As the sun goes down on a glorious spring evening on the western edge of Europe, Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List for a look at the week in …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/20/hackaday-podcast-episode-362-compression-molding-ipv4x-and-wired-headphones/)

User Repair of a Not User-Repairable Victron CCGX Issue
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/20/user-repair-of-a-not-user-repairable-victron-ccgx-issue/

Power banks come in many sizes, and those that target construction sites are probably among the largest. The massive four ton unit based around lead-acid batteries which the [Buy it …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/20/user-repair-of-a-not-user-repairable-victron-ccgx-issue/)

How Long Can a Quadcopter Drone Fly on Just Solar?
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/20/how-long-can-a-quadcopter-drone-fly-on-just-solar/

The dream of fully powering everything from aircraft to cars on just the power generated from solar panels attached to the machine remains a tempting one, but always seems to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/20/how-long-can-a-quadcopter-drone-fly-on-just-solar/)

Conway’s Game of Life With Physical Buttons
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/20/conways-game-of-life-with-physical-buttons/

Conway’s Game of Life excels in its simplicity, creating a cellular automaton on a 2D grid where each cell obeys a set of very simple rules that determine whether a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/20/conways-game-of-life-with-physical-buttons/)

Slug Algorithm for On-GPU Rendering of Fonts with Bézier Curves now in Public Domain
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/20/slug-algorithm-for-on-gpu-rendering-of-fonts-with-bezier-curves-now-in-public-domain/

The Slug Algorithm has been around for a decade now, mostly quietly rendering fonts and later entire GUIs using Bézier curves directly on the GPU for games and other types …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/20/slug-algorithm-for-on-gpu-rendering-of-fonts-with-bezier-curves-now-in-public-domain/)

Portable CRT TV Becomes Retro Cyberdeck
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/20/portable-crt-tv-becomes-retro-cyberdeck/

These days, it’s pretty easy to slap together a single-board computer and a cheap LCD screen to whip up a cool cyberdeck fast. But what if you wanna go more …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/20/portable-crt-tv-becomes-retro-cyberdeck/)

3D Printed Clock Just Taps It In
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/3d-printed-clock-just-taps-it-in/

The famous cuckoo clock, with its moving, chirping mechanical bird indicating various divisions of time, has been around since at least the 1600s. The most famous of them come from …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/3d-printed-clock-just-taps-it-in/)