Collaborate Disseminate
The Great American Eclipse was a solar eclipse that passed nearly the entire continental United States back in 2017. While it might sound like a once-in-a-lifetime event to experience a …read more Continue reading Balloon to Fly During Solar Eclipse
Got any plans for tonight? No? Well then you’re in luck, because NASA is just a few hours from intentionally smashing a probe into the minor planet Dimorphos as part …read more Continue reading Watch NASA Crash a Probe Into an Asteroid Tonight
Regular Hackaday readers will know that we’re big supporters of free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) around these parts. There’s an excellent chance you are too, as so many of …read more Continue reading Hackaday Invades the FLOSS Weekly Podcast
The inner machinations of the mind of cryptocurrency markets are an enigma. Even traditional stock markets often seem to behave at random, to the point that several economists seriously suggest …read more Continue reading Hamster Trades Crypto Better than You
Join us Wednesday at noon Pacific time for the From Software to Tindie Hack Chat!
Brian Lough has followed a roundabout but probably not unusual route to the hardware hacking scene. Educated in Electronic and Computer Engineering, Brian is a software developer by trade who became enamored of Arduino development …read more
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Over the weekend, the last available tickets to the Hackaday Superconference vanished. This will be the fullest, most exciting, hack-packed Supercon ever.
We’ve always had a stunning slate of speakers. It’s hard to objectively say we will top previous years, but yes this collection of talks is an insane concentration of hardware speakers that tops anything we’ve seen before. You can’t look at the schedule without feeling an electric jolt of excitement. The good news is you can still get in on those talks. Bookmark this Hackaday Superconference Live-Stream which begins at 10 am PDT on Saturday, November 3rd.
Of …read more
Continue reading Supercon is Sold Out, Join Us On the Live Streams and Chat Rooms
Netscape lead engineer Lou Montulli started the Fishcam 24 years ago, and it’s still going. Continue reading How a Decades-Long Livestream of a Fish Tank Helped Shape the Internet
Have you ever been seduced by a claw machine in an arcade, only to have your hopes of a cuddly toy dashed as it fails to hang onto your choice? Then you’re in luck, because now you can play to your heart’s content online. [Ryan Walmsley] wants you to control his Raspberry Pi-driven claw machine.
Hardware-wise he’s replaced the original 8052 microcontroller and relay control with the Pi and a custom H-bridge PCB. We particularly light the warning: “Highish voltage”, and we feel it should appear more often. There is some code in his GitHub repository, but we suspect it …read more
It’s an ambient real-time experience not unlike some of the best live streams. Continue reading I Am a Pioneer in the Glorious Future of Online Cheese Shopping
Even if you can not be in Orlando along with the other 26,000 attendees, you can still catch parts of the massive conference from your desk.
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