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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/28/behind-the-bally-home-computer-system/ | Behind The Bally Home Computer System | Bryan Cockfield | [
"computer hacks"
] | [
"bally",
"basic",
"computer",
"console",
"pc",
"programming",
"retrocomputing",
"video game",
"vintage"
] | Although we might all fundamentally recognize that gaming consoles are just specialized computers, we generally treat them, culturally and physically, differently than we do desktops or laptops. But there was a time in the not-too-distant past where the line between home computer and video game console was a lot more b... | 9 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142929",
"author": "Clancydaenlightened",
"timestamp": "2025-06-28T12:56:40",
"content": "But does it run CPM?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8142967",
"author": "Pablo J R",
"timestamp": "2025-06-28T19:01:46... | 1,760,371,502.815895 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/27/audio-localization-gear-built-on-the-cheap/ | Audio Localization Gear Built On The Cheap | Lewin Day | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"audio",
"audio localization",
"ece4760",
"microphone"
] | Most humans with two ears have a pretty good sense of directional hearing. However, you can build equipment to localize audio sources, too. That’s precisely what [Sam], [Ezra], and [Ari] did for their final project for the ECE4760 class at Cornell this past Spring.
It’s an audio localizer!
The project is a real-time au... | 11 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142727",
"author": "purplepeopleated",
"timestamp": "2025-06-27T16:15:56",
"content": "https://www.techdirt.com/company/shotspotter/but shotspotter was shown to be racist fascist garbage.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8142732... | 1,760,371,502.717033 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/27/this-week-in-security-megaowned-store-danger-and-filefix/ | This Week In Security: MegaOWNed, Store Danger, And FileFix | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"News",
"Security Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"Filefix",
"MegaOWNed",
"This Week in Security"
] | Earlier this year, I was required to move my server to a different datacenter. The tech that helped handle the logistics suggested I assign one of my public IPs to the server’s Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) port, so I could access the controls there if something went sideways. I passed on the offer, and not onl... | 7 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142662",
"author": "CJay",
"timestamp": "2025-06-27T12:16:50",
"content": "Hell to the no would Ieverexpose a BMC, DRAC, ILO or any kind of hardware management interface or whatever you want to call it to a public IP, that’s just like setting off flares, sounding a foghorn and wavi... | 1,760,371,502.910961 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/27/meet-cucumber-the-robot-dog/ | Meet Cucumber, The Robot Dog | Lewin Day | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"Raspberry Pi Pico",
"robot dog"
] | Robots can look like all sorts of things, but they’re often more fun if you make them look like some kind of charming animal. That’s precisely what [Ananya], [Laurence] and [Shao] did
when they built Cucumber the Robot Dog for their final project in the ECE 4760 class.
Cucumber is controllable over WiFi, which was simp... | 6 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142660",
"author": "Jan",
"timestamp": "2025-06-27T12:12:24",
"content": "Cool project. But the bone example is really selling it, nice touch.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8142684",
"author": "Charles Springer",
"tim... | 1,760,371,503.568853 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/27/a-cheap-smart-plug-to-block-distractions/ | A Cheap Smart Plug To Block Distractions | Jenny List | [
"hardware"
] | [
"distraction",
"smart plug"
] | We have all suffered from this; the boss wants you to compile a report on the number of paper clips and you’re crawling up the wall with boredom, so naturally your mind strays to other things. You check social media, or maybe the news, and before you know it a while has been wasted. [Neil Chen] came up with a solution,... | 19 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142653",
"author": "ChochoChuck",
"timestamp": "2025-06-27T11:10:08",
"content": "What? Literally what is this, what are you saying?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8142658",
"author": "Shoe",
"timestamp": "20... | 1,760,371,503.153742 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/26/making-gamecube-keyboard-controller-work-with-animal-crossing/ | Making GameCube Keyboard Controller Work With Animal Crossing | John Elliot V | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Games",
"hardware",
"home entertainment hacks",
"Microcontrollers",
"Nintendo Hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks",
"Raspberry Pi",
"Retrocomputing",
"Reverse Engineering",
"Software Development",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"animal crossing",
"gamecube",
"keyboard controller"
] | [Hunter Irving] is a talented hacker with a wicked sense of humor, and he has written in to let us know about his latest project which is to
make a GameCube keyboard controller work with Animal Crossing
.
This project began simply enough but got very complicated in short order. Initially the goal was to get the GameCub... | 2 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142682",
"author": "Justin",
"timestamp": "2025-06-27T13:56:34",
"content": "That’s a great hack. I’d worry about losing synchronization though. But maybe that doesn’t happen enough to be a problem.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"commen... | 1,760,371,502.766599 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/26/pi-networks-the-smith-chart-way/ | Pi Networks The Smith Chart Way | Al Williams | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"impedance matching",
"smith chart"
] | [Ralph] is excited about impedance matching, and why not? It is important to match the source and load impedance to get the most power out of a circuit. He’s got a whole series of videos about it. The latest? Matching using
a PI network and the venerable Smith Chart
.
We like that he makes each video self-contained. It... | 10 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142572",
"author": "Danjovic",
"timestamp": "2025-06-27T02:38:39",
"content": "Amazing video, amazing channel. Thanks for sharing!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8142578",
"author": "reg",
"timestamp": "2025-06-27T03:2... | 1,760,371,502.861096 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/26/optimizing-dust-separation-for-extreme-efficiency/ | Optimizing Dust Separation For Extreme Efficiency | Aaron Beckendorf | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"centrifugal",
"dust collection",
"dust extractor",
"woodworking"
] | [Ruud], the creator of [Capturing Dust], started his
latest video
with what most of us would consider a solved problem: the dust collection system for his shop already had a three-stage centrifugal dust separator with more than 99.7% efficiency. This wasn’t quite as efficient as it could be, though, so [Ruud]’s latest ... | 15 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142542",
"author": "Tea",
"timestamp": "2025-06-26T23:26:01",
"content": "I really enjoyed this, thank you.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8142584",
"author": "KDawg",
"timestamp": "2025-06-27T03:55:04",
"content":... | 1,760,371,502.961437 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/26/linear-solar-chargers-for-lithium-capacitors/ | Linear Solar Chargers For Lithium Capacitors | Bryan Cockfield | [
"News"
] | [
"efficiency",
"linear regulator",
"lithium capacitor",
"low dropout",
"solar",
"switch mode",
"voltage regulator"
] | For as versatile and inexpensive as switch-mode power supplies are at all kinds of different tasks, they’re not always the ideal choice for every DC-DC circuit. Although they can do almost any job in this arena, they tend to have high parts counts, higher complexity, and higher cost than some alternatives. [Jasper]
set... | 24 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142519",
"author": "Carl Breen",
"timestamp": "2025-06-26T21:40:03",
"content": "This looks nice and I have a few questions: Most LDO have a current output limit. I Don’t know how an empty supercapacitor can be described/characterized. Would it be safe if one assumes it behaves lik... | 1,760,371,503.211614 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/26/rust-drives-a-linux-usb-device/ | Rust Drives A Linux USB Device | Al Williams | [
"Linux Hacks"
] | [
"libusb",
"linux",
"rust",
"usb"
] | In theory, writing a Linux device driver shouldn’t be that hard, but it is harder than it looks. However, using libusb, you can easily deal with USB devices from user space, which, for many purposes, is fine. [Crescentrose] didn’t know anything about writing user-space USB drivers until they
wrote one and documented i... | 13 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142483",
"author": "Joshua",
"timestamp": "2025-06-26T19:04:23",
"content": "Oh, okay. For a sec I thought Linux was ported to run on an USB hub.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8142502",
"author": "Rastersoft",
"timest... | 1,760,371,503.098252 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/26/announcing-the-2025-hackaday-one-hertz-challenge/ | Announcing The 2025 Hackaday One Hertz Challenge | Elliot Williams | [
"contests",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Slider"
] | [
"2025 Hackaday One Hertz Challenge",
"555",
"Clocks",
"standard"
] | It’s about time! Or maybe it’s about time’s reciprocal: frequency. Whichever way you see it, Hackaday is pleased to announce, just this very second, the
2025 One Hertz Challenge
over on Hackaday.io. If you’ve got a device that does
something
once per second, we’ve got the contest for you. And don’t delay, because the t... | 56 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142432",
"author": "CJay",
"timestamp": "2025-06-26T17:04:40",
"content": "I’m going to guess my Cesium atomic clock with its PPS output flashing a LED would be cheating?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8142438",
"aut... | 1,760,371,503.434522 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/26/how-to-make-a-beautiful-floral-keycap-using-resin/ | How To Make A Beautiful Floral Keycap Using Resin | John Elliot V | [
"Art",
"how-to"
] | [
"epoxy resin",
"keycap",
"UV resin"
] | Here’s a fun build. Over on their YouTube channel our hacker [Atasoy] shows us
how to make a custom floral keyboard keycap using resin
.
