This week Jonathan chats with Michael Meeks about Collabora! What’s the origin story in this consulting company, why do they have an outstanding office suite, and where is the world …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/22/floss-weekly-episode-876-there-is-no-money-fairy/)

An LLM in the Kitchen
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/22/an-llm-in-the-kitchen/

Have you ever been looking up a recipe for something new and been stymied by the directions being a wall of text, especially to find that one detail right when …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/22/an-llm-in-the-kitchen/)

V Formation Flying of Birds is Explained by a Minimal Wake–Vortex Model
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/22/v-formation-flying-of-birds-is-explained-by-a-minimal-wake-vortex-model/

Although it’s commonly suspected that migratory birds fly in a ‘V’ formation due to this saving energy for the birds in the slipstream, understanding the exact aerodynamics behind this and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/22/v-formation-flying-of-birds-is-explained-by-a-minimal-wake-vortex-model/)

Industrial GPU Adapted for the Desktop
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/22/industrial-gpu-adapted-for-the-desktop/

As technologies change and adapt, we’re often left with seemingly useless junk that has nowhere to go. Certainly anyone still sitting on a pile of floppy disks feels this way …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/22/industrial-gpu-adapted-for-the-desktop/)

Voice Control Toolkit Comes to a Pico Near You
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/23/voice-control-toolkit-comes-to-a-pico-near-you/

Voice-controlled appliances are nothing new. What might be new, however, is [Moonshine AI] running it all locally on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W! The voice interface is roughly divided …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/23/voice-control-toolkit-comes-to-a-pico-near-you/)

Saving Some Coin With 3D Printed Stencils
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/23/saving-some-coin-with-3d-printed-stencils/

One of the extra tools someone might need when working with surface-mount components is a solder paste stencil, which not only simplifies the application of solder paste to a PCB …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/23/saving-some-coin-with-3d-printed-stencils/)

Encryption in the 1790s
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/23/encryption-in-the-1790s/

For as long as humans have had writing, there’s been a need to send secret messages. It is easy to think that Enigma machines and their immediate predecessors are old …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/23/encryption-in-the-1790s/)