Josef Prusa: Multi Material Extruders for Amazing Color Prints

From hackaday.com 4 years ago in Blogs

The Prusa i3 Mk 2 is the hotness in consumer-grade, quality 3D printing right now. And things just keep getting more interesting. We caught up with Josef Průša at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend to see the multi-material extruder in its final form. It’s an upgrade to the Mk 2...

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Micro:bit Makes Cardboard Pinball More Legit

From hackaday.com 8 hours ago in Blogs

What have you been doing to ward off the winter blues? [TechnoChic] decided to lean in to winter and make a really fun-looking game out of it by combining the awesome PinBox 3000 cardboard pinball sandbox with a couple of...

Robotic Pool Cue Can Be Your Friend Or Your Foe

From hackaday.com 11 hours ago in Blogs

In his everlasting quest to replace physical skill with technology, [Shane] of [Stuff Made Here] has taken aim at the game of eight-ball pool. Using a combination of computer vision and mechatronics, he created a robotic pool system that can...

Motor-Driven Movement Modernizes POV Toy

From hackaday.com 14 hours ago in Blogs

Just as we are driven today to watch gifs that get better with every loop, people 100+ years ago entertained themselves with various persistence of vision toys that used the power of optical illusions to make still images come to...

Hacking a Non-Dimmable LED Fixture

From hackaday.com 17 hours ago in Blogs

For most of us, the solution to having a non-dimmable LED light bulb but needing a dimmable one is a simple as a drive to the store to get the right kind of bulb. But that seems downright boring, not...

Taking A Capacitor Microphone To The Next Level

From hackaday.com 18 hours ago in Blogs

There was a time when a microphone for most people was a cheap plastic affair that probably came for free with their sound card, but in the age of pandemic video streaming no desktop is complete without a chunky model...

Real-Time OS Basics: Picking The Right RTOS When You Need One

From hackaday.com 20 hours ago in Blogs

When do you need to use a real-time operating system (RTOS) for an embedded project? What does it bring to the table, and what are the costs? Fortunately there are strict technical definitions, which can also help one figure out...

Deleting The Camshafts From A Miata Engine

From hackaday.com 21 hours ago in Blogs

The idea of camless automotive engines has been around for a while but so far has been limited to prototypes and hypercars. [Wesley Kagan] has been working on a DIY version for a while, and successfully converted a Mazda Miata...

30 FPS Flip-Dot Display Uses Cool Capacitor Trick

From hackaday.com 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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...