Apr 11, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Instead of upgrading your motherboard you may be able to use your spare PCIe x1 slot It’s true that most often we just use one slot for the video card and there are another two or three empty slots waiting to be used. Such a slot can easily accept a card that will provide upgraded ...
Apr 11, 2026 from Hackaday What’s Your Favorite Kind of Hack? Talking with [Tom Nardi] on the podcast this week, he mentioned his favorite kind of hack: the community-developed open-source firmware that can be flashed into a commercial product that has …read ...
Apr 11, 2026 from Hackaday Rust-y Firmware for Waveshare Smartwatch Waveshare makes a nifty little ESP32-S3 based smartwatch product, but its firmware is apparently not to everyone’s liking. Specifically, it’s not to [infiniton] a.k.a [Bright_Warning_8406]’s liking...
Apr 11, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net SQLite 3.53 fixes WAL-reset bug, adds QRF library, new SQL features, improved CLI and more SQLite 3.53 has been released as the latest version of this free and open-source relational database engine. This update addresses a critical stability issue by fixing the longstanding database cor...
Apr 11, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Immich Kiosk turns any screen into a photo display “No processing happens on the tablet, it is just a display for the image output. In fact, you won’t even have much of configuration options since all of that is done through a config file. My table...
Apr 11, 2026 from Hackaday Digging Into the Twilight Hack that Brought Us Wii Homebrew With each new game console, there’s an effort to get around whatever restrictions exist to run your own software on it. In the case of the Nintendo Wii, the system …read more
Apr 11, 2026 from Hackaday Otamatone Hacked Into Different, Cooler Synth: Trautonium Analog synths are fun because they combine music, which all humans seem hard-wired to enjoy in one form or another, and electronics, which… uh, this is Hackaday. If you don’t …read more
Apr 11, 2026 from Hackaday A Mercury Rover Could Explore the Planet by Sticking to the Terminator With multiple rovers currently scurrying around on the surface of Mars to continue a decades-long legacy, it can be easy to forget sometimes that repeating this feat on other planets …read more
Apr 10, 2026 from Hackaday Implementing a Rhythm Game entirely in a GPU Shader Most rhythm games have a community creating custom charts, and Trombone Champ is no exception. What is exceptional, however, [CraftedCart]’s osu! played in a Trombone Champ chart. It all started …r...
Apr 10, 2026 from GadgeteerZA This Bicycle Bell Can Even Be Heard by People Wearing Noise-Cancelling Headphones because its 2026 “The unique Škoda DuoBell bicycle bell is a classic example of a completely analogue solution to a problem caused by digital innovation. Its ringing sound bypasses the noise-cancelling capabilities...
Apr 10, 2026 from Darek Kay Sabbatical #10: Mackenzie Basin A travel journal from my visit to Mackenzie Basin, New Zealand.
Apr 10, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-10-26 My Pook-Emu Bee links are a bit late today. I had to deal with an issue related to my wireless access point this morning and then some work assignments. Unfortunately, I did not have time to engage...
Apr 10, 2026 from Hackaday Battle Born Explains How Its Battery Thermal Safety Works After users of Battle Born LFP batteries encountered issues such as a heavily discolored positive terminal and other signs of overheating, multiple autopsies showed that the cause appeared to be …r...
Apr 10, 2026 from Hackaday Using Metal Screws in Plastic Parts Machine screws aren’t made for wood or sheet metal, they make specific screws for those applications. You probably also know there are special screws for plastic. But did you know …read more
Apr 10, 2026 from It's FOSS Privacy Messenger Session Is Staring Down a 90-Day Countdown to Obscurity With paid developers gone and only volunteers remaining, the app has until July 8 to secure funding or fade into irrelevance.
Apr 10, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 10 April 2026 Peterbyte Edition Top Story A hacker has reportedly broken into the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, China, and made off with... Carry the twelve... Ten petabytes of data. (CNN) That's th...
Apr 10, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net HWMonitor & CPU-Z users were exposed to malware through fake downloads after CPUID breach CPUID, the developer behind the popular tools HWMonitor and CPU-Z has been hit for a website breach that exposed users to malware for about six hours, according to a statement shared by the develop...
Apr 10, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Gemini introduces interactive 3D visualizations and models for deeper topic exploration Google has announced a major update to Gemini, allowing users to generate interactive visualizations directly from their questions and complex topics. This upgrade moves beyond traditional text ans...
Apr 10, 2026 from GadgeteerZA France’s government is ditching Windows for Linux, calling US tech dependence a strategic risk “The French government has decided that enough is enough. It has announced that it will shift away from proprietary technologies from outside the European Union and focus more on open-source soluti...
Apr 10, 2026 from Peter's Path Veluwe Wander Trail part 07 Hiked part 7/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 13.1 kilometres from Garderen to Putten centrum. The Speulder and Sprielderbos still partly consists of the old, communally managed malebos. The forest b...
