Collaborate Disseminate
It’s a story we’ve heard many times before: if you want to get your data from the Domyos EL500 elliptical trainer, you need to use a proprietary smartphone application that …read more Continue reading Hacking BLE to Liberate Your Exercise Equipment
Ever feel like the Pi Pico board could be doing way more given its footprint? Does it bother you that the RP2040’s ADC quality is even further decreased because of …read more Continue reading ProPico For Your Pro Pico Needs
Having a game-tailored controller is a level-up in more ways than one, letting you perform in-game actions quickly and intuitively, instead of trying to map your actions to a clunky …read more Continue reading An Extensive Walkthrough On Building Your Own KSP Controller
Analog acquisition tools are super helpful whenever you want to run an experiment, test out a theory, or improve upon your code, and you won’t realize how much you always …read more Continue reading Add the Analog Toolkit to Your…Toolkit
We love Blender. It brings you 3D modeling, but not in a CAD way — instead, people commonly use it to create animations, movies, games, and even things like VR …read more Continue reading From KiCad to Blender for a Stunning Render
Some equipment comes with a backstory so impressive, you can’t help but treat it with reverence. For instance, this Hantek scope’s front panel and knobs have melted when a battery …read more Continue reading Explosion-Scarred Scope Gets Plastic Surgery Hackerspace Style
I’ve talked about HD44780 displays before – they’ve been a mainstay of microcontroller projects for literal decades. In the modern hobbyist world, there’s an elephant in the room – the …read more Continue reading Displays We Love Hacking: SPI and I2C
Humans are walking high voltage generators, due to all the friction with our surroundings, wide variety of synthetic clothes, and the overall everpresent static charges. Our electronics are sensitive to …read more Continue reading Hacker Tactic: Internal ESD Diode Probing
We’ve seen a lot of PCIe hacks on Hackaday, and a fair few of them boil down to hackers pulling PCIe somewhere it wasn’t meant to be. Today, we routinely …read more Continue reading PCIe For Hackers: External PCIe And OCuLink
As both beginning hackers and Silicon Valley investors alike keep discovering, there are a lot of differences between hardware and software. One important difference is cost of iterating over a …read more Continue reading Check Your Board: Call For Submissions