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Hackaday Podcast Episode 307: CNC Tattoos, The Big Chill in Space, and PCB Things

Posted on February 7, 2025 by Al Williams

The answer is: Elliot Williams, Al Williams, and a dozen or so great hacks. The question?  What do you get this week on the Hackaday podcast? This week’s hacks ran …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 307: CNC Tattoos, The Big Chill in Space, and PCB Things→

Posted in Hackaday Columns, Hackaday Podcast, Podcasts

T1 is a RISC-V Cray

Posted on February 7, 2025 by Al Williams

The crux of most supercomputers is the ability to operate on many pieces of data at once — something video cards are good at, too. Enter T1 (short for Torrent-1), …read more Continue reading T1 is a RISC-V Cray→

Posted in FPGA, Microcontrollers, RISC-V, vector processing, vector processor

A Great Use for AI: Wasting Scammers Time!

Posted on February 6, 2025 by Al Williams

We may have found the killer app for AI. Well, actually, British telecom provider O2 has. As The Guardian reports, they have an AI chatbot that acts like a 78-year-old …read more Continue reading A Great Use for AI: Wasting Scammers Time!→

Posted in ai, Artificial Intelligence, chatbot, phone scammers, security hacks

Lorentz Cannon Fires Lightning

Posted on February 6, 2025 by Al Williams

[Editor’s note: This video disappeared, but there’s another version here at the moment. We’re leaving the links as-were in case they come back up soon.] The aptly named [LightingOnDemand] has …read more Continue reading Lorentz Cannon Fires Lightning→

Posted in high voltage, lightning gun, marx generator, plasma gun

A Tube, The Wooden Kind

Posted on February 6, 2025 by Al Williams

While we aren’t heavy-duty woodworkers, we occasionally make some sawdust as part of a project, and we admire people who know how to make wood and do what they want. …read more Continue reading A Tube, The Wooden Kind→

Posted in dowel, tool hacks, woodworking

Inside Project Delilah

Posted on February 5, 2025 by Al Williams

The invention of the computer is a tricky thing to pinpoint. There were some early attempts that were not well known and some early attempts that were deliberately secret. [Alan …read more Continue reading Inside Project Delilah→

Posted in Alan Turing, encryption, history, SIGSALY

Telling Time Used to be a Ball

Posted on February 4, 2025 by Al Williams

If you watch the New Year’s festivities from New York, you know that they mark midnight with the dropping of a big, gaudy ball. You might assume this was just …read more Continue reading Telling Time Used to be a Ball→

Posted in Hackaday Columns, time ball, timekeeping | Tagged Navigation

BLE Rain Gauge Sips Water and Batteries

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Al Williams

It isn’t that hard to make an electronic rain gauge if you have a steady source of power or you don’t mind changing batteries often. But [Matthew Ford] offers a …read more Continue reading BLE Rain Gauge Sips Water and Batteries→

Posted in ble, Microcontrollers, nRF5283, rain gauge

Giving a Proprietary Power Supply the Boot

Posted on February 2, 2025 by Al Williams

You’ve probably noticed that everywhere you go — the doctor’s office, hotels, or retail shops, there are tiny PCs everywhere. These small PCs often show up on the surplus market …read more Continue reading Giving a Proprietary Power Supply the Boot→

Posted in atx power supply, computer hacks, SFF

Casio Calculator Gets New Keyboard

Posted on February 1, 2025 by Al Williams

What do you do with a circa 1985 Casio FX-451 calculator with a bad keyboard? Well, if you are [Poking Technology], you transplant the inside of the calculator to a …read more Continue reading Casio Calculator Gets New Keyboard→

Posted in calculator, casio, handhelds hacks, Keyboard, retrocomputing

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