A good universal remote can help tame today’s complex home entertainment systems, combining both classic IR and more modern WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity with programmable functions that allow the user …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/15/hackaday-prize-2023-omote-universal-remote/)

Pi Zero Runs DOOM Via Wireless Power
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/15/pi-zero-runs-doom-via-wireless-power/

What’s better than a Raspberry Pi Zero running DOOM on a 3.5″ touchscreen? Running it over wireless power, of course! [atomic14] has been interested in wireless power for a while, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/15/pi-zero-runs-doom-via-wireless-power/)

Gravity Wave Detector is Galactic Sized
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/15/gravity-wave-detector-is-galactic-sized/

Detecting gravity waves isn’t easy. But what if you had a really big detector for a long time? That’s what researchers did when they crunched 15 years’ worth of data …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/15/gravity-wave-detector-is-galactic-sized/)

Reverse Engineering a Classic ThinkPad Battery
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/15/reverse-engineering-a-classic-thinkpad-battery/

The ThinkPad 701 is an iconic laptop series from the mid-90s and is still highly sought after today because of its famous butterfly keybaord. The laptop itself is tiny even …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/15/reverse-engineering-a-classic-thinkpad-battery/)

Hackaday Prize 2023: Pi Pico Measures Volts, Amps and Watts
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/16/hackaday-prize-2023-pi-pico-measures-volts-amps-and-watts/

Measuring a voltage is pretty easy: just place your multimeter’s probes across the relevant pins and read the value. Probing currents is a bit trickier, since you need to open …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/16/hackaday-prize-2023-pi-pico-measures-volts-amps-and-watts/)

Brute Forcing a Mobile’s PIN Over USB With a $3 Board
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/16/brute-forcing-a-mobiles-pin-over-usb-with-a-3-board/

Mobile PINs are a lot like passwords in that there are a number of very common ones, and [Mobile Hacker] has a clever proof of concept that uses a tiny …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/16/brute-forcing-a-mobiles-pin-over-usb-with-a-3-board/)

A Current Sensing Coil That’s Open Ended
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/16/a-current-sensing-coil-thats-open-ended/

One of the joys of writing for Hackaday comes in learning new things which even after a long engineering background haven’t yet come your way. So it is with the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/07/16/a-current-sensing-coil-thats-open-ended/)