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items: Teardown of Dangerous Fake Wago Connectors
items: Making a 286 Think It’s Alive Again
items: Hackaday Links: March 1, 2026
items: Turning a Cast-Iron Radiator into a Water-Cooled PC
items: Fish Drives Tank
items: The Long Afterlife Of The Console Modchip
items: Color Mixing Spray Paint On The Fly
items: Computer Terminal Replica Inspired By 70s Hardware
items: Vend-o-Vision: Trading Quarters for Watching TV in Public
items: This LED Strip Clock Aims to Make Your Next One Easier, Too

Teardown of Dangerous Fake Wago Connectors
type: item
creator: admin
date: 2026-03-02T06:22:51Z
subject: Posts
subject: PSA
subject: Teardown
subject: wago connectors
description: Everyone loves Wago connectors for how versatile and effective they are for quickly and securely connecting conductors, but it can be tempting to buy a bag of the significantly cheaper knock-offs. The reason why this can be a terrible idea is explained by [Big Clive] who tore down a few bags of them to ogle […]
encoded: <img width="800" height="469"src="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/wago_clone_teardown_big_clive_youtube.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" srcset="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/wago_clone_teardown_big_clive_youtube.jpg 1369w, https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/wago_clone_teardown_big_clive_youtube.jpg?resize=250, 147 250w, https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/wago_clone_teardown_big_clive_youtube.jpg?resize=400, 235 400w, https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/wago_clone_teardown_big_clive_youtube.jpg?resize=800, 469 800w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" data-attachment-id="921724" data-permalink="https://hackaday.com/2026/03/01/teardown-of-dangerous-fake-wago-connectors/wago_clone_teardown_big_clive_youtube/" data-orig-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/wago_clone_teardown_big_clive_youtube.jpg" data-orig-size="1369,803" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="wago_clone_teardown_big_clive_youtube" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/wago_clone_teardown_big_clive_youtube.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/wago_clone_teardown_big_clive_youtube.jpg?w=800"> Everyone loves Wago connectors for how versatile and effective they are for quickly and securely connecting conductors, but it can be tempting to buy a bag of the significantly cheaper knock-offs. The reason why this can be a terrible idea is explained by [Big Clive] who tore down a few bags of them to ogle at their internals. The main problem with some of these knock…

Making a 286 Think It’s Alive Again
type: item
creator: admin
date: 2026-03-02T06:22:46Z
subject: 286
subject: 80286
subject: cpu
subject: Posts
subject: Raspberry Pi Pico
subject: Retrocomputing
description: [Nagy Krisztián] had an Intel 286 CPU, only… There was no motherboard to install it in. Perhaps not wanting the processor to be lonely, [Nagy] built a simulated system to bring the chip back to life. Okay, 68 pins does look like a lot when you arrange them like that. The concept is simple enough. […]
encoded: <img width="800" height="450"src="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/286_9e1164.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/286_9e1164.jpg 800w, https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/286_9e1164.jpg?resize=250, 141 250w, https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/286_9e1164.jpg?resize=400, 225 400w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" data-attachment-id="922193" data-permalink="https://hackaday.com/2026/03/01/making-a-286-think-its-alive-again/286_9e1164/" data-orig-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/286_9e1164.jpg" data-orig-size="800,450" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="286_9e1164" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/286_9e1164.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/286_9e1164.jpg?w=800"> [Nagy Krisztián] had an Intel 286 CPU, only… There was no motherboard to install it in. Perhaps not wanting the processor to be lonely, [Nagy] built a simulated system to bring the chip back to life. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="922187" data-permalink="https://hackaday.com/2026/03/01/making-a-286-think-its-alive-again/cpu_assembled/" data-orig-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cpu_assembled.jpg" data-orig-size="660,840" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="cpu_assemb…

Hackaday Links: March 1, 2026
type: item
creator: admin
date: 2026-03-02T00:23:01Z
subject: google
subject: Hackaday Columns
subject: Hackaday links
subject: iron-air battery
subject: Posts
subject: Samsung Galaxy
subject: sudo
subject: ubuntu
subject: Vera Rubin
description: We’ll start this week off with a bit of controversy from Linux Land. Anyone who’s ever used the sudo command knows that you don’t see any kind of visual feedback while entering your password. This was intended as a security feature, as it was believed that an on-screen indicator of how many characters had been […]
encoded: <img width="800" height="430"src="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/had-links-banner.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Hackaday Links Column Banner" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/had-links-banner.jpg 800w, https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/had-links-banner.jpg?resize=250, 134 250w, https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/had-links-banner.jpg?resize=400, 215 400w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" data-attachment-id="137037" data-permalink="https://hackaday.com/2014/11/09/hackaday-links-november-9-2014/had-links-banner/" data-orig-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/had-links-banner.jpg" data-orig-size="800,430" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="Hackaday Links" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/had-links-banner.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/had-links-banner.jpg?w=800"> We’ll start this week off with a bit of controversy from Linux Land. Anyone who’s ever used the sudo command knows that you don’t see any kind of visual feedback while entering your password. This was intended as a security feature, as it was believed that an on-screen indicator of how many characters had been entered would allow somebody snooping over your shoulder to figure out the length of your password. But in Ubuntu 26.04, that’s no longer the case. The traditional sudo binary has been replaced with a one written in Rust, which Canonical has recently patched to follow the modern convention of showing asterisks on the password prompt…

