Capacitive touch buttons are a great way to turn just about any (non-conductive) surface into a button, but people generally dislike the lack of tactile feedback.  [KontinuumLab] apparently agreed and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/silicone-tubing-as-springs-for-capacitive-touch-buttons/)

Atoms For Peace: the US Nuclear Fleet Build-Out and Modern-Day Revival
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/atoms-for-peace-the-us-nuclear-fleet-build-out-and-modern-day-revival/

By the end of World War II the world had changed forever, as nuclear weapons were used for the first and – to this date – only time in anger. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/atoms-for-peace-the-us-nuclear-fleet-build-out-and-modern-day-revival/)

A Pi Pico Makes A Spectrum Laptop
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/a-pi-pico-makes-a-spectrum-laptop/

There are many retrocomputer emulation projects out there, and given the relative fragility of the original machines as they enter their fifth decade, emulation seems to be the most common …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/a-pi-pico-makes-a-spectrum-laptop/)

Crawler Challenge: Building Rope-Traversing Robots
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/crawler-challenge-building-rope-traversing-robots/

Rope-climbing robots are the stuff of engineering dreams. As kids, didn’t we all clutter our family home with constructions of towers and strings – Meccano, or Lego – to have …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/crawler-challenge-building-rope-traversing-robots/)

Camera Slider Uses Repositionable Rail To Do Rotational Moves
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/camera-slider-uses-repositionable-rail-to-do-rotational-moves/

You can buy motorized camera sliders off-the-shelf, but they’re pretty costly. Alternatively, you can make one yourself, and it’s not even that hard if you’re kitted out with a 3D …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/camera-slider-uses-repositionable-rail-to-do-rotational-moves/)

ALSEP: Apollo’s Modular Lunar Experiments Laboratory
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/alsep-apollos-modular-lunar-experiments-laboratory/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ap16_pse.jpg?useskin=vector
" data-image-caption="Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package of the Apollo 16 mission (Credit: NASA)
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/alsep_apollo_16_NASA.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/alsep_apollo_16_NASA.jpg?w=800">Although the US’ Moon landings were mostly made famous by the fact that it featured real-life human beings bunny hopping across the lunar surface, they weren’t there just for a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/alsep-apollos-modular-lunar-experiments-laboratory/)

Watch Any Video on Your Game Boy, Via Link Cable
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/watch-any-video-on-your-game-boy-via-link-cable/

Game Boys have a link cable that lets two of them play together. You know, to battle with a friend’s Pokemon and stuff like that. But who says that it …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/watch-any-video-on-your-game-boy-via-link-cable/)

Calling Pink Floyd
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/calling-pink-floyd/