Retrotechtacular: The Master Hands of the Early Automotive Industry
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/06/retrotechtacular-the-master-hands-of-the-early-automotive-industry/

When motion pictures came along as a major medium in the 1920s or so, it didn’t take long for corporations to recognize their power and start producing promotional pieces. A …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/06/retrotechtacular-the-master-hands-of-the-early-automotive-industry/)

IoT Air Purifier Makes a Great Case Study in Reverse Engineering
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/06/iot-air-purifier-makes-a-great-case-study-in-reverse-engineering/

Here at Hackaday, about the only thing we like more than writing up tales of reverse engineering heroics is writing up tales of reverse engineering heroics that succeed in jailbreaking …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/06/iot-air-purifier-makes-a-great-case-study-in-reverse-engineering/)

Beating Bitlocker in 43 seconds
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/06/beating-bitlocker-in-43-seconds/

How long does it take to steal your Bitlocker keys? Try 43 seconds, using less than $10 in hardware. Encrypting your hard drive is good security. If you’re running Windows, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/06/beating-bitlocker-in-43-seconds/)

Evidence For Graphite As A Room Temperature Superconductor
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/06/evidence-for-graphite-as-a-room-temperature-superconductor/

Little has to be said about why superconducting materials are so tantalizing, or what the benefits of an ambient pressure, room temperature material with superconducting properties would be. The main …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/06/evidence-for-graphite-as-a-room-temperature-superconductor/)

Recreating The Quadrophonic Sound of the 70s
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/06/recreating-the-quadrophonic-sound-of-the-70s/

For plenty of media center PCs, home theaters, and people with a simple TV and a decent audio system, the standard speaker setup now is 5.1 surround sound. Left and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/06/recreating-the-quadrophonic-sound-of-the-70s/)

Harbor Freight and LEGO PCB Vise is Cheap and Effective
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/07/harbor-freight-and-lego-pcb-vise-is-cheap-and-effective/

It doesn’t take much chasing things around the bench with a soldering iron to appreciate the value of good work holding. And don’t get us started on those cheap “helping …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/07/harbor-freight-and-lego-pcb-vise-is-cheap-and-effective/)

Schematics, For A Modern Flagship Phone
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/07/schematics-for-a-modern-flagship-phone/

The mobile phone is an expensive and often surprisingly fragile device, whose manufacturers are notorious for making them as difficult to repair as possible. Glued-together cases and unreplaceable batteries abound, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/07/schematics-for-a-modern-flagship-phone/)