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/
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/
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/
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/)
If you are a certain age or just like retrocomputers, you probably have a soft spot for good old-fashioned BASIC. If you miss those days but don’t want to install …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/12/07/basic-in-your-browser/)
Upgrade Puts a Lot of Zeroes on Kit-Built Frequency Counter
https://hackaday.com/2023/12/07/upgrade-puts-a-lot-of-zeroes-on-kit-built-frequency-counter/
https://hackaday.com/2023/12/07/upgrade-puts-a-lot-of-zeroes-on-kit-built-frequency-counter/
If there’s anything more viscerally pleasing than seeing an eight-digit instrument showing a measurement with all zeroes after the decimal point, we’re not sure what it could. Maybe rolling the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/12/07/upgrade-puts-a-lot-of-zeroes-on-kit-built-frequency-counter/)
Fail of the Week: [Mark] Makes an Atari Cartridge
https://hackaday.com/2023/12/07/fail-of-the-week-mark-makes-an-atari-cartridge/
https://hackaday.com/2023/12/07/fail-of-the-week-mark-makes-an-atari-cartridge/
Part of the magic of the movies is that the actors always know what will happen next. There never has to be a scene where [James Bond] orders wine, and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/12/07/fail-of-the-week-mark-makes-an-atari-cartridge/)