Imagine this. A young person comes to you wanting to get started in the electronic hobby. They ask what five things should they buy to get started. Make your list. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/15/its-a-soldering-iron-its-a-multimeter-relax-its-both/)

WiFi Status Indicator Keeps Eye on the Network
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/wifi-status-indicator-keeps-eye-on-the-network/

These days, most of us take the instant availability of a high-speed link to the Internet for granted. But despite all of the latest technology, things still occasionally go pear-shaped …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/wifi-status-indicator-keeps-eye-on-the-network/)

Spotted at Supercon: Glowtape Wearable Display
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/spotted-at-supercon-glowtape-wearable-display/

We’re big fans of unusual timepieces here at Hackaday, so it didn’t take long before somebody called our attention to the gloriously luminescent watch that [Henner Zeller] was wearing at …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/spotted-at-supercon-glowtape-wearable-display/)

Hackers, Patents, and 3D Printing
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/hackers-patents-and-3d-printing/

Last week, we ran a post about a slightly controversial video that claimed that a particular 3D-printing slicing strategy was tied up by a patent troll. We’re absolutely not lawyers …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/hackers-patents-and-3d-printing/)

Playing Chess Against LLMs and the Mystery of Instruct Models
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/playing-chess-against-llms-and-the-mystery-of-instruct-models/

At first glance, trying to play chess against a large language model (LLM) seems like a daft idea, as its weighted nodes have, at most, been trained on some chess-adjacent …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/playing-chess-against-llms-and-the-mystery-of-instruct-models/)

World’s First Virtual Meeting: 5,100 Engineers Phoned In
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/worlds-first-virtual-meeting-5100-engineers-phoned-in/

Source: Jez Timms, Unsplash
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/first-virtual-meeting-1200.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/first-virtual-meeting-1200.jpg?w=800" tabindex="0" role="button">Would you believe that the first large-scale virtual meeting happened as early as 1916? More than a century before Zoom meetings became just another weekday burden, the American Institute of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/worlds-first-virtual-meeting-5100-engineers-phoned-in/)

Ethernet From First Principles
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/ethernet-from-first-principles/

For someone programming in a high-level language like Python, or even for people who interact primarily with their operating system and the software running on it, it can seem like …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/ethernet-from-first-principles/)

Open Source Universal ROM Programmer Grows Up
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/open-source-universal-rom-programmer-grows-up/