A few years back [James] developed an absolutely amazing set of Wolverine replica claws. They are held together by a bar that laces between his fingers to ensure that when he’s gripping it you don’t
The entrances for our Fubarino contest are slowly yet surely coming in. [James] already had an incredible VFD clock under his belt, as well as figured adding a Hackaday easter egg to his job would
Philosecurity has an interview with [Matt Knox], a former coder for direct Revenue, an adware business which was sued in 2006 by new York governor Eliot Spitzer. The interview includes some fascinating details of exactly
Last year we saw what may be the coolest application of a Kinect ever. It was called Kintinuous, as well as it’s back again, this time around as Kintinuous 2.0, with new as well as
What’s the best way to image a room? A picture? Hah — don’t be so old-fashioned! You want a LIDAR rig to scan the space and reconstruct it as a 3D point map in your
QNX has a long checkered history as an embedded operating system. QNX was always popular for being a genuine time operating system with a microkernel architecture. That is, kernel functions run as a set of
ten years ago, we never imagined we would be able to ward off burglars with Pi. However, that is precisely what [Nick] is doing with his Raspberry Pi house safety and security system. We like
[Dancerman] sent us a couple pdfs covering the Navy’s research study on railguns which may show up on new platforms like the DD(X): very first is NRAC’s Electromagnetic gun innovation Assessment, second is slides from
[Angus Gratton] just recently cracked open a pair of USB to Ethernet converters to see what’s inside. One was an Apple top quality device, the other a no-name from eBay. The former rings in at
Oscilloscopes have come a long way. Today’s range is much more likely to look like a tablet than an old tube-based instrument. Still, there’s something about looking into a radiant eco-friendly tube, particularly if you’ve