19+ hour, 18+ min ago  (236+ words) Researchers demonstrate that something interesting happens when a small drone with a spindly airframe spins at a high speed: it very nearly turns invisible. The spidery device is shown mounted in its launcher in the image above. The dark blur…...

4+ day, 27+ min ago  (224+ words) Hackaday Full body tracking in VR applications involves attaching sensors to one’s body, and [Jaki] has a DIY method to do it on the cheap: the Vive Tracker Lite project repurposes Vive controllers as lighthouse-based trackers, no hardware modifications required....

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (118+ words) Continue reading “Hackaday Links: November 23, 2025” → [Thanks to Eric for the tip!] George Orwell might’ve predicted the surveillance state, but it’s still surprising how many entities took 1984 as a how-to manual instead of a cautionary tale. [Benn Jordan] decided to take…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (204+ words) Hackaday A loudspeaker is a vital component of every device that plays sound, but while its operation is simple, it’s a surprisingly difficult device to build [Rvanderouderaa] has made an Instructables post showing a speaker design that it’s…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (239+ words) Hackaday Ever since the early web, people have been streaming video with inexpensive webcams, and since the advent of the Raspberry Pi and its dedicated camera slot we’ve really seen how easy it can be to build security cameras…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (428+ words) [Dennis] is on YouTube with his channel "Made By Dennis," but for the record he is a maker, not a V-tuber. On the other hand, his latest project-- creating a profesisonal-level tracking rig with DIY I......

11+ mon, 3+ week ago  (293+ words) Millennials (hopefully) on their second marriages I see.. you know, the Gameboy and its peripherals was popular well into 21th century. Could be “gen Z” just as well. Yeah, but let’s be honest it’s not Hm? I don’t get it. The…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (827+ words) That works, and for those of us who like command lines, it’s easy enough to execute. But not everyone loves the command line. In the comments, there was another obvious answer: use OBS Studio. While OBS is excellent, it is…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (38+ words) When we think of CRT camera viewfinders, most of us probably imagine the tiny CRTs you'd find in a 1980s camcorder. They're super cute and a load of fun to play with, but they're very much a consumer......

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (516+ words) Dealing with text streams is a fundamental skill for the Linux power user. You can sort, merge, and search text files easily from the command line. What if you could do the same thing with video? Well......