Gigatron: An 8-bit CPU built from 34 74LS TTL logic chips

In 1975 Wozniak famously designed the Breakout arcade game out of 44 simple chips, without using a microprocessor, simply because those weren't available to him at the time. When one year later the MOS 6502 and Zilog Z80 were launched, his Apple 1 started the microcomputer revolu … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 1 year ago

Building an FM radio from $3 chip and an 84MHz processor

Homemade Arduino Due radio with TEA5767 FM module | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 1 year ago

Reverse Engineering the Weather Star 4000

Anyone in the USA who grew up in the 90s watching The Weather Channel, whether you got into meteorology, or technology, or just was an enthusiast of weather. Likely remembers this machine. For those of you who don't know, This machine powered "The Local on the 8s" in the end of t … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 1 year ago

The Gibson Rev 001 Dual LCD/E-Ink Cyberdeck

The GIBSON Rev-001 Designed with a bunch of I/O and sensors for on the fly environmental monitoring all whist looking dope in a tight package. | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 1 year ago

A note on minor HW changes in the Geiger counter GGreg20_V3 module

Thanks to our customers, we collected some statistics and received feedback on the different modes of use of our GGreg20_V3 Geiger counter product by users and came to the conclusion that it would be more convenient to fix the voltage in the high-voltage part of the module.Please … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 1 year ago

The case 3D-model for the GGreg20_V3 module for personal use

IoT-devices, LLC has shared the case a 3D model for the GGreg20_V3 module for personal use by anyone.You can order such a case as an option together with the GGreg20_V3 module, or you can download and print this model from two parts – top and bottom (you need to … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 1 year ago

MX Master 3 – DIY alternative

I started this project with the goal to make a mouse that could rival my trusted MX Master 3, and depending on your preferences/patience, this is just that. What comes out of this mess of code, PCBs, and components is a mouse that feels about 10x as responsive as the MX Master 3 … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 1 year ago

Miniature MRI – create an MRI the size of the palm of your hand

Create an MRI that fits in the palm of your hand. This is a permanent magnet MRI and the system can be built with minimal additional hardware. The project is ongoing. Please stay tuned. | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 1 year ago

Circuit Golf: Minimizing the circuit of electronic dice

Creating Electronic Dice with the least number of components in the most obscure technologies | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 1 year ago

Pi Coil Winder

Low capacitance, High Q Universal coils have been used extensively in the 1950s to 1970s before being phased out for cheaper simpler options with the introduction of ferrites. They were used in everything from music equipment to televisions. At first, it was merely an idea and a … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 1 year ago

Perseus-9 homemade mobile dual 6502 computer

In 2021, I built my own floating-point interpreter system on my PERSEUS-8 computer. However, this system required a serial terminal for input/output, which was somewhat inconvenient to use for programming and calculation whenever I wanted. Therefore, I have developed the PERSEUS- … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 1 year ago

Crash A real-time creative coding environment for robot arms

Crash is a flexible robot control system for the creative programming of robot arms. Its aim is to facilitate rapid prototyping of new types of human-robot interaction, particularly in service of novel digital fabrication techniques. Development is motivated by the needs of my ma … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 1 year ago

The 8bit Keyboard

This keyboard inputs characters in 8bits. | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 1 year ago

Laser device to control mosquitoes, weeds, pest etc.

We present an innovative and effective method for remote monitoring of mosquitoes and their neutralization. We explain in detail how we leverage modern advances in neural networks to use a powerful laser to neutralize mosquitoes. The experimental low-cost prototype for mosquito c … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 1 year ago

DIY 16-bit computer from scratch

This project is a physical implementation of the Hack Computer, as described in the From Nand To Tetris course (nand2tetris.org). The course describes the hardware design of a simple computer and the software stack on top of it. I implemented the Hack CPU design and my own I/O co … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 1 year ago

Hacking DVD for Sensing 0.000000001 to 1.1 Newton

This is an open-source force analyzer that utilizes an optical-pickup-unit (from a DVD player) to detect cantilever-based force transducers and thereby, achieves a wide force-sensing range from 1.1 N to 0.99 nN. The cantilever force transducers can easily be adjusted to fit diffe … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 1 year ago

Show HN: I built a cyberdeck just for fun

- Waterproof pelican case - 3 water proof ports on outside (power, network, USB) - Raspberry Pi 3B with arch Linux - RTL-SDR - 11 Inch Screen (with 5 buttons for control) - Full cherry keyboard - Gigabit switch - USB hub - 3S2 battery pack with custom charge cable (red port) - ES … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 1 year ago

The GGreg20_V3 Radiation Sensor Node Tweeting Live on Twitter from Kyiv

Hello World!

