Collaborate Disseminate
Here’s a design for a split-flap clock that doesn’t do it the usual way. Instead of the flaps showing numbers , Klapklok has a bit more in common with flip-dot …read more Continue reading Split-Flap Clock Flutters Its Way to Displaying Time Without Numbers
More than 30 years since Cosmo Kramer spruiked his coffee table book of coffee tables on an episode of Seinfeld, a new companion tome has surfaced, and it’s become quite a hit. It’s a coffee table book about coffee. (Sadly, however, it doesn’t also tur… Continue reading Love coffee? Now you can look at it all day in this literal coffee table book
It’s 40 years since the first Lomo camera went into production, a Russian copy of the Japanese point-and-shoot Cosina CX-2. Within a decade, that film camera, known for its light sensitivity, zone focus and strong pocket-sized case, had been discovered… Continue reading “Best instant camera on Earth” shows style evolution from its Cold War roots
Generative AI systems need to be fed huge amounts of data, with copyrighted materials often on the menu. Musicians may now have a way to fight back with HarmonyCloak, a system that embeds data into songs that can’t be picked up by human ears but will s… Continue reading HarmonyCloak slips silent poison into music to corrupt AI copies
Lenz’s Law is one of those physics tricks that look like magic if you don’t understand what’s happening. [Seth Robinson] was inspired by the way eddy currents cause a cylindrical …read more Continue reading Levitating Magnet In A Spherical Copper Cage
Most of us have made paper airplanes at one time or another, but rather than stopping at folded paper, [VirgileC] graduated to 3D printing them out of PLA. Then the …read more Continue reading That’ll Go Over Like a Cement Airplane
Marble machines are a fun and challenging reason to do engineering for the sake of engineering. [Engineezy] adds some color to the theme, building a machine to create 16×16 marble …read more Continue reading Automated Pixel Art With Marbles
A couple weeks ago, we had a kerfuffle here on Hackaday: A writer put out a piece with AI-generated headline art. It was, honestly, pretty good, but it was also …read more Continue reading What’s the Deal with AI Art?
[Ben] may be 15 years old, but he’s got the knack for 3D printing and artistic mechanical design. When you see his 3D-printed mechanical jellyfish lamp, we think you’ll agree. …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Jellyfish Lights Up
I’m sure you all love to see some colorful blinkenlights every now and then, and we are of course no exception. While these might look like coasters at a distance, …read more Continue reading Is That A Coaster? No, It’s An LED Matrix!