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[Link] Coin Acceptors Are Higher-Tech Than You Think
Read: 13/4/2022 hackaday.com
Coin-operated machines have a longer history than you might think. Ancient temples used them to dispense, for example, holy water to the faithful in return for their coins. Old payphones rang a bell when you inserted a coin so the operator knew you paid.
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[Link] Soil Moisture Sensor Coating Lessons Learned The Hard Way
Read: 3/3/2022 hackaday.com
Ever wanted to measure soil moisture? Common “soil moisture meter module arduino raspberry compatible free shipping” PCBs might deceive you with their ascetic looks.
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[Link] Pump Up The Resin
Read: 13/2/2022 hackaday.com
Sometimes the best ideas are simple and seem obvious after you’ve heard them. [Danny] showed us a great idea that fits that description. He uses a peristaltic pump to move resin in and out of his print bed. (Video, embedded below.
[Link] How to Build an E-Paper To-Do List with Raspberry Pi
Read: 15/11/2021 www.tomshardware.com
I’ve often struggled with procrastination, and to-do applications have been lifesaving. I sometimes find myself needing a reminder to just focus on getting the most important task done before working on anything else.
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[Link] Modded GBA SP Does Its Best Switch Impression
Read: 2/11/2021 hackaday.com
The whole idea behind the Nintendo Switch is that the system isn’t just a handheld, but can be converted into a more traditional home game console when placed into its dock.
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[Link] The Sincerest Form Of Flattery: Cloning Open-Source Hardware
Read: 31/10/2021 hackaday.com
We’re great proponents (and beneficiaries) of open-source hardware here at Hackaday. It’s impossible to overstate the impact that the free sharing of ideas has had on the hacker hardware scene.
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[Link] Extracting Data From Smart Scale Gives Rube Goldberg A Run For His Money
Read: 31/10/2021 hackaday.com
[Kevin Norman] got himself a smart body scale with the intention of logging data for his own analysis, but discovered that extracting data from the device was anything but easy. It turns out that the only way to access data from his scale is by viewing it in a mobile app.
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[Link] ESP32 Internet Radio Is No Game
Read: 31/10/2021 hackaday.com
More than once, we’ve looked at a cool board like the TTGO T-Display and thought, “What can we build with this?” If you are [Volos Projects], the answer is a tiny Internet radio. He’s done a lot of other projects with the board including some games and a weather station.
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[Link] ESP32-Cam Makes A Dandy Motion Detector
Read: 24/10/2021 hackaday.com
Halloween is right around the corner and just about every Halloween project needs some kind of motion sensor. Historically, we’ve used IR and ultrasonic sensors but [Makers Mashup] decided to use an ESP32-Cam as a motion sensor in his latest animatronic creation.
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[Link] Overclocker doubles Raspberry Pi's clock speed to an incredible 3GHz
Read: 20/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
The Raspberry Pi is hardly what you'd call a performance machine. Even so, with each iteration, it has been getting faster and more capable—to the point where you can now use the Raspberry Pi 4 Model 4 as a desktop PC.
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[Link] ESP32 Clock Pushes Outrun Graphics Over Composite
Read: 19/10/2021 hackaday.com
We’ve covered plenty of clocks powered by the ESP32, but this one from [Marcio Teixeira] is really something special. Rather than driving a traditional physical display, the microcontroller is instead generating a composite video signal of an animated digital clock.
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[Link] Turning Old Masks Into 3D Printer Filament
Read: 19/10/2021 hackaday.com
Disposable masks have been a necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic, but for all the good they’ve done, their disposal represents a monumental ecological challenge that has largely been ignored in favor of more immediate concerns.
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