How Big is the Moon? Figure it out Yourself

From hackaday.com 3 months ago in Blogs

We have to confess that we occasionally send friends a link to “let me Google that for you” when they ask us something that they could have easily found online. …read more

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Water Your Plants Just Four Times Per Year

From hackaday.com 7 hours ago in Blogs

While it’s true that some plants thrive on neglect, many of them do just fine with a few ounces of water once a week, as long as the light level …read more

Engineering vs Pigeons

From hackaday.com 10 hours ago in Blogs

We’ve all been there. Pigeons are generally pretty innocuous, but they do leave a mess. If you have a convertible or a bicycle or even just a clean car, you …read more

Defeat Your Car’s Autostop Feature With A Little SwitchBot

From hackaday.com 13 hours ago in Blogs

These days, many new cars come with some variant of an “auto-stop” feature. This shuts down the car’s engine at stop lights and in other similar situations in order to …read more

One Coder is Porting Portal To the Nintendo 64

From hackaday.com 16 hours ago in Blogs

When Portal came out in 2007, developers Valve chose not to release the groundbreaking title on an obsolete Nintendo console long out of production. Nobody cared at the time, of …read more

MIDI Controller Looks Good, Enables Your Air Guitar Habit

From hackaday.com 19 hours ago in Blogs

We all want to be guitar heroes, but most of us have to settle for letting a MIDI board play our riffs using a MIDI controller. [Joris] thinks a MIDI …read more

3D Printed Linear Actuator Is Cheap and Strong

From hackaday.com 22 hours ago in Blogs

Motors are all well and good for moving things, but they’re all about the round-and-round. Sometimes, you need to move something back and forth, and for that a linear actuator …read more

Hackaday Prize 2022: Recycled Tire Table Is Where the Rubber Meets the Road

From hackaday.com 24 hours ago in Blogs

The problem with good inventions is that we usually end up with way too many of that particular widget lying around, which can cause all kinds of problems. Take the …read more

The Little Big Dogs of Invention

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

This is a story about two dogs I know. It is also a story of the U.S. Navy, aviation, and nuclear weapons. Sometimes it is easy to see things in …read more

Practice Your Shopping Skills With This Self-Service Checkout Game

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Self-service checkouts have become a common feature in supermarkets the world over, a trend accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic. While some may lament the loss of human contact, others relish …read more

Natural Language AI in Your Next Project? It’s Easier Than You Think

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Want your next project to trash talk? Dynamically rewrite boring log messages as sci-fi technobabble? Happily (or grudgingly) answer questions? Doing that sort of thing and more can be done …read more