As more and more electric vehicles penetrate the market, there’s going to have to be a proportional rise in the number of charging stations that are built into parking garages, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/16/reverse-engineering-reveals-ev-charger-has-a-sense-of-security/)

Will the Fax Machine Ever Stop Singing?
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/16/will-the-fax-machine-ever-stop-singing/

Throughout the 80s and 90s, you couldn’t swing a stapler around any size office without hitting a fax machine. But what is it about the fax machine that makes it …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/16/will-the-fax-machine-ever-stop-singing/)

Is This The Smallest CP/M Machine Ever?
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/16/is-this-the-smallest-cp-m-machine-ever/

If you had an office word processor in the late 1970s, the chances are it ran Digital Research’s CP/M operating system. IBM went for Microsoft in the 1980s and the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/16/is-this-the-smallest-cp-m-machine-ever/)

PCB Hotplate Has Integrated Heating Element Traces
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/16/pcb-hotplate-has-integrated-heating-element-traces/

Normally when we talk about PCBs and hotplates, we’re talking about reflowing solder. In this build from [Arnov Sharma], though, the PCB itself is the hotplate! The idea was to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/16/pcb-hotplate-has-integrated-heating-element-traces/)

Crazy Bike Frame Made Out Of 147 Nuts
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/16/crazy-bike-frame-made-out-of-147-nuts/

Bike frames are most commonly made out of steel. If you’ve got money for something nicer though, you might go with something in aluminium or carbon fiber. [The Q] went …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/16/crazy-bike-frame-made-out-of-147-nuts/)

Better Sheet Metal Parts with Chemistry
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/16/better-sheet-metal-parts-with-chemistry/

[Applied Science] wanted to make some metal parts with a lot of holes. A service provider charged high tooling costs, so he decided to create his own parts using photochemical …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/16/better-sheet-metal-parts-with-chemistry/)

Portable Monitor Extension for Nintendo Switch
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/16/portable-monitor-extension-for-nintendo-switch/

Handheld consoles are always a tradeoff between portability and screen real estate. [Pavlo Khmel] felt that the Nintendo Switch erred too much on the side of portability, and built an …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/16/portable-monitor-extension-for-nintendo-switch/)