Light Transport and Constructing Images From a Projector’s Point of View
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/07/light-transport-and-constructing-images-from-a-projectors-point-of-view/
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/07/light-transport-and-constructing-images-from-a-projectors-point-of-view/
Imagine you have a projector pointing at a scene, which you’re photographing with a camera aimed from a different point. Using the techniques of modelling light transport, [okooptics] has shown …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/08/07/light-transport-and-constructing-images-from-a-projectors-point-of-view/)
Exploring the TRS-80’s Color BASIC’s Random Number Function
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/exploring-the-trs-80s-color-basics-random-number-function/
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/exploring-the-trs-80s-color-basics-random-number-function/
Although these days we get to tap into many sources of entropy to give a pretty good illusion of randomness, home computers back in the 1980s weren’t so lucky. Despite …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/exploring-the-trs-80s-color-basics-random-number-function/)
Is It Time To Retire the TP4056?
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/is-it-time-to-retire-the-tp4056/
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/is-it-time-to-retire-the-tp4056/
The Texas Instruments TP4056 is the default charge-controller chip for any maker or hacker working with lithium batteries. And why not? You can get perfectly-functional knockoffs on handy breakout boards …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/is-it-time-to-retire-the-tp4056/)
This Week in Security: Perplexity v Cloudflare, GreedyBear, and HashiCorp
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/this-week-in-security-perplexity-v-cloudflare-greedybear-and-hashicorp/
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/this-week-in-security-perplexity-v-cloudflare-greedybear-and-hashicorp/
The Internet is fighting over whether robots.txt applies to AI agents. It all started when Cloudflare published a blog post, detailing what the company was seeing from Perplexity crawlers. Of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/this-week-in-security-perplexity-v-cloudflare-greedybear-and-hashicorp/)
Talking Robot Uses Typewriter Tech For Mouth
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/talking-robot-uses-typewriter-tech-for-mouth/
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/talking-robot-uses-typewriter-tech-for-mouth/
Many decades ago, IBM engineers developed the typeball. This semi-spherical hunk of metal would become the heart of the Selectric typewriter line. [James Brown] has now leveraged that very concept …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/talking-robot-uses-typewriter-tech-for-mouth/)
Hackaday Podcast Episode 332: 5 Axes are Better than 3, Hacking Your Behavior, and the Man Who Made Models
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/hackaday-podcast-episode-332-5-axes-are-better-than-3-hacking-your-behavior-and-the-man-who-made-models/
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/hackaday-podcast-episode-332-5-axes-are-better-than-3-hacking-your-behavior-and-the-man-who-made-models/
Elliot and Dan got together this week for a review of the week’s hacking literature, and there was plenty to discuss. We addressed several burning questions, such as why digital …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/hackaday-podcast-episode-332-5-axes-are-better-than-3-hacking-your-behavior-and-the-man-who-made-models/)
2025 One Hertz Challenge: The Real-Time Clock The VIC-20 Never Had
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/2025-one-hertz-challenge-the-real-time-clock-the-vic-20-never-had/
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/2025-one-hertz-challenge-the-real-time-clock-the-vic-20-never-had/