Collaborate Disseminate
[Estefannie] is a proud cat owner, but one of her cats has a bad habit of eating plastic. That means she needs to keep an eye on that cat’s bowel …read more Continue reading Monitoring a Cat’s Litter Box Usage With AI
It might be surprising for some, but humans actually evolved to be long-distance runners. We aren’t very fast comparatively, but no other animal can run for as long or as …read more Continue reading Automate Your Desk with the Upsy Desky
Drywall is common and ubiquitous in commercial and residential buildings today. Many of us barely think about it until we have to repair a hole smashed in it. However, drywall …read more Continue reading A Brief History of Drywall Or: How Drywall Came To Dominate The World of Construction
Homebrew HVAC systems are one of those projects that take such a big investment of time, effort and money that you’ve got to be a really dedicated (ideally home-owning) hacker …read more Continue reading Is This The Oldest Open Source HVAC Project In Existence?
In certain parts of the world, cooking meat in a regionally-specific way is a critical part of the local culture. From barbeque in the American south to boerewors and braaivleis …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering a Smoker
Have you ever found that, despite having a central heating and air conditioning system, that not all the rooms in your home end up being the temperature you want them …read more Continue reading ESP8266 Smart Vents Keep Tabs On Home Temps
Amidst the discussions about grid-level energy storage solutions, it is often easy to forget that energy storage can be done on the level of a single house or building as …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: How Can You Store Energy At Home?
Outwardly, this sleek CO2 monitor designed by [Daniel Gernert] might look like something cooked up in Amazon’s consumer electronics division. But open up that 3D printed case, and you’ll find …read more Continue reading Discreet CO2 Monitor Hides Elegant Internal Layout
[Flamingo-tech]’s Xiaomi air purifier has a neat safety feature: it will refuse to run if a filter needs replacement. Of course, by “neat” we mean “annoying”. Especially when the purifier …read more Continue reading Air Filter DRM? Hacker Opts Out With NFC Sticker
Anyone who’s ever slept through a morning’s alarm can tell you that sounds, even loud piercing ones, don’t always wake a person out of a deep sleep. Similarly, hearing a …read more Continue reading Haptic Baby Monitor Gets the Wearer’s Attention