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/

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/

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/

[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/

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/

This week Jonathan chats with benny Vasquez about AlmaLinux! Why is AlmaLinux the choice for slightly older hardware? What is the deal with RISC-V? And how does EPEL fit in? …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/floss-weekly-episode-839-i-want-to-get-paid-twice/)

Subpixel Rendering For Impossibly Small Terminal Text
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/subpixel-rendering-for-impossibly-small-terminal-text/

TermDriver2
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/termdriver2-front-back-01-comp_jpg_gallery-lg.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/termdriver2-front-back-01-comp_jpg_gallery-lg.jpg?w=800">When it comes to text, how small is too small? The experts say a six point font is the minimum for readability, but as [James Bowman] shows us, you can …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/subpixel-rendering-for-impossibly-small-terminal-text/)