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[l] at 10/29/24 5:00pm
We have probably all seen the marketing blurbs on packaging and elsewhere promoting the amazing lifespan of LED lighting solutions. Theoretically you should be able to install a LED bulb read more

[Category: Repair Hacks, led lightbulb]

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[l] at 10/29/24 2:00pm
Most of us using desktop computers, and plenty of us on laptops, have some sort of fan or pump installed in our computer to remove heat and keep our machines read more

[Category: hardware, automation, fan, fan controller, openfan, openfan micro, power supply, temperature, usb]

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[l] at 10/29/24 12:30pm
The story of Commodore computers is one of some truly great machines for their time, and of the truly woeful marketing that arguably spelled their doom. But theres another Commodore read more

[Category: Retrocomputing, commodore, handheld computer, Toshiba]

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[l] at 10/29/24 11:00am
So far in this series, weve talked about man-made byproducts Fordite, which is built-up layers of cured car enamel, and Trinitite, which was created during the first nuclear bomb read more

[Category: chemistry hacks, Featured, History, Original Art, fossil, fulgurites, Lichtenberg figure, lightning, rock, sand]

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[l] at 10/29/24 9:30am
Dealing with all the wiring can quickly become a challenge on robots, especially the walking variety which have actuators everywhere. [Eric Yufeng Wu] sidestepped the wiring issue by creating Q8bot, read more

[Category: Robots Hacks, Dynamixel, esp32-C3, quadroped, scara]

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[l] at 10/29/24 8:00am
If youre hear a rushing noise, dont be alarmed thats just the rapidly approaching 2024 Hackaday Supercon. As hard as it is to believe, a whole year has gone read more

[Category: cons, News, 2024 Hackaday Supercon, 2024 Hackaday Superconference, announcements]

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[l] at 10/29/24 5:00am
For those of you longing for better gaming on an Apple Silicon device, Asahi Linux is here to help. While Apples own line of CPUs are relatively new kids on read more

[Category: ARM, Linux Hacks, Mac Hacks, apple, arm, asahi, boot, gpu, linux, macOS]

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[l] at 10/29/24 2:00am
Your phone or laptop will give you access to the vast majority of news in the world, in languages you can read and a few hundred you cant. Maybe you read more

[Category: Raspberry Pi, news, raspberry pi, rss, rss reader]

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[l] at 10/28/24 11:00pm
Weve always been fascinated by things that perform complex electronic functions merely by virtue of their shapes. Waveguides come to mind, but so do active elements like filters made from read more

[Category: PCB Hacks, Radio Hacks, bandpass, butterworth, dielectric, filter, fr4, ptfe, resonator, RF, stripline, stub]

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[l] at 10/28/24 8:00pm
With the latest release of Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian) the end of the X Window System has become reality, completing a years-long transition period. Although this change between display read more

[Category: News, Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi OS, Wayland]

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[l] at 10/28/24 5:00pm
The annoying thing about commercial smart home gear is its lack of interoperability. HomeAssistant is very flexible though, and its easy to use all kinds of gear—even stuff you bodge read more

[Category: home hacks, ge interlogix, home, homeassistant]

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[l] at 10/28/24 2:00pm
The Quansheng UV-K5 is a popular handheld radio. Its useful out of the box, but also cherished for its modification potential. [OM0ET] purchased one of these capable VHF/UHF radios, but read more

[Category: Radio Hacks, amateur radio, ham radio, Quansheng, radio]

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[l] at 10/28/24 12:30pm
Computers were supposed to be personal, customizable, and cool. At times, in this cold modern world, we forget that. However, the cyberdeck scene is chock full of people building creative, read more

[Category: Cyberdecks, cyberdeck, raspberry pi]

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[l] at 10/28/24 9:30am
If youre trying to learn a new language, there are always a lot of words to learn. A word-of-the-day calendar can help, and theyre often readily available off the shelf. read more

[Category: Misc Hacks, e-paper, epaper, raspberry pi, word calendar, word of the day calendar]

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[l] at 10/28/24 8:00am
Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its 30th birthday. As the first original fork of the first read more

[Category: Featured, Original Art, Software Development, freebsd, operating system]

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[l] at 10/28/24 5:00am
China has a space station its called Tiangong, the first module was launched in 2021, and its all going quite swimmingly, thank you very much. Thats essentially what we read more

[Category: Space, china, space station, tiangong]

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[l] at 10/28/24 2:00am
Seeing the unseen is one of the great things about using an infrared (IR) camera, and even the cheap-ish ones that plug into a smartphone can dramatically improve your hardware read more

[Category: digital cameras hacks, Software Hacks, cosine, debugging, in-phase, infrared, integration, ir, lock-in thermography, modulated, quadrature, sine]

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[l] at 10/27/24 8:00pm
A British journalistic trope involves the phrase The pound in your pocket, a derisory reference to the 1960s Prime Minister Harold Wilsons use of it to try to persuade the read more

[Category: News, Security Hacks, cryptocurrency, money, privacy]

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[l] at 10/27/24 5:00pm
Problem solved? If the problem is supplying enough lithium to build batteries for all the electric vehicles that will be needed by 2030, then a new lithium deposit in Arkansas read more

[Category: Hackaday Columns, Hackaday links, Slider, Arkansas, batteries, Betelgeuse, binary star, brine, entropy, ev, game, hackaday links, lithium, lp, manufacturing, mastering, orion, password rules, record, Smackover, Supernova, variable star, vinyl]

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[l] at 10/27/24 2:00pm
Back in the summer our eye was caught by [Jazzy Jane]s new signal generator, or perhaps we should say her new-to-her signal generator. Its an Advance E1 from around 1950, read more

[Category: Repair Hacks, dignal generator, instrument repair, tube, valve]

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[l] at 10/27/24 11:00am
Over the years, Apple has gone all-in on parts pairing. Virtually every component in an iPhone and iPad has a unique ID thats kept in a big database over at read more

[Category: Repair Hacks, apple, apple iphone, right to repair]

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