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Personalization, Industrial Design, and Hacked Devices: [Maya Posch] wrote up an insightful, and maybe a bit controversial, piece on the state of consumer goods design: The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics. Her basic thesis is… ift.tt/EOJhjTM

Read QR Codes on the Cheap: Adding a camera to a project used to be a chore, but modern camera modules make it simple. But what if you want to read QR codes? [James Bowman] noticed a $7 module that claims to read QR codes so he decided to try one out. … ift.tt/SjB6xbn

Listening To Ethernet Via Eurorack: Ethernet is how we often network computers together, particularly when they’re too important to leave on a fussy WiFi connection. Have you ever thought about listening to Ethernet signals, though? Well, you totally c… ift.tt/48wjcgq

A Modern Version of Famous, Classic Speaker: Modern musicians may take for granted that a wide array of musical instruments can either be easily connected to a computer or modeled entirely in one, allowing for all kinds of nuanced ways of creating uniq… ift.tt/L8dansq

PD.Charger-GSM v2.5 – An industrial solar MPPT charger with Wi-Fi, LTE/GPS, and RS485: The PD.Charger-GSM v2.5 is an industrial-grade solar and LiFePo4 charger/controller with MPPT support, designed for 2–4 cell Li-Ion/LiFePo4 batteries. With various c… ift.tt/ZMn0jLG

Building a Color Teaching Toy For Tots: Last year, [Deep Tronix] wished to teach colors to his nephew. Thus, he built a toy to help educate a child about colors by pairing them with sounds, and Color Player was born. The build is based around the TCS3… ift.tt/vmZDwB7

Zine Printing Tips From a Solopreneur: Zines (self-produced, small-circulation publications) are extremely DIY, and therefore punk- and hacker-adjacent by nature. While they can be made with nothing more than a home printer or photocopier, some might b… ift.tt/FOtNGdl

Massive Aluminum Snake Casting Becomes Water Cooling Loop For PC: Water cooling was once only the preserve of hardcore casemodders and overclockers. Today, it’s pretty routinely used in all sorts of performance PC builds. However, few are using large a… ift.tt/SjtTbx2

2025 One Hertz Challenge: A Discrete Component Divider Chain: Most of us know that a quartz clock uses a higher frequency crystal oscillator and a chain of divider circuits to generate a 1 Hz pulse train. It’s usual to have a 32.768 kHz crystal and a 1… ift.tt/gXAeI0s

By Guodong Xu, Director China Operations, RISCstar Solutions The 2025 RISC-V Summit China reached an unprecedented level of excitement, drawing a record-breaking crowd of over 4,000 attendees. The main venue was filled to capacity, with many standing al… ift.tt/Z7zE0Ct

Hackaday Podcast Episode 330: Hover Turtles, Dull Designs, and K’nex Computers: What did you miss on Hackaday last week? Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Al Williams are ready to catch you up on this week’s podcast. First, though, the guys go off on vibe… ift.tt/6GhKitb

Human in the Loop: Compass CNC Redefines Workspace Limits: CNCs come in many forms, including mills, 3D printers, lasers, and plotters, but one challenge seems universal: there’s always a project slightly too large for your machine’s work envelope. The… ift.tt/Sw73Ry4

This Week in Security: Sharepoint, Initramfs, and More: There was a disturbance in the enterprise security world, and it started with a Pwn2Own Berlin. [Khoa Dinh] and the team at Viettel Cyber Security discovered a pair of vulnerabilities in Microsoft… ift.tt/4jWH1SO

Should We Optimize for AI Mode? — Whiteboard Friday ift.tt/1GtLnvQ

Transparent PCBs Trigger 90s Nostalgia: What color do you like your microcontroller boards? Blue? Red? Maybe white or black? Sadly, all of those are about to look old hat. Why? Well, as shared by [JLCPCB], this transparent Arduino looks amazing. The b… ift.tt/Gr4wXSP

BME690 8x shuttle board features eight identical 4-in-1 gas and air quality sensors: Render of the BME690 8x shuttle board Bosch Sensortech BME690 8x shuttle board is a sensor board comprised of eight identical BM690 4-in-1 gas/temperature/humidity/pr… ift.tt/DuGW6tC

Reachy The Robot Gets a Mini (Kit) Version: Reachy Mini is a kit for a compact, open-source robot designed explicitly for AI experimentation and human interaction. The kit is available from Hugging Face, which is itself a repository and hosting service… ift.tt/UM395eA

L76K GPS Raspberry Pi HAT support GPS, BeiDou, GLONASS, QZSS, and A-GNSS: Waveshare has recently introduced the L76K GPS HAT, a Raspberry Pi-compatible HAT that supports multiple GNSS systems, including GPS, BeiDou, GLONASS, QZSS, and AGNSS for accurat… ift.tt/rE57v0S

Not Repairing an Old Tape Recorder: When you think of a tape recorder, you might think of a cassette tape. However, [Michael Simpson] has an old Star-Lite small reel-to-reel tape machine. It isn’t a repair so much as a rework to make it work better. Th… ift.tt/TjpScfe

Arduino Nano R4 board launched for $12.10 with Renesas RA4M1 microcontroller: Arduino has shrunk the UNO R4 with the Arduino Nano R4 board equipped with the same 48 MHz Renesas RA4M1 32-bit Arm Cortex-M4F microcontroller, but offered in a much more com… ift.tt/kagpiUl