We’ve covered the right-to-repair saga, and one of the companies that have become rather notorious is John Deere. The other side to the poorly managed interconnected mess is security issues. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/08/13/this-week-in-security-john-deere-proxylogin-detailed-and-pneumatic-tubes/)

Audio Cassette Tape Data Retrospective
https://hackaday.com/2021/08/13/audio-cassette-tape-data-retrospective/

It has been a long time since we stored software and computer data on audiotape. But it used to be the de facto standard for hobby computers and [Noel] has …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/08/13/audio-cassette-tape-data-retrospective/)

Hackaday Podcast 131: Have a Heart, Transputer Pi, Just the Wing, and a Flipped Cable Fries Radio
https://hackaday.com/2021/08/13/hackaday-podcast-131-have-a-heart-transputer-pi-just-the-wing-and-a-flipped-cable-fries-radio/

Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams recount the past week in hardware hacking. There’s a new Tamagochi hack that runs the original ROM on plain old microcontrollers like the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/08/13/hackaday-podcast-131-have-a-heart-transputer-pi-just-the-wing-and-a-flipped-cable-fries-radio/)

Retrotechtacular: LA’s Hilarious Subway Safety Film From 1992
https://hackaday.com/2021/08/13/retrotechtacular-las-hilarious-subway-safety-film-from-1992/

Subways! They’ve been around for an awfully long time; almost as long as modern railways themselves, believe it or not. Building underground was undertaken in earnest by those in the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/08/13/retrotechtacular-las-hilarious-subway-safety-film-from-1992/)

Rotary Time Tracker Puts a New Spin on Productivity
https://hackaday.com/2021/08/13/rotary-time-tracker-puts-a-new-spin-on-productivity/

Like many of us, [quincy] feels the distracting pull of non-work programs on what has become a mixed-use computer. So what’s the answer to the puzzle of work-life balance? We’re …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/08/13/rotary-time-tracker-puts-a-new-spin-on-productivity/)

Hacked IKEA Air Quality Sensor Gets Custom PCB
https://hackaday.com/2021/08/13/hacked-ikea-air-quality-sensor-gets-custom-pcb/

Last month we brought word of the IKEA VINDRIKTNING, a $12 USD air quality sensor that could easily be upgraded to log data over the network with the addition of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/08/13/hacked-ikea-air-quality-sensor-gets-custom-pcb/)

Filtering Coffee Through 3D Printed Glass
https://hackaday.com/2021/08/13/filtering-coffee-through-3d-printed-glass/

Typically, when we think of 3D printing, we think of gooey melted plastics or perhaps UV-cured resins. However, there’s a great deal of research going on around printing special impregnated …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/08/13/filtering-coffee-through-3d-printed-glass/)