Big-name tube amplifiers often don’t come cheap. Being the preserve of dedicated audiophiles, those delicate hi-fis put their glass components on show to tell you just how pricy they really …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/27/convert-a-cheap-tube-preamp-into-a-headphone-amp-with-jenny/)

AI Helps Researchers Discover New Structural Materials
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/27/ai-helps-researchers-discover-new-structural-materials/

Nanostructured metamaterials have shown a lot of promise in what they can do in the lab, but often have fatal stress concentration factors that limit their applications. Researchers have now …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/27/ai-helps-researchers-discover-new-structural-materials/)

Bringing a Current Dumping Amplifier Back To Life
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/27/bringing-a-current-dumping-amplifier-back-to-life/

Over the years there have been many different audio amplifier designs which have found favour for a while and then been supplanted by newer ideas. One of them has crossed …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/27/bringing-a-current-dumping-amplifier-back-to-life/)

Copying Commodore Data Tapes, 40 Years Late
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/28/copying-commodore-data-tapes-40-years-late/

Unless you handle the backups for a large corporation, bank, or government entity, you likely haven’t stored much data to tape recently. But magnetic storage used to be fairly mainstream …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/28/copying-commodore-data-tapes-40-years-late/)

Gonzo Film Making With The Raspberry Pi
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/28/gonzo-film-making-with-the-raspberry-pi/

Gonzo journalism has been a hip thing since the 1970s or so, a way of covering a story in a compelling format with more subjectivity and less objectivity. The style …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/28/gonzo-film-making-with-the-raspberry-pi/)

This Week in Security: Malicious Themes, Crypto Heists, and Wallbleed
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/28/this-week-in-security-malicious-themes-crypto-heists-and-wallbleed/

It’s usually not a good sign when your downloaded theme contains obfuscated code. Yes, we’re talking about the very popular Material Theme for VSCode. This one has a bit of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/28/this-week-in-security-malicious-themes-crypto-heists-and-wallbleed/)

Lost Foam Aluminium Alloy Casting
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/28/lost-foam-aluminium-alloy-casting/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxFAhnvXzys
" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-27-095550-featured.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-27-095550-featured.png?w=800">[Kelly Coffield] makes intake manifolds for old Ford throttle bodies for fun, demonstrating an excellent technique for making such things in the small shop. The mould patterns are CNC machined …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/28/lost-foam-aluminium-alloy-casting/)