KANSAS CITY MAKERFAIRE: GREENTECHWEEKLY’S protection
We hadn’t been at the MakerFaire long when we ran into a couple hackaday fans carrying around video camera devices as well as microphones. I …
A FOLDING knife made from scratch
[bobasaurus] over on reddit had a go at making a knife from scratch. It was his first attempt, but we’re thinking the result is fabulous and …
DIY LASER CUTTER
[Jens] decided he wished to try building his own laser cutter to see just how much you can actually cut with a fairly low power 300mW …
CUSTOM driver BOARD FOR PAINTBALL gun
[Gabe’s] been wanting to do some embedded development for years, and his other pastime of playing paintball just recently supplied him with a test project. …
BUILD A LIGHT complying with BRISTLEBOT AS A method TO instruct science
[Ben Finio] developed this job as a method to get youngsters thinking about discovering about science as well as engineering. Is it poor that we …
EXCEL BASED DRUM machine
[Thomas] just desired a simple, free drum machine to play with. He decided to develop one himself utilizing MS Excel. To get it up as …
ARM DEV BOARD WITH USB uploading
[George and Bogdan] composed in to tell us about a cool Kickstarter they’ve been working on. It’s called the MatchboxARM, and like other tiny-yet-powerful ARM …
NEURAL NETWORKS: YOU’VE got IT SO simple
Neural networks are all the rage right now with increasing numbers of hackers, students, researchers, as well as businesses getting involved. The last resurgence was in …
SRF01 ULTRASONIC SENSOR TEARDOWN
The SRF01 is a popular ultrasonic sensor used mostly for range finding applications. [Jaanus] discovered that they had a few flaws, including not working after …
GIGANTIC 555 FOOTSTOOL
The team at Evil mad scientist Laboratories needed a footstool. obviously not material with buying one, they came across the concept of building a 555 …