We begin by using an existing keycap as a pattern to make a mold. We plug the keycap with all-purpose adhesive paste so that we can attach it to a small sheet of Plexiglas, which ensu... | 8 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142414",
"author": "Albert",
"timestamp": "2025-06-26T16:01:12",
"content": "You know what they say, a beekeeper who can avoid the honeybees is called a beekeeper who can avoid the honeybees. Daren’t I use a keyboard made of resin which may negatively impact my health.",
"paren... | 1,760,371,503.366261 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/26/field-guide-to-the-north-american-weigh-station/ | Field Guide To The North American Weigh Station | Dan Maloney | [
"Engineering",
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Slider"
] | [
"axle",
"brake",
"Field Guide",
"flir",
"highway",
"infrastructure",
"inspection",
"ir",
"safety",
"scale",
"tire",
"truck",
"weigh-in-motion"
] | A lot of people complain that driving across the United States is boring. Having done the coast-to-coast trip seven times now, I can’t agree. Sure, the stretches through the Corn Belt get a little monotonous, but for someone like me who wants to know how everything works, even endless agriculture is fascinating; I love... | 39 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142387",
"author": "Rxvt",
"timestamp": "2025-06-26T14:35:33",
"content": "Is that a common distance between signs in the US?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8142392",
"author": "Beowulf Shaeffer",
"timestamp"... | 1,760,371,503.527574 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/26/pla-with-petg-core-filament-put-to-the-test/ | PLA With PETG Core Filament Put To The Test | Maya Posch | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"FDM",
"PETG",
"PLA"
] | The Stronghero 3D hybrid PLA PETG filament, with visible PETG core. (Credit: My Tech Fun, YouTube)
Sometimes you see an FDM filament pop up that makes you do a triple-take because it doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense. This is the case with a hybrid PLA/PETG filament by Stronghero 3D that features a PETG core. This f... | 27 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142348",
"author": "H Hack",
"timestamp": "2025-06-26T11:17:56",
"content": "Very thorough and informative video. I really like his test setup. It would be wonderful if the community could agree on a set of standardized tests which reputable manufacturers could perform and publish.... | 1,760,371,503.691629 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/26/revealing-the-last-mac-easter-egg/ | Revealing The Last Mac Easter Egg | Jenny List | [
"Mac Hacks"
] | [
"apple",
"easter egg",
"power mac g3"
] | A favourite thing for the developers behind a complex software project is to embed an Easter egg: something unexpected that can be revealed only by those in the know. Apple certainly had their share of them in their early days, a practice brought to a close by Steve Jobs on his return to the company. One of the last Ma... | 34 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142338",
"author": "Tim Andersson",
"timestamp": "2025-06-26T10:31:16",
"content": "The bitter irony is that most people today have no concept of using the computer and would not be able to extract this file even if they had the step-by-step instruction. Smartphones and tablets sho... | 1,760,371,503.764043 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/static-electricity-remembers/ | Static Electricity Remembers | Bryan Cockfield | [
"News"
] | [
"electricity",
"memory",
"STATIC",
"triboelectric",
"triboelectric series"
] | As humans we often think we have a pretty good handle on the basics of the way the world works, from an intuition about gravity good enough to let us walk around, play baseball, and land spacecraft on the moon, or an understanding of electricity good enough to build everything from indoor lighting to supercomputers. Bu... | 12 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142304",
"author": "Nath",
"timestamp": "2025-06-26T06:55:31",
"content": "So they developped a memory cell. I wonder whether it could be made into a logical element with the goald of a static electricity computer in mind",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
... | 1,760,371,503.62331 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/simulating-empires-with-procedurally-generated-history/ | Simulating Empires With Procedurally Generated History | Tyler August | [
"computer hacks",
"Games"
] | [
"history",
"procedurally generated",
"simulation"
] | Procedural generation is a big part of game design these days. Usually you generate your map, and [Fractal Philosophy] has decided to go one step further: using a procedurally-generated world from an older video, he is procedurally generating history by
simulating the rise and fall of empires on that map
in a video emb... | 11 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142310",
"author": "shinsukke",
"timestamp": "2025-06-26T07:30:14",
"content": "Way way cool! I haven’t watched the full video yet, but I can see the work that went into it.As a teenager/child one of my to-do projects was to make a global commodity trading simulator with thousands ... | 1,760,371,503.814604 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/ceramic-printing-techniques-for-plastic/ | Ceramic Printing Techniques For Plastic | Al Williams | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"blender",
"textured meshes"
] | [Claywoven] mostly prints with ceramics, although he does produce plastic inserts for functional parts in his designs. The ceramic parts have an interesting texture, and he wondered if the same techniques could work with plastics, too. It turns out
it can
, as you can see in the video below.
Ceramic printing, of course... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,371,503.852038 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/homebrew-pockels-cell-is-worth-the-wait/ | Homebrew Pockels Cell Is Worth The Wait | Dan Maloney | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"high voltage",
"indium tin oxide",
"ITO",
"KDP",
"laser",
"non-linear optics",
"polarization"
] | We haven’t seen any projects from serial experimenter [Les Wright] for quite a while, and honestly, we were getting a little worried about that. Turns out we needn’t have fretted, as [Les] was deep into
this exploration of the Pockels Effect
, with pretty cool results.
If you’ll recall, [Les]’s last appearance on these... | 11 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142227",
"author": "PWalsh",
"timestamp": "2025-06-25T21:30:13",
"content": "Suppose you wanted to make a neuron measuring device, you pass polarized light through a fiber optic strand, through a tiny crystal, and then back. Will the electric field in the medium near the neuron cau... | 1,760,371,503.91787 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/floss-weekly-episode-838-atomvm-and-the-full-stack-elixir-developer/ | FLOSS Weekly Episode 838: AtomVM And The Full Stack Elixir Developer | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Podcasts",
"Slider"
] | [
"FLOSS Weekly",
"kde",
"linux"
] | This week
Jonathan
chats with
Davide Bettio
and
Paul Guyot
about AtomVM! Why Elixir on embedded? And how!? And what is a full stack Elixir developer, anyways? Watch to find out!
https://atomvm.org/
https://github.com/atomvm/AtomVM
https://popcorn.swmansion.com/
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/multiplie/la-machine
... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,371,504.019798 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/the-tao-of-bespoke-electronics/ | The Tao Of Bespoke Electronics | Al Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Rants",
"Slider"
] | [
"commercial",
"homebrew",
"kits"
] | If you ever look at projects in an old magazine and compare them to today’s electronic projects, there’s at least one thing that will stand out. Most projects in “the old days” looked like something you built in your garage. Today, if you want to make something that rivals a commercial product, it isn’t nearly as big o... | 60 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142170",
"author": "miharix",
"timestamp": "2025-06-25T17:50:43",
"content": "Are those from “Popular Electronics” photos or are they drawings ? Or photos and hand retouched in darkroom ?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "81421... | 1,760,371,504.370474 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/mechanical-7-segment-display-combines-servos-and-lego/ | Mechanical 7-Segment Display Combines Servos And Lego | Lewin Day | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"lego",
"servo",
"seven segment display"
] | If you need a seven-segment display for a project, you could just grab some LED units off the shelf. Or you could build something big and electromechanical out of Lego. That’s precisely what [upir] did,
with attractive results.
The build relies on Lego Technic parts, with numbers displayed by pushing small black axles ... | 4 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142184",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2025-06-25T18:49:41",
"content": "Would it be “mechanical” if the segments were tubes, filling and emptying with a liquid?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8142190",
"author... | 1,760,371,504.122218 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/the-rise-and-the-fall-of-the-mail-chute/ | The Rise And The Fall Of The Mail Chute | Lewin Day | [
"Featured",
"History",
"Interest",
"Misc Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"mail",
"mail chute",
"us post office"
] | As the Industrial Age took the world by storm, city centers became burgeoning hubs of commerce and activity. New offices and apartments were built higher and higher as density increased and skylines grew ever upwards. One could live and work at height, but this created a simple inconvenience—if you wanted to send any m... | 17 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142128",
"author": "Jiminey",
"timestamp": "2025-06-25T14:33:31",
"content": "Good read. Thank you.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8142155",
"author": "robomonkey",
"timestamp": "2025-06-25T16:23:58",
"content": "T... | 1,760,371,504.184098 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/careful-design-lets-3d-print-emulate-kumiko/ | Careful Design Lets 3D Print Emulate Kumiko | Tyler August | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d print",
"kumiko"
] | Kumiko is a form of Japanese woodworking that uses small cuts of wood (probably offcuts) to produce artful designs. It’s the kind of thing that takes zen-like patience to assemble, and years to master– and who has time for that? [Paper View] likes the style of kumiko, but when all you have is a
3D printer, everything i... | 11 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142094",
"author": "RunnerPack",
"timestamp": "2025-06-25T11:41:54",
"content": "“…if enough of us comment on the video [Paper View] can be convinced to release the scad files…”I wonder if an LLM could be trained on the input parameters and the resulting model, and generate equival... | 1,760,371,504.419728 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/minecraft-clone-manages-with-nothing-but-html-css/ | Minecraft Clone Manages With Nothing But HTML + CSS | Donald Papp | [
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"css",
"html",
"minecraft"
] | Can a 3D Minecraft implementation be done entirely in CSS and HTML, without a single line of JavaScript in sight?
The answer is yes
!
True, this small clone is limited to playing with blocks in a world that measures only 9x9x9, but the fact that [Benjamin Aster] managed it at all using only CSS and pure HTML is a fanta... | 5 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142125",
"author": "freedomunit",
"timestamp": "2025-06-25T13:58:46",
"content": "That’s very impressive, bravo!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8142136",
"author": "Cad the Mad",
"timestamp": "2025-06-25T15:0... | 1,760,371,504.644678 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/hack-turns-nissan-leaf-into-giant-rc-car/ | Hack Turns Nissan Leaf Into Giant RC Car | Navarre Bartz | [
"car hacks"
] | [
"canbus",
"car net",
"electric vehicle",
"evs",
"infotainment",
"nissan",
"Nissan Leaf"
] | As cars increasingly become computers on wheels, the attack surface for digital malfeasance increases. The [PCAutomotive] group shared their exploit for turning the 2020 Nissan Leaf into
1600 kg RC car
at Black Hat Asia 2025.
