really? lego again? and from engadget? this website has been going to shit since there was more than 1 hack a day.

Bring back 1 hack a day
bring back lowercase
bring back black and white pictures

stop messing this up guys!

Posted at 3:42 pm on Sep 15th, 2009 by obligatory

Step by step guide? It’s LEGO, figure it out for yourself.

Posted at 4:14 pm on Sep 15th, 2009 by WeblionX

I come for hacks and I see legos????? WTF dudes, think of actual hacks.

Posted at 4:22 pm on Sep 15th, 2009 by napalm

Thank you hack-a-day for providing content for those lame commenters that are always crying.

Posted at 4:35 pm on Sep 15th, 2009 by MrX

There is still no “s” in Lego, however.

Posted at 4:40 pm on Sep 15th, 2009 by Ben Ryves

I second the ‘Bring back 1 hack a day’ notion.

Posted at 4:58 pm on Sep 15th, 2009 by amishx64

amen to 1 hack a day, lowercase, and b/w pictures.

Posted at 5:30 pm on Sep 15th, 2009 by andrew

“Thank you hack-a-day for providing content for those lame commenters that are always crying.”

Good to know you support our cause!

Posted at 5:32 pm on Sep 15th, 2009 by mars

I thought this shit site was closing?

Posted at 6:22 pm on Sep 15th, 2009 by towelhead

@mars
go fist your granny..

Posted at 6:24 pm on Sep 15th, 2009 by towelhead

“The design is very seek with a jazzy red scheme and a less-is-more attitude.”
“design is very seek with a jazzy red scheme”
“very seek”
“seek”

Posted at 6:36 pm on Sep 15th, 2009 by anon

Being a long time visitor to this site, I have agree with the posters here who think it’s going to shit.

This site used to rock and had plenty of cool projects but now you guys post every lame ass thing you find on the internet. Between this lame ass post and the horsecrap about matchbox car switches? Seriously? Matchbox cars and legos WTF is going on?

We have plenty of lame ass websites we can visit to view and read about stupid shit like this if we gave a rat’s ass. I come here for something cool, something hackable, something that will entertain more than 60 seconds of my evening.

Bring back the old site and lose the people who are running it now please. These aren’t hacks, these aren’t interesting, this is shit. Pure unadulterated shit.

Posted at 7:28 pm on Sep 15th, 2009 by Zymastorik

I really think they need to separate the k-8th grade projects from the real hacks. Perhaps the domain “CraftADay” is available.

Posted at 7:31 pm on Sep 15th, 2009 by not sure

I remember when Lego’s were cool. Back when I was 8 years old. Now I actually know how to BUILD STUFF, not just stick blocks together.

Posted at 7:54 pm on Sep 15th, 2009 by vonskippy

-and before you try posing it, putting little foam dinosaurs in water until they get all big and bloated is not “doing science”.

(Go Team Venture)

Posted at 7:54 pm on Sep 15th, 2009 by strider_mt2k

so if i put soft dog shit plastic bag thereby making an adjustable iphone dock would you post it too?

Posted at 7:55 pm on Sep 15th, 2009 by chris

What a joke. A dock shown with a pic of an iPhone with smashed glass…like I am really gunna trust this one. I agree, lego projects do not make the grade here.

Posted at 8:55 pm on Sep 15th, 2009 by herojig

What in the fuck is happening to this site? Why don’t you just set up an RSS feed directly to slashdot and join the ranks of the rest of the bullshit sites. Fuck this place used to be cool, its used to be about hacking. Now I get to read about fucking arduino’s and lego. What the fuck is going on.

Oh and to those who run the site, read the comments and take notice, your readers are pissed, and yeah you might be getting more readers but their cumulative IQ is quickly dropping. What are you doing trying to increase your page hit rating for all the lame “whats my site worth” websites. Go fuck yourselves for destroying what used to be a great thing.

Posted at 10:06 pm on Sep 15th, 2009 by thedudefrommiamivice

A little too flimsy for my phone, and it was virtually free. I don’t think ’sleek’ is the right term for this. It looks about as solid as Janet Jackson’s superbowl outfit.

