A regular pair of pliers is fine most of the time, but for delicate work with squarish objects you can’t go wrong with a pair of parallel pliers. [Neil Paskin] …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/24/producing-a-pair-of-parallel-pliers/)

Pushing Crates in 8-bit Color
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/24/pushing-crates-in-8-bit-color/

Moore’s law isn’t strictly holding anymore, but it is still true that most computing systems are at least trending towards lower cost over time, if not also slightly smaller size. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/24/pushing-crates-in-8-bit-color/)

Deep Dive into the HP ScantJet 4C
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/24/deep-dive-into-the-hp-scantjet-4c/

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Internet Connected Pinball Machine Shows Off Scores
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/25/internet-connected-pinball-machine-shows-off-scores/

Before video games, there were pinball machines. Not that they don’t exist today, but a modern pinball machine will likely have microprocessors and other fancy things that traditional pinball machine …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/25/internet-connected-pinball-machine-shows-off-scores/)

This Camera Produces a Picture, Using the Scene Before It
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/25/this-camera-produces-a-picture-using-the-scene-before-it/

It’s the most basic of functions for a camera, that when you point it at a scene, it produces a photograph of what it sees. [Jasper van Loenen] has created …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/25/this-camera-produces-a-picture-using-the-scene-before-it/)

Simultaneous Invention, All the Time?
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/25/simultaneous-invention-all-the-time/

As Tom quipped on the podcast this week, if you have an idea for a program you’d like to write, all you have to do is look around on GitHub …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/25/simultaneous-invention-all-the-time/)

Pi Pico Calculates Water Usage
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/25/pi-pico-calculates-water-usage/

Modern WiFi-enabled microcontrollers have made it affordable and easy to monitor everything from local weather information to electricity usage with typically no more than a few dollars worth of hardware …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/25/pi-pico-calculates-water-usage/)