Hackaday (unofficial) August 16, 2021 3:00am Robot Pet is A Chip Off The Old Logic Block #fpga #robotshacks #softwaredevelopment #2wheelrobot #assembler #fpgabootcamp #servo #sonar #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Robot Pet Is A Chip Off The Old Logic Block When [Ezra Thomas] needed inspiration for his senior design project, he only needed to look as far as his own robot. Built during his high school years from the classic 1979 Frank DaCosta book “How…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 11, 2021 9:00am A Whole Lot of Stepper Motors Make the Most Graceful 7-Segment Displays #clockhacks #7segment #7segmentdisplay #charliesheen #mechanicaldisplay #servo #servomotors #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A Whole Lot Of Stepper Motors Make The Most Graceful 7-Segment Displays Over the years we’ve seen many takes on the 7-segment display. Among the most interesting are the mechanical versions of what is most often an LED-based item. This week’s offering is fr…
Hackaday (unofficial) July 12, 2021 7:00pm Get Yourself A Pupper (For Education) #robotshacks #thehackadayprize #2021hackadayprize #mini #opensource #pupper #raspberrypi #servo #stanford #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Get Yourself A Pupper (For Education) While the disquieting appearance of some of the robots coming out of DARPA and other labs might give us some reservations about how much intelligence we want to give to those robots, there’s …
Hackaday (unofficial) July 10, 2021 6:00am Home Automation for Fans of Quick-and-Dirty Solutions #homehacks #arduino #decora #homeautomation #ir #servo #stepper #toggle #wallswitch #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Home Automation For Fans Of Quick-and-Dirty Solutions At Hackaday, we celebrate all kinds of projects, but we’ll have to admit that the polished and professional-looking builds tend to catch our eye a lot more than perhaps they should. ThereR…
Hackaday (unofficial) June 20, 2021 12:00pm Compact M&M Sorter Goes Anywhere #arduinohacks #arduino #cdscell #lightdependentresistor #mmsorter #photocell #rgbled #servo #steppermotor #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Compact M&M Sorter Goes Anywhere Let’s face it — eating different colored candy like M&Ms or Skittles is just a little more fun if you sort your pile by color first. The not-fun part is having to do it by hand. [Ja…
Hackaday (unofficial) June 15, 2021 12:00am Friendly Webcam Robot Keeps an Eye on Privacy #lifehacks #peripheralshacks #eyeball #privacy #servo #webcam #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Friendly Webcam Robot Keeps An Eye On Privacy Wouldn’t it be nice if every webcam had a hardware switch? Especially for those built-in webcams like the one in your laptop. Since they don’t have switches yet, we’re just stuck …
Hackaday (unofficial) May 16, 2021 3:00am Robotic Bartender Built With Industrial-Grade Hardware #robotshacks #barbot #roboticbartender #servo #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Robotic Bartender Built With Industrial-Grade Hardware Robotic bartenders are a popular project around these parts. If there’s one thing hackers love, after all, it’s automating tasks – as much for the challenge as for the actual time…