Adding USB-C (Kinda) to a PowerMac G4
?w=800" alt=""/>For those who’ve never bitten the Apple, the PowerMac G4 was a blue-tinted desktop Macintosh offered from 1999 to 2004. At the time, the machines were plenty fast — being https://hackaday.com/2025/02/15/adding-usb-c-kinda-to-a-powermac-g4/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/15/adding-usb-c-kinda-to-a-powermac-g4/
Lathe and Laser Team Up to Make Cutting Gear Teeth Easier
?w=800" alt=""/>Fair warning: watching this hybrid manufacturing method for gear teeth may result in an uncontrollable urge to buy a fiber laser cutter. Hackaday isn’t responsible for any financial difficulties that https://hackaday.com/2025/02/14/lathe-and-laser-team-up-to-make-cutting-gear-teeth-easier/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/14/lathe-and-laser-team-up-to-make-cutting-gear-teeth-easier/
Why AI Usage May Degrade Human Cognition and Blunt Critical Thinking Skills
?w=800" alt=""/>Any statement regarding the potential benefits and/or hazards of AI tends to be automatically very divisive and controversial as the world tries to figure out what the technology means to https://hackaday.com/2025/02/13/why-ai-usage-may-degrade-human-cognition-and-blunt-critical-thinking-skills/
Budget-Minded Synthetic Aperture Radar Takes to the Skies
?w=800" alt=""/>Unless you work for the government or a large corporation, constrained designs are a fact of life. No matter what you’re building, there’s likely going to be a limit to https://hackaday.com/2025/02/13/budget-minded-synthetic-aperture-radar-takes-to-the-skies/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/13/budget-minded-synthetic-aperture-radar-takes-to-the-skies/
PCB Design Review: M.2 SSD Splitter
?w=800" alt=""/>Today’s PCB design review is a board is from [Wificable]. iI’s a novel dual-SSD laptop adapter board! See, CPUs and chipsets often let you split wide PCIe links into multiple https://hackaday.com/2025/02/12/pcb-design-review-m-2-ssd-splitter/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/12/pcb-design-review-m-2-ssd-splitter/
Plastic On The Mind: Assessing the Risks From Micro- and Nanoplastics
?w=800" alt=""/>Perhaps one of the clearest indications of the Anthropocene may be the presence of plastic. Starting with the commercialization of Bakelite in 1907 by Leo Baekeland, plastics have taken the https://hackaday.com/2025/02/12/plastic-on-the-mind-assessing-the-risks-from-micro-and-nanoplastics/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/12/plastic-on-the-mind-assessing-the-risks-from-micro-and-nanoplastics/
Laser Cut Acrylic Provides Movie-Style Authentication
?w=800" alt=""/>Here at Hackaday, we pride ourselves on bringing you the latest and greatest projects for your viewing pleasure. But sometimes we come across a creation so interesting that we find https://hackaday.com/2025/02/12/laser-cut-acrylic-provides-movie-style-authentication/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/12/laser-cut-acrylic-provides-movie-style-authentication/
New Documentary Details Ventilator Development Efforts During COVID
?w=800" alt=""/>What would it be like to have to design and build a ventilator, suitable for clinical use, in ten days? One that could be built entirely from locally-sourced parts, and https://hackaday.com/2025/02/12/new-documentary-details-ventilator-development-efforts-during-covid/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/12/new-documentary-details-ventilator-development-efforts-during-covid/
Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the SEGA Pico Keyboard
?w=800" alt="Illustrated Kristina with an IBM Model M keyboard floating between her hands."/>It’s been a minute since I featured a tiny keyboard, and that’s okay. But if you want to get your feet wet in the DIY keyboarding community, making a little https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-sega-pico-keyboard/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-sega-pico-keyboard/
Basically, It’s BASIC
?w=800" alt=""/>The BASIC language may be considered old-hat here in 2025, and the days when a computer came as a matter of course with a BASIC interpreter are far behind us, https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/basically-its-basic/
