From hackaday.com
It’s Spreadsheets All The Way Down For This 80s Handheld
7 7
Unlike the today’s consumer computer market, the 1980s were the wild west in comparison. There were all kinds of different, incompatible operating systems, hardware, and programs, all competi…
#hacking #projects #80s #LCD #modem #cassette #workslate #convergent #programming #spreadsheet
on Sep 6
From hackaday.com
Hacky Shack? The TRS-80 Model I Story
5 5
The 1970s saw a veritable goldrush to corner the home computer market, with Tandy’s Z80-powered TRS-80 probably one of the most (in)famous entries. Designed from the ground up to be as cheap …
#trs #tandy #hacking #projects #retrocomputing
4h ago
From hackaday.com
Let The Wookie Win With This DIY Holochess Table
5 5
If you have seen Star Wars, you know what is being referenced here. Holochess appeared as a diversion built into the Millennium Falcon in the very first movie, way back in 1977. While not quite as …
#chess #games #hacking #hardware #projects #starwars #chessboard #volumetricdisplay #holographicdisplay #holographic
15h ago
From hackaday.com
High-Speed Jelly Launcher Destroys Toast
5 5
You shouldn’t play with your food. Unless you’re designing some kind of portable cannon to fling it across the room. That’s precisely what [Backhaul Studios] did. The first step o…
#hacking #projects #flywheel #MiscHacks #condiments #jellylauncher
on Sep 5
From hackaday.com
If Wood Isn’t The Biomass Answer, What Is?
5 5
As we slowly wean ourselves away from our centuries-long love affair with fossil fuels in an attempt to reduce CO2 emissions and combat global warming, there has been a rapid expansion across a bro…
#hacking #projects #News #biomass #Featured #interest #greenenergy #woodpellets
on Sep 5
From hackaday.com
Understanding Linear Regression
4 4
Although [Vitor Fróis] is explaining linear regression because it relates to machine learning, the post and, indeed, the topic have wide applications in many things that we do with electronics and …
#math #hacking #projects #machinelearning #linearregression
7h ago
From hackaday.com
4 4
In the driving simulator community, setups can quickly grow ever more complicated and expensive, all in the quest for fidelity. For [CNCDan], rather than buy pedals off the shelf, he opted to build…
#hacking #projects #3dprinted #footpedals #peripheralshacks #racingsimulation
9h ago
From hackaday.com
Edison Phonograph Plays The Cylinders
4 4
You might be old enough to remember record platters, but you probably aren’t old enough to remember when records were cylinders. The Edison Blue Amberol records came out in 1912 and were far …
#edison #amberol #hacking #projects #phonograph #homeentertainmenthacks
13h ago
From hackaday.com
4 4
These days, if you are in the market for a capable digital voltmeter, you might as well consider getting one with an oscilloscope built-in. One choice is the Owon HDS160, which [Kerry Wong] covers …
#owon #hds160 #hacking #reviews #projects #teardown #scopemeter #oscilloscope
17h ago
From hackaday.com
A Constant-Fraction Discriminator For Sub-Nanosecond Timing
4 4
Detecting a signal pulse is usually basic electronics, but you start to find more complications when you need to time the signal’s arrival in the picoseconds domain. These include the time-walk eff…
#pulse #hacking #hardware #projects #signalprocessing #constantfractiondiscriminator
22h ago
From hackaday.com
3D Printed TPU Bellows With PLA Interface Layers
4 4
Of all FDM filament types, flexible ones such as TPU invite a whole new way of thinking, as well as applications. Case in point the TPU-based bellows that the [Functional Part Friday] channel on Yo…
#tpu #bellows #hacking #projects #3dprinterhacks
on Thu, 9AM
From hackaday.com
Hackaday Links: February 16, 2025
4 4
Just when you thought the saga of the Bitcoin wallet lost in a Welsh landfill was over, another chapter of the story appears to be starting. Regular readers will recall the years-long efforts of Bi…
on Feb 17
From hackaday.com
How Hard Is It To Write A Calculator App?
4 4
How hard can it be to write a simple four-function calculator program? After all, computers are good at math, and making a calculator isn’t exactly blazing a new trail, right? But [Chad Nause…
on Feb 16
From hackaday.com
4 4
[Paul] likes his piano, but he doesn’t know how to play it. The obvious answer: program an Arduino to do it. Some aluminum extrusion and solenoids later, and it was working. Well, perhaps not…
on Feb 16
From hackaday.com
Build A Super Cheap RC Trainer Plane With Foam
4 4
Once upon a time, RC planes were expensive models that took months to build and big money to equip with electronics. Since the 20th century though, powerful batteries have become cheap, as have ser…
#hacking #projects #FOAM #plane #rcplane #trainer #MiscHacks #rctrainer #radiocontrol #trainerplane
on Sep 6
From hackaday.com
Flow Visualization With Schlieren Photography
3 3
The word “Schlieren” is German, and translates roughly to “streaks”. What is streaky photography, and why might you want to use it in a project? And where did this funny term come from?…
#hacking #science #shimmer #featured #interest #projects #schlieren #originalart #photography
19h ago
From hackaday.com
[Quinn Dunki] Makes A Screw Shortener Fit For Kings
3 3
It’s common problem when you’re building anything with screws: this one is too long, this one is too short. While she can’t teach you how to fix the latter, [Quinn Dunki] has made…
on Feb 16
From hackaday.com
Scrapyard Vacuum Dehydrator Sucks The Water From Hydraulic Oil
3 3
Anyone who has ever had the misfortune of a blown head gasket knows that the old saying “oil and water don’t mix” is only partially true. When what’s coming out of the drain…
on Feb 16
From hackaday.com
2 2
Last year, we saw [How To Make Everything’s] take on [DaVinci’s] machine for cutting threads. However, they stopped short of the goal, which was making accurate metal screw threads. Aft…
on Feb 17
From harrywinser.com
GeoTools - a simple geospatial tool
1 1
A simple geospatial tool to view, create, and edit geospatial shapes
#geo #gis #code #tech #webdev #projects #Openlayers #geospatial #programming
on Feb 16