Nand2Tetris in Verilog – Part 1

This project contains info I found along the way on implementing the Nand2Tetris's Hack Computer in Verilog for the purpose of running on an FPGA. After completing the two Nand to Tetris classes on Coursera (from Shimon Schocken and Noam Nisan), I wanted to put the neat little co … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 4 years ago

Bio Implant Chip Tesla Model 3 Hack

All the ramblings for my Tesla Model 3 for my body hacking implants. Goal is to be able to start my Tesla Model 3 with my chip implant in hand. WIP (work in progress) | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 4 years ago

Semiconductors Home Building all the tools neccesary to make chips at home

I want to make chips, period.In order to do that, I have to build specialized tools to be able to do so.1.- Vacuum chamber for DC sputtering deposition. (completed)2.- HVAC manipulator with glass feedthrough (completed).3.- 1200ºC tubular oven with integrated timer. (completed)4. … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 4 years ago

C-base c-base is a crashed spacestation in the center of Berlin

c-base is a crashed spacestation in the center of Berlin. Nerds, artists and digital activists founded a society to reconstruct it in 1995. | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 4 years ago

Hackerspaces Explore the list of 699 creative playgrounds all over the world

Explore the list of creative playgrounds from all over the world. | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 4 years ago

Mantis Using AI and robotics to deliver an instant response to shootings

This last spring I was shocked with the news of the death of a high school friend and FIRST Robotics teammate during a mass school shooting. Soon after that day I started working towards a goal of making these events impossible, not just improbable. This project, a proof-of-conce … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 4 years ago

He Arc bipolar, dual resonant, solid state Tesla coil oneohm

This project builds on my previous project the "universal power supply" to hopefully set a new standard for tesla coil experimentation. With a 32 bit micro controller at the heart and a powerful full bridge driver configuration, this tesla coil is extremely capable. With virtuall … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 4 years ago

Garden Squid

The mission of the garden squid is to be the most open and accessible automation platform for all types of gardens. Open because all the hardware, and software designs are open. Anyone can start with this platform and add new automation, new sensors, or repurpose it entirely. Acc … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 4 years ago

LoFive RISC-V Microcontroller Board

Small breadboard friendly development board using the SiFive FE310 RISC-V Microcontroller. | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 4 years ago

Fox Build pick and place machine

For the last 2 years, we have been discussing building a pick and place machine at Fox.Build [http://Fox.Build]. The following link was discovered by two of our members in one weekend and we started purchasing the sub-$1000 BOM. https://mcuoneclipse.com/2018/06/26/building-a-diy- … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 4 years ago

DIY Desktop Laser Cutter

My friend Hirotaka and I worked hard to develop an affordable easy to use laser cutter for about one year. Then finally, our ideas and effort were fully realized. -Open source People can be freely modify our software and hardware to expand the processing area and add such as addi … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 4 years ago

Wireless sensor/actuator network with CC430

Hardware for wireless data acquisition and control in the automated greenhouse. Other than that it could be used in any sort of automation project. | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 4 years ago

FossaSat-1, Open Source Satellite

Set to launch in Q3 of 2019, FossaSat-1 will be Spain’s first satellite launch by a non-government led organization or company. FossaSat-1 is the next advancement in picosatellite technology, sized at only 5x5x5cm and weighing only 250g, it will be one of the smallest satellites … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 4 years ago

DLT One – A Damn Linux Tablet

Proper Linux Tablets unfortunately just dont exist and certainly not ones that are also open hardware. I want hardware that does not lock me into a specific OS or cripples other options by the lack of drivers. I'm also sick of the lack of modularity and repairability of modern ha … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 4 years ago

Water Bottle Rocket Science Kit

The Water Bottle Rocket STEM Kit is a modular set of instructions, electronics, software, designs, and teaching plans that support the fun and science behind water bottle rockets. The kit is modular enough to be used with K-12 grade, civic groups, science clubs, or individuals. I … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 4 years ago

GUI operating system from scratch running on an Arduino (2018)

Want to have a computer in your pocket other than a RPi, and easily write an OS for it? Here is the answer. An OS + the hardware for a desktop using an arduino. ON AN ARDUINO MEGA. | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 5 years ago

NPR New Packet Radio

NPR (New Packet Radio) is a custom radio protocol, designed to transport bidirectional IP trafic over 430MHz radio links (ham radio). This protocol is optimized for "point to multipoint" topology, with the help of managed-TDMA. Bitrate is up to 500kbps (net, effective bitrate). T … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 5 years ago

NPR New Packet Radio

NPR (New Packet Radio) is a custom radio protocol, designed to transport bidirectional IP trafic over 430MHz radio links (ham radio). This protocol is optimized for "point to multipoint" topology, with the help of managed-TDMA. Bitrate is up to 500kbps (net, effective bitrate). T … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 5 years ago

PolyMod: a home-built modular digital synthesizer

This project is a digital, polyphonic, modular synthesizer. Like a standard modular synth, my design consists of a number of removable modules, which are responsible for different elements of the sound (oscillator, filter, amplifier, etc), and which can be patched together to cre … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 5 years ago

Open-hardware laser scanner for 3D printing/pcb manufacturing

An open-hardware laser scanner suited for Printed Circuit Board (PCB) manufacturing. The laser scanner uses a transparent prism instead of a reflective polygon with a f-theta lens. | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 5 years ago

