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…
Do you know the law of least astonishment? I am not sure of its origin, but I first learned it from the exceptional “Tao of Programming.” simply put, it is the principle that software must always respond to the users in a way that least astonishes them. In other words, printing a paper shouldn’t erase…
There are plenty of RC automobiles and robot platforms out there that you can buy. However, there’s an understanding that’s gained from building your own rover from the ground up. Which is precisely what [Alex] got from developing this compact 3D printed rover design. The design is by no means fast; it’s intended more for…
Back in 2015, European space agency (ESA) astronaut Tim Peake brought a pair of specially equipped Raspberry Pi computers, nicknamed Izzy and Ed, onto the international space station and invited students back on earth to develop software for them as part of the Astro Pi Challenge. To date, much more than 50,000 young people have…
The Dreamcast is a bit of an odd beast. Coming on the heels of the unpopular Sega Saturn, the Dreamcast was meant to be a simple console built with off-the-shelf parts and released in late 1998. The Nintendo 64 was already tough competition (1996). Ultimately, the Dreamcast fell out of the public eye in the…
all of us understand that our activity on the Web is not that difficult to track. It just annoys some people more than others. If you are truly hardcore, you’ll discover all the ins as well as outs of networking to assist cover your tracks, however what if you don’t want to invest that type…
Z4 Universal Investment is the ideal selection for spreading or pressing CAD made wax-ups. Producing digital wax-ups by milling or printing can be a reliable method to integrate your digital as well as analog techniques. This mixing of innovations can lead to boosted earnings as well as supplies the liberty to operate in a huge…