Utter the words “7-segment display” amongst hackers and you’ll typically get people envisaging the usual LED and LCD versions that we all come across in our daily lives. However, mechanical …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/building-7-segment-displays-with-lego/)

Wind-Up Tape Measure Transformed into Portable Ham Antenna
https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/wind-up-tape-measure-transformed-into-portable-ham-antenna/

If there’s one thing that amateur radio operators are good at, it’s turning just about anything into an antenna. And hams have a long history of portable operations, too, where …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/wind-up-tape-measure-transformed-into-portable-ham-antenna/)

Replaceable Batteries Are Coming Back To Phones If The EU Gets Its Way
https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/replaceable-batteries-are-coming-back-to-phones-if-the-eu-gets-its-way/

Back in the day, just about everything that used a battery had a hatch or a hutch that you could open to pull it out and replace it if need …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/replaceable-batteries-are-coming-back-to-phones-if-the-eu-gets-its-way/)

Fancy Wire Loop Game Is A Beauty In Brass
https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/fancy-wire-loop-game-is-a-beauty-in-brass/

The simple wire-loop game is often built as a fun project to teach students about electronics. [W&M Levsha] built their own version, showing off their fine crafting and machining skills …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/fancy-wire-loop-game-is-a-beauty-in-brass/)

Visit the World’s Largest Computer Museum: The Heinz Nixdorf
https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/visit-the-worlds-largest-computer-museum-the-heinz-nixdorf/

Most stories in the history of computing took place in one of a small number of places. The wartime code-breaking effort in Bletchley Park led to Colossus, the first programmable …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/visit-the-worlds-largest-computer-museum-the-heinz-nixdorf/)

A New Wrinkle on Wooden Ribbon Microphones
https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/a-new-wrinkle-on-wooden-ribbon-microphones/

Not too many people build their own microphones, and those who do usually build them out of materials like plastic and metal. [Frank Olson] not only loves to make microphones, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/a-new-wrinkle-on-wooden-ribbon-microphones/)

#FreeDMO Gets Rid Of DYMO Label Printer DRM
https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/freedmo-gets-rid-of-dymo-label-printer-drm/

DYMO 550 series printer marketing blurb says “The DYMO® LabelWriter® 550 Turbo label printer comes with unique Automatic Label Recognition™”, which, once translated from marketing-ese, means “this printer has DRM …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/freedmo-gets-rid-of-dymo-label-printer-drm/)