This week Jonathan Bennett and Rob Campbell talk with Gareth Coleman and Hamish Cunningham! It’s all about the Unphone, an open source handset sporting an ESP32, color touchscreen, and LoRa …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/05/15/floss-weekly-episode-783-teaching-embedded-with-the-unphone/)

Think Again: Tips On Finding and Flexing Your Creativity
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/15/think-again-tips-on-finding-and-flexing-your-creativity/

Technical work — including problem-solving — is creative work. In addition, creativity is more than a vague and nebulous attribute that either is or isn’t present when it’s needed. A …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/05/15/think-again-tips-on-finding-and-flexing-your-creativity/)

Generative AI Hits The Commodore 64
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/15/generative-ai-hits-the-commodore-64/

Image-generating AIs are typically trained on huge arrays of GPUs and require great wads of processing power to run. Meanwhile, [Nick Bild] has managed to get something similar running on …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/05/15/generative-ai-hits-the-commodore-64/)

Adaptive Chef’s Knife Provides Better Leverage
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/16/adaptive-chefs-knife-provides-better-leverage/

[Colleen] struggled with using a chef’s knife to cut a variety of foods while suffering from arthritis in her wrist and hand. There are knives aimed at people with special …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/05/16/adaptive-chefs-knife-provides-better-leverage/)

You Can Now Jailbreak a PS4 With An LG TV
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/16/you-can-now-jailbreak-a-ps4-with-an-lg-tv/

You might think that jailbreaking a PS4 to run unsigned code is a complicated process that takes fancy tools and lots of work. While developing said jailbreaks was naturally no …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/05/16/you-can-now-jailbreak-a-ps4-with-an-lg-tv/)

Measure Three Times, Design Once
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/16/measure-three-times-design-once/

A thickness gauge, letter scale, push stick, and dial caliper
" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/banner.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/banner.jpg?w=800">Most of the Hackaday community would never wire a power supply to a circuit without knowing the expected voltage and the required current. But our mechanical design is often more …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/05/16/measure-three-times-design-once/)

Non-Split-Flap Clock Does It With Fewer Flaps
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/16/non-split-flap-clock-does-it-with-fewer-flaps/

As cool as split-flap clocks and displays are, they do have a few disadvantages. The mechanism sticks out on the side, and the whole thing relies on gravity. Some people …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/05/16/non-split-flap-clock-does-it-with-fewer-flaps/)

DisplayPort: Hacking And Examples
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/16/displayport-hacking-and-examples/

So far, I’ve talked about why DisplayPort is the future, introduced the basics of how to work with it on the hacker level, took apart and tamed the DisplayPort altmode, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/05/16/displayport-hacking-and-examples/)