Looks like the Simpsons had it right again, now that an Australian radio station has been caught using an AI-generated DJ for their midday slot. Station CADA, a Sydney-based broadcaster …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/27/hackaday-links-april-27-2025/)

Design Constraints Bring Lockbox to Life
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/27/design-constraints-bring-lockbox-to-life/

One of the most paradoxical aspects of creating art is the fact that constraints, whether arbitrary or real, and whether in space, time, materials, or rules, often cause creativity to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/27/design-constraints-bring-lockbox-to-life/)

Kaleidoscopico Shows Off Pi Pico’s Capabilities
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/27/kaleidoscopico-shows-off-pi-picos-capabilities/

In the early days of computing, and well into the era where home computers were common but not particularly powerful, programming these machines was a delicate balance of managing hardware …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/27/kaleidoscopico-shows-off-pi-picos-capabilities/)

Look! It’s a Knob! It’s a Jack! It’s Euroknob!
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/28/look-its-a-knob-its-a-jack-its-euroknob/

Are your Eurorack modules too crowded? Sick of your patch cables making it hard to twiddle your knobs? Then you might be very interested in the new Euroknob, the knob …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/28/look-its-a-knob-its-a-jack-its-euroknob/)

ASUS GPU Uses Gyroscope to Warn for Sagging Cards
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/28/asus-gpu-uses-gyroscope-to-warn-for-sagging-cards/

It’s not really an understatement to say that over the years videocards (GPUs) — much like CPU coolers — have become rather chonky. Unfortunately, the PCIe slots they plug into …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/28/asus-gpu-uses-gyroscope-to-warn-for-sagging-cards/)

Life on K2-18b? Don’t Get Your Hopes Up Just Yet
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/28/life-on-k2-18b-dont-get-your-hopes-up-just-yet/

Last week, the mainstream news was filled with headlines about K2-18b — an exoplanet some 124 light-years away from Earth that 98% of the population had never even heard about. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/28/life-on-k2-18b-dont-get-your-hopes-up-just-yet/)

Deriving the Reactance Formulas
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/28/deriving-the-reactance-formulas/

If you’ve dealt with reactance, you surely know the two equations for computing inductive and capacitive reactance. But unless you’ve really dug into it, you may only know the formula …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/28/deriving-the-reactance-formulas/)

Pi Pico Throws Us for a (MIDI) Loop
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/28/pi-pico-throws-us-for-a-midi-loop/