy Zero, but smaller!!

The 2015 Hackaday Prize

Malti is a low cost open source handheld Linux platform that makes experimenting with and learning about electronics easier

Malti

An embedded development platform for connected devices, with Node, Rust, Python support, USB, IO, WiFi, and Ethernet. Tessel.io

Tessel 2

This project details the design of a Single Phase Phase Locked Loop

PLL Design using Delfino Launchpad

An off road truck built from scratch. The engine, axles, and shocks were pretty much the only things premade for this project.

The War Weasel

The 2017 Hackaday Prize

How to make a simple system for sending SMS using Raspberry PI and USB modem.

Raspberry PI SMS sender

Ultimate, Modular, No Solder, APA102C RGB LED Panels

ULTiM8x8

Anool Mahidharia

The 2015 Hackaday Prize

Monitor ambient light, temperature, barometric pressure and altitude via your browser.

Sensorian IoT Dashboard

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

CarontePass is an access control designed for collaborative spaces. Ideal for Hackerspaces, Makerspace, FabLabs, Hacklabs...

CarontePass: Open Access Control

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

Endurance opens source code for schools, universities, for robotics camps of SelfieBot. SelfieBot is a basic (stationary) telepresence

SelfieBot for education. DIY mobile driven robot.

George I Fomitchev

arduinio robot and usb solar charger

A front-end to the Raspberry Pi that uses the NoIR camera & GPIO for remote residential door control

Garage Security

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

"Robô da Alegria" is a project to help the interaction with kids in children's hospitals

Robô da Alegria ("Joy Robot")

Official Hackaday Prize Entry

Old tech meets new tech... you have to vote for this, its got LEDs and stuff.

Adding a light touch to a "classic" microscope.