As the holiday party season fades away into memory and we get into the swing of the new year, Elliot Williams is joined on the Hackaday Podcast by Jenny List …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/10/hackaday-podcast-episode-303-the-cheap-yellow-display-self-driving-under-1000-and-dont-remix-that-benchy/)

Life Without Limits: A Blind Maker’s Take on 3D Printing
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/10/life-without-limits-a-blind-makers-take-on-3d-printing/

In the world of creation, few stories inspire as much as [Mrblindguardian], a 33-year-old who has been blind since the age of two, but refuses to let that hold him …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/10/life-without-limits-a-blind-makers-take-on-3d-printing/)

Bit-Banging the USB-PD Protocol
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/10/bit-banging-the-usb-pd-protocol/

For one-off projects, adding a few integrated circuits to a PCB is not too big of a deal. The price of transistors is extremely low thanks to Moore and his …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/10/bit-banging-the-usb-pd-protocol/)

Springs and Things Make for a Unique Timepiece
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/10/springs-and-things-make-for-a-unique-timepiece/

You never know when inspiration is going to strike, and for [Ekaggrat Singh Kalsi], it struck while he was playing with one of his daughter’s hair ties. The result is …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/10/springs-and-things-make-for-a-unique-timepiece/)

The Engineer Behind Mine Detection
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/10/the-engineer-behind-mine-detection/

According to [Joanna Goodrich]  in IEEE Spectrum, prior to World War II, soldiers who wanted to find land mines, simply poked at the ground with pointed sticks or bayonets. As …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/10/the-engineer-behind-mine-detection/)

AA Battery Performances Tested, So Get The Most For Your Money
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/10/aa-battery-performances-tested-so-get-the-most-for-your-money/

[Project Farm] has a video in which a wide variety of AA cells are analyzed and compared in terms of capacity, internal resistance, ability to deliver voltage under load, and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/10/aa-battery-performances-tested-so-get-the-most-for-your-money/)

Tactility; The ESP32 Gets Another OS
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/11/tactility-the-esp32-gets-another-os/

Doing the rounds this week is a new operating system for ESP32 microcontrollers, it’s called Tactility, and it comes from [Ken Van Hoeylandt]. It provides a basic operating system level …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/11/tactility-the-esp32-gets-another-os/)