Collaborate Disseminate
While an engineering mindset is a valuable tool most of the time, there are some situations where it just seems to be a bad fit. Solving problems within the family …read more Continue reading Rock-A-Bye Baby, On the Mechatronic Crib Shaker
We’ve all been there. Your current project has hit a wall, or the next step will take days to complete, and you need something to do in the meantime. So …read more Continue reading Wood and Brass Drink Temperature Monitor Looks Good, Has Class
Wouldn’t it be nice if every webcam had a hardware switch? Especially for those built-in webcams like the one in your laptop. Since they don’t have switches yet, we’re just …read more Continue reading Friendly Webcam Robot Keeps an Eye on Privacy
As fun as it is to decorate Easter eggs, the road to a hollow hen’s egg is a gross and gooey avenue. Trust us, it sucks to blow out eggs, …read more Continue reading Teach Your Air Compressor to Blow Eggs
You may not know the name [Richard Hamming], but you definitely use some of his work. While working for Bell Labs, he developed Hamming codes — the parent of a …read more Continue reading Anti-Gravity, Time Travel, and Teleportation: Dr. Hamming Gives Advice
It all started one night in 2016 after [Robert Ilijason] dropped the last remaining jar of baby food in the house, breaking it. On the 20-minute drive to the nearest …read more Continue reading Small Swedish Stores are Miniature Oases in a National Food Desert
Often times we as hackers don’t know what we’re doing, and we sally forth and do it anyway. Here at Hackaday, we think that’s one of the best ways to …read more Continue reading Spherical Keyboard Build Leaves Hacker Well-Rounded
We’ve seen countless automated plant care systems over the years, but for some reason they almost never involve the secret sauce of gardening — fertilizer. But [xythobuz] knows what’s up. …read more Continue reading Automated Watering Machine Has What Plants Crave: Fertilizer
Over the years, we’ve seen plenty of projects that use ultrasonic or time-of-flight sensors as object detection methods for the visually impaired. Ultrasonic sensors detect objects like sonar — they …read more Continue reading Seeing-Eye Shoes Pair Computer Vision with Haptic Feedback
When [hacky] bought a used Douwe Egberts Gallery 200 all-in-one coffee maker, the machine was known to have a ’empty battery’. Being one of those fancy coffee makers that handle …read more Continue reading The Coffee Must Flow: Replacing A Spent Lithium Cell In A Coffee Machine