Split-Flap Clock Makes a Nice Side Quest in Larger Project
?w=800" alt=""/>Sometimes projects spawn related projects that take on a life of their own. That’s OK, especially when the main project is large and complex, In that case, side-quest projects provide https://hackaday.com/2025/02/07/split-flap-clock-makes-a-nice-side-quest-in-larger-project/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/07/split-flap-clock-makes-a-nice-side-quest-in-larger-project/
Quix Furniture for Modular Furniture Fun
?w=800" alt=""/>If you’re someone who moves a lot, or just likes to change your decor, the limitations of conventional furniture can be a bit of a pain. Why not build your https://hackaday.com/2025/02/07/quix-furniture-for-modular-furniture-fun/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/07/quix-furniture-for-modular-furniture-fun/
RC Cars With First Person Video, All With An ESP32
?w=800" alt=""/>Those little ESP32-CAM boards which mate the WiFi-enabled microcontroller with a small parallel-interface camera module have been with us for years, and while they are undeniably cool to play with, https://hackaday.com/2025/02/06/rc-cars-with-first-person-video-all-with-an-esp32/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/06/rc-cars-with-first-person-video-all-with-an-esp32/
Solid Tips for Designing Assistive Technology (Or Anything Else, Really)
?w=800" alt=""/>Do you make things, and have you got almost ten minutes to spare? If not, make the time because this video by [PrintLab] is chock-full of healthy and practical design tips. https://hackaday.com/2025/02/06/solid-tips-for-designing-assistive-technology-or-anything-else-really/
T1 is a RISC-V Cray
?w=800" alt=""/>The crux of most supercomputers is the ability to operate on many pieces of data at once — something video cards are good at, too. Enter T1 (short for Torrent-1), https://hackaday.com/2025/02/06/t1-is-a-risc-v-cray/
Running Doom on an Apple Lightning to HDMI Adapter
?w=800" alt=""/>As a general rule of thumb, anything that has some kind of display output and a processor more beefy than an early 90s budget PC can run Doom just fine. https://hackaday.com/2025/02/06/running-doom-on-an-apple-lightning-to-hdmi-adapter/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/06/running-doom-on-an-apple-lightning-to-hdmi-adapter/
A Great Use for AI: Wasting Scammers Time!
?w=800" alt=""/>We may have found the killer app for AI. Well, actually, British telecom provider O2 has. As The Guardian reports, they have an AI chatbot that acts like a 78-year-old https://hackaday.com/2025/02/06/a-great-use-for-ai-wasting-scammers-time/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/06/a-great-use-for-ai-wasting-scammers-time/
How Do We Deal With Microplastics In The Ocean?
?w=800" alt=""/>Like the lead paint and asbestos of decades past, microplastics are the new awful contaminant that we really ought to do something about. They’re particularly abundant in the aquatic environment, https://hackaday.com/2025/02/06/how-do-we-deal-with-microplastics-in-the-ocean/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/06/how-do-we-deal-with-microplastics-in-the-ocean/
Lorem Ipsum 36? Dolor Sit Amet Keyboard!
?w=800" alt="A 36-key monoblock split keyboard with three thumb keys on each side."/>You know, it’s a tale as old as custom mechanical keyboards. [penkia] couldn’t find any PCBs with 36 keys and Gateron low-profile switch footprints, so they made their own and https://hackaday.com/2025/02/06/lorem-ipsum-36-dolor-sit-amet-keyboard/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/06/lorem-ipsum-36-dolor-sit-amet-keyboard/
A Tube, The Wooden Kind
?w=800" alt=""/>While we aren’t heavy-duty woodworkers, we occasionally make some sawdust as part of a project, and we admire people who know how to make wood and do what they want. https://hackaday.com/2025/02/06/a-tube-the-wooden-kind/
This Thermometer Rules!
