Collaborate Disseminate
[JSK-koubou] has quite the talent for creative woodwork, particularly building interesting tools or improving existing ones. This recent project (multiple build videos below: part 1, part 2, and part 3) …read more Continue reading A Beautiful DIY Guided Saw
Over the years [Integza] has blown up or melted many types of jet engine, including the humble pulsejet. Earlier improvements revolved around pumping in more fuel, or forced air intakes, …read more Continue reading A Detonation Engine Prototyped Using Resin Printing
[Mark J Hughes] volunteers as a part of a local community fire watch which coordinates by radio. The La Habra Heights region of Los Angeles is an area of peaks …read more Continue reading 2022 Hackaday Prize: Boondock Echo Connects Your Radios with the Cloud
Whilst the Raspberry Pi RP2040 is quite a capable little chip, on the whole it’s nothing really special compared to the big brand offerings. But, the PIO peripheral is a …read more Continue reading Bit-Banged Ethernet On The Raspberry Pi Pico
With the never ending march of technological progress, arguably the most complex technologies become so close to magic as to be impenetrable to those outside the industry in which they …read more Continue reading Integrated Circuit Manufacturing At Bell Labs In 1983
Homebrew HVAC systems are one of those projects that take such a big investment of time, effort and money that you’ve got to be a really dedicated (ideally home-owning) hacker …read more Continue reading Is This The Oldest Open Source HVAC Project In Existence?
[Kasyan TV] over on YouTube was given a pile of spare parts in reasonably large quantities, some of which were useful and allocated to specific projects, but given the given …read more Continue reading Building A Spot Welder From 500 Junk Capacitors
Many of the hardware orientated hackers among us will likely have been following along with the story of [Stephen Hawes] and the Lumen pick-and-place project but kind of waiting a …read more Continue reading (Re)designing The LumenPnP Tape Feeder
When building electronic assemblies there is quite often the need to construct custom cables to hook things up. It’s all very well if you’re prototyping by hand, or just building …read more Continue reading A Simple Web-Based Wiring Harness Tool
Visual cryptography is one of those unusual cases that kind of looks like a good idea, but it turns out is fraught with problems. The idea is straightforward enough — …read more Continue reading Visual Cryptography For Physical Keyrings