If you were an American kid in the 1990s, chances are good that you may have been issued a little word processing machine by your school called an Alphasmart. These …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/17/enthusiast-seeks-keycap-designer-for-alphasmart-neo/)

Back to Basics with a 555 Deep Dive
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/17/back-to-basics-with-a-555-deep-dive/

Many of us could sit down at the bench and whip up a 555 circuit from memory. It’s really not that hard, which is a bit strange considering how flexible …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/17/back-to-basics-with-a-555-deep-dive/)

Star Wars-Inspired Cosplay Prop Uses Old Vintage Camera
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/17/star-wars-inspired-cosplay-prop-uses-old-vintage-camera/

Lots of people make replica lightsabers from Star Wars or tricorders from Star Trek. Not so many people have tried to recreate the binoculars from The Last Jedi, but [The Smugglers Room] whipped up …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/17/star-wars-inspired-cosplay-prop-uses-old-vintage-camera/)

A Badge For AI-Free Content – 100% Human!
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/17/a-badge-for-ai-free-content-100-human/

These days, just about anyone with a pulse can fall on a keyboard and make an AI image generator spurt out some kind of vaguely visual content. A lot of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/17/a-badge-for-ai-free-content-100-human/)

Metal 3D Printing Gets Really Fast (and Really Ugly)
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/17/metal-3d-printing-gets-really-fast-and-really-ugly/

The secret to cranking out a furniture-sized metal frame in minutes is Liquid Metal Printing (LMP), demonstrated by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They’ve demonstrated printing aluminum frames …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/17/metal-3d-printing-gets-really-fast-and-really-ugly/)

Canned Air is Unexpectedly Supersonic
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/18/canned-air-is-unexpectedly-supersonic/

How fast is the gas coming out from those little duster tubes of canned air? Perhaps faster than one might think! It’s supersonic (video, embedded below) as [Cylo’s Garage] shows …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/18/canned-air-is-unexpectedly-supersonic/)

Extreme Waterproof 3D Prints
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/18/extreme-waterproof-3d-prints/

Since the crew at [CPSdrone] likes to build underwater drones — submarines, in other words — they need to 3D print waterproof hulls. At first, they thought there were several …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/18/extreme-waterproof-3d-prints/)

Doubling the CPU Speed of the TRS-80 Model 100 With a Mod Board
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/18/doubling-the-cpu-speed-of-the-trs-80-model-100-with-a-mod-board/