Month: April 2022

Quick-Swap Socket For Stemma QT Experiments

[kmatch98] shares a quick hack with us over at Hackaday.io – a 3D-printed socket for Adafruit Stemma QT-based I2C modules. Since Adafruit has standardized the dimensions for their Stemma QT boards, it’s possible to make a socket that would fit many different sensors at once, where the board just slides in. This reminds us of

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As the first cases involving NFTs hit court dockets, a look at issues in play including outright scams, gaps in securities regulation, and contract enforcement (Jessica Rizzo/Wired)

Jessica Rizzo / Wired: As the first cases involving NFTs hit court dockets, a look at issues in play including outright scams, gaps in securities regulation, and contract enforcement  —  As the first cases involving NFTs hit the dockets, courts will decide questions around ownership, art, and commerce.

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TshWatch Helps You Learn More About Yourself

TshWatch is a project by [Ivan / @pikot] that he’s been working on for the past two years. [Ivan] explains that he aims to create a tool meant to help you understand your body’s state. Noticing when you’re stressed, when you haven’t moved for too long, when your body’s temperature is elevated compared to average

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Hackaday Links: April 3, 2022

It’s that time of year again — the 2022 Hackaday Prize has officially launched, and we’re excited to see what it turns out. This year’s theme is “Sustainability, Resilience, and Circularity,” and just in time, too; if the last couple of years has taught us anything, it’s that we’ve got a lot of failure points

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NASA delays dress rehearsal of new megarocket

Image: NASA/Joel Kowsky via Flickr Today, NASA suspended the last major test of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket after pressurization issues prevented technicians from safely loading propellants into the rocket. The test — known as a wet dress rehearsal — has been postponed until Monday, April 4th at the earliest, NASA announced in a

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A Kirby song cover just won a Grammy

Nintendo Kirby is officially a Grammy award winner — well, at least in spirit. The pink, spherical creature helped earn Charlie Rosen and Jake Silverman a Grammy for the best arrangement, instrumental, or acapella for their take on Meta Knight’s Revenge from the 1996 classic Kirby Superstar. The cover was originally performed by the aptly-named

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Flashing TI Chips with an ESP

Texas Instruments is best known to the general public for building obsolete calculators and selling them at extraordinary prices to students, but they also build some interesting (and reasonably-priced) microcontrollers as well. While not as ubiquitous as Atmel and the Arduino platform, they can still be found in plenty of consumer electronics and reprogrammed, and

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A look at how Apple’s rumored iPhone and other hardware subscription programs may work, and the thinking behind forecasted expansion of its financial services (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A look at how Apple’s rumored iPhone and other hardware subscription programs may work, and the thinking behind forecasted expansion of its financial services  —  Apple’s in-the-works iPhone hardware subscription service will squeeze more revenue from its giant user base.

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