Collaborate Disseminate
Seeing a heavy load slide around on nearly frictionless air bearings is pretty cool; it’s a little like how the puck levitates on an air hockey table. Commercial air bearings …read more Continue reading DIY Air Bearings, No Machining Required
Pretty much every modern car has some driver assistance feature, such as lane departure and blind-spot warnings, or adaptive cruise control. They’re all pretty cool, and they all depend on …read more Continue reading Fundamentals of FMCW Radar Help You Understand Your Car’s Point of View
Some inventions are so simple that it’s hard to improve them. The magnetic compass is a great example — a magnetized needle, a bit of cork, and a bowl of …read more Continue reading Overcomplicating the Magnetic Compass for a Reason
We’ve all heard stories of the dangers of 3D printing, with fires from runaway hot ends or dodgy heated build plates being the main hazards. But what about the particulates? …read more Continue reading New Study Looks at the Potential Carcinogenicity of 3D Printing
So far, food for astronauts hasn’t exactly been haute cuisine. Freeze-dried cereal cubes, squeezable tubes filled with what amounts to baby food, and meals reconstituted with water from a fuel …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: October 13, 2024
Chances are good that most of us will go through life without ever having to perform gas chromatography, and if we do have the occasion to do so, it’ll likely …read more Continue reading A Homebrew Gas Chromatograph That Won’t Bust Your Budget
Here we are in October, improbably enough, and while the leaves start to fall as the goblins begin to gather, Elliot and Dan took a break from the madness to …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 292: Stainless Steel Benchies, Lego Turing Machines, and a Digital Camera Made of Pure DIY
Despite being much in the zeitgeist lately, we have to confess to still being a bit foggy about exactly what memristors are. The “mem” part of their name seems to …read more Continue reading Photochromic Dye Makes Up This Novel Optical Memristor
What color are the street lights in your town? While an unfortunate few still suffer under one of the awful colors offered by vapor discharge lamps, like the pink or …read more Continue reading Fail of the Week: The Case of the Curiously Colored Streetlights
If you remember a time when TV news sets universally incorporated a room full of clattering wire service teleprinters to emphasize the seriousness of the news business, congratulations — you’re …read more Continue reading Dot-Matrix Printer Brings Old School Feel to Today’s Headlines