The twin challenges of the pandemic and now the semiconductor shortage have been particularly hard on the designers of event badges, as events have been cancelled and uncertain supply issues …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/11/10/the-hackaday-remoticon-2-badge-an-exercise-in-your-own-ingenuity/)

Kinetic Log Splitter Gets The Job Done Kinetically
https://hackaday.com/2021/11/10/kinetic-log-splitter-gets-the-job-done-kinetically/

Swinging an axe to split firewood is great exercise and a wonderful way to blow off steam. However, if you’re not a muscled-up Hollywood character that needs to do some …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/11/10/kinetic-log-splitter-gets-the-job-done-kinetically/)

Arduino Piano Tuner is Pitch Perfect
https://hackaday.com/2021/11/10/arduino-piano-tuner-is-pitch-perfect/

[JanHerman] knows that tuning musical instruments is all about precision and that precision is measured in a logarithmic unit called a cent. A cheap tuner unit might be accurate to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/11/10/arduino-piano-tuner-is-pitch-perfect/)

Linux on the Windows 11 Desktop
https://hackaday.com/2021/11/10/linux-on-the-windows-11-desktop/

A month ago Microsoft officially released Windows 11. One of its features is the ability to run Linux GUI applications side by side as peers to normal Windows desktop apps. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/11/10/linux-on-the-windows-11-desktop/)

8″ Floppy on Your PC?
https://hackaday.com/2021/11/10/8floppy-on-your-pc/

We should probably have a new metric for measuring mass storage performance: bytes per pound. An old IBM tape drive from the S/360 days, for example, could hold almost 6 …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/11/10/8floppy-on-your-pc/)

The Game Of Life Moves Pretty Fast, If You Don’t Use Stop Motion You Might Miss It
https://hackaday.com/2021/11/11/the-game-of-life-moves-pretty-fast-if-you-dont-use-stop-motion-you-might-miss-it/

Munged Ferris Bueller quotes aside, Conway’s Game of Life is the classic cellular automata that we all reach for. The usual approach is to just iterate over every cell in …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/11/11/the-game-of-life-moves-pretty-fast-if-you-dont-use-stop-motion-you-might-miss-it/)

Trying and (Mostly) Failing to 3D Print a Hydrofoil
https://hackaday.com/2021/11/11/trying-and-mostly-failing-to-3d-print-a-hydrofoil/

[Sam Barker] had a boring dingy that he wanted to spice up a bit, so he resolved to 3D print a hydrofoil wing for it so that it could fly …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/11/11/trying-and-mostly-failing-to-3d-print-a-hydrofoil/)