Collaborate Disseminate
Like swimming pools, hot tubs need regular monitoring to ensure their water stays clean and clear. An average person might take a water quality reading once or twice a week …read more Continue reading ESP32 Keeps Track of Hot Tub’s Vital Signs
If you buy any kind of electronic gadget today, chances are it’s powered by a microcontroller with a program stored in its internal flash ROM. That program’s code is often …read more Continue reading A 1970s Mask ROM Microcontroller Spills Its Secrets
If you want to get better at your favorite sport, there’s really no substitute to putting in more training hours. For solo activities like running or cycling that’s simple enough: …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2023: Automated Shuttle Launcher Enables Solo Badminton Practice
If you’re programming on a modern computer, you typically make use of lots of work done by other people. There’s operating systems to abstract away the complexities of modern hardware, …read more Continue reading Tetris Clone Uses 1000 Lines of Code, and Nothing Else
When cheap digital TV dongles enabled radio enthusiasts to set up software defined radio (SDR) systems at almost zero cost, it caused a revolution in the amateur radio world: now …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2023: A Software-Defined Radio With Real Knobs and Switches
Modern life can be stressful. Many of us struggle to balance work, family, exercise, and an ever-growing list of hacking projects, all of which claim our attention during the day. …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2023: Stretch Your Day With This 29-Hour Clock
Although the basic concept of electrostatic attraction has been known since ancient times, it was only in the 17th century that scientists began to systematically investigate electrostatics. One of the …read more Continue reading Electrostatic Generator Project Starts With Molten Sulfur
Like many new technologies, smartwatches needed a few iterations before they became useful enough for the average person. Early examples were too clunky and limited to be of use to …read more Continue reading Mobile Gopher Client Brings Fossil Wrist PDA Online
Although new electric motor types are still being invented, the basic principle of an electric motor has changed little in the past century-and-a-half: a stator and a rotor built of …read more Continue reading Replicating Faraday’s 200-Year-Old Electric Motor
Nixie tubes come in many shapes and sizes, but in only one color: the warm orange glow that makes them so desirable. They don’t usually come in large numbers, either: …read more Continue reading [Dalibor Farný]’s Enormous Nixies Light Up Contemporary Art Museum