Your design task, should you decide to accept it: given an input voltage, square it. Ok, that’s too hard since squaring 8 volts would give you 64 volts, so let’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/01/challenge-square-a-voltage/)
By now most floppy disks have been relegated to the dustbin of history, with a few exceptions for obscure industrial applications using legacy hardware and, of course, much of the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/01/whack-a-disk/)
Adding Automatic Emergency Braking To An RC Car
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/adding-automatic-emergency-braking-to-an-rc-car/
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/adding-automatic-emergency-braking-to-an-rc-car/
Modern RC cars can be pretty darn fast. That’s fun and all, but it also makes it easy to crash them into things. This problem inspired [Narrow Studios] to whip …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/adding-automatic-emergency-braking-to-an-rc-car/)
Finally, An Extension To Copyright Law We Can Get Behind
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/finally-an-extension-to-copyright-law-we-can-get-behind/
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/finally-an-extension-to-copyright-law-we-can-get-behind/
Normally when a government extends a piece of copyright law we expect it to be in the favour of commercial interests with deep pockets and little care for their consumers. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/finally-an-extension-to-copyright-law-we-can-get-behind/)
Why The Latest Linux Kernel Won’t Run On Your 486 And 586 Anymore
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/why-the-latest-linux-kernel-wont-run-on-your-486-and-586-anymore/
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/why-the-latest-linux-kernel-wont-run-on-your-486-and-586-anymore/
Some time ago, Linus Torvalds made a throwaway comment that sent ripples through the Linux world. Was it perhaps time to abandon support for the now-ancient Intel 486? Developers had …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/why-the-latest-linux-kernel-wont-run-on-your-486-and-586-anymore/)
Making a Smarter Laptop Cooler
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/making-a-smarter-laptop-cooler/
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/making-a-smarter-laptop-cooler/
[Bogdan Micea] uses a laptop cooler, but was a bit annoyed that his cooler would run at the same power no matter how hard the laptop was working. Rather than …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/making-a-smarter-laptop-cooler/)
South Korea Brought High-Rise Fire Escape Solutions To The Masses
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/south-korea-brought-high-rise-fire-escape-solutions-to-the-masses/
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/south-korea-brought-high-rise-fire-escape-solutions-to-the-masses/
When a fire breaks out in a high-rise building, conventional wisdom is that stairwells are the only way out. Lifts are verboten in such scenarios, while sheer height typically prevents …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/south-korea-brought-high-rise-fire-escape-solutions-to-the-masses/)
FLOSS Weekly Episode 839: I Want to Get Paid Twice
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/floss-weekly-episode-839-i-want-to-get-paid-twice/
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/floss-weekly-episode-839-i-want-to-get-paid-twice/