Senseo coffee makers are automated brewers that utilize coffee pods. [Ronald] had one, however wasn’t satisfied with the high quality of the coffee it produced. His service was to hack it apart as well as develop his own automatic coffee device with the innards. The coffee brewing part of the system is managed by an […]

[Matthew] has completed this Dreamcast tablet modification. That’s right, you’re looking at a Dreamcast laid out in tablet format. We’re not truly sure what advantages the tablet design has, since it’s not touch screen as well as you most likely requirement to put it down to play anyway. The laptop or clam shell may have […]

The very first talk of ShmooCon was [Ethan O’Toole] as well as [Matt Davis] providing their OpenVulture software application for unmanned vehicles. In the preliminary stages, they had just organized on building software application for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, however realized that with the appropriate planning it might be utilized with any type of vehicle: airplanes, […]

Take one look at the sticker on top of this project box and it’s pretty clear you’re not meant to flip the switch protected by the piece of red plastic. but if your coworkers are anything like [The Timmy’s] there’s at least a few who will stop by and just can’t keep their hands off. […]

[Andrei Istodorescu] has been difficult at work building a 7″ touch-screen rig which runs XBMC. It may be upside-down, however the Raspberry Pi board which is front as well as center is still quickly recognizable. There’s a great deal of stuff linked to it in order to pull this off, as well as even more […]

What would you do if you were driving along the highway and you glanced into a field to see a giant array of fluorescent tubes lit wirelessly from the electromagnetic fields of power lines. Back in 2004, [Richard Box] set up this display after hearing about a pal playing “light saber” with fluorescent tubes under […]

This bit wall plug is really a full computer with 1.2GHz cpu, with 512MB of RAM as well as 512MB of of flash memory. It comes with versions of linux, ported for its ARM processor. At $50, this great system might be discovering itself in a great deal of homes. You can get more info […]

All too often, the commentors here on Hackaday display some parsimony in their engineering prowess. If someone uses a Raspberry Pi to blink a few LEDs, someone will invariably chime in that an ARM microcontroller would do just as well. switching a relay on and off belies the capabilities of a 32-bit Cortex microcontroller when […]