Posted at 10:24 pm on Sep 15th, 2009 by M4CGYV3R

I must say I’m pretty tired of iphone docks too.

Posted at 11:36 pm on Sep 15th, 2009 by Mastro Gippo

It doesn’t even have to be a hack per day. Maybe one or two per week. If they aren’t arduino’s and lego’s then everyone would be so much happier.

Btw I don’t think the car switch “hack” was meant as a joke. I doubt the people who ask for step by step instructions for lego are smart enough to make a joke like that.

Posted at 12:10 am on Sep 16th, 2009 by Noobius

Holy what the FUCK
honestly
“Man solders wire to metal objects to create switch”
HOW IS THAT
NOTEWORTHY
AT ALL
“Man removes seatbelt in order to exit car”

Posted at 12:48 am on Sep 16th, 2009 by TheKhakinator

Those are not technically Legos… just sayin.

Posted at 1:40 am on Sep 16th, 2009 by Eric

i don’t know if it is the blogsmith management who have allowed the content on this site to become diluted with news recycled from engadget and slashdot or what, but i finally have to agree with everyone else. hackaday has been my homepage for about 2 years. Guess it’s time to use:blank. Thanks alot caleb kraft.

Posted at 1:44 am on Sep 16th, 2009 by Doc Helladay

kewl, maybe i build a lego rotating coke holder tomorrow and write up a very detailed step by step diy instruction…

Posted at 2:21 am on Sep 16th, 2009 by Kiwisaft

Dude guys,

I normally come to this site to see how other people solve problems I might one day have in the future and every small hack helps. Quit buggering the people of this site for doing such good work. Thanks a lot Hackaday.

Posted at 2:41 am on Sep 16th, 2009 by wvdv

holly smack, where’s arduino here? is this called legoduino now?

Posted at 2:49 am on Sep 16th, 2009 by johnn

I’ve only been reading this site for maybe two months and this is my first comment:

Even I, who has been here for a very limited time, notice the downhill direction of the projects on this site. I first started reading this site because of the projects that were a bit ABOVE my level. Inspiring me to try new ideas and start more ambitious projects, providing a challenge for me.

These days, I’m massively bored by all the Arduino projects, Toy projects, etc. Nothing is being posted what I don’t already know or I can’t figure out myself in 20 seconds. No projects to get me thinking ‘What the hell that’s cool, how does that work’.

And I’m no rocket scientist.

Posted at 3:45 am on Sep 16th, 2009 by moo

Quiet everyone, QUIET!

What about this “remove seatbelt” hack?

Posted at 4:20 am on Sep 16th, 2009 by strider_mt2k

it’s actually quite fitting that what passes for a “hack” on this godforsaken site involves legos.

actually sums up the state of this site PERFECTLY.

R.I.P.

Posted at 4:41 am on Sep 16th, 2009 by bobob

Useless crap. My 8 year old daughter could do something better but probably she would refuse because it is too boring. What about a shredder for such stuff, with a micro controller of course.

Posted at 4:42 am on Sep 16th, 2009 by liebesiech

Poor poor!

I have to concur that posting a Lego iphone holder does no constitute a hack of any sort (it doesn’t even have a dock facility!).

Get this article deleted, it has no point being here.

Posted at 5:15 am on Sep 16th, 2009 by RHF

I´m very very disappointed, 2nd post about this… It even doesn´t rotate alone, you must use your hand!
not really a hack, just a bunch of legos…
it only need the “ages 3-5″ in the bottom of the picture

Posted at 6:15 am on Sep 16th, 2009 by Shad

Really… LEGO hacks?

Mike, I thought you were a bit slow with the telephone article; but that was forgivable. This… this is just abhorrent to anything resembling a hack. I hate using memes but this one is quite fitting for you “Never Go Full Retard”. Even that bit of wisdom, I fear, is casting pearls before swine.

Posted at 6:19 am on Sep 16th, 2009 by Mark C. Roduner

I noticed that ever since Eliot Phillips has left, that’s when this site started going downhill.

Speaking of which, the article on that was the last B/W image.

