Collaborate Disseminate
Sometimes the best inspiration is limitation. The 555 timer does “one thing” — compares a voltage to a couple thresholds and outputs a signal accordingly. It’s two comparators, a voltage …read more Continue reading Congratulations Winners of the 555 Timer Contest!
Raspberry Pi has just announced that they’ll be selling their RP2040 microcontroller chips by the reel, directly to you, at a decent discount. About a year ago, Raspberry Pi released …read more Continue reading New Part News: Raspberry Pi Cuts Out the Middleman
Tom Nardi and I had a good laugh this week on the Podcast when he compared the ECU hacks that enabled turning a VW with steering assist into a self-driver …read more Continue reading Hacking is Hacking
Talking over the year in review on the Podcast, Tom Nardi and I were brainstorming what we thought was the single overarching trend in 2021, and we came up with …read more Continue reading The Year of Owning It
Our two-week-long winter hibernation continues on the Podcast, but we’ll be coming at you next week with guest host Tom Nardi. We’ve got two weeks full of hacks to cover, …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Wishes You Happy New Year
You know how when you’re working on a project, other side quests pop up left and right? You can choose to handle them briefly and summarily, or you can dive …read more Continue reading Remoticon 2021: Uri Shaked Reverses the ESP32 WiFi
The annual meeting of the Chaos Computer Club, Germany’s giant hacker group, is online again this year. While those of us here are sad that we don’t get to see …read more Continue reading rC3 2021: Now Here, Nowhere
[Leandro Felipe] is no stranger to the dirty hack, and this video of his conversion of a blender into a handheld rotary grinding tool is no exception. (Embedded below.) But …read more Continue reading Blender? No, Grinder
A cycloidal gear drive is one of the most mesmerizing reduction gears to watch when it is running, but it’s not all just eye-candy. Cycloidals give decent gearing, are relatively …read more Continue reading Do You Need a Cycloidal Drive?
[Prof. Edwin Hwu] of the Technical University of Denmark wrote in with a call for contributions to special edition of the open-access scientific journal Biosensors. Along the way, he linked …read more Continue reading When Hacking and Biosensing Collide