The oddly prophetic 2006 comedy film Idiocracy features an isotonic drink called Brawndo, whose marketing continuously refers to its electrolytes as a miraculous property. Brawndo is revealed in the film …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/27/electrolytes-theyre-what-dehydrated-hackaday-writers-crave/)

Hackaday Prize 2022: Repairing a Vintage Laptop With Modern Components
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/27/hackaday-prize-2022-repairing-a-vintage-laptop-with-modern-components/

Laptop computers may be ubiquitous today, but there was a time when they were the exclusive preserve of rich businesspeople. Back in the early ’90s, the significant added cost of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/27/hackaday-prize-2022-repairing-a-vintage-laptop-with-modern-components/)

You Can Build A Giant 7-Segment Display Of Your Very Own
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/27/you-can-build-a-giant-7-segment-display-of-your-very-own/

Sometimes you need to display a number nice and large, making it easily readable at a good distance. [Lewis] has just the thing for that: a big expandable 7-segment display. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/27/you-can-build-a-giant-7-segment-display-of-your-very-own/)

Simple Universal Modem Helps Save and Load Data From Tape
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/27/simple-universal-modem-helps-save-and-load-data-from-tape/

Back in the early days of the home computer revolution, data was commonly saved on tape. Even better, those tapes would make an almighty racket if you played them on …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/27/simple-universal-modem-helps-save-and-load-data-from-tape/)

Probing CAN Bus for EV Battery Info
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/27/probing-can-bus-for-ev-battery-info/

The widespread adoption of the CAN bus (and OBD-II) in automobiles was largely a way of standardizing the maintenance of increasingly complicated engines and their needs to meet modern emissions …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/27/probing-can-bus-for-ev-battery-info/)

Tiny Arcade Uses Tiny CRT
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/27/tiny-arcade-uses-tiny-crt/

Restoring vintage electronics is a difficult hobby to tackle. Even the most practical builds often have to use some form of modern technology to work properly, or many different versions …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/27/tiny-arcade-uses-tiny-crt/)

DIY Retrograde Clock is 3D Printed
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/28/diy-retrograde-clock-is-3d-printed/

Retrograde clocks are unique, in that they eschew the normal fully-circular movement for the hands. Instead, the hands merely sweep out a segment of a circular arc, before jumping back …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/28/diy-retrograde-clock-is-3d-printed/)