Radio Shack, despite being gone for a number of years, is still in our cultural consciousness. But Tandy, the company behind Radio Shack for many years. Did you ever wonder …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/15/a-history-of-the-tandy-computers/)

Arduino Saves Heat Pump
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/16/arduino-saves-heat-pump/

For home HVAC systems, heat pumps seem to be the way of the future. When compared to electric heating they can be three to four times more efficient, and they …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/16/arduino-saves-heat-pump/)

Caltech Scientists Make Producing Plastics From CO2 More Efficient
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/16/caltech-scientists-make-producing-plastics-from-co2-more-efficient/

For decades there has been this tantalizing idea being pitched of pulling CO2 out of the air and using the carbon molecules for something more useful, like making plastics. Although …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/16/caltech-scientists-make-producing-plastics-from-co2-more-efficient/)

The DEW Line Remembered
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/16/the-dew-line-remembered/

If you grew up in the middle of the Cold War, you probably remember hearing about the Distant Early Warning line between duck-and-cover drills. The United States and Canada built …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/16/the-dew-line-remembered/)

This SSD Will Self Destruct in Ten Seconds…
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/16/this-ssd-will-self-destruct-in-ten-seconds/

In case you can’t wait for your flash memory to die from write cycling, TeamGroup now has a drive that, via software or hardware, can destroy its own flash chips …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/16/this-ssd-will-self-destruct-in-ten-seconds/)

Vintage Hardware Find Includes Time Capsule of Data
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/16/vintage-hardware-find-includes-time-capsule-of-data/

Before social media brought the Internet to the masses, and before even Napster, ICQ, and AIM gave those with a phone line a reason to connect online at all, those …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/16/vintage-hardware-find-includes-time-capsule-of-data/)

A Neural Net For a Graphing Calculator?
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/17/a-neural-net-for-a-graphing-calculator/

Machine learning and neural nets can be pretty handy, and people continue to push the envelope of what they can do both in high end server farms as well as …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/17/a-neural-net-for-a-graphing-calculator/)