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2026-07-14 20:00:08 CEST

2026 Frikkin Lasers Challenge: Laser Bandsaw
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Can you call it a bandsaw if it has neither band nor saw? [WeldingRod1] does, with his entry in the laser contest — a manually-controlled laser cutter that he’s dubbed https://hackaday.com/2026/07/14/2026-frikkin-lasers-challenge-laser-bandsaw/
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/14/2026-frikkin-lasers-challenge-laser-bandsaw/

2026-07-12 04:00:05 CEST

Trying to Use a 2007 Samsung UMPC as Wii U Gamepad
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As unique the Nintendo Wii U Gamepad may appear to be, at its core it’s pretty much just a tablet with game controls stuck on it. Now that the communication https://hackaday.com/2026/07/11/trying-to-use-a-2007-samsung-umpc-as-wii-u-gamepad/
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/11/trying-to-use-a-2007-samsung-umpc-as-wii-u-gamepad/

2026-04-02 16:00:28 CEST

Ask Hackaday: How Much Compute is Enough?
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Over the history of this business, a lot of people have foreseen limits that look rather silly in hindsight– in 1943, IBM President Thomas Watson declared that “I think there https://hackaday.com/2026/04/02/ask-hackaday-how-much-compute-is-enough/
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/02/ask-hackaday-how-much-compute-is-enough/

2026-04-02 10:00:10 CEST

Post-Failure Autopsy and Analysis of an LFP Battery
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Recently [Kerry Wong] had one of his Cyclenbatt LiFePO4 batteries die after only a few dozen cycles, with a normal voltage still present on the terminals. One of the symptoms https://hackaday.com/2026/04/02/post-failure-autopsy-and-analysis-of-an-lfp-battery/
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/02/post-failure-autopsy-and-analysis-of-an-lfp-battery/

2026-04-02 07:00:03 CEST

Every 3D Printable Film Camera, In One Place
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For those of us who hack old cameras, the 3D printer has undoubtedly been a boon. High precision, or at least consistent precision, lightproof enclosures can be easily made and https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/every-3d-printable-film-camera-in-one-place/
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/every-3d-printable-film-camera-in-one-place/

2026-04-02 04:00:31 CEST

Watch an Electro-Permanent Magnet In Action
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Electro-permanent magnets (EPMs) are pretty nifty concepts, and if you aren’t familiar with them, they are permanent magnets with the ability to be electrically switched on or off. Unlike an https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/watch-an-electro-permanent-magnet-in-action/
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/watch-an-electro-permanent-magnet-in-action/

2026-04-02 00:38:48 CEST

Following Artemis II’s Journey Around the Moon
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NASA is going back to the Moon! We’ll follow the crew of Artemis II every step of the way. Liftoff! After resolving a last-minute communications issue with the Flight Termination https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/following-artemis-iis-journey-around-the-moon/
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/following-artemis-iis-journey-around-the-moon/

2026-04-01 22:00:11 CEST

Battery Tester Outperforms Cheaper Options
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Batteries are notoriously difficult pieces of technology to deal with reliably. They often need specific temperatures, charge rates, can’t tolerate physical shocks or damage, and can fail catastrophically if all https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/battery-tester-outperforms-cheaper-options/
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/battery-tester-outperforms-cheaper-options/

2026-04-01 19:00:35 CEST

Ask Hackaday: Using CoPilot? Are You Entertained?
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There’s a great debate these days about what the current crop of AI chatbots should and shouldn’t do for you. We aren’t wise enough to know the answer, but we https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/ask-hackaday-using-copilot-are-you-entertained/
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/ask-hackaday-using-copilot-are-you-entertained/

2026-04-01 17:30:03 CEST

A Better Jogging Stroller
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Although the jogging stroller is a fixture of suburban life, allowing parents the opportunity to get some exercise while letting their young children a chance for some fresh air, it https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/a-better-jogging-stroller/
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/a-better-jogging-stroller/

