RoMeLa’s Sideways Walking Robot Has Evolved More Limbs From hackaday.com 5 hours ago in Blogs Despite the success shown in prototypes from groups like Boston Dynamics, bipedal walking is still really hard to implement. When the robot lifts one leg, it has to shift its center of gravity over the other leg to avoid falling...
Slipcasting Resin Prototypes From hackaday.com 8 hours ago in Blogs [Eric Strebel] doesn’t need an introduction anymore. If there is a picture of an elegantly designed part with a professional finish on our pages, there is a good chance he has a hand in it. This time he is sharing...
Card Reader Lockout Keeps Unauthorized Tool Users at Bay From hackaday.com 11 hours ago in Blogs It’s a problem common to every hackerspace, university machine shop, or even the home shops of parents with serious control issues: how do you make sure that only trained personnel are running the machines? There are all kinds of ways to...
Hackaday Links: May 20, 2018 From hackaday.com 14 hours ago in Blogs One of the more interesting pieces of tech from Hollywood that never seems to become a reality is a location tracker. Remember the ‘movement tracker’ in Alien that found the cat in the locker? Yeah, like that. Something that reports the...
Inverted Pendulum For The Control Enthusiast From hackaday.com 17 hours ago in Blogs Once you step into the world of controls, you quickly realize that controlling even simple systems isn’t as easy as applying voltage to a servo. Before you start working on your own bipedal robot or scratch-built drone, though, you might...
Stretching The Definitions Of A Custom IC From hackaday.com 20 hours ago in Blogs Maker Faire is the nexus for all things new and exciting. At the Bay Area Maker Faire this weekend, zGlue introduced a new platform that stretches the definition of custom ICs. Is this custom silicon? No, not at all. zGlue is a platform...
Internet of Laundry — Let the ESP8266 Watch Your Dirty Drawers Get Clean From hackaday.com 23 hours ago in Blogs When you think of world-changing devices, you usually don’t think of the washing machine. However, making laundry manageable changed not only how we dress but how much time people spent getting their clothes clean. So complaining about how laborious our laundry...
Tiny Sideways Tetris on a Business Card From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs Everyone recognizes Tetris, even when it’s tiny Tetris played sideways on a business card. [Michael Teeuw] designed these PCBs and they sport small OLED screens to display contact info. The Tetris game is actually a hidden easter egg; a long press...
Review: SanDisk Ultra Dual Drive m3.0 128Gb USB Flash Drive From goughlui.com 1 day ago in Blogs It doesn’t happen very often, but once in a while, I need a new USB flash drive. This time around, I was looking for something cheap, of reputable make and 128Gb capacity. Interestingly, looking around my local computer shop, the...
SDRplay Release a Dual Tuner SDR called RSPduo From www.rtl-sdr.com 1 day ago in Blogs SDRplay have released a new product at this years Hamvention called the "RSPduo". The product uses the same technology as their previous RSP models, but this time includes a phase-coherent dual tuner architecture which allows you to tune to two...
This Algorithm Calculated the Chance of Death for 10 Key ‘Game of Thrones’ Characters From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores Spoiler warning upfront depending on how much you trust the algorithm. Data scientist Taylor Larkin created an in depth analysis on the likelihood of each characters death in the final seasons of GoT. Via Highsnobiety: To do so, Larkin created...
Video of the Arduino FPGA Board Demo at Maker Faire From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs This week, Arduino announced a lot of new hardware including an exceptionally interesting FPGA development board aimed at anyone wanting to dip their toes into the seas of VHDL and developing with programmable logic. We think it’s the most interesting...
Biomimicry: when technology is inspired by nature From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores Acciona shared this video on Youtube! Biomimicry, the term that describes technology inspired by Nature, was coined in the mid-twentieth century. Today, that approach makes it possible to create energy-saving solutions.
ZiP (zGlue Integration Platform) Enables the Design & Manufacturing of Low Cost Custom Chips From www.cnx-software.com 1 day ago in News When I first started to read about zOrigin on Crowdsupply, I was not really impressed. Meh… Yet another Bluetooth LE fitness tracker with a few sensors, and an Android app. But as I read...
The Density Cusp: Black Holes discovered en masse From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores via slashgear A team of researchers have discovered evidence of thousands of black holes near the center of our galaxy. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, Chuck Hailey of Columbia University in New York and crew pointed to a large number...
