Wielding things like two-handed swords in VR can be awkward. There’s no sense of grasping a solid object. The controllers (and therefore one’s hands) feel floaty and disconnected from one …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/22/make-your-vr-controllers-handle-like-two-handed-weapons/)

What Day Is It Again? Check the Clock
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/22/what-day-is-it-again-check-the-clock/

If you’re lucky enough to work from home, you’ll soon find that it presents its own set of challenges, mostly related to work/life balance. It can get so bad that …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/22/what-day-is-it-again-check-the-clock/)

Electric Vehicle Charging Heats Up
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/22/electric-vehicle-charging-heats-up/

As the electric vehicle takeover slowly lumbers along, marginally increasing efficiencies for certain applications while entrenching car-centric urban design even further, there are some knock-on effects that are benefiting people …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/22/electric-vehicle-charging-heats-up/)

A Ribbon Microphone Is Harder Than You Think
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/22/a-ribbon-microphone-is-harder-than-you-think/

There’s a mystique around ribbon microphones due to their being expensive studio-grade items, which has led more than one experimenter down the rabbit hole of making one. [Catherine van West] …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/22/a-ribbon-microphone-is-harder-than-you-think/)

It’s Never Too Late For a Fixed SimCity 2000
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/its-never-too-late-for-a-fixed-simcity-2000/

Some retro games need a little help running on modern systems, and it’s not always straightforward. SimCity 2000 Special Edition is one such game and [araxestroy]’s sc2kfix bugfix DLL shows …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/its-never-too-late-for-a-fixed-simcity-2000/)

Brick Layer Post-Processor, Promising Stronger 3D Prints, Now Available
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/brick-layer-post-processor-promising-stronger-3d-prints-now-available/

Back in November we first brought you word of a slicing technique by which the final strength of 3D printed parts could be considerably improved by adjusting the first layer …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/brick-layer-post-processor-promising-stronger-3d-prints-now-available/)

Shellcode over MIDI? Bad Apple on a PSR-E433, Kinda
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/shellcode-over-midi-bad-apple-on-a-psr-e433-kinda/

If hacking on consumer hardware is about figuring out what it can do, and pushing it in directions that the manufacturer never dared to dream, then this is a very …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/shellcode-over-midi-bad-apple-on-a-psr-e433-kinda/)

This Home Made Laptop Raises The Bar
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/this-home-made-laptop-raises-the-bar/