Author Archives: Mike Szczys

LayerOne InfoSec Conference Returns Next Weekend

Posted on by

This year’s LayerOne conference is May 25-27 in Los Angeles and Hackaday will be there! Hurry and get your ticket now as today is the last day for pre-registration.

As the InfoSec community takes over the Pasadena Hilton next weekend you’ll wish you had a week instead of just three days to take part in all that is offered. There are organized talks and workshops on pen testing, being the bad guy, and DevOps Security. Learn or improve on your lockpicking skills in the Lockpicking Village. The conference hardware badge will be hacking in every direction in the Hardware Village, …read more

Continue reading LayerOne InfoSec Conference Returns Next Weekend→

Retro Computer Badge for Hackaday Belgrade Has Everything You Wished for Back in the Day

Posted on by

The hardware badge for the Hackaday Belgrade conference is a Retro Computer that you wear around your neck. I have one in my hands and it’s truly a work of art. It’s beautiful, it’s fun to play with, and it will be an epic platform for a glorious weekend of badge hacking! Check out the first look video, then join me below as I drill down into the details.

Get your ticket now for Hackaday Belgrade, our premier European hardware conference at the end of this month. It’s a day filled with talks, works, food, fun, and of course everyone …read more

Continue reading Retro Computer Badge for Hackaday Belgrade Has Everything You Wished for Back in the Day→

San Francisco: Let’s Learn to Build Some Robots!

Posted on by

Hone your skills at basic robot building. You’re invited to join Hackaday for a Beginner Robotics Workshop on Saturday, May 12.

For this workshop we’re pairing up with FIRST robotics mentors and students from the Bay Area. FIRST is an international high school robotics competition and you won’t believe what these teams can do. The workshop will start with an overview of the three major parts that go into a robot project: mechanical design, electronic design, and programming. From there, choose one of the three you want to focus on for the afternoon and let the hands-on fun begin as …read more

Continue reading San Francisco: Let’s Learn to Build Some Robots!→

Hackaday Belgrade Schedule Announced

Posted on by

Hackaday Belgrade preparations have now passed the flash point and the hacker village that is set to descend on Serbia in a few weeks grows larger and more awesome by the day. Prepare for a massive data dump on what is in store. But before you go any further, make sure you have a ticket.

What is Hackaday Belgrade and What Comes with a Ticket?

Hackaday Belgrade is the best conference focused on hardware creation that you can find anywhere in Europe. Taking place in Belgrade, Serbia on May 26th, the schedule is packed with talks, workshops, and a hacker …read more

Continue reading Hackaday Belgrade Schedule Announced→

Hard Drive Gives Its Life to Cool 3D Prints

Posted on by

[Mark Rehorst] has been on the hunt for the perfect 3D printer cooling fan and his latest take is a really interesting design. He’s printed an impeller and housing, completing the fan using a hard drive motor to make it spin.

We should take a step back to see where this all began. Many 3D printers us a cooling fan right at the tip of the extruder because the faster you faster you cool the extruded filament, the fewer problems you’ll have with drooping and warping. Often this is done with a small brushless fan mounted right on the print …read more

Continue reading Hard Drive Gives Its Life to Cool 3D Prints→

PCB Take on Stars, Moons, and Ringed Planets is Gold

Posted on by

Remember when PCBs were green and square? That’s the easy default, but most will agree that when you’re going to show off your boards instead of hiding them in a case, it’s worth extra effort to make them beautiful. We’re in a renaissance of circuit board design and the amount of effort being poured into great looking boards is incredible. The good news is that this project proves you don’t have to go nuts to achieve great results. This stars, moons, and planets badge looks superb using just two technical tricks: exposed (plated) copper and non-rectangular board outline.

Don’t take …read more

Continue reading PCB Take on Stars, Moons, and Ringed Planets is Gold→

Workshops Announced For Hackaday Belgrade

Posted on by

Hackaday is hosting a full conference in Belgrade, Serbia, on 26 May. Today we’re excited to announce the workshops that will take place at Hackaday Belgrade. Workshop tickets are available now, but space is extremely limited and we expect these workshops to fill up fast so purchase your ticket right now!

Details of each workshop are listed below. Topics this year include bringing art to your PCB designs, learning the fundamentals of e-textiles, and getting up-to-speed with FPGAs.

You must have a Hackaday Belgrade ticket in order to purchase a workshop ticket. This is our premier European conference, with the …read more

Continue reading Workshops Announced For Hackaday Belgrade→

Fail Of The Week: Casting A Bolt In A 3D-Printed Mold

Posted on by

Here’s a weird topic as a Fail of the Week. [Pete Prodoehl] set out to make a bolt the wrong way just to see if he could. Good for you [Pete]! This is a great way to learn non-obvious lessons and a wonderful conversation starter which is why we’re featuring it here.

The project starts off great with a model of the bolt being drawn up in OpenSCAD. That’s used to create a void in a block which then becomes two parts with pegs that index the two halves perfectly. Now it’s time to do the casting process and this …read more

Continue reading Fail Of The Week: Casting A Bolt In A 3D-Printed Mold→

When Stirling Engines Meet 3D Printers

Posted on by

Let’s face it, everybody wants to build a Stirling engine. They’re refined, and generally awesome. They’re also a rather involved fabrication project which is why you don’t see a lot of them around.

This doesn’t remove all of the complexity, but by following this example 3D printing a Sterling engine is just about half possible. This one uses 3D printing for the frame, mounting brackets, and flywheel. That wheel gets most of its mass from a set of metal nuts placed around the wheel. This simple proof-of-concept using a candle is shown off in the video after the break, where …read more

Continue reading When Stirling Engines Meet 3D Printers→

Up, Up, Up: $2,000 More Seed Funding for Hackaday Prize Entries

Posted on by

Getting a project off the ground often means an up-front investment in parts. Hackaday is upping our efforts to smooth out that obstacle for those who want to Build Something That Matters. Seed funding for the 2018 Hackaday Prize is simple, enter your Open Hardware design, share it far and wide so that a lot of people will show their admiration with a ‘like’ on the project page. If you’re in the Prize competition, you get a dollar for each like to help jump-start the build phase. If you haven’t entered, you get to encourage and reward the projects that …read more

Continue reading Up, Up, Up: $2,000 More Seed Funding for Hackaday Prize Entries→