Oscar Vermeulen PiDP-8: Experiences developing an electronics kit HACKADAY 2026-09-20 | Oscar Vermeulen PiDP-8: Experiences developing an electronics kit
Ep 293: The Power of POKE, Folding Butterflies, and the CRT Effect HACKADAY 2024-10-18 | This week on the Podcast, Hackaday's Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos joined forces to bring you the latest news, mystery sound, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the previous week. First up in the news: we've extended the 2024 Supercon Add-On contest by a week! That's right, whether you were held up by Chinese fall holidays or not, here's your chance to get in on this action. We love to see the add-ons people make for the badge every year, so this time around we're really embracing the standard. The best SAOs will get a production run and they'll be in the swag bag at Hackaday Europe 2025. What's That Sound pretty much totally stumped Kristina once again, although she kind of earned a half shirt. Can you get it? Can you figure it out? Can you guess what's making that sound? If you can, and your number comes up, you get a special Hackaday Podcast t-shirt. Then it's on to the hacks, beginning with what actually causes warping in 3D prints, and a really cool display we'd never heard of. Then we'll discuss the power of POKE when it comes to live coding music on the Commodore64, and the allure of CRTs when it comes to vintage gaming. Finally, we talk Hackaday comments and take a look at a couple of keyboards. Check out the links if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!
Ep 292: Stainless Steel Benchies, Lego Turing Machines, and a Digital Camera Made of Pure DIY HACKADAY 2024-10-11 | Here we are in October, improbably enough, and while the leaves start to fall as the goblins begin to gather, Elliot and Dan took a break from the madness to talk about all the wonderful hacks that graced our pages this week. If there was a theme this week, it was long-term projects, like the multiple years one hacker spent going down dead ends in the quest for DIY metal 3D printing. Not to be outdone, another hacker spent seven years building a mirrorless digital camera that looks like a commercial product. And getting a solderless PCB to do the blinkenlight thing took a long time too. Looking to eliminate stringing in your 3D prints? Then you'll want to avoid the "pause and attach" approach, which intentionally creates strings in your prints. Wondering if you can 3D print bearings? You can, but you probably shouldn't unless you have a particular use in mind. And what happens when you have an infinitely large supply of Lego? Why, you build a Turing machine on steroids, of course. Finally, we take a look at this week's "Can't-Miss" articles with a look into plastic recycling and why we can't have nice things yet, and we take a trip out into orbit and examine the ins and outs of Lagrange points. And a little mea culpa from the editing desk: Sorry the podcast is coming out late this week. Audacity ate my files. If you're ever in a similar circumstance, you can probably halfway save your bacon with audacity-project-tools. Ask me how I know. Check out the links over at Hackaday.
Ep 291: Walking in Space, Lead in the Earth, and Atoms under the DIY MIcroscope HACKADAY 2024-10-04 | What have you missed on Hackaday this week? Elliot Williams and Al Williams compare notes on their favorites from the week, and you are invited. The guys may have said too much about the Supercon badge this year -- listen in for a few hints about what it will be about. For hacks, you'll hear about scanning tunneling microscopes, power management for small Linux systems, and lots of inertial measurement units. The guys talked about a few impossible hacks for consumer electronics, from hacking a laptop, to custom cell phones. Of course, there are plenty more long-form articles of the week, including a brief history of what can go wrong on a spacewalk and how to get the lead out (of the ground). Don't forget to take a stab at the What's That Sound competition and maybe score a sweet Hackaday Podcast T-shirt. Check out the links over on Hackaday if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!
Supercon 2023: Tom Mloduchowski - Experimental/Amateur-Built Aircraft & Innovation HACKADAY 2024-06-12 | Tom Mloduchowski is a seasoned electronics engineer and entrepreneur passionate about developing cutting-edge hardware and software solutions. He has spent over a decade working on various innovative projects, from blockchain-based payroll lending to tele-mental health startups. Tom is passionate about aviation and has, in the past, dabbled in general aviation maintenance, experimental aircraft, and electric propulsion.In this talk, Tom will take the audience through an overview of how to aviate, build, and communicate in the aircraft world.
