It may not look like it in some parts of the world, but electric cars are acquiring much more and much more market share over conventional forms of transportation. The fastest-growing segment is the e-bike, which some say are growing at 16x the rate of conventional bikes (which have grown at 15% during the pandemic).…
In the cyberdeck world, some designs are indicated to evoke a cyberpunk vibe, an aesthetic that’s a lot more lighthearted than serious. Some cyberdecks, though, are a little a lot more severe about hardening their designs against adverse conditions. That’s where something like the ARK-io SurvivalDeck comes into play. Granted, there does seem to be…
[Kyle Gabriel] knows mushrooms, and his years of experience really shine through in his thorough documentation of an automated mushroom cultivation environment, created with off-the-shelf sensors and hardware as much as possible. The results speak for themselves, with some delicious fried oyster mushrooms to show for it! Fried oyster mushrooms, grown from scratch. The most…
When we write about drone stories from the United Kingdom, they often have a slightly depressing air to them as we relate tales of unverified air proximity reports closing airports or bungled official investigations that would make the Keystone Kops look like competent professionals. But here’s a drone story from this rainswept isle sure to…
To build any sort of autonomous vehicle, you need a controller. This has to deal with all sorts of jobs – reading sensor outputs, controlling motors and actuators, managing power sources – controlling a car of even moderate complexity requires significant resources. modern cars are a great example of this – even non-autonomous cars can have separate computers…
earlier this Fall, a Samsung storage facility in South Africa was robbed as well as the thieves got away with a quantity of wise televisions. Samsung proceeded to execute a little-known function called “TV Block” which is installed on all of their TV products. The serial numbers of the stolen TV sets are flagged in…
High ceilings can make a residence feel open and airy, but they often come with difficult-to-reach light fittings. To better deal with that, [mattwach] built a motorized light bulb changer which makes the job much easier. Light bulb changers already exist, but they typically need to be used on-axis with the light fitting, which for…
I was on the FLOSS podcast (for the Episode of the Beast no less!) and we were talking all about Hackaday. one of the hosts, secretly Hackaday’s own Jonathan Bennett in disguise, asked me what the weirdest hack I’d ever seen on Hackaday was. Weird?!?! I was caught like a deer in headlights. None of…
The sentry gun targets [Vinnie] with blasts of foam as he runs with the bedroom to the seems of Your new morning Alarm by [Marc Rebillet].Waking up is hard; in some cases you requirement much more than a bit chiming alarm to get you out of bed. When [Vinnie Satriale] started unconsciously changing his alarms…
Sensor-meets-sock product “Sensoria” won’t hit the shelves for a while, but [Andrew] managed to snag a Sensoria Gaming SDK and has hacked the smart sock to control an inexpensive toy helicopter. Seldom do we see projects this rugged yet clearly effective. The sock sends data through its companion device—a Bluetooth anklet—to LabVIEW. LabVIEW subsequently talks to…