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Snakes on a Game

Snakes on a Game

“Enough is enough! I have had it with these blankety-blank snakes on this blankety-blank, um…ARM…Cortex-M0, ah, microcontroller.”

Right, so, apologies are now due to hardworking Hack a Day writer Mike Szczys for reducing his latest tasty MCU project to a perfunctory SamJack joke. In point of fact…

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Introducing Hack a Day: the retro edition

Introducing Hack a Day: the retro edition

Love the news coming from Hack a Day Hack a Day hasn’t change its format since 2004. Even though MAKE has gone Web 2.0 with buttons using mouseover, and Instructables has fancy drop-down menus, Hack a Day has been a constant black background, green text child of the web circa 2004. A while ago, we […]

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Jumbo 7-Segment Display from Glue Sticks, LEDs

Jumbo 7-Segment Display from Glue Sticks, LEDs

More cool original content from Hack a Day, this time by Kevin Dady. He writes: “I was recently commissioned to make a device which uses a pretty large number display, and I went out shopping. The seven segment we liked best was still quite pricey, and would not fit our enclosure correctly anyway…”

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Stung Love

Stung Love

Responding to criticisms that their new no-trolling-allowed policy lacks teeth, Hack a Day writer Jack Buffington threw down the gauntlet Monday, announcing that, henceforth, anyone leaving a nasty comment about one of Jeri Ellsworth’s projects will receive a visit from the Pain Fairy.

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How-To:  Demonic Garden Gnomes

How-To: Demonic Garden Gnomes

Cool original content over at Hack a Day, featuring guest author Jack Buffington. Jack hybridizes a common, less-conspicuously-evil lawn gnome with a solar garden lamp to create a full-bore, out-and-out-unholy abomination of a lawn gnome with eyes that glow in the night.

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