Starting with some scavenged infotainment systems and wiring harnesses, the group built test b... | 29 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142041",
"author": "Miles",
"timestamp": "2025-06-25T05:31:28",
"content": "Infotainment and CANBUS should be air-gapped. That Slate truck is looking better all the time. (No infotainment as standard, can add an Android Auto screen from $20-40 on Amazon)",
"parent_id": null,
... | 1,760,371,504.484434 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/nrel-maps-out-us-data-infrastructure/ | NREL Maps Out US Data Infrastructure | Navarre Bartz | [
"computer hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"cartography",
"data infrastructure",
"fiber optic",
"maps"
] | Spending time as wee hackers perusing the family atlas taught us an appreciation for a good map, and [Billy Roberts], a cartographer at NREL, has served up a doozy with a
map of the data center infrastructure
in the United States. [via
LinkedIn
]
Fiber optic lines, electrical transmission capacity, and the data centers... | 13 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "8142023",
"author": "topham",
"timestamp": "2025-06-25T02:46:35",
"content": "Individually this type of data has a low, but not insignificant value.As a collection of data the value is exponentially more valuable.As a target. By your enemies.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,... | 1,760,371,504.532419 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/digitally-converted-leica-gets-a-64-megapixel-upgrade/ | Digitally-Converted Leica Gets A 64-Megapixel Upgrade | Lewin Day | [
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"arducam",
"arducam owlsight",
"camera",
"owlsight",
"raspberry pi"
] | Leica’s film cameras were hugely popular in the 20th century, and remain so with collectors to this day. [Michael Suguitan] has previously had great success converting his classic Leica into a digital one,
and now he’s taken the project even further.
[Michael’s] previous work
saw him create a so-called “digital back” f... | 26 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141988",
"author": "I Alone Possess The Truth",
"timestamp": "2025-06-25T00:01:21",
"content": "12 mm strikes me as short. Is that a factor in or caused by/relevant/necessary to the build?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "814... | 1,760,371,504.598294 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/pong-in-discrete-components/ | Pong In Discrete Components | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Games"
] | [
"discrete components",
"hardware",
"integrated circuits",
"pong",
"recreation",
"video game"
] | The choice between hardware and software for electronics projects is generally a straighforward one. For simple tasks we might build dedicated hardware circuits out of discrete components for reliability and low cost, but for more complex tasks it could be easier and cheaper to program a general purpose microcontroller... | 25 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141945",
"author": "J. Peterson",
"timestamp": "2025-06-24T20:14:59",
"content": "Google “original pong schematic” and it comes right up.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8141950",
"author": "Hugo Oran",
"times... | 1,760,371,504.765004 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/do-you-need-a-bench-meter/ | Do You Need A Bench Meter? | Al Williams | [
"Reviews",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"bench meter",
"bench multimeter",
"multimeter",
"owon"
] | If you do anything with electronics or electricity, it is a good bet you have a multimeter. Even the cheapest meter today would have been an incredible piece of lab gear not long ago and, often, meters today are lighter and have more features than the old Radio Shack meters we grew up with. But then there are bench met... | 14 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141928",
"author": "ted yapo",
"timestamp": "2025-06-24T19:11:46",
"content": "i have two of these. i bought them for the USB interface. it’s pretty trivial to automate measurements with your favorite programming language (python). they’re useful for automated measurements of thing... | 1,760,371,504.697739 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/announcing-the-2025-pet-hacks-winners/ | Announcing The 2025 Pet Hacks Winners | Elliot Williams | [
"contests",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Slider"
] | [
"2025 Pet Hacks Contest",
"challenge"
] | When you really love your pawed, feathered, or scaled friends, you build projects for them. (Well, anyway, that’s what’s happened to us.) For the
2025 Pet Hacks Challenge
, we asked you to share your favorite pet-related hacks, and you all delivered. So without further ado, here are our favorites, as well as the picks-... | 9 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141909",
"author": "CJay",
"timestamp": "2025-06-24T17:37:05",
"content": "Somebody missed a trick by not letting their pet Gecko buy stocks…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8141925",
"author": "Elliot Williams",
... | 1,760,371,504.823735 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/why-trijets-lost-against-twinjets/ | Why Trijets Lost Against Twinjets | Maya Posch | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [] | If you’re designing a new jet-powered airplane, one of the design considerations is the number of jet engines you will put on it. Over the course of history we have seen everywhere from a single engine, all the way up to four and beyond, with today airliners usually having two engines aside from the Boeing 747 and Airb... | 35 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141871",
"author": "moeb",
"timestamp": "2025-06-24T15:36:13",
"content": "ETOPS – Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8142049",
"author": "Thijzert",
"timestamp": "2025-06-25T06:23... | 1,760,371,504.896213 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/mining-and-refining-drilling-and-blasting/ | Mining And Refining: Drilling And Blasting | Dan Maloney | [
"Engineering",
"Featured",
"News",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [] | It’s an inconvenient fact that most of Earth’s largesse of useful minerals is locked up in, under, and around a lot of rock. Our little world condensed out of the remnants of stars whose death throes cooked up almost every element in the periodic table, and in the intervening billions of years, those elements have sort... | 22 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141863",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2025-06-24T14:32:32",
"content": "A good article on “drill, baby, drill”. Followed by “blast, baby, blast” and “scoop, baby, scoop”.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8141866",
"au... | 1,760,371,504.989053 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/is-box-turtle-the-open-source-ams-weve-been-waiting-for/ | Is Box Turtle The Open Source AMS We’ve Been Waiting For? | Tyler August | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"Box Turtle",
"klipper",
"MMU",
"Multi material extrusion",
"multimaterial"
] | Multimaterial printing was not invented by BambuLabs, but love them or hate them the AMS has become the gold standard for a modern multi-material unit. [Daniel]’s
latest Mod Bot video on the Box Turtle MMU
(embedded below) highlights an open source project that aims to bring the power and ease of AMS to Voron printers,... | 26 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141836",
"author": "easy",
"timestamp": "2025-06-24T12:48:04",
"content": "It would be nice if you told us what AMS stands for and also why it is the gold standard / how does it compare to other standards?I bought a dual filament in single nozzle out hotend for my ender 3 for 40 bu... | 1,760,371,505.194868 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/theres-a-new-reusable-rocket-and-its-a-honda/ | There’s A New Reusable Rocket, And It’s A Honda | Jenny List | [
"Space"
] | [
"Honda",
"reusable",
"rocket"
] | As we watched the latest SpaceX Starship rocket test end in a spectacular explosion, we might have missed the news from Japan of a different rocket passing a successful test. We all know Honda as a car company but it seems they are in the rocket business too, and
they successfully tested a reusable rocket
. It’s an exp... | 18 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141800",
"author": "M",
"timestamp": "2025-06-24T10:07:51",
"content": "Cars, motorbikes, robots, rockets, plenty of other stuff too.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8141813",
"author": "SpillsDirt",
"timestam... | 1,760,371,505.426131 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/23/building-a-custom-paper-tape-punch-machine/ | Building A Custom Paper Tape Punch Machine | Maya Posch | [
"computer hacks"
] | [
"paper tape",
"punched tape"
] | The solenoid and punch side of the machine. {Credit: Simon Boak)
Although [Simon Boak] had no use for an automatic paper tape punch, this was one of those intrusive project thoughts that
had to be put to rest
. With not a lot of DIY projects to look at, the first step was to prototype a punch mechanism that would work ... | 14 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141815",
"author": "Michael Gardi",
"timestamp": "2025-06-24T11:04:43",
"content": "The retro computer community needed something like this. While DIY paper tape readers are pretty common, punches being a much harder problem are not. Well done.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth":... | 1,760,371,505.106263 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/23/add-touchtone-typing-to-your-next-project/ | Add TouchTone Typing To Your Next Project | Al Williams | [
"Software Development"
] | [
"keyboard",
"phone keyboard",
"T9"
] | The Blackberry made phones with real keyboards popular, and smartphones with touch keyboards made that input method the default. However, the old flip phone crowd had just a few telephone keys to work with. If you have a key-limited project, maybe check out the
libt9
library from [FoxMoss].
There were two methods for u... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141810",
"author": "Elliot Williams",
"timestamp": "2025-06-24T10:42:29",
"content": "Now that we have computing power to spare everywhere, a really good T9 like system (maybe with context awareness?) should totally be possible.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies... | 1,760,371,505.245472 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/23/modern-tech-meets-retro-7-segment/ | Modern Tech Meets Retro 7-Segment | Matt Varian | [
"hardware"
] | [
"7-segment display",
"ESP32",
"open source",
"PCB coil"
] | At one point in time mechanical seven segment displays were ubiquitous, over time many places have replaced them with other types of displays. [Sebastian] has a soft spot for these old mechanically actuated displays and has built an open-source
7-segment display
with some very nice features.
We’ve seen a good number of... | 7 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141814",
"author": "Niklas",
"timestamp": "2025-06-24T10:54:38",
"content": "That’s a neat design and the daisy-chaining is awesome.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8141983",
"author": "m1ke",
"timestamp": "20... | 1,760,371,505.948571 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/23/casting-time-exploded-watch-in-resin/ | Casting Time: Exploded Watch In Resin | Matt Varian | [
"Art"
] | [
"epoxy resin",
"mechanical watch"
] | We’ve all seen the exploded view of complex things, which CAD makes possible, but it’s much harder to levitate parts in their relative positions in the real world. That, however, is exactly what [fellerts] has done with this
wristwatch
, frozen in time and place.
