As computers like the venerable breadbox Commodore 64 age, their plastic doesn’t just turn increasing shades of yellow and brown, the ABS plastic also tends to get brittle. This is …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/08/repairing-brittle-plastic-retro-computer-cases/)

HORUS Framework: A Rust Robotics Library
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/horus-framework-a-rust-robotics-library/

[neos-builder] wrote in to let us know about their innovation: the HORUS Framework — Hybrid Optimized Robotics Unified System — a production-grade robotics framework built in Rust for real-time performance …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/horus-framework-a-rust-robotics-library/)

Play Games in UEFI…to Access Your Computer
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/play-games-in-uefi-to-access-your-computer/

These days, bootstrapping a computer is a pretty straight forward process, at least as far as the user is concerned. But in the olden days, one would have to manually …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/play-games-in-uefi-to-access-your-computer/)

NPAPI and the Hot-Pluggable World Wide Web
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/npapi-and-the-hot-pluggable-world-wide-web/

In today’s Chromed-up world it can be hard to remember an era where browsers could be extended with not just extensions, but also with plugins. Although for those of us …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/npapi-and-the-hot-pluggable-world-wide-web/)

Hackaday Podcast Episode 352: Visualizing Sound, and Windows 11 Is a Dog
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/hackaday-podcast-episode-352-visualizing-sound-and-windows-11-is-a-dog/

This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over coffee to bring you the latest news, mystery sound results show, and of course, a big bunch of hacks …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/hackaday-podcast-episode-352-visualizing-sound-and-windows-11-is-a-dog/)

Fighting Food Poisoning With A Patch
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/fighting-food-poisoning-with-a-patch/

Food poisoning is never a fun experience. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you’ll bite into something bad and realize soon enough to spit it out. Other times, you’ll only realize your …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/fighting-food-poisoning-with-a-patch/)

A UI-Focused Display Library For The ESP32
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/a-ui-focused-display-library-for-the-esp32/

If you’re building a project on your ESP32, you might want to give it a fancy graphical interface. If so, you might find a display library from [dejwk] to be …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/a-ui-focused-display-library-for-the-esp32/)