Convert Any Book to a DIY Audiobook? <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>If the idea of reading a physical book sounds like hard work, [Nick Bild’s] latest project, the PageParrot, might be for you. While AI gets a lot of flak these

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Convert Any Book To A DIY Audiobook?

If the idea of reading a physical book sounds like hard work, [Nick Bild&#8217;s] latest project, the PageParrot, might be for you. While AI gets a...

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Convert Any Book To A DIY Audiobook?

If the idea of reading a physical book sounds like hard work, [Nick Bild&#8217;s] latest project, the PageParrot, might be for you. While AI gets a...

AI Is Only Coming For Fun Jobs <img width="620" height="264" src=" alt=""/>In the past few years, what marketers and venture capital firms term “artificial intelligence” but is more often an advanced predictive text model of some sort has started taking people’s

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AI Is Only Coming For Fun Jobs

In the past few years, what marketers and venture capital firms term &#8220;artificial intelligence&#8221; but is more often an advanced predictive...

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AI Is Only Coming For Fun Jobs

In the past few years, what marketers and venture capital firms term &#8220;artificial intelligence&#8221; but is more often an advanced predictive...

AI Might Kill Us All (With Carbon Emissions) <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>So-called artificial intelligence (AI) is all the rage right now between your grandma asking ChatGPT how to code in Python or influencers making videos without having to hire extras, but

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AI Might Kill Us All (With Carbon Emissions)

So-called artificial intelligence (AI) is all the rage right now between your grandma asking ChatGPT how to code in Python or influencers making vi...

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AI Might Kill Us All (With Carbon Emissions)

So-called artificial intelligence (AI) is all the rage right now between your grandma asking ChatGPT how to code in Python or influencers making vi...

Hackaday Links: June 29, 2025 <img width="800" height="430" src=" alt="Hackaday Links Column Banner"/>In today’s episode of “AI Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things,” we feature the Hertz Corporation and its new AI-powered rental car damage scanners. Gone are the days when

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Hackaday Links: June 29, 2025

In today&#8217;s episode of &#8220;AI Is Why We Can&#8217;t Have Nice Things,&#8221; we feature the Hertz Corporation and its new AI-powered rental...

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Hackaday Links: June 29, 2025

In today&#8217;s episode of &#8220;AI Is Why We Can&#8217;t Have Nice Things,&#8221; we feature the Hertz Corporation and its new AI-powered rental...

Flopped Humane “AI Pin” Gets an Experimental SDK <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>The Humane AI Pin was ambitious, expensive, and failed to captivate people between its launch and shutdown shortly after. While the units do contain some interesting elements like the embedded

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Flopped Humane &#8220;AI Pin&#8221; Gets An Experimental SDK

The Humane AI Pin was ambitious, expensive, and failed to captivate people between its launch and shutdown shortly after. While the units do contai...

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Flopped Humane &#8220;AI Pin&#8221; Gets An Experimental SDK

The Humane AI Pin was ambitious, expensive, and failed to captivate people between its launch and shutdown shortly after. While the units do contai...

The Ongoing BcacheFS Filesystem Stability Controversy <img width="800" height="484" src=" alt=""/>In a saga that brings to mind the hype and incidents with ReiserFS, [SavvyNik] takes us through the latest data corruption bug report and developer updates regarding the BcacheFS filesystem

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The Ongoing BcacheFS Filesystem Stability Controversy

In a saga that brings to mind the hype and incidents with ReiserFS, [SavvyNik] takes us through the latest data corruption bug report and developer...

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The Ongoing BcacheFS Filesystem Stability Controversy

In a saga that brings to mind the hype and incidents with ReiserFS, [SavvyNik] takes us through the latest data corruption bug report and developer...

Information Density: Microfilm and Microfiche <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>Today, we think nothing of sticking thousands of pages of documents on a tiny SD card, or just pushing it out to some cloud service. But for decades, this wasn’t

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Information Density: Microfilm And Microfiche

Today, we think nothing of sticking thousands of pages of documents on a tiny SD card, or just pushing it out to some cloud service. But for decade...

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Information Density: Microfilm And Microfiche

Today, we think nothing of sticking thousands of pages of documents on a tiny SD card, or just pushing it out to some cloud service. But for decade...

