Even in the advanced world of 2024, robots are still better in science fiction than in reality. Star Trek gave us the erudite and refined Data, Rogue One gave us the fierce yet funny K-2SO, and Big Hero 6 gave us the caring charmer named Baymax. All these robots had smarts, capability, and agency. More than that, though—they were […]
With the 2024 Hackaday Supercon looming large on the horizon, Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start this episode off by talking about this year’s badge and its focus on modular add-ons. From there they’ll go over the results of a particularly challenging installment of What’s that Sound?, discuss a promising DIY lathe that utilizes […]
The Vectrex was a unique console from the early 1980s. Developed by a company you’ve probably never heard of—Smith Engineering—it was put into production by General Consumer Electronics, and later sold by Milton Bradley. It was an outright commercial failure, but it’s remembered for its sharp vector display and oddball form factor. The Vectrex was […]
This week Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles chat with James Smith about Manyfold, the self-hosted 3D print digital asset manager that’s on the Fediverse! Does it do live renders? Does it slice? Listen to find out! https://floppy.org.uk/ https://manyfold.app https://github.com/manyfold3d/manyfold Did you know you can watch the live recording of the show Right on our YouTube […]
If you want to deliver the maximum power to a load — say from a transmitter to an antenna — then both the source and the load need to have the same impedance. In much of the radio communication world, that impedance happens to be 50Ω. But in the real world, your antenna may not […]
We’ve been hinting at it for a few months now, running a series of articles on SAOs, then a Supercon Add-On Challenge. We even let on that the badge would have space for multiple SAOs this year, but would you believe six? Way back in 2017ish, Hackaday’s own [Brian Benchoff] and the [AND!XOR] crew thought […]
The third and final round of the 2024 Supercon talks announcements brings us to the end, and the full schedule is now up on Hackaday.io. With Supercon just a couple weeks away, we hope you have your tickets already! Stay tuned tomorrow for a badge reveal. Alex Toussaint How to detect – and kill – […]