Turning a Cast-Iron Radiator into a Water-Cooled PC
type: item
creator: admin
date: 2026-03-02T00:22:55Z
subject: cast iron
subject: computer hacks
subject: Posts
subject: radiator
subject: WaterCooling
description: Bottom of the cast-iron radiator gaming PC during plumbing. (Credit: Billet Labs, YouTube) Water-cooled PCs generally have in common that there’s a radiator somewhere in the loop, yet nobody said that you can’t build the PCB into the radiator. Something like a genuine Victorian-era cast-iron radiator, for example. For the folk over at [Billet Labs], […]
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Fish Drives Tank
type: item
creator: admin
date: 2026-03-01T18:24:02Z
subject: computer vision
subject: driving
subject: fish
subject: image recognition
subject: mobile
subject: Posts
subject: programming
subject: Raspberry Pi
subject: robot
subject: Robots Hacks
subject: tank
description: Fish are popular animals to keep as pets, and for good reason. They’re relatively low maintenance, relaxing to watch, and have a high aesthetic appeal. But for all their upsides, they aren’t quite as companionable as a dog or a cat. Although some fish can do limited walking or flying, these aren’t generally kept as […]
encoded: <img width="800" height="450"src="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/fish-tank-main.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" srcset="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/fish-tank-main.png 1422w, https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/fish-tank-main.png?resize=250, 141 250w, https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/fish-tank-main.png?resize=400, 225 400w, https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/fish-tank-main.png?resize=800, 450 800w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" data-attachment-id="921792" data-permalink="https://hackaday.com/2026/03/01/fish-drives-tank/fish-tank-main/" data-orig-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/fish-tank-main.png" data-orig-size="1422,800" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="fish-tank-main" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/fish-tank-main.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/fish-tank-main.png?w=800"> Fish are popular animals to keep as pets, and for good reason. They’re relatively low maintenance, relaxing to watch, and have a high aesthetic appeal. But for all their upsides, they aren’t quite as companionable as a dog or a cat. Although some fish can do limited walking or flying, these aren’t generally kept as pets and would still need considerable help navigating the terrestrial world. To that end, [Everything is Hacked] built a fish tank that allows his fish to move around on their own. We presume he’s heard the old joke about two fish in a tank. One says, “Do you know how to drive this thing?” The first prototy…

The Long Afterlife Of The Console Modchip
type: item
creator: admin
date: 2026-03-01T18:23:56Z
subject: games console
subject: modchip
subject: Nintendo Hacks
subject: Playstation Hacks
subject: Posts
subject: Xbox Hacks
description: For a late-1990s engineer with good soldering skills, many a free pint of beer could be earned by installing modchips on the game consoles of the day. Modchips were usually a small microcontroller connected with a few wires to selected pins on the chips or pads on the board that masked or overrode the copy […]
encoded: <img width="800" height="450"src="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/console-modchip-featured.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/console-modchip-featured.jpg 800w, https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/console-modchip-featured.jpg?resize=250, 141 250w, https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/console-modchip-featured.jpg?resize=400, 225 400w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" data-attachment-id="922094" data-permalink="https://hackaday.com/2026/03/01/the-long-afterlife-of-the-console-modchip/console-modchip-featured/" data-orig-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/console-modchip-featured.jpg" data-orig-size="800,450" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="console-modchip-featured" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/console-modchip-featured.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/console-modchip-featured.jpg?w=800"> For a late-1990s engineer with good soldering skills, many a free pint of beer could be earned by installing modchips on the game consoles of the day. Modchips were usually a small microcontroller connected with a few wires to selected pins on the chips or pads on the board that masked or overrode the copy protection and region locking. This scene was brought back for us by a recent [Modern vintage gamer] video looking at the history of console hardware mods, and it’s worth a watch (see the video, below). The story starts in 1996 with the original PlayStation, largely the source of …

