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Turning the Big Trak into a Turtle

January 31, 2012 By Brian Benchoff 16 Comments

Children of the 80s may remember the Big Trak, a six-wheeled programmable toy designed to explore distant planets on the other side of the living room and the vast expanse of a two-car garage. The Big Trak was re-released a few years ago and [Nathan] took quite a shine to this improved version. He was so enthralled he decided to … Read the rest

Filed Under: toy hacks Tagged With: beagleboard, Big Trak, logo

How to put your logo in a QR code

August 11, 2011 By Brian Benchoff 125 Comments

After writing this post on somone hacking QR codes, Hack A Day commenters came out in full force posting some really cool links about modifying QR codes to include a logo. I’ll fully admit I geeked out a little, but in the process I figured out some of the theory behind embedding logos in QR codes.

After getting my hands … Read the rest

Filed Under: Featured, how-to Tagged With: howto, logo, qr code

Vote for the Open Source Hardware logo

March 23, 2011 By Mike Szczys 29 Comments

The Open Source Hardware (OSHW) initiative is rolling right along. But now it’s time for you to share your input. The movement is choosing a logo and you get to decide which one it will be. The ten finalists shown above were narrowed down from the 129 submissions received during the public call for logos. The thought is that … Read the rest

Filed Under: news Tagged With: logo, open source hardware, oshw, vote

Hackaday links: October 31, 2010

October 31, 2010 By Mike Szczys 8 Comments

Happy Halloween to one and all. Let’s celebrate the holiday with some related links.

[Brandon] carved the Hackaday logo into his Jack-’o-Lantern. But that’s not all, inspired by EMSL’s Jack-’o-Lantern, as well as our own offering, he added LEDs. Three of them occupy the flesh behind the eyes and nose, fading in and out thanks to some … Read the rest

Filed Under: Hackaday links Tagged With: coat, Halloween props, led, logo, skull, star wars, twitter

HaD store update: New stickers, Shirts, New logo

June 7, 2010 By Caleb Kraft 46 Comments

The Hack a Day store is still going strong. We’re really enjoying the fact that when you buy a Hack a Day item, it was made by one of us. We hope we can keep this up. It makes our merchandise mean so much more, we think.

We’ve  been getting tons of requests for other colors of stickers as well … Read the rest

Filed Under: news Tagged With: logo, shirt, sticker, store

Mac LCD logo tutorial

April 2, 2009 By Caleb Kraft 14 Comments

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[Eddie], who made the Mac Logo LCD Mod, had posted a step by step tutorial on how to do it yourself. He basically just fully disassembled his MacBook, popped out the logo, put one from an iBook or Powerbook, then mounted a small LCD back there and routed it into a USB port internally. He says the extra … Read the rest

Filed Under: laptops hacks, macs hacks, peripherals hacks Tagged With: apple, lcd, logo, mac

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