Collaborate Disseminate
While the impulse to solving problems in complex systems is often to grab a microcontroller and some sensors to automate the problem away, interfacing with the real world is often …read more Continue reading Occam’s Razor: Gardening Edition
Last month we brought word of the IKEA VINDRIKTNING, a $12 USD air quality sensor that could easily be upgraded to log data over the network with the addition of …read more Continue reading Hacked IKEA Air Quality Sensor Gets Custom PCB
Introduced back in June, the IKEA VINDRIKTNING is a $12 USD sensor that uses colored LEDs to indicate the relative air quality in your home depending on how many particles …read more Continue reading ESP8266 Adds WiFi Logging to IKEA’s Air Quality Sensor
The digital camera revolution swept through the world in the early 2000s, and aside from some unique situations and a handful of artists still using film, almost everyone has switched …read more Continue reading Analog Camera Goes Digital
On a recent walk through the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, [Andrew Cooper] stumbled upon an unlocked monitoring station. Being an engineer, he couldn’t resist taking a look. This station is …read more Continue reading Peeking Inside a Volcano Sensor
Engineers at MIT’s CSAIL have developed a smart carpet that can accurately estimate a person’s movements or body pose without needing cameras. The system could be useful for exercise feedback, monitoring falls, or tracking for VR and gaming.Continue Re… Continue reading Smart carpet tracks your movements for better exercise or gaming
When someone offers to write you a check for $5 billion for your company, it seems like a good idea to take it. But in the world of corporate acquisitions …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: June 13, 2021
Measuring a magnetic field can be very easy with some pretty low tech, or it can be very high tech. It just depends on what kind of measurement you need …read more Continue reading Practical Sensors: The Hall Effect
We’ll say upfront that we don’t have nearly as much information about this 3D printed Star Trek: The Next Generation tricorder as we’d like. But from the image galleries [Himmelen] …read more Continue reading Tightly Packed Raspberry Pi Tricorder Impresses
[Leo Fernekes] has fallen down the Sterling engine rabbit hole. We mustn’t judge — things like this happen in the best of families, after all. And when they do happen …read more Continue reading This Custom Dynanometer Is A Sterling Example of Homebrewing