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  1. Deploy Workaround Code To The Field When “The Field” Is Lunar Orbit The Apollo missions still inspire people today, decades after they took place. A fortunate side effect of the global public relations campaign is that a lot of information is publicly a…

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  2. AVRO’s Project 1794: A Canadian Flying Saucer For those of us who grew up somewhere in the 1950s to 1970s what our car would like in the year 2020, we might have described an Avrocar. This top secret vehicle from Canadian Avro, was part hovercraft and p…

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  3. Up Your Game With DIY Headset Motion Tracking While there’s been a lot of advancements in VR gaming over the last couple of years, plenty of folks are still happy enough to just stare at their monitor. But that’s not to say some of those fancy head-trac…

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  4. Lego Space Station Designed by Fan It is no secret that most people like to play with Lego, but some people really like it to an extreme degree. Lego’s Idea platform lets people submit designs for review and also lets users vote on these designs. If acc…

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  5. Hackaday Links: February 2, 2020 Is it just me or did January seem to last for about three months this year? A lot has happened since the turn of the decade 31 days ago, both in the normie world and in our space. But one of the biggest pieces of news in…

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  6. A Tiny USB Hub For All Your Hardware Modding Needs Going all the way hack to the heady days of Eee PC modding, hardware hackers have been on the hunt for small USB hubs that can easily be liberated from their enclosures and integrated into whatever proj…

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  7. Pavlok Gets a Literally Shocking Teardown Apparently, there is a wrist-mounted device that delivers electric shocks to the wearer when it receives the appropriate command over Bluetooth. No, it’s not part of some kind of house arrest program. If you can…

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  8. Microcontroller Studies the Blade Kendo, a Japanese martial art, is practiced with a special sword. It’s not a particularly sharp sword, though, since the “blade” is essentially a length of bamboo. For this reason, Kendo practitioners must rely on corre…

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  9. ⚡️Hackaday Belgrade is back! Join us May 9, get your tickets before they're gone.

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  10. Feb 2

    Synthfonio Makes Music Easy Like Sunday Morning This one goes out to anyone who loves music and feels it in their soul, but doesn’t necessarily understand it in their head. No instrument should stand in the way of expression, but it seems like they all …

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  11. Feb 2

    Growing Human Neurons Hooked Up To Electrodes Philosophers have long mused about the concept of a “brain in a jar”, but thus far, it’s remained the preserve of science fiction rather than reality. However, after reading some scientific papers, [Justin] …

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  12. Feb 1

    A Mini SDR Receiver Using An Audio DSP Software defined radio or SDR is the most exciting frontier in the field of radio, transferring as it does all signal functions from the analogue to the digital domain. Radios using SDR techniques can be surprising…

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  13. Feb 1

    Art Imitates DNA It has recently been possible to pay a service a little bit of money and learn more about your own DNA. You might find out you really aren’t Italian after all or that you are more or less susceptible to some ailments. [Paul Klinger] had…

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  14. Feb 1

    The Quest To Find A Second Life For Electric Vehicle Batteries Rechargeable lithium chemistry battery cells found their mass market foothold in the field of personal electronics. The technology has since matured enough to be scaled up (in both physical …

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  15. Feb 1

    Tricking The Brain Into Seeing Boosted Contrast in Stereo Imagery Last year a team of researchers published a paper detailing a method of boosting visual contrast and image quality in stereoscopic displays. The method is called Dichoptic Contrast Enhanc…

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  16. Feb 1

    CNC Hot-Wire Cutter Gives Form to Foam Rapid prototyping tools are sometimes the difference between a project getting off the ground and one that stays strictly on paper. A lightweight, easy-to-form material is often all that’s needed to visualize a des…

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  17. Feb 1

    Get your tickets to Hackaday Belgrade! >>

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  18. Feb 1

    What Everyone Else Did With Eight Bits, The Germans Did With Only One In the 1980s there was an impetus for the first time for young people to be equipped with computer literacy. A variety of different educational programmes were launched, typically inv…

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  19. Feb 1

    See-Through Catalytic Converter There’s always something to be learned from taking things apart. Sometimes the parts can be used for other things, sometimes they can be repaired or improved upon, but sometimes it’s all in good fun. Especially in this ca…

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  20. Feb 1

    A Nano With An Otter’s Bite The would-be microcontroller experimenter is now faced with a bewildering array of choices when it comes to a tiny development board for their projects. Everything from descendants and clones of the original Arduino through t…

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