It was one of those weeks last week at Hackaday’s home office. My mother-in-law handed me her favorite power bank and said “it’s not charging”. She had every expectation that I’ll open it up, desolder ...

Update #4 [Tue 7th Jul 2026, 2pm]: Sony has returned to social media almost a week after announcing it’ll cease manufacturing physical games. It received over 3,000 responses in less than ten minutes, ...

Sony has abandoned social media and I don’t expect it to return until at least next week now. Of course, part of its promise to third-party publishers is to promote their trailers, and so its YouTube ...

The Microsoft MakeCode platform is a free online blocks-based programming tool that's used to write the code that tells the micro:bit hardware what you want it to do. It’s very easy to use and allows ...