rC3 2021: Now Here, Nowhere

From hackaday.com 1 year ago in Blogs

The annual meeting of the Chaos Computer Club, Germany’s giant hacker group, is online again this year. While those of us here are sad that we don’t get to see …read more

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Dive Into the Microwaves, the Water’s Dipolar

From hackaday.com 6 hours ago in Blogs

When the microwave oven started to gain popularity in the 60s and 70s, supporters and critics alike predicted that it would usher in the end of cooking as we knew …read more

A Comprehensive Look at FDM Supports

From hackaday.com 7 hours ago in Blogs

When we first started 3D printing, we used ABS and early slicers. Using supports was undesirable because the support structures were not good, and ABS sticks to itself like crazy. …read more

Europe’s Proposed Right-To-Repair Law: a Game Changer, or Business As Usual?

From hackaday.com 9 hours ago in Blogs

Recently, the European Commission (EC) adopted a new proposal intended to enable and promote the repair of a range of consumer goods, including household devices like vacuum cleaners and washing …read more

MS-DOS Client Brings ChatGPT to the IBM PC

From hackaday.com 12 hours ago in Blogs

AI-powered chatbots are clearly the future of computing, and it’s only a matter of time before you’ll see them appear on every internet-connected gadget. If you thought you were safe …read more

Bus Stop Bloom Filter

From hackaday.com 15 hours ago in Blogs

Imagine you’re sitting on a nice bench, the sun shines warmly, and a bus pulls up. You’re headed to Stendal from Osnabrück, how can you tell if you should get …read more

Caterpillar-Like Soft Robot With Distributed Programmable Thermal Actuation

From hackaday.com 18 hours ago in Blogs

Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a soft robot that moves in a distinctly caterpillar-like manner. As detailed in the research paper in Science Advances by [Shuang Wu] …read more

The 4004 Upgrade You’ve Been Waiting For

From hackaday.com 21 hours ago in Blogs

You know how it is. You have an older computer, and you can’t run the latest software on it. Time to upgrade, right? Well, if you have been in this …read more

Recreating the ZX Spectrum Unboxing Experience By Manufacturing a New Boxed One

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Why scour the internet for a rare-as-hen’s-teeth new in box ZX Spectrum computer when you can instead order up some parts, assemble a basically all new ZX Spectrum along with …read more

IBIS Models Explained

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

If you’ve worked with circuit simulation, you may have run into IBIS models. The acronym is input/output buffer information, and while you can do a lot without having to deal …read more

Loudmouth DJI Drones Tell Everyone Where You Are

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Back when commercial quadcopters started appearing in the news on the regular, public safety was a talking point. How, for example, do we keep them away from airports? Well, large …read more