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Unlike the current era where most consumer electronics are black rectangles, or the early 90s where most consumer electronics were black rectangles, we got a brief glimmer of color, light, …read more Continue reading Game Cube Hot Tub Animation Brought Into Real World
Barrier-grid animations (also called scanimations) are a thing most people would recognize on sight, even if they didn’t know what they were called. Move a set of opaque strips over …read more Continue reading Design Scanimations In a Snap With The Right Math
So far, food for astronauts hasn’t exactly been haute cuisine. Freeze-dried cereal cubes, squeezable tubes filled with what amounts to baby food, and meals reconstituted with water from a fuel …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: October 13, 2024
Robots made of broken toy parts, stop-motion animation, and a great song to tie it all together were not on our bingo card for 2023, but the results are perfect. …read more Continue reading Oh, The Places You’ll Go With Stop Motion Animation
Members of Pixelbar woke up to shocking news on Wednesday morning this week as they learned that a fire had destroyed the building housing their Rotterdam hackerspace. Pictures of the …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 2, 2023
Sometimes, finding new ways to use old hardware requires awesome feats of reverse engineering, software sleight of hand, and a healthy dose of good fortune. Other times, though, it’s just …read more Continue reading Smooth Animations, Slick Bar Graphs, but No Custom Characters on This 16×2 OLED
What if instead of defining a mesh as a series of vertices and edges in a 3D space, you could describe it as a single function? The easiest function would …read more Continue reading Signed Distance Functions: Modeling in Math
It doesn’t matter how you pronounce it, because whichever way you choose to say “GIF” is guaranteed to cheese off about half the people listening. Such is the state of …read more Continue reading Mechanical GIF Animates with the Power of Magnets
Anybody who has ever seen a video wall (and who hasn’t?) will be familiar with the idea of making large-scale illuminated images from individual coloured lights. But how many of …read more Continue reading Smart LED Curtain Brings Sprites To Your Windows
For a large part of the 20th century, motion pictures were distributed on nitrate film. Although cheaper for the studios, this film was highly flammable and prone to decay. On …read more Continue reading 35mm Film Restoration Process Explained