Gyroscope Walks The Tightrope
Gyroscopes are one of those physics phenomena that are a means to many ends, but can also enjoyed as a fascinating object in their own right. Case and point being
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Toy Hacks
Remote-Controlled Hypercar Slices Through Air
Almost all entry-level physics courses, and even some well into a degree program, will have the student make some assumptions in order to avoid some complex topics later on. Most
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We’ve Got A Saxaboom At Home Son
Most parents have heard a familiar story. Their lovely child comes up, having seen a celebrity rocking out with a funny $20 toy from the 80s, and asks for it.
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Magic 8 Ball Provides Tech Support
ChatGPT might be making the news these days for being able to answer basically any question it’s asked, those of us who are a little older remember a much simpler
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Modulex is LEGO’s Long Lost Cousin
We love LEGO here at Hackaday, but did you know that LEGO spun off a parallel product line made for architectural models called Modulex? [Peter Dibble] takes us on a
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I’ve Been Printing on the Dragon Railroad…
We know many people who put much effort into building model train setups. But [Rambros] has an entire set 3D printed, and the files are open source, so you can
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Tiny 3D printed HO Scale Escalator That Works
[Luke Towan] has a cool HO scale Escalator mostly made of 3D printed parts, with some laser cut acrylic, for a station on his HO model railroad. Escalators are mesmerizing
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Building a LEGO Pneumatic Engine
Pneumatic engines aren’t something we use every day, but they’re compelling things to see working in practice. [Nico71] built an eye-catching example out of LEGO Technic, and it’s remarkably fully-featured.
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Amphibious Dragster Drives On Water
Dragsters are typically about peak performance on a tarmac drag strip. [Engineering After Hours] took a different tack, though, building a radio-controlled amphibious dragster intended to cross small bodies of
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Portable Monitor Extension for Nintendo Switch
Handheld consoles are always a tradeoff between portability and screen real estate. [Pavlo Khmel] felt that the Nintendo Switch erred too much on the side of portability, and built an
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