A Battery To Add A Tingling Sensation To Your Tweets

From hackaday.com 6 hours ago in Blogs

Internet-connected sex toys are a great way to surprise your partner from work (even the home office) or for spicing up long-distance relationships. For some extra excitement, they also add that thrill of potentially having all your very sensitive private...

An FPGA Video Player Built Just For Fun

From hackaday.com 9 hours ago in Blogs

Sometimes, projects are borne out of neccessity; a fix for a problem that needs to be solved. Other times, they’re done just for the love of creation and experimentation. [ultraembedded]’s FPGAmp media player falls under the latter, and served as...

Soldering Practice Kit Remains Useful After Completion

From hackaday.com 12 hours ago in Blogs

Unsatisfied with the standard fare of soldering practice kits that offer little to no purpose once they’re built, [Jim Heaney] decided to take matters into his own hands and design an easy-to-assemble kit for his class that, once put together,...

SGJPHK2017 Kyoto: A View from Kyoto Tower & Other Random Images

From goughlui.com 13 hours ago in Blogs

It’s been quite a bit of an adventure so far in Kyoto – but it’s not over just yet. This will be the final post covering Kyoto and will look at Kyoto Tower, the Kyoto skyline, the Kyoto International Conference...

Cheap Current Probe Gets Good Review

From hackaday.com 15 hours ago in Blogs

A current probe isn’t a very common fixture on most workbenches because they are pretty expensive. [VoltLog] looks at a fairly inexpensive current probe from Micsig. He seemed impressed with the workmanship and it looks similar to more expensive offerings....

Tesla Turbine Boat Uses Lily Impeller

From hackaday.com 18 hours ago in Blogs

Typically in the RC community, radio control boats rely on small nitro engines or electric motors to get around. Fitted with traditional propellers, they’re capable of great speed and performance. Of course, there’s more than one way to skin a...

Electronic Face Masks are a Fashionable High-Tech Trend

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 19 hours ago in BlogsNews

Engineers are finding ways to innovate face masks with electronics—whether for air filtration, an LED smile, or language translation.

SHT31 STEMMA #stemma #grove #qwiic

From blog.adafruit.com 19 hours ago in PlatformsStores

Never stop STEMMA’ing – that’s what our momma taught us! We stemmified our popular SHT31 breakout. It’ll join our collection of 50+ STEMMA QT sensors and devices, all plug-n-play and super easy to use! https://adafruit.com/stemma

Orbital Tracking on the NES

From hackaday.com 21 hours ago in Blogs

It’s easy to dismiss the original Nintendo Entertainment System as just, well, an entertainment system. But in reality the 6502 based console wasn’t so far removed from early home computers like the Apple II and Commodore 64, and Nintendo even...

Twitter: It’s Not the Algorithm’s Fault. It’s Much Worse.

From hackaday.com 24 hours ago in Blogs

Maybe you heard about the anger surrounding Twitter’s automatic cropping of images. When users submit pictures that are too tall or too wide for the layout, Twitter automatically crops them to roughly a square. Instead of just picking, say, the...

Linear Clock Ratchets up the Action

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

On the face of it, making a clock that displays the time by moving a pointer along a linear scale shouldn’t be too hard. After all, steppers and linear drives should do the job in a jiffy. Throw an Arduino...

The Legacy of Captain Planet 30 Years Later

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

SyFy looks at Captain Planet and how our engagement with media can change our perception of the world and inspire change.The animated superhero series was first broadcast by TBS on Sept. 15, 1990, and followed the story of five teenagers...

Today[night] is International Observe the Moon Night

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

Today is International Observe the Moon Night. So later on take a moment (or a few) to observe the moon! You can find a bunch of great resourses at NASA:Believe it or not, observing the Moon is something you can...

Fermenting Yogurt With The Help Of Hardware

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Fermentation is a natural process that has been exploited by humanity for millennia. Behind such favorites as cheese and beer, it takes just the right conditions to get the desired results. To aid in this process, and to explore the...

City-Wide Photoville Festival Runs 9/17 – 11/29 #celebratephotography

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

Explore outside or indoors – the choice is yours for the 2020 Photoville Festival! From Photoville:So yes, Photoville will look slightly different this year! With social distancing in mind, we’ve had to temporarily let go of our beloved shipping containers,...

The Atlantic Remembers the Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg #celebratephotography

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

From The Atlantic:She was the 107th Supreme Court justice, and the second woman to serve on the high court. In her years on the court, she became an influential icon to many. Read moreWe #celebratephotography here at Adafruit every Saturday....

