The Most Trustworthy USB-C Cable is DIY
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/the-most-trustworthy-usb-c-cable-is-diy/

We like USB-C here at Hackaday, but like all specifications it is up to manufacturers to follow it and sometimes… they don’t. Sick of commercial cables either don’t label their …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/the-most-trustworthy-usb-c-cable-is-diy/)

Making a Brushless DC Motor Winding Machine
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/making-a-brushless-dc-motor-winding-machine/

Over on his YouTube channel our hacker [Yuchi] is building an STM32 BLDC motor winding machine. This machine is for winding brushless motors because manual winding is highly labor intensive. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/making-a-brushless-dc-motor-winding-machine/)

StatusNotifierItem: How Standard Non-Standards Tear Linux Desktops Apart
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/statusnotifieritem-how-standard-non-standards-tear-linux-desktops-apart/

Theoretically when you write a GUI-based application for Linux there are standards to follow, with these all neatly documented over at the Freedesktop website. However, in reality, Freedesktop is more …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/statusnotifieritem-how-standard-non-standards-tear-linux-desktops-apart/)

Capturing Screenshots Using a Fake Printer
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/capturing-screenshots-using-a-fake-printer/

If you have very old pieces of analogue test equipment with CRTs on your bench, the chances are they will all have surprisingly similar surrounds to their screens. Back when …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/capturing-screenshots-using-a-fake-printer/)

Weighing an Airplane as it Flies Overhead
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/weighing-an-airplane-as-it-flies-overhead/

Recently, [AlphaPhoenix] weighed an airplane. Normally, that wouldn’t be much of an accomplishment. Except in this case, the airplane happened to be in flight at the time. In fact we’re …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/weighing-an-airplane-as-it-flies-overhead/)

Keeping Snap and Crackle under Control with Prunt Printer Firmware
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/keeping-snap-and-crackle-under-control-with-prunt-printer-firmware/

For quite some time now, Marlin has been the firmware of choice for any kind of custom 3D printer, with only Klipper offering some serious competition in the open-source world. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/keeping-snap-and-crackle-under-control-with-prunt-printer-firmware/)

Just for Laughs: Charlie Douglass and the Laugh Track
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/just-for-laughs-charlie-douglass-and-the-laugh-track/