Adding USB-C (Kinda) to a PowerMac G4
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/15/adding-usb-c-kinda-to-a-powermac-g4/

For those who’ve never bitten the Apple, the PowerMac G4 was a blue-tinted desktop Macintosh offered from 1999 to 2004. At the time, the machines were plenty fast — being …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/15/adding-usb-c-kinda-to-a-powermac-g4/)

Valentine’s Day…Hacks?
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/15/valentines-day-hacks/

How do you reconcile your love for hacking projects together with your love for that someone special? By making him or her a DIY masterpiece of blinking red LEDs, but …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/15/valentines-day-hacks/)

How To Find Where a Wire in a Cable is Broken
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/15/how-to-find-where-a-wire-in-a-cable-is-broken/

Determining that a cable has a broken conductor is the easy part, but where exactly is the break? In a recent video, [Richard] over at the Learn Electronics Repair channel on …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/15/how-to-find-where-a-wire-in-a-cable-is-broken/)

Octet of ESP32s Lets You See WiFi Like Never Before
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/15/octet-of-esp32s-lets-you-see-wifi-like-never-before/

Most of us see the world in a very narrow band of the EM spectrum. Sure, there are people with a genetic quirk that extends the range a bit into …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/15/octet-of-esp32s-lets-you-see-wifi-like-never-before/)

You Know This Font, But You Don’t Really Know It
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/15/you-know-this-font-but-you-dont-really-know-it/

Typography enthusiasts reach a point at which they can recognise a font after seeing only a few letters in the wild, and usually identify its close family if not the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/15/you-know-this-font-but-you-dont-really-know-it/)

Chop, Chop, Chop: Trying Out VR for Woodworking
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/15/chop-chop-chop-considering-vr-for-woodworking/

Virtual Reality in woodworking sounds like a recipe for disaster—or at least a few missing fingers. But [The Swedish Maker] decided to put this concept to the test, diving into …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/15/chop-chop-chop-considering-vr-for-woodworking/)

Curious Claim of Conversion of Aluminium into Transparent Aluminium Oxide
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/15/curious-claim-of-conversion-of-aluminium-into-transparent-aluminium-oxide/

Sometimes you come across a purported scientific paper that makes you do a triple-check, just to be sure that you didn’t overlook something, as maybe the claims do make sense …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/15/curious-claim-of-conversion-of-aluminium-into-transparent-aluminium-oxide/)