Collaborate Disseminate
Talk about playing on hard mode! The news this week was rife with stories about Palmer Luckey’s murder-modified VR headset, which ostensibly kills the wearer if their character dies in-game. …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: November 13, 2022
Let’s face it: if you can’t trust a fire-breathing billionaire industrialist to protect your stuff, who can you trust? (Video, embedded below.) This one is straight out of the Really …read more Continue reading Protect Your Property with This Fire-Breathing Billionaire
If you were around for the early days of the personal computer revolution, you’ll no doubt recall the excitement every time IBM announced a new version of its beige boxes. …read more Continue reading Bringing Up an Old Motherboard Is a Delicate Process
Laboratory automation equipment is expensive stuff, to such a degree that small labs are often priced out of the market. That’s a shame, because there are a lot of tedious …read more Continue reading 3D Printer Repurposed for Light-Duty Lab Automation Tasks
Most multi-rotor aircraft are about as aerodynamic as a brick. Unless all its motors are turning and the control electronics are doing their thing, most UAVs are quickly destined to …read more Continue reading Clever Control Loop Makes This Spinning Drone Fault-Tolerant
As far as interesting problems go, few can really compete with the perennial question: “Are we alone?” The need to know if there are other forms of intelligent life out …read more Continue reading The Wow! Signal Revisited: Citizen Science Informs SETI Effort
Thanks to stints as an X-ray technician in my early 20s followed by work in various biology labs into my early 40s, I’ve been classified as an “occupationally exposed worker” …read more Continue reading Dosimetry: Measuring Radiation
Remember the chip shortage? We sure do, mainly because as far as we can tell, it’s still going on, at least judging by the fact that you can’t get a …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: November 6, 2022
We’re used to seeing all manner of seven-segment displays, be they mechanical, electronic, or something in between. But what all these displays have in common is that they’re, you know, …read more Continue reading The Seven-Segment Display That’s Also an Input Device
It’s no secret that Raspberry Pi’s are a little hard to come by these days. Unless you had the foresight to stock up before the supply dried up — and …read more Continue reading Thin Client and Smartphone Step in for 3D Printer’s Raspberry Pi and Touchscreen