Treat dispensers are old hat around here, but what if kitty doesn’t need the extra calories — and actually needs to drop some pounds? [MethodicalMaker] decided to link the treat …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/14/2025-pet-hacks-contest-automatic-treat-dispenser-makes-kitty-work-for-it/)

Your Own Core Rope Memory
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/14/your-own-core-rope-memory/

If you want read-only memory today, you might be tempted to use flash memory or, if you want old-school, maybe an EPROM. But there was a time when that wasn’t …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/14/your-own-core-rope-memory/)

LED Layer Makes Plywood Glow
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/14/led-layer-makes-plywood-glow/

Plywood is an interesting material: made up of many layers of thin wood plys, it can be built up into elegantly curved shapes. Do you need to limit it to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/14/led-layer-makes-plywood-glow/)

Inside Starlink’s User Terminal
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/14/inside-starlinks-user-terminal/

If you talk about Starlink, you are usually talking about the satellites that orbit the Earth carrying data to and from ground stations. Why not? Space is cool. But there’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/14/inside-starlinks-user-terminal/)

Fancy Adding a Transputer Or Two To Your Atari ST?
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/14/fancy-adding-a-transputer-or-two-to-your-atari-st/

https://www.geekdot.com/atw800_2/
" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250507_191806-featured.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250507_191806-featured.jpg?w=800">Has anybody heard of the ATW800 transputer workstation? The one that used a modified Atari ST motherboard as a glorified I/O controller for a T-series transputer?  No, we hadn’t either, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/14/fancy-adding-a-transputer-or-two-to-your-atari-st/)

Smart Terrarium Run By ESP32
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/15/smart-terrarium-run-by-esp32/

A terrarium is a little piece of the living world captured in a small enclosure you can pop on your desk or coffee table at home. If you want to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/15/smart-terrarium-run-by-esp32/)

Welcome Your New AI (LEGO) Overlord
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/15/welcome-your-new-ai-lego-overlord/

You’d think a paper from a science team from Carnegie Mellon would be short on fun. But the team behind LegoGPT would prove you wrong. The system allows you to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/15/welcome-your-new-ai-lego-overlord/)

Falling Down The Land Camera Rabbit Hole
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/15/falling-down-the-land-camera-rabbit-hole/

It was such an innocent purchase, a slightly grubby and scuffed grey plastic box with the word “P O L A R O I D” intriguingly printed along its top …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/15/falling-down-the-land-camera-rabbit-hole/)