Texas’ Right to Repair Bill is a Signature Away From Becoming Law <img width="800" height="484" src=" alt=""/>In what could be a big step forward for consumer rights, the Texas Senate recently unanimously voted to pass HB 2963, which references the “Diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of certain

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Texas&#8217; Right To Repair Bill Is A Signature Away From Becoming Law

In what could be a big step forward for consumer rights, the Texas Senate recently unanimously voted to pass HB 2963, which references the &#8220;D...

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Texas&#8217; Right To Repair Bill Is A Signature Away From Becoming Law

In what could be a big step forward for consumer rights, the Texas Senate recently unanimously voted to pass HB 2963, which references the &#8220;D...

Simple Triggering for Saleae Logic Analyzers <img width="800" height="451" src=" alt="The Saleae logic analyzer software is shown. One PWM channel is active, with values of 0x0001 displayed above the individual waveforms. On the right panel of the app, a trigger mode configuration panel is open for the simple parallel analyzer."/>Saleae logic analyzers seem to have it all: good sampling rates, convenient protocol decoding, and plenty of channels – but not a good way to set rising or falling-edge triggering.

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Simple Triggering For Saleae Logic Analyzers

Saleae logic analyzers seem to have it all: good sampling rates, convenient protocol decoding, and plenty of channels – but not a good way to set...

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Simple Triggering For Saleae Logic Analyzers

Saleae logic analyzers seem to have it all: good sampling rates, convenient protocol decoding, and plenty of channels – but not a good way to set...

A Close Look at the Mitxela Precision Clock Mk IV <img width="800" height="403" src=" alt=""/>Over on his secondary YouTube channel, [Jeff Geerling] recently demoed the new Mitxela Precision Clock Mk IV. This clock uses GPS to get the current time, but also your location

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A Close Look At The Mitxela Precision Clock Mk IV

Over on his secondary YouTube channel, [Jeff Geerling] recently demoed the new Mitxela Precision Clock Mk IV. This clock uses GPS to get the curren...

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A Close Look At The Mitxela Precision Clock Mk IV

Over on his secondary YouTube channel, [Jeff Geerling] recently demoed the new Mitxela Precision Clock Mk IV. This clock uses GPS to get the curren...

ChatGPT Patched a BIOS Binary, and it Worked <img width="800" height="484" src=" alt=""/>[devicemodder] wrote in to let us know they managed to install Linux Mint on their FRP-locked Panasonic Toughpad FZ-A2. Android devices such as the FZ-A2 can be locked with Factory

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ChatGPT Patched A BIOS Binary, And It Worked

[devicemodder] wrote in to let us know they managed to install Linux Mint on their FRP-locked Panasonic Toughpad FZ-A2. Android devices such as the...

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ChatGPT Patched A BIOS Binary, And It Worked

[devicemodder] wrote in to let us know they managed to install Linux Mint on their FRP-locked Panasonic Toughpad FZ-A2. Android devices such as the...

When Wireless MIDI Has Latency, a Hardwired Solution Saves the Day <img width="800" height="416" src=" alt=""/>[Moby Pixel] wanted to build a fun MIDI controller. In the end, he didn’t build it just once, but twice—with the aim of finding out which microcontroller was most fit

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When Wireless MIDI Has Latency, A Hardwired Solution Saves The Day

[Moby Pixel] wanted to build a fun MIDI controller. In the end, he didn&#8217;t build it just once, but twice—with the aim of finding out which m...

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When Wireless MIDI Has Latency, A Hardwired Solution Saves The Day

[Moby Pixel] wanted to build a fun MIDI controller. In the end, he didn&#8217;t build it just once, but twice—with the aim of finding out which m...

In Film, What’s Old May Still Be New Again <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>We recently published an affectionate look at a Polaroid Land camera, whose peel-apart instant film is long out of production except for a very few single exposure packs form a

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In Film, What&#8217;s Old May Still Be New Again

We recently published an affectionate look at a Polaroid Land camera, whose peel-apart instant film is long out of production except for a very few...

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In Film, What&#8217;s Old May Still Be New Again

We recently published an affectionate look at a Polaroid Land camera, whose peel-apart instant film is long out of production except for a very few...

Supercon 2024: From Consultant to Prototyper On A Shoestring Budget <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>Many engineers graduate from their studies and head out into the workforce, seeking a paycheck and a project at some existing company or other. Often, it’s not long before an

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Supercon 2024: From Consultant To Prototyper On A Shoestring Budget

Many engineers graduate from their studies and head out into the workforce, seeking a paycheck and a project at some existing company or other. Oft...

