Chinese researchers are reporting that applying an electric field to pea plants increased yields. This process — known as electroculture — has been tested multiple times, but in each case …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/26/better-farming-through-electricity/)

Turn On Sarcasm With the Flip Of a Switch
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/26/turn-on-sarcasm-with-the-flip-of-a-switch/

Sarcasm is notoriously difficult to distinguish in online communities. So much, in fact, that a famous internet rule called Poe’s Law is named after the phenomenon. To adapt, users have …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/26/turn-on-sarcasm-with-the-flip-of-a-switch/)

Upgrading a Soviet Calculator With A Modern CPU
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/upgrading-a-soviet-calculator-with-a-modern-cpu/

Today’s supply chain issues can make it hard to buy microcontrollers, or really any kind of semiconductor. But for those keeping retrocomputers alive, this problem has always existed: ancient components …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/upgrading-a-soviet-calculator-with-a-modern-cpu/)

An Up-To-Date Development Environment For The Nokia N-Gage
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/an-up-to-date-development-environment-for-the-nokia-n-gage/

One of the brave but unsuccessful plays from Nokia during their glory years was the N-Gage, an attempt to merge a Symbian smartphone and a handheld game console. It may …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/an-up-to-date-development-environment-for-the-nokia-n-gage/)

SHERLOC and the Search for Life on Mars
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/sherloc-and-the-search-for-life-on-mars/

Humanity has been wondering about whether life exists beyond our little backwater planet for so long that we’ve developed a kind of cultural bias as to how the answer to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/sherloc-and-the-search-for-life-on-mars/)

Robotic Xylophone Makes Music with MIDI Magic
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/robotic-xylophone-makes-music-with-midi-magic/

The MIDI format has long been used to create some banging electronic music, so it’s refreshing to see how [John P. Miller] applied the standard in his decidedly analog self-playing …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/robotic-xylophone-makes-music-with-midi-magic/)

Remoticon 2021 // Voja Antonic Makes You a Digital Designer
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/remoticon-2021-voja-antonic-makes-you-a-digital-designer/

[Voja Antonic] has been building digital computers since before many of us were born. He designed with the Z80 when it was new, and has decades of freelance embedded experience, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/remoticon-2021-voja-antonic-makes-you-a-digital-designer/)