Dummy Plug Gets Smarter with Raspberry Pi
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/16/dummy-plug-gets-smarter-with-raspberry-pi/

[Doug Brown] had a problem. He uses a dummy HDMI plug to fool a computer into thinking it has a monitor for when you want to run the computer headless. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/16/dummy-plug-gets-smarter-with-raspberry-pi/)

This Thermochromic Clock Is a Ray of Sunshine
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/16/this-thermochromic-clock-is-a-ray-of-sunshine/

It’s never a bad time to look at a clock, and one could certainly do worse than this delightful Paper Sunshine Clock by [anneosaur]. The sun-ray display is an interesting …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/16/this-thermochromic-clock-is-a-ray-of-sunshine/)

Big Chemistry: Seawater Desalination
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/16/big-chemistry-seawater-desalination/

For a world covered in oceans, getting a drink of water on Planet Earth can be surprisingly tricky. Fresh water is hard to come by even on our water world, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/16/big-chemistry-seawater-desalination/)

Expanding Racks in the Spirit of the Hoberman Sphere
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/16/expanding-racks-in-the-spirit-of-the-hoberman-sphere/

If you’re a mechanical engineering wonk, you might appreciate this latest video from [Henry Segerman] wherein he demonstrates his various expanding racks. [Henry] explains how the basic “double-rack” unit can …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/16/expanding-racks-in-the-spirit-of-the-hoberman-sphere/)

Bringing an Obscure Apple Operating System to Modern Hardware
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/16/bringing-an-obscure-apple-operating-system-to-modern-hardware/

During Apple’s late-90s struggles with profitability, it made a few overtures toward licensing its software to other computer manufacturers, while at the same time trying to modernize its operating system, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/16/bringing-an-obscure-apple-operating-system-to-modern-hardware/)

Robot Dinosaur YOLOs Colors and Shapes for Kids
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/robot-dinosaur-yolos-colors-and-shapes-for-kids/

YOLO can mean many things, but in the context of [be_riddickulous]’s AI Talking Robot Dinosaur it refers to the “You Only Look Once” YOLOv11 object-detection algorithm by Ultralytics, the method …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/robot-dinosaur-yolos-colors-and-shapes-for-kids/)

How Discord Was Ported to Windows 95 and NT 3.1
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/how-discord-was-ported-to-windows-95-and-nt-3-1/

On the desktop, most people use the official HTML and JavaScript-based client for Discord in either a browser or a still-smells-like-a-browser Electron package. Yet what if there was a way …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/how-discord-was-ported-to-windows-95-and-nt-3-1/)