2025 Component Abuse Challenge: The Slip Ring In Your Parts Bin
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/11/2025-component-abuse-challenge-the-slip-ring-in-your-parts-bin/

If you’re familiar with electrical slip rings as found in motors and the like you’ll know them as robust assemblies using carefully chosen alloys and sintered brushes, able to take …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/11/2025-component-abuse-challenge-the-slip-ring-in-your-parts-bin/)

Have a Slice of Bumble Berry Pi
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/11/have-a-slice-of-bumble-berry-pi/

[Samcervantes] wanted a cyberdeck. Specifically, he wanted a Clockwork Pi uConsole, but didn’t want to wait three months for it. There are plenty of DIY options, but many of them …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/11/have-a-slice-of-bumble-berry-pi/)

Emulating a 74LS48 BCD-to-7-Segment Decoder/Driver with an Altera MAX 7000 “S” Series Complex Programmable Logic Device
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/11/emulating-a-74ls48-bcd-to-7-segment-decoder-driver-with-an-altera-max-7000-s-series-complex-programmable-logic-device/

Over on the [Behind The Code with Gerry] YouTube channel our hacker [Gerry] shows us how to emulate a 74LS48 BCD-to-7-segment decoder/driver using an Altera CPLD Logic Chip From 1998. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/11/emulating-a-74ls48-bcd-to-7-segment-decoder-driver-with-an-altera-max-7000-s-series-complex-programmable-logic-device/)

Wayland’s Never-Ending Opposition to Multi-Window Positioning
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/11/waylands-never-ending-opposition-to-multi-window-positioning/

“Penguins” (https://www.flickr.com/photos/65143725@N08/5927271192) by TomaLaPlaya (https://www.flickr.com/photos/65143725@N08)
' data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/LinuxMarketing.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/LinuxMarketing.jpg?w=800">There are many applications out there that use more than one window, with every modern-day platform and GUI toolkit offering the means for said application to position each of its …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/11/waylands-never-ending-opposition-to-multi-window-positioning/)

Resurrecting Conquer: A Game from the 1980s
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/11/resurrecting-conquer-a-game-from-the-1980s/

[Juan] describes himself as a software engineer, a lover of absurd humor, and, among other things, a player of Nethack. We think he should add computer game archaeologist to that …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/11/resurrecting-conquer-a-game-from-the-1980s/)

Join the The Newest Social Network and Party Like its 1987
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/join-the-the-newest-social-network-and-party-like-its-1987/

Algorithms? Datamining? Brainrot? You don’t need those things to have a social network. As we knew back in the BBS days, long before anyone coined the phrase “social network”, all …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/join-the-the-newest-social-network-and-party-like-its-1987/)

Pi Compute Modules Make for Compact Cluster
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/pi-compute-modules-make-for-compact-cluster/