Like the rest of us, 8-bit hardware is not getting any newer, and failed ROMs are just a fact of life. Of course you can’t call up Commadore corporation for …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/05/software-defined-retro-rom-makes-8-bit-easy/)

AI Is Only Coming For Fun Jobs
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/05/ai-is-only-coming-for-fun-jobs/

In the past few years, what marketers and venture capital firms term “artificial intelligence” but is more often an advanced predictive text model of some sort has started taking people’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/05/ai-is-only-coming-for-fun-jobs/)

Mapping Tool Helps Identify Usable Land For Building
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/05/mapping-tool-helps-identify-usable-land-for-building/

How would you go about identifying usable land that suits your building tastes? [Scott Sexton] was specifically, looking for land that’s not to steep to build on, and realized that …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/05/mapping-tool-helps-identify-usable-land-for-building/)

Daisy chain of hacks lets new Arm board run Doom
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/05/daisy-chain-of-hacks-lets-new-arm-board-run-doom/

Image [Interfacing Linux]
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Still-2025-06-21-180007_1.5.18.webp?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Still-2025-06-21-180007_1.5.18.webp?w=800">Running DOOM on ARM? Old hat. Running Doom (2016) on an ARM SBC? Well, that’s a bit more interesting, and [Interfacing Linux] shows us how with this handy guide, and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/05/daisy-chain-of-hacks-lets-new-arm-board-run-doom/)

Shadow Clock Shows The Time On The Wall
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/05/shadow-clock-shows-the-time-on-the-wall/

What if you build a clock that displayed the time not just on its own, but in its shadows as well? [Lewis] from [DIY Machines] has done just that, with …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/05/shadow-clock-shows-the-time-on-the-wall/)

A Look Through the Eye of a Bowling Ball
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/05/a-look-through-the-eye-of-a-bowling-ball/

If you are anything like us, last time you went bowling, you thought more about how the ball came back to you than actually knocking down the pin. Perhaps you …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/05/a-look-through-the-eye-of-a-bowling-ball/)

Convert Any Book to a DIY Audiobook?
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/06/convert-any-book-to-a-diy-audiobook/

https://github.com/nickbild/audiobook?tab=readme-ov-file
" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/reader_front_16-9_sm-featured.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/reader_front_16-9_sm-featured.png?w=800">If the idea of reading a physical book sounds like hard work, [Nick Bild’s] latest project, the PageParrot, might be for you. While AI gets a lot of flak these …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/06/convert-any-book-to-a-diy-audiobook/)