PCB Motor Holds Fast, Even After 1.6 Billion Spins
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/17/pcb-motor-holds-fast-even-after-1-6-billion-spins/

If you aren’t up to date with [Carl Bugeja]’s work with tiny brushless PCB motors, his summary video of his latest design and all the challenges it involved is an …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/17/pcb-motor-holds-fast-even-after-1-6-billion-spins/)

The World Morse Code Championship
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/17/the-world-morse-code-championship/

If you were in Tunisia in October, you might have caught some of the Morse Code championships this year. If you didn’t make it, you could catch the BBC’s documentary …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/17/the-world-morse-code-championship/)

Pulling Backward to Go Forward: The Brennan Torpedo Explained
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/17/pulling-backward-to-go-forward-the-brennan-torpedo-explained/

The Brennan torpedo, invented in 1877 by Louis Brennan, was one of the first (if not the first) guided torpedoes of a practical design. Amazingly, it had no internal power …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/17/pulling-backward-to-go-forward-the-brennan-torpedo-explained/)

Learning About The Flume Water Monitor
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/18/learning-about-the-flume-water-monitor/

The itch to investigate lurks within all us hackers. Sometimes, you just have to pull something apart to learn how it works. [Stephen Crosby] found himself doing just that when …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/18/learning-about-the-flume-water-monitor/)

Catching the View from the Edge of Space
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/18/catching-the-view-from-the-edge-of-space/

Does “Pix or it didn’t happen” apply to traveling to the edge of space on a balloon-lofted solar observatory? Yes, it absolutely does. The breathtaking views on this page come …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/18/catching-the-view-from-the-edge-of-space/)

Why Did Early CD-ROM Drives Rely On Awkward Plastic Caddies?
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/18/why-did-early-cd-rom-drives-rely-on-awkward-plastic-caddies/

Sony had the most popular design for CD caddies, which was
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Cd_caddies_JPG.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Cd_caddies_JPG.jpg?w=800">These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console or car stereo, or an old-school tray-loader in a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/18/why-did-early-cd-rom-drives-rely-on-awkward-plastic-caddies/)

Enabling NVMe on the Raspberry Pi 500 With a Handful of Parts
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/18/enabling-nvme-on-the-raspberry-pi-500-with-a-handful-of-parts/