?w=800" alt=""/>A PCB ruler is a common promotional item, or design exercise. Usually they have some sample outlines and holes as an aid to PCB design, but sometimes they also incorporate https://hackaday.com/2025/02/05/this-thermometer-rules/
Making Products for Fun and (Probably No) Profit
?w=800" alt="A picture of a stainless steel ring with a phillips screwdriver bit protruding from it sitting slightly askance atop a matching ring with a phillips head cut out like that of a screw. They are the same size so they can mesh when placed together."/>If you’re like most makers, you have a few product ideas kicking about, but you may not have made it all the way to production of those things. If you’re https://hackaday.com/2025/02/05/making-products-for-fun-and-probably-no-profit/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/05/making-products-for-fun-and-probably-no-profit/
Investigating Electromagnetic Magic in Obsolete Machines
?w=800" alt=""/>Before the digital age, when transistors were expensive, unreliable, and/or nonexistent, engineers had to use other tricks to do things that we take for granted nowadays. Motor positioning, for example, https://hackaday.com/2025/02/05/investigating-electromagnetic-magic-in-obsolete-machines/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/05/investigating-electromagnetic-magic-in-obsolete-machines/
FLOSS Weekly Episode 819: Session, It’s all Abot the Metadata
?w=800" alt=""/>This week, Jonathan Bennett talks Session and cryptocurrency skepticism with Kee Jeffries! Why fork Signal? How does Session manage to decentralize? And why the cryptocurrency angle? Listen to find out! https://hackaday.com/2025/02/05/floss-weekly-episode-819-session-its-all-abot-the-metadata/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/05/floss-weekly-episode-819-session-its-all-abot-the-metadata/
Investigating Why Animals Sleep: From Memory Sorting to Waste Disposal
?w=800"/>What has puzzled researchers and philosophers for many centuries is the ‘why’ of sleep, along with the ‘how’. We human animals know from experience that we need to sleep, and https://hackaday.com/2025/02/05/investigating-why-animals-sleep-from-memory-sorting-to-waste-disposal/
Breaking: USPS Halts Inbound Packages From China and Hong Kong
?w=800" alt=""/>Some troubling news hit overnight as the United States Post Office announced via a terse “Service Alert” that they would suspend acceptance of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong https://hackaday.com/2025/02/05/breaking-usps-halts-inbound-packages-from-china-and-hong-kong/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/05/breaking-usps-halts-inbound-packages-from-china-and-hong-kong/
Telling Time Used to be a Ball
?w=800" alt=""/>If you watch the New Year’s festivities from New York, you know that they mark midnight with the dropping of a big, gaudy ball. You might assume this was just https://hackaday.com/2025/02/04/telling-time-used-to-be-a-ball/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/04/telling-time-used-to-be-a-ball/
Homebrew Foil and Oil Caps Change Your Guitar’s Tone
?w=800" alt=""/>How any string instrument sounds depends on hundreds of factors; even the tiniest details matter. Seemingly inconsequential things like whether the tree that the wood came from grew on the https://hackaday.com/2025/02/04/homebrew-foil-and-oil-caps-change-your-guitars-tone/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/04/homebrew-foil-and-oil-caps-change-your-guitars-tone/
Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Keyboard Configurator
?w=800" alt="Illustrated Kristina with an IBM Model M keyboard floating between her hands."/>Have you ever wished you could experiment with different layouts super easily, just by adding or removing a few switches here and there and printing a new case? Well, [heyisjambo] https://hackaday.com/2025/02/03/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-keyboard-configurator/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/03/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-keyboard-configurator/
BLE Rain Gauge Sips Water and Batteries
?w=800" alt=""/>It isn’t that hard to make an electronic rain gauge if you have a steady source of power or you don’t mind changing batteries often. But [Matthew Ford] offers a https://hackaday.com/2025/02/03/ble-rain-gauge-sips-water-and-batteries/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/03/ble-rain-gauge-sips-water-and-batteries/