2022 Hackaday Prize: Congratulations to the Planet-Friendly Power Finalists!

From hackaday.com 1 month ago in Blogs

The 2022 Hackaday Prize is focused on lightening our load on the planet, and one obvious way to do so is to get and store renewable power locally — the …read more

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Headphone Cable Trouble Inspires Bluetooth Conversion

From hackaday.com 17 hours ago in Blogs

[adblu] encountered the ever-present headphone problem with their Sennheiser Urbanite headphones – the cable broke. These headphones are decent, and despite the cable troubles, worth giving a new life to. …read more

Pocket Radio Powered By Tiny Microcontroller

From hackaday.com 20 hours ago in Blogs

Before the days of MP3 players and smartphones, and even before portable CD players, those of us of a certain age remember that our cassette players were about the only …read more

GGWave Sings the Songs of Your Data

From hackaday.com 21 hours ago in Blogs

We’re suckers for alternative data transmission methods, and [Georgi Gerganov]’s ggwave made us smile. At its core, it’s doing what the phone modems of old used to do – sending …read more

Linux Fu: The Browser Emacs Fusion

From hackaday.com 23 hours ago in Blogs

It is no secret that I have a few things permanently burned into my neurons: the 1802 instruction set, the commands for WordStar, and the commands for emacs. There was …read more

Hacking the RF Protocol of an Obscure Handheld Game

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

When you think old school handheld games, you probably imagine something like Nintendo’s Game Boy line or the Sega Game Gear. But outside of those now iconic systems, there was …read more

Windows 98 For Spaceships? Not quite!

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

One of the news items that generated the most chatter among Hackaday editors this week was that ESA’s Mars Express mission is receiving a software update. And they’re updating the …read more

3D Printed Splint Goes Toe to Toe With Medical Grade Equipment

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

When you think of medical devices, the idea of high end, well, pretty much everything, comes to mind. This is definitely the case when it comes to prosthetics, or in this …read more

Scratch-Built Electric Buggy Tears Up the Dunes

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

It’s a fair bet to say that the future of personal transportation will probably be electric. In support of that, every major car manufacturer either has an electric drivetrain option …read more

Classic Amp Revived With A Pi

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

Guitar amplifiers have a hard life, and as anyone who’s run a venue can tell you, they often have significant electrical issues after a life on the road. [Dsagman] had …read more

Never Miss an Email With This 1970s Style Desktop Notifier

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

If you like the 1970s aesthetic but think bell-bottoms, big hair and psychedelic wallpaper are a bit too much in this day and age, you might want to have a …read more