Raspberry Pi projects

Hackaday.io is home to thousands of art, design, science, and technology projects. Share your work with the largest hardware and software projects community. | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 5 years ago

The Last Psion: Resurrecting Psion's SIBO/EPOC16 Platform for the 21st Century

What started off as a "simple" project to reverse engineer the Psion SSD and build a Wi-Fi adapter has grown into something much larger.We are performing platform necromancy, gathering together as much information as we can from long-abandoned websites, rattly hard drives and the … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 5 years ago

Fun with Harmonics: VHF from a Serial Port

I measured the edge rates on the TTL output of some of these USB-UART bridges to be under 2ns.  This generates some strong frequency harmonics, which you can see here in the 67th harmonic of a 1MHz square wave output by an FT232RL driven by the square_wave.py code from the G … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 5 years ago

1 Square Inch Open Source Oscilloscope

For the Return of the Square Inch Project, we are designing a PIC32MZ based oscilloscope that is only 1" by 1" including an OLED screen. | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 5 years ago

Smallest TTL Homebrew CPU in the World

What would be cool for the square inch contest.... How about a homebrew CPU with TTL chips ? This will be the smallest TTL Homebrew CPU in the world ! Like the old CPU's of the eighties, it has 40 connections, an 8 bit bus, and can address 64 Kilobytes. But it also has some very … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 5 years ago

Visualize It with Pi: Creative Interpretation of Data via Raspberry Pi and LEDs

Creatively interpret data using Raspberry Pi and LED strips or panels. | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 5 years ago

PCB Motor: A smaller and cheaper open source brushless motor

My open source PCB motor is a smaller, cheaper and easier to assemble micro brushless motor. What unique about this motor design is that the stator is printed on a 4-layer PCB board. The six stator poles are spiral traces wounded in a star configuration. Although these coils prod … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 5 years ago

The Return of the Square Inch Project – Novel, useful boards in less than 1x1“

Create the most novel, useful board you can in just one square inch. | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 5 years ago

Dementia-friendly music player

I was inspired by the documentary Alive Inside, which shows the profound joy that music can bring to people with dementia. But my Dad could no longer operate CD players or iPods. But he could use this, because it operates like a familiar 1940s radio (but with a Pi & music files i … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 5 years ago

S.A.M.I.R.A

A simple but yet fully functional and turing complete 8-bit computer i built for learning purpose. I designed it over the last few years, simulated it in Logisim and built from CMOS 4000 and TTL 74 series integrated circuits. The circuit is already fully functional and can comput … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 5 years ago

Low-cost, high-effectiveness DIY modular synthesizer system aimed at beginners

From the day I picked up a soldering iron, the big goal was always to have some sort of never-really-finished, always-being-expanded modular synthesizer system. In my dreams it occupies an entire room of my luxury beach-side mansion where I sequence and patch squelchy noises that … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 5 years ago

Mezzo – informed consent for IoT

Mezzo is a connected device meant for the threshold of your house - this device presents your guests with an easy-to-understand summary of the listening, seeing, and data-collection systems at use in your home. Further, the device provides an interface for your guests to temporar … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 5 years ago

The undead remote

This energy harvesting device has a built-in use model. When your remote isn't working, isn't it instinctual to shake it to try to prompt a response? With this remote, that instinct brings results. I have ripped the guts out of a shake flashlight and crudely glued them into the b … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 5 years ago

2018 Hackaday now open for submissions

The 2018 Hackaday Prize, Build Hope. | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 5 years ago

A 4$, 4ICs, Z80 Homemade Computer on Breadboard

This is the Z80-MBC (Mobile Breadboard Computer), a mini 4MHz Z80 64kB RAM system with Basic and Forth interpreters, CP/M 2.2, QP/M 2.71, Assembler and C toolchains.It is a complete development "ecosystem", and using the iLoad boot mode it is possible cross-compile, loa … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 5 years ago

DIY Stomach Acid Powered Smart Pill

Smart pills are already being used by doctors to save lives. Many more are being developed. There is an endoscope camera smart pill, a  colon cancer detecting smart pill, an ulcerative colitis monitoring smart pill, a medication compliance smart pill, a targeted medicat … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 5 years ago

Dexter – A low cost, high precision haptic robotic arm w 50 micron repeatability

Dexter is a trainable, 3D printed, 5+ axis haptic robotic arm controlled by an FPGA supercomputer. It utilizes optical encoders to achieve high precision with repeatability of 50 microns. End effectors such as a gripper or a laser can be utilized by Dexter, increasing its functio … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 5 years ago

Kodak Slide Projector Scanner

Take an old Kodak slide projector, a digital camera, some electronic parts and connect it all up to a microcontroller to create a high throughput digital slide scanner. | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 5 years ago

Hardware Badge for Hackaday Conference 2018 in Belgrade

In May 26th 2018, there will be the next Hackaday Conference in Belgrade. The badge will be a battery powered stand-alone personal computer, similar to ones used in 1980's, but much smaller and more compact.Get your ticket now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hackaday-belgrade- … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 6 years ago

Squirrel Deterrent

I live in neighborhood with a lot of squirrels living in the old oak trees. I like the squirrels but I hate when they eat my heirloom tomatoes. I also don’t like the fact they eat all the nectarines off my tree before they are ripe. I don’t mind so much they eat the … | Continue reading


@hackaday.io | 6 years ago