ZX Spectrum Next Laptop(dorchester3d.com)
108 points by utopcell | 19 comments
Blog post from Dorchester 3D describing a homemade second-version laptop case build for the ZX Spectrum Next dev board.
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52 stories tagged diy, newest first.
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Making Solar Panels with a Microwave [video](youtube.com)
60 points by jackdoe | 8 comments
A 13-minute YouTube video by Dr.Semiconductor demonstrating how to make solar panels using a microwave as part of the fabrication process.
I electrified my push scooter with a power drill(eddieabbondanz.io)
161 points by speckx | 55 comments
A personal blog post describing converting a Razor A5 Lux push scooter to electric power using a cordless drill, welding, 3D-printed parts, and off-the-shelf components.
Turn an old junk phone into a Talking Jack-O-Lantern(jack-o.io)
14 points by dakila5 | 6 comments
A web app that turns an old phone into a talking jack-o-lantern display, showing a black screen with a 'Tap to start' prompt and a Settings button.
Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash(niklasroy.com)
213 points by r0r0 | 33 comments
Niklas Roy's project page with a video of a working 30-minute pendulum clock built from trash in Glashütte, also a satirical time standard reference.
My Recent Woodworking Projects(notoriousbfg.com)
37 points by trwhite | 18 comments
Personal blog post by Tim White describing his return to woodworking, starting with building a dog gate, after a bad school experience.
Hacking IKEA Furniture(greenlightning.eu)
336 points by greenlightning | 247 comments
A personal blog post on Green Lightning describing a DIY project modifying IKEA furniture to build something not available for purchase.
Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown(imkylelambert.com)
400 points by surprisetalk | 248 comments
A personal blog post describing the construction of a backyard office shed and breaking down its costs.
Scrap (2006)(twitter.com)
386 points by tosh | 212 comments
A post on X by Moxie Marlinspike sharing a circa-2006 journal entry about moving into a derelict Pittsburgh house in winter and rebuilding it from scrap.
OpenPrinter(opentools.studio)
1033 points by bouh | 254 comments
Product page from OpenTools for Openprinter, an open-source, repairable inkjet printer that feeds from a paper roll.
Open Source Low Tech(opensourcelowtech.org)
608 points by grep_it | 121 comments
Homepage of OpenSourceLowTech.org, where Daniel Connell shares free open-source designs and tutorials for basic technologies built from recycled materials.
A nicer voltmeter clock(lcamtuf.substack.com)
345 points by surprisetalk | 45 comments
lcamtuf's Substack post describing building an improved voltmeter clock, an update to a 2019 project, with emphasis on its wooden enclosure.
DIY Soft Drinks(blinry.org)
683 points by _Microft | 203 comments
A blog post by blinry with log-book-style recipes and notes for making homemade sugar-free, caffeine-free cola, orange soda, and almond soda.
Filing the corners off my MacBooks(kentwalters.com)
1332 points by normanvalentine | 630 comments
Personal blog post explaining why the author files the sharp corners off their MacBooks, with photos of the modified laptops.
Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)(sam-burns.com)
747 points by sam-bee | 228 comments
A blog post describing how the author built a solid concrete laptop stand in a brutalist architecture style with urbex and urban decay themes.
Rack-mount hydroponics(sa.lj.am)
322 points by cdrnsf | 87 comments
A personal blog post describing how the author grew lettuce hydroponically inside a spare server rack cabinet.
I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard(hawksley.org)
1516 points by saeedesmaili | 351 comments
Joel Hawksley's blog post describing how he built Timeframe, a family e-paper dashboard showing calendar, weather, and smart home data.
I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery(fulghum.io)
549 points by jordanf | 188 comments
Blog post by Jordan Fulghum about building physical album cards with NFC tags so his 10-year-old can discover and play music like browsing CDs.
Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock(cpldcpu.com)
324 points by cpldcpu | 75 comments
Blog post on Tim's Blog (cpldcpu) about bundling three candles so their flames oscillate at about 9.9Hz and using that oscillation as a clock signal.
Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death(energyvanguard.com)
345 points by almuhalil | 273 comments
An Energy Vanguard blog post by Allison Bailes describing the "mosquito bucket of death," a DIY bucket trap for killing mosquito larvae.
Mechanical Watch: Exploded View(fellerts.no)
1096 points by fellerts | 122 comments
A personal project write-up about building a physical exploded-view display of a real mechanical watch movement, inspired by Bartosz Ciechanowski's blog post.
How to modify Starlink Mini to run without the built-in WiFi router(olegkutkov.me)
321 points by LorenDB | 105 comments
Blog post by Oleg Kutkov explaining how to modify a Starlink Mini terminal so it runs without its built-in WiFi router.
I made a chair(milofultz.com)
335 points by surprisetalk | 133 comments
A personal blog post describing building a simple chair from a single 8-foot 2x12 board using basic cuts, based on an Instructable.
Building my own solar power system(medium.com)
391 points by JKCalhoun | 289 comments
A Medium blog post in which the author describes building their own home solar power system out of frustration with PG&E.
I tried making artificial sunlight at home(victorpoughon.fr)
546 points by fouronnes3 | 217 comments
Personal blog post by Victor Poughon describing a DIY attempt to build a compact artificial sunlight lamp, inspired by DIY Perks' parabolic reflector design.
Self driving 1993 Volvo with open pilot(practicapp.com)
591 points by trainsarebetter | 129 comments
Blog post by Robbe Derks, part 1 of a series on retrofitting a 1993 Volvo 940 with openpilot self-driving, covering the actuators.
