Lithium-ion cells deliver very high energy densities compared to many other battery technologies, but they bring with them a danger of fire or explosion if they are misused. We’re mostly …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/lumafield-shows-why-your-cheap-18650-cells-are-terrible/)
Macintosh System 7 Ported To x86 With LLM Help
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/macintosh-system-7-ported-to-x86-with-llm-help/
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/macintosh-system-7-ported-to-x86-with-llm-help/
You can use large language models for all sorts of things these days, from writing terrible college papers to bungling legal cases. Or, you can employ them to more interesting …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/macintosh-system-7-ported-to-x86-with-llm-help/)
TekaSketch: Where Etch A Sketch Meets Graph Theory
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/tekasketch-where-etch-a-sketch-meets-graph-theory/
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/tekasketch-where-etch-a-sketch-meets-graph-theory/
The Etch A Sketch was never supposed to meet a Raspberry Pi, a camera, or a mathematical algorithm, but here we are. [Tekavou]’s Teka-Cam and TekaSketch are a two-part hack …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/tekasketch-where-etch-a-sketch-meets-graph-theory/)
Creating Python GUIs with GIMP
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/creating-python-guis-with-gimp/
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/creating-python-guis-with-gimp/
GUI design can be a tedious job, requiring the use of specialist design tools and finding a suitable library that fits your use case. If you’re looking for a lightweight …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/creating-python-guis-with-gimp/)
In the days of yore, computers would scream strange sounds as they spoke with each other over phone lines. Of course, this is dial up, the predecessor to modern internet …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/youtube-over-dial-up/)
Driving a Laser at 200 Volts for Nanoseconds
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/30/driving-a-laser-at-200-volts-for-nanoseconds/
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/30/driving-a-laser-at-200-volts-for-nanoseconds/
If there’s one lesson to be learned from [Aled Cuda]’s pulsed laser driver, it’s that you can treat the current limits on electronic components as a suggestion if the current …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/30/driving-a-laser-at-200-volts-for-nanoseconds/)
Ask Hackaday: What’s the Top Programming Language of 2025
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/30/ask-hackaday-whats-the-top-programming-language-of-2025/
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/30/ask-hackaday-whats-the-top-programming-language-of-2025/
We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/30/ask-hackaday-whats-the-top-programming-language-of-2025/)