We’ve devoted a fair amount of virtual ink here to casting shade at self-driving vehicles, especially lately with all the robo-taxi fiascos that seem to keep cropping up in cities …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/10/01/hackaday-links-october-1-2023/)

Google’s Augmented Reality Microscope Might Help Diagnose Cancer
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/01/googles-augmented-reality-microscope-might-help-diagnose-cancer/

Dr. Niels Olson uses the Augmented Reality Microscope. (Credit: US Department of Defense)
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/niels_olsen_augmented_reality_microscope.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/niels_olsen_augmented_reality_microscope.jpg?w=740">Despite recent advances in diagnosing cancer, many cases are still diagnosed using biopsies and analyzing thin slices of tissue underneath a microscope. Properly analyzing these tissue sample slides requires highly …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/10/01/googles-augmented-reality-microscope-might-help-diagnose-cancer/)

Hypersonic Speech Jammer Works At A Distance
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/01/hypersonic-speech-jammer-works-at-a-distance/

Speech jammers were a meme a little while back. By feeding back delayed voice audio to a person’s ears, it makes it near-impossible for most people to speak, as our …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/10/01/hypersonic-speech-jammer-works-at-a-distance/)

Passive Desalination Discovers How To Avoid Salt-Clogging
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/02/passive-desalination-discovers-how-to-avoid-salt-clogging/

Saltwater is plentiful, but no good for drinking. Desalinization is the obvious solution, but a big problem isn’t taking the salt out, it’s where all that leftover salt goes. Excess …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/10/02/passive-desalination-discovers-how-to-avoid-salt-clogging/)

How Warehouse Robots Actually Work, As Explained by Amazon
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/02/how-warehouse-robots-actually-work-as-explained-by-amazon/

Amazon has been using robots to manage and automate their warehouses for years. Here’s a short feature on their current robot, Hercules. This is absolutely Amazon tooting their own horn, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/10/02/how-warehouse-robots-actually-work-as-explained-by-amazon/)

Why Walking Tanks Never Became A Thing
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/02/why-walking-tanks-never-became-a-thing/

The walking tank concept has always captured imaginations. Whether you’re talking about the AT-AT walkers of Star Wars, or the Dreadnoughts from Warhammer 40,000, they are often portrayed in fiction …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/10/02/why-walking-tanks-never-became-a-thing/)

Using LoRa Nodes As Soil Moisture Sensing Antennas
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/02/using-lora-nodes-as-soil-moisture-sensing-antennas/

The measurement results of: (a) RSSI in dBm collected from gateway 2 and (b) soil moisture during the winter period. (Credit: Maja Škiljo et al., 2022)
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/sensors-22-09863-g003.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/sensors-22-09863-g003.png?w=800">Although we generally think of Internet of Things (IoT) and similar devices as things that are scattered around above ground, there are plenty of reasons to also have such devices …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/10/02/using-lora-nodes-as-soil-moisture-sensing-antennas/)

Modeling Space Hack Chat
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/02/modeling-space-hack-chat/