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Author Archives: Fernando Gomes
Farting Baseball; From the Makers of Self-Solving Rubik’s Cube
Some hackers have a style all their own that is immediately recognizable from one project to the next. For instance, you can tell a [Takashi Kaburagi] by its insides. The behavior of his Farting Baseball project (machine translation) is amusing, but the joke is only skin deep. Look inside and …read more
Posted in 134a, baseball, classic hacks, curveball, gas blowback pistols, HFC134A, solenoid, wireless
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Hybrid Drones Could Have Massively Extended Flight Times
Multirotor drones truly took off with the availability of lithium polymer batteries, brushless motors, and cheap IMUs. Their performance continues to improve, but their flight time remains relatively short due to the limits of battery technology. [Nicolai Valenti] aims to solve the problem by developing a hybrid generator for drones. …read more
Posted in drone, drone hacks, gasoline, hybrid, hybrid drone
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Turning A Single Bolt Into A Combination Lock
In our search for big-box convenience, we tend to forget that locksmiths once not only copied keys but also created complex locks and other intricate mechanisms from scratch. [my mechanics] hasn’t forgotten, and building a lock is his way of celebrating of the locksmith’s skill. Building a combination lock from …read more
Posted in brass, combination lock, lock, lockpicking hacks, locksmithing, misc hacks, steel
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A (Card) Table-Top Turing Machine Of Magic: The Gathering Cards
Within normal rules of collectible card game Magic: The Gathering a player may find themselves constrained to only a single legal course of action forward. It’s a situation players could craft to frustrate their opponents, though the victims usually break free after a few moves. But under a carefully crafted …read more
Posted in card game, magic the gathering, toy hacks, Turing machine
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Live Apollo 11 Transcript On eInk Display
There are few moments in history that have ever been recorded in more detail or analyzed as thoroughly as the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon. Getting three men to our nearest celestial neighbor and back in one piece took a lot of careful planning, and recording every moment of …read more
Posted in apollo, badge, csv, eink, Microcontrollers, moon, wearable hacks
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Torturing an Instrumented Dive Watch, for Science
The Internet is a wild and wooly place where people can spout off about anything with impunity. If you sound like you know what you’re talking about and throw around a few bits of the appropriate jargon, chances are good that somebody out there will believe whatever you’re selling.
Case …read more
Posted in BMP280, clock hacks, crown, depth, dving, ESP-01, misc hacks, pressure, seal, sensor, temperature, watch, water pressure, wifi
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The Arduboy, Ported To Desktop and Back Again
A neat little hacker project that’s flying off the workbenches recently is the Arduboy. This tiny game console looks like a miniaturized version of the O.G. Game Boy, but it is explicitly designed to be hacked. It’s basically an Arduino board with a display and a few buttons, anyway.
[rv6502] …read more
Posted in 3D render, Arduboy, arduino, Arduino Hacks, game engine, software, Software Development
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BornHack Tease Us With Their Badge
Every August for the past four years, there has been a summer hacker camp on the Danish island of Bornholm, that may be a relatively new kid on the block but is slowly evolving into one of the summer’s essential stop-offs. This year for the first time they are moving …read more
Posted in badge, BornHack, cons, hacker camp
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Art Meets Science In The Cold Wastelands Of Iceland
Although Iceland is now a popular destination for the day-tripping selfie-seeking Instagrammer who rents a 4×4, drives it off road onto delicate ecosystems and then videos the ensuing rescue when the cops arrive, there are still some genuine photographers prepared to put a huge amount of time and effort into …read more
Posted in art, digital cameras hacks, Iceland, landscape, photography, Thermal
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High-Tech Alms Collection With The ESP32
In an ideal world, shop space, tools, and components would be free. But until we get to that Star Trek utopia, hackerspaces will have to rely on donations from the community to help stay afloat. While asking for money, at least you can have some fun with it if you …read more
Posted in coin acceptor, donations, ESP32, hackerspace, LoRa, Microcontrollers, parts
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