It’s little secret that stepper motors are everywhere in FDM 3D printers, but there’s no real reason why you cannot take another type of DC motor like a brushless DC …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/08/why-stepper-motors-still-dominate-3d-printing/)

Billy Bass Gets New Job as a Voice Assistant
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/billy-bass-gets-new-job-as-a-voice-assistant/

For those who were alive and conscious before the modern Internet, there were in fact things that went “viral” and became cultural phenomenon for one reason or another. Although they …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/billy-bass-gets-new-job-as-a-voice-assistant/)

Google Japan Turn Out Another Keyboard, and it’s a Dial
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/google-japan-turn-out-another-keyboard-and-its-a-dial/

There’s a joke that does the rounds, about a teenager being given a dial phone and being unable to make head nor tail of it.  Whether or not it’s true, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/google-japan-turn-out-another-keyboard-and-its-a-dial/)

Meshtastic: A Tale of Two Cities
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/meshtastic-a-tale-of-two-cities/

If I’m honest with myself, I don’t really need access to an off-grid, fault-tolerant, mesh network like Meshtastic. The weather here in New Jersey isn’t quite so dynamic that there’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/meshtastic-a-tale-of-two-cities/)

Holy Parachute out of Kirigami
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/holy-parachute-out-of-kirigami/

If you have a fear of heights and find yourself falling out of an airplane, you probably don’t want to look up to find your parachute full of holes. However, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/holy-parachute-out-of-kirigami/)

2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Load Cell Anemometer
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/2025-component-abuse-challenge-load-cell-anemometer/

When you think anemometer, you probably don’t think “load cell” — but (statistically speaking) you probably don’t live in Hurricane Country, which is hard on wind-speed-measuring-whirligigs. When [BLANCHARD Jordan] got …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/2025-component-abuse-challenge-load-cell-anemometer/)

2025 Component Abuse Challenge: The Sweet Sound of a Choking Transformer
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/2025-component-abuse-challenge-the-sweet-sound-of-a-choking-transformer/

The Component Abuse Challenge is dragging all sorts of old, half-forgotten hacks out of the woodwork, but this has got to be the most vintage: [KenS] started using a transformer …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/2025-component-abuse-challenge-the-sweet-sound-of-a-choking-transformer/)

Motors Make the Best Knobs With SimpleFOC
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/motors-make-the-best-knobs-with-simplefoc/