Hide Capacitive Touch Buttons In Your Next 3D Print <img width="692" height="389" src=" alt=""/>Capacitive touch sensors are entirely in the domain of DIY, requiring little more than a carefully-chosen conductive surface and a microcontroller. This led [John Phillips] to ask why not embed

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Hide Capacitive Touch Buttons In Your Next 3D Print

Capacitive touch sensors are entirely in the domain of DIY, requiring little more than a carefully-chosen conductive surface and a microcontroller....

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Hide Capacitive Touch Buttons In Your Next 3D Print

Capacitive touch sensors are entirely in the domain of DIY, requiring little more than a carefully-chosen conductive surface and a microcontroller....

FLOSS Weekly Episode 843: Money Usually Helps <img width="800" height="484" src=" alt=""/>This week Jonathan and Dan chat with Farid Abdelnour about Kdenlive! It’s top quality video editing software, and happens to be what we use to edit the show! What’s next

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FLOSS Weekly Episode 843: Money Usually Helps

This week Jonathan and Dan chat with Farid Abdelnour about Kdenlive! It&#8217;s top quality video editing software, and happens to be what we use t...

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FLOSS Weekly Episode 843: Money Usually Helps

This week Jonathan and Dan chat with Farid Abdelnour about Kdenlive! It&#8217;s top quality video editing software, and happens to be what we use t...

Instant Macropad: Just Add QMK <img width="800" height="602" src=" alt=""/>I recently picked up one of those cheap macropads (and wrote about it, of course). It is surprisingly handy and quite inexpensive. But I felt bad about buying it. Something

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Instant Macropad: Just Add QMK

I recently picked up one of those cheap macropads (and wrote about it, of course). It is surprisingly handy and quite inexpensive. But I felt bad a...

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Instant Macropad: Just Add QMK

I recently picked up one of those cheap macropads (and wrote about it, of course). It is surprisingly handy and quite inexpensive. But I felt bad a...

Building a Robotic Arm Without Breaking the Bank <img width="800" height="469" src=" alt=""/>There are probably at least as many ways to construct a robotic arm as there are uses for them. In the case of [Thomas Sanladerer] his primary requirement for the

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Building A Robotic Arm Without Breaking The Bank

There are probably at least as many ways to construct a robotic arm as there are uses for them. In the case of [Thomas Sanladerer] his primary requ...

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Building A Robotic Arm Without Breaking The Bank

There are probably at least as many ways to construct a robotic arm as there are uses for them. In the case of [Thomas Sanladerer] his primary requ...

Death of the Cheque: Australia Moves On <img width="800" height="484" src=" alt=""/>Check (or cheques) have long been a standard way for moving money from one bank account to another. They’re essentially little more than a codified document that puts the necessary

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Death Of The Cheque: Australia Moves On

Check (or cheques) have long been a standard way for moving money from one bank account to another. They&#8217;re essentially little more than a co...

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Death Of The Cheque: Australia Moves On

Check (or cheques) have long been a standard way for moving money from one bank account to another. They&#8217;re essentially little more than a co...

Thermal Batteries for Lower Carbon Industrial Processes <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt="A photo of a large warehouse with many skylights and windows near the roof. In the middle of the image extending out into the distance are hundreds of grey refractory bricks stacked on top of a smaller set of brown bricks stacked on top of pallets. There appear to be rails on the floor of the warehouse and small dollies underneath the pallets."/>Heating things up is one of the biggest sources of cost and emissions for many industrial processes we take for granted. Most of these factories are running around the clock

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Thermal Batteries For Lower Carbon Industrial Processes

Heating things up is one of the biggest sources of cost and emissions for many industrial processes we take for granted. Most of these factories ar...

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Thermal Batteries For Lower Carbon Industrial Processes

Heating things up is one of the biggest sources of cost and emissions for many industrial processes we take for granted. Most of these factories ar...

