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A recent article revealed that OpenAI is purchasing tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios to give AI agents dedicated environments to run, make mistakes, and learn. It’s a smart infrastructure decision for…
What do you get when you combine a pogo stick, a quadcopter, and engineering students from the University of Toronto? This thing, apparently– a “monopedal hopping robot” that uses a …read more
ESPARGOS’ Florian Euchner has published ESP-SDR on GitHub, firmware that turns the ESP32’s built-in 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi radio into a software defined radio (SDR). It captures raw I/Q samples from the receiver, so the spectrum…
oeadmin at Open Electronics covers a voice assistant project by jayesh_nawani that runs entirely on an ESP32. An I2S microphone picks up speech, the clip is packaged as a WAV file and sent to the OpenAI Whisper API for…
Clara at the Seeed Studio Blog has posted a buyer’s guide for people starting out with Meshtastic hardware. The question it answers is a common one: should you buy a solar node or a mesh tracker? The two serve different…
Hannes (hannesb) posted a working Matter temperature sensor build on the Seeed Studio forum, running on the XIAO nRF54LM20A. He started from the nRF Connect SDK Matter temperature template, added a BME sensor for…
A good case study on printed circuit board rework: Steve at Big Mess o’ Wires finally worked through a pile of 68 Floppy Emu boards that had failed QA testing or come back from customers. It took about a month. He…
If you’re reading Hackaday there’s pretty good odds you’re at least somewhat fond of Star Trek. We’d bet good money most of you would quit your jobs today if a Starfleet …read more
Human in Motion Robotics, based in Vancouver, Canada, has built a self-balancing exoskeleton called XoMotion for people with lower extremity motor deficits. The company says it is the first device of its kind to mimic…
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have measured how diamond melts at pressures three times those at the Earth’s core, in a study published in Nature Physics. The experiments were run at the…
Jason Kottke pointed readers on kottke.org to a piece on the tangled origin story of Tetris, the puzzle game written in the Soviet Union in the 1980s. The quote he pulls out gets at the odd legal situation behind the…
markqvist has released NomadNet 1.4.4 on GitHub. It is a maintenance release for the off-grid, encrypted communications client built on Reticulum. Nomad Network allows you to build private and resilient communications…
Black Hole (@konstructivizm), posting on X, described NASA’s VIEW program, which showed Apollo crews what space would look like from their windows before they got there. It ran on a UNIVAC 1108 mainframe and was written…
Compoden published a beginner Arduino project on Hackster that turns an ultrasonic sensor into a tabletop parking sensor. An HC-SR04 measures distance and a passive buzzer beeps faster as an object moves closer. Past…
This week’s product picks were the Adafruit TMF8806 Time of Flight Distance Sensor – 10mm to 5m – STEMMA QT / Qwiic and the Adafruit TMF8801 Time of Flight Distance Sensor – 20mm to 2.5m – STEMMA QT / Qwiic! Want more…
Dima Omelian wrote up The Making of Prince of Persia on Substack, the published journal Jordan Mechner kept while building the original game in assembly on an Apple II between 1985 and 1989. Stripe Press republished it…
CHOMPI Club has released the production files for the CHOMPI Sampler, a chromatic sampler and tape-music instrument. The repository holds both the hardware and the firmware, with a README in each folder covering the…
It’s been true for a while now that Apple’s AirPods have been effectively disposable, with [iFixit] slapping each successive generation with an abysmal 0/10 repairability score. The moment that any …read more
Tyler August writes at Hackaday about a handheld build from UncleStem that runs PICO-8 on real hardware. PICO-8 is a fantasy console: a virtual machine with a big library of games, but no physical 8-bit machine…
Forum user jmarsh has posted a new USB Host library for Teensy 4.x boards on the PJRC forum. It creates driver objects as they are needed, so it can handle any number of hubs or other devices without a fixed set of…
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