Silicone is a useful material for many purposes. Traditionally, creating something out of silicone required injection molding. That’s not difficult, but it does require a good bit of setup. As …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/08/3d-printing-silicone-parts/)

Lawny Five Keeps Lawn Mowed, Snow Plowed
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/08/lawny-five-keeps-lawn-mowed-snow-plowed/

Although there’s been considerable excitement over the past half century of a Jetsons-like robotic future, outside of a few niche uses of our day-to-day lives there hasn’t been much in …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/08/lawny-five-keeps-lawn-mowed-snow-plowed/)

Synthetic Spider Silk
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/08/synthetic-spider-silk/

While spider silk proteins are something you can make in your garage, making useful drag line fibers has proved a daunting challenge. Now, a team of scientists from Japan and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/08/synthetic-spider-silk/)

[Usagi] Whips a Chain Printer Into Shape
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/08/usagi-whips-a-chain-printer-into-shape/

What does it take to get a 47-year-old printer working? [Usagi Electric] shows us it’s not too hard, even if you don’t exactly know what you’re doing.  When we last …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/08/usagi-whips-a-chain-printer-into-shape/)

Power Supply Efficiency Measurements
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/09/power-supply-efficiency-measurements/

Even if you don’t have a Rohde Schwarz oscilloscope, you can still enjoy their recent video about using an oscilloscope to measure power supply efficiency. Of course, you don’t have …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/09/power-supply-efficiency-measurements/)

Flipped Bit Could Mark the End of Voyager 1‘s Interstellar Mission
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/09/flipped-bit-could-mark-the-end-of-voyager-1s-interstellar-mission/

The Voyager probes are 14 billion miles away now and still working. Source: JPL (https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/details.php?article_id=88)
' data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/pia17049_hires.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/pia17049_hires.jpg?w=800">Sometimes it’s hard to read the tea leaves of what’s going on with high-profile space missions. Weighted down as they are with the need to be careful with taxpayer money …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/09/flipped-bit-could-mark-the-end-of-voyager-1s-interstellar-mission/)

This Week in Security: Broken Shims, LassPass, and Toothbrushes?
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/09/this-week-in-security-broken-shims-lasspass-and-toothbrushes/

Linux has a shim problem. Which naturally leads to a reasonable question: What’s a shim, and why do we need it? The answer: Making Linux work wit Secure Boot, and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/09/this-week-in-security-broken-shims-lasspass-and-toothbrushes/)