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New release of Great Cow BASIC compiler
Evan tipped us off that the Great Cow Basic development team has recently released a new build of Great Cow BASIC compiler with lots of enhanced features. For those who are unfamiliar with Great Cow...
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Another DIY development board for ESP8266
Electro-Labs has posted a new DIY ESP8266 Development Board project to experiment with PIC microcontroller and ESP8266 module. The board features LCD display, pusbuttons, indicator LEDs, GPIO...
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Introducing Easy Pulse Plugin: A breadboard friendly and Arduino/chipKIT...
Today we are happy to announce the release of a new addition to our Easy Pulse Sensor series named Easy Pulse Plugin. Like its predecessors, the original Easy Pulse and Easy Pulse V1.1, Easy Pulse...
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RGB Graphic Equalizer driven by ESP8266
Amir Avni has shared the details of his cool RGB graphic equalizer build, which is controlled by the ESP8266 hardware programmed with the NodeMCU firmware. The RGB LED strings are controlled through...
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Making a high-altitude balloon cam
Ray Visser posted an instructable on making a simple high-altitude balloon cam with minimal payload containing a smartphone to text its GPS location and a Canon Powershot digital camera to take...
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GPS based car locator
Keep forgetting where you have parked your car in the parking lot? This Arduino-based car locator uses GPS to remember where you park with just the push of a button and later tells you how far you are...
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DIY Spectrophotometer using Arduino
Spectrophotometery is a quantitative measurement of the transmission properties of a chemical substance as a function of wavelength, and the device used for this purpose is known as Spectrophotometer....
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Domino: Another wifi hardware development platform
A global team of Makers has announced the launch of Domino, which is an affordable and high-performance 802.11 bgn WiFi hardware platform for IoT applications with a modular design architecture,...
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Meet SlushEngine, an easy controller for up to 4 bi-polar stepper motors
Roboteurs, Inc., a Canada-based company introduces SlushEngine, a smart stepper motor driver for the Raspberry Pi platform to control stepper motors with precision, speed, and simplicity. It is...
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Improving PWM-to-Analog voltage conversion
Modern day microcontrollers are equipped with one or more dedicated PWM peripherals built-in that can be used to generate analog output voltages with varying range by just using a basic RC filter...
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Hacking IKEA LAMPAN table lamp
Last month, we looked at a IKEA Molgan Lamp hack and adding ESP8266 connectivity to it. Here is another IKEA lamp enhancement project by Jesus Echavarria from Spain, where he hacked IKEA LAMPAN to...
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Onion Omega: Another WiFi dev board for IoT applications
Only 1/4 the size of the Raspberry Pi computer, Onion Omega is the latest and most promising open hardware development platform for WiFi based IoT applications. It comes with built-in WiFi,...
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DIY bike speedometer
Check out this detailed build of Arduino-powered speedometer to monitor your bike speed on road. The project uses a reed switch to sense the rotation of one of the bike’s wheels. The Arduino reads in...
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Quick Review of a cheap Chinese component tester
Adam Fabio has posted a quick review of a cheap Chinese brand multifunctional component tester on Hackaday. He found its build quality was very cheap, but he was also amazed with its features and...
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RF detection using a common LED
Hardware hacker b.kainka has posted on Hackaday.io a very interesting trick of detecting a RF signal using an everyday LED and ATtiny13 microcontroller (other microcontrollers should work too). I am...
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Personal Air Conditioner Powered from Solar Energy
This personal air conditioner is specially designed for outdoor use and runs over solar power. It uses a copper tube with circulating ice water through it to work as a heat exchanger. A small water...
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SubPos: A non-GPS based local positioning system
SubPos is a WiFi-based local positioning system designed using PIC microcontrollers and ESP8266 modules by Blecky on Hackaday.IO. SupPos uses ESP8266 modules for position triangulation SubPos SubPos is...
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Arduino banana piano
Stian Eikeland’s capacitive touch banana piano is really cool. Capacitive touch banana piano Check out the demo here: This weekend my niece-in-law is staying over, and to maintain my image as the crazy...
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Adding a PID temperature controller to a regular soldering station
Mike Doughty has posted an article showing how to add a PID temperature controller to a regular sodering iron for better performance. Some plug-in soldering irons are adjustable. Some models have a...
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Open-source ground penetrating RADAR
Open ground penetrating RADAR is an ongoing open-source project initiated by Glenn Powers as his entry for the 2015 Hackaday Prize. The aim is to make a Raspberry Pi powered RADAR system to look into...
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