Voyager 1’s Primary Thrusters Revived Before DSN Command Pause
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/15/voyager-1s-primary-thrusters-revived-before-dsn-command-pause/

As with all aging bodies, clogged tubes form an increasing issue. So too with the 47-year old Voyager 1 spacecraft and its hydrazine thrusters. Over the decades silicon dioxide from …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/15/voyager-1s-primary-thrusters-revived-before-dsn-command-pause/)

Not a Sewing Machine: A Multimedia Briefcase
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/15/not-a-sewing-machine-a-multimedia-briefcase/

When you think of Singer, you usually think of sewing machines, although if you are a history buff, you might remember they diversified into calculators, flight simulation, and a few …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/15/not-a-sewing-machine-a-multimedia-briefcase/)

Wireless Doorbell Extension Features Home-Wound Coil
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/wireless-doorbell-extension-features-home-wound-coil/

Today in the it’s-surprising-that-it-works department we have a ding dong doorbell extension from [Ajoy Raman]. What [Ajoy] wanted to do was to extend the range of his existing doorbell so …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/wireless-doorbell-extension-features-home-wound-coil/)

Home-casting Thermoelectric Alloys
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/home-casting-thermoelectric-alloys/

If you want to convert heat into electrical power, it’s hard to find a simpler method than a thermoelectric generator. The Seebeck effect means that the junction of two dissimilar …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/home-casting-thermoelectric-alloys/)

Compliant Mechanism Shrinks Instead of Stretching
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/compliant-mechanism-shrinks-instead-of-stretching/

Intuitively, you think that everything that you stretch will pull back, but you wouldn’t expect a couple of pieces of plastic to win. Yet, researchers over at [AMOLF] have figured …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/compliant-mechanism-shrinks-instead-of-stretching/)

This Week in Security: Lingering Spectre, Deep Fakes, and CoreAudio
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/this-week-in-security-lingering-spectre-deep-fakes-and-coreaudio/

Spectre lives. We’ve got two separate pieces of research, each finding new processor primitives that allow Spectre-style memory leaks. Before we dive into the details of the new techniques, let’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/this-week-in-security-lingering-spectre-deep-fakes-and-coreaudio/)

ChatGPT & Me. ChatGPT Is Me!
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/chatgpt-me-chatgpt-is-me/

For a while now part of my email signature has been a quote from a Hackaday commenter insinuating that an article I wrote was created by a “Dumb AI”. You …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/chatgpt-me-chatgpt-is-me/)