Collaborate Disseminate
This week Elliot Williams was joined by fellow Europe-based Hackaday staffer Jenny List, to record the Hackaday Podcast as the dusk settled on a damp spring evening. On the agenda …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Ep 318: DIY Record Lathe, 360 Degree LIDAR, and 3D Printing Innovation Lives!
In the 2000s, the DVD industry was concerned about piracy, in particular the threat to their business model presented by counterfeit DVDs and downloadable movies. Their response was a campaign …read more Continue reading You Wouldn’t Steal a Font…
A bicycle is perhaps one of the most repairable pieces of equipment one can own — no matter what’s wrong with it, and wherever you are on the planet, you’ll …read more Continue reading A Bicycle is Abandonware Now? Clever Hack Rescues Dead Light
Drumboy and Synthgirl from Randomwaves are a a pair of compact electronic instruments, a drum machine and a synthesiser. They are commercial products which were launched on Kickstarter, and if …read more Continue reading Open Source Commercial Synthesisers You Will Love
No doubt many readers have at times wished to try their hand at blacksmithing, but it’s fair to say that acquiring an anvil represents quite the hurdle. For anyone not …read more Continue reading A Blacksmith Shows Us How To Choose An Anvil
The ESP32 series of microprocessors with their cheap high-power cores and built-in wireless networking have brought us a wide variety of impressive projects over the years. We’re not sure we’ve …read more Continue reading A Cheap Yellow Display Makes A Video Walkie Talkie
An occasional series of mine on these pages has been Daily Drivers, in which I try out operating systems from the point of view of using them for my everyday …read more Continue reading Jenny’s (Not Quite) Daily Drivers: Raspberry Pi 1
Sound hardware has been built into PC motherboards for so long now it’s difficult to remember the days when a sound card was an expensive add-on peripheral. By the mid …read more Continue reading Repairing Classic Sound Cards
There are some ideas which someone somewhere has to try. Take [Uri Tuchman]’s foot mouse. It’s a computer mouse for foot operation, but it’s not just a functional block. Instead …read more Continue reading A Mouse, No Hands!
If you paid attention to advertising in 1980s Britain, you were never far from Economy 7. It was the magic way to heat your house for less, using storage heaters …read more Continue reading Farewell Economy 7, a Casualty of the Long Wave Switch-Off