December 10, 2021 Film-Based Sensor Could Let Your Self-Driving Car Known When You're In Trouble — or Nodding Off Installed in the driver's seat, this simple sensor can track your body movement — and even pick up your pulse and respiration. Read now
December 9, 2021 Tom Granger's Sony FX-300 "Jackal" Upgrade Turns a 1978 Hi-Fi Portable Into a Teensy-Powered Marvel Taking a "cyberpunk" design from the 1970s, this radio rebuilt offers Bluetooth and FM radio playback — and full-color visuals. Read now
December 9, 2021 Retrocet Pairs a 1987 Laptop, Windows 1.04, and a 1964 Hand-Built Modem for Some Reddit Browsing Powered by an in-home telephone line emulator, this experiment in vintage communications pulls down Reddit at a blazing 300 baud. Read now
December 9, 2021 Light Up All 16 LEDs to Solve This PCB Puzzle David-Johnson Davies' fun little PCB puzzle consists of 16 LEDs, 16 buttons, and an ATtiny404 chip. Read now
December 8, 2021 Obliterating Nuts with an Explosive Nutcracker Shane Wighton made an explosive nutcracker that can obliterate even the most obstinate nuts—including the metal nuts that thread onto bolts. Read now
December 8, 2021 KiCad's 2021 End of Year Fund Drive Help raise money for the incredibly useful KiCAD EDA Software Suite Read now
December 8, 2021 Schematic-o-matic automatically creates KiCAD schematics from your breadboard A script that aids with KiCAD PCB generation Read now
December 7, 2021 Count down to Christmas with an Arduino-powered Hackvent calendar Celebrate the coming of Christmas Day with this Arduino-powered "Hackvent" calendar Read now
December 7, 2021 DeVayu's Raspberry Pi Pico LED Matrix Controller Drives 2,048 LEDs at 28 Frames Per Second via Wi-Fi Designed as a network-addressable display, this 2,048-pixel LED matrix runs at nearly 30 FPS thanks to some clever compression. Read now