This week, Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles chat with Frank Delporte about Pi4J, the friendly Java libraries for the Raspberry Pi, that expose GPIO, SPI, I2C and other IO interfaces. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/13/floss-weekly-episode-809-pi4j-stable-and-boring-on-the-raspberry-pi/)

Landscape Motif Makes This E-Ink Weather Display Easy to Understand
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/13/landscape-motif-makes-this-e-ink-weather-display-easy-to-understand/

True weather geeks will disagree, but there might be a better way to know how to dress for the day than divining what the weather will likely be from the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/13/landscape-motif-makes-this-e-ink-weather-display-easy-to-understand/)

Open Cardiography Signal Measuring Device
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/13/open-cardiography-signal-measuring-device/

Much of the world’s medical equipment is made by a handful of monopolistic megacorps, but [Milos Rasic] built an open cardiography signal measuring device for his master’s thesis. Using a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/13/open-cardiography-signal-measuring-device/)

AI Face Anonymizer Masks Human Identity in Images
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/13/ai-face-anonymizer-masks-human-identity-in-images/

We’re all pretty familiar with AI’s ability to create realistic-looking images of people that don’t exist, but here’s an unusual implementation of using that technology for a different purpose: masking …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/13/ai-face-anonymizer-masks-human-identity-in-images/)

Laser Sound Visualizations Are Not Hard To Make
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/13/laser-sound-visualizations-are-not-hard-to-make/

You might think that visualizing music with lasers would be a complicated and difficult affair. In fact, it’s remarkably simple if you want it to be, and [byte_thrasher] shows us …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/13/laser-sound-visualizations-are-not-hard-to-make/)

Building a Reproduction Apple I
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/14/building-a-reproduction-apple-i/

If you think of Apple today, you probably think of an iPhone or a Mac. But the original Apple I was a simple PC board and required a little effort …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/14/building-a-reproduction-apple-i/)

Smart Thermostats Pitched for Texas Homes to Relieve Stressed Grid
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/14/smart-thermostats-pitched-for-texas-homes-to-relieve-stressed-grid/

It’s not much of a secret that Texas’ nearly completely isolated grid is in a bit of a pickle, with generating capacity often being handily outstripped during periods of extreme …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/14/smart-thermostats-pitched-for-texas-homes-to-relieve-stressed-grid/)