Everyone knows that ultrasonic cleaners are great, but not every device that’s marketed as an ultrasonic cleaner is necessarily such a device. In a recent video on the Cheap & Cheerful …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/teardown-of-a-scam-ultrasonic-cleaner/)

The Weird Way A DEC Alpha Boots
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/the-weird-way-a-dec-alpha-boots/

We’re used to there being an array of high-end microprocessor architectures, and it’s likely that many of us will have sat in front of machines running x86, ARM, or even …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/the-weird-way-a-dec-alpha-boots/)

A Proper OS For The Sega Genesis/Megadrive
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/a-proper-os-for-the-sega-genesis-megadrive/

The console wars of the early 1990s had several players, but the battle that mattered was between Nintendo’s SNES and Sega’s Genesis, or Megadrive if you are European. They are …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/a-proper-os-for-the-sega-genesis-megadrive/)

Playstacean Evolves The PSOne Into The Crab It Was Always Meant to Be
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/playstacean-evolves-the-psone-into-the-crab-it-was-always-meant-to-be/

Odd hardware designs crop up in art and renders far more frequently than in the flesh, but console modder [GingerOfOz] felt the need to bring [Anh Dang]’s image of the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/playstacean-evolves-the-psone-into-the-crab-it-was-always-meant-to-be/)

A Portable Electronics Workstation
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/04/a-portable-electronics-workstation/

You don’t see them as often as you used to, but it used to be common to see “electronics trainers” which were usually a collection of components and simple equipment …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/04/a-portable-electronics-workstation/)

Keep Bears at Bay with the Crackle of 280,000 Volts
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/04/keep-bears-at-bay-with-the-crackle-of-280000-volts/

Bears! Are they scared of massive arcs that rip through the air, making a lot of noise in the process? [Jay] from the Plasma Channel sure hopes so, because that’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/04/keep-bears-at-bay-with-the-crackle-of-280000-volts/)

3D Print (and Play!) The Super Mario Tune as a Fidget Toy
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/04/3d-print-and-play-the-super-mario-tune-as-a-fidget-toy/

[kida] has a highly innovative set of 3D-printable, musical fidget toys that play classic video game tunes. Of course there’s the classic Super Mario ditty, but there’s loads more. How …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/04/3d-print-and-play-the-super-mario-tune-as-a-fidget-toy/)

This Week in Security: Target Coinbase, Leaking Call Records, and Microsoft Hotpatching
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/04/this-week-in-security-target-coinbase-leaking-call-records-and-microsoft-hotpatching/