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The simple wire-loop game is often built as a fun project to teach students about electronics. [W&M Levsha] built their own version, showing off their fine crafting and machining skills …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/fancy-wire-loop-game-is-a-beauty-in-brass/)
Visit the World’s Largest Computer Museum: The Heinz Nixdorf
https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/visit-the-worlds-largest-computer-museum-the-heinz-nixdorf/
Most stories in the history of computing took place in one of a small number of places. The wartime code-breaking effort in Bletchley Park led to Colossus, the first programmable …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/visit-the-worlds-largest-computer-museum-the-heinz-nixdorf/)
Not too many people build their own microphones, and those who do usually build them out of materials like plastic and metal. [Frank Olson] not only loves to make microphones, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/a-new-wrinkle-on-wooden-ribbon-microphones/)
DYMO 550 series printer marketing blurb says “The DYMO® LabelWriter® 550 Turbo label printer comes with unique Automatic Label Recognition™”, which, once translated from marketing-ese, means “this printer has DRM …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/freedmo-gets-rid-of-dymo-label-printer-drm/)
The sun is a great source of energy, delivering in the realm of 1000 watts per square meter on a nice clear day. [Jasper Sikken] has developed many projects that …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/solar-harvesting-is-better-with-big-capacitors/)
One boring evening, [XenRE] was looking through service menus on their LG Smart TV (Russian, Google Translate), such menus accessible through use of undocumented IR remote codes. In other words, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/whats-that-accessusb-menu-in-my-lg-smarttv/)