Designing Electronics that Work I ve put together a 300+ page book with basically everything I learned the hard way over the last 10 years founding and working at several hardware startups. It started out as a self published work, but No Starch Press picked it [ ] The post Designing Electronics that Work first appeared on Hunter Scott .
A 60 GHz phased array for $10 In 2018, I gave an talk at Hackaday Supercon that was basically Phased Arrays 101. You can watch it at the bottom of this post. At the end of this talk, I mentioned that I was looking for [ ] The post A 60 GHz phased array for $10 first appeared on Hunter Scott .
How I won 4 Twitter contests a day (every day for 9 months straight) This is the story of how I wrote a Twitter bot to automatically enter contests and ended up winning on average 4 contests per day, every day, for about 9 months straight. [ ] The post How I won 4 Twitter contests a day (every day for 9 months straight) first appeared on Hunter Scott .
Impact Prevent brain damage in atheletes Note: This project is my entry into the 2015 Hackaday prize and is also documented at Hackaday.io. Millions of young athletes get concussions each year and 50% go undiagnosed, leading to brain [ ] The post Impact – Prevent brain damage in atheletes first appeared on Hunter Scott .
Level A small, frequency agile radio module In the summer of 2012, I started a company with some other Georgia Tech students called Level RF. We went through Y Combinator and lots of really cool and interesting things happened, which you should ask me about sometime. [ ] The post Level – A small, frequency agile radio module first appeared on Hunter Scott .
Manhattan Circuits One really neat method of building circuits without making a PCB is called Manhattan style, so called because the components look like buildings in Manhattan. I really like it because it s simple, quick, and if you do it right, can be good enough [ ] The post Manhattan Circuits first appeared on Hunter Scott .
Autolacing Back to the Future shoes In Back to the Future 2, we were promised autolacing shoes by 2015. I figured I d do my part and help make it happen. This video gives a quick demonstration: And this video goes over it in more [ ] The post Autolacing Back to the Future shoes first appeared on Hunter Scott .
Visualizing the emotions of a city This is a quick project I did over the course of a night or two using some parts I had laying around and had been looking for an excuse to use. An Arduino connects to the internet with an [ ] The post Visualizing the emotions of a city first appeared on Hunter Scott .
The DSP Behind Bat Echolocation A couple weeks ago, Dr. Bruce Patterson (the curator of mammals at The Field Museum in Chicago) was kind enough to send me some very high quality recordings of bat vocalizations captured during his recent expedition to Kenya. Bats use a [ ] The post The DSP Behind Bat Echolocation first appeared on Hunter Scott .
DRFM Radar Jammer This was my senior design project. I worked with two other guys on this and we built a simple, toy DRFM jammer demonstration platform. It uses a USRP as the jammer and the MIT coffee can radar. Here are some pretty pictures: [ ] The post DRFM Radar Jammer first appeared on Hunter Scott .