Join Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi as they talk about the best stories and hacks of the week. This episode starts off with a discussion of the Vintage …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/hackaday-podcast-episode-316-soft-robots-linux-the-hard-way-cellphones-into-sbcs-and-the-circuit-graver/)

GPS Broken? Try TV!
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/gps-broken-try-tv/

GPS and similar satellite navigation systems revolutionized how you keep track of where you are and what time it is. However, it isn’t without its problems. For one, it generally …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/gps-broken-try-tv/)

Audio Effects Applied to Text
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/audio-effects-applied-to-text/

If you are a visual thinker, you might enjoy [AIHVHIA’s] recent video, which shows the effect of applying audio processing to text displayed on an oscilloscope. The video is below. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/audio-effects-applied-to-text/)

A Mouse, No Hands!
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/a-mouse-no-hands/

There are some ideas which someone somewhere has to try. Take [Uri Tuchman]’s foot mouse. It’s a computer mouse for foot operation, but it’s not just a functional block. Instead …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/a-mouse-no-hands/)

Gemini 2.0 + Robotics = Slam Dunk?
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/gemini-2-0-robotics-slam-dunk/

Over on the Google blog [Joel Meares] explains how Google built the new family of Gemini Robotics models. The bi-arm ALOHA robot equipped with Gemini 2.0 software can take general …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/gemini-2-0-robotics-slam-dunk/)

Creating a Somatosensory Pathway From Human Stem Cells
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/creating-a-somatosensory-pathway-from-human-stem-cells/

Human biology is very much like that of other mammals, and yet so very different in areas where it matters. One of these being human neurology, with aspects like the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/creating-a-somatosensory-pathway-from-human-stem-cells/)

Tracing the #!: How the Linux Kernel Handles the Shebang
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/tracing-the-how-the-linux-kernel-handles-the-shebang/

One of the delights in Bash, zsh, or whichever shell tickles your fancy in your OSS distribution of choice, is the ease of which you can use scripts. These can …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/tracing-the-how-the-linux-kernel-handles-the-shebang/)

Repairing Classic Sound Cards
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/12/repairing-classic-sound-cards/

Sound hardware has been built into PC motherboards for so long now it’s difficult to remember the days when a sound card was an expensive add-on peripheral. By the mid …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/12/repairing-classic-sound-cards/)