Collaborate Disseminate
Dan Maloney wanted to design a part for 3D printing. OpenSCAD is a coding language for generating 3D objects. ChatGPT can write code. What could possibly go wrong? You should …read more Continue reading The Right Benchmark for GPT
We all lead digital lives, and we work in and on files of one sort or another. And sometimes we get attached to them. That long manifesto you poured your …read more Continue reading Where Old Files Go To Die
When we closed the official Call for Participation for both workshops and talks last week, a good handful of folks wrote to us and asked if they could slip their …read more Continue reading Procrastinators Rejoice! 2023 Supercon Call For Participation Extended
So you want to play some games from the early days of 32-bit iPhone OS that no longer run on recent OS versions? [Hikari-no-yume] wrote a sweet high-level emulator, touchHLE, …read more Continue reading Doom on iPhone OS, on Android
[Jon] wanted to keep track of his home power use, but didn’t want to have to push his data up to some cloud service that’s just going to leave him …read more Continue reading 2023 Hackaday Prize: A Smart Powermeter That You Actually Want
This week, [Al Williams] wrote a great thought piece about whether or not it was worth learning an assembly language at all anymore, and when. The comments overflowed, and we’re …read more Continue reading Who’s Afraid of Assembly Language?
If you could dump the flash from your smart toothbrush and reverse engineer it, enabling you to play whatever you wanted on the vibrating motor, what would you do? Of …read more Continue reading Sniffing Passwords, Rickrolling Toothbrushes
While talking about a solar powered portable Bluetooth speaker project on the podcast, I realized that I have a new category of favorite hacks: daily-use hacks. If you read Hackaday …read more Continue reading Sweet Hacks
Thomas Edison once said that genius was 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. That doesn’t leave much room for partspriation. I’m working on a top-secret project, and had to place a …read more Continue reading 99% Partspriation
You know how it goes. You’re working on a project, and you need to do some ultra-precise probing, so you end up making a custom PCB probing octopus along the …read more Continue reading Gearing Up with the 2023 Hackaday Prize