We have a new employee of IoT-devices LLC. This is the GGreg20_V3 module and its job is to measure and inform Twitter users about the level of radiation in Kyiv.

Follow @GGreg20_V3 account to receive messages and updates about the level of radiation in Kyiv.

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@hackaday.io | 1 year ago

The GGreg20_v3 radiation sensor can now be ordered in 4 different configurations

The GGreg20_v3 ionizing radiation sensor module can now be ordered in 4 different configurations. When ordering, the customer may choose one of the following options:GGreg20_v3 moduleSBM20 tubeSet of connectors and cablesyesnonoyesnoyesyesyesnoyesyesyesYou can order our prod … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

My Custom Scanning Electron Microscope

I always want a SEM, the ones on eBay are quite expensive and they usually weights a lot. So I decided to build my own from scratch, as an Industrial design learn experience and to have my cool instrument in the end. | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

All-in-One Gamma-Ray Spectrometer

Using a small custom PCB, a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller and a scintillator you can build your own gamma spectrometer! The needed processing and multi-channel analyzer are all on-board so no external parts are needed, except something to look at the data (with a screen). Thi … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

The GGreg20_V3 module supply is resumed on Tindie

We resumed the supply of the module #GGreg20_V3 on @tindie from Kyiv warehouse.

Sources:

https://twitter.com/iotdevicescomua/status/1518257843467694081

https://twitter.com/tindie/status/1518248668003897344

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@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

WESP32: Wired ESP32 with Ethernet and Poe

The ESP32 is very popular among makers as the brains for various projects. Usually it is connected to the internet with WiFi, but an often overlooked feature of the ESP32 is that it also contains an Ethernet MAC. This project aims to create a hacker friendly ESP32 + Ethernet + Po … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

Schrödinger's Trigger

Using the cheapest finest parts from my scrap heap, I set out to build the most science-fiction sounding device that actually worked (and could be built in 8 hours or less). The result is a device that drives one of two outputs when it sees a rising edge on the input. Which input … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

R2Home GPS Guided Parachute Recovery System

How can we simplify the recovery of scientific experiments we send everyday in the atmosphere? How can we explore further the earth and other planets using flying robots? R2Home is a part of the answer, a simple system that you can drop from anywhere, to get it to fly autonomousl … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

I Made my own Audio Bluetooth module

Hi guys, I am working with Bluetooth audio modules, chips and cards Since 2021. And finally, I tried to release my own version of Bluetooth module. Today’s Bluetooth chips are very chip and integrated. I got my hands on some JL series Bluetooth chips, these are made in China and … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

Home-Made MRI System

[Translated by DEEPL] This project is about building an MRI as a personal hobby. The project is to build a desktop-sized MRI that is inexpensive, reproducible by anyone, and redesignable. Due to its small size, it cannot be used for human medical diagnosis, but it will be able to … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

Dual-Polar Multi-head 3D Printer: alpha and beta instead of x and y

Partwise the dual-disc arrangement is suprisingly simple, with few printed parts, 2x GT2 Pulleys (top flange pulled off) and 2x lazy suzan bearings. Right now it's a plotter, but the plan is to build a 3D printer out of this. Mostly for its mesmerizing movements. | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

3D Metal Printer using Electron beam melting

Tired of printing plastic? This is the first Open Source 3D Metal Printer using an electron beam. The goal is to make 3D Metal Printing more affordable to the general public, hospitals, small institutions, organizations and companies around the world. Specifically for developing … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

HP printer cartridge control module.io

The idea of this project is to make the MCU compatible control module for the HP printer cartridge in easy to connect format. For the first time ever, inkjet technology is available for your projects in a convenient module format with the necessary easy-to-use software. Most of t … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

Who from Hackaday7

This project is the result of several years of work on the development of BCI. We believe that the easiest way to get started with biosignals is to use a shield. We will try to reveal the process of reading EEG signals as fully and clearly as possible. Soon this project will be l … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

