Collaborate Disseminate
LEGO bricks might look simplistic, but did you know there’s an actual science behind their sizes? Enter LDUs — LEGO Draw Units — the minuscule measurement standard that allows those …read more Continue reading LDU Decoded: The Untold Tale of LEGO Dimensions
Christmas: a good time to broach a topic of hope. We’re talking Esperanto. This language that spurred the hope it one day could hack the barriers between people, eliminating war …read more Continue reading Esperanto: The Language That Hoped to Unite the World
You wouldn’t typically associate graphing calculators with artificial intelligence, but hacker [KermMartian] recently made it happen. The innovative project involved running a neural network directly on a TI-84 Plus CE …read more Continue reading Going Digital: Teaching a TI-84 Handwriting Recognition
Rope-climbing robots are the stuff of engineering dreams. As kids, didn’t we all clutter our family home with constructions of towers and strings – Meccano, or Lego – to have …read more Continue reading Crawler Challenge: Building Rope-Traversing Robots
Each Christmas, [Adam Anderson], [Daniel Quach], and [Johan Wheeler] (meanwhile going by ‘the Janky Jingle Crew’)—set themselves the challenge of outdoing their previous creations. Last year’s CH32 Fireplace brought an …read more Continue reading Rudolph’s Sleigh on a North Pole PCB
Among us Hackaday writers, there are quite a few enthusiasts for retro artifacts – and it gets even better when they’re combined in an unusual way. So, when we get …read more Continue reading Back to the Future of Texting: SMS on a Panasonic Typewriter
When it comes to aviation curiosities, few machines captivate the imagination like the Fairey Rotodyne. This British hybrid aircraft was a daring attempt to combine helicopter and fixed-wing efficiency into …read more Continue reading Versatile, yet Grounded: The Rotodyne Revisited
Playing Star Wars Outlaws sparked an idea with [3DSage]: why not recreate the game’s wrist communicator as a functioning gadget? Inspired by the relatively simplistic design, he and his friend …read more Continue reading Walkie Talkies, Jedi Style: Building a Communicator
London, Ontario college student [Victoria Korhonen] has captured the attention of tech enthusiasts and miniaturization lovers with her creation of what might be the world’s smallest arcade machine. Standing just …read more Continue reading Tiny PONG, Big Ambitions: World’s Smallest Arcade
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Ever wondered how it feels to have the Sorting Hat decide your fate? [Will Dana] wanted to find out, so he conjured a bit of Hogwarts magic, and crafted a …read more Continue reading From Felt to Fate: Building Your Own Sorting Hat