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/)

Harvesting Mechanical Energy from Falling Rain
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/30/harvesting-mechanical-energy-from-falling-rain/

Collecting energy from various small mechanical processes has always been something that’s been technically possible, but never done on a large scale due to issues with cost and scalability. It’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/30/harvesting-mechanical-energy-from-falling-rain/)

The British Government Is Coming For Your Privacy
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/30/the-british-government-is-coming-for-your-privacy/

The list of bad legislation relating to the topic of encryption and privacy is long and inglorious. Usually, these legislative stinkers only affect those unfortunate enough to live in the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/30/the-british-government-is-coming-for-your-privacy/)