New Part News: Raspberry Pi Cuts Out the Middleman

From hackaday.com 4 months ago in Blogs

Raspberry Pi has just announced that they’ll be selling their RP2040 microcontroller chips by the reel, directly to you, at a decent discount. About a year ago, Raspberry Pi released …read more

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PCB Linear Motors For Model Trains

From hackaday.com 5 hours ago in Blogs

Modeling a railroad is hard. Railroads are large, linear pieces of civil engineering. So many modelers are drawn to the smallest scale they can use. Recently a new scale, named …read more

Scott’s CPU From the Bottom Up

From hackaday.com 8 hours ago in Blogs

It isn’t for everyone, but if you work much with computers at a low level, you’ll probably sooner or later entertain the idea of creating your own CPU. There was …read more

Flexible Grip For Hammer Made With 3D Printing Pen

From hackaday.com 11 hours ago in Blogs

When it comes to putting a flexible grip on a tool, you might reach for a self-fusing silicone tape or other similar product. However, [Potent Printables] has discovered you can …read more

OpenCV Running on a Tiny Microcontroller

From hackaday.com 14 hours ago in Blogs

At first blush, it might seem like projects that make extensive use of computer vision or machine learning would need to be based on powerful computing platforms with plenty of …read more

Hacking the Logitech Z906 Speaker System

From hackaday.com 17 hours ago in Blogs

The Logitech Z906 is a well-rounded 5.1 surround sound system. It’s capable of putting out 1000W in peak power, and can decode Dolby Digital and DTS soundtracks as you’d expect. …read more

Put a New Spin on Your 3D Printed Parts

From hackaday.com 20 hours ago in Blogs

Once you get tired of printing keychains and earbud holders with your 3D printer, you’ll want to design things a bit more sophisticated. How about things that rotate? [3DSage] has …read more

Water Your Plants Just Four Times Per Year

From hackaday.com 23 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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