Before LCD and LED screens were ubiquitous, there was a time when the cathode ray tube (CRT) was essentially the only game in town. Even into the early 2000s, CRTs …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/13/original-game-boy-gets-display-upgrade/)

Ryobi Battery Pack Gives Up Its Secrets Before Giving Up the Ghost
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/14/ryobi-battery-pack-gives-up-its-secrets-before-giving-up-the-ghost/

Remember when dead batteries were something you’d just toss in the trash? Those days are long gone, thankfully, and rechargeable battery packs have put powerful cordless tools in the palms …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/14/ryobi-battery-pack-gives-up-its-secrets-before-giving-up-the-ghost/)

Whacky Science: Using Mayonnaise to Study Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/14/whacky-science-using-mayonnaise-to-study-rayleigh-taylor-instability/

Sometimes a paper in a scientific journal pops up that makes you do a triple-take, case in point being a recent paper by [Aren Boyaci] and [Arindam Banerjee] in Physical …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/14/whacky-science-using-mayonnaise-to-study-rayleigh-taylor-instability/)

Laser Cutters: Where’s the Point?
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/14/laser-cutters-wheres-the-point/

It is funny how when you first start doing something, you have so many misconceptions that you have to discard. When you look back on it, it always seems like …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/14/laser-cutters-wheres-the-point/)

A Really Low Level Guide To Doing Ethernet on an FPGA
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/14/a-really-low-level-guide-to-doing-ethernet-on-an-fpga/

With so much of our day-to-day networking done wirelessly these days, it can be easy to forget about Ethernet. But it’s a useful standard and can be a great way …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/14/a-really-low-level-guide-to-doing-ethernet-on-an-fpga/)

Hacker Tactic: Pimp Your Probes
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/14/hacker-tactic-pimp-your-probes/

Is your multimeter one of your trusty friends when building up boards, repairing broken gadgets, and reverse-engineering proprietary ones? Is it accompanied by a logic analyzer or an oscilloscope at …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/14/hacker-tactic-pimp-your-probes/)

FLOSS Weekly Episode 796: Homebrew, I’m More of a Whopper Guy
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/14/floss-weekly-episode-796-homebrew-im-more-of-a-whopper-guy/

This week Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles chat with John Britton and Mike McQuaid about Homebrew! That’s the missing package manager for macOS; and Workbrew, the commercial offering built on …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/14/floss-weekly-episode-796-homebrew-im-more-of-a-whopper-guy/)

Handheld Oscilloscope Meter Reviewed
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/14/handheld-oscilloscope-meter-reviewed/