Reviving a Piece of Yesterday’s Tomorrow <img width="800" height="495" src=" alt="Front and back of the replacement OLED module by Sir68k"/>To anyone who remembers Y2K, Sony’s MiniDisc format will probably always feel futuristic. That goes double for Sony’s MZ-RH1, the last MiniDisk recorder ever released, back in 2006. It’s barely

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Reviving A Piece Of Yesterday&#8217;s Tomorrow

To anyone who remembers Y2K, Sony&#8217;s MiniDisc format will probably always feel futuristic. That goes double for Sony&#8217;s MZ-RH1, the last ...

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Reviving A Piece Of Yesterday&#8217;s Tomorrow

To anyone who remembers Y2K, Sony&#8217;s MiniDisc format will probably always feel futuristic. That goes double for Sony&#8217;s MZ-RH1, the last ...

Using Ultra-Wideband for 3D Location and Tracking <img width="800" height="398" src=" alt="A diagram with one Tag and two Base Stations."/>Interested in playing with ultra-wideband (UWB)? [Jaryd] recently put together a fairly comprehensive getting started guide featuring the AI Thinker BU03 that looks like a great place to start. These modules

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Using Ultra-Wideband For 3D Location And Tracking

Interested in playing with ultra-wideband (UWB)? [Jaryd] recently put together a fairly comprehensive getting started guide featuring the AI Thinke...

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Using Ultra-Wideband For 3D Location And Tracking

Interested in playing with ultra-wideband (UWB)? [Jaryd] recently put together a fairly comprehensive getting started guide featuring the AI Thinke...

Lisp in 99 Lines of C With TinyLisp <img width="800" height="342" src=" alt=""/>As one of the oldest programming languages still in common use today, and essential for the first wave of Artificial Intelligence research during the 1950s and 60s, Lisp is often

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Lisp In 99 Lines Of C With TinyLisp

As one of the oldest programming languages still in common use today, and essential for the first wave of Artificial Intelligence research during t...

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Lisp In 99 Lines Of C With TinyLisp

As one of the oldest programming languages still in common use today, and essential for the first wave of Artificial Intelligence research during t...

A Solderless, Soluble Circuit Board <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt="A brown plastic circuit board is visible in the middle of the picture, containing an integrated circuit, a resistor, a diode, two capacitors, and some jumper wires going away to the sides."/>Anyone who’s spent significant amounts of time salvaging old electronics has probably wished there were a way to take apart a circuit board without desoldering it. [Zeyu Yan] et al

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A Solderless, Soluble Circuit Board

Anyone who’s spent significant amounts of time salvaging old electronics has probably wished there were a way to take apart a circuit board witho...

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A Solderless, Soluble Circuit Board

Anyone who’s spent significant amounts of time salvaging old electronics has probably wished there were a way to take apart a circuit board witho...

Roll Your Own SSB Receiver <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>[Paul Maine] was experimenting with GNU Radio and an RTL-SDR dongle. He created an SSB receiver and, lucky for us, he documented it all in a video you can see

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Roll Your Own SSB Receiver

[Paul Maine] was experimenting with GNU Radio and an RTL-SDR dongle. He created an SSB receiver and, lucky for us, he documented it all in a video ...

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Roll Your Own SSB Receiver

[Paul Maine] was experimenting with GNU Radio and an RTL-SDR dongle. He created an SSB receiver and, lucky for us, he documented it all in a video ...

2025 One Hertz Challenge: Atomic Decay Clock is Accurate But Not Precise <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>At this point, atomic clocks are old news. They’ve been quietly keeping our world on schedule for decades now, and have been through several iterations with each generation gaining more

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2025 One Hertz Challenge: Atomic Decay Clock Is Accurate But Not Precise

At this point, atomic clocks are old news. They&#8217;ve been quietly keeping our world on schedule for decades now, and have been through several ...

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2025 One Hertz Challenge: Atomic Decay Clock Is Accurate But Not Precise

At this point, atomic clocks are old news. They&#8217;ve been quietly keeping our world on schedule for decades now, and have been through several ...

Food Irradiation Is Not As Bad As It Sounds <img width="800" height="484" src=" alt=""/>Radiation is a bad thing that we don’t want to be exposed to, or so the conventional wisdom goes. We’re most familiar with it in the context of industrial risks

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Food Irradiation Is Not As Bad As It Sounds

Radiation is a bad thing that we don&#8217;t want to be exposed to, or so the conventional wisdom goes. We&#8217;re most familiar with it in the co...

