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1:1 interview with Hackaday Prize finalist Reinier van der Lee
Did you know that 80% of the 2015 Hackaday Prize finalists are powered by Atmel? With only days left until we learn which project will walk away with this year’s crown, we recently sat down with each...
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1:1 interview with Hackaday Prize finalist MW Motors
Did you know that 80% of the 2015 Hackaday Prize finalists are powered by Atmel? With only days left until we learn which project will walk away with this year’s crown, we recently sat down with each...
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Open your garage door with this DIY keypad
Tired of being locked out of your house? Build an Arduino-powered keypad. SamJBoz often found himself in the same predicament: he would arrive home, only to realize that he didn’t have his garage...
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This smartwatch strap turns hand gestures into commands
Carnegie Mellon University’s Human Computer Interaction Institute has come up with a way to translate hand movements into commands for your smarwatch. Most smartwatches today have tiny touchscreens,...
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Optimizing crop irrigation with Arduino
To optimize crop yield, this group of Makers developed an Arduino-based irrigation system that uses sensors and a weather station. As part of a recent hackathon in Madrid, one team of Makers created a...
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Adding more range and LEDs to an electric longboard
This Maker added more battery, more range and LED underlighting to his electric longboard. Boosted boards are electric skateboards that when used by Andrew Rossignol got about seven miles of range...
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This glove lets you feel for objects below the water’s surface
Inspired by dolphin echolocation, IrukaTact is an underwater haptic glove that helps find sunken objects. Developed by Ph.D. candidates Aisen Carolina Chacin and Takeshi Ozu at Japan’s Tsukuba...
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This tennis racquet grunts like Sharapova (and others) when you swing it
A racquet that makes quite the racket. Conventional wisdom says that tennis players grunt because it helps them apply the maximal force when they strike the ball. However, don’t be fooled, these...
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Watch this 3D-printed sculpture create an optical illusion
Math and art come together to blow your mind. A group of German Makers have developed an animated, kinetic sculpture that produces a controlled 3D zoetrope optical illusion. Flux was designed to play...
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Make an automatic ice fishing jig
An automated spin pike decoy for DIY ice fishing. If you’ve spent most of your life in a relatively warm climate, chances are you think of ice fishing as sitting inside a shack with a line through a...
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Watch this 3D-printed sculpture create an optical illusion
A group of German Makers have developed an animated, kinetic sculpture that produces a controlled 3D zoetrope optical illusion. Flux was designed to play with the eye’s perception of space and depth...
View ArticleMake an automatic ice fishing jig
If you’ve spent most of your life in a relatively warm climate, chances are you think of ice fishing as sitting inside a shack with a line through a hole in the ice, waiting for a fish to bite....
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Hacking a Little Tikes Goofy Giggles toy into a math game
Like many toys out there designed for toddlers, the Little Tikes Goofy Giggles is colorful, loud, durable and fun for three-year-olds. And that’s about it. Sure it can hold a youngster’s attention for...
View ArticleMechatronic ears for cat lovers
For some, cat ears are the ultimate cosplay accessory. For others, they’re a way of life. (Just ask Ariana Grande.) In fact, there’s even a version that can read a wearer’s brain waves and then...
View ArticleCreate a speedometer for your skateboard with Arduino
If you are even a semi-serious bike rider, there’s a good chance you have a speedometer. “Edbraun,” however, decided that he wanted this same functionality for his skateboard. His model works in a very...
View ArticleDigitize and clone objects around your house with this DIY 3D scanner
3D printers have certainly become more common in the last few years, but 3D scanners, which allow one to scan a physical object and print it, are seen much less in the wild. If you do have a 3D...
View ArticleThis over-the-top Pip-Boy 3000 has real-world features
If you’re a true Fallout fan, you may feel the need to have a Pip-Boy 3000 information display on your left forearm at all times. Though smartwatches provide some of this device’s capabilities, they...
View ArticleMaker creates his own sporty Arduino watch
Alexis Ospitia points out that today’s technology allows us to implement a project like the watch that he built with relative ease. What he did was not simple by any means, but using an Arduino Pro...
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