Collaborate Disseminate
Taking his digital information into the real-world, [Davide Gironi] has built his own note transcriber from a point-of-sale receipt printer and an ESP8266.
You’ve seen these receipt printers at the order window of restaurants. A server puts in an order …read more
Continue reading ESP8266-Powered Receipt Printer Puts RESTful API on Dead Trees
Some people order their raw materials from a factory, missing out on 99% of the fun… or suffering, we’re not sure which. To make that call, you need to look in on the process [IllyriaD] used to collect magnetite sand …read more
Continue reading DIY Furnace Smelts Magnetite Sand Into an Impressive Chef’s Knife
What a time to be alive when you can find inexpensive microcontrollers that come with programmable(ish) logic that can operate independently of the system clock. [David Johnson-Davies] recently built a proof of concept using the Configurable Custom Logic (CCL) that …read more
Continue reading AVR Configurable Custom Logic as a Frequency Divider at 4x Chip’s Clock Speed
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys travel through the greatest hacks the week had on offer. Charge up your ice skates (literally) by adding spiked electric motors to push you across the frozen pond. If that’s too cold for …read more
[Sean Hodgins] is out with his latest video and it’s a piece of art in itself. Beyond a traditional project show and tell, he’s spun together a cyberpunk vibe to premiere the volumetric display he built from an OLED stackup. …read more
Continue reading Volumetric OLED Display Shows Bladerunner Vibe, Curious Screen Tech
What are we gonna’ do with all this data? Let’s make it something fun! That’s the point of the just-launched Data Loggin’ contest. Do something clever to automatically log a data set and display it in an interesting way. Three …read more
You know those bottle fillers at schools and airports? What if you had one of those at home?
We know what you’re going to say: “My fridge has one of those!” Well ours doesn’t, and even though [Chris Courses’] fridge …read more
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams gab about all of the geeky things. We had a delightful time watching NASA bring Perseverance down to the Red planet. In Kristina’s words, we pour one out for Fry’s Electronics. And then …read more
Early Friday morning a Boeing 777 performed an emergency landing in Moscow, according to Russian media. The Interfax news agency cites an anonymous source who claims the landing was caused by an engine failure on a flight from Hong Kong …read more
Marvelously conceived and exquisitely executed, this huge ball made up of hexagon tiles combines the best of blinky LEDs and animatronics into one amorphic ball.
The creation of [Nicholas Perillo] of Augmentl along with [MindBuffer], full details of …read more
Continue reading “MORPH” LED Ball is a There-Is-No-Spoon, Reality-Bending Art Installation