Collaborate Disseminate
Moviegoers know that the Matrix trilogy’s finale “heavily hinted that our hero will be back at some point in the distant future,” writes the Guardian.. “Now he is…”
But does the first three-minute trailer for the soon-to-be-released sequel The Matri… Continue reading Fans Ask Questions After First Trailer Released for ‘The Matrix Resurrections’
Blue and red pills, Keanu Reeves, Kung Fu, and questions plague the trailer for the fourth Matrix film. Continue reading The ‘Matrix Resurrections’ Trailer Is Here to Keep Hope Alive
[Lauri Pirttiaho] from the [Swiss Knife of Electronics] channel explains how to simplify your resistive divider keypad design on Hackaday.io. The usual method involves building a resistive ladder that gives …read more Continue reading Improved Technique for Resistive Divider Keypads
Judging by the tips we get, it seems like the popularity of word clocks has perhaps started falling off lately. But back at peak word clock, we were seeing dozens of designs, some better than others. This simple but classy …read more
Continue reading This Slimline Word Clock Uses Laser Etching to Keep Things Simple
Few things excite a Hackaday staff member more than a glowing LED, so it should be no surprise that combining them together into a matrix really gets us going. Make that matrix tiny, addressable, and chainable and you know it’ll be a hit at the virtual water cooler. We’ve seen …read more
Microwave oven design and manufacturing have been optimized to the point where the once-expensive appliances are now nearly disposable. Despite the economics, though, some people can’t resist fixing stuff, especially when you get a chance to do it in style. Thus we present this microwave repair with its wholly unnecessary …read more
Continue reading A Microwave Repair Even Mechanical Keyboard Fans Will Love
Every bit of film or video you’ve ever seen is a mind trick, an optical illusion of continuous movement based on flashing 24 to 30 slightly different images into your eyes every second. The wetware between your ears can’t deal with all that information individually, so it convinces itself that …read more
The 8721 PLA, or programmable logic array, was one of the chips that had to be invented to make the Commodore 128, the last of the 8-bit computers that formed the leading edge of the early PC revolution, a reality. [Johan Grip] got a hold of one of …read more
Continue reading Die Photos Reveal Logic from Commodore 128 PLA Chip
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams are deep in the hacks this week. What if making your own display matrix meant a microcontroller board for every pixel? That’s the gist of this incredible neon display. There’s a lot of dark art poured into the slivers of microSD cards and …read more
Neon lights have inspired much prose over the years, with their attractive light output receiving glowing adulation. [Pierre Muth] is a big fan, and decided to spend lockdown creating something suitably pretty for his desk.
The project consists of an 8×48 matrix display constructed out of INS-1 (ИНC-1) tubes. These …read more