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Tightwad Hacks Label Printer, Beats Manufacturer at Own Game

From hackaday.com 4 years ago in Blogs

Sometimes we hack for the thrill of making something new, and sometimes we hack to push back the dark veil of ignorance to shed fresh light on a problem. And sometimes, like when turning a used label printer into a point-of-sale receipt printer, we hack because we’re cheapskates. We say...

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Smart Lid Spies On Sourdough Starter, Sends Data Wirelessly

From hackaday.com 8 hours ago in Blogs

[Justin Lam] created a wonderfully-detailed writeup of his Smart Sourdough Lid project, which was created out of a desire to get better data on the progress and health of his sourdough starters, and to do so more efficiently. The result...

Homebrew Espresso Machine Has Closed-Loop Control

From hackaday.com 11 hours ago in Blogs

[Ben Katz] is in the process of building a compact, closed-loop espresso machine, and really seems to be pulling it off in the first shot. Though it may not be the final product, we’re in awe of the beautiful guts...

Inspire Dev Kit Drops Price Of MSLA Printer To Just $30

From hackaday.com 14 hours ago in Blogs

Over the last couple of years, we’ve seen massive price reductions on consumer 3D printers based on masked stereolithography (MSLA) technology. As the name implies, these machines use a standard LCD panel to selectively mask off the ultraviolet light coming...

Serene Snowdecahedrons

From hackaday.com 16 hours ago in Blogs

It’s no secret that many parts of the United States saw quite a bit of snow that past few weeks. Even snowed in, hackers and engineers continue to do what they do and invent crazy wonderful things. Spurred on by...

We’re Cloning Animals From the “Frozen Zoo”; Like A Seed Bank But For Animals

From hackaday.com 17 hours ago in Blogs

Seed banks are facilities of great value to biodiversity and agriculture around the world. These facilities are used to house stocks of seeds of a wide variety, helping to maintain genetic diversity and avoid the permanent loss of various plant...

Can Plants Bend Light to Their Self-Preserving Will?

From hackaday.com 19 hours ago in Blogs

It does sound a bit silly — the idea that given enough time, a plant could influence the order of hardware-generated random numbers in order to get enough light to survive. But not so silly that [DeckerM] couldn’t wait to...

Arduboy FX Mod-Chip: Now You’re Playing with Power

From hackaday.com 20 hours ago in Blogs

Traditionally, a forum full of technical users trying integrate their own hardware into a game system for the purposes of gaining unfettered access to its entire software library was the kind of thing that would keep engineers at Sony and...

2:3 Scale VT100 is a Perfect Pairing for PDP-8/I Replica

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

When he went shopping for a vintage serial terminal to go along with his reproduction PDP-8/I computer, [Michael Gardi] came down with a bad case of sticker shock. But rather than be discouraged, he reasoned that if his “retro” computer...

Retrotechtacular: Philips Factory Tour, circa 1930s

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

If you’ve got a half-hour or so to spare, you could do worse than this video trip through a Philips factory in the 1930s. The film is presented without narration, but from the Dutch title cards and the fact that...

Fueling with Ammonia

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

There’s a major push now to find energy sources with smaller carbon footprints. The maritime shipping industry, according to IEEE Spectrum, is going towards ammonia. Burning ammonia produces no CO2 and it isn’t hard to make. It doesn’t require …read...

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