ANGEL investor gives open source PNP A massive increase
We love it when an open source hardware project grows up and turns into a sustainable business, bootstrapped with nothing but hard work and great ideas, but it’s a really difficult prospect to do it using your own money, ploughing the profits from any sales back into development and not taking a dime in wages …
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LAPTOP empty space filled with RS485 and POE
Out of all the laptop upgrade options typically available, you wouldn’t expect this particular one. [controlmypad] chose to take a part of his RS485 device programming workflow and put it inside of a spare laptop he picked up for cheap. Typically, he’d occupy some desk space and lay out an unwieldy combination of a USB-RS485 …
BACK-TO-BACK BELTS DRIVE FILAMENT IN THIS distinct EXTRUDER design
It’s difficult to state when motivation will strike, or what type it’ll take. but we do understand that when you get that itch, it’s a great concept to scratch it, because you may just end up with something such as this amazing new design for a 3D printer extruder as a result. Clearly, the world …
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ELECTRONICS TUTORIAL TWO-FER: SOLDERING skills as well as WIRES
There is a plethora of electronics tutorials scattered about online. sometimes it can be difficult to separate the great ones from the bad, as well as the enlightening from the misinformed. We just recently came across a pair that we discovered helpful, as well as believed they would charm to anyone starting off in electronics. …
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LASER PCBS WITH LDGRAPHY
There are many, many ways to get a PCB design onto a board for etching. even with practice however, the quality of the result varies with the process and equipment used. With QFN parts becoming the norm, the days of etch-resist transfers and a permanent marker are all but gone. Luckily, new and improved methods …
VOICE recognition SYSTEM CONTROLS EVERYTHING, hopefully WON’T kill US.
[Aaron Bitler] and [Bud Townsend] have been working a natural user system that is, in their own words, “what android@home must have been.” The video they posted is pretty impressive. The automation system responds to voice and can control appliances, ‘throw a party’, and supply a user with their location. This is just the foundation …
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HACKING IS HACKING
Tom Nardi as well as I had a great laugh this week on the Podcast when he compared the ECU hacks that enabled turning a VW with steering help into a self-driver to a hack last week that customized a water cooler to fill a specific cup. however it’s really no joke — a few …
GONE: GOOGLE TOOLBAR (2000-2021)
For both much better as well as worse, the Web landscape moves fast. Shortening interest spans as well as memories around the world. however every when in a while, we get a reminder of what when was. [Ron Amadeo] of Ars Technica terminated up a Google product of year 2000 in Take one last look …
HACKADAY PODCAST 148: POKEMON TRADES, anniversary IPOD PROTOTYPE, silly SATELLITE TRICKS, and LED strip SENSORS
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys get caught up on the week that was. people go to terrific lengths for video game saves, but this Pokemon hack that does hardware-based trade conversion between the game Boy’s Pokemon 2 and Pokemon 3 is something else. Why do we still use batteries when incredibly capacitors exist? …
HACKADAY PODCAST 151: THE HACKIEST VR GLOVE, PLOTTING BOBA FETT WITH SHOELACES, ECU HACKING, and WHERE DOES AMMONIA COME FROM?
Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi are back again to talk about all the weird and wonderful stories from our corner of the tech world. Canon had to temporarily give up on chipping their ink cartridges due to part shortages, and that’s just too perfect to ignore. There’s also some good news …