Blinds Automated With Offline Voice Recognition
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/blinds-automated-with-offline-voice-recognition/

Blinds are great for keeping light out or letting light in on demand, but few of us appreciate having to walk over and wind them open and shut on the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/blinds-automated-with-offline-voice-recognition/)

Nice PDF, But Can It Run Linux? Yikes!
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/nice-pdf-but-can-it-run-linux-yikes/

The days that PDFs were the granny-proof Swiss Army knives of document sharing are definitely over, according to [vk6]. He has managed to pull off the ultimate mind-bender: running Linux …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/nice-pdf-but-can-it-run-linux-yikes/)

Make a Secret File Stash In The Slack Space
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/make-a-secret-file-stash-in-the-slack-space/

Disk space is allocated in clusters of a certain size. When a file is written to disk and the file size is smaller than the cluster(s) allocated for it, there …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/make-a-secret-file-stash-in-the-slack-space/)

Precision Reference Puts Interesting Part to Work
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/11/precision-reference-puts-interesting-part-to-work/

Interesting parts make for interesting projects, and this nifty precision voltage reference has some pretty cool parts, not to mention an interesting test jig. The heart of [Gaurav Singh]’s voltage …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/11/precision-reference-puts-interesting-part-to-work/)

The Science Behind Making Buildings Comfortably Non-Combustible
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/11/the-science-behind-making-buildings-comfortably-non-combustible/

Although the most fire-resistant building is likely a windowless, concrete bunker, this tends to be not the vibe that most home owners go for. This is why over the years …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/11/the-science-behind-making-buildings-comfortably-non-combustible/)

Hearing What the Bats Hear
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/11/hearing-what-the-bats-hear/

[Iftah] has been exploring the sounds beyond what we can hear, recording ultrasound and pitching it down. He made a short video on the practice, and it’s like a whole …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/11/hearing-what-the-bats-hear/)

Improving Aluminium-Ion Batteries With Aluminium-Fluoride Salt
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/11/improving-aluminium-ion-batteries-with-aluminium-fluoride-salt/

There are many rechargeable battery chemistries, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. Currently lithium-ion and similar (e.g. Li-Po) rule the roost due to their high energy density at least …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/11/improving-aluminium-ion-batteries-with-aluminium-fluoride-salt/)