Sending secret messages to your friends is fun, but today it’s so simple that you don’t even notice it anymore: practically any serious messaging system features encryption of some sort. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/13/the-cryptmaster-2001-provides-basic-lessons-in-cryptography/)

Ban on Physical Mail Slated for NYC Jails, Which Could Go Digital Instead
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/13/ban-on-physical-mail-slated-for-nyc-jails-which-could-go-digital-instead/

UK postage stamps on mail showing various tariffs and fees in British snail mail
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/postage_stamps.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/postage_stamps.jpg?w=800">Prison is a scary place, very much by design. It’s a place you end up when convicted of crimes by the judicial system, or in some cases, if you’re merely …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/13/ban-on-physical-mail-slated-for-nyc-jails-which-could-go-digital-instead/)

Stadia Controller’s Two Extra Buttons Get Seen With WebHID
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/13/stadia-controllers-two-extra-buttons-get-seen-with-webhid/

The Google Stadia game streaming service relied on a proprietary controller. It was a pretty neat piece of hardware that unfortunately looked destined for landfills when Google announced that Stadia …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/13/stadia-controllers-two-extra-buttons-get-seen-with-webhid/)

How To Roll Your Own Custom Object Detection Neural Network
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/13/how-to-roll-your-own-custom-object-detection-neural-network/

Real-time object detection, which uses neural networks and deep learning to rapidly identify and tag objects of interest in a video feed, is a handy feature with great hacker potential. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/13/how-to-roll-your-own-custom-object-detection-neural-network/)

KiCad 7.0.0 Is Here, Brings Trove Of Improvements
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/13/kicad-7-0-0-is-here-brings-trove-of-improvements/

Yesterday, the KiCad team has released KiCad 7.0.0 – a surprise for those of us who have only gotten used to the wonders of KiCad 6, and it’s undoubtedly a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/13/kicad-7-0-0-is-here-brings-trove-of-improvements/)

An Open Hardware Eurorack Compatible Audio FPGA Front End
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/13/an-open-hardware-eurorack-compatible-audio-fpga-front-end/

[Sebastian Holzapfel] has designed an audio frontend (eurorack-pmod) for FPGA-based audio applications, which is designed to fit into a standard Eurorack enclosure. The project, released under CERN Open-Hardware License V2, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/13/an-open-hardware-eurorack-compatible-audio-fpga-front-end/)

1950s Fighter Jet Air Computer Shows What Analog Could Do
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/14/1950s-fighter-jet-air-computer-shows-what-analog-could-do/

Imagine you’re a young engineer whose boss drops by one morning with a sheaf of complicated fluid dynamics equations. “We need you to design a system to solve these equations …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/14/1950s-fighter-jet-air-computer-shows-what-analog-could-do/)

Citizen Science Finds Prehistoric Burial Mounds
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/14/citizen-science-finds-prehistoric-burial-mounds/