Collaborate Disseminate
Those of us who have been working from home through video calls for the past year can attest to the rising demand for conferencing gear such as webcams and microphones. …read more Continue reading DIY USB Microphone Seems Overkill; Is Surprisingly In-Depth
This article was meant to be finished up before Christmas, so it’ll be a little late whenever you’re reading it to go and prepare this for the holiday. Regardless, if, like me, should you ever be on the lookout for …read more
What’s the point of smart home automation? To make every day tasks easier, of course! According to [Tomasz Cybulski], that wasn’t the case when he installed IKEA smart lights in his closet. It’s handy to have them in a common switch, in this case a remote control, but having to …read more
Continue reading Making Smart Bulbs Smarter With The Power Of MQTT
While there are loads of impressive and complex projects here on Hackaday, sometimes it’s the simple ones that really speak to us. In this case we were presented with [Isabell Park]’s easy-to-follow instructable on how to build an anti-procrastination device.
On the hardware side there are no surprises, it consists …read more
Continue reading PIR Sensor In A Jar Helps You Keep Your Concentration
Never underestimate the power of nostalgia. In an age when there are more megapixels stuffed in the sensor of a smartphone camera than the average computer display can even represent, why would jagged images from a 20-year-old grayscale camera with pixels numbering in the thousands still grab attention? Maybe what’s …read more
Continue reading The Game Boy Camera, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love The Pixels
Flash is all but gone already, but as we approach the official Adobe end-of-life date on December 31st, it’s picking up traction one last time as people reminisce about the days of Internet past. Back in July, [Jonas Richner] created an impressive website that catalogs not only almost 20 years …read more
Continue reading Flash is Dead, but Its Culture Should Live On
If you’ve been following the Boston Dynamics project Spot, you’ve seen its capabilities and how we’re starting to see it being used in public more since its official release last year. But in a true display of how hobbyist electronics have been evolving and catching up with the big companies …read more
Continue reading The Adorable Robot Spot, Now In Affordable Form
Unsatisfied with the standard fare of soldering practice kits that offer little to no purpose once they’re built, [Jim Heaney] decided to take matters into his own hands and design an easy-to-assemble kit for his class that, once put together, becomes the handiest of tools in any maker’s workbench: a …read more
Continue reading Soldering Practice Kit Remains Useful After Completion
Back in the early 1980s, there was a certain fad in making your computer produce something resembling human speech. There were several hardware solutions to this, adding voices to everything from automated telephone systems to video game consoles, all the way to Steve Jobs using the gimmick to introduce Macintosh …read more
Continue reading 38 Years Later, The Atari 2600 Learns To Speak
Back in the early 1980s, there was a certain fad in making your computer produce something resembling human speech. There were several hardware solutions to this, adding voices to everything from automated telephone systems to video game consoles, all the way to Steve Jobs using the gimmick to introduce Macintosh …read more
Continue reading 38 Years Later, The Atari 2600 Learns To Speak