Engadget trying out some crowd-funding

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Engadget has decided to give this whole crowd-funding thing a try with a competition called Insert Coin. This is part of an upcoming event called Expand that is supposed to let us get inside information on gadget construction and conception. This actually sounds refreshing compared to the giant commercial that other tech conferences can be (This is why Hackaday has never returned to … [Read more...]

Bluetooth hack for Serioux Panda speakers

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[Bogdan] received this set of Serioux Panda speakers as a gift. I turns out that they sound very good and he decided to make them more useful to him by converting them to work as Bluetooth speakers. To begin with he bought the cheapest A2DP device he could find. This is the protocol that identifies a Bluetooth audio device. The unit is designed to provide a Bluetooth connection for a set of … [Read more...]

Make your own machinable wax

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No matter how easy it is to throw a piece of metal or plastic onto a tool and start making chips, the price of materials does add up. [rawkstar320] has been using machinable wax - a very hard wax that is up to the task of being cut with tools spinning at thousands of RPM - to reduce his material cost, simply remelting every part with a mistake. This wax can be made at home, it turns out, and … [Read more...]