via Hackaday: Pulling Apart An Old Satellite Truck Tracker
Sometimes there’s nothing more rewarding than pulling apart an old piece of hardware of mysterious…
Category: Offbeat
via Hackaday: Broadcast TV Simulator Keeps the Nostalgia Flowing
Watch out, Gen X-ers — there’s a nostalgia overload heading your way, courtesy of this…
via Hackaday: Winamp Releases Source Code, But Is It Really Open?
The 1990s seem to have reached that point at which they are once more considered…
via Hackaday: Digital Bumper Sticker Tells Everyone What You’re Listening To
Bumper stickers are usually political, crude, or otherwise inflammatory. Rather a more fun example is…
via Hackaday: Will You Need Ad Block for Your Car?
The modern web has become difficult to navigate without ad blocking software. Ford now has…
via Hackaday: The Universe as We Know It May End Sooner Than Expected
The ‘Sombrero Potential’ as seen with the Higgs mechanism. One of the exciting aspects of…
via Hackaday: An Automatic Cat Feeder Built With A 4060 Binary Counter
We’ve seen a great many cat feeders over the years. Some rely on the Internet…
via Hackaday: StratoSoar Glider Flies Itself from High Altitude
As the technology available to the average hacker and maker gets better and cheaper each…
via Hackaday: Reverse Engineering The Web API of an Akaso EK7000 Action Camera
Recently, bought an Akaso EK7000 action camera for his daughter’s no-smartphones-allowed summer camp,…
Famous Collins Transceiver in Apocalypse Now
We have seen so many great receivers and other equipment appear in movies, it’s surprising…
via Hackaday: Recreating a Popular Faux-Nixie Clock
There’s a good chance you’ve seen “Nixie clocks” on the Internet that replace the classic…
via Hackaday: Floorboard Is a Keyboard for Your Feet
Whether you have full use of your hands or not, a foot-operated keyboard is a…
via Hackaday: Apple May Break Into the Hearing Aid Industry
When the entry of a tech giant such as Apple into a market represents its…
Man sold 52 years ago reunites with brother in Odisha, thanks to ham radio (India)
A sexagenarian who was sold by his father and step mother in Delhi, 52 years…
via Hackaday: Swiss Researchers May Have Solved Hydrogen Storage
If you follow the world of clean energy, you will probably have read all about…
via Hackaday: The Apple Watch As An Ammeter
Your shiny new personal electronic device is likely to be designed solely as an app…
via Hackaday: Create Custom Gridfinity Boxes Using Images Of Tools
Exhibit A: A standard-issue banana. We love it when a community grabs hold of an…
via Hackaday: Adjustable Electric Hand Warmers
It may be the last gasp of summer here in the Northern Hemisphere, but it’s…
via Hackaday: Bluetooth Version 6.0 Core Specification Released
The Bluetooth SIG recently released the core specification for version 6.0 of Bluetooth. Compared to…
via Hackaday: It Turns Out, A PCB Makes A Nice Watch Dial
Printed circuit boards are typically only something you’d find in a digital watch. However, as…
via Hackaday: 2024 Tiny Games Contest: Morse Quest Goes Where You Do
Do you know Morse code already? Or are you maybe trying to learn so you…
via Hackaday: Your Name In Landsat
We’re guessing most readers can cite things from their youth which gave them an interest…
via Hackaday: Using a 2D Scanner to Make 3D Things
wanted to clone some model car raceway track and realised that by scanning…
via Hackaday: Ultra-Black Material, Sustainably Made from Wood
Researchers at the University of British Columbia leveraged an unusual discovery into ultra-black material made…
via Hackaday: Roll Your Own Presence Sensor
wanted an Everything Presence Lite kite but found it was always out of stock….