The Voltaic Pile: Building the First Battery

From hackaday.com 3 days ago in Blogs

In the technologically-underpinned modern world, most of us interact with a battery of some sort every day. Whether that’s the starter battery in a car, the lithium battery in a …read more

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Beepberry Brings Memory LCD and a Physical Keyboard to Your Pi

From hackaday.com 19 hours ago in Blogs

As the 2020s are seeing the return of the flip phone, could we see a rebirth of other device form factors from before the slab era? [Eric Migicovsky] and [SQFMI] …read more

Hack Simple

From hackaday.com 22 hours ago in Blogs

Here at Hackaday, we definitely love to celebrate the hard hacks: the insane feats of reverse engineering, the physics-defying flights of fancy, or the abuse of cutting edge technology. But …read more

A Bullet Time Video Booth You Can Build

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

[Sebastian Staacks] built a video booth for his wedding, and the setup was so popular with family, that it was only fitting to do one better and make some improvements …read more

Restoring Dot Matrix Printer Cartridges For 2023

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

The noise of a dot matrix printer is probably as synonymous with 1980s computing as the modem handshake would become with the desktop experience a decade or more later. But …read more

Generating Hydrogen Peroxide for Disinfecting Water Using a Solar-Driven Catalyst

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Ensuring that water is safe to use and consume can be a real chore, especially for those who live in impoverished areas without access to safe drinking water. Here is …read more

Where Exactly Did That Network Packet Come From?

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Have you ever noticed that some websites can figure out, at least roughly, where you are? Sometimes they use it to find you a closer content provider. Or they might …read more

Fly Like You Drive With This Flying RC Drift Car

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

So it’s 2023, and you really feel like we should have flying cars by now, right? Well, as long as you ignore the problem of scale presented by [Nick Rehm]’s …read more

Nice Try, But It’s Not Aperture Synthesis

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

Some of the world’s largest radio telescopes are not in fact as physically large as they claim to be, but instead are a group of telescopes spread over a wide …read more

Nokia N-Gage QD Becomes Universal Bluetooth Gamepad

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

The Nokia N-Gage might not have put up much of a fight against Nintendo’s handheld dynasty, but you can’t say it didn’t have some pretty impressive technology for the time. …read more

Learning 3D Printing Best Practices from a Pro

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

It might seem like 3D printing is a thoroughly modern technology, but the fact is, it’s been used in the industry for decades. The only thing that’s really new is …read more