While spider silk proteins are something you can make in your garage, making useful drag line fibers has proved a daunting challenge. Now, a team of scientists from Japan and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/08/synthetic-spider-silk/)

[Usagi] Whips a Chain Printer Into Shape
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/08/usagi-whips-a-chain-printer-into-shape/

What does it take to get a 47-year-old printer working? [Usagi Electric] shows us it’s not too hard, even if you don’t exactly know what you’re doing.  When we last …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/08/usagi-whips-a-chain-printer-into-shape/)

Power Supply Efficiency Measurements
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/09/power-supply-efficiency-measurements/

Even if you don’t have a Rohde Schwarz oscilloscope, you can still enjoy their recent video about using an oscilloscope to measure power supply efficiency. Of course, you don’t have …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/09/power-supply-efficiency-measurements/)

Flipped Bit Could Mark the End of Voyager 1‘s Interstellar Mission
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/09/flipped-bit-could-mark-the-end-of-voyager-1s-interstellar-mission/

The Voyager probes are 14 billion miles away now and still working. Source: JPL (https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/details.php?article_id=88)
' data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/pia17049_hires.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/pia17049_hires.jpg?w=800">Sometimes it’s hard to read the tea leaves of what’s going on with high-profile space missions. Weighted down as they are with the need to be careful with taxpayer money …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/09/flipped-bit-could-mark-the-end-of-voyager-1s-interstellar-mission/)

This Week in Security: Broken Shims, LassPass, and Toothbrushes?
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/09/this-week-in-security-broken-shims-lasspass-and-toothbrushes/

Linux has a shim problem. Which naturally leads to a reasonable question: What’s a shim, and why do we need it? The answer: Making Linux work wit Secure Boot, and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/09/this-week-in-security-broken-shims-lasspass-and-toothbrushes/)

NIF’s Laser Fusion Experiment’s Energy Gain Passes Peer Review
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/09/nifs-laser-fusion-experiments-energy-gain-passes-peer-review/

Back in December of 2022, a team of researchers at the USA’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) announced that they had exceeded ‘scientific breakeven’ with their laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/09/nifs-laser-fusion-experiments-energy-gain-passes-peer-review/)

Hackaday Podcast Episode 256: 0, 256, 378, 0xFF, and 10000000
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/09/hackaday-podcast-episode-256-0-256-378-0xff-and-10000000/

For this week’s episode, we did something super special — we all convened to answer your burning questions about your hosts, both as hackers and as humans. We kick things …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/09/hackaday-podcast-episode-256-0-256-378-0xff-and-10000000/)

Better Living Through Biomedical Engineering
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/09/better-living-through-biomedical-engineering/