When we last left the post office, I told you all about various kinds of machinery the USPS uses to move mail around. Today I’m going to tell you about …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/youve-got-mail-automatic-for-the-people/)

3D Printed RC Car is Geared For Speed
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/3d-printed-rc-car-is-geared-for-speed/

You can always go out and buy an RC car off the shelf. However, it’s readily achievable to print your own design that has many of the features of off-the-shelf …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/3d-printed-rc-car-is-geared-for-speed/)

It’s Time You Built a Smart Pocket Watch
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/its-time-you-built-a-smart-pocket-watch/

There’s just something about a pocket watch that screams class compared to the barbaric act of bending your arm, or the no-fun way of looking at your phone. But smartwatches …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/its-time-you-built-a-smart-pocket-watch/)

Paper Punching Machine Looks Like Cute Piece of Computer History Past
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/paper-punching-machine-looks-like-cute-piece-of-computer-history-past/

Computing used to run on punch cards. Great stacks of cards would run middling programs, with data output onto more punched cards in turn. [Nii] has built a machine in …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/paper-punching-machine-looks-like-cute-piece-of-computer-history-past/)

Mistranslation of Newton’s First Law Discovered after Nearly 300 Years
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/mistranslation-of-newtons-first-law-discovered-after-nearly-300-years/

For hundreds of years, we have been told what Newton’s First Law of Motion supposedly says, but recently a paper published in Philosophy of Science (preprint) by [Daniel Hoek] argues …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/mistranslation-of-newtons-first-law-discovered-after-nearly-300-years/)

FPGA Runs IBM 5151 MDA Display
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/fpga-runs-ibm-5151-mda-display/

When it comes to driving a display, you can do all kinds of fancy tricks with microcontrollers to get an image up. Really, though, FPGAs are the weapon of choice …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/fpga-runs-ibm-5151-mda-display/)

ESP32 Drives Tiny FM Radio
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/14/esp32-drives-tiny-fm-radio/

Even as music streaming services and podcast apps dominate most of our listening time, it’s still a great idea to keep a radio on hand, if for nothing else than …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/09/14/esp32-drives-tiny-fm-radio/)

Homebrew Probe Tip Etcher Makes Amazingly Sharp Needles
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/14/homebrew-probe-tip-etcher-makes-amazingly-sharp-needles/