Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Gaming Typewriter
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-gaming-typewriter/

Can you teach an old typewriter new tricks? You can, at least if you’re [maniek-86]. And a word to all you typewriter fanatics out there — this Optima SP 26 …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-gaming-typewriter/)

Dead Amstrad Becomes Something New
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/dead-amstrad-becomes-something-new/

When you run into old hardware you cannot restore, what do you do? Toss it? Sell it for parts? If you’re [TME Retro], you hide a high-end mini PC inside …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/dead-amstrad-becomes-something-new/)

The Most Trustworthy USB-C Cable is DIY
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/the-most-trustworthy-usb-c-cable-is-diy/

We like USB-C here at Hackaday, but like all specifications it is up to manufacturers to follow it and sometimes… they don’t. Sick of commercial cables either don’t label their …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/the-most-trustworthy-usb-c-cable-is-diy/)

Making a Brushless DC Motor Winding Machine
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/making-a-brushless-dc-motor-winding-machine/

Over on his YouTube channel our hacker [Yuchi] is building an STM32 BLDC motor winding machine. This machine is for winding brushless motors because manual winding is highly labor intensive. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/making-a-brushless-dc-motor-winding-machine/)

StatusNotifierItem: How Standard Non-Standards Tear Linux Desktops Apart
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/statusnotifieritem-how-standard-non-standards-tear-linux-desktops-apart/

Theoretically when you write a GUI-based application for Linux there are standards to follow, with these all neatly documented over at the Freedesktop website. However, in reality, Freedesktop is more …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/statusnotifieritem-how-standard-non-standards-tear-linux-desktops-apart/)

Capturing Screenshots Using a Fake Printer
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/capturing-screenshots-using-a-fake-printer/

If you have very old pieces of analogue test equipment with CRTs on your bench, the chances are they will all have surprisingly similar surrounds to their screens. Back when …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/capturing-screenshots-using-a-fake-printer/)

Weighing an Airplane as it Flies Overhead
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/weighing-an-airplane-as-it-flies-overhead/

Recently, [AlphaPhoenix] weighed an airplane. Normally, that wouldn’t be much of an accomplishment. Except in this case, the airplane happened to be in flight at the time. In fact we’re …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/weighing-an-airplane-as-it-flies-overhead/)