via Hackaday: Trees Turned Into Wind Turbines, Non-Destructively
Trees and forests are an incredibly important natural resource not only for lumber and agricultural…
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via Hackaday: Fail of the Week: The Case of the Curiously Colored Streetlights
What color are the street lights in your town? While an unfortunate few still suffer…
via Hackaday: Inside a Portable Satellite Dish
Like many of us, has things he just can’t stop buying. In his case,…
via Hackaday: Static Electricity And The Machines That Make It
Static electricity often just seems like an everyday annoyance when a wool sweater crackles as…
via Hackaday: PC Floppy Copy Protection: Electronic Arts Interlock
Continuing the series on floppy copy protection, examines Electronic Arts’ Interlock system. This was…
via Hackaday: Remembering John Wheeler: You’ve Definitely Heard of His Work
Physicist John Archibald Wheeler made groundbreaking contributions to physics, and has a fantastic…
via Hackaday: Usagi Electric’s Paper Tape Reader is Ready to Hop With the Tube Computer
After previously working out a suitable approach to create a period-correct paper tape reader for…
via Hackaday: Learn GPU Programming With Simple Puzzles
Have you wanted to get into GPU programming with CUDA but found the usual textbooks…
via Hackaday: Lagrange Points and Why You Want to Get Stuck At Them
Visualization of the Sun-Earth Lagrange points. Orbital mechanics is a fun subject, as it involves…
via Hackaday: A Lightweight Balloon Tracker For High Altitude Missions
It’s pretty easy to take a balloon, fill it up with helium, and send it…
via Hackaday: The Rise of Self-Cleaning, Cat-Killing Litter Boxes
Machines that automate the various tedious tasks that come with being a servant in a…
via Hackaday: Hack Your Eyesight with High Tech Bifocals
As we get older, our eyes get worse. That’s just a fact of life. It…
via Hackaday: What’s Your SWR? Are You Sure?
If you are involved in any sort of radio transmission, you probably have at least…
via Hackaday: Polaris Dawn, and the Prudence of a Short Spacewalk
For months before liftoff, the popular press had been hyping up the fact that the…
via Hackaday: Linux, Now In Real Time
Although Linux runs almost every supercomputer, most of the web, the majority of smart phones,…
via Hackaday: Braun TS2 Radio Turns 68, Gets Makeover
The Braun TS2 radio was a state-of-the art tube set in 1956. Today it still…
via Hackaday: The Raspberry Pi 500 Hints At Its Existence
It’s fairly insignificant in the scheme of things, and there’s no hardware as yet for…
via Hackaday: This Week in Security: The Internet Archive, Glitching With a Lighter, and Firefox In-the-wild
The Internet Archive has been hacked. This is an ongoing story, but it looks like…
via Hackaday: The Internet Archive Has Been Hacked
There are a great many organizations out there, all with their own intentions—some selfish, some…
via Hackaday: British Commuters Get Their WiFi Hacked
As if there weren’t enough worrying global news stories already, today the British press and…
via Hackaday: Hack On Self: Collecting Data
A month ago, I’ve talked about using computers to hack on our day-to-day existence, specifically,…
via Hackaday: Catching The BOAT: Gamma-Ray Bursts and The Brightest of All Time
Down here at the bottom of our ocean of air, it’s easy to get complacent…
via Hackaday: Real Time Hacking Of A Supermarket Toy
Sometimes those moments arise when a new device comes on the market and hardware hackers…
via Hackaday: Thermal Runaway: Solving the Bane of Electric Vehicles
Although battery fires in electric cars and two-wheeled vehicles are not a common phenomenon, they…
via Hackaday: WiFi Meets LoRa for Long Range
What do you get when you cross WiFi and LoRa? Researchers in China have been…