Collaborate Disseminate
Step sequencers are fantastic instruments, but they can be a little, well, repetitive. At it’s core, the step sequencer is a pretty simple device: it loops through a series of …read more Continue reading Making Minty Fresh Music With Markov Chains: The After Eight Step Sequencer
In the movies, everything is modular. Some big gun fell off the spaceship when it crashed? Good thing you can just pick it up and fire it as-is (looking at …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Why Make Modular Hardware?
Have you ever noticed that people in old photographs looks a bit weird? Deep wrinkles, sunken cheeks, and exaggerated blemishes are commonplace in photos taken up to the early 20th …read more Continue reading Imaging The past With Time-Travel Rephotography
Rejoice! Gone are the long chains of if…else statements, because switch statements will soon be here — sort of. What the Python gods are actually giving us are match statements. match …read more Continue reading Python Will Soon Support Switch Statements
We’ve all been there: you’re sitting at your bench, with a beaker full of some conductive fluid with a bunch of tiny particles suspended in it, and you want to …read more Continue reading Bringing Some Coulter To The Bench: Measuring Tiny Particles With Nanopore Sensing
Every summer you go down the shore, but lately you’ve begun to notice that the beach seems narrower each time you visit. Is that the sea level rising, or is the sand just being swept away? Speaking of sea levels, …read more
It’s not every day we see a grand piano with a Raspberry Pi inside, let alone one with 96 motors, but sometimes we get lucky. The contraption in question is one developed by [Konstantin Leonenko], as part of a collaboration …read more
Continue reading Continuous Excitation Piano Machine Looks Nervous, Sounds Grand
It’s long been common wisdom that one of the safest places to keep your cryptocurrency holdings is in a hardware wallet. These are small, portable devices that encrypt your keys and offer a bit more piece of mind than holding …read more
Continue reading Hacking Hardware Bitcoin Wallets: Extracting The Cryptographic Seed From a Trezor
The modern ham radio shack can take many forms. Some are shrines the “boat anchor” radios of old, named for their considerable weight. Others are simply a small, unassuming software-defined radio (SDR) hooked up to a laptop. Nowadays, many shacks fall somewhere in the middle. It’s not uncommon to find …read more
It seems like within the last ten years, every other gadget to be released has some sort of heart rate monitoring capability. Most modern smartwatches can report your BPMs, and we’ve even seen some headphones with the same ability hitting the market. Most of these devices use an optical measurement …read more
Continue reading Webcam Heart Rate Monitor Brings Photoplethysmography to Your PC