2021 in review – Hearham.live and RepeaterSTART for ham radio

2021 brought FreeDMR TGIF network DMR listening integration on hearham.live, many repeater listing updates, and bug fixes and updates for Repeater-START for both Android and Linux/Ubuntu/Raspbery Pi.What did you use RepeaterSTART for this past year, and what would you like to se … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

Turing Ring

Some years ago I was involved in an on-line conference. Zafar Iqbal (https://zaf.io/) presented his circular Turing Machine Model 1 and ran a competition to solve a TM problem. I won, and my prize was a NeoPixel ring. It sat in a drawer until earlier this year when I was inspired … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

Reviving the TI-92 calculator into a RPI PC.io

This project is trying to design a new modern PCB for the old TI92 calculator so a simple swap can be done . Doing this, you will get a fast RPI ZERO or a COMPUTE MODULE 3 PC + a high resolution 4 inch color display. The enclosure of this calculator gives a nice strong keyboard a … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

Taking Digital X-Ray Shots for Cheap (

The nice thing about technological progress is that even once innovative technologies are considered outdated at some point. And outdated technology is cheap technology. So it comes that one can buy the first generation of digital xray image sensors on ebay from time to time for … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

A Smartphone-Based Head Mounted Display(2011)

Thin computing clients, such as smartphones and tablets, have experienced recent growth in display resolutions and graphics processing power. In 2011, we showed how to leverage these trends to create an experimental wide field of view, 3D stereoscopic head mounted display (HMD), … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

Show HN: Ratch Aurora, another hackable smartwatch

The Ratch Aurora is just another smart watch on the internet. | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

Raspberry Pi SDR Cyberdeck

This Raspberry Pi based SDR Cyberdeck is unlike any other as it is based around RF situational awareness. - Ham radio monitoring - Spectrum surveillance - General coverage worldwide HF receiver - Weather balloon tracking and ranging - Signal identification - Quick deployment/mobi … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

Automated Zen Garden

Kinetic Art = An old table + Sand + Stepper motors + Core XY magic | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

Emergency Exit Coffee Table

This is a "emergency exit coffee table", based on the infinity mirror concept. The table is 46 cm in height, but you can see about 6.2 meters into it, when the light is turned on. If the light is turned off the table looks like a mirror on the top. Old ikea tables where cut in ha … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

Design and bring-up of a VQB 71 GPS clock

A year ago I picked up some new-old-stock "VQB 71" 7-segment displays — not for any particular project, but simply because they looked fantastic. These gorgeous, vintage common-anode digits have distinctive segments with six tiny LEDs each, internally connected w … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

Redacted – The First Fully Open Bipedal Robot

Almost all papers I've read promise to "eventually" publish the code that actually controls the robot. To my knowledge, there is still no project that allows a "quick start" for bipedal robot controllers. This is why I developed REDACTED, an all-in-one software stack that is full … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

Introduction to Reverse Engineering with Ghidra

Learn how to reverse engineer software using Ghidra! This four-session course will walk you through the basics. | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

Trollduino v1.0 – a 555 timer in Arduino form factor

"That's stupid! Why use an Arduino when you could do the same thing with a 555?" - representitive comment on any Hackaday post that describes any Arduino project ever. Well, here you go then. Enjoy. | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

Open Source 3D Printable E-Scooter

RepRaTS (Replicable Rapid prototyper Transportation Systems), inspired by the RepRap project, aims to build fully user-upgradable and user-repairable transportation with FDM 3d printing. Modular plastic beams are the core of a RepRaTS vehicle, which allow virtually unlimited adju … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

DIY Optical Spectrometer / Spectrograph

The device is made from cardboard and glue, retractable knife blades forming a slit, holographic diffraction grating film and modified p&s camera (removed ir-block filter). | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

Digital VU Meter with Analog Physics

To start off, thanks to JLCPCB for sponsoring this project. JLCPCB Prototype for $2 (Any Color): https://jlcpcb.com/DYE I've seen tons of digital VU meters that aspire to look like analog movements of days past but most of them just directly set the needle position to the measure … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago

Trinity – A Ternary Lisp Machine

The goal of this project is to build a simple Ternary computer capable of running a LISP interpreter. LISP was chosen as it made the least assumptions about the underlying machine being binary. What's a Ternary Computer? Yes, No, or Maybe. A ternary computer uses 3 states to repr … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 2 years ago