If you need a seven-segment display for a project, you could just grab some LED units off the shelf. Or you could build something big and electromechanical out of Lego. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/mechanical-7-segment-display-combines-servos-and-lego/)
The Tao of Bespoke Electronics
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/the-tao-of-bespoke-electronics/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/the-tao-of-bespoke-electronics/
If you ever look at projects in an old magazine and compare them to today’s electronic projects, there’s at least one thing that will stand out. Most projects in “the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/the-tao-of-bespoke-electronics/)
FLOSS Weekly Episode 838: AtomVM and The Full Stack Elixir Developer
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/floss-weekly-episode-838-atomvm-and-the-full-stack-elixir-developer/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/floss-weekly-episode-838-atomvm-and-the-full-stack-elixir-developer/
This week Jonathan chats with Davide Bettio and Paul Guyot about AtomVM! Why Elixir on embedded? And how!? And what is a full stack Elixir developer, anyways? Watch to find …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/floss-weekly-episode-838-atomvm-and-the-full-stack-elixir-developer/)
Homebrew Pockels Cell Is Worth the Wait
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/homebrew-pockels-cell-is-worth-the-wait/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/homebrew-pockels-cell-is-worth-the-wait/
We haven’t seen any projects from serial experimenter [Les Wright] for quite a while, and honestly, we were getting a little worried about that. Turns out we needn’t have fretted, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/homebrew-pockels-cell-is-worth-the-wait/)
Ceramic Printing Techniques for Plastic
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/ceramic-printing-techniques-for-plastic/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/ceramic-printing-techniques-for-plastic/
[Claywoven] mostly prints with ceramics, although he does produce plastic inserts for functional parts in his designs. The ceramic parts have an interesting texture, and he wondered if the same …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/ceramic-printing-techniques-for-plastic/)
Simulating Empires with Procedurally Generated History
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/simulating-empires-with-procedurally-generated-history/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/simulating-empires-with-procedurally-generated-history/
Procedural generation is a big part of game design these days. Usually you generate your map, and [Fractal Philosophy] has decided to go one step further: using a procedurally-generated world …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/simulating-empires-with-procedurally-generated-history/)
Static Electricity Remembers
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/static-electricity-remembers/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/static-electricity-remembers/
As humans we often think we have a pretty good handle on the basics of the way the world works, from an intuition about gravity good enough to let us …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/static-electricity-remembers/)