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All too often, the commentors here on Hackaday display some parsimony in their engineering prowess. If someone uses a Raspberry Pi to blink a few LEDs, someone will invariably chime in that an ARM microcontroller would do just as well. Switching a relay on and off belies the capabilities of a 32-bit Cortex microcontroller when a simpler 8-bit build would certainly suffice. Of course this can … [Read more...]
Here at hackaday, we often find ourselves wondering how we can use the vast technological abilities of our community to make the world a better place. We have finally decided to step up to the plate and make a difference. We are proud to introduce our very first kickstarter project. … [Read more...]
Unless you have been hiding out in a cave for the last week or so, you have heard about this year's April Fools' joke from Google. Gmail Motion was purported to be an action-driven interface for Gmail, complete with goofy poses and gestures for completing everyday email tasks. Unfortunately it was all an elaborate joke and no gesture-based Gmail interface is forthcoming...at least not from … [Read more...]
Almost exactly a year ago, we posted the random USB capslocker. [Garrett] has revisited the idea to build a smaller, neater version. He has posted the build process to give us an idea how he goes about building things. The overall build is quite nice, but part if its neatness can be attributed to the fact that he had access to an Epilog laser cutter. If you think you might be using one in the near … [Read more...]
Dear Hack a Day, Websites keep publishing poorly executed jokes today; how can I fix this? We've been getting a lot of questions on the tip line like the one above, so we put together this one-step illustrated how-to. If you're not the physical labor type, you can use [Steve Lambert]'s SelfControl. [Related: Hack a Day goes autonomous, Craft a Day] … [Read more...]
After declaring our independence last fall, complete site autonomy seemed like the next logical step. Using some clever coding we have developed a system that will let Hack a Day run without any intervention. The first layer in this system is topic selection. All tip line submissions are sent through a series of filters. These look for keywords like "firmware", "POV", "microcontroller", "video", … [Read more...]
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