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If you want to track a snail, you need a tiny instrumentation package. How do you create an entire data acquisition system, including sensors, memory, data processing and a power …read more Continue reading Snails, Sensors, and Smart Dust: The Michigan Micro Mote
The steampunk aesthetic can take on many forms, and while pipes, valves, and boilers can look great, having complicated machinery with lots of moving parts really makes your project shine. …read more Continue reading Maakrapu is a Buggy Drawn by a Five-Legged Beast
Tic-tac-toe (or “Noughts and Crosses”) is a game simple enough to implement in any computer system: indeed it’s often used in beginner’s programming courses. A more challenging project, and arguably …read more Continue reading TICO Robot Plays Tic-Tac-Toe by Drawing on a Tiny Whiteboard
Here at Hackaday we can never get enough of odd clocks, and we’re delighted to see [Dan O’Shea]’s creation called the Wifi-Telnet-FPGA-NTSC Drunk Wall Clock. That mouthful is an accurate …read more Continue reading Drunk Wall Clock Uses Convoluted Circuits to Display Time
For anyone playing the stock market, and perhaps even more so for those investing in cryptocurrencies, watching the value of your portfolio go up and down can be a stressful …read more Continue reading Banksy-Like Stock Tracker Shreds Your Money When the Market’s Down
While internet-connected devices can be very useful around the house, and it is pretty cool to be able to monitor your dishwasher from half a world away, it’s important to …read more Continue reading Hacking a Robot Vacuum to Write a Replacement App
Anyone who’s ever had to deal with the aftermath of a leaking battery knows how much damage such a failure can cause. Degrading batteries leak corrosive chemicals that eat away …read more Continue reading Massive Cleaning Effort Saves Acid-Drenched Atari
If you’re like us, you probably don’t finish a typical hardware project in one sitting. This doesn’t have to be a problem if you’re fortunate enough to have a dedicated …read more Continue reading IKEA Wardrobe Holds Entire Hardware Workspace
Single-board computers have been around a long time: today you might be using a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino, or an ESP32, but three decades ago you might find yourself programming …read more Continue reading Motorola 68000 SBC Runs Again with a Raspberry Pi on top
Today you might choose run Windows, Linux, MacOS or some other OS on your computer. Back in the 1980s however, you generally had little choice: a certain home computer came …read more Continue reading CRISS CP/M Provides Modern Hardware for a Classic OS