Things are back to normal around the Podcast studio, and this week you’ll hear the dulcet tones of Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos. In Hackaday news, we still have a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/19/hackaday-podcast-episode-374-flippin-phones-sexy-spraysers-and-frikkin-lasers/)

Making An Ultra Minimal Cyberdeck
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/19/making-an-ultra-minimal-cyberdeck/

The cool thing about cyberdecks is that you get to design them to suit your personal tastes. [NickZero] wanted an ultra-minimal build, and set about putting together just that. The …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/19/making-an-ultra-minimal-cyberdeck/)

PCBs Straight from the Magazine
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/19/pcbs-straight-from-the-magazine/

It’s never been easier to get a printed circuit board made. In fact, almost every electronics video out on the internet will incessantly remind you of this fact now. But …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/19/pcbs-straight-from-the-magazine/)

Epson HX-20 Gets A Drive Upgrade
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/19/epson-hx-20-gets-a-drive-upgrade/

The Epson HX-20 is sometimes referred to as an early laptop computer. It’s a little odd in its form factor, and in its storage, relying on a microcassette drive to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/19/epson-hx-20-gets-a-drive-upgrade/)

How LLMs can be Assisted to do Arithmetic Correctly
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/19/how-llms-can-be-assisted-to-do-arithmetic-correctly/

One of the most hilarious things you can do with an LLM-based chatbot is to ask it to do calculations. If it’s a well-written chatbot frontend, it can detect requests …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/19/how-llms-can-be-assisted-to-do-arithmetic-correctly/)

Making Old Computers Count To A Million
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/19/making-old-computers-count-to-a-million/

How fast can you count to a million? It would probably take you a while. A computer could certainly do it faster. Indeed, the The National Museum of Computing figured …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/19/making-old-computers-count-to-a-million/)

A General Purpose Pi Zero Device for IoT
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/20/a-general-purpose-pi-zero-device-for-iot/

By now we’re all used to single board computers such as the Raspberry Pi Zero, but it’s likely we’ve all been frustrated at times by the number of support components …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/20/a-general-purpose-pi-zero-device-for-iot/)

The Repair Nightmare that are Smart Rings
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/20/the-repair-nightmare-that-are-smart-rings/

In the quest to make every wearable device ‘smart’, a lot of electronics along have to be crammed in very small spaces, along with ways to make them resistant to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/20/the-repair-nightmare-that-are-smart-rings/)