When one thinks of applications for 3D printing, optical components don’t seem to be a good fit. With the possible exception of Fresnel lenses, FDM printing doesn’t seem up to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/11/16/a-3d-printed-grinder-for-printed-lens-blanks/)

Umbrella Antenna Protects You from Rain, but Not the Way You Think
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/16/umbrella-antenna-protects-you-from-rain-but-not-the-way-you-think/

You never know when you’ll be called upon to [MacGyver] your way out of an emergency. We can’t imagine what kind of situation would call for whipping up a satellite …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/11/16/umbrella-antenna-protects-you-from-rain-but-not-the-way-you-think/)

ColorReplica Is a Rainbow At Your Fingertips
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/16/colorreplica-is-a-rainbow-at-your-fingertips/

Have you ever wanted to match paint to the color of a pillow, or make a website where the primary color matches your favorite shade of electrolytic capacitor? Then ColorReplica …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/11/16/colorreplica-is-a-rainbow-at-your-fingertips/)

No TP? No problem!
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/16/no-tp-no-problem/

Among First World Problems, there can be few worse than running out of toilet paper. The horror! If you’re not able to do as we did yesterday and borrow a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/11/16/no-tp-no-problem/)

Robot Hand Has Good Bones
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/16/robot-hand-has-good-bones/

What do you get when you mix rigid and elastic polymers with a laser-scanning 3D printing technique? If you are researchers at ETH Zurich, you get robot hands with bones, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/11/16/robot-hand-has-good-bones/)

A Canned Ham Ham Antenna
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/16/a-canned-ham-ham-antenna/

If you’d have asked us for odds on whether you could successfully turn a canned ham into an amateur radio antenna, we’d have declined the offer. Now, having seen [Ben …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/11/16/a-canned-ham-ham-antenna/)

Apple Archeology: The Future Once Had Server Side Computing In It
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/17/apple-archeology-the-future-once-had-server-side-computing-in-it/

To read the IT press in the early 1990s, those far-off days just before the Web was the go-to source of information, was to be fed a rosy vision of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/11/17/apple-archeology-the-future-once-had-server-side-computing-in-it/)