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Wheels and tracks are common choices for robot propulsion, but they’re not the only game in town. You can do some nifty things with long extruded screws , and they …read more Continue reading Build Yourself A Screw Propelled Robot To Tackle The Dirt
These days, sending a picture to someone else is as simple as pulling out your smartphone and sending it by email or text message. It’s so simple a child can …read more Continue reading This Standalone Camera Gets the Picture Through with SSTV
One of the more recent trendy builds we’ve seen is the slow-motion movie player. We love them — displaying one frame for a couple of hours to perhaps a full …read more Continue reading Every Frame a Work of Art With This Color Ultra-Slow Movie Player
While low-contrast, blue-on-slightly-less-blue 16-character by 2-line LCDs are extremely popular, they really are made specifically for alphanumeric use. They do an admirable job of displaying a few characters, but they …read more Continue reading Pushing the Limits of a 16×2 LCD with Bad Apple!!
Before LEDs became cheap enough to be ubiquitous, flip-card displays were about the only way to get a digital clock. These entirely electromechanical devices had their own charm, and they …read more Continue reading Steppers and ESP32 Make This Retro-Modern Flip-Clock Tick
[RevK] wanted to learn about NFC readers, and we agree that the best way to do so is to dive in and build one yourself. There are readers available from …read more Continue reading NFC Who’s at the Door
We have all been stuck inside for too long, and maybe that’s why we have recently seen a number of projects attempting to help humans take better care of their housemates from Kingdom Plantae. To survive, plants need nutrients, light, …read more
Continue reading Give Your Smart Home a Green Thumb with MQTT
Sometimes the most useful hacks aren’t the flashiest, they’re the ones that improve an already great tool and make something better. Through hole components are still the fastest and perhaps most satisfying way to prototype a new electronics project so it’s extra frustrating when the happy hacker discovers their new …read more
Continue reading Fewer Millimeters Make a Useful ESP32 Devboard
Here at Hackaday HQ we’re no strangers to vintage game emulation. New versions of old consoles and arcade cabinets frequently make excellent fodder for clever hacks to cram as much functionality as possible into tiny modern microcontrollers. We’ve covered [rossumur]’s hacks before, but the ESP_8-bit is a milestone in comprehensive …read more
Addressable RGB LED strips may be all the rage, but that addressability can come at a cost. If instead of colors you expect to show shades of white you may the find less flickery, wider spectrum light from a string of single color LEDs and a nice supply desirable. Of …read more