Sometimes, it can be extremely challenging to discover a partner to play pong. lets deal with it, pong just isn’t worth playing alone. somebody has come up with the ideal solution, a robot developed particularly for playing pong. It watches the “ball” with a web cam as well as presses the suitable buttons on the…
Month: October 2022
WATCHING 50 teams develop SOMETHING great
Last summer, we right here at Hackaday took part in the Red Bull development Contest. Basically, twelve teams were provided webcams as well as directions to develop something cool. The teams online streamed their develop process, as well as the very best of the lot won a trip to the new York maker Faire. [Jason…
ROLL YOUR own LOJACK CLONE
If you’ve ever anxious about your automobile getting stolen this hack can help give you some piece of mind. It’s a cellular enabled geolocation device. These things have been in use for some time, the most common brand we know of is the LoJack. That company gives you a little box to install on the…
CANDYFAB RELAUNCHED
forget about machines that can replicate themselves, what we want is a device capable of making an 8 inch broad hollow torus out of sugar. The CandyFab project has been around for a while, but with the release of the new machine, the CandyFab 6000 they are reinventing the project. built from the ground up…
FLYING vehicles A truth
[Stillboy] alerted us to a flying car that runs on biofuel. flying vehicles have been the mainstays of science fiction and technological desire listings for years, but they elude production, as expenses, fuel, and gravity get in the way. [Gilo Cardozo], a paramotor manufacturer, handled to overcome those hurdles by believing simply. He connected a…
QUICK and easy ROCKET STOVE
[Simon], a gardener in the United Kingdom, created this incredibly cheap and easy to build rocket stove. The great thing about this little person is that the methods and materials used to create it are so basic, any individual must be able to swiftly make their own for just a few bucks. If nothing else,…
STAR trek DESKTOP viewer IN THE palm OF YOUR HAND!
There’s building small computers — like the Raspberry Pi — and then there’s building small computers — like this Desktop viewer from star Trek. [Monta Elkins] is using a Beetle for this project; it’s an Arduino clone, hosting the ATMega32U4 microcontroller, with a unique feature that allows you to twist connecting wires to secure them…
MACHINING BEER CAN SOLDER STENCILS
This is a solder paste stencil machined from a beer can. [Simon Ludborzs] spent quite a bit of time dialing in his process to get to this point. note the good crisp edges of the openings. That’s a big change from his first attempt. When searching for a way to make his own stencils he considered two…
NES ZAPPER customized TO work WITH AN OLD NINTENDO VS. cupboard
The business which [Eric Wright] works for just recently bought a Nintendo VS. It had Ice Climber installed as one of the titles however they asked the vendor if it was possible to switch it out for the Duck search ROM. They had the ROM however not a light gun that would work with the…
APPLE MAGSAFE cord repair work
[Tommy Ward] had a huge issue with the cord for his laptop power supply. This thing’s not affordable so he figured out a method to repair the frayed cord on his Apple MagSafe. He asserts that the shortened rubber collar on the plug end of the cord is to blame for this type of damage. We…