
Ask Hackaday: Wired Or Wireless Headphones?
They say you should never throw out old clothes because they will come back in style one day. Maybe they are right. We noted in a recent BBC post that, apparently, wired headphones are making a com…
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Ask Hackaday: What Will An LLM Be Good For In The Plateau Of Productivity?
A friend of mine has been a software developer for most of the last five decades, and has worked with everything from 1960s mainframes to the machines of today. She recently tried AI coding tools t…
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Ask Hackaday: How Do You Detect Hidden Cameras?
The BBC recently published an exposé revealing that some Chinese subscription sites charge for access to their network of hundreds of hidden cameras in hotel rooms. Of course, this is presumably wi…
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Ask Hackaday: Do You Curb Shop Components?
I’m not proud. When many of us were kids, we were unabashedly excited when trash day came around because sometimes you’d find an old radio or — jackpot — an old TV out by th…
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Ask Hackaday: How Do You Make Front Panels?
We’ll admit it. The closer a project is to completion, the less enthusiasm we have for it. Once the main design is clearly going to work on a breadboard, we’re ready to move on to the n…
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Ask Hackaday: Why Are Self-Checkouts Failing?
Most people who read Hackaday have positive feelings about automation. (Notice we said most.) How many times have you been behind someone in a grocery store line waiting for them to find a coupon, …
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Ask Hackaday: What Do You Do When You Can’t Solder?
Ah, soldering. It’s great for sticking surface mount parts to a PCB, and it’s really great for holding component legs in a plated through-hole. It also does a pretty great job of holdin…
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