If you are a visual thinker, you might enjoy [AIHVHIA’s] recent video, which shows the effect of applying audio processing to text displayed on an oscilloscope. The video is below. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/audio-effects-applied-to-text/)

A Mouse, No Hands!
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/a-mouse-no-hands/

There are some ideas which someone somewhere has to try. Take [Uri Tuchman]’s foot mouse. It’s a computer mouse for foot operation, but it’s not just a functional block. Instead …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/a-mouse-no-hands/)

Gemini 2.0 + Robotics = Slam Dunk?
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/gemini-2-0-robotics-slam-dunk/

Over on the Google blog [Joel Meares] explains how Google built the new family of Gemini Robotics models. The bi-arm ALOHA robot equipped with Gemini 2.0 software can take general …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/gemini-2-0-robotics-slam-dunk/)

Creating a Somatosensory Pathway From Human Stem Cells
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/creating-a-somatosensory-pathway-from-human-stem-cells/

Human biology is very much like that of other mammals, and yet so very different in areas where it matters. One of these being human neurology, with aspects like the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/creating-a-somatosensory-pathway-from-human-stem-cells/)

Tracing the #!: How the Linux Kernel Handles the Shebang
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/tracing-the-how-the-linux-kernel-handles-the-shebang/

One of the delights in Bash, zsh, or whichever shell tickles your fancy in your OSS distribution of choice, is the ease of which you can use scripts. These can …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/tracing-the-how-the-linux-kernel-handles-the-shebang/)

Repairing Classic Sound Cards
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/12/repairing-classic-sound-cards/

Sound hardware has been built into PC motherboards for so long now it’s difficult to remember the days when a sound card was an expensive add-on peripheral. By the mid …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/12/repairing-classic-sound-cards/)

Tiny Pogo Robot Gets Wings, Does Flips
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/12/tiny-pogo-robot-gets-wings-does-flips/

Most robots depend on controlled environments, because the real world is hard to get around in. The smaller the robot, the bigger this problem because little wheels (or legs) can …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/12/tiny-pogo-robot-gets-wings-does-flips/)

Biting Off More Than I Can Chew
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/12/biting-off-more-than-i-can-chew/

Earlier this year, I bought one of those K40-style laser machines that was listed at a ridiculously low price, and it arrived broken. Well, let me qualify that: the laser …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/12/biting-off-more-than-i-can-chew/)

DIY Soldering Tweezers, Extra Thrifty
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/12/diy-soldering-tweezers-extra-thrifty/

It started when [Mitxela] was faced with about a hundred incorrectly-placed 0603 parts. Given that he already owned two TS101 soldering irons, a 3D printer, and knows how to use …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/12/diy-soldering-tweezers-extra-thrifty/)