What’s solder for, anyway? It’s just the stuff that sticks the parts to the PCB. If you’re rapid prototyping, possibly with expensive components, and want to be able to remove …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/05/11/no-solder-squeeze-your-parts-to-the-pcb/)

A Master-Class On Reverse-Engineering Six AR Glasses
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/12/a-master-class-on-reverse-engineering-six-ar-glasses/

Augmented reality (AR) tech is getting more and more powerful, the glasses themselves are getting sleeker and prettier, and at some point, hackers have to conquer this frontier and extract …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/05/12/a-master-class-on-reverse-engineering-six-ar-glasses/)

Tweeze Your Way To Soldering Success!
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/12/tweeze-your-way-to-soldering-success/

Soldering, for those of us who spend a lot of time at an electronics bench, is just one of those skills we have, in the way that a blacksmith can …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/05/12/tweeze-your-way-to-soldering-success/)

JTAG Hacking An SSD With A Pi: A Primer
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/12/jtag-hacking-an-ssd-with-a-pi-a-primer/

[Matthew “wrongbaud” Alt] is well known around these parts for his hardware hacking and reverse-engineering lessons, and today he’s bringing us a JTAG hacking primer that demoes some cool new …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/05/12/jtag-hacking-an-ssd-with-a-pi-a-primer/)

IRCB S73-7 Satellite Found After Going Untracked For 25 Years
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/12/ircb-s73-7-satellite-found-after-going-untracked-for-25-years/

When the United States launched the KH-9 Hexagon spy satellite into orbit atop a Titan IIID rocket in 1974, it brought a calibration target along for the ride: the Infra-Red …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/05/12/ircb-s73-7-satellite-found-after-going-untracked-for-25-years/)

Autochrome For The 2020s
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/12/autochrome-for-the-2020s/

For all intents and purposes, photography here in 2024 is digital. Of course chemical photography still exists, and there are a bunch of us who love it for what it …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/05/12/autochrome-for-the-2020s/)

Hackaday Links: May 12, 2024
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/12/hackaday-links-may-12-2024/

Don’t pack your bags for the trip to exoplanet K2-18b quite yet — it turns out that the James Webb Space Telescope may not have detected signs of life there …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/05/12/hackaday-links-may-12-2024/)

Answering All Your iSCSI Scanner Questions
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/12/answering-all-your-iscsi-scanner-questions/