Papercraft strandbeest is a great rainy day project

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Here in the Midwest it sometimes seems like Spring will never, well...spring. We get that “April showers bring May flowers”, but nearly all of the last month has been cold and rainy around these parts. While things are improving, we think it’s always good practice to have a few fun projects at the ready, just in case your plans with the kids get rained out. We think that Hackaday reader … [Read more...]

Racing wheel guided R/C car with video feed

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Instructables user [Kaeru no Ojisan] enjoys constructing R/C kit cars and wanted to build one that could be driven using a PC racing wheel he had on hand. Not satisfied with simply guiding it with the racing wheel, he added a web cam to the car so that he can monitor its location from the comfort of his desk chair. The car is loaded down with all sorts of electronics to get the job done, … [Read more...]

Diagnosing diseases like MacGyver

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If you ever watched MacGyver as a kid, you know that given any number of random objects, he could craft the exact tool he would need to get out of a sticky situation. If he ever made his way into the medical research field, you could be sure that this test for Acute Pancreatitis would be among his list of accomplishments. Designed by University of Texas grad student [Brian Zaccheo], the Acute … [Read more...]

LM386 Altoids tin amp

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Hacker [Dino Segovis] is back again with the fifth installment in his “Hack a Week” series. This time around he has put together a 1/2 watt audio amplifier that would make for a great weekend project. He’s a big fan of the LM386 amplifier chip because it does so much in such a small package. Since it is so versatile, he used it as the centerpiece of his Altoids tin amplifier. Now an audio … [Read more...]