Supercon 2023: Thea Flowers - The Absurd Idea of Rendering KiCAD Projects on The Web HACKADAY 2024-06-11 | Thea is an artist, engineer, writer, and open-source advocate. She creates synthesizers and builds engaging developer experiences. She's currently serving on the board of the Open Source Hardware Association, and she also has an unreasonable fondness for weasels.In her talk, Thea will show real-world applications of interactive web technology, curious facts about KiCAD, and more!
Supercon 2023: Kuba Tyszko - Adventures in Reverse-Engineering a Commercial Coffee Machine HACKADAY 2024-06-06 | Kuba is a natural-born hacker with a penchant for diving into encrypted software in ways it was never meant for. Kuba’s experience includes launching a farming tractor at six, designing their own electronics, and building bicycles.In their talk, they dive into the simplicity of commercial coffee machines and how access to the hardware makes it easy to reverse-engineer the design.
Supercon 2023: Kumar Abhishek - Going into Deep (logic) Waters With The Picos PIO & The Pis SMI HACKADAY 2024-06-06 | Kumar lives in India and works for Google as a Software Engineer. They have previously worked for Analog Devices as well.In their talk, they will show the intricacies and lesser-known elements of the PIO and DMA controller of the Raspberry Pi Pico.
Supercon 2023: David Prutchi - Receiving Microwave Signals from Deep-Space HACKADAY 2024-06-06 | David Prutchi is dedicated to bringing cutting-edge experimental physics, technical photography, and space communications within the grasp of fellow science buffs. He holds a Ph.D. from Tel-Aviv University, and his area of expertise is developing active implantable medical devices.In his talk, David explores how deep space exploration creates new and exciting opportunities in ham radio.
Supercon 2023: Bob Hickman - The Bits and Bytes of Bringing Arcade Classics to Game Consoles HACKADAY 2024-05-31 | Bob is a game industry veteran with many shipped titles across all major platforms. He was also a Disney Imagineer, working on high-profile interactive attractions for several years. He’s currently a technology director in the automotive AI space.His talk is about retro programming technology, making tools for reverse engineering, and getting things working without source code.
Quick Review: Andonstar AD409-MAX HACKADAY 2024-05-22 | Do you have enough room to solder under the Andonstar AD409-MAX? You bet.Read the story on Hackaday:hackaday.com/2024/05/22/hands-on-ad409-max-microscope
Supercon 2023: Nathan Jones Looks Inside the Voja4 Badge HACKADAY 2024-05-21 | The Hackaday Supercon 2022 badge (affectionately dubbed the “Voja4”) was a wonder of low-level computing, implementing a working 4-bit computer with over 200 LEDs to show its internal state.In this talk, Nathan aims to reignite your fascination with this little device by sharing with you how it works, what makes it a computer (given it’s lilliputian specifications), and a plethora of fun projects you can build with it once we’re done.Slide download:drive.google.com/file/d/1l2Lm6VFIsWjyYuVLK8OIALCAXNuAZs-FRead the story on Hackaday:hackaday.com/2024/05/20/supercon-2023-exploring-the-elegance-of-the-voja4
Supercon 2023: James Lewis Builds His Own Portable Apple IIe HACKADAY 2024-05-18 | This talk spans a four-year project initially intended to be a quick and easy “just wire this chip up” idea. (Sound familiar?) James set out to build a portable Apple IIe based on the Apple “Mega-II” chip from the late 1980s. Something that not even Apple ever did! To make it happen, he had to reverse engineer the (mostly) undocumented ASIC and learn more about the Apple II hardware architecture than a single person should.The result is the first Apple IIe-compatible computer built relying on the Mega-II — not even the IIGS can claim this!Read the story on Hackaday:hackaday.com/2024/05/14/supercon-2023-building-the-ultimate-apple-iie-decades-later
