Deep Space DX Hack Chat
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alt=""/>Join us on Wednesday, March 5 at noon Pacific for the Deep Space DX Hack Chat with David Prutchi! In the past 70-odd years, the world’s space-faring nations have flung 
alt=""/>Join us on Wednesday, March 5 at noon Pacific for the Deep Space DX Hack Chat with David Prutchi! In the past 70-odd years, the world’s space-faring nations have flung Hackaday
Deep Space DX Hack Chat
Join us on Wednesday, March 5 at noon Pacific for the Deep Space DX Hack Chat with David Prutchi! In the past 70-odd years, the world’s space...
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Deep Space DX Hack Chat
Join us on Wednesday, March 5 at noon Pacific for the Deep Space DX Hack Chat with David Prutchi! In the past 70-odd years, the world’s space...
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alt="Screenshot of the REPL running on the Flipper, importing the flipper API library and calling infrared receive function out of it with help of autocomplete"/>Got a Flipper Zero? Ever wanted to use a high-level but powerful scripting language on it? Thanks to [Oliver] we now have a MicroPython application for the Flipper, complete with 
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alt="A man in black glasses and a black t-shirt has his arms resting on a grey workbench. Between his opened hands are the two halves of a copper ice press. They are fist-sized copper cylinders. The lower half has large spiraling grooves to aid in the release of excess water from the ice being formed as it melts."/>Perfectly clear ice spheres are nifty but can be a bit tricky to make without an apparatus. [Seth Robinson] crafted a copper ice press to make his own. Copper is 
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alt=""/>For the maker looking to turn their project into a business, trying to price your widget can be a bit of a conundrum. You want to share your widget with 
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alt=""/>In today’s “futuristic tech you can get for $5”, [RealCorebb] shows us a gesture sensor, one of the sci-fi kind. He was doing a desktop clock build, and wanted to 
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alt=""/>[Chris] had an idea. When playing VR games like BeatSaber, he realized that spectators without headsets weren’t very included in the action. He wanted to create some environmental lighting that 
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alt="A PCR machine with its side cover taken off exposing its guts, and the tray extended out"/>Money, status, or even survival – there’s no shortage of incentives for faking results in the scientific community. What can we do to prevent it, or at least make it 
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alt="A balding man in a blue suit and tie sits behind rows of plants on tables. A bright yellow watering can is close to the camera and out of focus."/>Nickel contamination can render soils infertile at levels that are currently impractical to treat. Researchers at UMass Amherst are looking at how plants can help these soils and source nickel 
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alt=""/>Shopping carts are surprisingly expensive. Prices range up to about $300 for a cart, which may seem like a lot, but they have to be pretty rugged and are made 
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alt=""/>It is a common problem: I have a USB device on a computer out in the shop, and I want to use it from the comfort of my office. What 
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alt=""/>[Nicholas LaBonte] shows off a Cyberdeck Handheld that demonstrates just how good something can look when care and attention goes into the design and fabrication. He wanted to make something 
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alt=""/>Picture a football (soccer ball) in your head and you probably see the cartoon ideal—a roughly spherical shape made with polygonal patches that are sewn together, usually in a familiar 
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alt=""/>Holography is about capturing 3D data from a scene, and being able to reconstruct that scene — preferably in high fidelity. Holography is not a new idea, but engaging in 
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alt=""/>Making a multi-band amateur radio transceiver has always been a somewhat challenging project, and making one that also supported different modes would for many years have been of almost impossible 
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alt=""/>You wake up in the morning, and check Hackaday over breakfast. Then it’s off to work or school, where you’ve already had to explain the Jolly Wrencher to your shoulder-surfing 
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alt=""/>In the decade or more since small inexpensive Linux-capable single board computers such as the Raspberry Pi came to the mainstream, many a hardware hacker has turned their attention to 
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alt="Illustrated Kristina with an IBM Model M keyboard floating between her hands."/>Okay, you have to see the gallery to appreciate it, but this keyboard was designed to resemble a red cedar tree with the green shell and wood bottom and the 
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alt=""/>While we’re still waiting for ET to give us a ring, many worlds might not have life that’s discovered the joys of radio yet. Scientists ran a two-pronged study to 
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alt="Hackaday Links Column Banner"/>Ho-hum — another week, another high-profile bricking. In a move anyone could see coming, Humane has announced that their pricey AI Pin widgets will cease to work in any meaningful 
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alt="Close up of Zenit 19 camera"/>If you’re into Soviet-era gear with a techy twist, you’ll love this teardown of a rare Zenit 19 camera courtesy of [msylvain59]. Found broken on eBay (for a steal!), this 