Woodstock Wire: Prototyping Platforms

March 16, 2020

BeagleBoard.org GSoC is heating up

BeagleBoard.org - Just one week left before students start submitting proposals to the official GSoC site. Help guide the students by joining the forum (bbb.io/gsocml)...

March 16, 2020 01:57 AM

February 27, 2020

Worlds best cheeseburger is made by BeagleBone

BeagleBoard.org - How They Made: World's First Cheeseburger Robot

February 27, 2020 02:30 AM

January 20, 2020

Jason's New Year's Resolutions

BeagleBoard.org - As you might know, the BeagleBoard.org Foundation is dedicated to education in and collaboration around the design and use of open-source software...

January 20, 2020 06:43 PM

December 01, 2019

Working on an Open Source Hardware Project? This is your opportunity to share it at the next Open Source Hardware Summit in March 2020 at New York

BeagleBoard.org - The Open Source Hardware Summit (OHS) is inviting talk/demo proposals for the tenth annual summit! To be held on Friday, March 13,2020 at the...

December 01, 2019 11:33 PM

September 23, 2019

BeagleBoard.org(r) Launches BeagleBone(r) AI, Offering a Fast Track to Getting Started with Artificial Intelligence at the Edge

BeagleBoard.org - BeagleBone(r) AI is your fast track to embedded artificial intelligence at the edge. The fastest and most flexible BeagleBone yet builds on a...

September 23, 2019 01:28 AM

May 19, 2019

Raspberry Pi Press: what's on our newsstand?

Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Press, the publishing branch of Raspberry Pi Trading, produces a great many magazines and books every month. And in keeping with...

May 19, 2019 02:38 AM

May 17, 2019

Video call with a Raspberry Pi and Google Duo

Raspberry Pi - Use Google Duo and a Raspberry Pi to build a video doorbell for your home so you can always be there to answer your door, even when you're not...

May 17, 2019 05:43 PM

The Amazing New World Of Gallium Nitride

Hack a Day - From the heart of Silicon Valley comes a new buzzword. Gallium nitride is the future of power technology. Tech blogs are touting gallium nitride...

May 17, 2019 03:40 PM

May 12, 2019

A Datasheet Manifesto For The 21st Century

Hack a Day - Selecting electronic components can be a frustrating process, one of trawling through the websites of distributors such as DigiKey, Mouser, or...

May 12, 2019 11:50 PM

May 09, 2019

Color-Tunable LEDs Open Up Possibilities Of Configurable Semiconductors

Hack a Day - The invention of the blue LED was groundbreaking enough to warrant a Nobel prize. For the last decade, researchers have been trying to take the...

May 09, 2019 04:36 PM

May 06, 2019

Raspberry Pi Streams Music Using Only the Default Linux Tools

Hack a Day - Getting a home music streaming system off the ground is typically a straightforward task. Using Apple devices with Airplay makes this task trivial,...

May 06, 2019 02:35 AM

A Raspberry Pi is a Hardware Hacker's Swiss Army Knife

Hack a Day - By now most of us have used a Raspberry Pi at some level or another. As a headless server it's a great tool because of its price point, and as...

May 06, 2019 12:48 AM

May 03, 2019

We're on a stamp!

Raspberry Pi - The Royal Mail is issuing a series of six stamps celebrating 50 years of British Engineering this week (available from 2 May). We're absolutely...

May 03, 2019 04:54 PM

April 30, 2019

Making A Three Cent Microcontroller Useful

Hack a Day - The Padauk PMS150C is a terrible microcontroller. There are only six pins, there's only one kiloword of Flash, 64 bytes of RAM, and it doesn't...

April 30, 2019 04:57 PM

April 29, 2019

Raspberry Pi Becomes The Encrypted Password Keeper You Need

Hack a Day - Unless you're one of the cool people who uses the same password everywhere, you might be in need of a hardware device that keeps your usernames...

April 29, 2019 05:23 PM

The $50 Ham: Dummy Loads

Hack a Day - This is an exciting day for me - we finally get to build some ham radio gear! To me, building gear is the big attraction of amateur radio as...

