Just about every “getting started with microcontrollers” kit, Arduino or otherwise, includes an ultrasonic distance sensor ...
If you are a nerdy kid today, you have your choice of wondrous gadgets and time wasters. When we were nerdy kids, our options were somewhat limited: there was ham radio, or you could blow things ...
Much like calling over a buddy or two to help with moving a large piece of furniture and pivot it up a narrow flight of ...
You know what’s not fun? Sorting LEGO. You know what is fun? Making a machine to sort LEGO! That’s what [LegoSpencer] did, ...
Amiga and Atari fans used to lord over their Apple-eating brethren the fact that Cupertino never moved to the most advanced ...
Changing the pads on your car’s brakes is a pretty straightforward and inexpensive process on most vehicles. However, many ...
Though mobile devices and Apple Silicon have seen ARM-64 explode across the world, there’s still decent odds you’re reading ...
A PCB business card is a great way for electrical engineers to impress employers with their design skills, but the software they run can be just as impressive as the card itself. As a programmer ...
Vintage computer hardware can fail in a variety of fascinating ways, with [Bits und Bolts] dealing with an interesting failure mode, in the form of degraded MLCC capacitors on Voodoo 2 graphics ...
Valve’s new Steam Frame is what all the well-connected YouTubers are talking about, but most of them are talking about what ...
I was looking over the week’s posts on Hackaday – it’s part of my job after all – and this gem caught my eye: a post about ...
While most of the world’s venture capital is off chasing anything with “AI” in the name in what many think looks increasingly ...