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Turning A Cast-Iron Radiator Into A Water-Cooled PC
2+ hour, 8+ min ago (245+ words) [caption id="attachment_921784" align="alignright" width="400"] Bottom of the cast-iron radiator gaming PC during plumbing. (Credit: Billet Labs, YouTube)[/caption] Water-cooled PCs generally have in... Bottom of the cast-iron radiator gaming PC during plumbing (Credit: Billet Labs, YouTube) Water-cooled PCs generally…...
Have You Ever Used A Tick Stick?
23+ hour, 8+ min ago (264+ words) Picture this: you have an irregular opening you need to fabricate a piece to fill. Maybe it's the stonework of a fireplace; maybe it's the curved bulkhead of a ship. How do you get that shape? The mos... Picture this:…...
Let Hauntimator Steer Your Next Animatronic Display
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (205+ words) Animatronic displays aren't just for Halloween, and hackers today have incredible access to effective, affordable parts with which to make spectacles of light, sound, and movement. But the hardware is... Animatronic displays aren't just for Halloween, and hackers today have…...
Hackaday Podcast Ep 359: Flying Squids, Edible Passwords, And A CAD Automaton
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (273+ words) Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams met up to trade their favorite posts of the week. Tune in and see if your favorites made the list. From crazy intricate automata to surprising problems in Peltier cooler designs, there's a…...
Inside Project Silica, Now On Bakeware
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (737+ words) As you might expect, this is a write-once technology. Lasers write the data, and polarization-sensitive microscopes read it back. Electromagnetic fields don't matter. You can't accidentally change the data while reading. A square glass platter the size of a DVD…...
Reflections On Ten Years With The Wrencher
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (698+ words) An auspicious anniversary passed for me this week, as it's a decade since I started writing for Hackaday. In that time this job has taken me all over" Europe, it's shown me the very best and most awe... An auspicious…...
Driving WS2812Bs With Pure Logic
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (238+ words) 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 have a microcontroller at all? [P... The WS2812B has become one of the…...
Bionode Is Hand Truck Transformed Into Mobile Computing Lab
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (233+ words) [Steven K. Roberts] is the original digital nomad, having designed and built mobile computing for his own use since the 80s. His latest project is Bionode, a portable computing lab built into a hand truck that can accommodate a wide spectrum of…...
Random Number Generator Uses Camera Noise
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (262+ words) Random Number Generator Uses Camera Noise'Hackaday Random numbers are very important to us in this computer age, being used for all sorts of security and cryptographic tasks [Theory to Thing] recently built a device to generate random numbers using nothing…...
Restoring A Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (260+ words) The Yamaha DX7 is one of the most iconic synthesizers that emerged in the early 1980s, and is still very popular today. That said, with even the newest of these having left the factory back in 1989, t... The Yamaha DX7 is one of the…...