April 29, 2019 04:37 AM

April 07, 2019

New Wolfram Mathematica free resources for your Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi - We've worked alongside the team at Wolfram Mathematica to create ten new free resources for our projects site, perfect to use at home, or in...

April 07, 2019 11:47 PM

April 02, 2019

Bye Bye vi: GNU/Linux Distros Drop Support

Hack a Day - If you grew up with Unix systems like we did, you'll be sorry to hear the news: vi, the noble text editor that has served us so well these 40...

April 02, 2019 10:49 PM

March 18, 2019

Forbes Says The Raspberry Pi Is Big Business

Hack a Day - Not that it's something the average Hackaday reader is unaware of, but the Raspberry Pi is a rather popular device. While we don't have hard...

March 18, 2019 04:05 PM

February 04, 2019

This Satellite Finder Can Watch Amateur TV

Hack a Day - Setting up satellite dishes can be a finicky business. To aid in the alignment of these precision antennas, satellite finders are often used...

February 04, 2019 05:11 AM

January 06, 2019

Google Assistant, Now Available On Ham Radio

Hack a Day - Depending on who you talk to, Google Assistant is either a tool capable of quickly and clearly answering audio queries in natural langauge, or...

January 06, 2019 06:34 PM

December 18, 2018

Toddler nightlight/stay-in-bed device

Raspberry Pi - Living with a toddler is the best thing. It really is. Seen through their eyes, everything you're jaded about becomes new and exciting. Every...

December 18, 2018 07:59 PM

Christmas lights 2018

Raspberry Pi - It's the most wonderful time of the year! There's much mistletoeing, and hearts will be glowing - as will thousands of Raspberry Pi-enabled Christmas...

December 18, 2018 07:12 PM

December 10, 2018

NTP Morse Code Clock Powered by ESP8266

Hack a Day - We've featured a great many unique clocks here on Hackaday, which have utilized nearly every imaginable way of conveying the current time. But...

December 10, 2018 12:59 AM

New Transistor Uses Metal And Air Instead Of Semiconductors

Hack a Day - The more things change, the more things stay the same. Early electronic devices used a spark gap. These have been almost completely replaced...

December 10, 2018 12:59 AM

December 02, 2018

The age of the Twitter bot

Raspberry Pi - Despite changes to the process, setting up a Raspberry Pi as a Twitter bot is a fairly easy process. And while many such bots simply share time-lapse...

December 02, 2018 08:34 AM

October 28, 2018

MagPi 75: 75 greatest projects, chosen by you

Raspberry Pi - Hi folks, Rob from The MagPi here! A few weeks ago, we asked you to vote on your top 50 favourite Raspberry Pi projects from the last two-or-so...

October 28, 2018 07:13 AM

September 03, 2018

Linux Fu: Modernize Your Command Line

Hack a Day - If you use Linux and its associated tools on the desktop or on a Raspberry Pi, or on a server, you probably have used the command line. Some...

September 03, 2018 10:50 PM

August 27, 2018

Rasberry Pi PoE Hat Released

Hack a Day - It was announced at the beginning of March, but now the Raspberry Pi Power over Ethernet (PoE) hat is out. Thanks to the addition of a new 4-pin...

August 27, 2018 06:03 PM

August 26, 2018

Arduino Gets Command Line Interface Tools That Let You Skip the IDE

Hack a Day - Arduino now has an officially supported command-line interface. The project, called arduino-cli, is the first time that the official toolchain...

August 26, 2018 09:35 PM

What Will You Do If WWVB Goes Silent?

Hack a Day - Buried on page 25 of the 2019 budget proposal for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under the heading "Fundamental Measurement,...

August 26, 2018 07:24 AM

August 05, 2018

Synesthiser, an accessible electronic music instrument

Raspberry Pi - A Raspberry Pi is the beating heart of this accessible musical instrument, built by South Korean maker Jaewon "J. One" Choi to enable more people...

August 05, 2018 06:46 AM

August 03, 2018

Block ads at home using Pi-hole and a Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi - Today's blog post comes from Jacob Salmela, creator of Pi-hole, a network-wide ad blocker used by Raspberry Pi enthusiasts to block advertisements...

