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For some power users, the one-hundred-and-something keys on regular keyboards just aren’t enough for their everyday tasks. Macro keypads are a popular way of extending one’s input capabilities, and there …read more Continue reading Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals: The LowPow ShortKeyboard Can Work on Your Desk or Out in the Field
O! What a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive. Continue reading Murder suspect admits she tracked cheating partner with hidden AirTag
[electroSwing] is building a lightweight, battery-powered board to track and measure movement of all kinds, called Tracer. Powered by an ESP32, it has a LSM6DSL 6DoF accelerometer & gyroscope sensor, …read more Continue reading Tracer, A Platform For All Things Movement Logging
[Zhihui Jun] is a name you’re going to want to remember because this Chinese maker has created quite probably one of the most complete open-source robot arms (video in Chinese …read more Continue reading Dummy The Robot Arm Is Not So Dumb
Something like 99% of the people on the road at any given moment will consider themselves an above-average driver, something that’s as statistically impossible as it is easily disproven by …read more Continue reading Annoy Yourself into Better Driving with This Turn Signal Monitor
[Larry Bank]’s Arduino library to print text and graphics on BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) thermal printers has some excellent features, and makes sending wireless print jobs to a number of …read more Continue reading Mini Wireless Thermal Printers Get Arduino Library (and MacOS App)
[jakkra] bought a couple of capacitive touchpads from a Kickstarter a few years ago and recently got around to using them in a project. And what a project it is: …read more Continue reading Gesture-Detecting Macro Keyboard Knows What You Want
If you’re a reader of Hackaday, then you’ve almost certainly encountered an Espressif part. The twin microcontroller families ESP8266 and ESP32 burst onto the scene and immediately became the budget-friendly …read more Continue reading New Part Day: Espressif ESP32-C6
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is everywhere these days. If you fire up a scanner on your phone and walk around the neighborhood, we’d be willing to bet you’d pick up …read more Continue reading A Crash Course on Sniffing Bluetooth Low Energy
We’re no strangers to DIY environmental monitors around these parts, in fact, it seems like that’s one of the most common projects hackers take on when confronted with the power of a modern Internet-connected microcontroller. But among such projects, this …read more
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