Much of the expense of developing AI models, and much of the recent backlash to said models, stems from the massive amount of power they tend to consume. If you’re …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/07/image-recognition-on-0-35-watts/)

Retrotechtacular: Exploring the Moon on Surveyor 1
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/07/retrotechtacular-exploring-the-moon-on-surveyor-1/

Aside from a few stand-out programs — looking at you, Star Trek — by the late 1960s, TV had already become the “vast wasteland” predicted almost a decade earlier by …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/07/retrotechtacular-exploring-the-moon-on-surveyor-1/)

Maurice Brings Immersive Audio Recording to the Masses
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/07/maurice-brings-immersive-audio-recording-to-the-masses/

Immersive audio is the new hotness in the recording world. Once upon a time, mono was good enough. Then someone realized humans have two ears, and everyone wanted stereo. For …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/07/maurice-brings-immersive-audio-recording-to-the-masses/)

Hackaday Links: September 7, 2025
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/07/hackaday-links-september-7-2025/

Two weeks ago, it was holographic cops. This week, it’s humanoid robot doctors. Or is it? We’re pretty sure it’s not, as MediBot, supposedly a $10,000 medical robot from Tesla, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/07/hackaday-links-september-7-2025/)

The Saga of Hacking a Bambu X1 Carbon
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/07/the-saga-of-hacking-a-bambu-x1-carbon/

Bambu Labs make indisputably excellent printers. However, that excellence comes at the cost of freedom. After a firmware release earlier this year, Bambu printers could only work with Bambu’s own …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/07/the-saga-of-hacking-a-bambu-x1-carbon/)

Smartphone Sensors Unlocked: Turn Your Phone into a Physics Lab
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/07/smartphone-sensors-unlocked-turn-your-phone-into-a-physics-lab/

These days, most of us have a smartphone. They are so commonplace that we rarely stop to consider how amazing they truly are. The open-source project Phyphox has provided easy …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/07/smartphone-sensors-unlocked-turn-your-phone-into-a-physics-lab/)

Building a Rotary Evaporator for the Home Lab
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/08/building-a-rotary-evaporator-for-the-home-lab/

The rotary evaporator (rotovap) rarely appears outside of well-provisioned chemistry labs. That means that despite being a fundamentally simple device, their cost generally puts them out of reach for amateur …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/08/building-a-rotary-evaporator-for-the-home-lab/)