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17 items tagged "Hackaday"

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• August 29, 2010
• 17:50

  Hackaday links: August 29, 2010

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  Hotel room door lock picking Here’s further proof that you should never leave anything of value in your hotel room. We’re not worried about someone getting in while the room is occupied. But these methods of defeating the chain lock and opening the door without a keycard (YouTube login required) do show how easy it is [...]
• August 22, 2010
• 16:26

  Hackaday links: August 22, 2010

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  EL back-lit keyboard A couple bucks worth of EL wire gives a nice green glow to [Mark Shasha's] T400 Elite. Hopefully [Jeri Ellsworth] has some time to pull those how-to videos together so that we can make our own EL wire to replicate this hack. Mini kaboom This tiny cannon is right out of Night at the [...]
• August 15, 2010
• 16:00

  Hackaday links: August 15, 2010

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  Creepy or not? Do you find these faces creepy or cute? They can display a huge range of facial gestures and the German engineers who designed them were trying to avoid the uncanny valley. That’s the point at which human features on a robot seem quite real, but are off in just the right way as [...]
• August 01, 2010
• 12:00

  Hackaday links: August 1, 2010

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  PCB Group Orders [Phil] wrote in to let us know about the DorkbotPDX group orders. The site makes group PCB orders until a cutoff date or the panel is full. You get three copies of your design with no setup fee for just $5/square inch including domestic postage. Not a bad price. We aren’t affiliated [...]
• July 25, 2010
• 14:00

  Hackaday links: July 25, 2010

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  Radio Receiver If you never got the chance to build one as a kid [JoOngle] takes you through the steps to build your own radio receiver. Details are a bit scarce but it’s nothing your friend Google can’t help you out with. Fixing a Blackberry trackball If your Blackberry trackball stops working well you can [...]
• June 27, 2010
• 9:27

  Hackaday links: June 27, 2010

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  Precision CRT manufacture Here’s a great video from Tektronix about building a precision cathode ray tube. The tube manufacture method was developed to use in oscilloscopes and we’d guess it dates back to the early 1960′s. [Thanks Bill] Snake on an LED matrix We would have done a full post o this beautifully built LED matrix but [...]
• June 20, 2010
• 7:00

  Hackaday links: June 20, 2010

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  Nixie Voltmeter Clock [Gmglickman] built a clock out of an old digital voltmeter. The Fluke 8300A came out in 1969 and is featured in their 60 years of innovation slideshow. What makes it a cool clock? The Voltmeter’s display is made up of Nixie tubes. Easy optical encoder wheel generator If you need to print [...]
• June 13, 2010
• 8:00

  Hackaday links: June 13, 2010

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  Painting with light [Jo0ngle] wanted a fun toy and an easy conversation piece. He painted a square on the back of his door with some glow-in-the-dark paint. Now he can draw on it using a blu-ray laser or a UV flashlight. Either way, the effect is quite pleasing. [Thanks Justin] Resistor decoder rings This resistor [...]
• June 09, 2010
• 9:02

  Preserving old stuff with the Library of Congress

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  Tags:  Hackaday links  

  Take a few moments and browse this gallery from the Library of Congress. Tasked with the job of preserving the roughly 150 million historical items, they are constantly developing new methods using bleeding edge technology. There is an odd balance of some of the oldest documents in tandem with some of the newest technology evident [...]
• May 15, 2010
• 16:00

  A Black Box Mystery

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  One of the members of the SomethingAwful forum recently found a black project box on the street (as seen above), with no idea what the thing did. After (hopefully) making sure there were no explosives, [noapparentfunction] posted a picture online to see if someone could figure it out. According to them, this is what the [...]
• May 04, 2010
• 14:51

  Answers.hackaday.com is LIVE

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  Quick, go to answers.hackaday.com and sign up for an account. Ages ago, we announced that we would be bringing a community driven question and answer system to Hackaday. We eventually got tired of waiting for the feature to be provided and improvised. Well, the wait is over. You can now post your own questions and [...]
• April 28, 2010
• 7:00

  Hackaday links: April 28, 2010

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  Cell phone chopper control Control your tiny inexpensive helicopter with a Nokia N900. The chopper uses an infrared remote control, just like a television. Getting this to work was just a matter of figuring out the IR commands and writing an app for the phone to spit them out. Fade to black; inconspicuously Lost interest [...]
• April 18, 2010
• 10:00

  Hackaday links: April 18, 2010

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  Remote motion control This project walks though a method of controlling motors with an accelerometer when the two are physically separated. Two Arduinos are used, with the user interface and the motor control connected via Ethernet. This must be useful for something; maybe it should be the next step once you get your accelerometer up and [...]
• April 15, 2010
• 10:00

  Ask HackADay: Organization?!

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  Several people have been asking a similar question to, “How do you at Hackaday keep track of and organize all your equipment?” -[Jeff Allen] and others. We have a variety of resources to help you keep track of your tools, equipment, parts, and supplies! Follow us after the jump for some tips for keeping your workspace clean and [...]
• April 10, 2010
• 15:27

  Ask HackADay: Network Security Camera

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  Today we received the question, “How to control a web cam via internet, i want to use it for security reasons, always out of the house and my PC connected want to open the cam from time to time to checkout if something wrong!!” - [Mohamed Saleh] What a fun project we thought! And so many different ways [...]
• March 28, 2010
• 10:10

  Hackaday links: March 28, 2010

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  Cardboard record player [Yen] tipped us off about this cardboard record player. It’s a marketing tool that you receive in the mail. Inside the cardboard packaging is a record and the packaging itself can be folded into a player. Hackable handheld The NanoNote is a tiny handheld housing a lot of power for a small price. It ships [...]
• March 21, 2010
• 12:00

  Ask Hackaday: Now a regular occurrence

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  A while back, we announced that we would be bringing new features to Hackaday. One in particular that garnished a lot of interest was our question answer type thingy. Well, in case you hadn’t noticed, that has not happened yet. Without divulging too much into the secret machinery that lies underneath Hackaday, I’ll just say [...]