OpenMIDIStomper Makes Sure Your Gear Does What Your Foot Says
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/03/openmidistomper-makes-sure-your-gear-does-what-your-foot-says/

If you’re a solo musician, you probably have lots of gear you’d like to control, but you don’t have enough hands. You can enlist your feet, but your gear might …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/03/openmidistomper-makes-sure-your-gear-does-what-your-foot-says/)

A Miniature Ostwald Reactor to Make Nitric Acid
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/03/a-miniature-ostwald-reactor-to-make-nitric-acid/

Modern fertilizer manufacturing uses the Haber-Bosch and Ostwald processes to fix aerial nitrogen as ammonia, then oxidize the ammonia to nitric acid. Having already created a Haber-Bosch reactor for ammonia …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/03/a-miniature-ostwald-reactor-to-make-nitric-acid/)

Smart Mjolnir Makes Questionable Judgement Call On Your Worthiness
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/03/smart-mjolnir-makes-questionable-judgement-call-on-your-worthiness/

Mjolnir, also known as Thor’s hammer, is a discerning thing, at least if you believe the modern Marvel canon. [alemanjir] decided to build a semi-functional replica that makes judgement calls …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/03/smart-mjolnir-makes-questionable-judgement-call-on-your-worthiness/)

AI Might Kill Us All (With Carbon Emissions)
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/03/ai-might-kill-us-all-with-carbon-emissions/

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Pez Blaster Shoots Candy Dangerously Fast
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/03/pez-blaster-shoots-candy-dangerously-fast/

You could use a little pocket-sized Pez dispenser if you’re a humble, reserved person. Or, you could follow the example of [Backhaul Studios], and build a dangerously powerful blaster that …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/03/pez-blaster-shoots-candy-dangerously-fast/)

SMD Capacitor Doubles as Cheap SD Card Latch
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/04/smd-capacitor-doubles-as-cheap-sd-card-latch/

Here’s a clever hack. Simple, elegant, and eminently cost-effective: using an SMD capacitor to hold your flash media in place! This is a hack that can pretty much be summed …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/04/smd-capacitor-doubles-as-cheap-sd-card-latch/)

Why GitHub Copilot Isn’t Your Coding Partner
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/04/why-github-copilot-isnt-your-coding-partner/

These days ‘AI’ is everywhere, including in software development. Coming hot on the heels of approaches like eXtreme Programming and Pair Programming, there’s now a new kind of pair programming …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/04/why-github-copilot-isnt-your-coding-partner/)