There’s a joke that does the rounds, about a teenager being given a dial phone and being unable to make head nor tail of it. Whether or not it’s true, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/google-japan-turn-out-another-keyboard-and-its-a-dial/)
Meshtastic: A Tale of Two Cities
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/meshtastic-a-tale-of-two-cities/
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/meshtastic-a-tale-of-two-cities/
If I’m honest with myself, I don’t really need access to an off-grid, fault-tolerant, mesh network like Meshtastic. The weather here in New Jersey isn’t quite so dynamic that there’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/meshtastic-a-tale-of-two-cities/)
Holy Parachute out of Kirigami
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/holy-parachute-out-of-kirigami/
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/holy-parachute-out-of-kirigami/
If you have a fear of heights and find yourself falling out of an airplane, you probably don’t want to look up to find your parachute full of holes. However, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/holy-parachute-out-of-kirigami/)
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Load Cell Anemometer
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/2025-component-abuse-challenge-load-cell-anemometer/
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/2025-component-abuse-challenge-load-cell-anemometer/
When you think anemometer, you probably don’t think “load cell” — but (statistically speaking) you probably don’t live in Hurricane Country, which is hard on wind-speed-measuring-whirligigs. When [BLANCHARD Jordan] got …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/2025-component-abuse-challenge-load-cell-anemometer/)
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: The Sweet Sound of a Choking Transformer
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/2025-component-abuse-challenge-the-sweet-sound-of-a-choking-transformer/
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/2025-component-abuse-challenge-the-sweet-sound-of-a-choking-transformer/
The Component Abuse Challenge is dragging all sorts of old, half-forgotten hacks out of the woodwork, but this has got to be the most vintage: [KenS] started using a transformer …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/2025-component-abuse-challenge-the-sweet-sound-of-a-choking-transformer/)
Motors Make the Best Knobs With SimpleFOC
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/motors-make-the-best-knobs-with-simplefoc/
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/motors-make-the-best-knobs-with-simplefoc/
The worst thing about a volume knob is that, having connected it to a computer, it might be wrong: if you’ve manually altered the volume settings somewhere else, the knob’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/motors-make-the-best-knobs-with-simplefoc/)
The Fascinating Waveguide Technology Inside Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/the-fascinating-waveguide-technology-inside-metas-ray-ban-display-glasses/
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/the-fascinating-waveguide-technology-inside-metas-ray-ban-display-glasses/
Recently the avid teardown folk over at iFixit got their paws on Meta’s Ray-Ban Display glasses, for a literal in-depth look at these smart glasses. Along the way they came …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/09/the-fascinating-waveguide-technology-inside-metas-ray-ban-display-glasses/)