Getting Started In Ham Hack Chat

Join us on Wednesday, June 7 at noon Pacific for the Getting Started in Ham Hack Chat with Mark Hughes and Beau Ambur! If you were to scratch any random …read more

Why Did The Home Assistant Future Not Quite Work The Way It Was Supposed To?

The future, as seen in the popular culture of half a century or more ago, was usually depicted as quite rosy. Technology would have rendered every possible convenience at our …read more

Hackaday Links: June 4, 2023

A report released this week suggests that 50 flights into its five-flight schedule, the Mars helicopter might be starting to show its age. The report details a protracted communications outage …read more

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

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Op-Amp Challenge: A Logic-Free BCD

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By Dan Maloney | June 8, 2023

Of digital electronics, a wise man once said that “Every idiot can count to one.” Truer words have rarely been spoken, because at the end of the day, every digital …read more
Robotic Fox Is Part Dog, Part Cat — Just Like The Real Thing

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By Dan Maloney | June 8, 2023

Foxes are cat software running on dog hardware, or so they say. And [Will Cogley] seems to have taken that to heart with this 3D-printed robotic fox, which borrows heavily …read more
Nissan 300zx Dash Given A New Language

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By Matthew Carlson | June 8, 2023

You don’t have to be a car enthusiast to recognize that the 1984 Nissan 300x dash is a work of art. The graceful swoops and multisegment VFDs evoke an aesthetic …read more
Op-Amp Challenge: Measuring PH, No Code Required

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By Dan Maloney | June 8, 2023

When you see a project with a digital display these days, you’ll be forgiven for assuming that there’s some kind of microcontroller behind the scenes. And while that’s often the …read more
Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?

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By Jenny List | June 8, 2023

Last week I penned a cheesy fake relationship breakup letter to Ubuntu, my Linux distribution of choice for the last 15 years or so. It had well and truly delivered …read more
Apple Invent The Mechanical Watch

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By Jenny List | June 8, 2023

The Apple Watch has been on the market for long enough that its earlier iterations are now unsupported. Where some see little more than e-waste others see an opportunity, as …read more
Tree Planting Festivals, Air Cannons, Self-Burying Seeds, And The Complexities Of Reforestation

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By Maya Posch | June 8, 2023

At first glance the problem of how to plant trees would seem to be a straightforward one: take a seed, jam it into the soil and let nature take its …read more

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