We’re big fans of useless machines here at Hackaday, there’s something undeniably entertaining about watching a gadget flail about dramatically without actually making any progress towards a defined goal. But …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/06/22/an-impressively-functional-tacobot/)

Linux Fu: Roll with the Checksums
https://hackaday.com/2022/06/22/linux-fu-roll-with-the-checksums/

We are often struck by how often we spend time trying to optimize something when we would be better off just picking a better algorithm. There is the old story …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/06/22/linux-fu-roll-with-the-checksums/)

The Little Lightgun that Could: Sinden Makes Good
https://hackaday.com/2022/06/22/the-little-lightgun-that-could-sinden-makes-good/

Back in 2018, we covered the work being done by [Andrew Sinden] to create a lightgun that could work on modern televisions. The project was looking for funding via Kickstarter, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/06/22/the-little-lightgun-that-could-sinden-makes-good/)

HDMI Is An Attack Surface, So Here’s An HDMI Firewall
https://hackaday.com/2022/06/22/hdmi-is-an-attack-surface-so-heres-an-hdmi-firewall/

Many years of using televisions, monitors, and projectors have conditioned us into treating them as simple peripherals whose cables carry only video. A VGA cable may have an i2c interface …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/06/22/hdmi-is-an-attack-surface-so-heres-an-hdmi-firewall/)

Putting A Little More Juice In Your Emulation Station
https://hackaday.com/2022/06/22/putting-a-little-more-juice-in-your-emulation-station/

After you’ve built a snazzy Raspberry Pi-powered retro gaming console, you might be wondering if you could have just a wee bit more power and run some of those other …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/06/22/putting-a-little-more-juice-in-your-emulation-station/)

Extruded Resin FDM Printing (With Lasers!)
https://hackaday.com/2022/06/22/extruded-resin-fdm-printing-with-lasers/

At this point, 3D printers are nearly everywhere. Schools, hackerspaces, home workshops, you name it. Most of these machines are of the extruded-filament variety, better known as FDM or Fused …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/06/22/extruded-resin-fdm-printing-with-lasers/)

NeRF: Shoot Photos, Not Foam Darts, to See Around Corners
https://hackaday.com/2022/06/22/nerf-shoot-photos-not-foam-darts-to-see-around-corners/

Readers are likely familiar with photogrammetry, a method of creating 3D geometry from a series of 2D photos taken of an object or scene. To pull it off you need …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/06/22/nerf-shoot-photos-not-foam-darts-to-see-around-corners/)