Making a watch from scratch(imgur.com)
478 points by dcminter | 73 comments
An Imgur album documenting the process of making a mechanical watch from scratch; the capture shows a Reddit network-policy block page instead.
MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia(jan.miksovsky.com)
2012 points by pabs3 | 241 comments
Blog post by Jan Miksovsky describing MomBoard, an e-ink display showing family messages, date and time for his mother who has amnesia.
Make It Yourself(makeityourself.org)
562 points by deivid | 76 comments
Download page for "Make it Yourself", a free book cataloging 1000 useful DIY things to make, version 1 from November 2024.
The motor turns too much(projectgus.com)
372 points by mooreds | 174 comments
Blog post, part 4 of a Kona EV Conversion series, describing getting a salvaged Hyundai Kona electric motor to turn and the resulting issues.
Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer(aschmelyun.com)
856 points by chrisdemarco | 224 comments
Blog post describing a PHP project that prints a custom daily news front page on a dot matrix printer bought from eBay.
An NFC movie library for my kids(simplyexplained.com)
1237 points by kzrdude | 288 comments
A blog post describing how the author built an NFC tag–based physical movie library so his kids can pick and play digital movies themselves.
Maker Skill Trees(github.com)
423 points by saulpw | 90 comments
GitHub repository of Maker Skill Trees covering topics like 3D printing, amateur radio, and automotive, plus templates to create your own.
Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor(gist.github.com)
377 points by adtac | 126 comments
A post by Adhityaa describing jailbreaking a Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor after breaking a laptop screen, with a photo of a terminal on the Kindle.
1/25-scale Cray C90 wristwatch(chrisfenton.com)
361 points by akkartik | 60 comments
Chris Fenton's blog post describing his build of a 1/25-scale replica of the Cray C90 supercomputer made into a wristwatch.
I built an ROV to solve missing person cases(suanto.com)
1059 points by craydandy | 149 comments
Personal blog post, part 1 of a series, introducing how the author built an underwater ROV to help solve missing person cases.
Making USB devices – end to end guide to your first gadget(popovicu.com)
361 points by todsacerdoti | 60 comments
Uros Popovic's blog post offering an end-to-end beginner guide to building your first USB device that a computer recognizes.
Repairing my mug with Kintsugi(fellerts.no)
580 points by fellerts | 75 comments
Personal blog post describing repairing a broken ten-year-old coffee mug using the Japanese kintsugi technique.
LED Matrix Earrings(mitxela.com)
551 points by nrabulinski | 78 comments
Mitxela project write-up and video on building stud earrings covered with a matrix of tiny 0201 LEDs.
Do It Yourself Blind Repair(fixmyblinds.com)
570 points by nsajko | 131 comments
Homepage of FixMyBlinds, a store selling replacement parts for window blinds along with DIY repair guides and a troubleshooter.
Tiny volumetric display(mitxela.com)
1475 points by ttesmer | 166 comments
A mitxela.com project page describing the POV Candle, a tiny persistence-of-vision volumetric LED display, with a video demo.
I Hacked the Magic Mouse(uplab.pro)
375 points by nmstoker | 98 comments
A blog post on Uptime Lab describing a hardware hack/modification of Apple's Magic Mouse.
Ian's Shoelace Site(fieggen.com)
464 points by mhb | 61 comments
Homepage of Ian's Shoelace Site, a long-running website about shoelace lacing methods, tying knots including the Ian Knot, and shoelace science.
The Fantilator Page(onlyfans.web.cern.ch)
381 points by edent | 67 comments
A CERN-hosted page documenting, in a dated photo table, the building of the "Fantilator," a contraption made from many stacked computer fans.
Linear Book Scanner – Open-source automatic book scanner (2014)(linearbookscanner.org)
365 points by gorenb | 76 comments
Project site for the Linear Book Scanner, a low-cost open-source automatic page-turning book scanner with video, how-to, and designs.
A DIY near-IR spectrometer(caoyuan.scripts.mit.edu)
345 points by johnmaguire | 69 comments
A project write-up describing how to build a near-infrared spectrometer for about $500 using an InGaAs sensor instead of a silicon camera.
Retrieving 1TB of data from a faulty drive with the help of woodworking tools(blog.jgc.org)
485 points by jgrahamc | 166 comments
John Graham-Cumming's blog post on recovering 1TB of data from a failed Seagate Firecuda 530 SSD in his gaming PC, using woodworking tools.
Learn electronics by practice(beletronics.wordpress.com)
332 points by Sandman | 63 comments
A WordPress site offering practice-based lessons for learning electronics, organized into parts with schematics and breadboard builds.
Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch(instructables.com)
506 points by zdw | 156 comments
An Instructables project with build video showing how to convert a dead Apple Watch case into a functional mechanical wristwatch.
There oughta be a bullet time video booth(there.oughta.be)
362 points by _Microft | 97 comments
A blog post describing a DIY bullet time video booth built from an array of DSLR cameras for a cousin's wedding, with a linked YouTube video.
Electronics Lab Bench Setup Guide(badar.tech)
550 points by stacktrust | 232 comments
A blog post guide describing how to set up an electronics lab bench, with photos of shelving, component storage and equipment.
Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
1843 points by l2silver | 1695 comments
Ask HN thread inviting users to share interesting software or hardware they built solely for personal use, such as custom AR tools or family calendar displays.