What happens to old, neglected 1980s toy robots? According to the [Randi Rain], they turn to the dark side! Way back in the ’80s, Tomy had an entire line of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/05/09/verbot-goes-to-the-dark-side/)

How A Smartphone is Made, in Eight “Easy” Blocks
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/09/how-a-smartphone-is-made-in-eight-easy-blocks/

The smartphone represents one of the most significant shifts in our world. In less than thirteen years, we went from some people owning a dumb phone to the majority of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/05/09/how-a-smartphone-is-made-in-eight-easy-blocks/)

Autogyro Models are Hard — Even for [Peter Sripol]
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/09/autogyro-models-are-hard-even-for-peter-sripol/

Aviation consists of two major groups. Airplane enthusiasts, and helicopter enthusiasts. The two groups rarely get along, each extolling the virtues of their chosen craft. Somewhere in between are autogyro …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/05/09/autogyro-models-are-hard-even-for-peter-sripol/)

A Raspberry Pi As An Offboard Display Adapter
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/09/a-raspberry-pi-as-an-offboard-display-adapter/

The humble USB-C port has brought us so many advantages over its USB ancestors, one of which is as a handy display output for laptops. Simply add an inexpensive adapter …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/05/09/a-raspberry-pi-as-an-offboard-display-adapter/)

All The Sticky Labels you Could Ever Need: No DRM, Just Masking Tape
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/09/all-the-sticky-labels-you-could-ever-need-no-drm-just-masking-tape/

Printable sticky labels are a marvelous innovation, but sadly also one beset by a variety of competing offerings, and more recently attempts by manufacturers to impose DRM on their media. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/05/09/all-the-sticky-labels-you-could-ever-need-no-drm-just-masking-tape/)

AVX-512: When The Bits Really Count
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/09/avx-512-when-the-bits-really-count/

For the majority of workloads, fiddling with assembly instructions isn’t worth it. The added complexity and code obfuscation generally outweigh the relatively modest gains. Mainly because compilers have become quite …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/05/09/avx-512-when-the-bits-really-count/)

Will MiSTer Fool You Into Learning FPGAs?
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/09/will-mister-fool-you-into-learning-fpgas/

What’s the killer app for FPGAs? For some people, the allure is the ultra-high data throughput for parallelizable tasks, which can enable some pretty gnarly projects. But what if you’re …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/05/09/will-mister-fool-you-into-learning-fpgas/)