Color Mixing Spray Paint On The Fly
type: item
creator: admin
date: 2026-03-01T12:26:08Z
subject: Misc Hacks
subject: Posts
description: One of the problems with being a graffiti artist is that you have to carry around a different spray can for each color you intend to use. [Sandesh Manik] decided to solve this problem by building a rig that can produce a wider range of colors by mixing the paint from several cans at once. […]
encoded: <img width="800" height="450"src="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/maxresdefault-6-1.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" srcset="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/maxresdefault-6-1.jpg 1280w, https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/maxresdefault-6-1.jpg?resize=250, 141 250w, https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/maxresdefault-6-1.jpg?resize=400, 225 400w, https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/maxresdefault-6-1.jpg?resize=800, 450 800w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" data-attachment-id="921684" data-permalink="https://hackaday.com/2026/03/01/color-mixing-spray-paint-on-the-fly/maxresdefault-6-6/" data-orig-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/maxresdefault-6-1.jpg" data-orig-size="1280,720" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="maxresdefault (6)" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/maxresdefault-6-1.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/maxresdefault-6-1.jpg?w=800"> One of the problems with being a graffiti artist is that you have to carry around a different spray can for each color you intend to use. [Sandesh Manik] decided to solve this problem by building a rig that can produce a wider range of colors by mixing the paint from several cans at once. Check it out in the video below. The project is called Spectrum. It uses four off-the-shelf spray paint cans—colored red, blue, yellow, and white—and mixes them to create a wider range of colors. All four cans are hooked up to a single output nozzle via a nest of tubing and a four-to-on…

Computer Terminal Replica Inspired By 70s Hardware
type: item
creator: admin
date: 2026-03-01T12:26:02Z
subject: 3d printed
subject: ADM-3A
subject: dumb terminal
subject: Posts
subject: Raspberry Pi
subject: replica
subject: retro computing
subject: Retrocomputing
subject: terminal
description: Not so long ago, most computer users didn’t own their own machines. Instead, they shared time on mainframes or servers, interacting with this new technology through remote terminals. While the rise of cloud computing and AI might feel like a modern, more dystopian echo of that era, some look back on those early days with […]
encoded: <img width="800" height="450"src="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/terminal-main.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/terminal-main.jpg 1067w, https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/terminal-main.jpg?resize=250, 141 250w, https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/terminal-main.jpg?resize=400, 225 400w, https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/terminal-main.jpg?resize=800, 450 800w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" data-attachment-id="921608" data-permalink="https://hackaday.com/2026/03/01/computer-terminal-replica-inspired-by-70s-hardware/terminal-main/" data-orig-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/terminal-main.jpg" data-orig-size="1067,600" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="terminal-main" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/terminal-main.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/terminal-main.jpg?w=800"> Not so long ago, most computer users didn’t own their own machines. Instead, they shared time on mainframes or servers, interacting with this new technology through remote terminals. While the rise of cloud computing and AI might feel like a modern, more dystopian echo of that era, some look back on those early days with genuine fondness. If you agree, check out this 70s-era terminal replica from [David Green]. The inspiration for this build was a Lear Siegler ADM-3A terminal seen at a local computer festival. These machines had no local computing resources and were only con…

Vend-o-Vision: Trading Quarters for Watching TV in Public
type: item
creator: admin
date: 2026-03-01T06:23:14Z
subject: coin operated
subject: Posts
subject: Reviews
subject: Teardown
description: The timer mechanism of the Vend-o-Vision. (Credit: SpaceTime Junction, YouTube) There was a time before portable TVs and personal media players when the idea of putting coin-operated TVs everywhere, from restaurants to airports and laundromats, would have seemed like a solid business model. Thus was born the Vend-o-Vision by Mini-TV USA, which presented itself as […]
encoded: <img width="800" height="442"src="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/vend-o-vision_tv_time_back-to-the-future_spacetime_junction_youtube.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Time to enjoy your favorite TV shows. (Credit: SpaceTime Junction, YouTube)" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/vend-o-vision_tv_time_back-to-the-future_spacetime_junction_youtube.jpg 1428w, https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/vend-o-vision_tv_time_back-to-the-future_spacetime_junction_youtube.jpg?resize=250, 138 250w, https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/vend-o-vision_tv_time_back-to-the-future_spacetime_junction_youtube.jpg?resize=400, 221 400w, https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/vend-o-vision_tv_time_back-to-the-future_spacetime_junction_youtube.jpg?resize=800, 442 800w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" data-attachment-id="921250" data-permalink="https://hackaday.com/2026/02/28/vend-o-vision-trading-quarters-for-watching-tv-in-public/vend-o-vision_tv_time_back-to-the-future_spacetime_junction_youtube/" data-orig-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/vend-o-vision_tv_time_back-to-the-future_spacetime_junction_youtube.jpg" data-orig-size="1428,789" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="vend-o-vision_tv_time_back-to-the-future_spacetime_junction_youtube" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" Time to enjoy your favorite TV shows. (Credit: SpaceTime Junction, YouTube) " data-medium-file="https://playingwithsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/vend-o-vision_tv_time_back-to-the-future_spacetime_junction_youtube.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://playingwith…

This LED Strip Clock Aims to Make Your Next One Easier, Too
type: item
creator: admin
date: 2026-03-01T06:22:56Z
subject: clock hacks
subject: ESP8266
subject: LED Hacks
subject: mqtt
subject: Posts
subject: wemos d1 mini
description: At first glance, it may look like [Rybitski]’s 7-segment RGB LED clock is something that’s been done before, but look past the beautiful mounting. It’s not just stylishly framed; the back end is just as attentively executed. It’s got a built-in web UI, MQTT automation, so Home Assistant integration is a snap, and allows remote […]
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