How to Build Your Own Google AIY without the Kit

From hackaday.com 4 years ago in Blogs

Google’s voice assistant has been around for a while now and when Amazon released its Alexa API and ported the PaaS Cloud code to the Raspberry Pi 2 it was just a matter of time before everyone else jumped on the fast train to maker kingdom. Google just did it in...

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30 FPS Flip-Dot Display Uses Cool Capacitor Trick

From hackaday.com 18 hours ago in Blogs

Most people find two problems when it comes to flip-dot displays: where to buy them and how to drive them. If you’re [Pierre Muth] you level up and add the challenge of driving them fast enough to rival non-mechanical displays...

Audio Out Over A UART With An FTDI USB-To-TRS Cable

From hackaday.com 21 hours ago in Blogs

What is the easiest way to get audio from a WAV file into a line-level format, ready to be plugged into the amplifier of a HiFi audio set (or portable speaker)? As [Konrad Beckmann] demonstrated on Twitter, all you really...

Retro Dreamcast Rhythm Game Controller Built From Scratch

From hackaday.com 24 hours ago in Blogs

Pop’n Music is a rhythm game which has had both arcade and home console releases over the years. [Charlie Cole] is a fan of the Dreamcast version, and decided to build his own controller for the game using the new...

Capstan Winch Central to This All-Band Adjustable Dipole Antenna

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

The perfect antenna is the holy grail of amateur radio. But antenna tuning is a game of inches, and since the optimum length of an antenna depends on the frequency it’s used on, the mere act of spinning the dial...

dodowDIY Is A Homebrew Sleep Aid

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

The Dodow is a consumer device that aims to help users sleep, through biofeedback. The idea is to synchronise one’s breathing with the gentle rhythm of the device’s blue LEDs, which helps slow the heartrate and enables the user to...

Ben Krasnow Measures Human Calorie Consumption By Collecting The “Output”

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

It’s a bit icky reading between the lines on this one… but it’s a fascinating experiment! In his latest Applied Science video, [Ben Krasnow] tries to measure how efficient the human body is at getting energy from food by accurately...

Plasma Discharges Show You Where the Radiation Is

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Depending on the context of the situation, the staccato clicks or chirps of a Geiger counter can be either comforting or alarming. But each pip is only an abstraction, an aural indication of when a particle or ray of ionizing...

Paul Taylor Opened the Lines of Telecommunication for the Hearing-Impaired

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

These days, nearly everyone communicates through some kind of keyboard, whether they are texting, emailing, or posting on various internet discussion forums. Talking over the phone is almost outmoded at this point. But only a few decades ago, the telephone...

Useful Build Tips For Making LED Panel Frames

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

[NotLikeALeafOnTheWind] has created many LED-based display projects, and shares his method for making attractive LED panel frames and mounts. At first glance it may look as though slapping a rectangle of aluminum extrusion around a display is all it takes,...

Hands on With the Ortur Laser Cutter

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

I couldn’t write very much without a computer. Early in my career, I wrote with a typewriter. Unless you are pretty close to perfect — I’m not — it is very frustrating to make edits on typewritten stuff. The equivalent...