Although Nintendo is mostly famous for making great games, they also have an infamous reputation for being highly litigious not only for reasonable qualms like outright piracy of their games, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/19/an-open-source-wii-u-gamepad/)

PentaPico: A Pi Pico Cluster For Image Convolution
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/20/pentapico-a-pi-pico-cluster-for-image-convolution/

Here’s something fun. Our hacker [Willow Cunningham] has sent us a copy of his homework. This is his final project for the “ECE 574: Cluster Computing” course at the University …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/20/pentapico-a-pi-pico-cluster-for-image-convolution/)

An Awful 1990s PDA Delivers AI Wisdom
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/20/an-awful-1990s-pda-delivers-ai-wisdom/

There was a period in the 1990s when it seemed like the personal data assistant (PDA) was going to be the device of the future. If you were lucky you …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/20/an-awful-1990s-pda-delivers-ai-wisdom/)

The World Wide Web and the Death of Graceful Degradation
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/20/the-world-wide-web-and-the-death-of-graceful-degradation/

In the early days of the World Wide Web – with the Year 2000 and the threat of a global collapse of society were still years away – the crafting …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/20/the-world-wide-web-and-the-death-of-graceful-degradation/)

When Repairs Go Inside Integrated Circuits
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/20/when-repairs-go-inside-integrated-circuits/

What can you do if your circuit repair diagnosis indicates an open circuit within an integrated circuit (IC)? Your IC got too hot and internal wiring has come loose. You …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/20/when-repairs-go-inside-integrated-circuits/)

The Make-roscope
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/20/the-make-roscope/

Normal people binge-scroll social media. Hackaday writers tend to pore through online tech news and shopping sites incessantly. The problem with the shopping sites is that you wind up buying …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/20/the-make-roscope/)

As The World Burns, At least You’ll Have Secure Messaging
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/20/as-the-world-burns-at-least-youll-have-secure-messaging/

There’s a section of our community who concern themselves with the technological aspects of preparing for an uncertain future, and for them a significant proportion of effort goes in to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/20/as-the-world-burns-at-least-youll-have-secure-messaging/)

Stylus Synth Should Have Used a 555– and Did!
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/20/stylus-synth-should-have-used-a-555-and-did/