There are many ways to hack the world. Graduate students at Parsons The New School for Design developed a guide for hacking the biggest piece of technology humans have developed …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/24/hackable-cities/)

To Test a (Smart) LED
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/24/to-test-a-smart-led/

Adding LEDs to a project used to be enough to make it cool. But these days, you need arrays of addressable multi-color LEDs, and that typically means WS2812B or something …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/24/to-test-a-smart-led/)

PCB Dielectric Constant Measurements, Three Ways
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/25/pcb-dielectric-constant-measurements-three-ways/

FR4 is FR4, right? For a lot of PCB designs, the answer is yes — the particular characteristics of the substrate material don’t impact your design in any major way. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/25/pcb-dielectric-constant-measurements-three-ways/)

BlackBerry Keyboard Makes This Handheld Pi Stand Out
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/25/blackberry-keyboard-makes-this-handheld-pi-stand-out/

In the decade or more since small inexpensive Linux-capable single board computers such as the Raspberry Pi came to the mainstream, many a hardware hacker has turned their attention to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/25/blackberry-keyboard-makes-this-handheld-pi-stand-out/)

Tech In Plain Sight: Magsafe, and How To Roll Your Own
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/25/tech-in-plain-sight-magsafe-and-how-to-roll-your-own/

Apple likes magnets. They started out with magnetic laptop chargers and then graduated to a system that magnetically holds the phone, charges it, and can facilitate communication between the phone …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/25/tech-in-plain-sight-magsafe-and-how-to-roll-your-own/)

Custom Frame Grabber Gets Vintage Kodak Digital Camera Back in the Game
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/25/custom-frame-grabber-gets-vintage-kodak-digital-camera-back-in-the-game/

What do you do with a four-megapixel monochrome digital camera from the 90s that needed a dedicated PC with a frame grabber card to do anything useful? Easy — you …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/25/custom-frame-grabber-gets-vintage-kodak-digital-camera-back-in-the-game/)

We’re Hiring: Come Join Us!
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/25/were-hiring-come-join-us-7/

You wake up in the morning, and check Hackaday over breakfast. Then it’s off to work or school, where you’ve already had to explain the Jolly Wrencher to your shoulder-surfing …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/25/were-hiring-come-join-us-7/)

Infill Injection Experiment Makes Stronger Parts
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/25/infill-injection-experiment-makes-stronger-parts/