You know what’s not fun? Sorting LEGO. You know what is fun? Making a machine to sort LEGO! That’s what [LegoSpencer] did, and you can watch the machine do its …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/16/making-a-machine-to-sort-one-million-pounds-of-lego/)

An AI By Any Other Name
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While there are many AI programs these days, they don’t all work in the same way. Most large language model “chatbots” generate text by taking input tokens and predicting the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/16/an-ai-by-any-other-name/)

Using Multiple Quadcopters to Efficiently Lift Loads Together
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/16/using-multiple-quadcopters-to-efficiently-lift-loads-together/

Much like calling over a buddy or two to help with moving a large piece of furniture and pivot it up a narrow flight of stairs, so too can quadcopters …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/16/using-multiple-quadcopters-to-efficiently-lift-loads-together/)

The King of Rocket Photography
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If you are a nerdy kid today, you have your choice of wondrous gadgets and time wasters. When we were nerdy kids, our options were somewhat limited: there was ham …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/16/the-king-of-rocket-photography/)

The Simplest Ultrasound Sensor Module, Minus the Module
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/16/the-simplest-ultrasound-sensor-module-minus-the-module/

Just about every “getting started with microcontrollers” kit, Arduino or otherwise, includes an ultrasonic distance sensor module. Given the power of microcontrollers these days, it was only a matter of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/16/the-simplest-ultrasound-sensor-module-minus-the-module/)

Hackaday Links: November 16, 2025
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/16/hackaday-links-november-16-2025/

We make no claims to be an expert on anything, but we do know that rule number one of working with big, expensive, mission-critical equipment is: Don’t break the big, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/16/hackaday-links-november-16-2025/)

Supersized Calculator Brings the Whole Intel 4000 Gang Together
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The museum-quality hack. Three 4003 shift registers are on the left, with a 4001 ROM above the 4004 CPU in the center, flanked by three 4002 RAM “chips” on the right. Photo by [Klaus Scheffler].
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/enter-museum-preview.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/enter-museum-preview.jpg?w=800">Though mobile devices and Apple Silicon have seen ARM-64 explode across the world, there’s still decent odds you’re reading this on a device with an x86 processor — the direct …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/16/supersized-calculator-brings-the-whole-intel-4000-gang-together/)