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Supercon 2024: Yes, You Can Use the Controller Area Net...

Ah, the CAN bus. It’s become a communication standard in the automotive world, f...

Custom Slimline CD Player Hides Out Under Speaker

In the era of digital streaming, the market is full of wireless speakers that wi...

General Fusion Claims Success with Magnetized Target Fu...

It’s rarely appreciated just how much more complicated nuclear fusion is than nu...

Chase Light SAO Shouldn’t Have Used a 555, and Didn’t

Around these parts, projects needlessly using a microcontroller where a simpler ...

Pi Pico Turns Atari 2600 into a Lo-fi Photo Frame

The cartridge based game consoles of decades ago had a relatively simple modus o...

Why are Micro Center Flash Drives so Slow?

Every year, USB flash drives get cheaper and hold more data. Unfortunately, they...

Fitting a Spell Checker into 64 kB

By some estimates, the English language contains over a million unique words. Th...

Integrated BMS Makes Battery Packs Easy

Lithium technology has ushered in a new era of batteries with exceptionally high...

3D-Printed Scanner Automates Deck Management for Tradin...

Those who indulge in trading card games know that building the best deck is the ...

FLOSS Weekly Episode 826: Fedora 42 and KDE

This week, Jonathan Bennett chats with Neal Gompa about Fedora 42 and KDE! What’...

Supercon 2024: A New World of Full-Color PCBs

Printed circuit boards were once so simple. One or two layers of copper etched o...

Teardown of Casio Credit Card-Sized Radio

These days we don’t get too fussed about miniaturized electronics, not when you ...

Tech in Plain Sight: Hearing Aids

You might think you don’t need a hearing aid, and you might be right. But in gen...

Build Customized Raspberry Pi OS Images With rpi-image-gen

Recently Raspberry Pi publicly announced the release of their new rpi-image-gen ...

Admit it. You Want This Go-Kart

Many of us could have been lucky enough to have some form of pedal go-kart in ou...

Designing a Portable Mac Mini

When Apple first launched the Macintosh, it created a new sort of “Lunchbox” for...

Physical Key Copying Starts With a Flipper Zero

A moment’s inattention is all it takes to gather the information needed to make ...

Brazilian Modders Upgrade NVidia Geforce GTX 970 to 8 G...

Although NVidia’s current disastrous RTX 50-series is getting all the attention ...

LED Filaments Become Attractive Time Piece

There are a million ways to use LEDs to make a clock. [sjm4306] chose to go a re...

The Vectrex Home Computer You Never Had

The Vectrex console from the early 1980s holds a special place in retrocomputing...

Ancient Pocket Computer Gets a Serious Serial Upgrade

[Robert’s Retro] is one of those great YouTube channels that shows us the ins an...

2024 Hackaday Supercon Talk: Killing Mosquitoes with Fr...

Suppose that you want to get rid of a whole lot of mosquitoes with a quadcopter ...

ReactOS 0.4.15 Released With Major Improvements

Recently the ReactOS project released the much anticipated 0.4.15 update, making...

Metal Detector Built With Smartphone Interface

If you think of a metal detector, you’re probably thinking of a fairly simple de...

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