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The longest-running hardware hacking blog on the internet, going strong since 2004. Hackaday covers everything from ESP32 projects and 3D-printed contraptions to retrocomputing deep dives and reverse engineering teardowns. The writing treats every project — from a blinking LED to a custom CPU — with the same genuine enthusiasm. It's the kind of site that makes you want to go build something.
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Fixing the Damage of a Botched SNES SuperCIC Mod
Not what you want to see when testing that ‘repaired’ SNES. (Credit: Skawo, YouTube) The good part about older game consoles like the Super Nintendo is that they have rather rudimentary region locks, but unfortunately this also gives some people the idea that installing something like the SuperCIC mod chip to make a SNES region-free is easy. The patient that arrived on [Skawo]’s surgery table was one such victim, with the patient requiring immediate surgery to remove the botche...
Wind Power Is Taking Off In China– All The Way to 2000 m AGL
2000 m above ground level (AGL), winds are stronger and much, much more consistent than they are at surface. Even if the Earth were a perfect sphere, there’d be a sluggish boundry layer at the surface, but since it’s got all these interesting bumps and bits and bobs, it’s not just sluggish but horribly turbulent, too. Getting above that, as much as possible, is why wind turbines are on big towers. Rather than build really big tower, Beijing Lanyi Yunchuan Energy Technology Co....
Robot Looks Exactly Like a Roll of Filament, If Filament Had Eyes
[Matt Denton]’s SpoolBot is a surprisingly agile remote-controlled robot that doesn’t just repurpose filament spool leftovers. It looks exactly like a 2 kg spool of filament; that’s real filament wound around the outside of the drum. In fact, Spoolie the SpoolBot looks so much like the real thing that [Matt] designed a googly-eye add-on, because the robot is so easily misplaced. The robot’s mass rotates around a central hub in order to move forward or back. SpoolBot works...
Driving WS2812Bs With Pure Logic
The WS2812B has become one of the most popular addressable LEDs out there. They’re easy to drive from just about any microcontroller you can think of. But what if you don’t have a microcontroller at all? [Povilas Dumcius] decided to try and drive the LEDs with raw logic only. The project consists of a small board full of old-school ICs that can be used to drive WS2812Bs in a simplistic manner. A 74HC14 Schmitt trigger oscillator provides the necessary beat for this tune, generating a...
Building the Haxocorder
The Haxophone is an open source MIDI saxophone project that has achieved some popularity. It’s caught the attention of [Shieladixon] not because she is a saxophonist but because she plays the recorder and is dissatisfied with existing MIDI recorder peripherals. She’s set about modifying the device to produce the Haxocorder, a better MIDI recorder. The video below the break is the third of a series, of which part one and part two deal with the Haxophone and the shortcomings of her exi...
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