It probably goes without saying that solar panels need to be pointed at the sun for optimal performance. The tricky bit is that the sun has a funny habit of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/09/2023-hackaday-prize-a-reinvented-solar-tracker/)

3D Print Your Own Seiko-Style “Magic Lever” Energy Harvester
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/09/3d-print-your-own-seiko-style-magic-lever-energy-harvester/

Back in 1956, Seiko created their “magic lever” as an integral part of self-winding mechanical watches, which were essentially mechanical energy harvesters. The magic lever is a type of ratcheting …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/09/3d-print-your-own-seiko-style-magic-lever-energy-harvester/)

Pedal Car vs Ministry of Transport
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/09/pedal-car-vs-ministry-of-transport/

[Tim] from the “Way Out West” Youtube channels has started a fun project — building a wooden pedal-car heavily inspired by “Bugsy Malone”. The kids-sized gangsters in that movie got …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/09/pedal-car-vs-ministry-of-transport/)

Why VR As Monitor Replacement Is Likely To Be Terrible For a While Yet
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/09/why-vr-as-monitor-replacement-is-likely-to-be-terrible-for-a-while-yet/

Putting on a headset and using virtual monitors in VR instead of physical ones is a use case that pops up, but is it really something feasible? [Karl Guttag], who …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/09/why-vr-as-monitor-replacement-is-likely-to-be-terrible-for-a-while-yet/)

Myth Tested: DOS Can’t Multitask
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/09/myth-tested-dos-cant-multitask/

It’s a piece of common knowledge, that MS-DOS wasn’t capable of multitasking. For that, the Microsoft-based PC user would have to wait for the 80386, and usable versions of Windows. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/09/myth-tested-dos-cant-multitask/)

Minimizing Stress on a Coin Cell Battery
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/10/minimizing-stress-on-a-coin-cell-battery/

When it comes to powering tiny devices for a long time, coin cell batteries are the battery of choice for things like keyfobs, watches, and even some IoT devices. They’re …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/10/minimizing-stress-on-a-coin-cell-battery/)

Weird Lens Allows Light Field Passthrough for VR Headset
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/10/weird-lens-allows-light-field-passthrough-for-vr-headset/

Light Fields are a subtle but critical element to making 3D video look “real”, and it has little to do with either resolution or field of view. Meta (formerly Facebook) …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/10/weird-lens-allows-light-field-passthrough-for-vr-headset/)

The World ID Orb and the Question of What Defines a Person
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/10/the-world-id-orb-and-the-question-of-what-defines-a-person/