Collaborate Disseminate
It’s with sadness that we note the passing at the age of 94 of the long-time Phillips engineer Lou Ottens, who is best known as the originator of the Compact …read more Continue reading RIP Lou Ottens, Developer Of The Compact Cassette And More
Here at Hackaday, we pride ourselves on bringing you the freshest of hacks, preferably as soon as we find out about them. Thanks to the sheer volume of cool hacks out there, though, we do miss one occasionally, like this e-waste horizontal CNC mill that we just found out about. …read more
Continue reading Mini CNC Mill Goes Horizontal to Reuse CD Drives
If you write software, chances are you’ve come across Continuous Integration, or CI. You might never have heard of it – but you wonder what all the ticks, badges and mysterious status icons are on open-source repositories you find online. You might hear friends waxing lyrical about the merits of …read more
Continue reading Continuous Integration: What It Is And Why You Need It
CDs were a great advancement in audio quality when they were first put on the market. There’s no vinyl-style degradation of the medium if it’s played over and over, and there’s no risk of turning them into a giant pile of ribbon while rewinding like a cassette tape. The one …read more
Continue reading Creating A Sonic Landscape With Glitching CD Player
The Compact Disc is 40 years old, and for those of us who remember its introduction it still has that sparkle of a high-tech item even as it slides into oblivion at the hands of streaming music services.
If we could define a moment at which consumers moved from analogue …read more
This week, Keith and Paul discuss what the difference is between Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps! Agile is focused on processed, highlighting change, all while accelerating delivery. CI/CD focuses on software-defined life cycles, highlighting tools, all that … Continue reading Agile vs. DevOps – Application Security Weekly #18
The next great advancement in homebrew electronics is an easy way to turn copper clad board into functional circuit boards. This has been done since the 60s with etch resist pens, sheets of etch resist rub-on transfers, the ever-popular photocopy and clothes iron, and now with small CNC mills. It’s still a messy, slow, and expensive process. [johnowhitaker] and [esot.eric] are trying to solve the latter of these problems with a mini PCB printer made out of DVD drives.
Playing around with the guts of a DVD drive is something [john] and [eric] have been doing for a while now, …read more
