In an astonishing blend of robotics and nature, SMEO—a robot rat designed by researchers in China and Germany — is fooling real rats into treating it like one of their …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/09/robot-rodents-how-ai-learned-to-squeak-and-play/)

Finally Putting the RK1 Through its Paces
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/09/finally-putting-the-rk1-through-its-paces/

The good folks at Turing Pi sent me a trio of RK1 modules to put through their paces, to go along with the single unit I bought myself. And the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/09/finally-putting-the-rk1-through-its-paces/)

Electric Bike Uses No Electronics, Weird Motor
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/09/electric-bike-uses-no-electronics-weird-motor/

E-bikes combine a bicycle with a big lithium battery, a speed controller, and a motor. What you get from that combination is simple, efficient transportation. [Tom Stanton] wanted to build …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/09/electric-bike-uses-no-electronics-weird-motor/)

Raspberry Pi 500 and the Case of the Missing M.2 Slot
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/09/raspberry-pi-500-and-the-case-of-the-missing-m-2-slot/

Raspberry Pi just dropped the new Raspberry Pi 500, which like its predecessor puts the similarly named SBC into a keyboard. In a detailed review and teardown video, [Jeff Geerling] …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/09/raspberry-pi-500-and-the-case-of-the-missing-m-2-slot/)

PlayStation Motherboard Sanded and Scanned, But There’s More To Do
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/09/playstation-motherboard-sanded-and-scanned-but-theres-more-to-do/

If you want to reverse engineer the boards in a modern console, you’d better have a lab, a lot of fancy gear, and a good few months to dedicate to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/09/playstation-motherboard-sanded-and-scanned-but-theres-more-to-do/)

Smartphone Runs Home Server
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/09/smartphone-runs-home-server/

It’s one of the great tragedies of our technological era. Smartphones that feature an incredible amount of computational power compared to computers the past, are largely locked down by carriers …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/09/smartphone-runs-home-server/)

A Simple Robot For Learning About Robotics
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/09/a-simple-robot-for-learning-about-robotics/

Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/09/a-simple-robot-for-learning-about-robotics/)