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I wanted Thor's hammer (Mjolnir), but I wasn't going to accept any old boring plastic prop. I needed something with a little more POP.

I worked with Staci Elaan to build this hammer that has a solid state tesla coil insi...

I wanted Thor's hammer (Mjolnir), but I wasn't going to accept any old boring plastic prop. I needed something with a little more POP.

I worked with Staci Elaan to build this hammer that has a solid state tesla coil insi...

Say goodbye to the rest of your day. Here are the top 10 best videos about real hacking. We've already covered the absolute worst that hollywood has to offer, twice. Then, we did the best that hollywood could pull off. Now...

Whenever I release a hackaday video, I invariably get comments and emails about my workbench. Some people are telling me to clean up, others are asking me about things they see in the background.

This isn't just a set tha...

Checking out the cool hardware for the Redbull Creation contest!

To join the contest, go to http://redbull.com/creation

For in depth info about the hardware, including pictures: http://wp.me/pk3lN-pm6

Music by Kevin MacLe...

I may sound like I'm being over enthusiastic in this video. I'm not. Everyone who has seen this things it is simply amazing.

M father, an ex Navy man, has told me stories of glowing water since I was little. Being a pers...

Full Article with pictures: http://wp.me/pk3lN-poY

While browsing an oculus rift thread on reddit, I saw someone mention how nice it would be to have some actual mounts for external sensors on their Rift. The idea is that...

The mod I decided to tackle first was the horizontal peripheral vision lights. The shape of the Oculus means that it feels like you are wearing a skii mask, or diving mask. There are big black borders at the far edges of t...

Geeking out and complaining about inaccuracies is fun. But it is like junk food. Too much is bad for your health. We've done the Top 10 worst portrayals of hacking in movies/TV as well as a Part 2 due to high demand. Now i...

Check out part 1 here: http://www.youtube.com/watc...

After going through the original quick list we tossed together, people were chiming in like crazy. We felt another 10 might help satiate the desire to smir...

A quick tour of the Arch Reactor hackerspace in St. Louis Missouri.

for more info: http://wp.me/pk3lN-piL

Hackaday is finally venturing into the wild world of kickstarter with, what we think, will be the next huge step in technology.

http://wp.me/pk3lN-pg2

No longer will you have to hold a light in your hands, or strap some ...

Here you can see how I made our April fools joke for 2013. I constructed this little light that fits inside your nasal cavity. It was extremely uncomfortable, but I think the gag turned out well.

Music by Kevin MacLeod

People had a lot of great input from my last version with the lazy susan. This version uses a bike wheel, completely unmodified (I have to put it back on the bike when I'm done!). I can do both above and below angled shots...

Check out part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watc...

The movie industry is nearly incapable of portraying hacking realistically. Here's our top 10 hacking fails in movies.

Music by Kevin MacLeod

Watch how it was made:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

'Bullet Time" is traditionally done with a large rig covered in cameras. You need tons of them. At least it used to be. Now companies use super fast roboti...

making a "bullet time" rig using a single gopro

See the final result:

http://youtu.be/e04PVFe5LMM

read more details about how I built it.

http://goo.gl/BFMTM

I know that the multiple camera method works, but I also know...

Just a little taste of what we are and what we do.

At hackaday, we hack everything. Doesn't matter if it is software, hardware, or wetware, we're going to hack it and have fun doing it.

music by Kevin MacLeod at incompe...

Defend yourself against pickpockets with this really simple hack.

Details and more information here: http://goo.gl/QiiEE

By tearing apart a magnetic window alarm, you can add a noisy buzzer to your wallet. It can detect ...

Making the spy car for Overly Attached Girlfriend was pretty fun. You can see tons of details and pictures of the entire process at hackaday.com

http://hackaday.com/2013/02......

Overly attached girlfriends everywhere can rest assured that Hackaday is looking out for them. We don't want them to miss a single second of their boyfriends lives.

To aide them in their goal of complete surveillance, we...

http://forums.hackaday.com/...

This is a quick sculpt of a possible interface to help someone with motion range limitations. There will be more variations considered before we begin building it.

musi...

This is just a teaser for an upcoming hackaday.com project. You can follow along with the project here: http://forums.hackaday.com/...

Music by Kevin MacLeod.

timelapse of printing an octopus on the Lulzbot AO-100. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

Just a quick project showing how easy it is to do color sensing with very few components. Go to hackaday.com for more details.

Music by Kevin MacLeod

http://hackaday.com/2012/11......

Testing to see how small of a quantity of thermite can be used to destroy hard drive platters. This is for an upcoming story where we'll be building a self destruct system that surgically kills the drives.

Just making a nice little message for our readers on halloween. We know how much you like seeing stuff be made... then blown up. Enjoy. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

Plastic wasnt hot enough.

screwing around with teh camera. I was wondering how well it would capture the grining spakrs. Not great for slo-mo, but still fun to watch. Slowed down to roughly 12%

hackaday hacks a prop portal gun to actually levitate a companion cube.

http://wp.me/pk3lN-mPR

I was out to lunch with a couple friends, brainstorming ideas for fun projects when one of them says "Wouldn't it be cool if ...

The Minotaur costume that Scott Sauer and Ryan Fitzpatrick (squidfoo.com) put together was a huge hit at the MakerFaire. Here he is, doing what Minotaurs do.