Over at EDN, [Brian Dipert] has been tearing down web cameras. A few months ago, he broke into a bargain basement camera. This time, he’s looking into a premium unit. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/pulling-apart-a-premium-webcam/)

How Jurassic Park’s Dinosaur Input Device Bridged the Stop-Motion and CGI Worlds
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/how-jurassic-parks-dinosaur-input-device-bridged-the-stop-motion-and-cgi-worlds/

Raptor DID. Photo by Matt Mechtley.
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1d24d-dinosaur_input_device_velociraptor.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1d24d-dinosaur_input_device_velociraptor.jpg?w=800" tabindex="0" role="button">In a double-blast from the past, [Ian Failes]’ 2018 interview with [Phil Tippett] and others who worked on Jurassic Park is a great look at how the dinosaurs in this 1993 …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/how-jurassic-parks-dinosaur-input-device-bridged-the-stop-motion-and-cgi-worlds/)

Ask Hackaday: How Can We Leverage Tech for Education?
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/ask-hackaday-how-can-we-leverage-tech-for-education/

If you’re like us, you’ve studied the mathematician [Euler], but all you really remember is that you pronounce his name like “oiler” and not much else. [Welch Labs], on the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/ask-hackaday-how-can-we-leverage-tech-for-education/)

Jangle Box Plucks Strings At the Press of a Button
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/jangle-box-plucks-strings-at-the-press-of-a-button/

There are some that enjoy the human element of a musical performance, delighting in the unique way an artist teases the desired sound from their instruments. Then there are those …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/jangle-box-plucks-strings-at-the-press-of-a-button/)

Supercon 2023: Soft Actuators as Assistive Tech
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/supercon-2023-soft-actuators-as-assistive-tech/

When we think of assistive prostheses or braces, we often think of hard and rigid contraptions. After all, it wasn’t that long ago that prosthetic limbs were still being made …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/supercon-2023-soft-actuators-as-assistive-tech/)

FLOSS Weekly Episode 797: Coreutils — Don’t rm -r Up the Tree
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/floss-weekly-episode-797-coreutils-dont-rm-r-up-the-tree/

This week Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch chat with Pádraig Brady about Coreutils! It’s been around since the 90s, and is still a healthy project under active development. You’ve almost …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/floss-weekly-episode-797-coreutils-dont-rm-r-up-the-tree/)

Atari Announces the Atari 7800+ Nostalgia Console
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/atari-announces-the-atari-7800-nostalgia-console/

Following the trend of re-releasing every single game console as some kind of modern re-imagining or merely an ARM-SBC-with-emulator slapped into a nice looking enclosure, we now got the announcement …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/atari-announces-the-atari-7800-nostalgia-console/)

Farewell Magnetic Stripe
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/farewell-magnetic-stripe/