Look: http://hackaday.com/2009/09/04/farewell-hack-a-day/

Side note: Which is ironic, The time I started commenting regularly was when HackaDay turned five, although I’ve been a regular visitor since this site was still new and shiny.

Posted at 6:38 am on Sep 16th, 2009 by 3rix

please stop the arduino-shit/lame hacks and bring back the real hackaday. no caps, only black-and-white and ONE good article per day is all we are asking for.

Posted at 6:58 am on Sep 16th, 2009 by Bolle

I’ve been a visitor every couple months for a long while, but only recently began watching the RSS feed. I have to second the content degrading thought.

Personally though, lower case forcing, black and white pictures, and one hack a day, are un-needed. Black and white pictures have a certain artistic value, but the site isn’t impacted one way or the other over it. Lower case comments is just a gimmic.

Limited hacks per day though, that could be a good idea. I’m too much of an information junkie to want only one tidbit each day. That’s honestly why I didn’t visit the site much before RSS. With only one post per day, I could catch up on months of the site updates in 30 min and I wouldn’t need to come back for months again. Of course the occasional hack would catch my interest and provide another 30 min of reading, but for the most part the site didn’t have much content so I forgot about it.

Maybe just a limit of how many posts per day… or at certain times. Like 2 updates a day, midnight and noon. That will help store up content for more days and allow editors to filter some things out… like Lego devices that don’t even DO anything except sit there.

To ME, the definition of Hack-a-day is a site that shows people taking existing things and making them do things they were not designed to do. A brand new project with an Arduino controlling it can be cool, but it’s certainly not a ‘hack’. The Arduino was designed precisely to do such things. It is not outside of design specs to make a machine like that.

Now, if you yank your neighbor’s car engine and mount it outside your house as a generator to power your computer… maybe we’d all like to laugh at that. At least it’s really in the ballpark of ‘hack’.

Slow your roll, take a deep breath, and make your goal to capture at least some of what we all love about hack-a-day. Fewer, high-quality updates will keep us around for a long time. Publishing 100 updates a week full of junk like this one will destroy your base, and even the fluff that like this kind of thing will fade away when you start posting “Two lego bricks connected at an angle to form a stand for your pen!” Detailed write-up: Brick one snapped into brick two and Viola! Pen holder!

/rant

Posted at 7:00 am on Sep 16th, 2009 by archaic0

I think it’s too late: “All your base are belong to us!” (as in YOU FUCKED UP). I do believe that most of your reader base has already jumped ship. I’d rather watch the grass grow than read this tripe..

I’m sure that most of us can attest that we were doing this kind of ‘hack’ since we were old enough to speak. I think I’ll be spending more time off the net and at the workbench. This has gone beyond forgivable.

Posted at 7:19 am on Sep 16th, 2009 by medix

long time reader, maybe 5th post ever. have to agree, although cool idea, not a hack. Seen alot of crap here lately.

Posted at 7:24 am on Sep 16th, 2009 by bob

I suppose the arduino cant be seen on the picture because it is behind the iPhone?

Posted at 7:41 am on Sep 16th, 2009 by ArduinoFreak

I have learned many things from this site over the last five years, I have posted under many aliases,
Kevin bane, kvman, dash, kyle007… Im thankful my job I get to take both software and hardware apart on a daily basis.
I have used this site as a reference and a source of spark to trigger my own mind in a creative CRACKING manor, you people are smart and if you don’t see what’s going on you can join the masses when we become idiocracy. This site despite the profanity of the commenter’s is also triggering the spark for younger genera , so what! Incite a flame war and while you’re at it click on one of our many sponsored adds and make us some revenue… oh wait pay no attention to the man behind the curtain..
But seriously everything changes and everything grows, it’s up to you to decide if you will follow, and you know you will; (tinkering)is in your blood, that why you are here…..

Posted at 11:59 am on Sep 16th, 2009 by stinkymonkey

You are all missing the point. Hack a day is place where we the reader can cast their daily vote via comment for which of the article submitters is the biggest hack.

my vote for today: Mike Szczys

Posted at 11:59 am on Sep 17th, 2009 by CapNBridgeman

Good idea. I like it)

Posted at 3:15 am on Oct 27th, 2009 by twisted174