Hackaday Links: May 22, 2022
It looks like it’s soon to be lights out for the Mars InSight lander. In the two years that the lander has been studying the geophysics of Mars from its …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 22, 2022
Author Archives: Dan Maloney
Square Cuts on Aluminum Extrusion, No Mill Required
If you’re looking for the perfect excuse to buy that big, beautiful Bridgeport mill, we’ve got some bad news: it’s not going to be making perfectly square end cuts on …read more Continue reading Square Cuts on Aluminum Extrusion, No Mill Required
Portable 3D Printer Gets Even Smaller, Faster, Better
How do you improve on a fast, capable 3D printer that sports an innovative design and is portable enough to fit in a printer spool box? Judging by what went …read more Continue reading Portable 3D Printer Gets Even Smaller, Faster, Better
Falling Down the Labyrinth With Wooden Microphone Design
It used to be that when we featured one of [Frank Olson]’s DIY ribbon microphone builds, it was natural to focus on the fact that he was building them almost …read more Continue reading Falling Down the Labyrinth With Wooden Microphone Design
Hackaday Links: May 15, 2022
It may be blurry and blotchy, but it’s ours. The first images of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy were revealed this week, and …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 15, 2022
Vicious Little Desktop Shredder Pulverizes Plastic Waste
We’ve all likely seen video of the enormous industrial shredders that eat engine blocks for lunch and spit out a stream of fine metal chips. The raw power of these …read more Continue reading Vicious Little Desktop Shredder Pulverizes Plastic Waste
Hackaday Podcast 168: Math Flattens Spheres, FPGAs Emulate Arcades, and We Can’t Shake Polaroid Pictures
Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney as they review the top hacks for the week. It was a real retro-fest this time, with a C64 built …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast 168: Math Flattens Spheres, FPGAs Emulate Arcades, and We Can’t Shake Polaroid Pictures
Barely HDMI Display Gets a Steampunk-Inspired Enclosure
It’s an interesting question: What does one do for a follow-up to building the world’s worst HDMI display? Simple — stick it in a cool steampunk-inspired case and call it …read more Continue reading Barely HDMI Display Gets a Steampunk-Inspired Enclosure
When Sticks Fly
When it comes to hobby rotorcraft, it almost seems like the more rotors, the better. Quadcopters, hexacopters, and octocopters we’ve seen, and there’s probably a dodecacopter buzzing around out there …read more Continue reading When Sticks Fly
Number Like It’s 1234 AD With This Cistercian Keypad
Don’t feel bad if you don’t know what Cistercian numbers are. Unless you’re a monk of the Order of Cistercia, there’s really no reason for you to learn the cipher …read more Continue reading Number Like It’s 1234 AD With This Cistercian Keypad