[neos-builder] wrote in to let us know about their innovation: the HORUS Framework — Hybrid Optimized Robotics Unified System — a production-grade robotics framework built in Rust for real-time performance …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/horus-framework-a-rust-robotics-library/)

Play Games in UEFI…to Access Your Computer
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/play-games-in-uefi-to-access-your-computer/

These days, bootstrapping a computer is a pretty straight forward process, at least as far as the user is concerned. But in the olden days, one would have to manually …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/play-games-in-uefi-to-access-your-computer/)

NPAPI and the Hot-Pluggable World Wide Web
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/npapi-and-the-hot-pluggable-world-wide-web/

In today’s Chromed-up world it can be hard to remember an era where browsers could be extended with not just extensions, but also with plugins. Although for those of us …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/npapi-and-the-hot-pluggable-world-wide-web/)

Hackaday Podcast Episode 352: Visualizing Sound, and Windows 11 Is a Dog
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/hackaday-podcast-episode-352-visualizing-sound-and-windows-11-is-a-dog/

This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over coffee to bring you the latest news, mystery sound results show, and of course, a big bunch of hacks …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/hackaday-podcast-episode-352-visualizing-sound-and-windows-11-is-a-dog/)

Fighting Food Poisoning With A Patch
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/fighting-food-poisoning-with-a-patch/

Food poisoning is never a fun experience. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you’ll bite into something bad and realize soon enough to spit it out. Other times, you’ll only realize your …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/fighting-food-poisoning-with-a-patch/)

A UI-Focused Display Library For The ESP32
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/a-ui-focused-display-library-for-the-esp32/

If you’re building a project on your ESP32, you might want to give it a fancy graphical interface. If so, you might find a display library from [dejwk] to be …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/a-ui-focused-display-library-for-the-esp32/)

Seeing Sound with a Laser
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/seeing-sound-with-a-laser/

You can hear sound, of course, but what if you could see it with a laser? That’s what [Goosetopherson] thought about, and thus a new project that you can see …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/seeing-sound-with-a-laser/)

Bose SoundTouch Smart Speakers get an Open Source Lifeline
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/bose-soundtouch-smart-speakers-get-an-open-source-lifeline/