Leading out the news this week is a report of “BlackTech”, an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group that appears to be based out of China, that has been installing malicious …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/09/29/this-week-in-security-magic-packets-gpu-zip-and-enter-the-sandman/)

10-Foot High 3D Printer Based on Ender 3
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/29/10-foot-high-3d-printer-based-on-ender-3/

There are two main ways to 3D print large things. You can either make lots of small 3D prints and stick them together, or you can use a larger 3D …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/09/29/10-foot-high-3d-printer-based-on-ender-3/)

Hackaday Podcast 238: Vibrating Bowl Feeders, Open Sourcery, Learning to Love Layer Lines
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/29/hackaday-podcast-238-vibrating-bowl-feeders-open-sourcery-learning-to-love-layer-lines/

Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start this week’s episode off with some deep space news, as NASA’s OSIRIS-REx returns home with a sample it snapped up from asteroid Bennu back …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/09/29/hackaday-podcast-238-vibrating-bowl-feeders-open-sourcery-learning-to-love-layer-lines/)

Retrotechtacular: How Communism Made Televisions
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/29/retrotechtacular-how-communism-made-televisions/

For those of us who lived through the Cold War, there’s still an air of mystery as to what it was like on the Communist side. As Uncle Sam’s F-111s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/09/29/retrotechtacular-how-communism-made-televisions/)

Power Supplies Without Transformers
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/29/power-supplies-without-transformers/

For one-off projects or prototyping, it’s not too hard to find a wall wart or power supply to send a few joules of energy from the wall outlet to your …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/09/29/power-supplies-without-transformers/)

Building a Human-Sized Pop-Pop Boat
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/29/building-a-human-sized-pop-pop-boat/

Pop-pop boats are a neat little science teaching tool that many children end up playing with at some point or other. They’re normally sized to float around a sink or …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/09/29/building-a-human-sized-pop-pop-boat/)

Hackaday Prize 2023: Automated Shuttle Launcher Enables Solo Badminton Practice
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/29/hackaday-prize-2023-automated-shuttle-launcher-enables-solo-badminton-practice/

If you want to get better at your favorite sport, there’s really no substitute to putting in more training hours. For solo activities like running or cycling that’s simple enough: …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/09/29/hackaday-prize-2023-automated-shuttle-launcher-enables-solo-badminton-practice/)

FedEx Robot Solves Complex Packing Problems
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/29/fedex-robot-solves-complex-packing-problems/