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Supercon 2024: From Consultant To Prototyper On A Shoestring Budget

Many engineers graduate from their studies and head out into the workforce, seeking a paycheck and a project at some existing company or other. Oft...

Piko, Your ESP32 Powered Fitness Buddy <img width="800" height="250" src=" alt="The bill of materials and the assembled smartwatch."/>Over on Hackaday.io there’s a fun and playful write-up for a fun and playful project — the Piko, an ESP32 powered smartwatch. Our hackers [Iloke Alusala], [Lulama Lingela], and [Rafael

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Piko, Your ESP32 Powered Fitness Buddy

Over on Hackaday.io there&#8217;s a fun and playful write-up for a fun and playful project &#8212; the Piko, an ESP32 powered smartwatch. Our hacke...

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Piko, Your ESP32 Powered Fitness Buddy

Over on Hackaday.io there&#8217;s a fun and playful write-up for a fun and playful project &#8212; the Piko, an ESP32 powered smartwatch. Our hacke...

The Blackberry Keyboard: How An Open-Source Ecosystem Sprouts <img width="800" height="489" src=" alt=""/>What could happen when you open-source a hardware project? No, seriously. I hold a fair few radical opinions – one is that projects should be open-source to the highest extent

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The Blackberry Keyboard: How An Open-Source Ecosystem Sprouts

What could happen when you open-source a hardware project? No, seriously. I hold a fair few radical opinions &#8211; one is that projects should be...

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The Blackberry Keyboard: How An Open-Source Ecosystem Sprouts

What could happen when you open-source a hardware project? No, seriously. I hold a fair few radical opinions &#8211; one is that projects should be...

Tune In to “Higher Lower”, the Minimal Handheld Electronic Game <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>[Tommy] has a great write-up about designing and building a minimalistic handheld electronic game called “Higher Lower”. It’s an audio-driven game in which the unit plays two tones and asks

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Tune In To &#8220;Higher Lower&#8221;, The Minimal Handheld Electronic Game

[Tommy] has a great write-up about designing and building a minimalistic handheld electronic game called &#8220;Higher Lower&#8221;. It&#8217;s an ...

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Tune In To &#8220;Higher Lower&#8221;, The Minimal Handheld Electronic Game

[Tommy] has a great write-up about designing and building a minimalistic handheld electronic game called &#8220;Higher Lower&#8221;. It&#8217;s an ...

Supercon 2024: How To Track Down Radio Transmissions <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>You turn the dial on your radio, and hear a powerful source of interference crackle in over the baseline noise. You’re interested as to where it might be coming from.

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Supercon 2024: How To Track Down Radio Transmissions

You turn the dial on your radio, and hear a powerful source of interference crackle in over the baseline noise. You&#8217;re interested as to where...

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Supercon 2024: How To Track Down Radio Transmissions

You turn the dial on your radio, and hear a powerful source of interference crackle in over the baseline noise. You&#8217;re interested as to where...

Add Wood Grain Texture to 3D Prints – With a Model of a Log <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>Adding textures is a great way to experiment with giving 3D prints a different look, and [PandaN] shows off a method of adding a wood grain effect in a way

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Add Wood Grain Texture To 3D Prints &#8211; With A Model Of A Log

Adding textures is a great way to experiment with giving 3D prints a different look, and [PandaN] shows off a method of adding a wood grain effect ...

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Add Wood Grain Texture To 3D Prints &#8211; With A Model Of A Log

Adding textures is a great way to experiment with giving 3D prints a different look, and [PandaN] shows off a method of adding a wood grain effect ...

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the H.R. Giger Keyboard <img width="800" height="484" src=" alt="Illustrated Kristina with an IBM Model M keyboard floating between her hands."/>I had to bust out Brain Salad Surgery to write this one, folks. It was that, or put on some Ministry or something. Just look at all the industrial-ness dripping

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Keebin&#8217; With Kristina: The One With The H.R. Giger Keyboard

I had to bust out Brain Salad Surgery to write this one, folks. It was that, or put on some Ministry or something. Just look at all the industrial-...

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Keebin&#8217; With Kristina: The One With The H.R. Giger Keyboard

I had to bust out Brain Salad Surgery to write this one, folks. It was that, or put on some Ministry or something. Just look at all the industrial-...