We’ve all been there — you forgot your lunch, but there are AC outlets galore. Wouldn’t it be so much simpler if you could just plug in like your phone? …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/21/powering-biology-with-batteries/)

A Modchip for a Fridge
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/21/a-modchip-for-a-fridge/

An annoying fridge that beeps incessantly when the door is open too long should be an easy enough thing to fix by disconnecting the speaker, but when as with [kennedn]’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/21/a-modchip-for-a-fridge/)

Hackaday Links: July 21, 2024
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/21/hackaday-links-july-21-2024/

When monitors around the world display a “Blue Screen of Death” and you know it’s probably your fault, it’s got to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/21/hackaday-links-july-21-2024/)

CeraMetal Lets You Print Metal, Cheaply and Easily
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/21/cerametal-lets-you-print-metal-cheaply-and-easily/

3D printing metal has been somewhat of a holy grail for the last decade in the hobby 3DP scene. We’ve seen a number of solutions, including using expensive filaments that …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/21/cerametal-lets-you-print-metal-cheaply-and-easily/)

Coax Stub Filters Demystified
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/21/coax-stub-filters-demystified/

Unless you hold a First Degree RF Wizard rating, chances are good that coax stubs seem a bit baffling to you. They look for all the world like short circuits …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/21/coax-stub-filters-demystified/)

An AVO 8 Teardown
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/22/an-avo-8-teardown/

AVO meters — literally amp, volt, ohm meters — are not very common in North America but were staples in the UK. [TheHWcave] found an AVO 8 that is probably …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/22/an-avo-8-teardown/)

FauxTRS Is Definitely Not A Trash 80
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/22/fauxtrs-is-definitely-not-a-trash-80/

Among the 8-bit home micro boom from the late 1970s through early 1980s, the introduction to computing for many wasn’t a pricey Apple or Commodore, instead it was the slightly …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/22/fauxtrs-is-definitely-not-a-trash-80/)

Reviewing Nuclear Accidents: Separating Fact From Fiction
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/22/reviewing-nuclear-accidents-separating-fact-from-fiction/