A Fantastic Frontier of FPGA Flexibility Found in the 2019 Supercon Badge

From hackaday.com 7 days ago in Blogs

We have just concluded a successful Hackaday Superconference where a highlight for many was digging into this year’s hardware badge. Shaped in the general form of a Game Boy handheld gaming console, the heart of the badge is a large FPGA opening up new and exciting potential for badge hacking....

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Retrotechtacular: The Gyro-X

From hackaday.com 18 hours ago in Blogs

In the 1950s, American automobiles bloomed into curvaceous gas-guzzlers that congested the roads. The profiles coming out of Detroit began to deflate in the 1960s, but many bloat boats were still sailing the streets. For all their hulking mass, these...

A STM32 Tonewheel Organ Without A Single Tonewheel

From hackaday.com 20 hours ago in Blogs

The one thing you might be surprised not to find in [Laurent]’s beautiful tonewheel organ build is any tonewheels at all. Tonewheels were an early way to produce electronic organ sounds: by spinning a toothed wheel at different frequencies and...

Updating to Windows 10 for Fun and Profit: Make Those OEM Keys Go Further

From hackaday.com 21 hours ago in Blogs

Microsoft seems to have an every-other-version curse. We’re not sure how much of this is confirmation bias, but consider the track record of releases. Windows 95 was game-changing, Windows 98 famously crashed during live demo. Windows 2000 was amazing, Windows...

1984 WeatherMan Pi Shows the Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

When [MisterM]’s MIL gave him a rad 80s portable cassette player, he jumped for joy. Once he figured out the window was exactly the same size as the standard for Raspberry Pi HATs, the possibilities left him reeling. A flurry...

A Thermal Typewriter for Burning Thoughts

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

There’s a certain charm to old technologies that have been supplanted by newer versions. And we’re not just talking about aesthetic nostalgia this time. With older versions of current technology, you are still connected to the underlying process, and that’s...

LED Matrix Watch Is The Smart Watch We Didn’t Know We Wanted

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

[Mile] put together this stunning LED matrix watch, on which the stars of this show are the 256 monochrome 0603 LEDs arranged in a grid on its face. The matrix is only 1.4in in the diagonal and is driven by...

A Self-Healing, Stretchable Electronic Skin

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

In a report published by Science Advances, a research team from the United States and Korea revealed a strain-sensitive, stretchable, and autonomous self-healing semiconductor film. In other words, they’ve created an electronic skin that’s capable of self-regulation. Time to cue...

Start Your Day With The Mountain That Rises

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

Like many of us, [Zach Archer] enjoys the comfort of his darkened room so much that he has trouble getting up and facing the day. To make things a little easier for himself, he decided to put together a custom...

Sara Adkins is Jamming Out with Machines

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

Asking machines to make music by themselves is kind of a strange notion. They’re machines, after all. They don’t feel happy or hurt, and as far as we know, they don’t long for the affections of other machines. Humans like...

The Story of A Secret Underground Parisian Society

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

Deep in the heart of Paris, a series of underground tunnels snakes across the city. They cross into unkept public spaces from centuries ago that have since vanished from collective memory – abandoned basements, catacombs, and subways hundreds of miles...