Collaborate Disseminate
No office space is complete without some eye-catching art piece to gawp at whilst you mull over your latest problem. But LED-based displays are common enough to be boring these …read more Continue reading Flux: A Forty Foot Long Kinetic Art Piece
[Neumi] over on Hackaday.IO wanted a simple-to-use way to drive stepper motors, which could be quickly deployed in a wide variety of applications yet to be determined. The solution is …read more Continue reading Ethersweep: An Easy-To-Deploy Ethernet Connected Stepper Controller
If you’re a die hard sports fan, there’s nothing you love more than staying abreast of developments in the league, from top to bottom. [Kiu] had a family member that …read more Continue reading Cute NFL Standings Tracker Uses Little Mini Helmets
A standard part of travel kit for the 2020s is now a battery pack — a hefty lithium-ion cell with onboard electronics for USB charging, that ensures all of our …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: DIY Brushless Hand Cranked Generator
As the saying goes, nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes, and the never-ending inventiveness of clock hacks. No matter how tried and proven a concept is, …read more Continue reading What’s The Time? It’s Casino’clock!
Blinds are great for blocking out the sun, but having to get up to open and close them grows tiresome in this computationally-advanced age. [The Hook Up] decided to automate …read more Continue reading Automated Blinds Can Be A Cheap And Easy Build
[Mark Rehorst] tells us about a tragic incident involving an untimely demise of $200 worth of motor driving hardware, and shares a simple circuit so that we can prevent such …read more Continue reading Protect Your Drivers When The Motor Stalls
Taking apart old stuff and re-using the parts to make something new is how many hackers first got started in the world of mechanical and electronic engineering. But even after …read more Continue reading Turning Old Plotter Parts Into a Smooth Camera Slider
3D printer belt tension seems like a simple thing to deal with — you set the tension and then check it’s good now and then. If it gets really loose, …read more Continue reading 3D Printering: Don’t Tune To A Middle ‘C’ After All
Large mechanical seven-segment displays have a certain presence that you just don’t get in electronic screens. Part of this comes from the rather satisfying click-click-clack sound they make at every …read more Continue reading Silent Stepper Motors Make Electromechanical Clock Fit For a Living Room