Getting Started In Ham Hack Chat

Join us on Wednesday, June 7 at noon Pacific for the Getting Started in Ham Hack Chat with Mark Hughes and Beau Ambur! If you were to scratch any random …read more

Why Did The Home Assistant Future Not Quite Work The Way It Was Supposed To?

The future, as seen in the popular culture of half a century or more ago, was usually depicted as quite rosy. Technology would have rendered every possible convenience at our …read more

Hackaday Links: June 4, 2023

A report released this week suggests that 50 flights into its five-flight schedule, the Mars helicopter might be starting to show its age. The report details a protracted communications outage …read more

Ask Hackaday: What’s Your “Tactical Tool” Threshold?

With few exceptions, every field has a pretty modest set of tools that would be considered the minimum for getting most jobs done. A carpenter can make do with tools …read more

Supercon 2022: [Jorvon Moss] Gives His Robots A Soul

How do you approach your robot designs? Maybe, you do it from a ‘oh, I have these cool parts’ position, or from a ‘I want to make a platform on …read more

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Nissan 300zx Dash Given A New Language

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By Matthew Carlson | June 8, 2023

You don’t have to be a car enthusiast to recognize that the 1984 Nissan 300x dash is a work of art. The graceful swoops and multisegment VFDs evoke an aesthetic …read more
Op-Amp Challenge: Measuring PH, No Code Required

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By Dan Maloney | June 8, 2023

When you see a project with a digital display these days, you’ll be forgiven for assuming that there’s some kind of microcontroller behind the scenes. And while that’s often the …read more
Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?

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By Jenny List | June 8, 2023

Last week I penned a cheesy fake relationship breakup letter to Ubuntu, my Linux distribution of choice for the last 15 years or so. It had well and truly delivered …read more
Apple Invent The Mechanical Watch

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By Jenny List | June 8, 2023

The Apple Watch has been on the market for long enough that its earlier iterations are now unsupported. Where some see little more than e-waste others see an opportunity, as …read more
Tree Planting Festivals, Air Cannons, Self-Burying Seeds, And The Complexities Of Reforestation

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By Maya Posch | June 8, 2023

At first glance the problem of how to plant trees would seem to be a straightforward one: take a seed, jam it into the soil and let nature take its …read more
Contrary View: Chatbots Don’t Help Programmers

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By Al Williams | June 8, 2023

[Bertrand Meyer] is a decided contrarian in his views on AI and programming. In a recent Communications of the ACM blog post, he reveals that — unlike many others — …read more
Hacking A Hyundai Ioniq’s Infotainment System Again After Security Fixes

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By Maya Posch | June 8, 2023

These days modern cars are nothing if not a grouping of networked software held together by bits of hardware. This is reflected not only in the rapidly increasing number of …read more

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