Bring Back The BIOS! (To UEFI Systems, That Is) - At the dawn of the PC, IBM provided the Basic Input Output System (BIOS). It took ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/29/bring-back-the-bios-to-uefi-systems-that-is/ #softwarehacks #seabios #bios #uefi

A Forth OS in 46 Bytes - It’s not often that we can include an operating system in a Hackaday article, but... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/27/a-forth-os-in-46-bytes/ #operatingsystem #computerhacks #softwarehacks #minimalism #compilers #forth

A RISC-V Operating System Instruction Manual - To some, an operating system is a burden or waste of resources, like those working... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/a-risc-v-operating-system-instruction-manual/ #operatingsystem #softwarehacks #educational #cornell #course #risc-v #os

Intercepting and Decoding Bluetooth Low Energy Data for Victron Devices - [ChrisJ7903] has created two Ardiuno programs for reading Victron solar controller... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/intercepting-and-decoding-bluetooth-low-energy-data-for-victron-devices/ #bluetoothlowenergy #microcontrollers #softwarehacks #wirelesshacks #arduinohacks #radiohacks #esp32wroom #victron #ble

How to Build an STM32 Web Dashboard Using the Mongoose Wizard - Today from the team at Cesanta Software — the people who gave us the open-source M... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/25/how-to-build-an-stm32-web-dashboard-using-the-mongoose-wizard/ #softwaredevelopment #over-the-airupdate #mongoosewebserver #microcontrollers #mongooselibrary #mongoosewizard #softwarehacks #wirelesshacks #networkhacks #webdashboard #stm32 #arm #ota

Unreleased Amiga Hardware Plays MP3s - The MP3 file type has been around for so long, and is supported by essentially all... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/25/unreleased-amiga-hardware-plays-mp3s/ #softwarehacks #dsp3210 #aa3000 #a3000 #amiga #music #mpeg #att #dsp #mp2 #mp3

Reverse Engineering LEGO Island - While LEGO themed video games have become something of a staple, in 1997 they were... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/24/reverse-engineering-lego-island/ #reverseengineering #softwarehacks #gaminghacks #legogame #gaming #ghidra #lego

Now KDE Users Will Get Easy Virtual Machine Management, Too - If you work with virtual machines, perhaps to spin up a clean OS install for testi... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/22/now-kde-users-will-get-easy-virtual-machine-management-too/ #virtualmachine #softwarehacks #opensource #karton #kde

The Mouse Language, Running on Arduino - Although plenty of us have our preferred language for coding, whether it’s C for i... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/20/the-mouse-language-running-on-arduino/ #reversepolishnotation #programminglanguage #softwarehacks #interpreted #programming #atmega328p #minimalist #esoteric #arduino #esolang #mouse #stack

MCP Blender Addon Lets AI Take the Wheel and Wield the Tools - Want to give an AI the ability to do stuff in Blender? The BlenderMCP addon does e... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/18/mcp-blender-addon-lets-ai-take-the-wheel-and-wield-the-tools/ #artificialintelligence #softwarehacks #blender #llm #mcp #ai

Animated Widgets On Apple Devices via a Neat Backdoor - If you’ve ever looked at widgets on your iPhone, you’ve probably noticed they’re l... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/17/animated-widgets-on-apple-devices-via-a-neat-backdoor/ #softwarehacks #iphonehacks #iphone #apple #ios

Simulating High-Side Bootstrap Circuits With LTSpice - LTSpice is a tool that every electronics nerd should have at least a basic knowled... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/13/simulating-high-side-bootstrap-circuits-with-ltspice/ #softwarehacks #bootstrapping #powersupplies #simulation #ltspice

Rayhunter Sniffs Out Stingrays for $30 - These days, if you’re walking around with a cellphone, you’ve basically fitted an ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/05/rayhunter-sniffs-out-stingrays-for-30/ #cellphonehacks #securityhacks #softwarehacks #imsicatcher #rayhunter #cellular #stingray #phone #imsi

Blurry Image Placeholders, Generated With Minimal CSS - Low-quality image placeholders (LQIPs) have a solid place in web page design. Ther... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/01/blurry-image-placeholders-generated-with-minimal-css/ #softwarehacks #imagerender #lqip #css

Open Source Firmware For The JYE TECH DSO-150 - The Jye Tech DSO-150 is a capable compact scope that you can purchase as a kit. If... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/01/open-source-firmware-for-the-jye-tech-dso-150/ #softwarehacks #oscilloscope #opensource #toolhacks #firmware #dso-150

Weird And Wonderful VR/MR Text Entry Methods, All In One Place - Are you a developer or experimenter pondering options for text entry in virtual or... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/29/weird-and-wonderful-vr-mr-text-entry-methods-all-in-one-place/ #virtualreality #softwarehacks #interface #textentry #mr #vr #xr

milliForth-6502, a Forth for the 6502 CPU - Forth is popular on small computers because it is simple to implement, yet quite p... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/20/milliforth-6502-a-forth-for-the-6502-cpu/ #retrocomputing #softwarehacks #sectorforth #milliforth #mischacks #forth

Rockbox 4.0 Released - It’s traditional to launch new software on April Fool’s Day, which is when we hear... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/19/rockbox-4-0-released/ #personalmediaplayer #portableaudiohacks #softwarehacks #musicalhacks #digitalaudio #ipodhacks #mp3player #rockbox

Vibing, AI Style - This week, the hackerverse was full of “vibe coding”. If you’re not caught up on y... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/19/vibing-ai-style/ #hackadaycolumns #softwarehacks #programming #vibecoding #rants #llm #ai

Jenny’s (Not Quite) Daily Drivers: Raspberry Pi 1 - An occasional series of mine on these pages has been Daily Drivers, in which I try... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/14/jennys-not-quite-daily-drivers-raspberry-pi-1/ #computerhacks #softwarehacks #raspberrypi #minimalist #featured #interest #history #linux