Personalization, Industrial Design, and Hacked Devices
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/26/personalization-industrial-design-and-hacked-devices/

[Maya Posch] wrote up an insightful, and maybe a bit controversial, piece on the state of consumer goods design: The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/26/personalization-industrial-design-and-hacked-devices/)

Signal Injector Might Still be Handy
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/26/signal-injector-might-still-be-handy/

Repairing radios was easier when radios were simple. There were typically two strategies. You could use a signal tracer (an amplifier) to listen at the volume control. If you heard …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/26/signal-injector-might-still-be-handy/)

2025 One-Hertz Challenge: A Clock Sans Silicon
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/26/2025-one-hertz-challenge-a-clock-sans-silicon/

Just about every electronic device has some silicon semiconductors inside these days—from transistors to diodes to integrated circuits. [Charles] is trying to build a “No-Silicon digital clock” that used none …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/26/2025-one-hertz-challenge-a-clock-sans-silicon/)

Engrave a Cylinder Without a Rotary Attachment? No Problem!
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/26/engrave-a-cylinder-without-a-rotary-attachment-no-problem/

Laser-engraving a cylindrical object usually requires a rotary attachment, which is a motorized holder that rotates a cylindrical object in sync with the engraver. But [Samcraft] shows that engraving all …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/26/engrave-a-cylinder-without-a-rotary-attachment-no-problem/)

Vintage Plasma Display Shows Current Rad Levels
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/26/vintage-plasma-display-shows-current-rad-levels/

It’s hard to argue that Soviet-Era nuclear engineering may have some small flaws, what with the heavily-monitored exclusion zone around Chernobyl No.4. Evidently, their industrial designers were more on-the-ball, because …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/26/vintage-plasma-display-shows-current-rad-levels/)

2025 One-Hertz Challenge: Shadow Clock
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/26/2025-one-hertz-challenge-shadow-clock/

You can buy all kinds of conventional clocks that have hands and numbers for easy reading. Or, like [Fabio Ricci], you could build yourself something a little more esoteric, like …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/26/2025-one-hertz-challenge-shadow-clock/)

A Non-Sony Playstation Motherboard Replacement
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/27/a-non-sony-playstation-motherboard-replacement/