AM2900 Bitslice Simulator in... Google Sheets! HACKADAY 2024-05-15 | First, we made an assembler in Google Sheets. Why not a simulator too? Read the post: hackaday.com/2024/05/15/a-slice-of-simulation-google-sheets-style
Supercon 2023: Jose Angel Torres is Building a Junkyard Secure Phone HACKADAY 2024-05-10 | With a fascination of making devices one uses everyday more secure, we take a look at what it takes to go beyond an iFixIt teardown image of a phone motherboard and completely reverse-engineering it with the help of relatively inexpensive services, modifying it to be (somewhat) more secure, and rebuilding a phone from scratch (in China). These techniques and practices can be applied to any device from phones, as discussed in this talk, to generic IOT devices or even the laptop you use on a daily basis.Read the story on Hackaday:hackaday.com/2024/05/01/supercon-2023-jose-angel-torres-on-building-a-junkyard-secure-phone
Supercon 2023: MakeItHackin Automates the Tindie Workflow HACKADAY 2024-05-10 | Do you sell products on Tindie or other marketplaces? If so, this talk is for you! Learn how you can spend less time fulfilling orders and more time working on an unfinished project from your shelf. Do you want lights and sirens to turn on every time you get an order? We’ll see how to do that too.Read the story on Hackaday:hackaday.com/2024/05/07/supercon-2023-makeithackin-automates-the-tindie-workflow
Supercon 2023: Alex Lynd Does Wireless Hacking on a $5 Budget HACKADAY 2024-04-25 | As microcontrollers become cheaper & more capable, this makes them perfect for building disposable hacking payloads – and especially for wireless reconnaissance!In this talk, Alex Lynd shares how he builds low-cost hacking tools, wireless implants, and even a snail-mail payload that can phish your online credentials – all using $5 microcontrollers! He also discusses how he uses low-cost hardware to lower the barrier to entry for security researchers & cybersecurity beginners.Read the article on Hackaday:hackaday.com/2024/04/24/supercon-2023-alex-lynd-explores-mcus-in-infosec
AM2900 Evaluation and Learning Board HACKADAY 2024-04-22 | A detailed example of using the AM2901/AM2908 (AM2900 bitslice CPU) on the AMD evaluation board. See the post: hackaday.com/2024/04/22/slicing-and-dicing-the-bits-cpu-design-the-old-fashioned-way
Hackaday Berlin 2024: Lightning Talks HACKADAY 2024-04-15 | Join us for the return of Hackaday Europe, a hardware conference on Saturday, April 13th in Berlin, Germany. Featuring talks exploring the most unique, cutting-edge, and world-changing topics around hardware creation. Topics range from learning new tools or techniques to fabrication adventures, from code-wrangling that firmware project to your giant LED design project, and everything in between.
Hackaday Berlin 2024: Day One, Part Two HACKADAY 2024-04-14 | Join us for the return of Hackaday Europe, a hardware conference on Saturday, April 13th in Berlin, Germany. Featuring talks exploring the most unique, cutting-edge, and world-changing topics around hardware creation. Topics range from learning new tools or techniques to fabrication adventures, from code-wrangling that firmware project to your giant LED design project, and everything in between.
Hackaday Berlin 2024: Day One, Part One HACKADAY 2024-04-13 | Join us for the return of Hackaday Europe, a hardware conference on Saturday, April 13th in Berlin, Germany. Featuring talks exploring the most unique, cutting-edge, and world-changing topics around hardware creation. Topics range from learning new tools or techniques to fabrication adventures, from code-wrangling that firmware project to your giant LED design project, and everything in between.
DesignLab Hardware Stories HACKADAY 2024-02-23 | Gather at the DesignLab for an evening of Hardware Stories where our very own Giovanni Salinas will present on the 2023 Hackaday Supercon Badge production and Supplyframe's Poyu Chen and collaborator, Andrew Bakhit, will discuss their Oblique Strategies elnk project.Follow @supplyframedesignlab on Instagram to stay up to date on our events and announcements.
