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I started writing this from a commuter train passing at speed through the outskirts of London, and my headset had just broken.

Recently [John Spicer] of the EDG C++ compiler front-end project announced that the project will be made open source, from now on managed by the non-profit C++ Alliance.

Although Android is essentially just another Linux distribution, most people only experience it in the form of the rather restrictive and proprietary versions found on smartphones, tablets and smart TVs.

USB-C Power Delivery (PD) has been a boon to anyone working with low-voltage DC power, because at a stroke it replaces a vast array of wall warts, power supplies, and connector standards with one simple and straightforward commoditized system.

Large language models (LLMs) output language, but they are commonly tasked with making a decision or classification of some kind instead of writing an essay or chat reply.

There are some projects that seem at first sight to be easy, but anyone who tries them finds a whole heap of unexpected problems and turns to the off-the-shelf device.

With the rise of synthetic polymers in everywhere from clothing, packaging and beyond, we have also seen a corresponding rise in fragments of these polymers in the environment.

Building anything that flies from scratch is an ambitious undertaking, even if it’s ‘just’ radio-controlled. 3D printing the aircraft isn’t that odd these days, but putting a hot jet engine into a plastic airframe is another ambitous reach.

Copper sulfate crystals are probably among one of the prettiest crystals you can grow at home, with even just a simple setup with some copper scrap and vinegar already capable of producing lots of them.

The discerning modern gamer’s quest is to find a quieter computer without sacrificing performance.

Hollywood has a lot to answer for when it comes to “silencers” on firearms.

Most of the time, assuming nothing’s gone wrong with them, we take our hands so much for granted that it’s easy to forget what remarkable pieces of engineering they are: not only are they precise and sensitive enough to crack an egg or write a signature,…

Last time, we looked at getting started with the GOWIN tools and a Tang Nano 20K FPGA.

Although VHS-based games have existed for about as long as VHS players have sat in millions of living rooms, they always tended to be rather sparse gaming experiences.

It must be April in October again, because Google Japan has a new, hilariously impractical reimagining of the keyboard: a conveyor belt.

Back in the old days the IBM-PC, like most of its contemporary computers, shipped with BASIC in ROM.

One fascinating thing about a pulsed laser is that, though the average power may be measured in watts or milliwatts, the peak power can easily reach millions of times that.

If you’re interested in aerospace, there’s an excellent chance you’ve heard the rumor that NASA is trying to get its SR-71 flying again.

When [Thomas] showed his 1960s-era Tektronix 545A oscilloscope in a recent video, it made us both nostalgic and happy.

If you saw a device that had a laptop form factor playing sound and video, alt-tabbing over to play a game or take some notes, then back to the video — well, that’s normal; that’s what laptops do.

[Tolko] wanted to encourage kids to have some physical activity, but noted that they only wanted to play games.

If you want to experiment with LLMs, you typically have a choice of sending your requests to someone else’s computer or fielding a very large GPU and CPU setup to run models locally.

The past years we have been seeing screens pop up in many new places, but seeing them in USB-C cables is still a bit of a novel thing.

Most of the time when you see a repair video of a Game Boy it’ll be demonstrated with a cartridge inserted and booting up into the game, but does this actually mean that the system is truely fully functional?

Unless it’s automated or using some other form of high-tech trickery, a vegetable garden isn’t exactly the sort of thing you’d expect to see on Hackaday.

[Applied Science] has a new demo of an old 1970s patent for a portable generator that is both interesting and terrifying.

[Michael H Thiesen] had a couple of Elgato Key Lights in his home streaming setup.

[The Mike Stuff] has an interesting proposition.

The Nintendo Game Boy is quite possibly the most popular console in the international chiptune community.

FogCam is the oldest webcam feed that’s still up and running.