2+ week, 1+ day ago   (322+ words) Hackaday A piano’s internal mechanism for translating a key press into sound is surprisingly complicated It has to do a lot of things simultaneously and quickly: provide precise control over velocity, ensure the hammer doesn’t press itself against…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (34+ words) Circuit bending is a chaotic art. At its simplest, it can just involve making connections between random points on a circuit board to create weird sounds in musical hardware. Or, you can complicate th......

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (36+ words) It's never been easier to get a printed circuit board made. In fact, almost every electronics video out on the internet will incessantly remind you of this fact now. But making a custom PCB wasn't alw......

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (35+ words) The word "restomod" is a bit nebulous, but it's normally used in the automotive world to describe taking an old car and making it better-than-new with all the technological improvements the original b......

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (312+ words) Hackaday It’s become an accepted truth amongst tapeheads that there’s no point looking at new hardware, because there’s only one tape mechanism being made anywhere in the world anymore, and that it sucks [VWestlife] may enjoy German…...

1+ year, 16+ hour ago   (691+ words) Over at Quanta Magazine [Shalma Wegsman] asks What Is the Fourier Transform? [Shalma] begins by telling you a little about Joseph Fourier, the French mathematician with an interest in heat propagation who founded the field of harmonic analysis in the…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1710+ words) Now, if you’re only doing single-layer PCBs, this is a solved problem. You can mechanically mill, or laser cut, or chemically etch your way to PCB perfection, far faster than the Chinese fabs can get you a part. If you…...

1+ year, 5+ day ago   (852+ words) There are high-end headphones that claim to reproduce an immersive sound field as well, but we can’t help but wonder if you’d miss the “true” experience without head tracking. Even with regular department-store headphones, the demo recordings linked via the…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago   (409+ words) [Enginerd]'s chonky key handle is a beautiful use of 3D printing that helps people help themselves. The large wings, indented faces, and beefed-up grip make a typical house key much easier for someone......

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (189+ words) As the sun goes down on a glorious spring evening on the western edge of Europe, Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List for a look at the week in all things Hackaday. First up: Hackaday Europe tickets are on…...