Dan Maloney wanted to design a part for 3D printing. OpenSCAD is a coding language for generating 3D objects. ChatGPT can write code. What could possibly go wrong? You should …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/29/the-right-benchmark-for-gpt/)

Voyager Command Glitch Causes Unplanned Pause in Communications
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/29/voyager-command-glitch-causes-unplanned-pause-in-communications/

Important safety tip: When you’re sending commands to the second-most-distant space probe ever launched, make really, really sure that what you send isn’t going to cause any problems. According to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/29/voyager-command-glitch-causes-unplanned-pause-in-communications/)

Automate Your Pin Header Chopping Chores Away
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/29/automate-your-pin-header-chopping-chores-away/

In most cases, cutting pin headers is a pretty simple job to tackle with a pair of cutters or even your bare fingers. But if you’re doing a lot of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/29/automate-your-pin-header-chopping-chores-away/)

Mechanical Pencil Solder Feeder Hack
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/29/mechanical-pencil-solder-feeder-hack/

Photo from the project’s instructables page
" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/pencil-feature.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/pencil-feature.png?w=800">Want a better way to feed solder, but want to do it on the quick and cheap? Well [ptkrf] has a solution for you in an old instructables post we …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/29/mechanical-pencil-solder-feeder-hack/)

Fiber-Infused Ink Allows 3D-Printed Heart Muscle To Beat
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/29/fiber-infused-ink-allows-3d-printed-heart-muscle-to-beat/

3D-printed heart muscle beating through fiber-infused ink. (Credit: Suji Choi et al., 2023)
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/3d_print_heart_ventricle_beating.gif?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/3d_print_heart_ventricle_beating.gif?w=600">What makes a body’s organs into what they are is more than just a grouping of specialized cells. They also need to be oriented and attached to each other and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/29/fiber-infused-ink-allows-3d-printed-heart-muscle-to-beat/)

A Modern Replacement for the ZX Spectrum’s Odd Tape Storage System
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/29/a-modern-replacement-for-the-zx-spectrums-odd-tape-storage-system/

Unless you were lucky enough to be able to afford a floppy disk drive, you probably used cassette tapes to store programs and data if you used pretty much any …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/29/a-modern-replacement-for-the-zx-spectrums-odd-tape-storage-system/)

Self-Hosted Chatbot Focuses on Privacy
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/30/self-hosted-chatbot-focuses-on-privacy/

Large language models (LLMs) have been all the rage lately, assisting from all kinds of tasks from programming to devising Excel formulas to shortcutting school work. They’re also relatively easy …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/30/self-hosted-chatbot-focuses-on-privacy/)

Vacuum Chamber Gets Automation
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/30/vacuum-chamber-gets-automation/

[Nick] does a lot of custom work with vacuum tubes. So much so that he builds his own vacuum tubes of various shapes, sizes, and functions right on his own …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/30/vacuum-chamber-gets-automation/)