Modern e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle are incredible pieces of engineering, but that doesn’t mean there’s no room for improvement. A device custom-built to your own specifications is always …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/10/solar-powered-e-reader-with-no-buttons/)

What’s Wrong With This Antenna Tuner?
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[Tech Minds] built one of those cheap automatic antenna tuners you see everywhere — this one scaled up to 350 watt capability. The kit is mostly built, but you do …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/10/whats-wrong-with-this-antenna-tuner/)

Satellite Imagery You Can Play With
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Satellite imagery is in the news right now, but not all satellite constellations are the preserve of governments. Satellogic operates a series of CubeSats with Earth imaging payloads, and best …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/10/satellite-imagery-you-can-play-with/)

Hacking a Heavyweight Philco Radio
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There’s something magical about the clunk of a heavy 1950s portable radio – the solid thunk of Bakelite, the warm hum of tubes glowing to life. This is exactly why …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/10/hacking-a-heavyweight-philco-radio/)

Homebrew Traffic Monitor Keeps Eyes on the Streets
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/11/homebrew-traffic-monitor-keeps-eyes-on-the-streets/

How many cars go down your street each day? How fast were they going? What about folks out on a walk or people riding bikes? It’s not an easy question …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/11/homebrew-traffic-monitor-keeps-eyes-on-the-streets/)

Josephine Cochrane Invented the Modern Dishwasher — In 1886
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/11/josephine-cochrane-invented-the-modern-dishwasher-in-1886/

Popular Science has an excellent article on how Josephine Cochrane transformed how dishes are cleaned by inventing an automated dish washing machine and obtaining a patent in 1886. Dishwashers had …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/11/josephine-cochrane-invented-the-modern-dishwasher-in-1886/)

TrapC: A C Extension For the Memory Safety Boogeyman
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/11/trapc-a-c-extension-for-the-memory-safety-boogeyman/

In the world of programming languages it often feels like being stuck in a Groundhog Day-esque loop through purgatory, as effectively the same problems are being solved over and over, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/11/trapc-a-c-extension-for-the-memory-safety-boogeyman/)

Tiny Laptop Gets a New Case and an Unlocking
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Unless you’ve got an especially small lap, calling the Toshiba Libretto a laptop is a bit of a stretch. The diminutive computers from the mid-1990s had a lot of the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/11/tiny-laptop-gets-a-new-case-and-an-unlocking/)