Japan’s JT-60SA fusion reactor project announced first plasma in October of this year to denote the successful upgrades to what is now the world’s largest operational, superconducting tokamak fusion reactor. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/12/06/japans-jt-60sa-generates-first-plasma-as-worlds-largest-superconducting-tokamak-fusion-reactor/)

Wio Terminal Makes Passable Oscilloscope
https://hackaday.com/2023/12/06/wio-terminal-makes-passable-oscilloscope/

There was a time when getting a good oscilloscope not only involved a large outlay of capital, but also required substantial real estate on a workbench. The situation has improved …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/12/06/wio-terminal-makes-passable-oscilloscope/)

The Chocolate Must Flow This Holiday Season
https://hackaday.com/2023/12/07/the-chocolate-must-flow-this-holiday-season/

After a long December of hand-coating chocolates for relatives last year, [Chaz] decided that enough was enough and built a chocolate enrobing machine to do the dirty work for him. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/12/07/the-chocolate-must-flow-this-holiday-season/)

Hacking The Xiaomi Mi Band 8 With Custom Firmware
https://hackaday.com/2023/12/07/hacking-the-xiaomi-mi-band-8-with-custom-firmware/

Over the past years, fitness trackers have gone from fairly unobtrusive bands that relied mostly on smartphone apps for interaction to essentially being fashion statements and smart watches, with large …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/12/07/hacking-the-xiaomi-mi-band-8-with-custom-firmware/)

Artemis’ Next Giant Leap: Orbital Refueling
https://hackaday.com/2023/12/07/artemis-next-giant-leap-orbital-refueling/

By the end of the decade, NASA’s Artemis program hopes to have placed boots back on the Moon for the first time since 1972. But not for the quick sightseeing …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/12/07/artemis-next-giant-leap-orbital-refueling/)

Making Visual Anagrams, With Help From Machine Learning
https://hackaday.com/2023/12/07/making-visual-anagrams-with-help-from-machine-learning/

[Daniel Geng] and others have an interesting system of generating multi-view optical illusions, or visual anagrams. Such images have more than one “correct” view and visual interpretation. What’s more, there …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/12/07/making-visual-anagrams-with-help-from-machine-learning/)

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Biblically-Accurate Keyboard
https://hackaday.com/2023/12/07/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-biblically-accurate-keyboard/

Well, it was bound to happen at some point. [sporewoh]’s bunchiez40 keyboard for ants is made of mouse switches, which of course begs for a mouse made of keyboard switches. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/12/07/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-biblically-accurate-keyboard/)