Touch screen head units are pretty much the norm these days. Many compromise with annoying on-screen volume controls or tiny buttons. If you find yourself with such a unit, you  …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/17/android-head-unit-gets-volume-knob-upgrade/)

Trinteract Mini Space Mouse Does It In 3D
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/17/trinteract-mini-space-mouse-does-it-in-3d/

We’re not sure how we managed to miss this one, but better late than never, right? This is Trinteract, a 3-DOF input device that’s both open-source and Arduino compatible. There’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/17/trinteract-mini-space-mouse-does-it-in-3d/)

No Crystal Earpiece? No Problem!
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/17/no-crystal-earpiece-no-problem/

A staple of starting off in electronics ion years past was the crystal set radio, an extremely simple AM radio receiver with little more than a tuned circuit and a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/17/no-crystal-earpiece-no-problem/)

A Field Expedient Welder Only MacGyver Could Love
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/17/a-field-expedient-welder-only-macgyver-could-love/

If you needed to weld something in a pinch, what’s the minimum complement of equipment you could get away with? In [Professor Bardal]’s case, it’s a couple of motorcycle batteries …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/17/a-field-expedient-welder-only-macgyver-could-love/)

A PDA From An ESP32
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/18/a-pda-from-an-esp32/

The ESP32 series of microcontrollers have been with us for quite a few years now and appeared in both Tensilica and RISC-V variants, both of which deliver an inexpensive and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/18/a-pda-from-an-esp32/)

JTAG & SWD Debugging on the Pi Pico
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/18/jtag-swd-debugging-on-the-pi-pico/

[Surya Chilukuri] writes in to share JTAGprobe — a fork of the official Raspberry Pi debugprobe firmware that lets you use the low-cost microcontroller development board for JTAG and SWD …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/18/jtag-swd-debugging-on-the-pi-pico/)

Learn New Tools, or Hone Your Skill with the Old?
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/18/learn-new-tools-or-hone-your-skill-with-the-old/

Buried in a talk on AI from an artist who is doing cutting-edge video work was the following nugget that entirely sums up the zeitgeist: “The tools are changing so …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/18/learn-new-tools-or-hone-your-skill-with-the-old/)