Hackaday Podcast Episode 341: Qualcomm Owns Arduino, Steppers Still Dominate 3D Printing, and Google Controls Your Apps Jenny List | usagoldmines.com
The nights are drawing in for Europeans, and Elliot Williams is joined this week by...
Scams , Hacks & Breaches
QUIC! Jump to User Space! Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
Everyone knows that Weird Al lampooned computers in a famous parody song (It’s All About...
This Week in Security: ID Breaches, Code Smell, and Poetic Flows Jonathan Bennett | usagoldmines.com
Discord had a data breach back on September 20th, via an outsourced support contractor. It...
BenchVolt PD: USB PD Meets Benchtop Precision Matt Varian | usagoldmines.com
USB power has become ubiquitous — everything from phones to laptops all use it —...
Inside a Germanium Transistor Jenny List | usagoldmines.com
The first transistors were point contact devices, not far from the cats-whiskers of early radio...
One ROM Gets a USB Stack John Elliot V | usagoldmines.com
Our hacker is at it again, and this time he has added USB...
The Fascinating Waveguide Technology Inside Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
The geometric waveguide glass of the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses. (Credit iFixit) Recently the avid...
Motors Make the Best Knobs With SimpleFOC Tyler August | usagoldmines.com
The worst thing about a volume knob is that, having connected it to a computer,...
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: The Sweet Sound of a Choking Transformer Tyler August | usagoldmines.com
The Component Abuse Challenge is dragging all sorts of old, half-forgotten hacks out of the...
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Load Cell Anemometer Tyler August | usagoldmines.com
When you think anemometer, you probably don’t think “load cell” — but (statistically speaking) you...
Holy Parachute out of Kirigami Ian Bos | usagoldmines.com
If you have a fear of heights and find yourself falling out of an airplane,...
Meshtastic: A Tale of Two Cities Tom Nardi | usagoldmines.com
If I’m honest with myself, I don’t really need access to an off-grid, fault-tolerant, mesh...
Google Japan Turn Out Another Keyboard, and it’s a Dial Jenny List | usagoldmines.com
There’s a joke that does the rounds, about a teenager being given a dial phone...
Billy Bass Gets New Job as a Voice Assistant Bryan Cockfield | usagoldmines.com
For those who were alive and conscious before the modern Internet, there were in fact...
Why Stepper Motors Still Dominate 3D Printing Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
It’s little secret that stepper motors are everywhere in FDM 3D printers, but there’s no...
Where is Mathematics Going? Large Language Models and Lean Proof Assistant John Elliot V | usagoldmines.com
If you’re a hacker you may well have a passing interest in math, and if...
The Entire Process of Building an Open Source Analog ASIC John Elliot V | usagoldmines.com
Our hacker of Psychogenic Technologies shows us the entire process of designing an...
Honoring the Legacy of Robert Murray-Smith Tom Nardi | usagoldmines.com
We at Hackaday are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Robert Murray-Smith. The...
FLOSS Weekly Episode 850: One ROM to Rule Them All Jonathan Bennett | usagoldmines.com
This week Jonathan and Aaron chat with Piers Finlayson about One ROM! Why does the...
Ask Hackaday: Why is TTL 5 Volts? Dan Maloney | usagoldmines.com
The familiar five volts standard from back in the TTL days always struck me as...