Hackaday Links: September 7, 2025

Two weeks ago, it was holographic cops. This week, it’s humanoid robot doctors. Or is it? We’re pretty sure it’s not, as MediBot, supposedly a $10,000 medical robot from Tesla, …read more

This week Jonathan and Randal talk Flutter and Dart! Is Google killing Flutter? What’s the challenge Randal sees in training new senior developers, and what’s the solution? Listen to find …read more

Ask Hackaday: Now You Install Your Friends’ VPNs. But Which One?

Something which may well unite Hackaday readers is the experience of being “The computer person” among your family or friends. You’ll know how it goes, when you go home for …read more

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Human existence boils down to one brutal fact: however much food you have, it’s enough to last for the rest of your life. Finding your next meal has always been …read more

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The Sixteen-Year Odyssey To Finally Emulate The Pioneer LaserActive Console

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By Maya Posch | September 8, 2025

The 1993 Pioneer LaserActive certainly ranks high on the list of obscure video games. It was an odd duck; it used both a LaserDisc for data storage and provided compatibility …read more
Building A Rotary Evaporator For The Home Lab

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By Aaron Beckendorf | September 8, 2025

The rotary evaporator (rotovap) rarely appears outside of well-provisioned chemistry labs. That means that despite being a fundamentally simple device, their cost generally puts them out of reach for amateur …read more
Smartphone Sensors Unlocked: Turn Your Phone Into A Physics Lab

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By Matt Varian | September 7, 2025

These days, most of us have a smartphone. They are so commonplace that we rarely stop to consider how amazing they truly are. The open-source project Phyphox has provided easy …read more
The Saga Of Hacking A Bambu X1 Carbon

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By Fenix Guthrie | September 7, 2025

Bambu Labs make indisputably excellent printers. However, that excellence comes at the cost of freedom. After a firmware release earlier this year, Bambu printers could only work with Bambu’s own …read more
Hackaday Links: September 7, 2025

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By Dan Maloney | September 7, 2025

Two weeks ago, it was holographic cops. This week, it’s humanoid robot doctors. Or is it? We’re pretty sure it’s not, as MediBot, supposedly a $10,000 medical robot from Tesla, …read more
Maurice Brings Immersive Audio Recording To The Masses

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By Tyler August | September 7, 2025

Immersive audio is the new hotness in the recording world. Once upon a time, mono was good enough. Then someone realized humans have two ears, and everyone wanted stereo. For …read more
Retrotechtacular: Exploring The Moon On Surveyor 1

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By Dan Maloney | September 7, 2025

Aside from a few stand-out programs — looking at you, Star Trek — by the late 1960s, TV had already become the “vast wasteland” predicted almost a decade earlier by …read more

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