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Restoring pinball machines is an excellent hobby, and can even be more than that as we see businesses like bars and museums focusing on them as a main attraction. There’s …read more Continue reading Mouse Finds New Home In Pinball Machine
There are certain design aesthetics from every era that manage to survive the fads of their time and live throughout history. Ancient Greek architecture is still drawn upon for design …read more Continue reading Custom Calculator Brings Us Back To The 70s
Have you ever looked at a derelict electric wheelchair and thought “I bet I could make something great with that!” Of course you have- this is Hackaday, after all! And …read more Continue reading Electric Wheelchair Dump Truck Hack Really Hauls
[Hans Andersson] has been creating marvelous twisting timepieces for over a decade, and we’re pleased to be able to share his latest mechanical clock contraption with our readers, the Time …read more Continue reading Be Mesmerized By The Latest Time Twister
When viewed from the far future, the early years of the 21st century will probably be seen as the end of a short era in human technological development. In the …read more Continue reading The End of the Electromechanical Era
[Perinski]’s design for a mechanical flux dispenser uses some common hardware and a few 3D printed parts to create a syringe with fine control over just how much of the …read more Continue reading DIY Mechanical Flux Dispenser Syringe Has Fine Control
The seven-segment display may be a bit prosaic after all these years, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t ways to spice it up. Coming up with a mechanical version of …read more Continue reading A One-Servo Mechanical Seven-Segment Display
When automating almost any moderately complex mechanical task, the actuators and drive electronics can get expensive quickly. Rather than using an actuator for every motion, mechanical multiplexing might be an …read more Continue reading Prioritising Mechanical Multiplexer
The mechanical keyboard rabbit hole is a deep one, and can swallow up as much money and time as you want to spend. If you’ve become spoiled on the touch and responsiveness of a Cherry MX or other mechanical switch, you might even start putting them on other user interfaces …read more
Continue reading Logitech Joystick Gets a Mechanical Sidekick
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