Three-Wheeled Turret Car Looks Like It Should Be Orbiting Thunderdome

In a post-apocalyptic world, this is the hacker you want rebuilding society. He’s showing off a three-wheeled go-kart that pivots the cockpit as it steers. A hand crank mounted at the center of the vehicle pivots each of the three wheels in place, but keeps the driver facing forwards with …read more

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Today at Remoticon: Sunday Live Events

Hackaday Remoticon is a worldwide virtual conference happening now!

  • Everyone is invited to hang out in Remoticon Public Chat
  • Individual workshop chat rooms are open to all, visit the Remoticon Wayfinder, choose a workshop and enter the public chat
  • Ticket holders will find links to their registered event in the

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The BYTE is the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 Hackaday Prize

The BYTE, an open-source mouth-actuated input device for people with physical challenges has just been named the Grand Prize winner of the 2020 Hackaday Prize. The award for claiming the top place and title of “Best All Around” in this global engineering initiative is $50,000. Five other top winners and …read more

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Today at Remoticon: Saturday Live Events

Hackaday Remoticon is a worldwide virtual conference happening now!

  • Everyone is invited to hang out in the Hack Chat
  • Individual workshop chat rooms are open to all, visit the Remoticon Wayfinder, choose a workshop and enter the public chat
  • Ticket holders will find links to their registered event in the

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Hackaday Podcast 092: Orbital Data by Mail, Human Flight on Styrofoam Wings, and Seven Shades of E-Ink

Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys catch the best hacks you may have missed. This week we look at the new Raspberry Pi 400, use computer vision to get ready for geeky Christmas, and decypher a negative-space calendar. We get an answer to the question of what happens if …read more

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Today at Remoticon: Bring-a-Hack

Last Chance Tickets:

General admission tickets for this weekend’s Hackaday Remoticon are only available for two more hours! These are free, but you need to have one to get in on tonight’s Bring-a-hack.

Today’s Live Events:

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Hackaday Podcast 091: Louisville Exploder, Generating Japanese Joinery, Relay Retrocomputer Rally, and Chop the Robopup

Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams dig through the greatest hacks that ought not be missed this week. There’s a wild one that flexes engineering skills instead of muscles to beat the homerun distance record with an explosively charged bat. A more elegant use of those engineering chops is …read more

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Alfred Jones and Kipp Bradford to Deliver Keynotes at Remoticon Next Week

There’s just one week left until Hackaday Remoticon, our online gathering in place of our traditional in-person conference during this time of social distancing. Joining the more than 20 hands-on workshops that make up the bulk of Remoticon, we’re excited to announce the two keynote speakers who will be taking …read more

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AMD Acquires Xilinx for $35 Billion

News this morning that AMD has reached an agreement to acquire Xilinx for $35 Billion in stock. The move to gobble up the leading company in the FPGA industry should come as no surprise for many reasons. First, the silicon business is thick in the age of mergers and acquisitions, …read more

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