Online weather services are great for providing generic area forecasts, but they don’t provide hyperlocal data specific to your location. [Harald Kreuzer] needed both and built a Raspberry Pi Weather …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/11/raspberry-pi-weather-station-features-wireless-sensor-nodes/)

Directing Ambient Light For Some Extra Glow
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/11/directing-ambient-light-for-some-extra-glow/

https://www.yankodesign.com/2023/02/04/this-sustainable-lamp-doesnt-use-batteries-to-create-its-eclipse-like-glow/
" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/nisshoku-lamp-0-featured.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/nisshoku-lamp-0-featured.png?w=800">[Yuichiro Morimoto] wanted to create a decorative lamp, one that wasn’t burdened with batteries or wires, but used just the ambient light in the room to create a directed glow …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/11/directing-ambient-light-for-some-extra-glow/)

A Look Back at the Xbox 360’s Hard Drive Security
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/11/a-look-back-at-the-xbox-360s-hard-drive-security/

Anyone who’s owned a game console from the last couple of generations will tell you that the machines are  becoming increasingly like set-top computers  —  equipped with USB ports, Bluetooth, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/11/a-look-back-at-the-xbox-360s-hard-drive-security/)

Dungeons and Dragons Board Game from the 1980s holds a TMS1100
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/12/dungeons-and-dragons-board-game-from-the-1980s-holds-a-tms1100/

Today is a little tour back to the early 1980s when Mattel released the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Computer Labyrinth Game. [Cameron Kaiser] was dealing with a few boxes of old …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/12/dungeons-and-dragons-board-game-from-the-1980s-holds-a-tms1100/)

ArtNet Not Going Through? Your Switch Might Be Protecting You
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/12/artnet-not-going-through-your-switch-might-be-protecting-you/

Cool technology often comes at a cost, and it’s not always that this cost is justified. For instance, [Rainfay] tells us about how the the ArtNet protocol’s odd design choices …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/12/artnet-not-going-through-your-switch-might-be-protecting-you/)

Deciphering Queen of Scots, Mary Stuart’s Lost Letters
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/12/deciphering-queen-of-scots-mary-stuarts-lost-letters/

Communications by important people over the past thousands of years have been regularly encrypted, making the breaking of this encryption both an essential and also a fascinating historical field. One …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/12/deciphering-queen-of-scots-mary-stuarts-lost-letters/)

RCA’s Clear Plastic TV Wowed Crowds In 1939
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/12/rcas-clear-plastic-tv-wowed-crowds-in-1939/

In the United States in 1939, television sets still had a long way to go before they pretty much sold themselves. Efforts to do just that are what led to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/12/rcas-clear-plastic-tv-wowed-crowds-in-1939/)

Challenging A Broken DualShock 4 Controller To A Duel
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/12/challenging-a-broken-dualshock-4-controller-to-a-duel/