2026-04-01 16:00:29 CEST

WheatForce: Learning From CPU Architecture Mistakes
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Nothing ever made is truly perfect and indeed, CPU architectures like x86, RISC-V, ARM, and PowerPC all have their own upsides and downsides. Today, I aim to make an architecture https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/wheatforce-learning-from-cpu-architecture-mistakes/
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/wheatforce-learning-from-cpu-architecture-mistakes/

2026-04-01 10:00:53 CEST

A Novel 555 Circuit In 2026
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The humble NE555 has been around for over five decades now, and while during that time we’ve seen a succession of better and faster versions of the original, the circuits https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/a-novel-555-circuit-in-2026/
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/a-novel-555-circuit-in-2026/

2026-04-01 07:00:43 CEST

Running a Game on a PC with no System RAM
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As a clear sign of how desperate these RAMpocalypse times are becoming, we have [PortalRunner] over on YouTube contemplating how to run modern-day software on a PC that has no https://hackaday.com/2026/03/31/running-a-game-on-a-pc-with-no-system-ram/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/31/running-a-game-on-a-pc-with-no-system-ram/

2026-04-01 04:00:57 CEST

A Nebula Straight from the Stars to Your Table
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Space may truly be the final frontier, but maybe that frontier can be closer than you thought. Pictures of nebulae and planets bring the colorful sights of deep space right https://hackaday.com/2026/03/31/a-nebula-straight-from-the-stars-to-your-table/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/31/a-nebula-straight-from-the-stars-to-your-table/

2026-03-31 22:00:26 CEST

How Small Can A Linux Executable Be?
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With ever increasing sizes of various programs (video games being notorious for this), the question of size optimization comes up more and more often. [Nathan Otterness] shows us how it’s https://hackaday.com/2026/03/31/how-small-can-a-linux-executable-be/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/31/how-small-can-a-linux-executable-be/

2026-03-31 20:30:04 CEST

An Oscilloscope The Way They Used To Be
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It’s likely that Hackaday has a readership with the highest percentage of oscilloscope ownership among any in the world, and we’re guessing that most of you who fit in that https://hackaday.com/2026/03/31/an-oscilloscope-the-way-they-used-to-be/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/31/an-oscilloscope-the-way-they-used-to-be/

2026-03-31 17:30:39 CEST

Reverse-Engineering The Holy Stone H120D Drone
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There are plenty of drones (and other gadgets) you can buy online that use proprietary control protocols. Of course, reverse-engineering one of these protocols is a hacker community classic. Today, https://hackaday.com/2026/03/31/reverse-engineering-the-holy-stone-h120d-drone/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/31/reverse-engineering-the-holy-stone-h120d-drone/

2026-03-31 07:00:37 CEST

PDP-11 Lives in Literal Computer Desk Once More
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When you think of iconic parings, your brain probably goes more to “cookies and milk” than “DEC and Ikea” but after watching [Dave]’s latest on Usagi Electric where he puts https://hackaday.com/2026/03/30/pdp-11-lives-in-literal-computer-desk-once-more/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/30/pdp-11-lives-in-literal-computer-desk-once-more/

2026-03-31 04:00:38 CEST

See The Computers That Powered The Voyager Space Program
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Have you ever wanted to see the computers behind the first (and for now only) man-made objects to leave the heliosphere? [Gary Friedman] shows us, with an archived tour of https://hackaday.com/2026/03/30/see-the-computers-that-powered-the-voyager-space-program/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/30/see-the-computers-that-powered-the-voyager-space-program/

2026-03-30 22:00:05 CEST

Retro Open Source Camera Straight from the ’90s
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In our modern society, we have started to take the humble camera for granted. Perhaps because of this, trendy standalone cameras have started to take off. Unfortunately, most of the https://hackaday.com/2026/03/30/retro-open-source-camera-straight-from-the-90s/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/30/retro-open-source-camera-straight-from-the-90s/

