As most anyone in this community knows, there’s an excellent chance that any consumer product on the market that’s advertised as “smart” these days probably has some form of Linux …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/10/22/vizio-in-hot-water-over-smart-tv-gpl-violations/)

3D Printer Cuts Metal
https://hackaday.com/2021/10/22/3d-printer-cuts-metal/

Every now and then we’ll see a 3D printer that can print an entire house out of concrete or print an entire rocket out of metal. But usually, for our …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/10/22/3d-printer-cuts-metal/)

Supply Chain Attack: NPM Library Used By Facebook And Others Was Compromised
https://hackaday.com/2021/10/22/supply-chain-attack-npm-library-used-by-facebook-and-others-was-compromised/

Here at Hackaday we love the good kinds of hacks, but now and then we need to bring up a less good kind. Today it was learned that the NPM package ua-parser-js …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/10/22/supply-chain-attack-npm-library-used-by-facebook-and-others-was-compromised/)

Vacuum Forming with 3D Printed Buck Tutorial
https://hackaday.com/2021/10/22/vacuum-forming-with-3d-printed-buck-tutorial/

[Matterhackers] has a nice video tutorial on using vacuum forming to create plastic items. Sure, you have a 3D printer, but vacuum forming has some advantages if you are making …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/10/22/vacuum-forming-with-3d-printed-buck-tutorial/)

You Can Build A Lego Rubik’s Cube
https://hackaday.com/2021/10/23/you-can-build-a-lego-rubiks-cube/

Rubik’s cubes are a popular puzzle — one found exciting or infuriating depending on your personal bent. [PuzzLEGO] has designed a LEGO Rubik’s cube, with the latest revision improving on …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/10/23/you-can-build-a-lego-rubiks-cube/)

Chip Tester Knows if Your Old Chips are Working
https://hackaday.com/2021/10/23/chip-tester-knows-if-your-old-chips-are-working/

[Noel’s Retro Lab] has looked at retro chip testers before, but in a recent video you can see below he’s looking at the Chip Tester Pro, a preassembled chip tester …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/10/23/chip-tester-knows-if-your-old-chips-are-working/)

In Search of The First Comment
https://hackaday.com/2021/10/23/in-search-of-the-first-comment/

Are you writing your code for humans or computers? I wasn’t there, but my guess is that at the dawn of computing, people thought that they were writing for the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/10/23/in-search-of-the-first-comment/)