This is one of the easiest CNC develops we’ve seen however it still functions rather well. It’s a clone of the EggBot, however is aimed at printing on spherical Ping Pong spheres rather than elongate eggs. [Chad] phone calls it the Spherebot, however you should be cautious not to confuse it with the morphing ball […]
taking on a giant build just to hide your shotgun collection may seem a bit over the top. but we couldn’t be more impressed with the project. [Korostelevm] did an outstanding job of hiding a small closet with a bookcase-door. It’s something straight out of a Hardy boys novel. Possibly the most important part of the […]
We never really get bored with remote-controlled rovers around here, especially when they involve reusing some old hardware as well as lasers. [Tycoon] wrote in to share his creation, which he has dubbed “Texas Ranger”. Texas Ranger is built around an old Linksys WRT54GL router, which provides the rover’s WiFi connectivity as well as the […]
Gizmodo has done us all a favor by wading through many forum messages and condensing them into a useful guide to installing Ubuntu on your Playstation 3. It covers some of the caveats of going this route. You have to backup all of your game data before starting because the system repartitions the drive. Ubuntu […]
We’ve seen a fair number of hacks such as this one that reuse a Kindle essentially just for its ePaper display. [HaHaBird] has this gadget hanging on his refrigerator to screen the weather condition as well as remind him about recycling day. It type of make us question why we’re not seeing affordable ePaper modules […]
We’re all used to touch pads on our laptops, and to touch screens. It’s an expectation now that a new device with a screen will be touch-enabled. For very large surfaces though, touch is still something of an expensive luxury. If you’re a hardware hacker, unless you are lucky enough to score an exceptional cast-off, […]
A few months years back [Wes] shared a job of his on the Hackaday Forums (yes, we do have a forum as well as you should inspect it out). He produced a shifter for some sim racing, greatly improving on any type of system that utilizes a keyboard. The shifter is constructed out of some scrap wood, […]
welcome back to A-DJ-Hack-Every-Other-Day. preserving clean vinyl will enhance the noise high quality as well as lifetime of your records as well as cartridges. It’s likewise a excellent very first step when ripping the audio. This record cleaning system is developed from the platter of an old turntable as well as a canister vacuum. The […]
From debug messages to the fundamental ‘hello world’, serial communication does it all over three little wires. now imagine being able to cut the cord to your next microcontroller project and use your phone as a VT100 terminal. This was the premise of [Ondřej Hruška]’s Wireless terminal Project where he took an ESP8266 and added an in-browser terminal emulator which can be accessed […]