Pocket-Sized Doom Is Actually Playable
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/26/pocket-sized-doom-is-actually-playable/

It used to be that you needed a well-equipped expensive new beige-box PC if you wanted to play Doom at all. Now, you can do so in a form factor …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/26/pocket-sized-doom-is-actually-playable/)

Better Farming Through Electricity
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/26/better-farming-through-electricity/

Chinese researchers are reporting that applying an electric field to pea plants increased yields. This process — known as electroculture — has been tested multiple times, but in each case …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/26/better-farming-through-electricity/)

Turn On Sarcasm With the Flip Of a Switch
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/26/turn-on-sarcasm-with-the-flip-of-a-switch/

Sarcasm is notoriously difficult to distinguish in online communities. So much, in fact, that a famous internet rule called Poe’s Law is named after the phenomenon. To adapt, users have …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/26/turn-on-sarcasm-with-the-flip-of-a-switch/)

Upgrading a Soviet Calculator With A Modern CPU
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/upgrading-a-soviet-calculator-with-a-modern-cpu/

Today’s supply chain issues can make it hard to buy microcontrollers, or really any kind of semiconductor. But for those keeping retrocomputers alive, this problem has always existed: ancient components …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/upgrading-a-soviet-calculator-with-a-modern-cpu/)

An Up-To-Date Development Environment For The Nokia N-Gage
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/an-up-to-date-development-environment-for-the-nokia-n-gage/

One of the brave but unsuccessful plays from Nokia during their glory years was the N-Gage, an attempt to merge a Symbian smartphone and a handheld game console. It may …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/an-up-to-date-development-environment-for-the-nokia-n-gage/)

SHERLOC and the Search for Life on Mars
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/sherloc-and-the-search-for-life-on-mars/

Humanity has been wondering about whether life exists beyond our little backwater planet for so long that we’ve developed a kind of cultural bias as to how the answer to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/sherloc-and-the-search-for-life-on-mars/)

Robotic Xylophone Makes Music with MIDI Magic
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/robotic-xylophone-makes-music-with-midi-magic/