hardware hacks

Amie Dansby and Karl Koscher Hands-On Hardware: Chip Implants, Weird Hacks, and Questionable Decisions

What happens when your body is the dev board? Join Amie Dansby, who’s been living with four biochip implants for years, and Karl Koscher as they dive into the wild world of biohacking, rogue experiments, and deeply questionable decisions in the name of science, curiosity, and chaos.

DragonCon Light-Up PCB Ribbon

I made a PCB(printed circuit board) ribbon for Dragon Con 2024.

TechFashion Design Challenge 2023

We are excited to call upon the global couture design community to enter Hackster’s first-ever tech-fashion-themed contest, inspired and co-created with Art by Physicist. In this challenge, not only will you get to win an opportunity to work with exciting emerging wearable tech elements to promote the integration of solar energy into textiles, but you will also join a collective cohort as part of a "made-to-order" crowdfunding campaign to bring your design to market.

ECCC Advanced 3D Printing for Props and Cosplay

3D printing is an incredible tool in the cosplay toolbox, and it is even more powerful than you can possibly imagine! Do you want to print dragon scales directly onto fabric? Embed electronics or lights directly into your print? Create moving parts and easy to disassemble props? Join 3D Printing experts Sophy Wong, AmieDD, and Rocket Props to learn advanced 3D printing techniques to level up your 3D printing and Cosplay! We will be reviewing a number of advanced techniques, processes, tools, and hardware that will help you in your journey to be able to create anything you can imagine!

Documentary: Meet the biohacker living with cyborg upgrades

She's a biohacker with three microchip implants. Brut filmmaker Jessey Dearing met Amie Dansby as she gets a new one installed.

Holiday Hack 2021

Join us for a holiday hack with Adafruit and Hackster.io

Tinkering Belles Podcast with Mythbuster Tamara Robertson

Do you love Lego, Cosplay and general Maker Shop Talk? If so, join Tamara Robertson (Mythbusters, Seekers of Science) as she kicks off with a Tech Talk about Lego Bricks then sits down with Maker, Hacker, Cosplayer, and Lego Extraordinaire Amie Dansby. Topics they cover include (but are surely not limited to): - Sports Bras and Table Saws- CNCs - West World- Lasers - All Dogs go to Heaven- Leatherwork- Solder Suckers (its a real thing)- Body Mods- Cosplay- Tigers (before Tiger King was a thing)- Top Shop Tools- Nsync and Justin Timberlake- Superhero Science and why Tony Stark became Iron Man- Jurassic Park... and so much moreThis is the inaugural episode of Tinkering Belles and you're surely not going to want to miss it!So join in on Tamara's adventure as a Maker as she works to amplify the BAMF Females Behind the Builds one interview at a time!

ADDVulcan Satellite Hacking Virtual Machine

Space Security — When starting out learning something new, you go through the discovery phase researching, discovering applications and part procurement can be one of the most time consuming task when learning something new. The ADDVulcan satellite hacking team wanted to make the tools, applications and research for satellite hacking open to everyone.

DEF CON Hackers Compete to Hijack a Satellite in Orbit

Hacking satellites to “secure the final cyberfrontier.” By B. DAVID ZARLEY 10 Aug, 2020 07:00 PM

Autodesk Fusion360 Electronics Live Chat

Chatting with Autodesk Fusion 360 live on Instagram about the new Fusion 360 Electronics workflow.

Revenge of the Sith - Light-Up PCB Necklace

Sorry jedi, today is May the 5th and it's the revenge of the Sith. I made a quick PCB light-up necklace on Bantam Tools desktop machine and GlowForge Pro laser cutter.

LEGO Dots Light-Up Cosplay Belt

LEGO #LetsBuildTogether explore, build and share your LEGO creations. Using the new LEGO Dots line and some LEDs you can make a simple LEGO wearable cosplay!

Bantam Tools Laser Cut Cyberpunk Window

I gave my desktop mill window a cyberpunk upgrade, in pink of course!

Time Traveler from the Failed LEGO Future

If you don’t expect to be wrong, you won’t come up with anything creative. It’s not failure, it’s a creative iterative process.

Hanselminutes Podcast: The Joy of making with LEGO Master and Cosplaying Engineer Amie DD

Show #726 Amie is a maker of things. Her background is in Game Programming and Simulation and she started her career at Marvel Studios, working on Captain America and X-Men Destiny. She later transitioned to Research and Development for development work on the Xbox and Playstation. She also plays with LEGO and was recently on FOX's LEGO Masters show. She is also an active 3D printer and cosplayer. She talks to Scott about all she pulls all this cross disciplinary knowledge into a life fueled with enthusiasm and making things!

Ask Me Anything AmieDD.com

With LEGO Masters airing on Fox, our show has become one the top shows in the US with over 8 million viewer each episode(it's still so surreal). I figured it was time to do a ask me anything Q&A for all the new followers and fans! Ask me anything.

3D Models for 3D Printing using Math

Glowforge SVG Export Sizing Help

AS YOU WISH! Tesla Model 3 Chip Implant - IT WORKS!

AS YOU WISH! Tesla Model 3 Chip Implant is working!! I was at DefCon when I posted the last video of me getting my chip implant. Here is a 2 week follow up!!

DefCon27 I Want to Believe badges for sale on Tindie and Etsy

If you weren't able to grab one of my DefCon27 badge from me at DefCon I put them up for sale on Etsy and Tindie.

PREPARE THYSELF: THERE IS BLOOD in this video!! Tesla Bio Chip Implant Install

Tesla chip implant was a success!!

My year long Tesla Model 3 bio implant hack project has been a awesome journey!

I Want to Believe - DefCon27 Badges $5

DC27 "I want to believe" badges, can you find all the easter eggs?

Creating a 3D Sewing Bodysuit Pattern using Clo3D Tutorial is HERE!!

Create digital patterns for your cosplay projects. This a basic tutorial using Clo3D on how to create a basic bodysuit using 3D sewing.

3D Sewing Cosplay Body Suit Tutorial is almost done!!

Execute Order #TeslaFlex

Electromaker.io profile of the month: amiedd

If you're into your wearable tech, cosplay and Lego then you need to check out Amie DD’s user profile! Amie has been active in the maker community for many years and during that time has produced some of the most original and colourful wearable projects we have ever seen! We had the pleasure to talk with Amie recently and will be publishing her Meet a Maker interview very soon...stay tuned!

Tesla Valet Chip ready to be Encapsulated!!

Thanks to Amal from VivoKey and Dangerous Things for helping make sure I get my chip encapsulate safely for my implant.

Tindie Purchases

Not Boring - Not a Flamethrower

My friends have all the fancy toys!

Cyborg Ring - Hackaday #supercon

Zach Fredin cyborg ring is a cordwood-style bit of blinky jewelry powered by an ATtiny85 and a pair of size 10 Zn-air (hearing aide) batteries.

Tesla Bio Implant Hack Diaries

Tesla Hack Diaries: Prequel I've been working on my body implant Tesla hack for about 2 months, and I have had reservations about sharing my work, after discussing with a few friends and strangers about my project at #supercon last weekend I decided I would finally share my project progress. Thanks to Amal, Andy, Drew and Will for encouraging me that "all work sucks in the beginning" and I should just share my ramblings.

Wahoo!!! I finally got my Tesla Model 3

It's been almost 2 years since I pre-ordered my Tesla Model 3 in 2016.