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Eyes on the Prize!

Posted on April 2, 2022 by Elliot Williams

This year’s Hackaday Prize is off to a roaring start. And that’s fantastic, because this year’s challenge is a particularly important one: reducing mankind’s footprint on the earth through better …read more Continue reading Eyes on the Prize!→

Posted in 2022 Hackaday Prize, contests, newsletter

Enter the 2022 Hackaday Prize and Help Save the World

Posted on March 29, 2022 by Elliot Williams

The biggest challenge facing humanity over the next century is how to do as much or more, with less environmental impact. Reducing our collective footprint on the planet is of …read more Continue reading Enter the 2022 Hackaday Prize and Help Save the World→

Posted in 2022 Hackaday Prize, contests, Featured

Inspiring Hacks, Unfinished Hacks

Posted on March 26, 2022 by Elliot Williams

We got a tip this week, and the tipster’s comments were along the lines of “this doesn’t look like it’s a finished work yet, but I think it’s pretty cool …read more Continue reading Inspiring Hacks, Unfinished Hacks→

Posted in finishing, Hackaday Columns, inspiration, proof of concept, Rant, rants

High Noon for Daylight Savings Time

Posted on March 25, 2022 by Elliot Williams

The US Senate has approved the “Sunshine Protection Act”, a bill to make Daylight Saving time the default time and do away with the annual time changes. While I can …read more Continue reading High Noon for Daylight Savings Time→

Posted in daylight saving time, economics, Interest, Original Art, policy, Rant, rants, sundial

You Draw It, CNC Cuts It

Posted on March 24, 2022 by Elliot Williams

[Jamie] aka [vector76] hit us with a line-tracing plugin for OctoPrint that cuts out whatever 2D shape you draw on a piece of wood. The plugin lets you skip the …read more Continue reading You Draw It, CNC Cuts It→

Posted in cnc hacks, gcode, Octoprint, opencv, path planning, webcam

Old School Mechanical Pong Still Amazes

Posted on March 23, 2022 by Elliot Williams

[Tom], of the YouTube channel ThingsTomLike, found a very sweet little mechanical Pong clone at a thrift store. It came in broken, but in only fifteen minutes of your time, …read more Continue reading Old School Mechanical Pong Still Amazes→

Posted in classic hacks, games, Lightbulb, linkages, mechanical design, pong

Tune Your Dish Antenna Like a Pro

Posted on March 22, 2022 by Elliot Williams

It’s a problem we all have at one time or another: your five-meter radio astronomy dish gets out of calibration and you don’t have a ridiculously expensive microwave holography rig …read more Continue reading Tune Your Dish Antenna Like a Pro→

Posted in dish, laser rangefinder, radio hacks, tool hacks | Tagged Satellite

Impedance Mismatch

Posted on March 19, 2022 by Elliot Williams

There are a few classic physics problems that it can really help to have a mental map of. One is, of course, wave propagation. From big-wave surfing, through loudspeaker positioning, …read more Continue reading Impedance Mismatch→

Posted in Hackaday Columns, impedance, mismatch, Music, rants | Tagged Physics

Our Favorite Things: Binary Search

Posted on March 16, 2022 by Elliot Williams

You might not think that it would be possible to have a favorite optimization algorithm, but I do. And if you’re well-versed in the mathematical art of hill climbing, you …read more Continue reading Our Favorite Things: Binary Search→

Posted in adc, algorithms, binary search, dac, Hackaday Columns, lifehacks, math, rants

Make it Compatible

Posted on March 12, 2022 by Elliot Williams

I’m probably as guilty as anyone of reinventing the wheel for a subpart of a project. Heck, sometimes I just feel like working on a wheel design. But if that’s …read more Continue reading Make it Compatible→

Posted in gcode, Hackaday Columns, languages, rants, scratching itch, standards, wall plotter

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