There’s a mystique around ribbon microphones due to their being expensive studio-grade items, which has led more than one experimenter down the rabbit hole of making one. [Catherine van West] …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/22/a-ribbon-microphone-is-harder-than-you-think/)

It’s Never Too Late For a Fixed SimCity 2000
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/its-never-too-late-for-a-fixed-simcity-2000/

Some retro games need a little help running on modern systems, and it’s not always straightforward. SimCity 2000 Special Edition is one such game and [araxestroy]’s sc2kfix bugfix DLL shows …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/its-never-too-late-for-a-fixed-simcity-2000/)

Brick Layer Post-Processor, Promising Stronger 3D Prints, Now Available
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/brick-layer-post-processor-promising-stronger-3d-prints-now-available/

Back in November we first brought you word of a slicing technique by which the final strength of 3D printed parts could be considerably improved by adjusting the first layer …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/brick-layer-post-processor-promising-stronger-3d-prints-now-available/)

Shellcode over MIDI? Bad Apple on a PSR-E433, Kinda
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/shellcode-over-midi-bad-apple-on-a-psr-e433-kinda/

If hacking on consumer hardware is about figuring out what it can do, and pushing it in directions that the manufacturer never dared to dream, then this is a very …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/shellcode-over-midi-bad-apple-on-a-psr-e433-kinda/)

This Home Made Laptop Raises The Bar
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/this-home-made-laptop-raises-the-bar/

With ready availability of single board computers, displays, keyboards, power packs, and other hardware, a home-made laptop is now a project within most people’s reach. Some laptop projects definitely veer …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/this-home-made-laptop-raises-the-bar/)

This QR Code Leads To Two Websites, But How?
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/this-qr-code-leads-to-two-websites-but-how/

QR codes are designed with alignment and scaling features, not to mention checksums and significant redundancy. They have to be, because you’re taking photos of them with your potato-camera while …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/this-qr-code-leads-to-two-websites-but-how/)

An Electric Converted Tractor CAN Farm!
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/an-electric-converted-tractor-can-farm/

Last October we showed you a video from [LiamTronix], in which he applied an electric conversion to a 1960s Massey-Ferguson 65 which had seen better days. It certainly seemed ready …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/an-electric-converted-tractor-can-farm/)

Trap Naughty Web Crawlers in Digestive Juices with Nepenthes
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/trap-naughty-web-crawlers-in-digestive-juices-with-nepenthes/