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Food Irradiation Is Not As Bad As It Sounds

Radiation is a bad thing that we don&#8217;t want to be exposed to, or so the conventional wisdom goes. We&#8217;re most familiar with it in the co...

The VLF Transformation <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>People have long been interested in very low frequency (VLF) radio signals. But it used to be you pretty much had to build your own receiver which, luckily, wasn’t as

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The VLF Transformation

People have long been interested in very low frequency (VLF) radio signals. But it used to be you pretty much had to build your own receiver which,...

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The VLF Transformation

People have long been interested in very low frequency (VLF) radio signals. But it used to be you pretty much had to build your own receiver which,...

How to Sink a Ship: Preparing the SS United States For its Final Journey <img width="800" height="484" src=" alt=""/>When we last brought you word of the SS United States, the future of the storied vessel was unclear. Since 1996, the 990 foot (302 meter) ship — the largest

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How To Sink A Ship: Preparing The SS United States For Its Final Journey

When we last brought you word of the SS United States, the future of the storied vessel was unclear. Since 1996, the 990 foot (302 meter) ship &#82...

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How To Sink A Ship: Preparing The SS United States For Its Final Journey

When we last brought you word of the SS United States, the future of the storied vessel was unclear. Since 1996, the 990 foot (302 meter) ship &#82...

Antiviral PPE for the Next Pandemic <img width="800" height="396" src=" alt=""/>In what sounds like the plot from a sci-fi movie, scientists have isolated an incredibly rare immune mutation to create a universal antiviral treatment. Only present in a few dozen

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Antiviral PPE For The Next Pandemic

In what sounds like the plot from a sci-fi movie, scientists have isolated an incredibly rare immune mutation to create a universal antiviral treat...

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Antiviral PPE For The Next Pandemic

In what sounds like the plot from a sci-fi movie, scientists have isolated an incredibly rare immune mutation to create a universal antiviral treat...

Silent Speak and Spell Gets Its Voice Back <img width="800" height="600" src=" alt=""/>While talking computers are old hat today, in 1978, a talking toy like the Speak and Spell was the height of novel tech. [Kevin] found a vintage one, but it

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Silent Speak And Spell Gets Its Voice Back

While talking computers are old hat today, in 1978, a talking toy like the Speak and Spell was the height of novel tech. [Kevin] found a vintage on...

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Silent Speak And Spell Gets Its Voice Back

While talking computers are old hat today, in 1978, a talking toy like the Speak and Spell was the height of novel tech. [Kevin] found a vintage on...

The PC In Your Pico <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>We’re all used to emulating older computers here, and we’ve seen plenty of projects that take a cheap microcontroller and use it to emulate a classic home computer or gaming https://hackaday.com/2025/08/18/the-pc-in-your-pico/ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/18/the-pc-in-your-pico/

I, 3D Printer <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>Like many of us, [Ben] has too many 3D printers. What do you do with the old ones? In his case, he converted it into a robotic camera rig. See

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I, 3D Printer

Like many of us, [Ben] has too many 3D printers. What do you do with the old ones? In his case, he converted it into a robotic camera rig. See the ...

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I, 3D Printer

Like many of us, [Ben] has too many 3D printers. What do you do with the old ones? In his case, he converted it into a robotic camera rig. See the ...

2025 One Hertz Challenge: Timekeeping at One Becquerel <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>The Becquerel (Bq) is an SI unit of radioactivity: one becquerel is equivalent to one radioactive decay per second. That absolutely does not make it equivalent to one hertz —

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2025 One Hertz Challenge: Timekeeping At One Becquerel

The Becquerel (Bq) is an SI unit of radioactivity: one becquerel is equivalent to one radioactive decay per second. That absolutely does not make i...

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2025 One Hertz Challenge: Timekeeping At One Becquerel

The Becquerel (Bq) is an SI unit of radioactivity: one becquerel is equivalent to one radioactive decay per second. That absolutely does not make i...