Collaborate Disseminate
Sodastream machines are popular amongst people who like to make their own seltzer water at home. However, replenishing the tiny gas canisters is expensive and wasteful. [Becky] decided to upgrade …read more Continue reading Hack Your Sodastream With A Giant CO2 Canister
Finnish software engineer [Toni] is on a quest to modernize his 1991 house, and his latest project was to automate the window blinds and control them using Home Assistant. Unless …read more Continue reading Automated Window Blinds Using MQTT and Home Assistant
If you’ve got a collection of classic game consoles, finding the space to set them all up can be a challenge. But the bigger problem is figuring out how to …read more Continue reading Consoles, Consoles On The Wall, Can Alexa Help Me Play Them All?
Weather is one of those things that seems to be endlessly interesting to hackers. We may decry the notion that weather can be accurately predicted two days out, much less …read more Continue reading Nothing Should Cloud the Build of This Wieldy Weather Widget
Last month we brought word of the IKEA VINDRIKTNING, a $12 USD air quality sensor that could easily be upgraded to log data over the network with the addition of …read more Continue reading Hacked IKEA Air Quality Sensor Gets Custom PCB
Like the “Three Seashells” in Demolition Man, this trio of bright yellow network monitors created by [David Chatting] might be difficult to wrap your head around at first glance. They …read more Continue reading ESP8266 Network Meters Show off Unique Software
After taking mental note of the number of surveillance cameras pointed at him while standing in line at the local Home Depot, [Mac Pierce] was inspired to create A Scanner …read more Continue reading Building An Army Of Faux Cameras in the name of Art
Most Hackaday readers will be familiar with the idea of a network time server; a magical box nestled away in some distant data center that runs the Network Time Protocol …read more Continue reading Portable GPS Time Server Powered by the ESP8266
Introduced back in June, the IKEA VINDRIKTNING is a $12 USD sensor that uses colored LEDs to indicate the relative air quality in your home depending on how many particles …read more Continue reading ESP8266 Adds WiFi Logging to IKEA’s Air Quality Sensor
We’re always fans of interesting clock builds around here, whether it’s a word clock, marble clock, or in this case a clock using a unique display method. Of course, since …read more Continue reading Using Heaters to Display Time