SLICK 16-SEGMENT POV difficult DRIVE CLOCK
Hackaday visitor [svofski] sent in a great looking difficult drive-based POV clock (Google Translation) produced by a maker in the Sichuan province of China. The clock, like the one [svofski] built, relies on LEDs put behind the spinning platter to produce the POV effect. Quite a few very carefully put cuts have been made to the …
UV RESIN PERFECTS 3D PRINT, but NOT how YOU think
At this point, everyone knows that the print quality you’ll get from even an entry level UV resin printer far exceeds what’s possible for filament-based fused deposition modeling (FDM) machines. but there’s a trade-off: for the money, you get way much more build volume by choosing FDM. So until the logistics of large-format resin printers …
ESP8266 fundamental WIFI THERMOSTAT IS CHILD’S PLAY
If you’ve checked out any type of of our messages in the last couple years, you’ll have noted that our neighborhood is stoked about bringing the Web to their gadgets on the affordable with the ESP8266 modules. Why? This forum publish that details making a WiFi thermostat truly brings the point home: it’s so simple …
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ANDROID HACK adds missing CHROMECAST button TO NETFLIX app
We finally got our hands on a Chromecast over the weekend and we love it! but it wasn’t without a bit of a speed bump. including a quick initial setup, we had a YouTube video playing in our living room about three minutes after the package hit our mailbox. but we spent the next twenty …
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CAT fitness instructor will keep THEM OFF THE COUNTERS
Our cats are not enabled on the kitchen area counters, as well as [Iron Jungle] has the exact same rule. however he identified some foot prints on the hood above his variety as well as the addition of a safety cam caught this photo of [Kelso] breaking the rules. considering that he’s not always around …
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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 …