Raspberry Pi Pico W Adds Wireless

From hackaday.com 1 month ago in Blogs

News just in from the folks at Raspberry Pi: the newest version of their Pico has WiFi and is called, obviously, the Pico W. We were going to get our …read more

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Should’ve Used a 555 — Or 276 of Them

From hackaday.com 7 hours ago in Blogs

When asked to whip up a simple egg timer, most of us could probably come up with a quick design based on the ubiquitous 555 timer. Add a couple of …read more

A Steam Box For Not A Lot

From hackaday.com 10 hours ago in Blogs

If you have ever marveled at the complex wooden curves used by shipbuilders or some furniture makers, then you have probably at some point hankered after a steam box. This …read more

Forget The UV Resist Mask: Expose Custom PCBs Directly On Your SLA Printer

From hackaday.com 13 hours ago in Blogs

For the enterprising hobbyist and prototyping hardware developer, creating custom PCBs remains somewhat of a struggle. Although there are a number of approaches to go about this, they usually involve …read more

Scratching Out Business Intelligence

From hackaday.com 16 hours ago in Blogs

At Hackaday, we love things both from scratch and in Scratch, Scratch being the blocks building helpful language for teaching kids and the like how to program. However, when you …read more

Smoking Meat Finds Natural Home In The Cloud

From hackaday.com 19 hours ago in Blogs

Did you know that backyard barbecues now come with WiFi? It should be no surprise, given the pervasiveness of cloud-enabled appliances throughout the home. However [Carl] wasn’t ready to part …read more

Student Competition Badge Bears Custom Silicon

From hackaday.com 22 hours ago in Blogs

[Daniel Valuch] shared a fun and record-setting conference badge story (Slovak, translated) with us. He was one of the organizers for the “ZENIT in electronics” event, which is an annual …read more

Up Your Desk Toy Game With This 3D Printed Escalator

From hackaday.com 24 hours ago in Blogs

Let’s be real, nobody needs a tiny motorized escalator for their desk. But now that you’ve seen it, can you really say you don’t want one of your own? The design …read more

Mapping Out the LEDs on an Outlet Tester

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

The concept of an outlet tester is pretty simple: plug the gadget into a suspect wall receptacle, and an array of LEDs light up in various patterns to alert the …read more

AI Creates Your Spreadsheets, Sometimes

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

We’ve been interested in looking at how AI can process things other than silly images. That’s why the “Free AI Bot that Generates the Excel Formula for Any Problem” caught …read more

Open Source Wearables for Infants

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

We’ve seen plenty of hacks that analyze biometric signals as measures of athletic performance, but maybe not as many hacks that are trying to study behavior. Well, that’s exactly what …read more