Let’s wind down the weekend with some jobs that didn’t rather warrant their own feature, however we believe they’re still worth a look. First up is a quick tip on cracking the lids on those difficult to open jars of food. [Jason] states just grab about a foot of duct tape as well as the…
It looks like the DS trojan bricker is in the wild. There are instructions up to fix the situation. I was contacted by DarkFader last week wondering if I’d be interested in his answer to the PSP’s malware that had been circulating. I’m not interested in this kind of hacking because I feel it takes…
We love a good art-related project here at Hackaday, and [Wolfgang’s] vibrating mirror prototype is worth a look: into its distorting, reflective surface, of course. [Wolfgang] began by laser cutting nine 1″ circles from an 8″ square mirror, then super glued a 1/4″ neoprene sheet to the back of the square, covering the holes. Each…
This is a Yamaha XG card, the SW60XG to be exact. It’s an audio card for a PC which extends the MIDI basic to include over six hundred instruments. By today’s requirements the practically twenty year old card isn’t all that powerful, however it is fascinating to see it utilized as a standalone device. [Benji…
While most animated machines we offer with every day – whatever from clocks to cars to computers – are made of metal, there is an art to creating automated objects out of wood. [Dug North] is a creator of such inventions, making automata out of wooden gears, cogs, as well as cams. [Dug]’s inventions are…
Last summer in the heyday of software defined radio via USB TV tuners we asked hackaday readers a question: Is any individual using everyone’s favorite method of SDR for radio astronomy? It took nearly a year, but finally there’s an amazing project to turn a USB TV tuner into a radio telescope. It’s from the fruitful…
Quadrotors are great, but what kind of range can you get on them, really? What if you could charge them up just by flying over high voltage power lines, by or temporarily hovering by a charging station? That’s just what [Dr. Carrick Detweiler] composed a paper about! (Caution: PDF) The paper discusses the method of wireless…
The Raspberry Pi has become a firm favorite in our community for its variety of GPIOs and other interfaces, as well as its economical computing power. regrettably though despite those lots of pins, there is a glaring omission in its interfacing capabilities. It lacks an analogue-to-digital converter, so analog inputs have to rely on an…
[Nirav] discovered that he seldom printed anything helpful with his RepRap, so to shake things up, he chose he needed to work on a job that didn’t include printing yet much more RepRap parts. The goal of his job was to produce working replicas of home secrets by just utilizing the code imprinted at the…
The D16/M is a 16-bit computer built using HCMOS logic chips. It’s a thing of appeal from every angle thanks to the work [John Doran] put into the hobby project. but he didn’t just take pictures of the build and slap them on a webpage. He took the time to publish a exceptional volume of…