Tis the Season
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/07/tis-the-season/

’Tis the season for soldering! At least at my house. My son and I made some fairly LED-laden gifts for the immediate relatives last year, and he’s got the blinky …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/07/tis-the-season/)

Liquid Metal Ion Thrusters Aren’t Easy
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/07/liquid-metal-ion-thrusters-arent-easy/

What do scanning electron microscopes and satellites have in common? On the face of things, not much, but after seeing [Zachary Tong]’s latest video on liquid metal ion thrusters, we …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/07/liquid-metal-ion-thrusters-arent-easy/)

The £25,000 Tom Evans Pre-Amp Repair and a Copyright Strike
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/07/the-25000-tom-evans-pre-amp-repair-and-a-copyright-strike/

We were recently notified by a reader that [Tom Evans] had filed a copyright claim against [Mark]’s repair video on his Mend it Mark YouTube channel, taking down said repair video …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/07/the-25000-tom-evans-pre-amp-repair-and-a-copyright-strike/)

Microchess Remembered
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/07/microchess-remembered/

Playing chess has always been a bellwether for computers. The game isn’t trivial, but the rules are managably simple. However, the game is too complex to be easily solved entirely, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/07/microchess-remembered/)

A Look inside IKEA’s Vallhorn Motion Sensor Teardown
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/07/a-look-inside-ikeas-vallhorn-motion-sensor-teardown/

A good source of hackable home automation parts has come for a while in the form of inexpensive modules offered by large retailers such as Lidl, or IKEA. They’re readily …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/07/a-look-inside-ikeas-vallhorn-motion-sensor-teardown/)

Cheap FPGA PCIe Development
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/07/cheap-fpga-pcie-development/

Typically, if you want to build an FPGA project inside a PC, you’d need a fairly expensive development board that plugs into the bus. However, [CircuitValley] found some IBM RS-485 …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/07/cheap-fpga-pcie-development/)

WASM-4: Retro Game Dev Right in Your Browser
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/08/wasm-4-retro-game-dev-right-in-your-browser/