Domenica 25 alle 17, alla Sala Cinema del Palazzo delle Esposizioni di Roma, sotto la conduzione di Arnaldo Colasanti si terrà la cerimonia di premiazione della decima edizione del Premio di poesia intitolato a Elio Pagliarani. Il premio alla carriera è stato assegnato quest’anno ad Antonella Anedda, e - come nelle precedenti edizioni - consiste dell’opera di un artista contemporaneo: in questa occasione un 'Amuleto' di Claudia Losi. La premiazione sarà preceduta dalle 10 alle 13 dal seminario Elio Pagliarani bibliofilo, condotto da Giuseppe Andrea Liberti, e dalle 15 alle 17 dal dibattito Dieci anni di premiati, con la conduzione di Andrea Cortellessa. Del quale si offre ai lettori di «Antinomie» la motivazione del premio ad Antonella Anedda: antinomie.it/index.php/2025/05…

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Le stalle, le stelle - Andrea Cortellessa

«Vorrei disfarmi dell’io è la moda che prescrive la critica / ma la povertà è tale che possiedo solo un pronome», dice Anedda in "Historiae", con l’ironia tipica del suo “stile tardo”; per poi paragonare quell’«io» a un mero contenitore, «una busta c…

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When retro computing nostalgia meets modern wireless wizardry, you get a near-magical tap-to-load experience. It’ll turn your Commodore 64 into a console-like system, complete with physical game cards. Inspired by TapTo for MiSTer, this latest hack brings NFC magic to real hardware using the TeensyROM. It’s been out there for a while, but it might not have caught your attention as of yet. Developed by [Sensorium] and showcased by YouTuber [StatMat], this project is a tactile, techie love letter to the past.

At the heart of it is the TeensyROM cartridge, which – thanks to some clever firmware modding – now supports reading NFC tags. These are writable NTag215 cards storing the path to game files on the Teensy’s SD card. Tap a tag to the NFC reader, and the TeensyROM boots your game. No need to fumble with LOAD “*”,8,1. That’s not only cool, it’s convenient – especially for retro demo setups.

What truly sets this apart is the reintroduction of physical tokens. Each game lives on its own custom-designed card, styled after PC Engine HuCards or printed with holographic vinyl. It’s a tangible, collectible gimmick that echoes the golden days of floppies and cartridges – but with 2020s tech underneath. Watch it here.

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Typically, when we think about forming metal parts, we think about beating them with hammers, or squeezing them with big hydraulic presses. But what if magnets could do the squeezing? As it turns out—Grumman Aerospace discovered they can, several decades ago! Even better, they summed up this technique in a great educational video which we’ve placed below the break.

The video concerns the development of the Grumman EMF Torque Tube. The parts are essentially tubes with gear-like fittings mounted in either end, which are fixed with electromagnetic forming techniques instead of riveting or crimping. Right away, we’re told the key benefits—torque tubes built this way are “stronger, lighter, and more fatigue resistant” than those built with conventional techniques. Grumman used these torque tubes in such famous aircraft as the F-14 Tomcat, highlighting their performance and reliability.

Before……and after. The part is formed and the coil is destroyed.
The video goes on to explain the basics of the EMF torque tube production process. A tube is placed inside a coil, with the end fitting then installed inside. A capacitor bank dumps current through the coil to generate a strong electromagnetic field. This field is opposed by a secondary field generated by eddy currents. The two forces result in an explosive force which drives the tube inwards, gripping into the grooves of the end fitting, and destroys the coil in the process. Grumman notes that it specifically optimized a grooving profile for bonding tubes with end fittings, which maximised the strength of these EMF-produced joints.

This tip was sent in by [irox]. The video itself was posted by [Greg Benoit], who notes his father Robert Benoit was intimately involved with the development of the technique. Indeed, it was useful enough that the technology was licensed to Boeing, generating many millions of dollars for Grumman.

We feature all kinds of machining and forming techniques here, but this sort of forming isn’t something we see a lot of around these parts. Still, we’re sure someone will be Kickstarting a home EMF forming machine before the end of next week.

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This project submitted to the 2025 Pet Hacks Contest brings a bit of IoT to your finned friends. Aquassist is a fish feeder that is primarily 3D printed only requiring a servo and a microcontroller to give you remote control of feeding your fish.

The Aquassist consists of just six 3D-printed parts. At its core is an Archimedes screw, a mechanism that ensures consistent portions of fish food are dispensed into the fish tank. A small hopper on top holds the food, and to minimize the part count, all 3D-printed components are designed to be glued together.

