Collaborate Disseminate
The Hackaday comments section is generally a lively place. At its best, it’s an endless wellspring of the combined engineering wisdom of millions of readers which serves to advance the …read more Continue reading Is That Antenna Allowed? The Real Deal on the FCCs OTARD Rule
If there’s a reason that fancy holographic displays that respond to gestures are a science fiction staple, it’s probably because our current display technology is terrible. Oh sure, Retina displays …read more Continue reading A Little Optical Magic Makes This Floating Display Pop
A common design language for watches has evolved ever since they first started popping up in the 1500s. Whether worn on the wrist or in a pocket, watches are relatively …read more Continue reading Nice Retro Displays Set This Watch on Edge
The Sun has been remarkably active lately, so much so that it might have set a new sunspot record. According to the sun watchers at the Space Weather Prediction Center, …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: August 25, 2024
NEMA-17 steppers are (almost) a dime a dozen. They’re everywhere, they’re well-known to hackers and makers, and yet they’re still a bit hard to integrate into projects. That’s because the …read more Continue reading Compact Driver Powers Steppers with USB-C PD
Really, [OzzieGerff] had us at “LEGO.” But then he took it to another place entirely and built a completely mechanical, nearly 100% LEGO version of Snake. And it’s just as …read more Continue reading A Game of Snake on a LEGO Mechanical Computer
Drive along nearly any major road in the United States and it won’t be long before you see evidence of the electrical grid. Whether it’s wooden poles strung along the …read more Continue reading A Field Guide to the North American Substation
For those of us who lived through the early 8-bit computing revolution — the tail end, in our case — it’s hard to believe that there’s a second wave of …read more Continue reading Happy Birthday to Dad, Retrocomputer Style
They’re back! The San Francisco autonomous vehicle hijinks, that is, as Waymo’s fleet of driverless cars recently took up the fun new hobby of honking their horns in the wee …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: August 18, 2024
While high-voltage transmission lines are probably the most visible components of the electrical grid, they’re certainly among the least appreciated. They go largely unnoticed by the general public — quick, …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Powerline Sagging and Stringing in the 1950s