There are many benefits to learning to fly an airplane, drive a racing car, or operate some complex piece of machinery. Ideally, you’d do so in a perfectly safe environment, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/21/car-driving-simulators-for-students-or-when-simulators-make-sense/)

Power Tool Packs Make a Portable Powerhouse
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The revolution in portable and cordless appliances has meant that we now own far fewer mains-powered gadgets than we might once have done, but it hasn’t entirely banished the old …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/21/power-tool-packs-make-a-portable-powerhouse/)

Spectrum Analyzer Buyer’s Guide
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Having a scope in a home lab used to be a real luxury, but these days, its fairly common for the home gamer to have a sophisticated storage scope (or …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/21/spectrum-analyzer-buyers-guide/)

Rebuilding a $700k Refrigerator
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When cleaning out basements, garages, or storage units we often come across things long forgotten. Old clothes, toys, maybe a piece of exercise equipment, or even an old piece of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/21/rebuilding-a-700k-refrigerator/)

FLOSS Weekly Episode 771: Kalpa — Because Nobody Knows what Hysteresis Is
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/21/floss-weekly-episode-771-kalpa-because-nobody-knows-what-hysteresis-is/

This week, Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch talk with Shawn W Dunn about openSUSE Kalpa, the atomic version of openSUSE Tumbleweed, with a KDE twist. What exactly do we mean …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/21/floss-weekly-episode-771-kalpa-because-nobody-knows-what-hysteresis-is/)

Turing Complete Origami
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Origami can be an interesting starting point for a project, but we weren’t expecting [Thomas C. Hull] and [Inna Zakharevich]’s Turing complete origami computer. Starting with the constraint of flat …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/21/turing-complete-origami/)

Replacement PCB Replicates Early 80s Modem
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It’s certainly been a few decades, but plenty of us remember a time before widespread access to broadband internet, when connections were generally made over phone lines using acoustic modems. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/21/replacement-pcb-replicates-early-80s-modem/)