2026-03-30 20:00:36 CEST

Recreating One of the First Hackintoshes
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Apple’s Intel era was a boon for many, especially for software developers who were able to bring their software to the platform much more easily than in the PowerPC era. https://hackaday.com/2026/03/30/recreating-one-of-the-first-hackintoshes/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/30/recreating-one-of-the-first-hackintoshes/

2026-03-30 17:30:15 CEST

Tame the Tape: Open-Source Dotterboard for Bulk SMT Parts
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One of the great things about building electronics today is how affordable SMT components have become — sometimes just fractions of a cent each. That low price often means ordering https://hackaday.com/2026/03/30/tame-the-tape-open-source-dotterboard-for-bulk-smt-parts/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/30/tame-the-tape-open-source-dotterboard-for-bulk-smt-parts/

2026-03-30 16:00:27 CEST

Spy Tech: Conflicts Bring a New Number Station
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If you know much about radios and espionage, you’ve probably encountered number stations. These are mysterious stations that read out groups of numbers or otherwise encoded messages to… well… someone. https://hackaday.com/2026/03/30/spy-tech-conflicts-bring-a-new-number-station/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/30/spy-tech-conflicts-bring-a-new-number-station/

2026-03-30 07:00:32 CEST

Writing an Open-World Engine for the Nintendo 64
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Anyone who has ever played Nintendo 64 games is probably familiar with the ways that large worlds in these games got split up, with many loading zones. Another noticeable aspect https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/writing-an-open-world-engine-for-the-nintendo-64/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/writing-an-open-world-engine-for-the-nintendo-64/

2026-03-30 04:00:41 CEST

Training a Transformer with 1970s-era Technology
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Although generative language models have found little widespread, profitable adoption outside of putting artists out of work and giving tech companies an easy scapegoat for cutting staff, their their underlying https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/training-a-transformer-with-1970s-era-technology/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/training-a-transformer-with-1970s-era-technology/

2026-03-29 22:00:22 CEST

Laser Ranging Makes GPS Satellites More Accurate
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Although GNSS systems like GPS have made pin-pointing locations on Earth’s sphere-approximating surface significantly easier and more precise, it’s always possible to go a bit further. The latest innovation involves https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/laser-ranging-makes-gps-satellites-more-accurate/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/laser-ranging-makes-gps-satellites-more-accurate/

2026-03-29 19:00:20 CEST

Clean Enclosures, No Printing Necessary
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Unless you’re into circuit sculptures, generally speaking, a working circuit isn’t the end-point of a lot of electronics projects. To protect your new creation from grabby hands, curious paws, and https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/clean-enclosures-no-printing-necessary/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/clean-enclosures-no-printing-necessary/

2026-03-29 16:00:58 CEST

Self-healing CMOS Imager to Withstand Jupiter’s Radiation Belt
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Ionizing radiation damage from electrons, protons and gamma rays will over time damage a CMOS circuit, through e.g. degrading the oxide layer and damaging the lattice structure. For a space-based https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/self-healing-cmos-imager-to-withstand-jupiters-radiation-belt/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/self-healing-cmos-imager-to-withstand-jupiters-radiation-belt/

2026-03-29 10:00:36 CEST

Soviet CDs And CD Players Existed, And They Were Strange
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Until the fall of the Soviet Union around 1990 you’d be forgiven as a proud Soviet citizen for thinking that the USSR’s technology was on par with the decadent West. https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/soviet-cds-and-cd-players-existed-and-they-were-strange/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/soviet-cds-and-cd-players-existed-and-they-were-strange/

2026-03-29 04:00:50 CEST

Watch Electricity Slosh: Visualizing Impedance Matching
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It’s one thing to learn about transmission lines in theory, and quite another to watch a voltage pulse bounce off an open connector. [Alpha Phoenix] bridges the gap between knowledge https://hackaday.com/2026/03/28/watch-electricity-slosh-visualizing-impedance-matching/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/28/watch-electricity-slosh-visualizing-impedance-matching/

