When most of us think of seismometers, our minds conjure up images of broken buildings, buckled roads, and search and rescue teams digging through rubble. But when [Subir Bhaduri] his …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/08/13/usb-mouse-hack-for-pachyderm-protection/)

Pomodachi: A Productivity Pet You Feed By Working
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Being productive doesn’t have to be a lonely endeavor. Even if you’re a lone wolf, who wouldn’t benefit from having a cute little productivity pet to cheer them on? That’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/08/14/pomodachi-a-productivity-pet-you-feed-by-working/)

Reverse Engineering a Topfield VFD Front Panel
https://hackaday.com/2021/08/14/reverse-engineering-a-topfield-vfd-front-panel/

Hackers love the warm glow of a vacuum fluorescent display (VFD), and there’s no shortage of dead consumer electronics from which they can be pulled to keep our collective parts …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/08/14/reverse-engineering-a-topfield-vfd-front-panel/)

Goals and Goalposts
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In the winter, I hatched a vague plan to learn some of the modern unmanned aerial vehicle tech. Everybody needs an autonomous vehicle, and we’ve got some good flying fields …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/08/14/goals-and-goalposts/)

Surplus Syringes Make Satisfactory Tuner for Amateur Radio Experimentation
https://hackaday.com/2021/08/14/surplus-syringes-make-satisfactory-tuner-for-amateur-radio-experimentation/

Amateur Radio as a hobby has a long history of encouraging experimentation using whatever one might have on hand. When [Tom Essenpreis] wanted to use his 14 MHz antenna outside …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/08/14/surplus-syringes-make-satisfactory-tuner-for-amateur-radio-experimentation/)

The Zeloof Z2 Intergrated Circuit Has 100 Transistors
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Back in 2018 we reported on the first silicon integrated circuit to be produced in a homemade chip fab. It was the work of [Sam Zeloof], and his Z1 chip …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/08/14/the-zeloof-z2-intergrated-circuit-has-100-transistors/)

3D Printed Smart Glasses Put Linux in Your Face
https://hackaday.com/2021/08/14/3d-printed-smart-glasses-put-linux-in-your-face/

Unimpressed by DIY wearables powered by dinky microcontrollers, [Teemu Laurila] has been working on a 3D printed head-mounted computer that puts a full-fledged Linux desktop in your field of view. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/08/14/3d-printed-smart-glasses-put-linux-in-your-face/)

Making Ferroelectric Solar Cells Better
https://hackaday.com/2021/08/14/making-ferroelectric-solar-cells-better/