Collaborate Disseminate
What’s sixty feet (18.29 meters for the rest of the world) across and superconducting? The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), and probably not much else. The last parts of the …read more Continue reading What’s Sixty Feet Across and Superconducting?
At Hackaday, it is always clock time, and clock time is a great time to check in with [shiura], whose 3D Printed Perpetual Calendar Clock is now at Version 2. …read more Continue reading Printed Perpetual Calendar Clock Contains Clever Cams
![Benchy, printed upside down on [Josh's] Core R-Theta printer.](https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/upside-down-benchy-nonplaner-e1745086286623.jpg?w=800)
When we say non-planar slicing is for the birds, we mean [Joshua Bird], who demonstrates the versatility of his new non-planar S4-Slicer by printing a Benchy upside down with the …read more Continue reading Non-planar Slicing is for the Birds
Will a 486 run Crysis? No, of course not. Will it run a large language model (LLM)? Given the huge buildout of compute power to do just that, many people …read more Continue reading Will it Run Llama 2? Now DOS Can
How far can you stretch a measuring tape before it buckles? The answer probably depends more on the tape than the user, but it does show how sturdy the coiled …read more Continue reading Robot Picks Fruit and Changes Light Bulbs with Measuring Tape
When is a crystal not a crystal? When it’s a quasi-crystal, a paradoxical form of metal recently found in some 3D printed metal alloys by [A.D. Iams et al] at …read more Continue reading D20-shaped Quasicrystal Makes High-Strength Alloy Printable
We’re suckers here for projects that let you see the unseeable, and [Ayden Wardell Aerospace] provides that on a budget with their $30 Schlieren Imaging Setup. The unseeable in question …read more Continue reading Budget Schlieren Imaging Setup Uses 3D Printing to Reveal the Unseen
If we asked you to name Alexander Graham Bell’s greatest invention, you would doubtless say “the telephone”; it’s probably the only one of his many, many inventions most people could …read more Continue reading Replica of 1880 Wireless Telephone is All Mirrors, No Smoke
Spectroscopy seems simple: split a beam of light into its constituent wavelengths with a prism or diffraction grating, and measure the intensity of each wavelength. The devil is in the …read more Continue reading DIY scanning spectrometer is a bright idea
There are no shortage of CNC machines in the DIY space these days, but sometimes you just need to do things your own way. That’s what [Chris Borges] decided when …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Milling Machine is Solid as a Rock