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/
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/motors-make-the-best-knobs-with-simplefoc/
The worst thing about a volume knob is that, having connected it to a computer, it might be wrong: if you’ve manually altered the volume settings somewhere else, the knob’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/motors-make-the-best-knobs-with-simplefoc/)
The Fascinating Waveguide Technology Inside Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/the-fascinating-waveguide-technology-inside-metas-ray-ban-display-glasses/
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/the-fascinating-waveguide-technology-inside-metas-ray-ban-display-glasses/
Recently the avid teardown folk over at iFixit got their paws on Meta’s Ray-Ban Display glasses, for a literal in-depth look at these smart glasses. Along the way they came …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/the-fascinating-waveguide-technology-inside-metas-ray-ban-display-glasses/)
Our hacker [Piers Finlayson] is at it again, and this time he has added USB support to One ROM. With this new connectivity you can attach your One ROM to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/one-rom-gets-a-usb-stack/)
Inside a Germanium Transistor
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/10/inside-a-germanium-transistor/
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/10/inside-a-germanium-transistor/
The first transistors were point contact devices, not far from the cats-whiskers of early radio receivers. They were fragile and expensive, and their performance was not very high. The transistor …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/10/inside-a-germanium-transistor/)
BenchVolt PD: USB PD Meets Benchtop Precision
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/10/benchvolt-pd-usb-pd-meets-benchtop-precision/
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/10/benchvolt-pd-usb-pd-meets-benchtop-precision/
USB power has become ubiquitous — everything from phones to laptops all use it — so why not your lab bench? This is what [EEEngineer4Ever] set out to do with …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/10/benchvolt-pd-usb-pd-meets-benchtop-precision/)
This Week in Security: ID Breaches, Code Smell, and Poetic Flows
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/10/this-week-in-security-id-breaches-code-smell-and-poetic-flows/
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/10/this-week-in-security-id-breaches-code-smell-and-poetic-flows/
Discord had a data breach back on September 20th, via an outsourced support contractor. It seems it was a Zendesk instance that was accessed for 58 hours through a compromised …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/10/this-week-in-security-id-breaches-code-smell-and-poetic-flows/)