Redesigning the Future Symposium HACKADAY 2024-02-09 | Join us at the DesignLab for the Redesigning the Future Symposium Series presented by Supplyframe DesignLab and ArtCenter College of DesignThis is an avant-garde gathering that convenes the world’s most innovative creators and forward thinking minds.Talks will include “Quantum Noetics and Dark Imaginarium” with Shanna Dobson and “Future Signals: Memristors, Biocomputing, and Quantum on the Edge” with Julian Scaff @jhscaff
Hackaday Superconference 2023: Badge Hacking Ceremony HACKADAY 2023-11-06 | Hackaday Superconference 2023 concludes with the badge hacking ceremony.
Angela Sheehan: Cuddly Companion Bots HACKADAY 2023-11-06 | Angela (Gella) is a maker, artist, and educator passionate about wearable technology, product design, and digital fabrication. She has been working with craft tech and wearables since 2005, worked in the education department at SparkFun Electronics, and is currently a Creative Technologist at a public library makerspace.Her talk shows how companion projects are great for everyone, not just programmers, 3D printing enthusiasts, or engineers. Discover new techniques for creating non-traditional robots our of craft materials.
Shawn Hymel: Tiny Reinforcement Learning in Robotics HACKADAY 2023-11-06 | Shawn is a machine learning DevRel engineer, instructor, and university program manager at Edge Impulse. He creates compelling technical videos, courses, and workshops around edge machine learning that inspire engineers of all skill levels.In his talk, Shawn will provide an overview of reinforcement learning, how it’s used in robotics, its shortcomings, and why we shouldn’t give up on classical control theory yet.
Marc Verdiell: Restoring the Apollo Guidance Computer HACKADAY 2023-11-06 | Marc, also known as CuriousMarc from the CuriousMarc YouTube channel, specializes in restoring rare and notable vintage electronics. His projects include Apollo space electronics, the Xerox Alto computer, IBM mainframes, and HP instruments, to name a few.Marc’s talk will take the audience through the epic restoration of a genuine Apollo Guidance Computer, the revolutionary technology that guided man to the Moon and back.
Jesse T. Gonzalez Circuit Boards that Breathe and Bend HACKADAY 2023-11-06 | Jesse builds robotic, shape-changing surfaces that enable adaptive environments and tangible user experiences. He’s a PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute and an off-and-on consultant at Alto Metric Studio.His talk covers pneumatic structures in PCBs that transform rigid boards into dynamic, compact, electro-mechanical devices. Discover how to build, control, and debug electrostatic air valves, using them to create soft robotic surfaces.
Pierce Nichols: Teaching Robots To Sail HACKADAY 2023-11-06 | Pierce is a long-time maker of electronic gizmos and robot boats. He's also built rockets and may have had something to do with the flappy bits on the wings of the last commercial jet you flew on.In his talk, Pierce explains how sailing works, how he went about automating it, and gives some insight into the technology development process
Hackaday Superconference 2023 - Lightning Talks HACKADAY 2023-11-06 | Live from Hackaday Superconference 2023
Hackaday Berlin 2024: Mastro Gippo - How to Charge a Car in 2025 HACKADAY 2023-11-06 | Join us for the return of Hackaday Europe, a hardware conference on Saturday, April 13th in Berlin, Germany. Featuring talks exploring the most unique, cutting-edge, and world-changing topics around hardware creation. Topics range from learning new tools or techniques to fabrication adventures, from code-wrangling that firmware project to your giant LED design project, and everything in between.
Elliot Williams - Welcome Supercon Day 2 HACKADAY 2023-11-05 | Welcome back to Hackaday Superconference Day 2
Hackaday Prize Awards Ceremony 2023 HACKADAY 2023-11-05 | The entire year has been building to this moment! Find out which projects will take home awards from each of the year’s Hackaday Prize challenges. Learn more about the winners, and experience one of the most exciting moments Supercon has to offer!