Mars Helicopter to Launch in July 2020 Rover Mission #NASA From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores From NASA: Started in August 2013 as a technology development project at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the Mars Helicopter had to prove that big things could come in small packages. The result of the team’s four years of design,...
Scrapped Motors Don’t Care About Direction From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs Spinners built into games of chance like roulette or tabletop board games stop on a random number after being given a good spin. There is no trick, but they eventually rest because of friction, no matter how hard your siblings...
Black Panther’s Costume Designer Breaks Down T’Challa’s Entrance Scene #SciFiSunday From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores Great episode of “Notes on a Scene” from Vanity Fair. On this episode of “Notes on a Scene,” Black Panther’s costume designer Ruth Carter breaks down T’Challa’s entrance and the Warrior Falls scene. Black Panther is out on Digital May...
“Something bold, something pure” – the 50-year long legacy of 2001: A Space Odyssey #SciFiSunday From blog.adafruit.com 1 day ago in PlatformsStores A group of artists celebrate the 50th Anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey in this wonderful post from It’s Nice That. When 2001: A Space Odyssey premiered on 10 May 1968 – 50 years ago today – it somehow captured...
Friend in Need Gets Junk Bin PC for Cramped Quarters From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs If you doubt the power of the Hackaday community, check this one out. Stalwart reader and tipster [starhawk] has pitched in to help a friend in need, someone he met through Hackaday.io. Seems this friend’s current living arrangements are somewhat...
Adafruit New Products this Week: Featuring Adafruit CRICKIT! @adafruit #adafruit From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores They’re new, they’re cool, they’re here! NEW PRODUCTS THIS WEEK Adafruit CRICKIT for Circuit Playground Express: COMING SOON! Sign up to be notified as soon as we have these in stock! Sometimes we wonder if robotics engineers ever watch movies....
It’s Not Morning Until Green o’clock From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs [JohnathonT] has a two-year-old who can’t reliably tell time just yet. Every morning, he gets up before the rooster crows and barges into his parents’ room, ready to face the day. In an effort to catch a few more Zs,...
Visit Tapigami Tape City, Where Tape Is The Fabric Of Society From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs With so many cool things going on at Bay Area Maker Faire, it takes something special to stand out from the crowd. Covering several hundred square feet of floor and wall with creations made of tape would do the trick....
People with Dementia can DRESS Smarter From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs People with dementia have trouble with some of the things we take for granted, including dressing themselves. It can be a remarkably difficult task involving skills like balance, pattern recognition inside of other patterns, ordering, gross motor skill, and dexterity...
Motorized Stage Finesses the Microscopic World From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs No matter how fine your fine motor skills may be, it’s really hard to manipulate anything on the stage of a microscope with any kind of accuracy. One jitter or caffeine-induced tremor means the feature of interest on the sample...
X-Ray Emitter Made From Barbecue Lighter – Fires 10 keV X-Rays! | #bbq #xray #xrays From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores Quite possibly the first time I’ve ever considered the words “bbq” and “x-ray” in the same sentence! This is a small device I made that fires a pulse of ~10 keV XRays when the trigger is pulled. It uses no...
Yanny or Laurel robot #yannyorlaurel @adafruit #adafruit #CRICKIT From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores Yanny or Laurel robot (video), we had about 1 more hour before this meme expires, so we made a voting bot, it says the word, logs to csv, moves head, has clickable, light up buttons, it’s a voting machine.. Made...
One-key Keyboard is Exercise in Sub-millimeter Design From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs As [Glen] describes it, the only real goal in his decision to design his single-key USB keyboard was to see how small he could build a functional keyboard using a Cherry MX key switch, and every fraction of a millimeter counted. Making a...
Virtual Reality and Horror Gaming From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores This for sure reminds me of that Black Mirror episode and I’m already terrified. I’ll just stick to Mario Kart or something. Via Wareable When it comes to effectively scaring people, as Gray suggests, it seems like plausibility illusion plays...
Matrix Painter – Draw using your phone! From blog.adafruit.com 2 days ago in PlatformsStores Awesome tutorial video from engineerish on YouTube! Description and details from GitHub: The “Matrix Painter” is a project where you control 8×8 LED Matrices from either your computer, a friends computer, or any other device such as a phone. Processing...