Collaborate Disseminate
Popular consumer products often become the basis of many hacker projects, and hoverboards are a good example of this. [Tanguy] is using the drivetrain from a pair of hoverboards to …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: A Hefty Hoverboard Rover
If Nintendo is known for anything outside of their characters and admittedly top-notch video games, it’s being merciless to fans when it comes to using their intellectual property. They take …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: An Eastern Bloc NES Clone
[Marek] has an impressive collection of old Soviet-style Geiger counters. These are handy tools to have in some specific situations, but for most of us they would be curiosities. Even …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: Soviet Geiger Counter Gets WiFi
Like artificial intelligence, speech synthesis was one of those applications that promised to revolutionize computing in the 1980s, only to fizzle out after people realized that a robotic voice reading …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: Modern Plug-in Gives TRS-80 its Voice Back
The C64 may be the best-selling computer of all time, but Commodore made several machines before that, too. [Mjnurney] always loved the Commodore PET, and set about building some new …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: A Functional Commodore PET Tribute
Laptop computers may be ubiquitous today, but there was a time when they were the exclusive preserve of rich businesspeople. Back in the early ’90s, the significant added cost of …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: Repairing a Vintage Laptop With Modern Components
Retro hardware often looks fantastic, but we may find we no longer need it for its original function. [John Anderson] found that to be the case with some old Heathkit …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: Digital Dice Towers Built In Beautiful Retro Cases
Digital displays are useful for quick and accurate readout, but lots of people prefer the physical motion of a needle moving along a dial. For instance, many smartwatch users choose …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: Arduino-Powered Weighing Scale Has a Real Analog Display
While the 2022 Hackaday Prize as a whole winds its way through a good chunk of the year, each individual challenge that makes up the competition only sticks around for …read more Continue reading Don’t Miss Your Last Chance to Enter the Hack it Back Challenge
Companies don’t treat equipment in the same way that we, hobbyists, do. When it comes to reassessing equipment state, there’s calculations to be done – how many failures it’s experienced, …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: $40k Stratasys Printer Fix Costs $1