Inspired by another great project
explaining the working... | 12 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141668",
"author": "Garr",
"timestamp": "2025-06-23T20:45:11",
"content": "Surely there is a better photo of the piece?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8141747",
"author": "Brian",
"timestamp": "2025-06-24T01:... | 1,760,371,505.291807 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/23/keep-track-of-the-compost-with-lorawan/ | Keep Track Of The Compost With LoRaWAN | Tyler August | [
"classic hacks",
"home hacks"
] | [
"compost",
"CubeCell AB01",
"DS18B20",
"LoRaWAN",
"solar panel",
"temperature sensor"
] | Composting doesn’t seem difficult: pile up organic matter, let it rot. In practice, however, it’s a bit more complicated– if you want that sweet, sweet soil amendment in a reasonable amount of time, and to make sure any food-born pathogens and weed seeds don’t come through, you need a “hot” compost pile. How to tell if... | 8 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141643",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2025-06-23T18:37:40",
"content": "Use a smart nose to tell if it’s earthy or sweet.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8141665",
"author": "Tony M",
"timestamp": "2025-06-23T20:... | 1,760,371,505.470298 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/23/video-game-preservation-through-decompilation/ | Video Game Preservation Through Decompilation | Tom Nardi | [
"Games",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Reverse Engineering",
"Slider",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"classic games",
"decompilation",
"decompile",
"emulation",
"reverse engineering"
] | Unlike computer games, which smoothly and continuously evolved along with the hardware that powered them, console games have up until very recently been constrained by a generational style of development. Sure there were games that appeared on multiple platforms, and eventually newer consoles would feature backwards co... | 18 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141673",
"author": "WTF Detector",
"timestamp": "2025-06-23T20:57:36",
"content": "It’s fairly common for games to look, sound, and even play slightly differently when under emulation than they did when running on real hardware.Citation very much needed.Foreword: I’ve worked in the... | 1,760,371,505.588674 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/23/head-to-print-head-cnc-vs-fdm/ | Head To Print Head: CNC Vs FDM | Tyler August | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"cnc hacks"
] | [
"3d print",
"CNC machine",
"comparisons"
] | It’s a question new makers often ask: “Should I start with a CNC machine or a 3D Printer?”– or, once you have both, every project gets the question “Should I use my CNC or 3D printer?” — and the answer is to both is, of course, “it depends”. In the video embedded below by [NeedItMakeIt] you can see a head-to-head compa... | 18 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141609",
"author": "threeve",
"timestamp": "2025-06-23T16:19:47",
"content": "In my shop, the fact that FDM has basically zero set-up is why my 3D printer gets used more. Wood can be pretty cheap, but you’ll need to store it somewhere, cut it up into router or laser cutter sized pi... | 1,760,371,505.525973 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/23/eulogy-for-the-satellite-phone/ | Eulogy For The Satellite Phone | Al Williams | [
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Original Art",
"Phone Hacks",
"Slider",
"Space"
] | [
"inmarsat",
"iridium",
"satcom",
"satellite phone"
] | We take it for granted that we almost always have cell service, no matter where you go around town. But there are places — the desert, the forest, or the ocean — where you might not have cell service. In addition, there are certain jobs where you must be able to make a call even if the cell towers are down, for example... | 54 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141571",
"author": "M",
"timestamp": "2025-06-23T14:20:48",
"content": "Pretty sure a lot of new phones are getting satellite-based texting now.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8141589",
"author": "Allen",
"ti... | 1,760,371,505.683296 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/22/giving-a-drum-midi-input-with-lots-of-solenoids/ | Giving A Drum MIDI Input With Lots Of Solenoids | Aaron Beckendorf | [
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"arduino drummer",
"Ardunio",
"drum",
"drum controller",
"solenoids"
] | As far as giving mechanical instruments electronic control goes, drums are probably the best candidate for conversion; learning to play them is challenging and loud for a human, but they’re a straightforward matter for a microcontroller. [Jeremy Cook]’s
latest project
takes this approach by using an Arduino Opta to pla... | 7 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141309",
"author": "ian 42",
"timestamp": "2025-06-22T22:19:39",
"content": "all that building, then no proper demo of it working…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8141332",
"author": "Jeremy Cook",
"timestamp"... | 1,760,371,505.732191 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/22/repairing-an-old-tektronix-tds8000-scope/ | Repairing An Old Tektronix TDS8000 Scope | John Elliot V | [
"classic hacks",
"computer hacks",
"hardware",
"Repair Hacks"
] | [
"oscilloscope",
"repair",
"Tektronix CSA8000",
"Tektronix TDS8000",
"time-domain reflectometry"
] | Over on his YouTube channel our hacker [CircuitValley]
repairs an old TDS8000 scope
.
The TDS8000 was manufactured by Tektronix circa 2001 and was also marketed as the CSA8000 Communications Signal Analyzer as well as the TDS8000 Digital Sampling Oscilloscope. Tektronix is no longer manufacturing and selling these scop... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141709",
"author": "Splud",
"timestamp": "2025-06-23T22:08:44",
"content": "What, No 555?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8141722",
"author": "Chris",
"timestamp": "2025-06-23T22:37:23",
"content": "Yea, all my rpi... | 1,760,371,505.772191 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/22/an-adaptive-soundtrack-for-bike-tricks/ | An Adaptive Soundtrack For Bike Tricks | Aaron Beckendorf | [
"Musical Hacks",
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"bicycle",
"bike",
"ESP32-S3",
"hall effect sensor",
"inertial measurement unit",
"music"
] | If you’ve put in all the necessary practice to learn bike tricks, you’d probably like an appropriately dramatic soundtrack to accompany your stunts. A team of students working on a capstone project at the University of Washington took this natural desire a step further with the
Music Bike
, a system that generates adap... | 7 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141129",
"author": "zamorano",
"timestamp": "2025-06-22T09:02:16",
"content": "This is groundbreaking in many ways, at least for me. Just the idea of having an interactive soundtrack that reacts to what you’re currently doing could be a whole new thing – and, of course, an excuse t... | 1,760,371,505.823653 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/21/tamagotchi-torture-chamber-is-equal-parts-nostalgia-and-sadism/ | Tamagotchi Torture Chamber Is Equal Parts Nostalgia And Sadism | Tyler August | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"accelerometer",
"ece 4760",
"pi pico",
"soft physics",
"tamagotchi",
"TFT LCD"
] | Coming in hot from Cornell University, students [Amanda Huang], [Caroline Hohner], and [Rhea Goswami] bring a project that is guaranteed to tickle the funny bone of anyone in the under-40 set, and sadists of all ages: The
Tamagochi Torture Chamber.
He’s dead, Jim.
In case you somehow missed it, Bandai’s Tamagochi is a ... | 8 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141076",
"author": "LordNothing",
"timestamp": "2025-06-22T05:29:13",
"content": "i usually just break out people playground when im feeling psychopathic.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8141206",
"author": "Cogidubnu... | 1,760,371,506.002699 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/21/replacing-crude-oil-fractional-distillation-with-microporous-polyimine-membranes/ | Replacing Crude Oil Fractional Distillation With Microporous Polyimine Membranes | Maya Posch | [
"Science"
] | [
"crude oil",
"distillation",
"fractional",
"reverse osmosis"
] | Currently the typical way that crude oil is processed involves a fractional distillation column, in which heated crude oil is separated into the various hydrocarbon compounds using distinct boiling points. This requires the addition of significant thermal energy and is thus fairly energy intensive. A possible alternati... | 12 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141034",
"author": "eriklscott",
"timestamp": "2025-06-22T03:09:01",
"content": "Fractional distillation is rarely used anymore. Almost all fuel “refining” is done with Catalytic Crackers. Not unlike the catalytic converter in a car breaking down unburned gasoline, crackers take cr... | 1,760,371,506.815467 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/21/eu-ecodesign-for-smartphones-including-right-to-repair-now-in-effect/ | EU Ecodesign For Smartphones Including Right To Repair Now In Effect | Maya Posch | [
"News",
"Repair Hacks"
] | [
"European Union",
"ewaste",
"right to repair"
] | Starting June 20th
, any cordless phone, smartphone, or feature phone, as well as tablets (7 – 17.4″ screens) have to meet Ecodesign requirements. In addition there is now mandatory registration with the European Product Registry for Energy Labelling (EPREL). The only exception are phones and tablets with a flexible (r... | 83 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140970",
"author": "Agammamon",
"timestamp": "2025-06-21T23:18:08",
"content": "In other words – there goes innovation because everything will have to be decided by EU bureaucrats while you still won’t get repairability.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
... | 1,760,371,506.504331 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/21/converting-an-e-paper-photo-frame-into-weather-map/ | Converting An E-Paper Photo Frame Into Weather Map | John Elliot V | [
"Art",
"hardware",
"Microcontrollers",
"Raspberry Pi",
"Software Hacks",
"Tech Hacks"
] | [
"e-ink",
"e-paper",
"Raspberry Pi Pico",
"weather map"
] | Here’s a great hack sent in to us from [Simon]. He uses an e-paper photo frame
as a weather map
!
By now you are probably aware of e-paper technology, which is very low power tech for displaying images. E-paper only uses energy when it changes its display, it doesn’t draw power to maintain a picture it has already rend... | 6 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140978",
"author": "alialiali",
"timestamp": "2025-06-22T00:00:42",
"content": "This would be perfect to display updated WEFAX images!I’ve never gotten decent automation for it (poorly synced transmissions just delete images), even when I’ve carefully tuned it (usually for the Germ... | 1,760,371,506.059476 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/23/earths-oxygen-levels-and-magnetic-field-strength-show-strong-correlation/ | Earth’s Oxygen Levels And Magnetic Field Strength Show Strong Correlation | Maya Posch | [
"Science",
"Space"
] | [
"earth",
"geomagnetic",
"oxygen"
] | Time series of O2 (blue) and VGADM (red). (Credit:
Weijia Kuang
, Science Advances, 2025)
In an Earth-sized take on the age-old ‘correlation or causality’ question, researchers have
come across a fascinating match
between Earth’s magnetic field and its oxygen levels since the Cambrian explosion, about 500 million years... | 19 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141491",
"author": "Harvie.CZ",
"timestamp": "2025-06-23T11:13:06",
"content": "Both magnetic field and oxygen leves can be affected by changes in earth core (eg. temperature?), maybe that is the original cause…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
... | 1,760,371,508.699625 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/23/visual-code-generator-to-end-all-generators/ | Visual Code Generator To End All Generators | Ian Bos | [
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"barcode hacking",
"barcode scanner",
"organization",
"QR codes",
"web app"
] | QR codes are something that we all take for granted in this day and age. There are even a million apps to create your own QR codes, but what if you want to make a barcode? How about making a specific kind of barcode that follows UPC-E, CODE 39, or even the infamous… CODABAR? Well, it might be more difficult to find a s... | 20 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141444",
"author": "Carl Breen",
"timestamp": "2025-06-23T09:43:33",
"content": "In SVG or PNG mode either the icon or the QR is blurred. Naturally in PNG mode neither should be blurred since it is lossless. Other than that, thanks for an amazing tool!",
"parent_id": null,
... | 1,760,371,508.49645 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/22/ai-piano-teacher-to-criticize-your-every-move/ | AI Piano Teacher To Criticize Your Every Move | Ian Bos | [
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"AI model",
"instructable",
"machine vision",
"piano hack",
"rasberry pi"
] | Learning new instruments is never a simple task on your own; nothing can beat the instant feedback of a teacher. In our new age of AI, why not have an AI companion complain when you’re off note? This is exactly what [Ada López] put together with their
AI-Powered Piano Trainer
.
