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Surface conductors on vacuum formed parts appear in many hacks, from cosplay armor to 3D touch pads and smart objects. But making them has always been painful. Either they had …read more Continue reading Add Conductive Traces On Vacuum Formed Plastic With 3D Printing
Most of us either own or have used a laptop at some point. For traveling, as a student, or even for browsing Hackaday on the couch in front of the …read more Continue reading Desktop Performance In A Custom Mac Laptop
When it comes to 3D printed builds, they’re often limited in size due to the small build volume of most printers. However, [Ivan Miranda] has always gone big with his …read more Continue reading Upgraded 3D Printed Tank Gets Better Drivetrain and Controls
Thermoplastics are great, because you can melt them down and reform them into whatever you like. This is ably demonstrated by [The Q] by recycling old soda bottles into usable …read more Continue reading Recycling Soda Bottles Into Filament To Print Smaller Soda Bottles
For many years now a source for some of the smallest and cheapest home made CNC mechanisms has been the seemingly never-ending supply of surplus CD and DVD-ROM drives. The …read more Continue reading Mini Linear Actuators From DVD Drive Parts
Perhaps the humble block and tackle — multiple parallel pulleys to reduce the effort of lifting — is not such a common sight as it once was in this age …read more Continue reading A 3D-Printed Block And Tackle For Those Annoying Lifts
With laptops having become a commodity item and single-board computers having conquered the lower end for our community, building a PC for yourself is no longer the rite of passage …read more Continue reading 3D Print An Entire PC Case
While Mazda has made some incredible advances in fuel efficient gasoline engines over the past few years, their design group seems to have fallen asleep at the wheel in the …read more Continue reading Custom Keyfob Fixes Mazda Design Mistake
This wind tunnel is a pile of junk and we love it! When making science and engineering accessible to kids, it really helps to show that it doesn’t require a …read more Continue reading Perfecting Paper Planes Peering Past Perspex Portals
When it comes to building quirky clocks that also double up as beautiful animated sculptures, [Ekaggrat Singh Kalsi] is a master par excellence. His latest offering is the Getula, a time piece inspired by an old, discarded bicycle chain, while …read more