This week Jonathan chats with Nicholas Adams about OpenRiak! Why is there a Riak and an OpenRiak, which side of the CAP theorem does OpenRiak land on, and why is …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/21/floss-weekly-episode-861-big-databases-with-openriak/)

Repair and Reverse-Engineering of Nespresso Vertuo Next Coffee Machines
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/21/repair-and-reverse-engineering-of-nespresso-vertuo-next-coffee-machines/

Akin to the razor-and-blades model, capsule-based coffee machines are an endless grind of overpriced pods and cheaply made machines that you’re supposed to throw out and buy a new one …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/21/repair-and-reverse-engineering-of-nespresso-vertuo-next-coffee-machines/)

Driving A DAC Real Fast With A Microcontroller
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/21/driving-a-dac-real-fast-with-a-microcontroller/

Normally, if you want to blast out samples to a DAC in a hurry, you’d rely on an FPGA, what with their penchant for doing things very quicky and in …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/21/driving-a-dac-real-fast-with-a-microcontroller/)

Simulating Pots with LTSpice
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/21/simulating-pots-with-ltspice/

One of the good things about simulating circuits is that you can easily change component values trivially. In the real world, you might use a potentiometer or a pot to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/21/simulating-pots-with-ltspice/)

Binary and Digital Gradients for Telling Time
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/21/binary-and-digital-gradients-for-telling-time/

Creative clocks are a dime a dozen, even clocks that use binary have been created in nearly every format. [typo] promises a clever adaptation to the binary format, and it …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/21/binary-and-digital-gradients-for-telling-time/)

Ordering Pizza On The Nintendo Wii (Again)
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/22/ordering-pizza-on-the-nintendo-wii-again/

The Nintendo Wii first launched in 2006, and quickly became a fixture in living rooms around the world. It offered motion-controlled bowling, some basic internet features, and a pretty decent Zelda …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/22/ordering-pizza-on-the-nintendo-wii-again/)

PlayStation 3 Emulator RPCS3 Can Almost Play Three-Quarters of PS3 Games
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/22/playstation-3-emulator-rpcs3-can-almost-play-three-quarters-of-ps3-games/

Although already having entered the territory of ‘retro gaming’, the Sony PlayStation 3 remains a notoriously hard to emulate game console. Much of this is to blame on its unique …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/22/playstation-3-emulator-rpcs3-can-almost-play-three-quarters-of-ps3-games/)