The basics of the piano rely on rather si... | 15 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141397",
"author": "Gible Fog",
"timestamp": "2025-06-23T06:11:27",
"content": "Bet it can’t crush your fingers the way my piano teacher used to though.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8141404",
"author": "Harvie.CZ",
"... | 1,760,371,508.808644 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/22/3d-print-glass-using-accessible-techniques/ | 3D Print Glass, Using Accessible Techniques | Jenny List | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d printed glass",
"glass",
"sodium silicate",
"waterglass"
] | When seeing a story from MIT’s Lincoln Labs that promises 3D printing glass, our first reaction was that it might use some rare or novel chemicals, and certainly a super-high-tech printer. Perhaps it was some form of high-temperature laser sintering, unlikely to be within the reach of mere mortals. How wrong we were, b... | 21 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141362",
"author": "ganzuul",
"timestamp": "2025-06-23T04:28:34",
"content": "Deep eutectics are wild. Would love to see if these can be used as molds for casting metal with household microwave ovens.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_... | 1,760,371,508.981663 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/22/hackaday-links-june-22-2025/ | Hackaday Links: June 22, 2025 | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackaday links",
"Slider"
] | [
"asciimation",
"automaton",
"chatbot",
"ChatGPT",
"ecu",
"education",
"firmware",
"hackaday links",
"LLM",
"mtrek 1701",
"retrotechtacular",
"reverse engineering",
"robot",
"telnet"
] | Hold onto your hats, everyone — there’s stunning news afoot. It’s hard to believe, but it looks like
over-reliance on chatbots to do your homework can turn your brain into pudding
. At least that seems to be the conclusion of
a preprint paper
out of the MIT Media Lab, which looked at 54 adults between the ages of 18 an... | 16 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141319",
"author": "Colin",
"timestamp": "2025-06-22T23:45:11",
"content": "I did a double-take at Elektro who was the thumbnail image for this post in my RSS reader. “Is that Thinko the robot from Beauty and the Robot (better known as Sex Kittens Go to College)?” Indeed it was. I’... | 1,760,371,509.032027 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/22/has-a-nuke-gone-off-indicator/ | Has A Nuke Gone Off? Indicator | Ian Bos | [
"Current Events",
"hardware",
"Weapons Hacks"
] | [
"ESP32",
"global thermonuclear war",
"micropython",
"neon bulb",
"nuclear blast",
"nuke"
] | Look out of a window, ask yourself the question, “Has a nuke gone off?”. Maybe, maybe not, and all of us here at Hackaday need to know the answer to these important questions! Introducing the
hasanukegoneoff.com Indicator
from [bigcrimping] to answer our cries.
An ESP32 running a MicroPython script handles the critical... | 23 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141299",
"author": "JT",
"timestamp": "2025-06-22T20:31:11",
"content": "Wasn’t this already covered this past week?https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/bhangmeterv2-answers-the-question-has-a-nuke-gone-off/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comm... | 1,760,371,508.922455 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/22/photogrammetry-takes-to-the-skies/ | Photogrammetry Takes To The Skies | Seth Mabbott | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"drone hacks"
] | [
"3d printed house",
"Photogrammetry"
] | Maybe your goal is to preserve the heyday of rail travel with a precise scale replica of a particular railroad station. Maybe you’re making a hyper-local edition of Monopoly in which the houses and hotels are the actual houses and hotels in your hometown.
Whatever the reason, if you have need for shrinkifying a buildin... | 14 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "8141253",
"author": "Leszek Pawlowicz",
"timestamp": "2025-06-22T18:11:47",
"content": "AutoDesk Recap only offers full features for a month-long trial, then defaults to a limited free version; full version is super expensive. Better to use Reality Scan (https://www.realityscan.com/... | 1,760,371,508.545111 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/21/retrotechtacular-1970s-radio/ | Retrotechtacular: 1970s Radio | Al Williams | [
"Retrotechtacular"
] | [
"radio",
"retrotechtacular",
"training film"
] | Before YouTube, you had to watch your educational videos on film. In the 1970s, if you studied radio, you might have seen the video from Universal Education and Visual Arts, titled
Understanding
Electronics Basic Radio Circuitry
. The video’s been restored, and it appears on the [CHAP] YouTube channel.
The video starts... | 10 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140897",
"author": "Jon H",
"timestamp": "2025-06-21T17:34:40",
"content": "Sounds like Alex Trebek, who was Canadian, so…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8140937",
"author": "fabo",
"timestamp": "2025-06-21T20:31:08",
... | 1,760,371,508.855809 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/21/measurement-is-science/ | Measurement Is Science | Elliot Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Rants",
"Science"
] | [
"magnets",
"measurement",
"quantification",
"science"
] | I was watching Ben Krasnow
making iron nitride permanent magnets
and was struck by the fact that about half of the video was about making a magnetometer – a device for measuring and characterizing the magnet that he’d just made. This is really the difference between doing science and just messing around: if you want to... | 22 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140870",
"author": "baltar",
"timestamp": "2025-06-21T15:10:23",
"content": "And…?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8140908",
"author": "HaHa",
"timestamp": "2025-06-21T18:09:50",
"content": "They reall... | 1,760,371,508.758937 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/21/tiny-tellurium-orbits-atop-a-pencil/ | Tiny Tellurium Orbits Atop A Pencil | Tyler August | [
"classic hacks",
"Space"
] | [
"brass",
"clockwork",
"CNC machined",
"tellurium"
] | We like scale models here, but how small can you shrink the very large? If you’re [Frans], it’s pretty small indeed: his
Micro Tellurium fits the orbit of the Earth on top of an ordinary pencil
. While you’ll often see models of Earth, Moon and Sun’s orbital relationship called “Orrery”, that’s word should technically ... | 7 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140867",
"author": "thestoneburner",
"timestamp": "2025-06-21T15:08:26",
"content": "I think the name is wrong, at least according to the wikipedia, tellurium is a element, the astronomical device is called a tellurion:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellurion",
"parent_id": null... | 1,760,371,508.375496 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/21/if-your-kernel-development-is-a-little-rusty/ | If Your Kernel Development Is A Little Rusty | Al Williams | [
"Linux Hacks",
"Software Development"
] | [
"kernel",
"linux",
"rust"
] | To paraphrase an old joke: How do you know if someone is a Rust developer? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you. There is a move to put Rust everywhere, even in the Linux kernel. Not going fast enough for you? Then check out
Asterinas
— an effort to create a Linux-compatible kernel totally in Rust.
The goal is to improve memo... | 40 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140806",
"author": "shinsukke",
"timestamp": "2025-06-21T09:20:28",
"content": "This is what Rust programmers should have done from the beginning. Rewrite it in Rust!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8140858",
"author"... | 1,760,371,509.1097 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/20/the-most-satisfying-way-to-commit/ | The Most Satisfying Way To Commit | Tyler August | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"classic hacks"
] | [
"front panel",
"Git",
"macro pad",
"silicone"
] | Have you ever finished up a bit of code and thought that typing “git push” in a terminal is just not a satisfying finish? So did [penumbriel], so he built
a big red button he could smash instead
.
This is a very simple hack: an Arduino sits inside a 3D-printed case that holds a big, red button. The case itself is very ... | 8 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140783",
"author": "Randlin",
"timestamp": "2025-06-21T05:40:33",
"content": "I love this",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8140785",
"author": "MinorHavoc",
"timestamp": "2025-06-21T05:56:08",
"content": "Nice, but t... | 1,760,371,509.198994 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/20/eliza-reanimated/ | ELIZA Reanimated | Al Williams | [
"Artificial Intelligence",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"chatbot",
"eliza"
] | The last time we checked in with the ELIZA archeology project, they had unearthed the earliest known copy of the code for the infamous computer psychiatrist written in MAD-SLIP. After a lot of work, that version is now
running again
, and there were a number of interesting surprises.
