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Hackaday Links: August 3, 2025

When all else fails, there’s amateur radio — and handwritten notes. Both ham radio and clear thinking helped rescue a mother and her son from a recent California camping trip …read more

Two For The Price Of One: BornHack 2024 And 2025 Badges

BornHack is a week-long summer hacker camp in a forest on the Danish island of Fyn, that consistently delivers a very pleasant experience for those prepared to make the journey. …read more

Hackaday Podcast Ep 331: Clever Machine Tools, Storing Data In Birds, And The Ultimate Cyberdeck

Another week, another Hackaday podcast, and for this one Elliot is joined by Jenny List, fresh from the BornHack hacker camp in Denmark. There’s a definite metal working flavour to …read more

This Week In Security: Spilling Tea, Rooting AIs, And Accusing Of Backdoors

The Tea app has had a rough week. It’s not an unfamiliar story: Unsecured Firebase databases were left exposed to the Internet without any authentication. What makes this story particularly …read more

When Online Safety Means Surrendering Your ID, What Can You Do?

A universal feature of traveling Europe as a Hackaday scribe is that when you sit in a hackerspace in another country and proclaim how nice a place it all is, …read more

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  • The Scourge Of Fake Retro Unijunction Transistors

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    By Maya Posch | August 4, 2025

    We all know that it’s easy to get caught out by fake electronic components these days, with everything from microcontrollers to specialized ASICs being fair game. More recently, retro components …read more

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    Reverse-Engineering The TDA7000 FM Radio Receiver IC

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    By Maya Posch | August 3, 2025

    During the 1980s a lot of consumer devices suddenly got a lot smaller as large-scale integration using semiconductor technology took off. This included radios, with Philips’ TDA7000 FM radio receiver …read more

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    Open-Source, Flexible E-Reader

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    By Bryan Cockfield | August 3, 2025

    Although the most popular e-reader by far is the Kindle, some argue that its primary use isn’t even as an e-reader at all but rather as a storefront for one …read more

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    Hackaday Links: August 3, 2025

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    By Dan Maloney | August 3, 2025

    When all else fails, there’s amateur radio — and handwritten notes. Both ham radio and clear thinking helped rescue a mother and her son from a recent California camping trip …read more

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    Repairing An Obscure Apple II Clone

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    By Lewin Day | August 3, 2025

    The Apple II was made in great numbers, as was the Commodore 64. But the Mimic Spartan? It was a weird Apple II clone that you needed a Commodore 64 …read more

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    Why Cheap Digital Microscopes Are Pretty Terrible

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    By Maya Posch | August 3, 2025

    We have all seen those cheap digital microscopes, whether in USB format or with its own screen, all of them promising super-clear images of everything from butterfly wings to electronics …read more

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    Keyboard Hero: A Barebones Alternative To The Guitar Version

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    By Lewin Day | August 3, 2025

    Guitar Hero was all the rage for a few years, before the entire world apparently got sick of it overnight. Some diehards still remember the charms of rhythm games, though. …read more

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