2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Using Inductors to Steal Power from Qi Wireless Charging Base Station
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/07/2025-component-abuse-challenge-using-inductors-to-steal-power-from-qi-wireless-charging-base-station/

Over on Hackaday.IO our hacker [bornach] has his entry into the Component Abuse Challenge: Inductors are Wireless Power Sources. Some time back [bornach] was gifted a Qi wireless charging base …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/07/2025-component-abuse-challenge-using-inductors-to-steal-power-from-qi-wireless-charging-base-station/)

BIOS Detectives Find Ghost Of Previously Unknown PC
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/08/bios-detectives-find-ghost-of-previously-unknown-pc/

Old parts such as EPROMs will often find themselves for sale on sites such as eBay, where they are sometimes snapped up by retrocomputing enthusiasts in search of interesting code. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/08/bios-detectives-find-ghost-of-previously-unknown-pc/)

What has 5,000 Batteries and Floats?
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/08/what-has-5000-batteries-and-floats/

While it sounds like the start of a joke, Australian shipmaker Incat Tasmania isn’t kidding around about electric ships. Hull 096 has started charging, although it has only 85% of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/08/what-has-5000-batteries-and-floats/)

Thanks for a Superconference
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/08/thanks-for-a-superconference/

Last weekend was Supercon, and it was, in a word super. So many people sharing so much enthusiasm and hackery, and so many good times. It’s a yearly dose of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/08/thanks-for-a-superconference/)