On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished. The crash site was never found, nor was the plane. It remains one of the most perplexing aviation mysteries in history. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/04/22/the-hunt-for-mh370-goes-on-with-barnacles-as-a-lead/)

How Wireless Charging Works and Why It’s Terrible
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/22/how-wireless-charging-works-and-why-its-terrible/

Wireless charging is pretty convenient, as long as the transmitter and receiver speak the same protocol. Just put the device you want to charge on the wireless charger without worrying …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/04/22/how-wireless-charging-works-and-why-its-terrible/)

Slicing and Dicing the Bits: CPU Design the Old Fashioned Way
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/22/slicing-and-dicing-the-bits-cpu-design-the-old-fashioned-way/

Writing for Hackaday can be somewhat hazardous. Sure, we don’t often have to hide from angry spies or corporate thugs. But we do often write about something and then want …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/04/22/slicing-and-dicing-the-bits-cpu-design-the-old-fashioned-way/)

AI + LEGO = A Brickton of Ideas
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/22/ai-lego-a-brickton-of-ideas/

What if there was some magic device that could somehow scan all your LEGO and tell you what you can make with it? It’s a childhood dream come true, right? …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/04/22/ai-lego-a-brickton-of-ideas/)

Ancient Cable Modem Reveals Its RF Secrets
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/22/ancient-cable-modem-reveals-its-rf-secrets/

Most reverse engineering projects we see around here have some sort of practical endpoint in mind. Usually, but not always. Reverse-engineering a 40-year-old cable modem probably serves no practical end, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/04/22/ancient-cable-modem-reveals-its-rf-secrets/)

NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

After many tense months, it seems that thanks to a gaggle of brilliant engineering talent and a lucky break the Voyager 1 spacecraft is once more back in action. Confirmation …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/)

Optical Tweezers Investigate Tiny Particles
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/22/optical-tweezers-investigate-tiny-particles/

No matter how small you make a pair of tweezers, there will always be things that tweezers aren’t great at handling. Among those are various fluids, and especially aerosolized droplets, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/04/22/optical-tweezers-investigate-tiny-particles/)