The Free Software Foundation is holding an auction to celebrate its 40th anniversary. You can bid on the original sketch of the GNU head by [Etienne Suvasa] and [Richard Stallman’s] …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/09/your-chance-to-get-a-head-a-gnu-head-specifically/)

A Twin-Lens Reflex Camera That’s Not Quite What It Seems
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/09/a-twin-lens-reflex-camera-thats-not-quite-what-it-seems/

The Camp Snap is a simple fixed-focus digital camera with only an optical viewfinder and a shot counter, which has become a surprise hit among photography enthusiasts for its similarity …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/09/a-twin-lens-reflex-camera-thats-not-quite-what-it-seems/)

Hackaday Links: February 9, 2025
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/09/hackaday-links-february-9-2025/

January 9 ended up being a very expensive day for a Culver City, California man after he pleaded guilty to recklessly operating a drone during the height of the Pacific …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/09/hackaday-links-february-9-2025/)

Powerful Flashlight Gets Active Air Cooling
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/09/powerful-flashlight-gets-active-air-cooling/

LEDs were once little more than weedy little indicators with low light output. Today, they’re absolute powerhouses, efficiently turning a flow of electrons into a searing beam of light. Despite …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/09/powerful-flashlight-gets-active-air-cooling/)

Hack That Broken Zipper!
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/09/hack-that-broken-zipper/

We’ve all been there. That sad day when the zipper on our favorite hoodie, bag, or pair of pants breaks in some seemingly irreparable way. But there is hope, and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/09/hack-that-broken-zipper/)

Flip Flops Make Great Soft Switches
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/flip-flops-make-great-soft-switches/

Mechanical switches are pretty easy to understand—the contacts touch, the current flows, and Bob is, presumably, your uncle. But what about soft switches? Well, they’re not that difficult to understand …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/flip-flops-make-great-soft-switches/)

Basically, It’s BASIC
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/basically-its-basic/

The BASIC language may be considered old-hat here in 2025, and the days when a computer came as a matter of course with a BASIC interpreter are far behind us, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/basically-its-basic/)