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2 days ago | hackster.io | Cameron Coward

Need to work with serial equipment, but the USB-to-serial adapters on the market are unreliable? Then you’ll want to check out TermDriver 2. Most people in the general public have no need for direct serial connections — there is a reason that computers haven’t commonly included serial ports in decades. But there is still a lot of equipment that relies on serial communication and so working with that equipment is difficult when you can’t find a modern computer with a compatible port.

2 days ago | hackster.io | Cameron Coward

Modern Hobbyist built his own keyboard: a mechanical split keyboard with a columnar staggered layout, called Hermod. While smartphones and their touchscreens have swallowed up a large portion of the user input market, many of us still spend dozens of hours a week typing on keyboards. With that much time spent clicking and clacking the ol’ forbidden chiclets, you quickly learn your keyboard has a significant impact on your life and enjoyment thereof.

3 days ago | hackster.io | Cameron Coward

Tim Alex Jacobs, AKA “Mitxela,” just followed up his popular Precision Clock Mk II-1/2 with the new Precision Clock Mk IV. Most of us don’t ever need to know the exact time, down to the second. Heck, many of us would get by just fine as long as we could find the time within 10 minutes or so. But precise timekeeping is incredibly important for a wide range of scientific and technical endeavors. Beyond that, it can be cool to see the exact time with both extreme accuracy and precision.

3 days ago | hackster.io | Cameron Coward

Igor Brkić designed this DORS/CLUC 2025 badge that is still useful after the event. Electronic conference badges are always a delight and we love seeing the creative concepts that people come up. But most of those badges are novelties (which is part of the point) and they don’t tend to be useful for much after that initial exploration is over.

5 days ago | hackster.io | Cameron Coward

Maker chaosgoo created a real-life Minecraft compass that can point towards any physical location in the real world. 16 seconds ago • Gaming / 3D PrintingThe last time I played Minecraft, almost 15 years ago, it was a pretty basic game, like the digital equivalent of a set of LEGO bricks. You could mine and you could construct basic things to aid in mining, but that was pretty much it.