While chatbots are all the modern r... | 7 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140796",
"author": "Jeff Shrager",
"timestamp": "2025-06-21T07:40:16",
"content": "Thanks for highlighting this. FYI, we’re next working on reanimating Simon, Newell, and Shaw’s Logic Theory Machine and other of the earliest true AIs, written at RAND and CMU in IPL-V in the 1950s. ... | 1,760,371,509.152706 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/20/pva-filament-not-always-what-it-seems/ | PVA Filament: Not Always What It Seems | Maya Posch | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"PVA",
"PVA glue"
] | PVA filament with a core. (Credit: Lost In Tech)
PVA filament is an interesting filament type, for the reason that while it can be printed with any FDM printer, it supposedly readily dissolves in water, which is also the reason why PVA glue sticks are so popular when doing crafts and arts with young children. This prop... | 6 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140769",
"author": "M",
"timestamp": "2025-06-21T02:00:18",
"content": "This is a neat video, but man is it confusing what filament you’re talking about at different times. Really could have benefited from a summery of what brand had what pros/cons/properties/whatever. Which one to... | 1,760,371,509.60277 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/20/building-diode-and-diode-transistor-logic-gates/ | Building Diode And Diode-Transistor Logic Gates | Maya Posch | [
"how-to"
] | [
"diode-transistor logic",
"DTL",
"logic gates"
] | AND gate implemented as diode-resistor logic. (Credit: Anthony Francis-Jones)
The fun part about logic gates is that there are so many ways to make them, with each approach having its own advantages and disadvantages. Although these days transistor-transistor logic (TTL) is the most common, diode-transistor logic (DTL)... | 7 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140737",
"author": "willaim",
"timestamp": "2025-06-20T21:50:17",
"content": "A rather demonstration system?Rather advanced, enemic, ingenious?Also what is VLSIYou did well with defining the others..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment... | 1,760,371,509.555163 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/20/all-you-need-to-know-about-photographic-lenses/ | All You Need To Know About Photographic Lenses | Jenny List | [
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"camera design",
"lens",
"lens design"
] | If you have ever played around with lenses, you’ll know that a convex lens can focus an image onto a target. It can be as simple as focusing the sun with a magnifying glass to burn a hole in a piece of paper, but to achieve the highest quality images in a camera there is a huge amount of optical engineering and physics... | 12 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140722",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2025-06-20T19:25:35",
"content": "You guys must be reading my mind:“The ideas behind analog gravity systems, especially those that manipulate wave propagation through media, could indeed inspire new types of lenses or wave-guiding materi... | 1,760,371,509.461181 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/20/hackaday-podcast-episode-325-the-laugh-track-machine-diy-usb-c-power-cables-and-plastic-punches/ | Hackaday Podcast Episode 325: The Laugh Track Machine, DIY USB-C Power Cables, And Plastic Punches | Al Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Podcasts"
] | [
"Hackaday Podcast"
] | This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Al Williams caught up after a week-long hiatus. There was a lot to talk about, including clocks, DIY USB cables, and more.
In Hackaday news,
the 2025 Pet Hacks Contest
is a wrap. Winners will be announced soon, so stay tuned. Meanwhile, how’d you like a free ticket to attend Su... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140728",
"author": "A European not grown up on laughtracks",
"timestamp": "2025-06-20T20:38:49",
"content": "Haven’t listened to this yet, I will probably do that during the coming work week, but I read the article about the canned laughter, and got a worrying thought:How much has ... | 1,760,371,509.504067 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/20/pi-pico-powers-parts-bin-audio-interface/ | Pi Pico Powers Parts-Bin Audio Interface | Tyler August | [
"digital audio hacks",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"adc",
"Paspberry Pi Pico",
"usb audio"
] | USB audio is great, but what if you needed to use it and had no budget? Well, depending on the contents of your parts bin, you might be able to use
[Veyniac]’s Pico-Audio-Interface
as a free (and libre! It’s GPL3.0) sound capture device.
In the
project’s Reddit thread,
[Veyniac] describes needing audio input for his ho... | 10 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140659",
"author": "Clara Hobbs",
"timestamp": "2025-06-20T16:03:28",
"content": "I’m not sure what kind of “USB noise” the original poster is talking about. Power noise, perhaps? If that’s it, that would likely be better dealt with by power filtering.Amusing too that the OP built ... | 1,760,371,509.69986 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/20/this-week-in-security-that-time-i-caused-a-9-5-cve-ios-spyware-and-the-day-the-internet-went-down/ | This Week In Security: That Time I Caused A 9.5 CVE, IOS Spyware, And The Day The Internet Went Down | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"News",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"Meshtastic",
"spyware",
"This Week in Security"
] | Meshtastic just released
an eye-watering 9.5 CVSS CVE
, warning about public/private keys being re-used among devices. And I’m the one that wrote the code. Not to mention, I triaged and fixed it. And I’m part of Meshtastic Solutions, the company associated with the project. This is is the story of how we got here, and ... | 18 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140631",
"author": "Otis Rowell",
"timestamp": "2025-06-20T14:20:22",
"content": "Just wanted to leave a comment saying how much I enjoy reading this series weekly. While I’m not a hardcore security researcher, it’s really nice knowing some of the larger attacks floating around, es... | 1,760,371,510.020321 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/20/spiral-connector-makes-fastener-free-assemblies/ | Spiral Connector Makes Fastener-Free Assemblies | Donald Papp | [
"Art",
"classic hacks"
] | [
"3d printed",
"golden ratio",
"golden spiral",
"sculpture",
"spiral"
] | [Anton Gaia]’s SPIRAL sculpture resembles an organizer or modern shelving unit, but what’s really interesting is how it goes together. It’s made entirely from assembling copies of a single component (two, if you count the short ‘end pieces’ as separate) without a fastener in sight.
[Anton] made the 3D model available
,... | 11 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140612",
"author": "Andy",
"timestamp": "2025-06-20T13:10:05",
"content": "I wonder if you could use this for creating mazes for robots / small critters to explore?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8140625",
"author": "Brain... | 1,760,371,509.652592 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/20/bento-is-an-all-in-one-computer-designed-to-be-useful/ | Bento Is An All-In-One Computer Designed To Be Useful | Jenny List | [
"computer hacks",
"Cyberdecks"
] | [
"all-in-one",
"cyberdeck",
"steam deck"
] | All-in-one computers in which the mainboard lurked beneath a keyboard were once the default in home computing, but more recently they have been relegated to interesting niche devices such as the Raspberry Pi 400 and 500.
The Bento is another take on the idea
, coming at it not with the aim of replacing a desktop machin... | 23 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140555",
"author": "Mrroland",
"timestamp": "2025-06-20T08:10:52",
"content": "Same article?https://hackaday.com/2025/06/15/bento-vr-xr-from-a-keyboard/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8140587",
"author": "iAmNotADog.... | 1,760,371,509.847064 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/19/mac-se-restomod-has-a-floppy-surprise/ | Mac SE Restomod Has A Floppy Surprise | Tyler August | [
"computer hacks"
] | [
"Macintosh SE",
"restomod",
"retrocomputer"
] | If he’s anything like us [Duncan Hall] was probably equal parts excited and disgusted when he found a 1987 Macintosh SE case at a garage sale. Excited, because not every day do vintage computers show up at these things. Disgusted, because it had been gutted and coated in house paint; the previous owner apparently wante... | 20 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140537",
"author": "TG",
"timestamp": "2025-06-20T05:19:58",
"content": "Floppy surprise? C’mon you can’t set people up like that",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8140541",
"author": "flipperpi",
"timestamp": "2025-06-20... | 1,760,371,509.959817 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/19/ben-eater-makes-computer-noises/ | Ben Eater Makes Computer Noises | John Elliot V | [
"digital audio hacks",
"hardware",
"Microcontrollers",
"Retrocomputing",
"Software Development",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"6502 microprocessor",
"Ben Eater",
"computer noises",
"W65C22 Versatile Interface Adapter"
] | When [Ben Eater] talks, hackers everywhere listen. In his latest video [Ben] shows us
how to make computer noises using square waves and a 6502 microprocessor
.
[Ben] uses the timer in the
W65C22 Versatile Interface Adapter
to generate the square waves which generate a tone. He then adds support for a new
BEEP
command ... | 7 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140529",
"author": "Gravis",
"timestamp": "2025-06-20T03:47:13",
"content": "I’m disappointed that he didn’t actually make the computer noises. I wanted some beatboxing.This guy gets it!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "814062... | 1,760,371,509.896003 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/19/build-your-own-telescope-the-modern-way/ | Build Your Own Telescope The Modern Way | Al Williams | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Science",
"Space"
] | [
"3d printed telescope",
"telescope"
] | When we were kids, it was a rite of passage to read the newly arrived Edmund catalog and dream of building our own telescope. One of our friends lived near a University, and they even had a summer program that would help you measure your mirrors and ensure you had a successful build. But most of us never ground mirrors... | 37 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140492",
"author": "TG",
"timestamp": "2025-06-19T23:05:23",
"content": "…So not PLA, what’s the suggested material? ABS? PETG? Some stupid exotic filament?Looked through a couple linked pages, one translated from French, and no real mention of what WAS used to print this.What’s th... | 1,760,371,510.094528 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/19/fission-simulator-melts-down-rp2040/ | Fission Simulator Melts Down RP2040 | Tyler August | [
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"ece 4760",
"nuclear fusion",
"Paspberry Pi Pico",
"physics demonstrations"
] | We’ve seen a lot of projects based on the Pi Pico, but a nuclear reactor simulation is a new one. This project was created by [Andrew Shim], [Tyler Wisniewski] and another group member for Cornell’s ECE 4760 class on embedded design (which should silence naysayers who think the Pi Pico can’t be a “serious” microcontrol... | 10 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140465",
"author": "Anonymus",
"timestamp": "2025-06-19T20:56:07",
"content": "This reminds me of Chernobyl: The Legacy Continues on Windows 95",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8140467",
"author": "Greg A",
"timestamp": ... | 1,760,371,510.139574 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/19/dual-rgb-cameras-get-depth-sensing-powerup/ | Dual RGB Cameras Get Depth Sensing Powerup | Donald Papp | [
"digital cameras hacks",
"Machine Learning"
] | [
"depth camera",
"depth sensor",
"dual RGB",
"point cloud"
] | It’s sometimes useful for a system to not just have a flat 2D camera view of things, but to have an understanding of the
depth
of a scene. Dual RGB cameras can be used to sense depth by contrasting the two slightly different views, in much the same way that our own eyes work. It’s considered an economical but limited m... | 17 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140441",
"author": "RetepV",
"timestamp": "2025-06-19T19:45:02",
"content": "Oh Deities, an AI voice…I’ll let it slide this time, but don’t do it again, nVidia. You have money enough to hire someone with actual educational skills to narrate the text.",
"parent_id": null,
"d... | 1,760,371,510.27237 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/19/hacker-tactic-esd-diodes/ | Hacker Tactic: ESD Diodes | Arya Voronova | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Parts"
] | [
"electrostatic discharge",
"esd",
"esd diode",
"tvs"
] | A hacker’s view on ESD protection can tell you a lot about them. I’ve seen a good few categories of hackers neglecting ESD protection – there’s the yet-inexperienced ones, ones with a devil-may-care attitude, or simply those of us lucky to live in a reasonably humid climate. But until we’re able to control the global w... | 24 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140409",
"author": "Dylan",
"timestamp": "2025-06-19T17:14:36",
"content": "ESD was invented by big diode to sell more diodes",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8140562",
"author": "Harvie.CZ",
"timestamp": "2025... | 1,760,371,510.207849 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/19/game-boy-nes-why-not-both/ | Game Boy? NES? Why Not Both! | Jenny List | [
"handhelds hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"emulator",
"gba",
"handheld",
"nes",
"pic32"
] | If you’re a retro Nintendo fan you can of course carry a NES and a Game Boy around with you, but the former isn’t very portable. Never fear though, because here’s [Chad Burrow], who’s created
a neat handheld console that emulates both
.
