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What do you think of when you hear the word pond? If you’re like most people, the word conjures up images of a simple water-filled hole in the ground, maybe …read more Continue reading Building the Most High-Tech Pond in the Neighborhood
With summer in full swing in the Northern Hemisphere, millions of people are out on vacation leaving millions of homes empty. Thanks to modern technology it’s easier than ever to …read more Continue reading The FishFeeder Keeps Your Fish Fed While You’re Away
No spooky mansion is complete without a secret passage accessed through a book shelf — or so Hollywood has taught us. What works as a cliché in movies works equally …read more Continue reading A Classic TV Trope For An Escape Room
Digital displays are useful for quick and accurate readout, but lots of people prefer the physical motion of a needle moving along a dial. For instance, many smartwatch users choose …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: Arduino-Powered Weighing Scale Has a Real Analog Display
If you live in a home with a garage door opener, you may have experienced one or more inevitable moments. You pull up to your home, you press the button …read more Continue reading IOT Garage Door Opener Makes For Excellent Beginner IOT Project
We’re all familiar with supply chain issues as they relate to chips and DIPs, but anyone who has requested an estimate for home improvements lately knows that the problems extend …read more Continue reading Style Your Tile With 3D Printed Countertops
Most houses built in the US today are platform construction: skinny two-by-fours are stacked and layered to create walls with studs. Each floor is framed on top of the other. …read more Continue reading You Wouldn’t 3D Print a House, Would You?
[Herb Peyerl] is part of a robotics team, and in his robotics endeavours, learned about AprilTags; small QR-code-like printable patterns that are easily recognizable by even primitive machine vision. Later …read more Continue reading Use AprilTags to Let Guests Open Your Front Gate
[Renzo Mischianti]’s friend has to keep a water tank topped up. Problem is, the tank itself is 1.5 km away, so its water level isn’t typically known. There’s no electricity …read more Continue reading LoRa Helps With Remote Water Tank Level Sensing
[frederic] tells a story about their team’s hack of a Google Nest Hub (2nd generation) — running Ubuntu on it, through bypassing Google’s boot image signature checks. As with many …read more Continue reading Breaking Google Nest Hub’s Secure Boot