Internet Connected Pinball Machine Shows Off Scores
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/25/internet-connected-pinball-machine-shows-off-scores/

Before video games, there were pinball machines. Not that they don’t exist today, but a modern pinball machine will likely have microprocessors and other fancy things that traditional pinball machine …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/25/internet-connected-pinball-machine-shows-off-scores/)

This Camera Produces a Picture, Using the Scene Before It
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/25/this-camera-produces-a-picture-using-the-scene-before-it/

It’s the most basic of functions for a camera, that when you point it at a scene, it produces a photograph of what it sees. [Jasper van Loenen] has created …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/25/this-camera-produces-a-picture-using-the-scene-before-it/)

Simultaneous Invention, All the Time?
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/25/simultaneous-invention-all-the-time/

As Tom quipped on the podcast this week, if you have an idea for a program you’d like to write, all you have to do is look around on GitHub …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/25/simultaneous-invention-all-the-time/)

Pi Pico Calculates Water Usage
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/25/pi-pico-calculates-water-usage/

Modern WiFi-enabled microcontrollers have made it affordable and easy to monitor everything from local weather information to electricity usage with typically no more than a few dollars worth of hardware …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/25/pi-pico-calculates-water-usage/)

Low Power Challenge: Keep Plants Green and Clean with e-Paper Smart Tags
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/25/low-power-challenge-keep-plants-green-and-clean-with-e-paper-smart-tags/

There are plenty of reasons to devote oneself to the care of houseplants — after all, a room full of bright, glossy-leaved plants can be a joy to behold, and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/25/low-power-challenge-keep-plants-green-and-clean-with-e-paper-smart-tags/)

New Possibilities from Fading Lighting Technology
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/25/new-possibilities-from-fading-lighting-technology/

Like the incandescent bulb before it, the compact fluorescent (CFL) bulb is rapidly fading into obscurity as there are fewer and fewer reasons to use them over their LED successors. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/25/new-possibilities-from-fading-lighting-technology/)

The Forgotten Commodore 900: A Look At a Rare Prototype
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/25/the-forgotten-commodore-900-a-look-at-a-rare-prototype/

Of the computers produced and prototyped by Commodore, most people are likely well-acquainted with the PET, VIC-20, C64 and C128, as well as the never released Commodore 65. Of these …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/25/the-forgotten-commodore-900-a-look-at-a-rare-prototype/)