Playing Chess Against Your Printer, with PostScript
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/30/playing-chess-against-your-printer-with-postscript/

Can you play chess against your printer? The answer will soon be yes, and it’s thanks to [Nicolas Seriot]’s PSChess. It’s a chess engine implemented in PostScript, of all things. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/30/playing-chess-against-your-printer-with-postscript/)

A Threat Level Monitor For Everyone
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/a-threat-level-monitor-for-everyone/

A TV news pundit might on any given evening in 2024 look at the viewers and gravely announce that we are living in uncertain times. Those of us who’ve been …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/a-threat-level-monitor-for-everyone/)

Modular Vacuum Table Custom-Fits The Parts
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/modular-vacuum-table-custom-fits-the-parts/

[enhydra] needed to modify a bunch of side inserts from some cheap ABS enclosures, and to save time and effort, he created a simple vacuum table with swappable inserts to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/modular-vacuum-table-custom-fits-the-parts/)

Drop-In Switch Mode Regulators
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/drop-in-switch-mode-regulators/

Perhaps the simplest way to regulate a DC voltage is using a voltage divider and/or an active device like a Zener diode. Besides simplicity, they have the additional advantage of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/drop-in-switch-mode-regulators/)

ESP-Drone: Building an ESP32-Based Quadcopter For Not Much Cash
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/esp-drone-building-an-esp32-based-quadcopter-for-not-much-cash/

What’s the cheapest quadcopter you can build? As [Circuit Digest] demonstrates with their variant of the ESP-Drone project by Espressif, you only need a minimum of parts, with at the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/esp-drone-building-an-esp32-based-quadcopter-for-not-much-cash/)

Give Your Pi Pico Captouch Inputs For All Your Music Needs
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/give-your-pi-pico-captouch-inputs-for-all-your-music-needs/

Unlike many modern microcontrollers, RP2040 doesn’t come with a native capacitive touch peripheral. This doesn’t mean you can’t do it – the usual software-driven way works wonderfully, and only requires …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/give-your-pi-pico-captouch-inputs-for-all-your-music-needs/)

Hackaday Links: March 31, 2024
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/hackaday-links-march-31-2024/

Battlelines are being drawn in Canada over the lowly Flipper Zero, a device seen by some as an existential threat to motor vehicle owners across the Great White North. The …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/hackaday-links-march-31-2024/)