Why Walking Tanks Never Became A Thing
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The walking tank concept has always captured imaginations. Whether you’re talking about the AT-AT walkers of Star Wars, or the Dreadnoughts from Warhammer 40,000, they are often portrayed in fiction …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/10/02/why-walking-tanks-never-became-a-thing/)

Using LoRa Nodes As Soil Moisture Sensing Antennas
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The measurement results of: (a) RSSI in dBm collected from gateway 2 and (b) soil moisture during the winter period. (Credit: Maja Škiljo et al., 2022)
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/sensors-22-09863-g003.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/sensors-22-09863-g003.png?w=800">Although we generally think of Internet of Things (IoT) and similar devices as things that are scattered around above ground, there are plenty of reasons to also have such devices …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/10/02/using-lora-nodes-as-soil-moisture-sensing-antennas/)

Modeling Space Hack Chat
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Join us on Wednesday, October 4 at noon Pacific for the Modeling Space Hack Chat with Bryan Murphy and Sam Treadgold! We’re going to go out on a limb here …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/10/02/modeling-space-hack-chat/)

Displays We Love Hacking: The HD44780 Family
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There are too many different kinds of displays – some of them, you already know. I’d like to help you navigate the hobbyist-accessible display world – let’s take a journey …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/10/02/displays-we-love-hacking-the-hd44780-family/)

Hackaday Prize 2023: An Agricultural Robot That Looks Ready For The Field
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In the world of agriculture, not all enterprises are large arable cropland affairs upon which tractors do their work traversing strip by strip under the hot sun. Many farms raise …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/10/02/hackaday-prize-2023-an-agricultural-robot-that-looks-ready-for-the-field/)

ModuCoil – A Modular Coil for Motor and Generator Projects
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While renewable energy offers many opportunities for decentralizing energy production, it can sometimes feel that doing so on a truly local level remains unachievable with increasingly large utility-scale deployments re-centralizing …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/10/02/moducoil-a-modular-coil-for-motor-and-generator-projects/)

2023 Halloween Hackfest: Ouija Robot Is Even Creepier Than the Real Thing
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When you’re a kid, nothing says spooky like turning off the lights and bringing out the Ouija board. For decades, this mystifying oracle has purported to channel the dead by …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/10/02/2023-halloween-hackfest-ouija-robot-is-even-creepier-than-the-real-thing/)