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Building your own eye in the sky
His goal of one post a week for a year has past, but [Dino] keeps bringing his skills to bear on new projects. This time around he’s adding a wireless camera to an RC helicopter. These radio con… more →
Hack a Day
Building your own eye in the sky
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wrote 1 day ago: His goal of one post a week for a year has past, but [Dino] keeps bringing his skills to bear on new … more →
Turning a pedal-powered tractor into a Power Wheels
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wrote 1 day ago: A while back, [Stefan] bought a pedal-powered tractor for his son. It was a fun toy, but what it rea … more →
Mini Pinball MAME machine is small enough to fit in any game room
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wrote 1 day ago: A huge collection of pinball machines in your basement is one of the crowing achievements of a geek, … more →
Soldering from the hip
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wrote 4 days ago: You can be the Sheriff around these parts, but only if you have a solder gun and holster to boot. [M … more →
Fisher-Price Record Player plays Stairway to Heaven
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wrote 5 days ago: [Fred Murphy] has an old Fisher-Price music box/record player that has lost many of its disks over t … more →
Putting Linux on the Vtech InnoTab
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wrote 5 days ago: The Vtech InnoTab is a child-sized tablet computer built for kids. Apart from being the ideal soluti … more →
Light trikes allow you to pedal for your life
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wrote 1 week ago: Unfortunately, none of our writers are located in California this year. This means that we weren … more →
Building a 6502 in Minecraft
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wrote 1 week ago: We’ll admit that we haven’t been following Minecraft like we used to; its been a while s … more →
Cardboard Kinetic Creatures
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wrote 1 week ago: Browsing around today, I saw this little kit on kickstarter called Kinetic Creatures. These flat pa … more →
Universal 20 channel project controller from a Ps2 controller
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wrote 2 weeks ago: So you’ve got a really cool project that requires a wireless controller and a ton of different … more →
Mapping the surface of a video game moon
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Writing for Hackaday isn’t all fun and games; occasionally I need to actually write posts and … more →
Your mug on an Etch a Sketch -- automatically
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wrote 2 weeks ago: [Jim's] pretty serious about his Etch a Sketch. He’s gone to the trouble of building a rig tha … more →
Helicopter light painting continues to snuff out physics lesson on your brain
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Cool picture, huh? Wait until you see the video footage of this LED-adorned RC helicopter flying on … more →
Digital Magic 8 Ball
wrote 2 weeks ago: [sjm4306] had a small Magic 8-Ball key chain as a kid. The fluid in this key chain eventually dried … more →
Generating electricity with swing sets
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wrote 2 weeks ago: [Guelherme Pena Costa] came up with an idea to light up a swing set using the motion of the people s … more →
Cruncher: A robotic toy dinosaur dissection
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wrote 2 weeks ago: When my children got these interesting and very obnoxious toy dinosaurs last year, I could barely co … more →
Giant pink hexacopter is slightly safer than the rest
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Check out this giant pink hexacopter. We see tons of quad copters here, but their bigger brothers/s … more →
7 foot long flying dragon breathes fire
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wrote 3 weeks ago: What do you have to do to win best of show at an R/C event in Toledo? Build a 7 foot long fire breat … more →
Pinball Stomp: part1
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wrote 1 month ago: Despite my atrociously short attention span, I’ve always loved pinball. Maybe it is something … more →
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