Onkyo Receiver Saved With An ESP32
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/onkyo-receiver-saved-with-an-esp32/

[Bill Dudley] had a problem. He had an Onkyo AV receiver that did a great job… until it didn’t. A DSP inside failed. When that happened, the main microprocessor running …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/onkyo-receiver-saved-with-an-esp32/)

3D Printing A Useful Fixturing Tool
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/3d-printing-a-useful-fixturing-tool/

When you start building lots of something, you’ll know the value of accurate fixturing. [Chris Borge] learned this the hard way on a recent mass-production project, and decided to solve …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/3d-printing-a-useful-fixturing-tool/)

Clickspring’s Experimental Archaeology: Concentric Thin-Walled Tubing
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/25/clicksprings-experimental-archaeology-concentric-thin-walled-tubing/

It’s human nature to look at the technological achievements of the ancients — you know, anything before the 1990s — and marvel at how they were able to achieve precision …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/25/clicksprings-experimental-archaeology-concentric-thin-walled-tubing/)

Adding an Atari Joystick Port to TheC64 USB Joystick
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/adding-an-atari-joystick-port-to-thec64-usb-joystick/

“TheC64” is a popular recreation of the best selling computer of all time, the original Commodore 64. [10p6] enjoys hacking on this platform, and recently whipped up a new mod …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/adding-an-atari-joystick-port-to-thec64-usb-joystick/)

LLMs Coming for a DNA Sequence Near You
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/llms-coming-for-a-dna-sequence-near-you/

While tools like CRISPR have blown the field of genome hacking wide open, being able to predict what will happen when you tinker with the code underlying the living things …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/llms-coming-for-a-dna-sequence-near-you/)

Posthumous Composition Being Performed by the Composer
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/25/posthumous-composition-being-performed-by-the-composer/

Alvin Lucier was an American experimental composer whose compositions were arguably as much science experiments as they were music. The piece he is best known for, I Am Sitting in …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/25/posthumous-composition-being-performed-by-the-composer/)

This Week in Security: XRP Poisoned, MCP Bypassed, and More
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/25/this-week-in-security-xrp-poisoned-mcp-bypassed-and-more/

Researchers at Aikido run the Aikido Intel system, an LLM security monitor that ingests the feeds from public package repositories, and looks for anything unusual. In this case, the unusual …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/25/this-week-in-security-xrp-poisoned-mcp-bypassed-and-more/)