While most pet owners are happy to help out their furry friends, everyone has a limit. For [Gauthier], getting up to open or close the window every three minutes so …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/13/2024-home-sweet-home-automation-simple-window-closer-relies-on-gravity/)

PDP-10 Fits in Your Living Room
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/13/pdp-10-fits-in-your-living-room/

[Oscar] at Obsolescence Guaranteed is well-known for fun replicas of the PDP-8 and PDP-11 using the Raspberry Pi (along with some other simulated vintage computers). His latest attempt is the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/13/pdp-10-fits-in-your-living-room/)

Goldilocks Beverage Coaster Tells You When It’s Just Right
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/13/goldilocks-beverage-coaster-tells-you-when-its-just-right/

If you ask us, morning is the only excuse we need for a hot caffeinated beverage — weather be damned. Wherever [gokux] is, they may be experiencing actual winter this …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/13/goldilocks-beverage-coaster-tells-you-when-its-just-right/)

FLOSS Weekly Episode 774: Let’s Get Rusty
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/13/floss-weekly-episode-774-lets-get-rusty/

This week, Jonathan Bennett chats with Herbert Wolverson about Rust! Is it really worth the hype? Should you have written that in Rust? What’s up with “if let some” anyways? …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/13/floss-weekly-episode-774-lets-get-rusty/)

Gentle Introduction To White Light Interferometry
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/13/gentle-introduction-to-white-light-interferometry/

White light interferometry (WLI) is a contact-free optical method for measuring surface height. It uses the phase difference between the light reflected off a reference mirror and the target sample …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/13/gentle-introduction-to-white-light-interferometry/)

The Flex Computer System: UK’s Forgotten Capability Computer Architecture
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/13/the-flex-computer-system-uks-forgotten-capability-computer-architecture/

Two ICL PERQ 1 workstation computers, Department of Computer Science, North Machine Hall, James Clerk Maxwell Building, University of Edinburgh. (Credit: J. Gordon Hughes)
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ICL_PERQ_1_workstation_Edinburgh_University.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ICL_PERQ_1_workstation_Edinburgh_University.jpg?w=773">During the 1970s many different computer architectures were being developed, many of them focused on making computer systems easier and more effective to use. The Flex Machine developed at the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/13/the-flex-computer-system-uks-forgotten-capability-computer-architecture/)

A Compact SCARA Arm Plotter
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/14/a-compact-scara-arm-plotter/

If you’re unfamiliar with SCARA robots, the acronym stands for Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm. This refers to the fact that the arms are rigid in the Z axis but …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/14/a-compact-scara-arm-plotter/)