Texas Instruments is best known to the general public for building obsolete calculators and selling them at extraordinary prices to students, but they also build some interesting (and reasonably-priced) microcontrollers …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/04/03/flashing-ti-chips-with-an-esp/)

Is Your Device Actually USB 3.0, Or Is The Connector Just Blue?
https://hackaday.com/2022/04/03/is-your-device-actually-usb-3-0-or-is-the-connector-just-blue/

Discount (or even grey market) electronics can be economical ways to get a job done, but one usually pays in other ways. [Majenko] ran into this when a need to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/04/03/is-your-device-actually-usb-3-0-or-is-the-connector-just-blue/)

Hackaday Links: April 3, 2022
https://hackaday.com/2022/04/03/hackaday-links-april-3-2022/

It’s that time of year again — the 2022 Hackaday Prize has officially launched, and we’re excited to see what it turns out. This year’s theme is “Sustainability, Resilience, and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/04/03/hackaday-links-april-3-2022/)

TshWatch Helps You Learn More About Yourself
https://hackaday.com/2022/04/03/tshwatch-helps-you-learn-more-about-yourself/

TshWatch is a project by [Ivan / @pikot] that he’s been working on for the past two years. [Ivan] explains that he aims to create a tool meant to help …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/04/03/tshwatch-helps-you-learn-more-about-yourself/)

Servo Surgery Teaches Us DIY Encoder Implants
https://hackaday.com/2022/04/03/servo-surgery-teaches-us-diy-encoder-implants/

Today, we shall talk about how [Adam Bäckström] took a DS3225 servo and rebuilt it to improve its accuracy, then built a high-precision robot arm with those modified servos to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/04/03/servo-surgery-teaches-us-diy-encoder-implants/)

Quick-Swap Socket For Stemma QT Experiments
https://hackaday.com/2022/04/04/quick-swap-socket-for-stemma-qt-experiments/

[kmatch98] shares a quick hack with us over at Hackaday.io – a 3D-printed socket for Adafruit Stemma QT-based I2C modules. Since Adafruit has standardized the dimensions for their Stemma QT …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/04/04/quick-swap-socket-for-stemma-qt-experiments/)

Turn Timing Diagrams Into ASCII Art, For Friendlier Pasting
https://hackaday.com/2022/04/04/turn-timing-diagrams-into-ascii-art-for-friendlier-pasting/

We all use text-based fields at one time or another, and being limited to ASCII only can end up being a limitation. That’s what led [Luke Wren] to create asciiwave, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/04/04/turn-timing-diagrams-into-ascii-art-for-friendlier-pasting/)