70 DIY Synths on One Webpage
If you want to dip your toes into the deep, deep water of synth DIY but don’t know where to start, [Atarity] has just the resource for you. He’s compiled …read more Continue reading 70 DIY Synths on One Webpage
Author Archives: Elliot Williams
Contagious Ideas
We ran a story about a wall-mounted plotter bot this week, Mural. It’s a simple, but very well implemented, take on a theme that we’ve seen over and over again …read more Continue reading Contagious Ideas
Your Badminton Racket Needs Restringing? There’s a DIY Machine for That
We don’t often get our badminton rackets restrung, but if we did, [kuokuo702]’s PicoBETH project would be where we’d turn. This is a neat machine build for a very niche …read more Continue reading Your Badminton Racket Needs Restringing? There’s a DIY Machine for That
2024 Hackaday Supercon Talk: Killing Mosquitoes with Freaking Drones, and Sonar
Suppose that you want to get rid of a whole lot of mosquitoes with a quadcopter drone by chopping them up in the rotor blades. If you had really good …read more Continue reading 2024 Hackaday Supercon Talk: Killing Mosquitoes with Freaking Drones, and Sonar
“Unnecessary” Automation of a DIY Star Lamp Build
It all started with a gift idea: a star-field lamp in the form of a concrete sphere with lightpipes poking out where the stars are, lit up from the inside …read more Continue reading “Unnecessary” Automation of a DIY Star Lamp Build
Building the Simplest Atomic Force Microscope
Doing it yourself may not get you the most precise lab equipment in the world, but it gets you a hands-on appreciation of the techniques that just can’t be beat. …read more Continue reading Building the Simplest Atomic Force Microscope
Generative Art Machine Does it One Euro at a Time
[Niklas Roy] obviously had a great time building this generative art cabinet that puts you in the role of the curator – ever-changing images show on the screen, but it’s …read more Continue reading Generative Art Machine Does it One Euro at a Time
Thanks for Hackaday Europe!
We just got back from Hackaday Europe last weekend, and we’re still coming down off the high. It was great to be surrounded by so many crazy, bright, and crazy-bright …read more Continue reading Thanks for Hackaday Europe!
FlyingCam is a Sweet DIY Webcam on a Stick
Imagine you want to monitor a pot on the stove to see if it’s boiling over for just a few minutes, but you don’t want to have a dedicated permanent …read more Continue reading FlyingCam is a Sweet DIY Webcam on a Stick
Physical Computing Used to be a Thing
In the early 2000s, the idea that you could write programs on microcontrollers that did things in the physical world, like run motors or light up LEDs, was kind of …read more Continue reading Physical Computing Used to be a Thing