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
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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/)
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
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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/)
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/)
How Magnetic Fonts Twisted Up Numbers And Saved Banking Forever
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If you’ve ever looked at the bottom of a bank check, you probably glanced over some strangely formed numbers? If you’re a fan of science fiction or retro computers, you’ve …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/how-magnetic-fonts-twisted-up-numbers-and-saved-banking-forever/)
Tiny Mouse Ring Uses Prox Sensors
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A traditional computer mouse typically fits in the palm of your hand. However, with modern technology, there’s no need for mice to be so large, as demonstrated by [juskim]’s neat …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/tiny-mouse-ring-uses-prox-sensors/)