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Category Archives: Hackaday links
Hackaday Links: May 19, 2019
Cheap nostalgia, that’s the name of the game. If you can somehow build and ship ‘cheap nostalgia’, you’re going to be raking in the bucks. For the ‘musicians’ in the crowd, the king of cheap nostalgia has something great. Behringer is cloning the Yamaha CS-80. and it was announced at …read more
Hackaday Links: May 12, 2019
The future of the musical instrument industry is in tiny, cheap, handheld synthesizers. They’re sold as ‘musical toys’. They bleep and bloop, and that’s about it. Korg may have just released the minimum viable product for this category, and thus the most popular product for this category. On the surface, …read more
Posted in bamf, bird, Hackaday links, maker faire, MFBA, Razer
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Hackaday Links: May 5, 2019
Simulacra and simulation and Kickstarter videos. The Amigo Robot is a 4-wheeled omnibot robot on Kickstarter. It does STEM or STEAM or whatever. Oh neat, injection molded magnetic pogo pins, that’s cool. Watch the video for this Kickstarter, it is a work of postmodern horror. We live in a post-reality …read more
Posted in cnc, Hackaday Columns, Hackaday links, Jean Baudrillard, red hat, Satoshi, siemens
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Hackaday Links: April 28, 2019
Lego is releasing a series of Braille bricks. As near as we can tell, these Braille bricks are standard 2 x 4 bricks, with studs corresponding to Braille letters on the top. There are also screen/pad printed legends on top. I don’t mean to be a downer, but why, exactly, …read more
Posted in Hackaday Columns, Hackaday links, KiCon, lego, moog, Moog Matriarch, Soyus, space tourist, space tourists
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Hackaday Links: April 21, 2019
A Russian company has developed a drone with a very interesting control scheme. It’s a VTOL fixed wing, that takes off like a bicopter, transitions to use wings for lift, flies around for half an hour or so, and then lands on its tail. This is a big ‘un; the …read more
Hackaday Links: April 14, 2019
Look at this prototype Apple smartphone from 1993! For a long time, Apple has been in the phone game, with many failed attempts to combine a laptop screen with a phone. The most noteworthy attempt would be the Snow White phone designed around 1982, but this didn’t go to market. …read more
Posted in 4/20, Hackaday Columns, Hackaday links, reel-to-reel, tape
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Hackaday Links: April 7, 2019
It’s April, which means all the people responsible for doubling the number of badges at DEF CON are hard at work getting their prototypes ready and trying to fund the entire thing. The first one out of the gate is Da Bomb, by [netik] and his crew. This is the …read more
Posted in 3d printing, chap stick, defcon, gramophone, Hackaday Columns, Hackaday links, JLCPCB, pcb, shitty add-on
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Hackaday Links: March 31, 2019
You can now make flexible circuit boards of unlimited length. Trackwise was contracted out for making a wiring harness for the wing of a UAV and managed to ship a 26 meter long flexible printed circuit board. This is an interesting application of the technology — UAVs are very weight …read more
Hackaday Links: March 24, 2019
It has come to my attention that a few of you don’t know about Crystalfontz, an online store where you can find displays of all types, from USB LCD displays to I2C OLEDs, to ePaper displays. Thanks to [arthurptj] for that tip. Yes, Crystalfontz is cool, but have you ever …read more
Hackaday Links: March 17, 2019
There’s now an official Raspberry Pi keyboard and mouse. The mouse is a mouse clad in pink and white plastic, but the Pi keyboard has some stuff going for it. It’s small, which is what you want for a Pi keyboard, and it has a built-in USB hub. Even Apple …read more
Posted in ai, Hackaday Columns, Hackaday links, NeXT, Power Wheels, Raspberry Pi, RCL
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