A Twin-Lens Reflex Camera That’s Not Quite What It Seems
?w=800" alt=""/>The Camp Snap is a simple fixed-focus digital camera with only an optical viewfinder and a shot counter, which has become a surprise hit among photography enthusiasts for its similarity https://hackaday.com/2025/02/09/a-twin-lens-reflex-camera-thats-not-quite-what-it-seems/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/09/a-twin-lens-reflex-camera-thats-not-quite-what-it-seems/
Your Chance to Get A Head (A Gnu Head, Specifically)
?w=800" alt=""/>The Free Software Foundation is holding an auction to celebrate its 40th anniversary. You can bid on the original sketch of the GNU head by [Etienne Suvasa] and [Richard Stallman’s] https://hackaday.com/2025/02/09/your-chance-to-get-a-head-a-gnu-head-specifically/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/09/your-chance-to-get-a-head-a-gnu-head-specifically/
Matthias Wandel Hates CNC Machines in Person
?w=800" alt=""/>Prolific woodworking YouTuber [Matthias Wandel] makes some awesome mechanical contraptions, and isn’t afraid of computers, but has never been a fan of CNC machines in the woodshop. He’s never had https://hackaday.com/2025/02/09/matthias-wandel-hates-cnc-machines-in-person/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/09/matthias-wandel-hates-cnc-machines-in-person/
Repairing an Old Heathkit ‘Scope
?w=800" alt=""/>With so many cheap oscilloscopes out there, the market for old units isn’t what it used to be. But if you have a really old scope, like the Heathkit O-10 https://hackaday.com/2025/02/08/repairing-an-old-heathkit-scope/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/08/repairing-an-old-heathkit-scope/
Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?
?w=278" alt=""/>The MP3 file format was always encumbered with patents, but as of 2017, the last patent finally expired. Although the format became synonymous with the digital music revolution that started https://hackaday.com/2025/02/08/freed-at-last-from-patents-does-anyone-still-care-about-mp3/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/08/freed-at-last-from-patents-does-anyone-still-care-about-mp3/
A Programming Language for Building NES Games
?w=800" alt=""/>Generally speaking, writing your own games for retro consoles starts with C code. You’ll need to feed that through a console-specific tool-chain, and there’s certainly going to be some hoops https://hackaday.com/2025/02/08/a-programming-language-for-building-nes-games/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/08/a-programming-language-for-building-nes-games/
Who’d Have Guessed? Graphene is Strange!
?w=800" alt=""/>Graphene always sounds exciting, although we aren’t sure what we want to do with it. One of the most promising features of the monolayer carbon structure is that under the https://hackaday.com/2025/02/07/whod-have-guessed-graphene-is-strange/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/07/whod-have-guessed-graphene-is-strange/
Hack On Self: Quest System Basics
?w=800" alt=""/>Whenever I play an RPG, whether it’s Fallout or Cyberpunk 2077, I complete every single quest available to me. The quests grab my attention in an unprecedented way – doesn’t https://hackaday.com/2025/02/07/hack-on-self-quest-system-basics/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/07/hack-on-self-quest-system-basics/
Hackaday Podcast Episode 307: CNC Tattoos, The Big Chill in Space, and PCB Things
?w=800" alt=""/>The answer is: Elliot Williams, Al Williams, and a dozen or so great hacks. The question? What do you get this week on the Hackaday podcast? This week’s hacks ran https://hackaday.com/2025/02/07/hackaday-podcast-episode-307-cnc-tattoos-the-big-chill-in-space-and-pcb-things/
This Week in Security: Medical Backdoors, Strings, and Changes at Let’s Encrypt
?w=800" alt=""/>There are some interesting questions afoot, with the news that the Contec CMS8000 medical monitoring system has a backdoor. And this isn’t the normal debug port accidentally left in the https://hackaday.com/2025/02/07/this-week-in-security-medical-backdoors-strings-and-changes-at-lets-encrypt/