Collaborate Disseminate
A good source of hackable home automation parts has come for a while in the form of inexpensive modules offered by large retailers such as Lidl, or IKEA. They’re readily …read more Continue reading A Look inside IKEA’s Vallhorn Motion Sensor Teardown
Conventional wisdom has it that the solid state era in electronics began in 1948 with the invention of the transistor, or if you wish to split hairs, with the 1930s …read more Continue reading A Hundred Year Old Solid State Amplifier
It’s fair to say that climate change is perhaps the greatest challenge facing our planet, and while much attention is directed towards solutions to the problems it presents, perhaps there’s …read more Continue reading Unconventional Oil Production, All You Need to Know
It’s not often that the passing of a medium sized company on an industrial estate on a damp and soggy former airfield in southern England is worthy of a Hackaday …read more Continue reading Runway-to-Space No More, Reaction Engines Cease Trading
Aluminium drinks cans make a great source of thin sheet metal which can be used for all manner of interesting projects, but it’s safe to say that retrieving a sheet …read more Continue reading From Cans To Sheet Metal, With Ease
When we saw [Max.K]’s automatic NiMh battery charger float past in the Hackaday tips line, it brought to mind a charger that might be automatic in the sense that any …read more Continue reading The Automatic Battery Charger You Never Knew You Needed
The world of the overclocker contains many arcane tweaks to squeeze the last drops of performance from a computer, many of which require expert knowledge to understand. Happily for Raspberry …read more Continue reading A Free Speed Boost For Your Pi 5
Many Hackaday readers have an interest in retro technology, but we are not the only group who scour the flea markets. Alongside us are the collectors, whose interest is as …read more Continue reading When Transistor Count Mattered
Making a microcontroller speak to a VGA monitor has been a consistent project in our sphere for years, doing the job for which an IBM PC of yore required a …read more Continue reading Arduino VGA, The Old Fashioned Way
Back when CD-Rs were the thing, there were CD burner drives which would etch images in the unoccupied areas of a CD-R. These so-called LightScribe drives were a novelty of …read more Continue reading It’s Like LightScribe, But For Floppies!