During [Matt]’s first year of college, he found in a roundabout way that he could avoid crowds in the dining hall by accessing publicly available occupancy data that the dining …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/12/13/bluetooth-as-proxy-for-occupancy/)

The Geometry of Transistors
https://hackaday.com/2023/12/13/the-geometry-of-transistors/

Building things in a lab is easy, at least when compared to scaling up for mass production. That’s why there are so many articles about fusion being right around the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/12/13/the-geometry-of-transistors/)

Porting CP/M to a Z80 Thing
https://hackaday.com/2023/12/13/porting-cp-m-to-a-z80-thing/

It is hard to describe the Brother SuperPowerNote. It looks like a big old Z80-based laptop, but it says it is a notebook. The label on it says (with lots …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/12/13/porting-cp-m-to-a-z80-thing/)

When is a Typewriter a Printer? When It Has a Parallel Port
https://hackaday.com/2023/12/14/when-is-a-typewriter-a-printer-when-it-has-a-parallel-port/

If you want to talk to a typewriter using something other than your fingers on the keys, you could do a lot worse than to pick up a specimen featuring …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/12/14/when-is-a-typewriter-a-printer-when-it-has-a-parallel-port/)

Polish Train Manufacturer Threatens Hackers Who Unbricked Their Trains
https://hackaday.com/2023/12/14/polish-train-manufacturer-threatens-hackers-who-unbricked-their-trains/

A week ago we covered the story of a Polish train manufacturer who was caught using software to brick their products after they had been repaired by in independent railway …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/12/14/polish-train-manufacturer-threatens-hackers-who-unbricked-their-trains/)

How Germany’s Troubled Pebble Bed Reactor Came Of Age In China
https://hackaday.com/2023/12/14/how-germanys-troubled-pebble-bed-reactor-came-of-age-in-china/

Although the concept of nuclear fission is a simple and straightforward one, the many choices for fuel types, fuel design, reactor configurations, coolant types, neutron moderator or reflector types, etc. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/12/14/how-germanys-troubled-pebble-bed-reactor-came-of-age-in-china/)

The Nintendo Switch CPU Exposed
https://hackaday.com/2023/12/14/the-nintendo-switch-cpu-exposed/

Ever wonder what’s inside a Nintendo Switch? Well, the chip is an Nvidia Tegra X1. However, if you peel back a layer, there are four ARM CPU cores inside — …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/12/14/the-nintendo-switch-cpu-exposed/)