It’s called the Acolyte Handheld, and it sports the slightly unusual choice for the... | 4 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140475",
"author": "limroh",
"timestamp": "2025-06-19T21:32:18",
"content": "NES BOY, NEGS, GES, GESB, GEBS, NEGBS …So many potential acronyms and none are in the article?Too low hanging fruit? I’m kinda disappointed anyway. ;-)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies... | 1,760,371,510.316255 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/split-keyboard-uses-no-pcb/ | Split Keyboard Uses No PCB | Al Williams | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"keyboard",
"nRF52840",
"split keyboard"
] | When [daniely101] wanted a split keyboard,
he decided to build his own
. It wound up costing $25 to create a wireless board with no custom PCB required. Each half has its own microcontroller, and the whole thing connects via Bluetooth. While we don’t mind making a PCB, we can appreciate that you could change your mind ... | 18 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140084",
"author": "TG",
"timestamp": "2025-06-18T18:40:43",
"content": "For a lot of these projects, the PCB is created just because people like making them. I get it, sometimes it’s fun and it feels a lot nicer. But usually if you do a one-off you just bend some solid-core wires ... | 1,760,371,510.371754 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/zpui-could-be-your-tiny-embedded-gui/ | ZPUI Could Be Your Tiny Embedded GUI | Arya Voronova | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Software Development"
] | [
"embedded",
"gui",
"raspberry pi"
] | One of the most frustrating things to me is looking at a freshly-flashed and just powered up single board computer. My goal with them is always getting to a shell – installing packages, driving GPIOs, testing my proof of concept code, adjusting the device tree to load peripheral drivers. Before I can do any of that, I ... | 17 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140070",
"author": "spiritplumberspiritplumber@gmail.com",
"timestamp": "2025-06-18T17:47:37",
"content": "Fun fact, internally cyberpunk uses another three-letter preposition instead of “out” 😂Because of i18n package (whatever language you pick) it’s not visible to player.",
... | 1,760,371,510.713256 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/esp32-dashboard-is-a-great-way-to-stay-informed/ | ESP32 Dashboard Is A Great Way To Stay Informed | Jenny List | [
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"epaper",
"ESP32",
"micropython"
] | The original ESP32 may be a little long in the tooth by now, but it remains a potent tool for connected devices. We were drawn to [Max Pflaum]’s
ESP32 Dashboard
as a great example, it’s an ESP32 hooked up to an e-paper display. The hardware is simple enough, but the software is what makes it interesting.
This is deigne... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140051",
"author": "Ken de AC3DH",
"timestamp": "2025-06-18T16:53:21",
"content": "I love the wood work! I made something very similar many years ago using an ESP8266 and an e-ink display. 4 AA batteries would last about a month. I had a weather feed and my simple calendar with t... | 1,760,371,510.58927 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/just-for-laughs-charlie-douglass-and-the-laugh-track/ | Just For Laughs: Charlie Douglass And The Laugh Track | Al Williams | [
"Featured",
"History",
"Interest",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"canned laughter",
"laff box",
"laugh track"
] | I ran into an old episode of
Hogan’s Heroes
the other day that stuck me as odd. It didn’t have a laugh track. Ironically, the show was one where two pilots were shown, one with and one without a laugh track. The resulting data ensured future shows would have fake laughter. This wasn’t the pilot, though, so I think it w... | 40 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140003",
"author": "strawberrymortallyb0bcea48e7",
"timestamp": "2025-06-18T14:13:38",
"content": "Sitcoms are worthless without forced laughter injected.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8140167",
"author": "Anonymous... | 1,760,371,510.791803 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/keeping-snap-and-crackle-under-control-with-prunt-printer-firmware/ | Keeping Snap And Crackle Under Control With Prunt Printer Firmware | Aaron Beckendorf | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3D Printer Controller",
"3D printer controller board",
"motion control",
"open-source firmware"
] | For quite some time now, Marlin has been the firmware of choice for any kind of custom 3D printer, with only Klipper offering some serious competition in the open-source world. [Liam Powell] aims to introduce some more variety with the development of
Prunt
, a 3D printer control board and firmware stack.
Smooth motion ... | 27 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "8139957",
"author": "strawberrymortallyb0bcea48e7",
"timestamp": "2025-06-18T11:17:05",
"content": "Klipper = possible SD card/linux corruptionMarlin = simply works",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8140145",
"author": "... | 1,760,371,510.649117 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/weighing-an-airplane-as-it-flies-overhead/ | Weighing An Airplane As It Flies Overhead | John Elliot V | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Science"
] | [
"airplane",
"conservation of momentum",
"scales",
"weight"
] | Recently,
[AlphaPhoenix] weighed an airplane
. Normally, that wouldn’t be much of an accomplishment. Except in this case, the airplane happened to be in flight at the time. In fact we’re not sure what is more remarkable, as he not only weighed real actual airplanes but a paper airplane too!
The sealed box essentially a... | 54 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "8139912",
"author": "Harvie.CZ",
"timestamp": "2025-06-18T08:29:42",
"content": "Isn’t random gust of wind gonna change the air pressure more than any airplane flying by possibly could?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8140399"... | 1,760,371,511.023621 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/capturing-screenshots-using-a-fake-printer/ | Capturing Screenshots Using A Fake Printer | Jenny List | [
"classic hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"gpib",
"oscilloscope",
"screenshot",
"test equipment"
] | If you have very old pieces of analogue test equipment with CRTs on your bench, the chances are they will all have surprisingly similar surrounds to their screens. Back when they were made it was common to record oscilloscope screens with a Polaroid camera, that would have a front fitting for just this purpose.
More re... | 16 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "8139893",
"author": "Thijzer",
"timestamp": "2025-06-18T06:58:55",
"content": "Wasn’t the GPIB port meant for taking the sampling data out and re-visualize it on a computer? I mean, it’s not a screenshot per se but you can also zoom in and out and display some more information than ... | 1,760,371,510.844853 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/19/space-based-datacenters-take-the-cloud-into-orbit/ | Space-Based Datacenters Take The Cloud Into Orbit | Tyler August | [
"Artificial Intelligence",
"News",
"Space"
] | [] | Where’s the best place for a datacenter? It’s an increasing problem as the AI buildup continues seemingly without pause. It’s not just a problem of NIMBYism; earthly power grids are having trouble coping, to say nothing of the demand for cooling water. Regulators and environmental groups alike are raising alarms about ... | 41 | 21 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140357",
"author": "strawberrymortallyb0bcea48e7",
"timestamp": "2025-06-19T14:06:48",
"content": "NOT profitable, AI chips go obsolete in months.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8140380",
"author": "lwheelerc5e3f6416... | 1,760,371,511.165122 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/19/flopped-humane-ai-pin-gets-an-experimental-sdk/ | Flopped Humane “AI Pin” Gets An Experimental SDK | Donald Papp | [
"Artificial Intelligence",
"Reverse Engineering",
"Wearable Hacks"
] | [
"ai",
"Assistant",
"humane",
"reverse engineering"
] | The Humane AI Pin was ambitious, expensive, and failed to captivate people between its launch and shutdown shortly after. While the units do contain some interesting elements like the embedded projector, it’s all locked down tight, and the cloud services that tie it all together no longer exist. The devices technically... | 11 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140333",
"author": "Shannon",
"timestamp": "2025-06-19T12:15:47",
"content": "I’d for sure have a sour taste in my mouth if I’d wasted $700 on an almost immediately defunct brick, but [Adam] said he’s put ~400 hours into this project…I certainly appreciate the hack and the project ... | 1,760,371,511.221154 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/19/iron-nitride-permanent-magnets-made-with-diy-ball-mill/ | Iron Nitride Permanent Magnets Made With DIY Ball Mill | Maya Posch | [
"Science"
] | [
"iron nitride magnet",
"magnets"
] | Creating strong permanent magnets without using so-called rare earth elements is an ongoing topic of research. An interesting contestant here are iron nitride magnets (α”-Fe
16
N
2
), which have the potential to create permanents magnets on-par with with neodymium (Nd
2
Fe
14
B) magnets. The challenging aspect with Fe-... | 10 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140330",
"author": "prfesser",
"timestamp": "2025-06-19T12:01:26",
"content": "When using a rock tumbler to mill ingredients, there are optimum amounts of milling media and charge (the material being milled). Roughly, the jar is about half-full of media. Just enough charge is added... | 1,760,371,511.080597 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/gas-burner-reuses-printer-nozzle-for-metalwork/ | Gas Burner Reuses Printer Nozzle For Metalwork | Tyler August | [
"News"
] | [
"3D printer nozzle",
"forge",
"foundry",
"gas burner"
] | Even if you don’t cast or forge metal yourself, you’re probably aware that you need to get the material very, very hot to make that happen. While some smiths might still stoke coal fires, that’s a minority taste these days; most, like [mikeandmertle] use gas burners to generate the heat. Tired of expensive burners or f... | 8 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140230",
"author": "Jeff NME",
"timestamp": "2025-06-19T05:29:36",
"content": "Binzel or Tweko style screw-in MIG contact tips are also useful in this application.They range in orifice size from 0.8mm to 1.6mm, so there should be one suitable for whatever fuel-gas you decide to use... | 1,760,371,511.269895 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/a-number-of-microphones-er-inductors-rather/ | A Number Of Microphones… Er, Inductors, Rather | Al Williams | [
"hardware"
] | [
"coil",
"inductor",
"mutual inductance",
"toroid"
] | There’s a famous old story about [Charles Steinmetz] fixing a generator for [Henry Ford]. He charged a lot of money for putting a chalk X in the spot that needed repair. When [Ford] asked for an itemization, the bill read $1 for the chalk, and the balance for knowing where to draw the X. With today’s PCB layout tools, ... | 5 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140222",
"author": "JSL",
"timestamp": "2025-06-19T04:39:56",
"content": "This reminded me of the Heathkit SW717 receiver I built when I was 16. It had a persistent hum no matter how many capacitors I added to the (unregulated) power supply. I sold it cheap to a Polish immigrant ... | 1,760,371,511.313866 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/floss-weekly-episode-837-worlds-best-beta-tester/ | FLOSS Weekly Episode 837: World’s Best Beta Tester | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Podcasts"
] | [
"FLOSS Weekly"
] | This week
Jonathan
chats with Geekwife! What does a normal user really think of Linux on the desktop and Open Source options? And what is it really like, putting up with Jonathan’s shenanigans? Watch to find out!
