Image capture from the featured YouTube video
" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/woom-feature.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/woom-feature.png?w=800">The Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) of Australia just released a digitized version of a 1957 film documentary on Australia’s rocket research back in the day ( see video below …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/25/rocket-range-australia-1950s-style/)

Wireless Data Connections Through Light
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/25/wireless-data-connections-through-light/

When wired networking or data connections can’t be made, for reasons of distance or practicality, various wireless protocols are available to us. Wi-Fi is among the most common, at least …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/25/wireless-data-connections-through-light/)

QSPICE Picks Up Where LTSpice Left Us
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/25/qspice-picks-up-where-ltspice-left-us/

screengrab from QSpice SMPS demo projecty
" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Snap-2023-08-24-21-42-37-featured.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Snap-2023-08-24-21-42-37-featured.png?w=800">[Mike Engelhardt] is a name that should be very familiar to the hardcore electronics nerd. [Mike] is the developer responsible for LTSpice, which is quite likely the most widely used …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/25/qspice-picks-up-where-ltspice-left-us/)

Bypassing Bitlocker with a Logic Analzyer
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/25/bypassing-bitlocker-with-a-logic-analzyer/

Security Engineer [Guillaume Quéré] spends the day penetration testing systems for their employer and has pointed out and successfully exploited a rather obvious weakness in the BitLocker full volume encryption …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/25/bypassing-bitlocker-with-a-logic-analzyer/)

Microsoft Discontinues Kinect, Again
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/26/microsoft-discontinues-kinect-again/

The Kinect is a depth-sensing camera peripheral originally designed as a accessory for the Xbox gaming console, and it quickly found its way into hobbyist and research projects. After a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/26/microsoft-discontinues-kinect-again/)

A VFD Dot Matrix Makes This Cyberdeck Special
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/26/a-vfd-dot-matrix-makes-this-cyberdeck-special/

We’ve had cyberdecks as part of the scenery for long enough now that there are a series of common elements that appear across many different builds. The Raspberry Pi, for …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/26/a-vfd-dot-matrix-makes-this-cyberdeck-special/)

How Do They Do That?
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/26/how-do-they-do-that/

Last week’s Chaos Communication Camp is kinda a big deal: 6,000 hackers all out in a field all need power, food, drink, networking, and of course, sewage in the middle …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/26/how-do-they-do-that/)

Impulse Buying a 3040 CNC Machine, What Could Go Wrong?
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/26/impulse-buying-a-3040-cnc-machine-what-could-go-wrong/