Taking delivery of a new vehicle from a dealership is an emotional mixed bag. On the one hand, you’ve had to endure the sales rep’s hunger to close the deal, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/06/hackaday-links-july-6-2025/)

Fastener Fusion: Automating the Art of Counting
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/06/fastener-fusion-automating-the-art-of-counting/

Counting objects is an ideal task for automation, and when focusing on a single type of object, there are many effective solutions. But what if you need to count hundreds …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/06/fastener-fusion-automating-the-art-of-counting/)

Building a Potato-based GLaDOS as an Introduction to AI
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/06/building-a-potato-based-glados-as-an-introduction-to-ai/

Although not nearly as intimidating as her ceiling-mounted hanging arm body, GLaDOS spent a significant portion of the Portal 2 game in a stripped-down computer powered by a potato battery. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/06/building-a-potato-based-glados-as-an-introduction-to-ai/)

Building an X-Ray Crystallography Machine
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/07/building-an-x-ray-crystallography-machine/

X-ray crystallography, like mass spectroscopy and nuclear spectroscopy, is an extremely useful material characterization technique that is unfortunately hard for amateurs to perform. The physical operation isn’t too complicated, however, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/07/building-an-x-ray-crystallography-machine/)

160-core RISC V Board is the m.2 CoProcessor You Didn’t know you needed
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/07/160-core-risc-v-board-is-the-m-2-coprocessor-you-didnt-know-you-needed/

Aside from GPUs, you don’t hear much about co-processors these days. [bitluni] perhaps missed those days, because he found a way to squeeze a 160 core RISC V supercluster onto …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/07/160-core-risc-v-board-is-the-m-2-coprocessor-you-didnt-know-you-needed/)

This Week in Security: Anthropic, Coinbase, and Oops Hunting
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/07/this-week-in-security-anthropic-coinbase-and-oops-hunting/

Anthropic has had an eventful couple weeks, and we have two separate write-ups to cover. The first is a vulnerability in the Antropic MCP Inspector, CVE-2025-49596. We’ve talked a bit …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/07/this-week-in-security-anthropic-coinbase-and-oops-hunting/)

Splice CAD: Cable Harness Design Tool
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/07/splice-cad-cable-harness-design-tool/

Cable harness design is a critical yet often overlooked aspect of electronics design, just as essential as PCB design. While numerous software options exist for PCB design, cable harness design …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/07/splice-cad-cable-harness-design-tool/)

The Hackaday Summer Reading List: No AI Involvement, Guaranteed
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/07/the-hackaday-summer-reading-list-no-ai-involvement-guaranteed/