Did you know you can watch the live recording of the show right on
our YouTube Channel
? Have someone you’d... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,371,511.353505 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/bhangmeterv2-answers-the-question-has-a-nuke-gone-off/ | BhangmeterV2 Answers The Question “Has A Nuke Gone Off?” | Tyler August | [
"internet hacks"
] | [
"gamma ray detector",
"global thermonuclear war",
"IoT",
"nuclear event detector",
"Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W"
] | You might think that a nuclear explosion is not something you need a detector for, but clearly not everyone agrees. [Bigcrimping] has not only built one,
the BhangmeterV2
, but he has its output publicly posted at
hasanukegoneoff.com,
in case you can’t go through your day without checking if someone has nuked Wiltshire... | 47 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "8140103",
"author": "topham",
"timestamp": "2025-06-18T20:12:56",
"content": "Mock testing is good, but when you’re testing for Disaster Recovery purposes it really is worth while running the best test you can do.Now, where do you get a small nuke…",
"parent_id": null,
"dept... | 1,760,371,511.466034 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/statusnotifieritem-how-standard-non-standards-tear-linux-desktops-apart/ | StatusNotifierItem: How Standard Non-Standards Tear Linux Desktops Apart | Maya Posch | [
"Linux Hacks"
] | [
"linux desktop"
] | Theoretically when you write a GUI-based application for Linux there are standards to follow, with these all neatly documented over at the Freedesktop website. However, in reality, Freedesktop is more of a loose collection of specifications, some of which are third-party specifications that have somehow become the de f... | 65 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "8139836",
"author": "KDawg",
"timestamp": "2025-06-18T02:38:47",
"content": "Ya why I hate Linux its standards are not standard",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8139839",
"author": "rclark",
"timestamp": "2025-06-18T02:45... | 1,760,371,511.565791 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/making-a-brushless-dc-motor-winding-machine/ | Making A Brushless DC Motor Winding Machine | John Elliot V | [
"hardware",
"Microcontrollers",
"Robots Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"BLDC",
"brushless DC motor",
"wire winding"
] | Over on his YouTube channel our hacker [Yuchi] is building an
STM32 BLDC motor winding machine
.
This machine is for winding brushless motors because manual winding is highly labor intensive. The machine in turn is made from four brushless motors. He is using the
SimpleFOC
library to implement closed-loop angle control... | 35 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "8139788",
"author": "Sven Hapsbjorg",
"timestamp": "2025-06-17T23:10:41",
"content": "Why fixate on STM32 when literally the same task can be acomplished by any MCU made in the last 40 years. You could even build this using NES or Amiga.My spidey senses tell me it’s mostly marketing... | 1,760,371,511.712108 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/the-most-trustworthy-usb-c-cable-is-diy/ | The Most Trustworthy USB-C Cable Is DIY | Tyler August | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"diy or buy",
"USB cable",
"USB-C PD"
] | We like USB-C here at Hackaday, but like all specifications it is up to manufacturers to follow it and sometimes… they don’t. Sick of commercial cables either don’t label their safe wattage, or straight up lie about it, [GreatScott!] decided to
DIY his own ultimate USB-C-PD cable for faster charging
in his latest video... | 41 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "8139767",
"author": "electrobob",
"timestamp": "2025-06-17T21:37:20",
"content": "TBH, i am amazed about how many loose ends the USB C and USB-PD leave out.There is just too much freedom and combinations that your average person cannot make any sense of it.Couldn’t they just fix a f... | 1,760,371,511.641167 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/dead-amstrad-becomes-something-new/ | Dead Amstrad Becomes Something New | Tyler August | [
"classic hacks",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"Amstrad",
"casemod",
"mini pc",
"pc case",
"retro computer",
"sleeper pc"
] | When you run into old hardware you cannot restore, what do you do? Toss it? Sell it for parts? If you’re [TME Retro],
you hide a high-end mini PC inside an Amstrad-shaped sleeper build
.
The donor laptop is an Amstrad ALT-286 with glorious 80s styling that
[TME Retro] tried to save in a previous video
. Even with help... | 7 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "8139804",
"author": "Miles",
"timestamp": "2025-06-18T00:05:21",
"content": "Gigabit network ports |= Gigabyte network ports",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8139995",
"author": "Tyler August",
"timestamp": "202... | 1,760,371,511.931228 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-gaming-typewriter/ | Keebin’ With Kristina: The One With The Gaming Typewriter | Kristina Panos | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"banzai",
"bonsai",
"columbia index typewriter",
"gaming typewriter",
"index typewriter",
"Parkinson's disease",
"spelling bee"
] | Can you teach an old typewriter new tricks?
You can, at least if you’re [maniek-86]
. And a word to all you typewriter fanatics out there — this Optima SP 26 was beyond repair, lacking several internal parts.
Image by [maniek-86] via
reddit
But the fully available keyboard was a great start for a gaming typewriter. So ... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8139878",
"author": "Ewald",
"timestamp": "2025-06-18T05:18:03",
"content": "I love the story about the one handed keyboard and the fact that they choose to make it open source. It’s also a great video about the design proces, thanks for sharing.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth"... | 1,760,371,511.802106 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/a-diy-version-of-the-franck-hertz-experiment/ | A DIY Version Of The Franck-Hertz Experiment | John Elliot V | [
"hardware",
"Science"
] | [
"Franck-Hertz Experiment",
"quantum physics"
] | The Franck–Hertz experiment was a pioneering physics observation announced in 1914 which explained that energy came in “packets” which we call “quanta”, marking the beginning of quantum physics. Recently, [Markus Bindhammer] wrote in to let us know he had
redone the experiment for himself.
In the original experiment a ... | 5 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8139669",
"author": "Markus Bindhammer",
"timestamp": "2025-06-17T16:36:53",
"content": "The “Physics explained” channel ist one of my favorite theoretical physics channel. For most of the videos, high school math is enough to follow.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"re... | 1,760,371,511.86681 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/a-gentle-introduction-to-ncurses-for-the-terminally-impatient/ | A Gentle Introduction To Ncurses For The Terminally Impatient | Maya Posch | [
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Slider",
"Software Development",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"cli",
"command line",
"ncurses",
"terminal"
] | Considered by many to be just a dull output for sequential text, the command-line terminal is a veritable canvas to the creative software developer. With the cursor as the brush, entire graphical user interfaces can be constructed, or even a basic text-based dashboard on which values can be updated without redrawing th... | 23 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "8139634",
"author": "Panondorf",
"timestamp": "2025-06-17T15:09:05",
"content": "Cool. I like NCurses and it was on my “to learn” list for quite a while.But have you seen NotCurses???I want to learn that! The documentation though is mostly for C which I haven’t really done much with... | 1,760,371,512.080743 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/how-discord-was-ported-to-windows-95-and-nt-3-1/ | How Discord Was Ported To Windows 95 And NT 3.1 | Maya Posch | [
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"Discord",
"msn messenger",
"windows 95"
] | On the desktop, most people use the official HTML and JavaScript-based client for Discord in either a browser or a still-smells-like-a-browser Electron package. Yet what if there was a way to use a third-party client and even run it on Windows XP, Windows 95, and NT 3.1? This is exactly what
[iDontProgramInCpp] did wit... | 27 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "8139580",
"author": "Daniel",
"timestamp": "2025-06-17T11:20:38",
"content": "Now do win32s.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8139585",
"author": "Joshua",
"timestamp": "2025-06-17T11:48:33",
"content": ... | 1,760,371,512.14608 |
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