Video may have killed the radio star, but cell phones and smart phones all but killed the pager. They still exist, of course, but only in very niche applications. [João …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/16/arduino-turned-into-something-kinda-like-a-pager/)

The Most Famous Room In Rock-n-Roll You’ve Never Seen
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/17/the-most-famous-room-in-rock-n-roll-youve-never-seen/

The study of audio technology has a lot of fascinating branches, and one or two of them even take the curious engineer not into electronics but into architecture. There’s the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/17/the-most-famous-room-in-rock-n-roll-youve-never-seen/)

Creating a Numbers Station Of Your Very Own
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/17/creating-a-numbers-station-of-your-very-own/

Numbers stations are a weird phenomenon where odd voices read out long strings of numbers or random codewords to the confusion of the vast majority of the listening audience. If …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/17/creating-a-numbers-station-of-your-very-own/)

A Fully Automatic British Breakfast: Ready While You Sleep
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/17/a-fully-automatic-british-breakfast-ready-while-you-sleep/

Among all the amazing technologies that were promised to us, there is one that is much more egregious than the lack of flying cars and real hovering hoverboards: the lack …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/17/a-fully-automatic-british-breakfast-ready-while-you-sleep/)

Simple NTP Clock Uses Custom RGB 7-Segment Displays
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/17/simple-ntp-clock-uses-custom-rgb-7-segment-displays/

A great majority of hackers build a clock at some point. It’s a great way to get familiar with electronics and (often) microcontrollers, and you get to express some creativity …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/17/simple-ntp-clock-uses-custom-rgb-7-segment-displays/)

RP2040 Boot Loader is a Worm
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/17/rp2040-boot-loader-is-a-worm/

screen capture from the project’s YouTube video
" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/worm-feature.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/worm-feature.png?w=800">[Hunter Adams] has written a secondary bootloader for the RP2040 that uses an IR link and can be extended to behave like a polite worm virus. This allows the easy …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/17/rp2040-boot-loader-is-a-worm/)

Hackaday Links: March 17, 2024
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/17/hackaday-links-march-17-2024/

A friend of ours once described computers as “high-speed idiots.” It was true in the 80s, and it appears that even with the recent explosion in AI, all computers have …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/17/hackaday-links-march-17-2024/)