The brains of the operation take place in a Wemos D1 mini, a compact ESP8266 board programed using the Arduino IDE. The feeding mechanism relies on an SG90 continuous rotation servo, which rotates the Archimedes screw to dispense food. Unlike standard servos, this model offers ample torque in a small package and can rotate continuously without hitting an angular limit.

The Aquassist is controlled via a web-based application accessible from any device. The D1 Mini connects to Firebase to check the feeding schedule or detect if the “Feed Now” button has been pressed. Users can set feeding times or trigger an immediate feeding through the app’s intuitive interface. Check out a video below to see the Aquassist in action, and check our our other entries into the 2025 Pet Hacks Contest.

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I governi, i media e l'opinione pubblica occidentali sono molto meno comprensivi nei confronti di Netanyahu, dopo un anno e mezzo di massacri.

Ci sono voluti più di 50.000 morti, e chissà quanti altri ce ne vorranno per passare dalle parole ai fatti.

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[Dmytro] was able to lay his hands on a InfiRay T2S+ camera. It’s a capable thermal imaging unit that comes at a cheaper price than many of its rivals. [Dmytro] decided to pull it apart to see what makes it tick, and he discovered a few interesting things along the way.

Like so much modern hardware, pulling the case apart does require some spudging and levering. Once inside, though, it comes apart in a relatively straightforward manner. Once inside, [Dmytro] notes some similarities between this camera and the Flir Lepton, another affordable thermal camera on the market. He also finds a clone of the Cypress FX2LP chip, which is used for talking USB. There’s also an Gowin FPGA inside, with [Dmytro] suspecting the gateware onboard could be modified. If so, the camera may be a candidate for running open source firmware in future.

What bothered [Dmytro] about this camera, though, was the software. When used with an Android phone, the camera demands the use of a proprietary app with with questionable permissions. It can be used on a regular computer, where it appears as a standard webcam. However, in this mode, the camera fails to self-calibrate, and the images quickly become useless. [Dmytro] worked to hack around this, by figuring out a way to trigger calibrations and run the proper image corrections manually when using the camera without the smartphone app. He also explores techniques to improve the resolution of the thermal measurements made by the camera.

We’ve seen some other neat thermal camera hacks over the years. Video after the break.

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[Thanks to Clint for the tip!]

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It’s been a universal trait among the different faithful Hackaday Hounds who have loped around these parts over the decades, that there is no place warm enough for their tastes. Fire up the stove and the dog is there stretched out in front of it, leaving one to wonder whether our house temperature is being cruel to the mutt, or simply that they are heat sponges with infinite capacity. There’s got to be some joy in doggy circles then at the prospect of [John.r.sheahan]’s heated dog bed, designed in particular with the comfort of an older dog in mind.

In electronics terms it’s a relatively low-tech project, using as it does a 12 volt electric lap blanket aimed at motorists. It’s none the less a hack though, because it has a frame made of PVC pipe to hold it, and a blanked clipped in place. This forms a box-like structure above the sleeping position keeping the dog very comfortable indeed over chilly nights. We’ve cared for more than one geriatric dog over the years, and can see that something like this is vital for their comfort and well-being.

This project is part of the 2025 Pet Hacks contest, so look out for more like it. Alternatively if your faithful friend uses something you made, why not enter yourself!

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We’re back in Europe for this week’s Hackaday podcast, as Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List. In the news this week is the passing of Ed Smylie, the engineer who devised the famous improvised carbon dioxide filter that saved the Apollo 13 astronauts with duct tape.

Closer to home is the announcement of the call for participation for this year’s Hackaday Supercon; we know you will have some ideas and projects you’d like to share.

Interesting hacks this week include a new Mac Plus motherboard and Doom (just) running on an Atari ST, while a LoRa secure messenger and an astounding open-source Ethernet switch captivated us on the hardware front. We also take a dive into the Mouse programming language, a minimalist stack-based environment from the 1970s. Among the quick hacks are a semiconductor dopant you can safely make at home, and a beautiful Mac Mini based cyberdeck.

Finally, we wrap up with our colleague [Maya Posch] making the case for a graceful degradation of web standards, something which is now sadly missing from so much of the online world, and then with the discovery that ChatGPT can make a passable show of emulating a Hackaday scribe. Don’t worry folks, we’re still reassuringly meat-based.

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Insesrt MP3 podcast link here.

