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Keeping Time On Tumbling Icosahedra
4+ hour, 59+ min ago (212+ words) Hackaday Clocks are almost the ideal devices to inspire creativity in hackers â they have a simple, well-defined task, but thereâs an almost unlimited number of ways to carry it out [ekaggrat singh kalsi]âs OVODYO is a…...
Making An Air-Powered Circular Saw With LEGO
20+ hour, 35+ min ago (38+ words) [caption id="attachment_1160852" align="alignright" width="400"] The all-LEGO version barely cuts paper. (Credit: Jamie's Brick Jams, YouTube)[/caption] Although building a table saw out of LEGO is p......
All The Best Computers Boot To… Python?
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (35+ words) Among all the machines of the 8-bit home computer era which booted straight to a BASIC prompt, there were a very few that went their own way with another language. The Jupiter Ace springs immediately......
How To Fold Curved Lines In Metal Without Fancy Tools
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (37+ words) Folding a sheet of metal in a straight line is one thing, but how does one fold multiple curved lines into a sheet of aluminum without fancy machines? [John] demonstrates how to do exactly that with l......
Custom AMOLED Wearable Makes Great Icebreaker
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (38+ words) Nifty little AMOLED screens are easy to get nowadays, and [Sophie D] demonstrates they are both thin and light enough to be worn with OpenChoker, a design for a choker necklace that was a hit at DEF C......
Origami Sensors That You Can Wear
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (181+ words) Hackaday Origami is a wonderful art form, but as a new project from the Shibaura Institute of Technology demonstrates, it can also have applications in the world of wearable tech The project involved creating paper-based sensors that could be worn…...
Local LLMs Can Work Better Than Claude, At Least For Some
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (302+ words) Hackaday This is going to be a very personal question, because when youâre talking cloud vs local anything, it comes down to this: how much are you willing to pay for independence? The local option might save you long…...
Reverse Engineering The Philips PM5139
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (34+ words) The Philips PM5139 is not famous. It won no great victories on the battlefield, nor was instrumental in changing the political landscape. It was just a useful function generator that you might find on......
It’s GNU Radio Companion, But In The Browser
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (30+ words) The progression of the web browser from a tool for simple static information browsing into a do-everything computing environment has been inexorable, with package after package making the jump. Today......
Sick Of Wayland Vs. Xorg? How About GEM?
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (37+ words) Between lawsuits from Apple, and Microsoft being Microsoft, Digital Research's GEM desktop for DOS never really had a chance. It did have another life on Atari home computers, but it's the DOS version......