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One easy way to get started on the home automation front is with something that makes a house a home in the first place — lush, green plants. As nice …read more Continue reading 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: Plantpal Is a Friend to You Both
This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up in a new disposable location to give the lowdown on this week’s best hacks. First up in the news — …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 261: Rickroll Toothbrush, Keyboard Cat, Zombie Dialup
When temperatures plummet, there’s nothing like a hot beverage to keep you warmed up inside. [Palingenesis] aka [Tim] sure does fancy a nice cuppa, but only within a certain temperature …read more Continue reading Beverage Coaster Indicates Ideal Drinking Temperature
[STR-Alorman] is into vintage watches, particularly Omega Seamaster quartz numbers from the 1980s. Among his favorites is the Seamaster Calypso III, a precious few of which were created in a …read more Continue reading Fabbing a Fab New Watch Face
The kalimba, or thumb piano, is an easy way to make some music even if you have next to no idea what you’re doing. The only real downside is that …read more Continue reading Thumbs Up To This Pico MIDI Kalimba
Although disco music and dancing may be long dead, the disco ball lives on as a staple of dance parties everywhere. [Tim van de Vathorst] spent a considerable amount of …read more Continue reading RGB LED Disco Ball Reacts to Sound and Color
In the 80s and early 90s, there existed a class of personal computers that are no longer around today — the luggable. Planted firmly between a desktop and a laptop, …read more Continue reading Luggable Cyberdeck Can Still Be a Luggable PC
Sure, we’ve all seen PCB business cards at this point, but what about giving away a full-blown keyboard at meetups and such? That’s just how cost-effective the idawgz32 keyboard is. …read more Continue reading A “Full” Keyboard for $5*
Those who were kids in the 80s may remember a sweet little toy called the Pop Ball. A simple rubber hemisphere, this rubber cup could be turned inside out and …read more Continue reading Recreating the Pop Ball
If you have mischievous children or forgetful elderly in your life, you might want to build a couple of these tiny motion detection alarms to help keep them out of …read more Continue reading Tiny Motion Detection Alarm Does the Trick