Best of Hackaday – 2011 edition 2011 was an interesting year here at Hackaday. We have about 24% more viewers now than we did last year. We started producing our own video content and we have shown some pretty interesting projects in our daily posts. In this post, we are gathering together the best of [...]
Doomsday Keg of Radness helps ring in the New Year Lots of people buy noise makers for New Year’s eve, others opt to sing Auld Lang Syne – then there’s these guys. The crew at Stone Brewing Company throw an annual bash at their brewery in celebration of New Years, and while [Dino’s] countdown timer [...]
A chink in the armor of WPA/WPA2 WiFi security Looks like your WiFi might not be quite as secure as you thought it was. A paper recently published by [Stefan Viehböc] details a security flaw in the supposedly robust WPA/WPA2 WiFi security protocol. It’s not actually that protocol which is the culprit, but an in-built [...]
Solar-powered CNC woodburning [Johnie] built himself a CNC woodburner powered by the sun. Like the solar 3D printer we saw last summer, [Johnie]‘s build uses a giant Fresnel lens to focus sunlight onto a piece of wood. To get some control out of his build, a 2-axis bed was made from scrounged and junked parts. [...]
A Little Tweeting “Ewok” Tweet Receiving, that is. This Ewok model, named “Ewen the Cheerlight,” is able to rotate it’s head left and right as well as show expressions. The most interesting feature of this hack, however, is that the little Ewok actually wakes up each time one tweets a “colour” to @cheerlights and lets [...]
Arcade cabinet that doesn’t monopolize your space We’re guessing that if you ever though of buying an arcade cabinet it was only briefly, and you decided against based on the difficulties of moving and finding a place for such a large and heavy item. You could go the opposite way and build a controller for [...]
Using an ATmega8 to program PIC24FJ chips [Fezoj] likes to play around with microcontrollers and decided that he wanted to try a Bus Pirate as a new tool in his adventures. Since it’s open hardware he had his own board made and populated it himself. The trouble is, he works only with AVR chips and [...]
Reduced-cost Braille display for use with computers Apparently a Braille computer display can cost several thousand dollars. That’s why [David Pankhurst] is working on a low-cost alternative. His offering is an open source version he calls the Audrey Braille Display. The concept is quite good. This prototype has one line of six Braille characters. Each [...]
[Scot] whips up breakout board for his ARM breakout board [Scot Kornak] got his hands on the new STM32 Discovery Board. He got his as a free giveaway, but at only $18 he probably would have picked one up anyway. His one complaint about the device is that he dual pin-headers which break out the [...]
MAMEing a CNC router [Ed] is pretty old school. He loves the functionality of old industrial shop tools that have their own dedicated systems. With huge candy-like buttons, who wouldn’t? [Ed] decided to replicate this aesthetic by building a MAME controller for his Mach3 controlled router. [Ed] had a bunch of MAME buttons and joysticks sitting [...]
