5 Easy Digital Products to Create

This weekend at the Bay area maker Faire, Arduino in conjunction with SiFive, a fabless company of the open source RISC-V micros, introduced the Arduino Cinque. This is a board running one of the fastest microcontrollers available, and as an added bonus, this board includes Espressif’s ESP32, another wonderchip that features WiFi and Bluetooth alongside a very, […]

maker Faire Bay area is next weekend, as well as you understand what that means: we’re having a meetup on Saturday night. If you’re in the area, it’s highly suggested you attend. It’s a blinky bring-a-hack with booze. You can’t beat it. I heard the OPShark is showing up. All hail the OPShark. You’re gonna want to […]

As Web security has evolved it has gotten easier to lock your systems down. many products come out of the box pre-configured to include decent security practices, as well as most of the prominent on the internet services have wised up about encryption as well as password storage. That’s not to state that things are […]

[Martin Raynsford] figured out a way to sneak some learning into a fun package. He did such a good job the test subjects didn’t even know they were teaching themselves just a tiny bit of CNC programming. The apparatus above is a marble maze, but instead of building walls [Martin] simply etched a pattern on […]

A single cell of this distributed flight system can spin its propeller but it comes at the cost of the chassis flying out of control. To realize any type of stable flight it must seek a partnership with other cells. The more astute reader will be wondering how it can autonomously pair if incapable of […]

Whenever I release a hackaday video, I invariably get comments as well as emails about my workbench. Some people are telling me to clean up, others are asking me about things they see in the background. This isn’t just a set that I film on. certainly my videos aren’t high sufficient high quality for people […]

Here’s a fun game from [A.J.]’s lab. It’s a simulated king cobra made from an Arduino, an ultrasonic sensor, and a servo. The goal of the game is to get hold of a ball in front of the device without being ‘bitten’ by the thumbtack attached to a drinking straw controlled by a servo. You […]

[Jordi] made this incredible looking small amplifier which has a rather unusual feature. He’s calling it the Bizarre small Amplifier since it likewise has a white noise generator developed best into it! Bizarre right? Now, many people would just discover a appropriate amplifier as well as put it into a good box, however not [Jordi]! […]

[Roy Bean] believed it was quite silly for the Milwaukee Makerspace to keep getting bottles of water for their water cooler. He rigged up a system that automatically fills the refrigerated reservoir in their water cooler. It’s a practical hack that likewise supplied an reason for him to discover about a couple of different sensors. […]