Adding WiFi Remote Control to Home Electronics? Be Prepared to Troubleshoot

[Alex] recently gave a Marantz audio amplifier the ability to be remotely-controlled via WiFi by interfacing an ESP32 board to a handy port, but the process highlights how interfacing to …read more Continue reading Adding WiFi Remote Control to Home Electronics? Be Prepared to Troubleshoot→

Automated Mushroom Cultivation Yields Delicious Fried Goodies

[Kyle Gabriel] knows mushrooms, and his years of experience really shine through in his thorough documentation of an automated mushroom cultivation environment, created with off-the-shelf sensors and hardware as much …read more Continue reading Automated Mushroom Cultivation Yields Delicious Fried Goodies→

Ask Hackaday: Are Extruders the Only Feasible Tools for Toolchanging?

Art of 3D printer in the middle of printing a Hackaday Jolly Wrencher logo

Toolchanging in 3D printers is no longer something from the bleeding edge; it’s going mainstream. E3D has a high-quality kit for a toolchanger and motion system, our own Joshua Vasquez …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Are Extruders the Only Feasible Tools for Toolchanging?→

Secret Ingredient for 3D-Printed Circuit Traces: Electroplating

Conductive filament exists, but it takes more than that to 3D print something like a circuit board. The main issue is that traces made from conductive filament are basically resistors; …read more Continue reading Secret Ingredient for 3D-Printed Circuit Traces: Electroplating→