Episode 322 Show Notes:

News:

• Hackaday Supercon 2025 Call For Participation: We Want You!
• In Memory Of Ed Smylie, Whose Famous Hack Saved The Apollo 13 Crew

What’s That Sound:

• Congrats to [calculus] for picking up the [Jerobeam Fenderson] mushrooms.
• A Wrencher on Your Oscilloscope

Interesting Hacks of the Week:

• Escaping US Tech Giants Leads European YouTuber To Open Source
• A New Mac Plus Motherboard, No Special Chips Required
  
  • The Lost 256 KB Japanese ROM For The Macintosh Plus Has Been Found

  
  

• As The World Burns, At Least You’ll Have Secure Messaging
• Working On Open-Source High-Speed Ethernet Switch
• The Mouse Language, Running On Arduino
  
  • MUSYS. Peter Grogono, United Kingdom, 1969 – 120 Years of Electronic Music

  
  

• Running DOOM On An Atari ST

Quick Hacks:

• Elliot’s Picks:
  
  • PentaPico: A Pi Pico Cluster For Image Convolution
  • Designing A Hobbyist’s Semiconductor Dopant
  • LACED: Peeling Back PCB Layers With Chemical Etching And A Laser
  • MCP Blender Addon Lets AI Take The Wheel And Wield The Tools

  
  

• Jenny’s Picks:
  
  • An Awful 1990s PDA Delivers AI Wisdom
  • Speed Up Arduino With Clever Coding
  • Stylus Synth Should Have Used A 555– And Did!
  • A Portable M4 Mac Mini

  
  

Can’t-Miss Articles:

• The World Wide Web And The Death Of Graceful Degradation
• ChatGPT & Me. ChatGPT Is Me!

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Google ci porta nel futuro con le traduzioni simultanee in Google Meet!

In occasione del suo evento annuale Google I/O 2025, Google ha presentato uno dei suoi aggiornamenti più entusiasmanti per la comunicazione globale: la traduzione vocale in tempo reale in Google Meet . Ora disponibile in versione beta per gli abbonati a Google One AI Pro, questa funzionalità consente conversazioni multilingue naturali e fluide durante le videochiamate, mantenendo voci, toni ed espressioni nell’audio tradotto.

Questa innovazione sfrutta un modello avanzato di linguaggio audio sviluppato da Google DeepMind , che traduce le parole pronunciate nella lingua scelta dall’ascoltatore, così come vengono pronunciate. Il discorso tradotto viene riprodotto sopra la voce originale, che rimane appena udibile per mantenere contesto e tono. Immagina di sentire qualcuno parlare in spagnolo mentre la sua voce tradotta in inglese, che ne cattura comunque l’intonazione e le emozioni, si sovrappone perfettamente.

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“Immaginate di avere un interprete dal vivo nella stanza, ma invece della voce di qualcun altro, la vostra”, ha affermato Yulie Kwon Kim , vicepresidente del settore Prodotti di Google Workspace.

Lo strumento è progettato per rendere le conversazioni multilingue più fluide e accessibili in tempo reale. Attualmente supporta inglese e spagnolo, e altre lingue come italiano, tedesco e portoghese sono previste nelle prossime settimane.

Google ha sottolineato che questa funzionalità è particolarmente utile per la comunicazione personale e professionale, dalle chat dei nipoti con i nonni che non parlano inglese ai team internazionali che collaborano senza barriere linguistiche. Google sostiene che, poiché il ritardo nella traduzione del parlato è così minimo, ora è possibile che più persone parlino tra loro, cosa che finora non era possibile.

L’azienda ha scritto nel suo post sul blog: “Gli abbonati a Google AI Pro e Ultra possono ora usufruire della traduzione in inglese e spagnolo in versione beta, a cui seguiranno altre lingue nelle prossime settimane. Questa funzionalità sarà disponibile per i clienti aziendali di Workspace per i primi test quest’anno”.

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L'articolo Google Meet ora traduce in tempo reale! il tuo inglese “maccheronico” è ufficialmente disoccupato proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.

The Flipper Zero can do all kinds of neat stuff, like helping you cut keys or decode various radio transmissions. However, until now, it hasn’t been particularly adept at persistence of vision tasks. For that very purpose, [Derek] built the LightMessenger.
The device doing its job.
The LightMessenger is a hardware add-on module for the Flipper Zero. In persistence-of-vision mode, you can plug it in via the GPIO header and display messages in the air by shaking it around. Even better, you can do so in color, with a height resolution of 16 pixels—meaning you can display some nice text or basic graphics. You can key in different text or select and edit bitmaps using the utility on the Flipper screen itself.

[Derek] also included a flashlight mode for the simple utility of it all. In Part 2 of [Derek’s] write-up, he also goes into detail on the development and manufacturing process for the device.

Files are on GitHub for the curious. We’ve gone over the basics of POV projects before, too.

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