Nobody likes getting zapped from an electrostatic discharge, no matter whether you’re a fragile ASIC or a bag-of-mostly-salty-water humanoid. To prevent this, ESD wrist straps and similar are essential tools, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/04/10/busting-wireless-esd-wrist-straps-with-ltt-and-electroboom/)

Reactivating a Harris RF-130 URT-23 Transmitter
https://hackaday.com/2023/04/08/reactivating-a-harris-rf-130-urt-23-transmitter/

If you enjoy old military hardware, you probably know that Harris made quite a few heavy-duty pieces of radio gear. [K6YIC] picked up a nice example: the Harris RF-130 URT-23. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/04/08/reactivating-a-harris-rf-130-urt-23-transmitter/)

Disabling Intel’s Backdoors On Modern Laptops
https://hackaday.com/2023/04/12/disabling-intels-backdoors-on-modern-laptops/

Despite some companies making strides with ARM, for the most part, the desktop and laptop space is still dominated by x86 machines. For all their advantages, they have a glaring …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/04/12/disabling-intels-backdoors-on-modern-laptops/)

Portable MSX2 Brings the Fun on the Go
https://hackaday.com/2023/04/11/portable-msx2-brings-the-fun-on-the-go/

Something of a rarity in the US, the MSX computer standard was rather popular in other parts of the world but mostly existed in the computer-in-a-keyboard format popular in the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/04/11/portable-msx2-brings-the-fun-on-the-go/)

Square-Wheeled Bike Is Actually An Amazing Tracked Build
https://hackaday.com/2023/04/13/square-wheeled-bike-is-actually-an-amazing-tracked-build/

The invention of the wheel is considered one of the crowning achievements of early humanity. Squares don’t roll, after all. [The Q] decided to build a square-wheeled bike anyway, with …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/04/13/square-wheeled-bike-is-actually-an-amazing-tracked-build/)

Tech in Plain Sight: Field Guide to Power Plugs
https://hackaday.com/2023/04/12/tech-in-plain-sight-field-guide-to-power-plugs/

It is the bane of worldwide travel: there isn’t just one way to get AC power from the wall. The exact connector — and what you can expect when you …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/04/12/tech-in-plain-sight-field-guide-to-power-plugs/)

Signed Distance Functions: Modeling in Math
https://hackaday.com/2023/04/12/signed-distance-functions-modeling-in-math/

What if instead of defining a mesh as a series of vertices and edges in a 3D space, you could describe it as a single function? The easiest function would …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/04/12/signed-distance-functions-modeling-in-math/)