Water Jets Will Carve Your Pumpkin
Carving pumpkins by hand is hot, sweaty, messy work, and a great way to slice your way into a critical artery. Why not let a water jet do it for …read more Continue reading Water Jets Will Carve Your Pumpkin
Category Archives: Holiday Hacks
555 Timers Bring Christmas Charm to Miniature Village
The miniature Christmas village is a tradition in many families — a tiny idyllic world filled happy people, shops, and of course, snow. It’s common to see various miniature buildings …read more Continue reading 555 Timers Bring Christmas Charm to Miniature Village
Holiday Jukebox Gets ESP32, Home Assistant Support
If we’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that the only thing hardware hackers love more than a device festooned with buttons is one that’s covered in LEDs — so …read more Continue reading Holiday Jukebox Gets ESP32, Home Assistant Support
3D Printing A Big Lego Christmas Tree
Lego make lots of neat floral arrangements these days, and even little Christmas trees, too. While they’re fun to build out of tiny little blocks, they’re a little small for …read more Continue reading 3D Printing A Big Lego Christmas Tree
Rudolph’s Sleigh on a North Pole PCB
Each Christmas, [Adam Anderson], [Daniel Quach], and [Johan Wheeler] (meanwhile going by ‘the Janky Jingle Crew’)—set themselves the challenge of outdoing their previous creations. Last year’s CH32 Fireplace brought an …read more Continue reading Rudolph’s Sleigh on a North Pole PCB
Where This Xmas Card’s Going, We Don’t Need Batteries!
Energy harvesting, the practice of scavenging ambient electromagnetic fields, light, or other energy sources, is a fascinating subject that we don’t see enough of here at Hackaday. It’s pleasing then …read more Continue reading Where This Xmas Card’s Going, We Don’t Need Batteries!
Flashy Paper Christmas Tree Does It With a 555
‘Tis the season for holiday hacks, and [Ben Emmett] is here to remind us that we don’t necessarily need a fancy microcontroller in order to make flashy fun things happen. …read more Continue reading Flashy Paper Christmas Tree Does It With a 555
British Spooks Issue Yearly Teaser
As a British taxpayer it’s reassuring to know that over in Cheltenham there’s a big round building full of people dedicated to keeping us safe. GCHQ is the nation’s electronic …read more Continue reading British Spooks Issue Yearly Teaser
Tis the Season
’Tis the season for soldering! At least at my house. My son and I made some fairly LED-laden gifts for the immediate relatives last year, and he’s got the blinky …read more Continue reading Tis the Season
Chocolate-Coating Machine Mk. 2: the Merry-Go-Round
This holiday season, [Chaz] wanted to continue his family’s tradition of enrobing a little bit of everything in dark chocolate, and built an improved, rotating chocolate-coating machine. You may remember …read more Continue reading Chocolate-Coating Machine Mk. 2: the Merry-Go-Round