Collaborate Disseminate
There are few rites of programmer passage as iconic as writing your first parser. You might want to interpret or compile a scripting language, or you might want to accept …read more Continue reading A Browser Approach to Parsing
It is a time-honored tradition: buy some cheap piece of gear and rewrite the firmware to make it work better. [Gissio] managed to do just that for a cheap FS2011 …read more Continue reading An Open Source Firmware for Cheap Geiger Counters
Tuning into a GPS satellite is nothing new. Your phone and your car probably do that multiple times a day. But [dereksgc] has been listening to GPS voice traffic. The …read more Continue reading The Voice of GPS
Elliot and Al got together to discuss this week’s projects, and you’re invited! You’ll hear news about replaceable batteries in the EU, along with some news about the Hackaday Op …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast 224: Star Wars Holograms, Tricorders, and Other Sensors
Alan Turing proposed a test for machine intelligence that no longer works. The idea was to have people communicate over a terminal, with another real person and with a computer. …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: The Turing Test is Dead: Long Live the Turing Test!
What’s a tachyscope? According to [Daniel Ross], it is an animated display from an alternate timeline circa 1880. The real ones, of course, didn’t have LEDs and microcontrollers. The control …read more Continue reading Dual Channel POV Display also has Nixie Tubes
If you do any kind of machining, 3D printing, or PCB layout, you probably have at least considered buying a pair of calipers. Old-fashioned ones had a dial and were …read more Continue reading Inside Digital Calipers
HP calculators, slide rules, and Forth all have something in common: reverse polish notation or RPN. Admittedly, slide rules don’t really have RPN, but you work problems on them the …read more Continue reading In Praise of RPN (with Python or C)
The University of Cambridge has a novel fuel cell design that can grab CO2 from the atmosphere or industrial processes and, combined with waste PET plastic, provides syngas and glycolic …read more Continue reading Fuel Cell Turns PET and Carbon Dioxide into Useful Chemicals
GPS is a handy modern gadget — until you go inside, underground, or underwater. Japanese researchers want to build a GPS-like system with a twist. It uses cosmic ray muons, …read more Continue reading Cosmic Ray Navigation