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These days, most of us are carrying capable smartphones with high-quality cameras. It makes shooting video so easy as to take all the fun out of it. [AIRPOCKET] decided to …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: A Spring-Driven Digital Movie Camera
There’s plenty of power to be had from the sun, but you need to be out of the shade to receive it. [Dennis] built a robot by the name of …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: A Sun-Chasing Robot
If you need to squeeze every available watt out of a solar panel, you’ll probably want to look into a solar tracking system. Unfortunately, they are usually quite large, heavy, …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: Compact Solar Tracking System Doesn’t Break the Bank
[Mark J Hughes] volunteers as a part of a local community fire watch which coordinates by radio. The La Habra Heights region of Los Angeles is an area of peaks …read more Continue reading 2022 Hackaday Prize: Boondock Echo Connects Your Radios with the Cloud
Change on industrial scales is slow, but if you’re operating your own small farm or simply working in a home garden there are some excellent ways to use water more …read more Continue reading 2022 Hackaday Prize: Plant Monitoring System Grows To Include LoRa
Any smartphone or laptop could be a talking clock if you wished it so. However, we think this build from [Marek Więcek] is more fun, which uses discrete vintage chips …read more Continue reading 2022 Hackaday Prize: Talking Clock Built With Old-School Gear
[alberto nunez] shows off his sleek build of a solar-harvesting ESP32 camera – waterproof, somewhat energy-efficient, and able to be built by more-or-less anyone. For that, he’s chosen fairly jellybean …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: Solar-Harvesting ESP32 Camera Is Waterproof, Repeatable
We’re all familiar with solar cells, be they photovoltaic, or for heating water. But they are only the more common ways of converting the sun’s energey into usable power, and …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: Solar Power Through Pyrolysis
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
OK, so maybe [satanistik] is overreaching with his project title “Save the Coffee, Save the World” but keeping an otherwise working coffee machine out of the landfill by hacking around …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: Saving the World, One Brew at a Time