Hacks & BuildsNov 4Analog Redial lets a rotary phone ring the other room, or read pi when you dial 314
Hacks & BuildsNov 4A developer built his wife a walkable art museum, then had to reconstruct a sculpture from photos
Hacks & BuildsNov 2A 2009 Chumby One Gets Nine Podcast Stations, With a Knob That Actually Tunes Them
Hacks & BuildsOct 31Ben Krasnow 3D-Printed a See-Through Einstein Refrigerator That Gets Cold From an Alcohol Flame
Hacks & BuildsOct 31Arnaud Aubry Built Marelleo, an Open-Source ESP32 Story Box for Kids That Plays Whatever File You Tie to an NFC Figurine, With No Store and No Subscription
Hacks & BuildsOct 30Sylphide OS, a Hobby Operating System, Puts a Black-and-White 512x384 Windowed Desktop on Microcontroller Computers, Including a Homemade Raspberry Pi Pico 2 Board
Hacks & BuildsOct 30Doomformer Compiles a Neural Network Into a DOOM Map Where Voodoo Dolls Do the Math, and Every Value Matches NumPy Exactly
Hacks & BuildsOct 30Star Andrew Schmelyun's GitHub Repo and a Raspberry Pi Prints Your Profile Picture on a Receipt Printer for His Wall
Hacks & BuildsOct 29This Halloween Skull Uses 24 GHz Radar to Track Three People Through Its Plastic Head, With No Camera
Hacks & BuildsOct 29A Homemade RISC-V CPU Runs DOOM on an FPGA, Sent to the PC at 64x32 Because the Serial Cable Was Too Slow
Hacks & BuildsOct 29IEEE Spectrum's Hidden Lockbox Opens Only When You Trace a Secret Gesture With a Magnet Over an 8-by-8 Hall-Sensor Grid
Hacks & BuildsOct 28Michael Pick Cut Apart a High-Mileage BMW i3's Carbon-Fiber Body to Build the Small Electric Pickup Nobody Sells, on a Budget of Under $10,000
Hacks & BuildsOct 27Chris McCoy Played Gottschalk's Grande Tarantelle by Decoding a Blind Musician's Braille Score Into MIDI, and His Parser Caught Seven Bars Where the Braille Disagrees With the 1874 Print
Hacks & BuildsOct 27Hack the North's 1,750 Programmable ESP32 Badges Shipped Through Four Board Spins, a Capacitor in an Inductor's Slot and an NFC Chip That Couldn't Read
Hacks & BuildsOct 27A DOOM-style raycaster lives inside a TrueType font's hinting bytecode, and the browser draws its 3D walls by re-hinting one glyph
Hacks & BuildsOct 27Introvert Programmer Built a Raspberry Pi 5 NAS From Two Old Laptop Drives, With an Arabic-Speaking AI Assistant You Can Call
