Back in 1956, Seiko created their “magic lever” as an integral part of self-winding mechanical watches, which were essentially mechanical energy harvesters. The magic lever is a type of ratcheting …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/09/3d-print-your-own-seiko-style-magic-lever-energy-harvester/)

Pedal Car vs Ministry of Transport
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/09/pedal-car-vs-ministry-of-transport/

[Tim] from the “Way Out West” Youtube channels has started a fun project — building a wooden pedal-car heavily inspired by “Bugsy Malone”. The kids-sized gangsters in that movie got …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/09/pedal-car-vs-ministry-of-transport/)

Why VR As Monitor Replacement Is Likely To Be Terrible For a While Yet
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/09/why-vr-as-monitor-replacement-is-likely-to-be-terrible-for-a-while-yet/

Putting on a headset and using virtual monitors in VR instead of physical ones is a use case that pops up, but is it really something feasible? [Karl Guttag], who …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/09/why-vr-as-monitor-replacement-is-likely-to-be-terrible-for-a-while-yet/)

Myth Tested: DOS Can’t Multitask
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/09/myth-tested-dos-cant-multitask/

It’s a piece of common knowledge, that MS-DOS wasn’t capable of multitasking. For that, the Microsoft-based PC user would have to wait for the 80386, and usable versions of Windows. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/09/myth-tested-dos-cant-multitask/)

Minimizing Stress on a Coin Cell Battery
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/10/minimizing-stress-on-a-coin-cell-battery/

When it comes to powering tiny devices for a long time, coin cell batteries are the battery of choice for things like keyfobs, watches, and even some IoT devices. They’re …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/10/minimizing-stress-on-a-coin-cell-battery/)

Weird Lens Allows Light Field Passthrough for VR Headset
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/10/weird-lens-allows-light-field-passthrough-for-vr-headset/

Light Fields are a subtle but critical element to making 3D video look “real”, and it has little to do with either resolution or field of view. Meta (formerly Facebook) …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/10/weird-lens-allows-light-field-passthrough-for-vr-headset/)

The World ID Orb and the Question of What Defines a Person
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/10/the-world-id-orb-and-the-question-of-what-defines-a-person/

Among the daily churn of ‘Web 3.0’, blockchains and cryptocurrency messaging, there is generally very little that feels genuinely interesting or unique enough to pay attention to. The same was …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/10/the-world-id-orb-and-the-question-of-what-defines-a-person/)

PentaBlinky – When One LED Is Not Blinky Enough
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/10/pentablinky-when-one-led-is-not-blinky-enough/