How Hackers Could Fool Artificial Intelligence

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

NPR podcast Short Wave explains adversarial AI.Artificial intelligence might not be as smart as we think. University and military researchers are studying how attackers could hack into AI systems by exploiting how these systems learn. It’s known as “adversarial AI.”...

Internet Connected E-Paper Message Board

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Are you still writing notes on paper and sticking them to the fridge like it’s the ’80s? Well, if you are, and you read this site, you’d probably like to upgrade to something a bit more 21st century. And, thanks...

Iconic Arecibo Observatory Undergoing Structural Inspections

From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores

In August, the iconic Arecibo Observatory was damaged when a cable snapped and fell, damaging a half-dozen panels. Now the historic observatory is being evaluated for repairs. Here’s more from Astronomy Now:The iconic Arecibo Observatory remains off line pending completion...

Argon One M.2 Case for Raspberry Pi 4 Adds SATA Support, Full-Sized HDMI Ports

From www.cnx-software.com 1 day ago in News

Yesterday, we noted that DeskPi Pro Raspberry Pi 4 case offered an interesting alternative to Argon One enclosure thanks to support for 2.5-inch SATA SSD/HDD, full-sized HDMI ports, and a PWM fan. What I did not know at the time...

Tracking Down Radio Frequency Noise Source, With Help from Mother Nature

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Amateur radio operators and shortwave listeners have a common enemy: QRM, which is ham-speak for radio frequency interference caused by man-made sources. Indiscriminate, often broadband in nature, and annoying as hell, QRM spews forth from all kinds of sources, and...

My Sonos Connect is Technically Not a Brick

From www.eetimes.com 2 days ago in News

Sonos didn't quite brick its legacy products, but it's depending a little too heavily on the ingenuity of its loyal (so far) customers. The post My Sonos Connect is Technically Not a Brick appeared first on EETimes.

NanoPi M4V2

From hackerboards.com 2 days ago in News

The NanoPi M4V2, based on a 2GHz Rockchip RK3399 SoC, has a Raspberry Pi B3+ style form-factor and expansion bus. Key features include 4GB RAM, eMMC and microSD storage, WiFi/BT, 4x USB3.0, 4k HDMI 2.0, 2x MIPI-CSI, PCIe, and more.

MakeCode Minute: Candle Flame Flicker @adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit @MSMakeCode #makecode

From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores

In this week’s MakeCode Minute: Candle Flame FlickerRealistic candle flame flicker in MakeCode for Circuit Playground Express! Also, perfect for pumpkins!https://makecode.com/_08XLM2aY6a0XTo learn about MakeCode: makecode.adafruit.comMakeCode@adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit @MSMakeCode #makecode To learn more about MakeCode, check out this guide.

Building A Compact Reflow Oven With Halogen Lamps

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

Very often, particularly on the Internet, we’re fooled into thinking bigger is always better. The fact remains that this isn’t always the case. When it comes to reflow ovens, for example if you’re working with short runs of small PCBs,...

New “4D Imaging Radar” for Automotive Industry in the Works. Is the Name Accurate?

From www.allaboutcircuits.com 2 days ago in BlogsNews

This week, Xilinx and Continental announced the auto industry’s first "production-ready" 4D imaging radar. But do 4D radars actually exist beyond the theoretical?

Without Trade Shows, What Are We Missing…Really?

From www.eetimes.com 2 days ago in News

One of my rare joyful moments during the Covid-19 scourge was the email from the Consumer Technology Assocaition that this year’s actual be-there-or-be-square CES had been flushed. The post Without Trade Shows, What Are We Missing…Really? appeared first on EETimes.

Autodesk Blinks, Keeps STEP File Export in Free Version of Fusion 360

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

Good news, Fusion 360 fans — Autodesk just announced that they won’t be removing support for STEP file exports for personal use licensees of the popular CAD/CAM platform after all. As we noted last week, Autodesk had announced major changes...

Time to Open Eyes to Eye Tracking

From www.eetimes.com 2 days ago in News

Amidst the mania of self-driving, did you dismiss the role of eye-gaze tracking and driver monitoring systems (DMS) in cars? The post Time to Open Eyes to Eye Tracking appeared first on EETimes.

Xbox Controller Gets Snap On Joystick from Clever 3D-Printed Design

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

People making DIY controls to enhance flight simulators is a vibrant niche of engineering and hackery, and it sure looks like Microsoft Flight Simulator is doing its part to keep the scene lively. [akaki]’s latest project turns an Xbox One...