Ask Hackaday: What’s Your “Tactical Tool” Threshold?

With few exceptions, every field has a pretty modest set of tools that would be considered the minimum for getting most jobs done. A carpenter can make do with tools …read more

Supercon 2022: [Jorvon Moss] Gives His Robots A Soul

How do you approach your robot designs? Maybe, you do it from a ‘oh, I have these cool parts’ position, or from a ‘I want to make a platform on …read more

Methane-Tracking Satellites Hunt For Nasty Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Much of the reporting around climate change focuses on carbon dioxide. It’s public enemy number one when it comes to gases that warm the atmosphere, as a primary byproduct of …read more

All Your Robots Are Belong To Us: You Just Rent Them

Monthly bills. Everyone has them. Except if you go far enough back, not everyone had them. After all, you might live in a home your family has owned for generations. …read more

Open-Source AR Hack Chat

Join us on Wednesday, May 31 at noon Pacific for the Open-Source AR Hack Chat with Raj Nakaraja! We may live in a soup of electromagnetic waves that range in …read more

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IR Camera Is Excellent Hacking Platform

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By Bryan Cockfield | June 1, 2023

While there have been hiccups here and there, the general trend of electronics is to decrease in cost or increase in performance. This can be seen in fairly obvious ways …read more
Flexible Actuator Flaps For 100,000,000 Cycles Without Failure

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By Lewin Day | June 1, 2023

Flexible PCBs are super-useful things, but they can have a limited fatigue life. [Carl Bugeja] has been using them to create flexible actuators, though, and he’s getting an amazing 100,000,000 …read more
Hackaday Prize 2023: Building A Relay ALU

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By Dave Rowntree | June 1, 2023

There’s much truth in the advice that, to truly understand something, you need to build it yourself from the ground up. That’s the idea behind [Christian]’s entry for the Re-engineering …read more
Books You Should Read: Red Team Blues

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By Jonathan Bennett | June 1, 2023

Martin Hench really likes playing on the Red Team — being on the attack. He’s a financial geek, understands cryptocurrency, understands how money is moved around to keep it hidden, …read more
Old Clock Transformed Into Mesmerizing Light Display

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By Lewin Day | June 1, 2023

It’s easy to find a cheap clock at any dollar store that will manage to tell the time, but chances are that the plastic-fantastic construction won’t do you any aesthetic …read more
Farewell American Computer Magazines

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By Al Williams | June 1, 2023

I grew up in a small town with a small library. The next town over had what I thought at the time was a big library, but it was actually …read more
Getting A Close-Up View Of Chip Formation With An SEM

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By Dan Maloney | June 1, 2023

When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And when you’ve got a scanning electron microscope, everything must look like a sample that would be really, …read more

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