Collaborate Disseminate
We’ve been going on at length in this space about the death spiral that AM radio seems to be in, particularly in the automotive setting. Car makers have begun the …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 14, 2024
We’ve heard a ton of stories over the years about abandoned technology — useful widgets, often cloud-based, that attracted an early and enthusiastic following, only to have the company behind …read more Continue reading Hacking Headaches: Keeping a Neurostimulator Working
By now you’ve all seen the tiny LEGO brick with a working screen in it. The work of one [James “Ancient” Brown], it was truly a masterpiece of miniaturization and …read more Continue reading DOOM Ported to a Single LEGO Brick
Well, we guess it had to happen eventually — Ford is putting plans in place to make its vehicles capable of self-repossession. At least it seems so from a patent …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: March 5, 2023
It’s always great when we get a chance to follow up on a previous project with more information, or further developments. So we’re happy that [“Ancient” James Brown] just dropped a …read more Continue reading More Detail on That Fantastic Lego OLED Brick
At their best, laptops are a compromise design. Manufacturers go to great lengths to make the slimmest, lightest, whatever-est laptops possible, and the engineering that goes into doing so is …read more Continue reading Laptop USB-C Charging Hack Lets You Leave the Brick at Home
Dealing with breakdowns is certainly nothing new for drivers; plenty of us have had our ride die in mid-flight, and experienced the tense moment when it happens in traffic. But …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 26, 2021
What if building an emergency battery were as easy as painting conductive plastic onto bricks, stacking them, and charging them up? Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have done just that — they’ve created supercapacitors by modifying regular old red bricks from various big-box hardware stores.
The bricks are …read more
Have you ever needed to boot a shoe that was a brick? Owners of Nike’s $350 “self-lacing” trainers say they have. Continue reading Nike’s $350 “Back to the Future” trainers crash, have feet of brick
There are a great many technologies we use to display information every day. We’re all familiar with plasma displays and LCDs, and then there’s more esoteric hardware like the split flap displays on municipal buses and around train stations. However, Breakfast have been working on something that turns architectural features …read more
Continue reading What Happens When You Cross A Brick With a Pixel?