When it comes to soldering on a PCB it almost always helps to have some way to hold the board off your workbench, allowing leads to pass though with out …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/03/print-and-clamp-rubber-band-pcb-stand-slides-into-duty/)

Regular Old Diodes Can Be More Photosensitive Than You Think
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/03/regular-old-diodes-can-be-more-photosensitive-than-you-think/

[Dhananjay Gadre] happened across a useful little trick the other day. Take any old 1N4148 or 1N914 glass-package signal diode and wire it up right, and you’ve got yourself a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/03/regular-old-diodes-can-be-more-photosensitive-than-you-think/)

Reproduced and Recovered: the First Chinese Keyboard-based MingKwai Typewriter
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/03/reproduced-and-recovered-the-first-chinese-keyboard-based-mingkwai-typewriter/

We all know what a typewriter looks like, and how this has been translated directly into the modern day computer keyboard, or at least many of us think we do. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/03/reproduced-and-recovered-the-first-chinese-keyboard-based-mingkwai-typewriter/)

Adding ISA Ports To Modern Motherboards
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/03/adding-isa-ports-to-modern-motherboards/

Modern motherboards don’t come with ISA slots, and almost everybody is fine with that. If you really want one, though, there are ways to get one. [TheRasteri] explains how in …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/03/adding-isa-ports-to-modern-motherboards/)

Making Audible Sense Of A Radiation Hunt
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/04/making-audible-sense-of-a-radiation-hunt/

The clicking of a Geiger counter is well enough known as a signifier of radioactive materials, due to it providing the menacing sound effect any time a film or TV …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/04/making-audible-sense-of-a-radiation-hunt/)

Lithium-Ion Batteries: WHY They Demand Respect
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/04/lithium-ion-batteries-why-they-demand-respect/

This summer, we saw the WHY (What Hackers Yearn) event happen in Netherlands, of course, with a badge to match. Many badges these days embrace the QWERTY computer aesthetic, which …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/04/lithium-ion-batteries-why-they-demand-respect/)

Rocket Roll Control, The Old Fashioned Way
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/04/rocket-roll-control-the-old-fashioned-way/

The vast majority of model rockets go vaguely up and float vaguely downwards without a lot of control. However, [newaysfactory] built a few rockets that were altogether more precise in …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/04/rocket-roll-control-the-old-fashioned-way/)