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/)

The Sixteen-Year Odyssey to Finally Emulate the Pioneer LaserActive Console
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/08/the-sixteen-year-odyssey-to-finally-emulate-the-pioneer-laseractive-console/

The 1993 Pioneer LaserActive certainly ranks high on the list of obscure video games. It was an odd duck; it used both a LaserDisc for data storage and provided compatibility …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/08/the-sixteen-year-odyssey-to-finally-emulate-the-pioneer-laseractive-console/)

GPS And Its Little Modules
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/08/gps-and-its-little-modules/