Hackster’s Handpicked Projects of the Week
A DIY Laptop, a Motorized Turntable, a Reflow Oven Controller, a Family of Pac-Man Pixel Panels, a Simple Rubens’ Tube + More
Raspberry Pi and Arduino Laptop
Since the day I heard about and got to play with the Raspberry Pi a few years ago, I’ve wanted to make a Raspberry Pi-powered laptop.
Battery Powered Turntable for Shooting Video
A 3D-printed, battery-powered box that includes an Arduino, an OLED display and a rotary encoder is used to control a motorized turntable.
Reflowduino
The Reflowduino is a completely open-source, Arduino-compatible wireless reflow oven controller packed with features!
Pac-Man LED Pixel Panel Costume
Portable LED panels let you dress us like your favorite 8-bit video game characters.
Critter: Crawling Arduino Robot
The Critter is a simple Arduino walking robot that is fully 3D-printed.
Snake Lamp
Implementing the well-known Nokia Snake game on a traditional desk lamp.
Utterly Hipster Bicycle Speed and Cadence Gauges
Two analog voltage meters, ATtiny85s and some parts from a modern bike computer turned into speed and cadence gauges for a hipster’s bicycle.
Tap Tap Automat
Automatic tap tester based on a Particle Photon, relay shield, lift magnet, boring socket for stylus fixture and Paperino ePaper display.
Klimberdaja
Arduino-generated random music player. With visually showing notes.
WebUSB
WebUSB-enabled LOL shield, so anybody can change the text without any Arduino programming knowledge.
Tessel Person Pointer Using Machine Learning in Cloud
Use Tessel with Google Compute Engine GPU instance running Darknet YOLO via a Node.js server to perform multibox detection over websockets!
Control NodeMCU Using Google Assistant Without IFTTT
Control Wemos D1 mini or NodeMCU using Google Assistant without IFTTT and MQTT. Also you can stream Internet radio stations by voice.
Rubens’ Tube
Often used a tool for teaching physics, this propane-powered fire display can make an eye-catching piece for your next chamber music concert or house party.
Start/Stop Chronometer
A two-module chronometer for your MTB (or any others sports) to measure your time in a determined circuit!
Simple Weather Station with NodeMCU, Arduino and ThingSpeak
Build a weather station driven by a NodeMCU (esp8266) board written and Arduino and send the gathered data to ThingSpeak.
MATRIX Creator Discord App
Control your MATRIX Creator with a discord bot.
Baking nio Into Raspberry Pi
Walk through all of the steps needed to set up a Raspberry Pi, complete with instructions for installing nio onto your Pi once it is running.
