[Carson Katri] has a fantastic solution to easily add textures to 3D scenes in Blender: have an image-generating AI create the texture on demand, and do it for you. As …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/12/18/image-generating-ai-can-texture-an-entire-3d-scene-in-blender/)

Solar Cell Fabric Makes Anything Solar
https://hackaday.com/2022/12/18/solar-cell-fabric-makes-anything-solar/

MIT has been working on very thin solar cells made of a film just a few microns thick. The problem? The cells are so thin that they’re hard to work …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/12/18/solar-cell-fabric-makes-anything-solar/)

Z8000 Trump Card Needs Your Help
https://hackaday.com/2022/12/19/z8000-trump-card-needs-your-help/

[Smbakeryt] needs your help. He bought a 1984-vintage Z8000 coprocessor card for the PC, but the software is missing in action. Apparently, the co-processor — called a Trump Card — …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/12/19/z8000-trump-card-needs-your-help/)

Mini Cheetah Clone Teardown, By None Other Than Original Designer
https://hackaday.com/2022/12/19/mini-cheetah-clone-teardown-by-none-other-than-original-designer/

[Ben Katz] designed the original MIT Mini Cheetah robot, which easily captured attention and imagination with its decidedly un-robotic movements and backflips. Not long after [Ben]’s masters thesis went online, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/12/19/mini-cheetah-clone-teardown-by-none-other-than-original-designer/)

Damaged Soyuz May Leave Crew Without a Ride Home
https://hackaday.com/2022/12/19/damaged-soyuz-may-leave-crew-without-a-ride-home/

Though oddly beautiful in its own way, it’s a sight no astronaut wants to see: their spacecraft, the only way they have to return to Earth, ejecting countless iridescent droplets …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/12/19/damaged-soyuz-may-leave-crew-without-a-ride-home/)

35mm Film Restoration Process Explained
https://hackaday.com/2022/12/19/35mm-film-restoration-process-explained/

For a large part of the 20th century, motion pictures were distributed on nitrate film. Although cheaper for the studios, this film was highly flammable and prone to decay. On …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/12/19/35mm-film-restoration-process-explained/)

Laser Fusion Ignition: Putting Nuclear Fusion Breakthroughs Into Perspective
https://hackaday.com/2022/12/19/laser-fusion-ignition-putting-nuclear-fusion-breakthroughs-into-perspective/

This month the media was abuzz with the announcement that the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) had accomplished a significant breakthrough in the quest to achieve commercial nuclear fusion. Specifically, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/12/19/laser-fusion-ignition-putting-nuclear-fusion-breakthroughs-into-perspective/)