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Is a CS Degree DOA thanks to LLMs? IEEE Says TBD. ift.tt/EUnINaM

Is A CS Degree DOA Thanks To LLMs? IEEE Says TBD.

The ongoing AI apocalypse is hitting prices for high-end components from RAM to GPUs to storage hard, which is bad enough when you have a job to try and budget for those now-pricier items — b…

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Double the VRAM of an RTX 3070 ift.tt/VpuGwi9

Double The VRAM Of An RTX 3070

Modern games are quite often limited by the amount of volatile memory available to the GPU. Games can require many gigabytes of data during the rasterization process. So the obvious solution for be…

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The Pacemaker Patch ift.tt/RpF7cIH

The Pacemaker Patch

A pacemaker is implanted to send signals that regulate a patient’s heartbeat, and to do that, you need power. That means they require battery changes, and when the device in question happens …

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Robot Chess but Each Piece is a Small Robot ift.tt/cwEi5dG

Robot Chess But Each Piece Is A Small Robot

We have seen a number of self-playing chess boards over the years, but the general theme has been standard chess pieces moved by either an internal electromagnet or an external robotic arm. This is…

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Bambuddy Says Bye to Bambu Lab Cloud Services ift.tt/reRsbFc

Bambuddy Says Bye To Bambu Lab Cloud Services

If you have a Bambu Labs printer and aren’t keen to send your files to Bambu’s servers with each print job, then check out Bambuddy, an open-source, self-hosted, cloud-free central comm…

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Converting a Scanning Electron Microscope Into a TEM is Surprisingly Easy ift.tt/f495ur8

Converting A Scanning Electron Microscope Into A TEM Is Surprisingly Easy

Although both a SEM and a TEM are electron microscopes, their working principles and images are very different. Whereas an SEM uses secondary electrons ejected after bombarding a sample’s sur…

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Custom Watch is on the Case ift.tt/jN0PKfl

Custom Watch Is On The Case

We were excited to see [Z0hn]’s project about 3D printing a custom watch from scratch — both because it was an exciting idea, and because the pictures looked great. While we still liked…

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Patterns Everywhere ift.tt/Fx8GXLI

Patterns Everywhere

I studied physics in college, and I’m always surprised how fundamental some of the concepts are. Take waves for example. You really wouldn’t expect the same underlying concept to be at work on surf…

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Behold a 60 Hz Refresh Rate E-ink Monitor ift.tt/iKf26j3

Behold A 60 Hz Refresh Rate E-ink Monitor

E-ink displays have a number of advantages over other display types, but their refresh rate isn’t one of them. But what exactly makes them slow? According to [Wenting Zhang], it’s not a…

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GentleOS, A Simple OS For Your Old PC ift.tt/BkgSjUO

GentleOS, A Simple OS For Your Old PC

Every month or so we bring you a Jenny’s Daily Drivers article, in which we share with you an esoteric OS and try to use it for the everyday work of a Hackaday scribe. As part of that ongoing…

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Deeply optimized MSX emulation on ESP32-S3 with VGA output ift.tt/ZobdOhX

Deeply Optimized MSX Emulation On ESP32-S3 With VGA Output

The ESP32-S3 is by many metrics quite the powerful little computer, which has led to it being used even for things like emulating retro consoles and similar. Here [Ivan Svarkovsky]’s S3-MSX-P…

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Homebrew Macropad Looks Good ift.tt/lD6IfH5

Homebrew Macropad Looks Good

We are fans of macro pads and especially homebrew ones. The Apna Dost project by [np_vishwakarma] ticks most of our boxes. In addition to a few buttons, there’s an encoder, an OLED display, a…

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The Air Position Indicator for the B-29 ift.tt/H1SEk9U

The Air Position Indicator For The B-29

When you think of a computer, you probably don’t think of a tube full of motors and mechanics. However, as [Our Own Devices] shows, the Bendix AN5841 API Computer, an air position indicator c…

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Building a 1:150 scale Toyota ProBox Micro Remote Control Car ift.tt/W3FPSxb

Building A 1:150 Scale Toyota ProBox Micro Remote Control Car

Although in our imagination those scale models of cars certainly can drive and steer just like their full-scale counterparts, there’s something incredibly satisfying about watching them truly…

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Adding Weight to a 3D Print With Plaster of Paris, Cleanly ift.tt/EWdhFg4

Adding Weight To A 3D Print With Plaster Of Paris, Cleanly

Sometimes it’s useful to add extra mass to a 3D print, and [Joe Fedewa] shared a simple and effective technique that uses plaster of Paris. Rather than pause the print and insert hardware or …

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Hackaday Podcast Ep 373: GPS, Danger In Space, and Robby the Robot ift.tt/2LOpy93

Hackaday Podcast Ep 373: GPS, Danger In Space, And Robby The Robot

Last week, Elliot got his foot stepped on by a 1.5 metric ton draft horse, and boy is he glad to be back to the relative safety of podcasting! Joining him today is Jenny List, no stranger to farm l…

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A Peek inside the Secret Lagercrantz Suitcase Radio ift.tt/2srj8uV

A Peek Inside The Secret Lagercrantz Suitcase Radio

What counts as portable is somewhat a matter of opinion, especially over the years. [Helge Fykse] has a portable spy radio of Swedish origin. For its time, it was considered very portable, crammed …

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This Week in Security: Microsoft on Microsoft, Register Your Domains, Linux on ARM, and FreeBSD Joins the File Cache Club ift.tt/fZkW195

This Week In Security: Microsoft On Microsoft, Register Your Domains, Linux On ARM, And FreeBSD...

Supply chain attacks continue, with Microsoft’s own open source Azure repositories being automatically disabled by GitHub following a compromise of the packages by the Miasma worm. OpenSource…

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Glue-in Hinge Design Tries Something Different ift.tt/S19gjQt

Glue-in Hinge Design Tries Something Different

Need a hinge in your 3D printed design and would prefer not to re-invent the wheel? You may find [Alex Krush]’s glue-in filament hinge useful. This design prints half the hinge as a separate …

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The Hackaday Communicator Badge, Re-Imagined With New Firmware ift.tt/0FayIRg

The Hackaday Communicator Badge, Re-Imagined With New Firmware

Our recently concluded event in Europe saw the return of the Hackaday Communicator badge — a stylish handheld gadget with a QWERTY keyboard, a LoRa radio, and an ESP32. It came complete with …

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