The Hackaday Prize - One Year of Progress for Project Boondock Echo HACKADAY 2023-11-05 | Mark Hughes is a former physics teacher, technical editor for AllAboutCircuits.com, technical writer for PCB Fab and Assembly houses, and is currently the project manager for a stealth startup. He's also co-founder of Boondock Echo - a web-enabled recording device for two-way radios that took home the fourth-place award at the 2022 Hackaday Prize ceremony.In his talk, Mark will take the audience through his journey of building a team, setting achievable goals, and how to turn an idea into a full-fledged product.
Jeroen Domburg: Building a Portable Vectrex, The Right Way HACKADAY 2023-11-05 | Jeroen Domburg, or Sprite_tm, is a hardware and software hacker. His projects have been featured on Hackaday numerous times, and he regularly speaks at Hackaday Supercon.This year, his talk will showcase the novelty of Vectrex and explore a project that drives CRTs in an entirely new way.
Sonya Vasquez: Programming Your Human Hardware Compilers HACKADAY 2023-11-05 | Sonya generally automates hardware with software and rolling out the occasional circuit board for ad-hoc scientific instruments at their day job. By night, they’re often tinkering with something, with a strong tendency for it to either autonomously roll off their desk or drill holes in itself.In their talk, Sonya will share how to write step-by-step instructions in a way that builds community and avoids burnout.
Aleksa Bjelogrlic: A Circuit to Measure Circuits: How do Oscilloscopes do it? HACKADAY 2023-11-05 | Aleksa is an electrical engineer who loves test equipment and open-source hardware. For the last five years, he has been combining those two passions to design an open-source oscilloscope from the ground up to be faster, more flexible, and accessible to all.In his talk, he’ll explain how passive components are not what they seem and showcase frequency response measurement on high-impedance inputs.
Jakub and Szymon Duchniewicz: Porting an AI Powered Wearable Health Monitor HACKADAY 2023-11-05 | Jakub is an MSc in Embedded Systems graduate with a minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He works as an engineer and team leader at Tietoevry, where he honed his low-level skills by developing L1 features for 5G NR.In this talk, audience members will discover how deploying AI models on hardware is more accessible than most people realize.
Ben Combee: A Hacker’s Guide To Audio/Video Formats HACKADAY 2023-11-05 | Ben Combee is a senior software engineer at Roku, working on their OS for streaming devices. In past roles, he's worked on mobile web browsers for Mozilla, Linux-powered handhelds at Palm, JavaScript frameworks at HP, and more.His talk is for electronics hardware and firmware developers who want to learn how to make audio and video work together on cheap hardware!
Eric Andersson: A Makers Guide To Designing Sheet Metal Electronics Enclosures HACKADAY 2023-11-05 | Eric is an ex-mini donut salesman who studied mechanical engineering at the University of Toronto. He's spent his post-donut career figuring out how to put electronics into boxes. You'll find him obsessing over old camera lenses and rabbits with pointy ears when he's not doing that.His talk showcases why sheet metal design is worth learning and why it’s cheaper and more accessible than ever.
Benedetta Lia Mandelli and Emilio Sordi: Soft Actuator Orthosis HACKADAY 2023-11-05 | Benedetta is a passionate biomedical engineering student at Politecnico Di Milano, driven to ignite social change through accessible medical advancements, especially in underserved areas. She is currently focused on the world of biomedical electronic technologies.In her talk, she’ll unravel the mysteries of this dynamic field and push the boundaries of what's possible, delving into the design and development of a prototype orthosis and its unique features.
Cory Doctorow: An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet’s Enshittification and Throw It Into Reverse HACKADAY 2023-11-05 | Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. His most recent works are THE INTERNET CON: HOW TO SEIZE THE MEANS OF COMPUTATION, a Big Tech disassembly manual, and RED TEAM BLUES, a science fiction crime thriller. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.The enshittification of the internet follows a predictable trajectory: first, platforms are good to their users; then, they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to take back value for themselves. In his talk, Cory will take the audience through the process of disenshittifying the internet via antitrust, limits on corporate tweaking, privacy laws, and other protections.
