Collaborate Disseminate
At the end of last week Aquadom, the world’s largest cylindrical aquarium, unexpectedly shattered and caused an emergency as it flooded both the Berlin hotel that housed it and the …read more Continue reading The Physics Behind The Collapse Of a Huge Aquarium
Casting parts in silicone is great, and 3D printing in resin is fantastic for making clean shapes, so it’s natural for an enterprising hacker to want to put the two …read more Continue reading Stop Silicone Cure Inhibition, No Fancy or Expensive Products Required
[Charlyn] wanted to highlight their friends beautiful mug collection, so the Glowy Coaster was born. The coaster is made up of six layers of laser cut acrylic. The top and …read more Continue reading Your Mug Will Like This Glowy Coaster
Retrograde clocks are unique, in that they eschew the normal fully-circular movement for the hands. Instead, the hands merely sweep out a segment of a circular arc, before jumping back …read more Continue reading DIY Retrograde Clock is 3D Printed
Living and working in a remote rain forest may sound idyllic to those currently stuck in bland suburbia, and to be sure it does have plenty of perks. One of …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: Upcycling Acrylic Scraps
When the universe tells you to build a cyberdeck, then build a cyberdeck you must. The lucky [Richard Sutherland] got an email from user-serviceable laptop purveyors Framework about the availability …read more Continue reading Transparent Framedeck is Clearly Capable
Whether in a shop window or mounted to the top of consoles in NASA’s Mission Control Center, edge lit acrylic is a popular choice for making high visibility signs. Partly …read more Continue reading Building an Edge Lit Sign From the Scrap Pile
Everyone loves LED matrices, and even if you can’t find what you like commercially, it’s pretty easy to make just what you want. Need it big? No problem; just order …read more Continue reading Big LED Matrix Becomes Tiny LED Matrix Thanks to Fiber Optics
It’s no secret that we really like circuit sculptures around here, and we never tire of seeing what creative ways people come up with to celebrate the components used to …read more Continue reading Sound and Light Play off Acrylic and Wire in This Engaging Circuit Sculpture
Walls can’t hold [Elijah Cirioli]. The would-be superhero has been busy scaling the sides of buildings using his self-contained vacuum climbers. (Video embedded after the break.) After being inspired by …read more Continue reading Scale Buildings With The Power Of Suction