Looking for a neat trick to do with your Tesla coil? [The Action Lab] uses his coil to make a metal plasma — in particular, sodium. You can see the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/tesla-coil-makes-sodium-plasma/)

Magic Mirror – On A Low CPU Budget
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/magic-mirror-on-a-low-cpu-budget/

For quite a few hackers out there, it’s still hard to find a decently powerful Raspberry Pi for a non-eye-watering price. [Rupin Chheda] wanted to build a magic mirror with …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/magic-mirror-on-a-low-cpu-budget/)

Turn Your Furniture into a Light Show with Hyelicht
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/turn-your-furniture-into-a-light-show-with-hyelicht/

There’s something about the regimented square shapes of the IKEA Kallax shelf that convinced [Eike Hein] it could benefit from some RGB LED lighting, and while he could have simply …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/turn-your-furniture-into-a-light-show-with-hyelicht/)

Blackout Logger Keeps Track of Power Outages
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/blackout-logger-keeps-track-of-power-outages/

[Dmytro Panin] lives in Kyiv, Ukraine where there have been rolling blackouts to stabilize the power grid. To help keep track of when the blackouts might happen, be they planned …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/blackout-logger-keeps-track-of-power-outages/)

Human vs. AI Drone Racing at the University of Zurich
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/human-vs-ai-drone-racing-at-the-university-of-zurich/

[Thomas Bitmatta] and two other champion drone pilots visited the Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich. The human pilots accepting the challenge to race drones against Artificial …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/26/human-vs-ai-drone-racing-at-the-university-of-zurich/)

Portable Commodore 64 Lives!
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/27/portable-commodore-64-lives/

When you think of a luggable computer, you might think of the old Compaq or — if you are old enough — a Kaypro. But you don’t see as many …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/27/portable-commodore-64-lives/)

A Practical Discrete 386
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/27/a-practical-discrete-386/

There are some chips that no matter how much the industry moves away from them still remain, exerting a hold decades after the ranges they once sat alongside have left …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/27/a-practical-discrete-386/)