Collaborate Disseminate
It’s that time of year again — the 2022 Hackaday Prize has officially launched, and we’re excited to see what it turns out. This year’s theme is “Sustainability, Resilience, and …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: April 3, 2022
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 viewed from the far future, the early years of the 21st century will probably be seen as the end of a short era in human technological development. In the …read more Continue reading The End of the Electromechanical Era
[Bart Schroder] was busy designing high voltage variable speed motor drives and was lamenting the inability of a standard scope to visualise the waveforms around the switch transistors. This is …read more Continue reading Isolated Oscilloscope Design Process Shows How It’s Done
Building a good quality machine shop may seem to present a chicken-and-egg problem, at least for anyone not willing to mortgage their home for the money needed to buy all …read more Continue reading Beginning the Machine Shop Journey with a DIY CNC
When you think about it, for most of human history we’ve been a pretty slow bunch. At any time before about 150 years ago, if you were moving faster than …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Discovering Aerodynamics with the Chrysler Airflow
One of the things that makers sometimes skip over is the design of the project that they’re creating. Some of us don’t do any design at all, we just pants …read more Continue reading Design an Electronic Catan Board in a Day
Confluence, Atlassian’s wiki-like collaborative workspace, has been around for over 15 years and is often a core knowledge-sharing tool for the companies that implement it. But for the most part, Confluence is a business tool and looks like it, with walls of text and the occasional graph, table or image. But user expectations have changed […] Continue reading Atlassian peps up Confluence with new graphical design features
I got a relatively inexpensive 6040 CNC machine, and have been spending most weekends making the thing work, and then cutting stuff, learning the toolchain, and making subsequent improvements. Probably …read more Continue reading Balanced Design and How to Know When to Quit Optimizing
Audio and video synthesizers have been around for decades, and are pretty much only limited by one’s willingness to spend money on them. That is, unless you can develop your own FPGA-supercharged synthesizer to really get a leg up on …read more
Continue reading Free to Good Home: FPGA Supercharged Audio/Video Synthesizer