Skull Lamp Illuminates the Cyberpunk Future

A prosthetic eye anodized green around the edges with a yellow and blue "iris" surrounding an LED center.

Cyberpunk is full of characters with cool body mods, and [bsmachinist] has made a prosthetic eye flashlight (TikTok) that is both useful and looks futuristic. [via Reddit] [bsmachinist] has been …read more Continue reading Skull Lamp Illuminates the Cyberpunk Future

Plumbing Valves as Heavy Duty Analog Inputs

A diagram showing an LED on the left, a lever-style plumbing valve in the center, and an Arduino Uno on the right.

Input devices that can handle rough and tumble environments aren’t nearly as varied as their more fragile siblings. [Alastair Aitchison] has devised a brilliant way of detecting inputs from plumbing …read more Continue reading Plumbing Valves as Heavy Duty Analog Inputs

2022 Cyberdeck Contest: QAZ Personal Terminal

A widescreen slate-style cyberdeck with a small keyboard sits in front of a cassette deck stereo. Headphones sit to the left of the deck and an old Casio calculator watch is to the right.

The slabtop form factor has had a resurgence in the cyberdeck community, and [Greg Leo] has designed the QAZ Personal Terminal to be about as small as a slabtop could …read more Continue reading 2022 Cyberdeck Contest: QAZ Personal Terminal

2022 Cyberdeck Contest: Keezyboost40 is a Cyberdeck Masquerading as a Keyboard

An ortholinear keyboard with predominantly blank white keycaps. There are two red keycaps on the bottom outside corners. The center of the keyboard houses a large LCD in portrait orientation on a red PCB.

There’s something to be said for über-powerful cyberdecks, but there’s also a certain appeal to less powerful decks squeezed into a tiny form factor. [Christian Lo] has designed a cyberdeck …read more Continue reading 2022 Cyberdeck Contest: Keezyboost40 is a Cyberdeck Masquerading as a Keyboard

Hackaday Prize 2022: A Not-So-Smart Spot Welder

An exploded diagram of the spot welder. Shown are the capacitor bank, trigger, 12 V relay, DC power input, power out, step up converter, voltmeter, industrial SCR module, and capacitor bank.

DIY spot welders often use high-powered components that can be a bit frightening, given the potential for dangerous malfunctions. [Wojciech “Adalbert” J.] designed his capacitive discharge spot welder to be …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: A Not-So-Smart Spot Welder

Poly Keyboard has Screens in Every Key

A left-hand side unit of a split keyboard. The keys are black with RGB lighting and the key legends are displayed on small OLED screens in each key.

Aspiring polyglots can be stymied by differing keyboard layouts and character sets when switching between languages. [Thomas Pollak]’s Poly Keyboard circumvents this problem by putting a screen in every key …read more Continue reading Poly Keyboard has Screens in Every Key

This Headboard Contains an Artificial Sun

A futuristic bed headboard has a continuous light with a hexagonal grid overlaid on top of it that wraps around the bed, much like an ovoid MRI machine.

Despite the proliferation of artificial lighting, humans are still highly dependent on sunlight for regulation of our circadian rhythms. Accordingly, [Sector 07] has built a futuristic headboard that can help …read more Continue reading This Headboard Contains an Artificial Sun