Collaborate Disseminate
OK, so maybe [satanistik] is overreaching with his project title “Save the Coffee, Save the World” but keeping an otherwise working coffee machine out of the landfill by hacking around …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: Saving the World, One Brew at a Time
Dan Maloney and I were talking about the chess robot arm that broke a child’s finger during the podcast, and it turns out that we both have extreme respect for …read more Continue reading Demonstrate Danger, Safely
Following along with the 2022 Hackaday Prize theme on building a better world by doing what we all do best – hacking together solutions – the fourth round of the …read more Continue reading 2022 Hackaday Prize: Make Your World More Disaster Resistant, More Engaged
A beautiful chapter of the history of invention in the United States ended with a fire in 1880. Well, the fire took place in 1877, but the wheels of government …read more Continue reading Patents and the Missing Museum
Well, that was fast! Last week, we wrote about a video by [Norbert Heinz] where he called out the Ortur laser engravers for apparently using the GPL-licensed grbl firmware without …read more Continue reading Ortur Laser Will Go Open-Source
After two years in remote mode, we’re very excited to announce that this year’s Hackaday Supercon will be coming back, live! Join us Nov. 4th, 5th, and 6th in sunny Pasadena, …read more Continue reading The 2022 Hackaday Supercon is On! And the Call for Proposals is Open
We here at Hackaday are super-duper proponents of open source. Software, hardware, or firmware, we like to be able to see it, learn from it, modify it, and make it …read more Continue reading Fighting the Good Fight
The Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals Contest wrapped up last week, and our judges have been hard at work sifting through their favorite projects. And this was no easy task …read more Continue reading Overwhelmed by Odd Inputs: The Contest Winners and More
On vacation, we went to see a laser show – one of the old school variety that combines multiple different lasers of many different colors together into a single beam, …read more Continue reading When is One Pixel Cooler than Millions?
We’re suckers for alternative data transmission methods, and [Georgi Gerganov]’s ggwave made us smile. At its core, it’s doing what the phone modems of old used to do – sending …read more Continue reading GGWave Sings the Songs of Your Data