This hulking monument to illumination is [DJJules’s] 6-foot-long ultimate Larson Scanner. If you’re scratching your head in confusion, the Larson Scanner is the ever-popular scrolling LEDs seen on KITT (the car) from Knight Rider as well as on Cylons in Battlestar Galactica (1978), named after the creator of the series. [DJJules’s] iteration consists of sixteen 10W LEDs, each […]
E-MONOWHEELE-MONOWHEEL
May 21, 2022May 21, 2022
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Generally, monowheels are that wacky, wildly futuristic carry that we lump in the same category as hoverbikes and jetpacks: strange, currently impractical, but very cool. Not content with waiting for the distant future, [Sam Barker] made his own electric monowheel. (Video, embedded below.) The hardest part of any monowheel is that the outside rim needs […]
A DEV BOARD FOR THE ESP LUA INTERPRETERA DEV BOARD FOR THE ESP LUA INTERPRETER
May 20, 2022May 20, 2022
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From the great minds behind the NodeMCU Lua interpreter for the ESP8266 comes a proper dev board for the WiFi platform of 2015. They are calling it, the NodeMCU-devkit, and it’s a reasonable, cheap, and breadboardable breakout board for the ESP8266. The version of ESP8266 used in this project is the ESP-12, the newer, fancier […]
DRIVING game steering WHEEL CONTROLLER WITHOUT THE WHEELDRIVING game steering WHEEL CONTROLLER WITHOUT THE WHEEL
May 20, 2022May 20, 2022
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For some reason this project makes us think of the Light Cycles in Tron. You know, the bike forms around the rider after they grab onto the wand that makes up its controls? certainly you’re not going to see a car form out of thin air, but this driving controller let you grab onto nothing to […]
VFD HACKINGVFD HACKING
May 20, 2022May 20, 2022
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[Mostafa] was a bit tired as well as had a damaged DVD player sitting around, so he made a decision to take it apart to see what made the machine’s LCD panel tick. when he popped it open, he found it wasn’t an LCD panel at all, it was a VFD. The seven section screen […]
CUSTOMIZE THESE 3D printed situationsCUSTOMIZE THESE 3D printed situations
May 15, 2022May 15, 2022
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building something, of course, needs your electronics skills. however packaging it is frequently an exercise in mechanics. You can get off the shelf, of course, however often it is difficult to discover just the ideal enclosure. You most likely have a 3D printer, too, however often 3D printing an entire situation can be time consuming […]
KILL THE EXHAUST, NOT YOUR LUNGS WITH THE FUME COFFINKILL THE EXHAUST, NOT YOUR LUNGS WITH THE FUME COFFIN
May 15, 2022May 15, 2022
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As if slinging around 40 watts of potentially tattoo-removing or retina-singeing laser beams wasn’t anxiety-inducing enough, now comes a new, scary acronym – LCAGs, or “laser-generated airborne contaminants.” With something that scary floating around your shop, it might be a good idea to build a souped-up laser cutter exhaust fan to save your lungs. We […]
ADD SMARTS TO YOUR OLD capsule COFFEE makerADD SMARTS TO YOUR OLD capsule COFFEE maker
May 14, 2022May 14, 2022
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everyone has their preferred method of making (and consuming) coffee. While modern coffee makers are starting to come conventional with IoT and ‘smart’ capabilities, owners of older models should fear not, as [Andreas Skoglund] shows how just about any old machine can be upgraded with the latest automation wizardry. The most involved part of this […]
USING THE WINK HUB WITH OPENHABUSING THE WINK HUB WITH OPENHAB
May 13, 2022May 13, 2022
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spend enough time taking a look at home automation setups, and you’ll rapidly find there are two competing philosophies. The first wants to put an Arduino on every light socket, with everything connected by low-cost eBay radio modules. The second home automation viewpoint requires astonishingly expensive hardware to speak with other expensive modules. The Arduino […]
HACKADAY PODCAST 144: JIGS JIGS JIGS, FABERGÉ MIC, PARANOMAL ELECTRONICS, and A 60-TUBE NIXIE CLOCKHACKADAY PODCAST 144: JIGS JIGS JIGS, FABERGÉ MIC, PARANOMAL ELECTRONICS, and A 60-TUBE NIXIE CLOCK
May 11, 2022May 11, 2022
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Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys get caught up on the week that was. two builds are turning some heads this week; one uses 60 Nixie tube bar graphs to make a clock that looks like the sun’s rays, the other is a 4096 RGB LED Cube (that’s 12,288 total diodes for those counting […]