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Whipping Up A Quick Adapter To Hack The Xbox 360
1+ hour, 18+ min ago (293+ words) [Androxilogin] had a problem. An Xbox 360 Slim had shown up in the post, but failed to give much more than a beep when turned on. Disassembly revealed some missing components, but replacing them faile... [Androxilogin] had a problem An Xbox…...
Building Natural Seawalls To Fight Off The Rising Tide
3+ hour, 12+ min ago (335+ words) These days, the conversation around climate change so often focuses on matters of soaring temperatures and extreme weather events. While they no longer dominate the discourse, rising sea levels will nonetheless still be a major issue to face as global…...
Comprehensive Power Management For The Raspberry Pi
6+ hour, 12+ min ago (271+ words) The Raspberry Pi has been a revolutionary computer in the maker space, providing a full Linux environment, GUI, and tons of GPIO and other interfacing protocols at a considerably low price. This wasn'... The Raspberry Pi has been a revolutionary…...
Companion MIDI Pedal Helps Roland Groovebox Along
9+ hour, 12+ min ago (414+ words) The Roland SP-404 Mk2 is a popular groovebox that can deliver a great beat if you know how to use it. If you're seeking greater control than is available out of the box, though, you might like to try ......
Lazarustorm Lets A PiStorm Live Outside Your Old Amiga
12+ hour, 13+ min ago (288+ words) Lazarustorm Lets A PiStorm Live Outside Your Old Amiga'Hackaday The PiStorm is nothing new; if you're familiar with the retrocomputer scene, you've probably heard of it By replacing the 68k processor in an old Amiga (or some models of Atari) the…...
Rare-Earth-Free Magnets With High Entropy Borides
15+ hour, 12+ min ago (261+ words) [caption id="attachment_914163" align="alignright" width="400"] Map of the calculated magnetic anisotropy. (Credit: Beeson et al., Adv. Mat., 2025)[/caption] Although most of us simultaneously accept... Map of the calculated magnetic anisotropy (Credit: Beeson et al., Adv Mat., 2025) Although most of us…...
Solar Supercapacitor Lamp Probably Won’t Get You Saved At Sea
18+ hour, 12+ min ago (275+ words) Most solar lights are cheap garbage that exist just to put more microplastics into the environment as they degrade in short order. [Jeremy Cook] built his own solar light, however, and this one might ... Most solar lights are cheap garbage…...
Handheld Steering Wheel Controller Gets Force-Feedback
21+ hour, 12+ min ago (262+ words) For a full-fledged, bells-and-whistles driving simulator a number of unique human interface devices are needed, from pedals and shifters to the steering wheel. These steering wheels often have force f... For a full-fledged, bells-and-whistles driving simulator a number of unique human…...
The Inner Workings Of The Intel 8086’s Arithmetic Logic Unit
22+ hour, 42+ min ago (593+ words) Of course, as semiconductor technology improved, along with design technologies, many of these trade-offs and disadvantages became less relevant. [Ken] also raises the interesting point that much of this ALU control technology is similar to that used in modern-day FPGAs,…...
Did We Overestimate The Potential Harm From Microplastics?
1+ day, 12+ min ago (945+ words) All of which raises the question whether flawed studies have pushed us into our own Chicken Little moment, and whether it's now time to breathe a sigh of relief that the sky isn't falling after all. A 2024 paper by Marthinus…...