Hackaday Superconference 2023: Welcome and Orientation HACKADAY 2023-11-04 | DesignLab Director Majenta Strongheart and Hackaday's Editor in Chief Elliott Williams welcome you to the 2022 Hackaday Superconference.
DesignLab Builds: LingoLearn HACKADAY 2023-10-25 | Join the Supplyframe DesignLab team as we walk through our latest build, an open source language learning device for kids. For complete build instructions visit hackaday.io/project/189020-2023-designlab-builds-lingolearn-project Learn more about the Hackaday Prize and the $5,000 Protolabs manufacturing grant that is up for grabs this year at prize.supplyframe.com. Presented by Digi-Key and Supplyframe. digikey.com supplyframe.com
Hackaday Prize 2023: Challenge 5: Save the World Wildcard HACKADAY 2023-09-20 | Check out some of the latest entries for the 2023 Hackaday Prize Challenge 5: Save the World WildcardAll about the Hackaday Prize: prize.supplyframe.comLearn more about Challenge 5: hackaday.io/contest/190152-supplyframe-designlab-2023-hackaday-prize/log/216915-challenge-5-save-the-world-wildcard
Hackaday Prize 2023: Challenge 4: Gearing Up HACKADAY 2023-08-24 | Check out some of the latest entries for the 2023 Hackaday Prize Challenge 4: Gearing UpAll about the Hackaday Prize: prize.supplyframe.comLearn more about Challenge 4: hackaday.io/contest/190152-supplyframe-designlab-2023-hackaday-prize/log/216916-challenge-4-gearing-up
Top Posts for Week of July 24th, 2023 #shorts HACKADAY 2023-07-29 | These are the five most popular posts on Hackaday for the week of July 24th, 2023:hackaday.com/2023/07/22/root-on-an-amazon-echo-dothackaday.com/2023/07/22/that-ultra-white-paint-that-helps-cool-surfaces-make-your-ownhackaday.com/2023/07/26/where-old-files-go-to-diehackaday.com/2023/07/24/nail-meet-kicadhackaday.com/2023/07/24/retro-gadgets-the-real-desktop-computerCredits:Original Art: Joe Kim (joekimart.com)Music: LO FI COMMONS (http://youtu.be/AUehoIaFD1I)
Supplyframe DesignLab x Hidden Genius 2023 HACKADAY 2023-07-26 | For the second year in a row, Supplyframe's DesignLab hosted The Hidden Genius Project for a soldering workshop and engineering career panel with leaders from Apple, SoCalGas, and Union Pacific Railroad. To learn more about this organization check out hiddengeniusproject.org .
Hackaday Prize 2023 Challenge 3: Green Hacks HACKADAY 2023-07-24 | Check out some of the latest entries for the 2023 Hackaday Prize Challenge 3: Green HacksAll about the Hackaday Prize: prize.supplyframe.comLearn more about Challenge 3: hackaday.io/contest/190152-supplyframe-designlab-2023-hackaday-prize/log/216917-challenge-3-green-hacks
Top Posts for Week of July 10th, 2023 #shorts HACKADAY 2023-07-16 | These are the five most popular posts on Hackaday for the week of July 10th, 2023:hackaday.com/2023/07/11/displayport-a-better-video-interfacehackaday.com/2023/07/10/suc-aims-to-replace-slack-in-five-lines-of-bashhackaday.com/2023/07/11/linux-device-drivers-in-only-a-few-yearshackaday.com/2023/07/08/the-other-way-to-fight-software-rentalhackaday.com/2023/07/11/phone-thermal-cameras-get-open-source-desktop-toolsCredits:Original Art: Joe Kim (joekimart.com)Music: LO FI COMMONS (http://youtu.be/AUehoIaFD1I)
VCF Southwest 2023 - Jeff Brace HACKADAY 2023-07-11 | Jeff welcomes Hackaday to the first Vintage Computer Festival Southwest in about 10 years!
