[Cody Lammer] built a sweet CNC router. But as always, when you build a “thing”, you inevitably figure out how to build a better “thing” in the process, so here …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/12/second-cnc-machine-is-twice-as-nice/)

Usagi’s PDP-11 Supercomputer and Appeal for Floating Point Systems Info
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/12/usagis-pdp-11-supercomputer-and-appeal-for-floating-point-systems-info/

With an exciting new year of retrocomputing ahead for [David Lovett] over at the Usagi Electric YouTube channel, recently some new hardware arrived at the farm. Specifically hardware from a company …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/12/usagis-pdp-11-supercomputer-and-appeal-for-floating-point-systems-info/)

Gaming Table has Lights, Action
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/12/gaming-table-has-lights-action/

We couldn’t decide if [‘s] Dungeons and Dragons gaming table was a woodworking project with some electronics or an electronics project with some woodworking. Either way, it looks like a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/12/gaming-table-has-lights-action/)

Hackaday Links: January 12, 2025
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/12/hackaday-links-january-12-2025/

The big news story of the week of course has been the wildfires in California, which as of Saturday have burned over 30,000 acres, destroyed 12,000 structures, caused 150,000 people …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/12/hackaday-links-january-12-2025/)

Carnarvon’s Decommissioned NASA Satellite Dish Back In Service After 40 Years
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/12/carnarvons-decommissioned-nasa-satellite-dish-back-in-service-after-40-years/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OTC_Earth_Station.jpg?useskin=vector
" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/carnarvon_australia_OTC_Earth_Station.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/carnarvon_australia_OTC_Earth_Station.jpg?w=597">Recently the 29.8 meter parabolic antenna at the Australian OTC (overseas telecommunications commission) station came back to life again after nearly forty years spent in decommissioning limbo. This parabolic dish …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/12/carnarvons-decommissioned-nasa-satellite-dish-back-in-service-after-40-years/)

Custom Case Turns Steam Deck Into Portable Workstation
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/12/custom-case-turns-steam-deck-into-portable-workstation/

DIY portable computing takes many forms, and doesn’t always require getting down and dirty with custom electronics. [Justinas Jakubovskis]’s Steam Deck Play and Work case demonstrates this with some really …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/12/custom-case-turns-steam-deck-into-portable-workstation/)

Modern AI on Vintage Hardware: LLama 2 Runs on Windows 98
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/13/modern-ai-on-vintage-hardware-llama-2-runs-on-windows-98/

[EXO Labs] demonstrated something pretty striking: a modified version of Llama 2 (a large language model) that runs on Windows 98. Why? Because when it comes to personal computing, if …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/13/modern-ai-on-vintage-hardware-llama-2-runs-on-windows-98/)