Fresh hacks here! Get your fresh hot hacks right here! Elliot and Dan teamed up this week to go through every story published on our pages to find the best …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/12/hackaday-podcast-episode-337-homebrew-inductors-teletypes-in-the-bedroom-and-action/)

Reify Your GitHub Commit History With Contrib Cal
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/12/reify-your-github-commit-history-with-contrib-cal/

Over on Instructables, [Logan Fouts] shows us the Contrib Cal GitHub desk gadget. This build will allow you to sport your recent GitHub commit activity on your wall or desk …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/12/reify-your-github-commit-history-with-contrib-cal/)

A Breadboard Computer in Three Chips
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/12/a-breadboard-computer-in-three-chips/

Building a computer on a breadboard is a seminal project for many builders, but it can become complicated quite quickly, not to mention that all the parts needed for a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/12/a-breadboard-computer-in-three-chips/)

Running Code On a PAX Credit Card Payment Machine
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/12/running-code-on-a-pax-credit-card-payment-machine/

These days Points of Sale (PoS) usually include a digital payment terminal of some description, some of which are positively small, such as the Mini PoS terminals that PAX sells. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/12/running-code-on-a-pax-credit-card-payment-machine/)

What Is the Fourier Transform?
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/12/what-is-the-fourier-transform/

Over at Quanta Magazine [Shalma Wegsman] asks What Is the Fourier Transform? [Shalma] begins by telling you a little about Joseph Fourier, the French mathematician with an interest in heat …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/12/what-is-the-fourier-transform/)

Musical Motors, BLDC Edition
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/12/musical-motors-bldc-edition/

This should count as a hack: making music from a thing that should not sing. In this case, [SIROJU] is tickling the ivories with a Brushless DC motor, or BLDC.  …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/12/musical-motors-bldc-edition/)

Design Scanimations In a Snap With The Right Math
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/13/design-scanimations-in-a-snap-with-the-right-math/

Barrier-grid animations (also called scanimations) are a thing most people would recognize on sight, even if they didn’t know what they were called. Move a set of opaque strips over …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/13/design-scanimations-in-a-snap-with-the-right-math/)