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When the Debugger Lies With Stale Cache Values ift.tt/fw8TF2g

When The Debugger Lies With Stale Cache Values

In a recent blog post by [Daniel Mangum] he goes over a scenario observed while debugging the Cortex-M33-based nRF54LM20, reading and writing values while running through a few scenarios. After iniā€¦

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Basically, Galvanizing Metal Without Acid ift.tt/UCoS5a9

Basically, Galvanizing Metal Without Acid

As useful as steel and iron are to the modern world, their tendency to rust is a major downside. Thereā€™s a spectrum of ways to prevent it, from quickly slapping on a coat of paint on the easyā€¦

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A Modular Macro Keypad ift.tt/rf2nAac

A Modular Macro Keypad

The introduction of the ATmega32U4 microcontroller, with its integrated USB controller, made a lot of hardware tasks much simpler than they were before. One of the arenas it revolutionized was custā€¦

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Cheap Yellow Display Dreams of PDA ift.tt/HALWI5V

Cheap Yellow Display Dreams Of PDA

Everybody loves the Cheap Yellow Display (CYD) ESP32 dev boards, so why not treat yours to a little PDA? Thatā€™s right: turn it into a Portable Digital Assistant and relive the glory days of Pā€¦

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Self-Repairing Conductive Material from Liquid Metal ift.tt/H4SQhjM

Self-Repairing Conductive Material From Liquid Metal

PCB circuits are cool, but you know what is cooler? Terminator circuits thatā€™s what! And what if the same material that makes Terminator circuits could also be used for smart heat sinks, flexible cā€¦

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A Pocket-Sized Digital Fish Tank ift.tt/bGN72IH

A Pocket-Sized Digital Fish Tank

The problem with trying to make a fish tank fit in your pocket is that youā€™ll either end up with water everywhere or a bunch of dead fish. Perhaps thatā€™s why [StratoBuilds] pursued a diā€¦

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The Least Annoying of All Evils ift.tt/JzvSKxE

The Least Annoying Of All Evils

If you missed the hubbub this week, it was discovered that the Raspberry Pi Foundation added code in the firmware that locks the boot process up if non-original RAM chips are detected onboard. Hot-ā€¦

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You Can Make a Microprocessor Thatā€™s All Your Own ift.tt/hyZmL7T

You Can Make A Microprocessor Thatā€™s All Your Own

For a while now weā€™ve followed the slow progression of affordable integrated circuit fabrication, and through the likes of Tiny Tapeout weā€™ve seen impressive strides made. But theyĢµā€¦

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Easy Ways Sink a Hardware Startup ift.tt/5fv2l6n

Easy Ways Sink A Hardware Startup

[Ryan Walker] may have written up his observations a few years ago, but the lessons are just as relevant today as they were back then. He shares five easy ways to sink your hardware startup. ItRā€¦

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Abusing SQL to Play DOOM ift.tt/iHewLqK

Abusing SQL To Play DOOM

Most laypeople who encounter SQL think of it purely as a tool for managing large datasets. While that is certainly what it was designed for, SQL is still a programming language at its core. It inclā€¦

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The Low-Level Waste Dumps in The Atlantic Have Become Ecosystems ift.tt/vmnNTqK

The Low-Level Waste Dumps In The Atlantic Have Become Ecosystems

Recently French and international researchers took a look at the state of the thousands of barrels of radioactive waste that were dumped into the Atlantic Ocean between 1950 and 1990, trying to ascā€¦

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Reviving the PoE++ Feature on a Ubiquiti Switch ift.tt/KUHo0xb

Reviving The PoE++ Feature On A Ubiquiti Switch

Recently [The Parallel Port] was asked to take a look at repairing the PoE++ feature on a Ubiquiti switch that otherwise worked fine. This is a pretty nice 24-port rackmounted switch with 2.5 Gbit-ā€¦

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Pi Pico Recreates The Heathkit Pocket Packet ift.tt/KxH0rSz

Pi Pico Recreates The Heathkit Pocket Packet

Packet radio is a particularly fun part of the ham radio hobby. Once upon a time, you might have squirted data about the airwaves using something like the Heathkit HK-21 Pocket Packet. Heathkit stoā€¦

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Investigating a Rare Burnout 3 Beta Disc ift.tt/wdfXEOS

Investigating A Rare Burnout 3 Beta Disc

These days, itā€™s pretty easy to buy old retail console games just by hunting online auction sites. Itā€™s much rarer to come across a disc holding a beta version that was only ever intendā€¦

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Hackaday Podcast Episode 388: RAM-Swapping on Raspberry Pi, Raindrops on Radar, and a Fine Mesh ift.tt/jHZLToC

Hackaday Podcast Episode 388: RAM-Swapping On Raspberry Pi, Raindrops On Radar, And A Fine Mesh

This week, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams had a lot to talk about. From advice for a young hacker to using a laser to break into a microcontroller, there was plenty to cover from ā€¦

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Did The BBC and Sir Clive Get it Right Twenty Years Ago? ift.tt/f0YdK1o

Did The BBC And Sir Clive Get It Right Twenty Years Ago?

Predictions of the future are often laughable when reviewed in the years for which they are made. For example, here in 2026 we neither live on the Moon, nor have flying cars. But sometimes they comā€¦

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This Week in Security: FBI Gets Hacked, Muse Vulnerable to ClickFix, Popular Rust Developers at Risk, Attacking the RP2350, and New Attacks Against RSA ift.tt/fXQijJ4

This Week In Security: FBI Gets Hacked, Muse Vulnerable To ClickFix, Popular Rust Developers At...

The prolific ShinyHunters group has announced it used a zero-day vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft to exploit the FBI jobs website and gain access to the AWS GovCloud instances and dump 2 TB of emā€¦

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What Should Pine64 Build With Microcontrollers? ift.tt/3BLEPqJ

What Should Pine64 Build With Microcontrollers?

Pine64 is an open-source-community-centered project of mostly-open hardware, known for such hits as the PinePhone, the Pinecil soldering iron, and the PineTime. Now, the Pine64 project wants to knoā€¦

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Commodore 128 Becomes Marine Vessel Tracker ift.tt/di9yczP

Commodore 128 Becomes Marine Vessel Tracker

The Automatic Identification System (AIS) is a maritime radio communications tool used to allow different vessels to identify each other and communicate their movements and other telemetry. You canā€¦

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GMā€™s Experimental EV from 1969 ift.tt/YpxeHUZ

GMā€™s Experimental EV From 1969

Electricity is the once and future drivetrain for automobiles, but until the advent of lithium batteries their capabilities were somewhat modest. One EV blip on the automotive timeline is the XP-51ā€¦

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