Enjoy an ASCII Version of Star Wars in the Palm of Your Hand for May the 4th

From hackaday.com 2 years ago in Blogs

Everyone by now has probably seen the original — and best; fight us — installment of the Star Wars franchise, and likely the ASCII-art animation version of it that improves …read more

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The Fascinating Evolution Of Micromouse

From hackaday.com 21 hours ago in Blogs

You would think there are only so many ways for a robotic mouse to run a maze, but in its almost 50 year history, competitors in Micromouse events have repeatedly …read more

Electronic Connect 4 Console Doesn’t Use LCD

From hackaday.com 24 hours ago in Blogs

You might think that making your own electronic games would require some kind of LCD, but lately, [Mirko Pavleski] has been making his using inexpensive 8X8 WS2812B LED panels. This …read more

Hackaday Links: May 28, 2023

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

The Great Automotive AM Radio War of 2023 rages on, with the news this week that Ford has capitulated, at least for now. You’ll recall that the opening salvo came …read more

BBC Master 128 Revealed

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

[Adrian] comments that the BBC Master 128 is a rare 8-bit computer, and we agree — we couldn’t remember hearing about that particular machine, although the BBC series is quite …read more

Mangle Videos with RecurBOY and a Raspberry Pi Zero

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

You used to need a lot of equipment to be a video DJ. Now you can do it all with a Raspberry Pi Zero and [cyberboy666]’s recurBOY. And if you …read more

AI Creates Killer Drug

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Researchers in Canada and the United States have used deep learning to derive an antibiotic that can attack a resistant microbe, acinetobacter baumannii, which can infect wounds and cause pneumonia. …read more

Math Reveals How Many Shuffles Randomizes a Deck

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

Math — and some clever simulations — have revealed how many shuffles are required to randomize a deck of 52 cards, but there’s a bit more to it than that. …read more

3D Printing Bores Without Support

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

If you’ve done even a small amount of 3D printing, you probably ran into the challenge of printing a small hole on top of a larger hole. The conventional solution …read more

Hacking a “Smart” Electric Toothbrush To Reset Its Usage Counter

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

Following the trend of stuffing more electronics in everyday devices, the new Philips Sonicare electric toothbrush that [Cyrill Künzi] purchased ended up having a ‘brush head replacement reminder’ feature that …read more

AI Image Generation Gets a Drag Interface

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

AI image generators have gained new tools and techniques for not just creating pictures, but modifying them in consistent and sensible ways, and it seems that every week brings a …read more