If you’ve only been around for the Internet age, you may not realize that Hackaday is the successor of electronics magazines. In their heyday, magazines like Popular Electronics, Radio Electronics, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/29/the-diy-1982-picture-phone/)

There’s An Venusian Spacecraft Coming Our Way
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It’s not unusual for redundant satellites, rocket stages, or other spacecraft to re-enter the earth’s atmosphere. Usually they pass unnoticed or generate a spectacular light show, and very rarely a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/29/theres-an-venusian-spacecraft-coming-our-way/)

Crossing Commodore Signal Cables on Purpose
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On a Commodore 64, the computer is normally connected to a monitor with one composite video cable and to an audio device with a second, identical (although uniquely colored) cable. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/29/crossing-commodore-signal-cables-on-purpose/)

Read Motor Speed Better By Making The RP2040 PIO Do It
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A quadrature encoder provides a way to let hardware read movement (and direction) of a shaft, and they can be simple, effective, and inexpensive devices. But [Paulo Marques] observed that …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/29/read-motor-speed-better-by-making-the-rp2040-pio-do-it/)

Comparing ‘AI’ for Basic Plant Care With Human Brown Thumbs
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Like so many of us, [Liam] has a big problem. Whether it’s the curse of Brown Thumbs or something else, those darn houseplants just keep dying despite guides always telling …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/29/comparing-ai-for-basic-plant-care-with-human-brown-thumbs/)

Back to Reality with the Time Brick
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There are a lot of distractions in daily life, especially with all the different forms of technology and their accompanying algorithms vying for our attention in the modern world. [mar1ash] …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/29/back-to-reality-with-the-time-brick/)

Building an nRF52840 and Battery-Powered Zigbee Gate Sensor
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/30/building-an-nrf52840-and-battery-powered-zigbee-gate-sensor/

Recently [Glen Akins] reported on Bluesky that the Zigbee-based sensor he had made for his garden’s rear gate was still going strong after a Summer and Winter on the original …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/30/building-an-nrf52840-and-battery-powered-zigbee-gate-sensor/)

Terminal DAW Does it in Style
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