Want your next project to trash talk? Dynamically rewrite boring log messages as sci-fi technobabble? Happily (or grudgingly) answer questions? Doing that sort of thing and more can be done …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/05/18/natural-language-ai-in-your-next-project-its-easier-than-you-think/)

Practice Your Shopping Skills With This Self-Service Checkout Game
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/18/practice-your-shopping-skills-with-this-self-service-checkout-game/

Self-service checkouts have become a common feature in supermarkets the world over, a trend accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic. While some may lament the loss of human contact, others relish …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/05/18/practice-your-shopping-skills-with-this-self-service-checkout-game/)

The Little Big Dogs of Invention
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/18/the-little-big-dogs-of-invention/

This is a story about two dogs I know. It is also a story of the U.S. Navy, aviation, and nuclear weapons. Sometimes it is easy to see things in …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/05/18/the-little-big-dogs-of-invention/)

Hackaday Prize 2022: Recycled Tire Table Is Where the Rubber Meets the Road
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/18/hackaday-prize-2022-recycled-tire-table-is-where-the-rubber-meets-the-road/

The problem with good inventions is that we usually end up with way too many of that particular widget lying around, which can cause all kinds of problems. Take the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/05/18/hackaday-prize-2022-recycled-tire-table-is-where-the-rubber-meets-the-road/)

3D Printed Linear Actuator Is Cheap and Strong
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/18/3d-printed-linear-actuator-is-cheap-and-strong/

Motors are all well and good for moving things, but they’re all about the round-and-round. Sometimes, you need to move something back and forth, and for that a linear actuator …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/05/18/3d-printed-linear-actuator-is-cheap-and-strong/)

MIDI Controller Looks Good, Enables Your Air Guitar Habit
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/18/midi-controller-looks-good-enables-your-air-guitar-habit/

We all want to be guitar heroes, but most of us have to settle for letting a MIDI board play our riffs using a MIDI controller. [Joris] thinks a MIDI …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/05/18/midi-controller-looks-good-enables-your-air-guitar-habit/)

One Coder is Porting Portal To the Nintendo 64
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/18/one-coder-is-porting-portal-to-the-nintendo-64/

When Portal came out in 2007, developers Valve chose not to release the groundbreaking title on an obsolete Nintendo console long out of production. Nobody cared at the time, of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/05/18/one-coder-is-porting-portal-to-the-nintendo-64/)

Defeat Your Car’s Autostop Feature With A Little SwitchBot
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/18/defeat-your-cars-autostop-feature-with-a-little-switchbot/