August 03, 2018 04:19 PM

Mu, a new Python IDE for beginners

Raspberry Pi - Mu is a very simple-to-use Python editor and IDE (integrated development environment) and this week, version 1.0 was released! New Mu Mu is designed...

August 03, 2018 12:06 AM

August 02, 2018

Wire Wound Resistors On Your Own

Hack a Day - In all kinds of engineering, we build on abstractions in a kind of inverted pyramid. Lots of people can, for example, design a system using ready-made...

August 02, 2018 04:21 AM

August 01, 2018

Build an oscilloscope using Raspberry Pi and Arduino

Raspberry Pi - In this tutorial from The MagPi issue 71, Mike Cook takes us through the process of building an oscilloscope using a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino....

August 01, 2018 06:49 PM

Hackspace magazine 9: tools, tools, tools

Raspberry Pi - Rejoice! It's time for a new issue of Hackspace magazine, packed with things for you to make, build, hack, and create! HackSpace magazine issue...

August 01, 2018 04:10 PM

Learn how to document your code

Raspberry Pi - In our latest resource, we show you how to create a website and use it to document your coding projects. Why document your code? Search the web...

August 01, 2018 03:35 PM

Eight(ish) Raspberry Pi projects for the summer

Raspberry Pi - The sun is actually shining here in Cambridge, and with it, summer-themed Raspberry Pi projects are sprouting like mushrooms across our UK-based...

August 01, 2018 02:59 PM

July 16, 2018

Celebrating our teachers

Raspberry Pi - The end of the academic year is here, and we are marking the occasion by celebrating teachers from all over the world. Since last September,...

July 16, 2018 02:54 AM

July 05, 2018

New software to get you started with high-altitude ballooning

Raspberry Pi - Right now, we're working on an online project pathway to support you with all your high-altitude balloon (HAB) flight activities, whether you...

July 05, 2018 02:32 AM

MagPi 71: Run Android on Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi - Hey folks, Rob here with good news about the latest edition of The MagPi! Issue 71, out right now, is all about running Android on Raspberry...

July 05, 2018 02:32 AM

June 18, 2018

Portable Ham Radio Design Fosters Experiments

Hack a Day - [Charlie Morris] has been busy building a portable ham radio rig and documenting his progress in a series of videos. You can see the first one...

June 18, 2018 02:59 AM

June 04, 2018

Build your own weather station with our new guide!

Raspberry Pi - One of the most common enquiries I receive at Pi Towers is "How can I get my hands on a Raspberry Pi Oracle Weather Station?" Now the answer...

June 04, 2018 05:02 PM

MagPi 70: Home automation with Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi - Hey folks, Rob here! It's the last Thursday of the month, and that means it's time for a brand-new The MagPi. Issue 70 is all about home automation...

June 04, 2018 04:06 PM

May 29, 2018

Ham Radio on $100 Or Less

Hack a Day - There are a lot of reasons to get a ham radio license, and if you are one of those that think ham radio is dead you can probably skip this post....

May 29, 2018 04:11 PM

May 28, 2018

Project Floofball and more: Pi pet stuff

Raspberry Pi - It's a public holiday here today (yes, again). So, while we indulge in the traditional pastime of barbecuing stuff (ourselves, mainly), here's...

May 28, 2018 11:02 PM

May 15, 2018

DIY Pi Zero Pentesting Tool Keeps it Cheap

Hack a Day - It's a story as old as time: hacker sees cool tool, hacker recoils in horror at the price of said tool, hacker builds their own version for a...

May 15, 2018 05:42 PM

May 07, 2018

Digikey Tips Its Hat To Kicad With Its Own Library

Hack a Day - Digikey might wow us with their expansive stock, but they generally don't wow us with personal gestures, until now. The US-based electronics...

May 07, 2018 03:54 AM

April 22, 2018

Fix Your Insecure Amazon Fire TV Stick

Hack a Day - I recently spent a largely sleepless night at a hotel, and out of equal parts curiosity and boredom, decided to kill some time scanning the guest...

April 22, 2018 07:02 AM