Collaborate Disseminate
We’re no strangers to unusual clocks here at Hackaday, and some of our favorites make time a little more tangible like [Kyle Rankin]’s knitting clock. Inspired by our coverage of …read more Continue reading Tempus Nectit, a DIY Knitting Clock with Instructions
While you could 3D print a lampshade, there’s something to be said for having a more active role in the process of creating an object. [THINKK Studio] has made custom …read more Continue reading Lanna Factory Makes You Work for Your Lampshade
Time got a little wibbly wobbly during these pandemic years. Perhaps we would’ve had a more tangible connection to it if [Siren Elise Wilhelmsen]’s knitting clock had been in our …read more Continue reading Knitting Clock Makes You a Scarf for Next Year
What’s just a bit thicker than a human hair and has ten times the capability of a human muscle? Polymer-coated carbon nanotube yarn. Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas created this yarn using carbon nanotubes coated with a …read more
Does the yarn package manager cryptographically validate its payload’s authentication and integrity for all packages after downloading them and before installing them?
I see a lot of guides providing installation instructions with steps as… Continue reading Does yarn (Node.js package manager) provide cryptographic authentication and integrity validation?
Making a natural fiber like wool into something useful like a sweater involves a lot of steps. We might be familiar with shearing the sheep, spinning the wool into yarn, or knitting and weaving, but between shearing and spinning there’s another unfamiliar process you’ll have to go through. Known as …read more
Continue reading Hand-Made Drum Carder Gets Wool Ready for Spinning
An unsophisticated but effective botnet is targeting exposed cloud servers and racking up millions of infections. Continue reading DemonBot Fans DDoS Flames with Hadoop Enslavement
We’re all used to posing for a picture — or a selfie — but there’s something about photo booths that make getting your photo taken an exciting and urgent affair. To make this experience a bit easier to tote about, Redditor [pedro_g_s] has laboriously built, from the ground up, a mobile photo booth named Buzz.
He needed a touchscreen, a Raspberry Pi, almost definitely a webcam, and a 3D printer to make a case — although any medium you choose will do — to build this ‘booth.’ That said, he’s built the app in a way that a touchscreen isn’t …read more