Before IBM was synonymous with personal computers, they were synonymous with large computers. If you didn’t live it, it was hard to realize just how ubiquitous IBM computers were in …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/05/13/retrotechtacular-the-ibm-system-360-remembered/)

What’s in a Wattmeter?
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/13/whats-in-a-wattmeter/

The idea behind watts seems deceptively simple. By definition, a watt is the amount of work done when one ampere of current flows between a potential of one volt. If …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/05/13/whats-in-a-wattmeter/)

Printable Fix for Time Card Clock Has Owner Seeing Red Again
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/14/printable-fix-for-time-card-clock-has-owner-seeing-red-again/

When [Morley Kert] laid eyes on a working time card-punching clock, he knew he had to have it for a still-secret upcoming project. The clock seemed to work fine, except …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/05/14/printable-fix-for-time-card-clock-has-owner-seeing-red-again/)

Electronics And C++ Education With an ATTiny13
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/14/electronics-and-c-education-with-an-attiny13/

When [Adam, HA8KDA] is not busy with his PhD studies, he mentors a group of students interested in engineering. To teach them a wide range of topics, he set out …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/05/14/electronics-and-c-education-with-an-attiny13/)

Who is Thinking About Open Source Firmware?
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/14/who-is-thinking-about-open-source-firmware/

Yesterday, we ran a post on NVIDIA’s announcement of open-source drivers for some of its most recent video cards. And Hackaday being huge proponents of open-source software and hardware, you’d …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/05/14/who-is-thinking-about-open-source-firmware/)

TapType: AI-Assisted Hand Motion Tracking Using Only Accelerometers
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/14/taptype-ai-assisted-hand-motion-tracking-using-only-accelerometers/

https://siplab.org/projects/TapType
" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/taptype-figure_4.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/taptype-figure_4.jpg?w=800">The team from the Sensing, Interaction & Perception Lab at ETH Zürich, Switzerland have come up with TapType, an interesting text input method that relies purely on a pair of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/05/14/taptype-ai-assisted-hand-motion-tracking-using-only-accelerometers/)

Attack of the Magnetic Slime Robots
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/14/attack-of-the-magnetic-slime-robots/

[Li Zhang] and his colleagues at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) have developed a blob of goo that can navigate complex surroundings, grow an ‘arm’, grasp a wire …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/05/14/attack-of-the-magnetic-slime-robots/)