Natural Language AI In Your Next Project? It’s Easier Than You Think

Want your next project to trash talk? Dynamically rewrite boring log messages as sci-fi technobabble? Happily (or grudgingly) answer questions? Doing that sort of thing and more can be done …read more

Striping A Disk Drive The 1970 Way

These days, mass storage for computers is pretty simple. It either uses a rotating disk or else it is solid state. There are a few holdouts using tape, too, but …read more

Silence Of The IPods: Reflecting On The Ever-Shifting Landscape Of Personal Media Consumption

On October 23rd of 2001, the first Apple iPod was launched. It wasn’t the first Personal Media Player (PMP), but as with many things Apple the iPod would go on …read more

Hackaday Links: May 15, 2022

It may be blurry and blotchy, but it’s ours. The first images of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy were revealed this week, and …read more

Who Is Thinking About Open Source Firmware?

Yesterday, we ran a post on NVIDIA’s announcement of open-source drivers for some of its most recent video cards. And Hackaday being huge proponents of open-source software and hardware, you’d …read more

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Defeat Your Car’s Autostop Feature With A Little SwitchBot

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By Lewin Day | May 18, 2022

These days, many new cars come with some variant of an “auto-stop” feature. This shuts down the car’s engine at stop lights and in other similar situations in order to …read more
One Coder Is Porting Portal To The Nintendo 64

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By Lewin Day | May 18, 2022

When Portal came out in 2007, developers Valve chose not to release the groundbreaking title on an obsolete Nintendo console long out of production. Nobody cared at the time, of …read more
MIDI Controller Looks Good, Enables Your Air Guitar Habit

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By Al Williams | May 18, 2022

We all want to be guitar heroes, but most of us have to settle for letting a MIDI board play our riffs using a MIDI controller. [Joris] thinks a MIDI …read more
3D Printed Linear Actuator Is Cheap And Strong

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By Lewin Day | May 18, 2022

Motors are all well and good for moving things, but they’re all about the round-and-round. Sometimes, you need to move something back and forth, and for that a linear actuator …read more
Hackaday Prize 2022: Recycled Tire Table Is Where The Rubber Meets The Road

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By Kristina Panos | May 18, 2022

The problem with good inventions is that we usually end up with way too many of that particular widget lying around, which can cause all kinds of problems. Take the …read more
The Little Big Dogs Of Invention

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By Al Williams | May 18, 2022

This is a story about two dogs I know. It is also a story of the U.S. Navy, aviation, and nuclear weapons. Sometimes it is easy to see things in …read more
Practice Your Shopping Skills With This Self-Service Checkout Game

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By Robin Kearey | May 18, 2022

Self-service checkouts have become a common feature in supermarkets the world over, a trend accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic. While some may lament the loss of human contact, others relish …read more

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