Category: Tech

Reading Time: 2 minutes[Ancient] has a video showing off a fascinating piece of work: a lip-syncing robot whose animated electro-mechanical mouth works like an IBM Selectric typewriter. The

Reading Time: 2 minutesFor the past years people have been collecting disposable vapes primarily for their lithium-ion batteries, but as these disposable vapes have begun to incorporate more

Reading Time: 2 minutesOff to the races? Formula One races, that is. This project by [mazur8888] uses an ESP32 to keep track of the sport, and display a

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe modern hacker and maker has an incredible array of tools at their disposal — even a modestly appointed workbench these days would have seemed

Reading Time: 7 minutesOriginally Android apps were only developed in Java, targeting the Dalvik Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and its associated environment. Compared to platforms like iOS with

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn early 2024, a striking deepfake fraud case in Hong Kong brought the vulnerabilities of AI-driven deception into sharp relief. A finance employee was duped

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs USB-C PD becomes more and more common, it’s useful to have a tool that lets you understand exactly what it’s doing—no longer is it

Reading Time: 2 minutesModern retrocomputing tricks often push old hardware and systems further than any of the back-in-the-day developers could have ever dreamed. How about a neural network

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s likely that many Hackaday readers will be aware of UTF-8, the mechanism for incorporating diverse alphabets and other characters such as emojis. It takes

Reading Time: 2 minutesAs the saying goes, “if it can’t be grown, it has to be mined”– but what about all the metals that have already been wrested

Reading Time: 3 minutesIs it finally time to cue up the Bowie? Or was the NASA presser on Wednesday announcing new findings of potential Martian biosignatures from Perseverance

Reading Time: 2 minutesTang FPGA boards are affordable, and [nand2mario] has been trying to get an x86 core running on one for a while. Looks like it finally