When [bdk6] tried painting aluminum for electronic projects, he found it didn’t tend to stay painted. It would easily scratch off or, eventually, even flake off. The problem is the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/01/24/old-ham-wisdom-leads-to-better-aluminum-painting/)

Hackaday.io Low-Power Challenge Begins Today
https://hackaday.com/2023/01/24/hackaday-low-power-challenge-begins-today/

How low can you go? The 2023 Hackaday.io Low-Power Challenge is about doing the most with the least juice – bang for the power-budget buck, if you get our drift. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/01/24/hackaday-low-power-challenge-begins-today/)

Lanna Factory Makes You Work for Your Lampshade
https://hackaday.com/2023/01/24/lanna-factory-makes-you-work-for-your-lampshade/

While you could 3D print a lampshade, there’s something to be said for having a more active role in the process of creating an object. [THINKK Studio] has made custom …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/01/24/lanna-factory-makes-you-work-for-your-lampshade/)

Generating PAL Video With A Heavily Overclocked Pi Pico
https://hackaday.com/2023/01/24/generating-pal-video-with-a-heavily-overclocked-pi-pico/

https://twitter.com/theguruofthree/status/1617243698814763009
" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Snap-2023-01-24-at-08.26.13-featured.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Snap-2023-01-24-at-08.26.13-featured.png?w=800">Barely a week goes by without another hack blessing the RP2040 with a further interfacing superpower. This time it’s the turn of the humble PAL standard composite video interface. As …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/01/24/generating-pal-video-with-a-heavily-overclocked-pi-pico/)

Translating and Broadcasting Spoken Morse Code
https://hackaday.com/2023/01/24/translating-and-broadcasting-spoken-morse-code/

When the first radios and telegraph lines were put into service, essentially the only way to communicate was to use Morse code. The first transmitters had extremely inefficient designs by …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/01/24/translating-and-broadcasting-spoken-morse-code/)

You Can Help Build a Resin Printer Review Database
https://hackaday.com/2023/01/24/you-can-help-build-a-resin-printer-review-database/

Picking the best resin (SLA) printer is not an easy task. Every large and small 3D printer manufacturer offers a range of models covering many features that are backed by …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/01/24/you-can-help-build-a-resin-printer-review-database/)

Sequencing The Vintage Way
https://hackaday.com/2023/01/24/sequencing-the-vintage-way/

For most of us, an 8-bit microcomputer means one of the home computers which set so many of us on our way back in the 1980s. But this ignores an …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/01/24/sequencing-the-vintage-way/)

New Commodore VIC-20 Build
https://hackaday.com/2023/01/25/new-commodore-vic-20-build/