Cool Kinetic Sculpture Has Tooling Secrets to Share - Occasionally, we get a tip for a project that is so compelling that we just have t... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/29/cool-kinetic-sculpture-has-tooling-secrets-to-share/ #solenoid #kinetic #tooling #winding #coil #art #cnc

How Crane Games are Playing Claw Games with the Player - Fresh from AliExpress, [Big Clive] got another fascinating item to tear down: a cr... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/04/how-crane-games-are-playing-claw-games-with-the-player/ #gameofchance #cranegame #gambling #solenoid #arcade #games

Player Ukulele Pulls Your Strings - Automated musical instruments aren’t a new idea. From water chimes to player piano... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/13/player-ukulele-pulls-your-strings/ #musicalhacks #solenoid #ukulele

Custom Pneumatic Cylinders Lock This Monitor Arm in Place - Few consumer-grade PCs are what you’d categorize as built to last. Most office-gra... - https://hackaday.com/2024/08/09/custom-pneumatic-cylinders-lock-this-monitor-arm-in-place/ #parallelogram #mischacks #pneumatic #solenoid #monitor #lock #shop #kvm

Well, now I *really* want to read Cities in Flight again. I wonder if Cartarescu knows it? #Solenoid #Bookstodon #IfYouKnowYouKnow

Arduino PLC Keeps the Beat - For most of our prototype, hobby, or one-off electronics projects it’s perfectly f... - https://hackaday.com/2024/07/06/arduino-plc-keeps-the-beat/ #musicalhacks #arduinoopta #powersupply #programming #3dprinted #metronome #solenoid #arduino #drums #plc

POV Digital Clock Is the Literal Sands of Time - Sand has been used to keep track of the passage of time since antiquity. But using... - https://hackaday.com/2024/05/09/pov-digital-clock-is-the-literal-sands-of-time/ #persistenceofvision #clockhacks #pic18f4550 #solenoid #hopper #clock #sand #led #pov

A Look Inside a 70-GHz Electromechanical Attenuator - It might not count as “DC to daylight,” but an electromechanical attenuator that c... - https://hackaday.com/2024/03/15/a-look-inside-a-70-ghz-electromechanical-attenuator/ #electromechanical #rohde&schwarz #radiohacks #attenuator #microwave #stripline #solenoid #pi-pad #rf

Sketchy Logg Dogg Logging Robot Remote Control Hacking - When we last left [Wes] amidst the torn-open guts of his Logg Dogg logging robot, ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/02/20/sketchy-logg-dogg-logging-robot-remote-control-hacking/ #remotecontrolvehicle #reverseengineering #robotshacks #solenoid #mosfet #pwm

Recreating The Quadrophonic Sound of the 70s - For plenty of media center PCs, home theaters, and people with a simple TV and a d... - https://hackaday.com/2024/02/06/recreating-the-quadrophonic-sound-of-the-70s/ #musicalhacks #quadrophonic #raspberrypi #soundcard #audacity #solenoid #8-track #digital #replica #vumeter #qrcode #stereo #music

Arduino Auto-Glockenspiel Looks Proper in Copper - What is it about solenoids that makes people want to make music with them? Whateve... - https://hackaday.com/2023/12/16/arduino-auto-glockenspiel-looks-proper-in-copper/ #musicalhacks #glockenspiel #solenoid #arduino

Virginia Cave is the Largest Musical Instrument In The World - Hit something with a hammer, and it makes a sound. If you’re lucky, it might even ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/11/09/virginia-cave-is-the-largest-musical-instrument-in-the-world/ #musicalhacks #solenoid #cavern #organ

Forever Writing on Monofilament Fishing Line - Collectively, we have a long-term memory problem. Paper turns to mulch, dyes in op... - https://hackaday.com/2023/11/08/forever-writing-on-monofilament-fishing-line/ #fluoropolymer #monofilament #fishingline #fluorcarbon #techhacks #solenoid #medium #ascii

It’s A Marble Clock, But Not As We Know It - [Ivan Miranda] is taking a very interesting approach to a marble clock. His design... - https://hackaday.com/2023/11/06/its-a-marble-clock-but-not-as-we-know-it/ #3dprinterhacks #clockhacks #3dprinted #irsensor #solenoid #marble #clock

Pour One Out for This Bottle-Playing Robot - If you have an iota of musicality, you’ve no doubt noticed that you can play music... - https://hackaday.com/2023/11/02/pour-one-out-for-this-bottle-playing-robot/ #arduinohacks #musicalhacks #winebottle #solenoid #arduino #midi

Auto Xylophone Uses Homemade Solenoids - Want to play the xylophone but don’t want to learn how? [Rachad]’s automatic xylop... - https://hackaday.com/2023/10/08/auto-xylophone-uses-homemade-solenoids/ #arduinohacks #musicalhacks #xylophone #solenoid

All-Mechanical Coil Winder is a Scrap-Bin Delight - If there’s something more tedious than winding coils, we’re not sure what it is — ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/30/all-mechanical-coil-winder-is-a-scrap-bin-delight/ #amateurradio #magnetwire #mischacks #inductor #solenoid #radio #coil #ham

Keebin’ with Kristina: The One with the QWERTY Drum Set - What does portability in a keyboard mean to you? For Hackaday alum [Brian McEvoy],... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/15/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-qwerty-drum-set/ #typewritercollection #toomanytypewriters #peripheralshacks #wearablekeyboard #hackadaycolumns #thekaleidograph #drumtypewriter #kaleidograph #solenoid #keytar

Selectric Typewriter Goes from Trash Can to Linux Terminal - If there’s only lesson to be learned from [alnwlsn]’s conversion of an IBM Selectr... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/25/selectric-typewriter-goes-from-trash-can-to-linux-terminal/ #retrocomputing #whiffletree #interposer #selectric #solenoid #teletype #terminal #rs-232 #linux #ibm #tty

Solenoid Keyboard Sounds Very Much Like a Typewriter - Mechanical keyboards are muchly adored things. For many of us, they take us back t... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/19/solenoid-keyboard-sounds-very-much-like-a-typewriter/ #mechanicalkeyboard #peripheralshacks #keyboard #solenoid