Oh, perfect — now our cars can BSOD. At least that’s how it looks from a forum post showing a Blue Screen of Death on a Ford Mustang Mach E, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/01/07/hackaday-links-january-7-2024/)

World’s First Precision Lathe: Indispensable When Constructing The Antikythera Mechanism
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/07/worlds-first-precision-lathe-indispensable-when-constructing-the-antikythera-mechanism/

We commonly tend to associate lathes with the Industrial Revolution, when metalworking shifted largely from blacksmiths to machinists, but the use of lathes is much older than that. As [Chris] …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/01/07/worlds-first-precision-lathe-indispensable-when-constructing-the-antikythera-mechanism/)

Discovery Dish Lets You Pick Up the Final Frontier
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/07/discovery-dish-lets-you-pick-up-the-final-frontier/

These days, affordable software defined radios (SDRs) have made huge swaths of the spectrum available to hobbyists. Whether you’re looking to sniff the data from that 433 MHz thermometer you’ve …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/01/07/discovery-dish-lets-you-pick-up-the-final-frontier/)

Half Power Bank, Half Spot Welder
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/08/half-power-bank-half-spot-welder/

There was a time when every gizmo on AliExpress also had a big white LED so it could also work as a flashlight, but maybe the power bank is the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/01/08/half-power-bank-half-spot-welder/)

Bringing a Chain Printer Back to Life: The Power Supply
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/08/bringing-a-chain-printer-back-to-life-the-power-supply/

[Usagi Eletric] has his Centurion minicomputer (and a few others) running like a top.  One feature that’s missing, though, is the ability to produce a hard copy. Now, a serious …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/01/08/bringing-a-chain-printer-back-to-life-the-power-supply/)

Liquid Tin Could Be The Key To Cheap, Plentiful Grid Storage
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/08/liquid-tin-could-be-the-key-to-cheap-plentiful-grid-storage/

Blocks of graphite are heated to 2,500 C to serve as the storage medium.
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-29-195610.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-29-195610.png?w=800">Once expensive and difficult to implement, renewable energy solutions like wind and solar are now often the cheapest options available for generating electricity for the grid. However, there are still …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/01/08/liquid-tin-could-be-the-key-to-cheap-plentiful-grid-storage/)

Make Your Own Play Station (The Space Is Important)
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/08/make-your-own-play-station-the-space-is-important/

The early history of the Sony Playstation lies in a stillborn collaboration between Nintendo and Sony to produce an SNES with a CD-ROM drive. So the story goes, Nintendo’s Philips …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/01/08/make-your-own-play-station-the-space-is-important/)