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/

If you have any empathy at all for those of us in the journalistic profession, have some pity for the poor editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, who let through an …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/07/the-hackaday-summer-reading-list-no-ai-involvement-guaranteed/)

IR Point and Shoot Has a Raspberry Heart in a 35mm Body
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/07/ir-point-and-shoot-has-a-raspberry-heart-in-a-35mm-body/

image : Malcolm Wilson
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ir-pi-cam.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ir-pi-cam.jpg?w=800">Photography is great, but sometimes it can get boring just reusing the same wavelengths over and over again. There are other options, though and when [Malcolm Wilson] decided he wanted …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/07/ir-point-and-shoot-has-a-raspberry-heart-in-a-35mm-body/)

When is a synth a woodwind? When it’s a Pneumatone
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/07/when-is-a-synth-a-woodwind-when-its-a-pneumatone/