Hackaday Prize 2022: Salvaged Pumps and Hoses Make a Neat Vacuum Pickup Tool

A home-made vacuum pickup tool

Anyone who’s ever assembled a PCB full of tiny SMD parts will have found that tweezers are not always the best tool when it comes to accurate positioning. Thin, flat …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: Salvaged Pumps and Hoses Make a Neat Vacuum Pickup Tool

2022 Hackaday Prize: Disposable Vape Pens Turned Project Parts

A vape pen, broken into parts, all laid out on a cutting mat

Disposable vape pens, a sub-genre of electronic cigarettes, have been a fad for a few years now – they’re small self-contained devices with a rechargeable battery and some vape liquid …read more Continue reading 2022 Hackaday Prize: Disposable Vape Pens Turned Project Parts

Hackaday Prize 2022: RunTinyRun is a Fully Solar-Powered, Portable Dinosaur Game

A small PCB with an OLED screen showing a Dinosaur Game

Fully solar-powered handheld gadgets have so far mostly been limited to ultra-low power devices like clocks, thermometers and calculators. Anything more complicated than that will generally have a battery and …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: RunTinyRun is a Fully Solar-Powered, Portable Dinosaur Game

Hackaday Prize 2022: Glass Tube Solar Thermionic Converters

Typically, if you want to convert solar energy into electrical energy, you use either photovoltaic (PV) cells, or you use the sunlight to create steam to turn a turbine. Both …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: Glass Tube Solar Thermionic Converters