2026-03-28 18:00:31 CET

Turning Tesla Model 3’s Computer Into a Desktop PC
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Like many high-tech companies Tesla runs a bug bounty program. But in the case of a car manufacturer, this means that you either already have one of their cars, are https://hackaday.com/2026/03/28/turning-tesla-model-3s-computer-into-a-desktop-pc/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/28/turning-tesla-model-3s-computer-into-a-desktop-pc/

2026-03-28 15:00:32 CET

For Art’s Sake
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Hackers can be a strange folk. Our idea of beauty, for instance, can be rather odd. This week, Hackaday saw a few projects that were not just functional – the https://hackaday.com/2026/03/28/for-arts-sake/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/28/for-arts-sake/

2026-03-28 09:00:17 CET

Making a Nichrome Wirewound Power Resistor
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Although not really a cost-effective or a required skill unless you have some very specific needs not met by off-the-shelf power resistor options, making your own own wirewound power resistor https://hackaday.com/2026/03/28/making-a-nichrome-wirewound-power-resistor/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/28/making-a-nichrome-wirewound-power-resistor/

2026-03-28 06:00:26 CET

SEGA Music to MODfile, (Semi)Automatically
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One thing SEGA’s MegaDrive/Genisis and the Commodore Amiga had in common was–aside from the Motorola 68000 processor– being known for excellent music in games. As [reassembler] continues his quest to https://hackaday.com/2026/03/27/sega-music-to-modfile-semiautomatically/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/27/sega-music-to-modfile-semiautomatically/

2026-03-28 03:00:09 CET

Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi Before Linux Drops Support
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Once the premium option for data transfers and remote control for high-end audiovisual and other devices, FireWire (IEEE 1394) has been dying a slow death ever since Apple and Sony https://hackaday.com/2026/03/27/using-firewire-on-a-raspberry-pi-before-linux-drops-support/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/27/using-firewire-on-a-raspberry-pi-before-linux-drops-support/

2026-03-27 21:00:10 CET

Laser Welding Helps YouTuber Get Ahead with Aluminum Sheet
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Laser Welding is apparently the new hotness, in part because these sci-fi rayguns masquerading as tools are really cool. They cut! They weld! They Julienne Fry! Well, maybe not that https://hackaday.com/2026/03/27/laser-welding-helps-youtuber-get-ahead-with-aluminum-sheet/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/27/laser-welding-helps-youtuber-get-ahead-with-aluminum-sheet/

2026-03-27 19:30:23 CET

Use a Gap-Cap to Embed Hardware In Your Next 3D Print
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Embedding fasteners or other hardware into 3D prints is a useful technique, but it can bring challenges when applied to large or non-flat objects. The solution? Use a gap-cap. The https://hackaday.com/2026/03/27/use-a-gap-cap-to-embed-hardware-in-your-next-3d-print/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/27/use-a-gap-cap-to-embed-hardware-in-your-next-3d-print/

2026-03-27 19:00:21 CET

Hackaday Podcast Episode 363: The History of PLA, Laser DIY PCBs, and Corporate Craziness
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What did Elliot Williams and Al Williams read on Hackaday last week? Tune in and find out. After a bit of news, [Vik Oliver] chimes in with some deep PLA https://hackaday.com/2026/03/27/hackaday-podcast-episode-363-the-history-of-pla-laser-diy-pcbs-and-corporate-craziness/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/27/hackaday-podcast-episode-363-the-history-of-pla-laser-diy-pcbs-and-corporate-craziness/

2026-03-27 16:30:33 CET

Luthier Crafts Guitar from Cardboard
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The people at Signal Snowboards are well known not only for producing quality snowboards, but doing one-off builds out of unusual and perhaps questionable materials just to see what’s possible. https://hackaday.com/2026/03/27/luthier-crafts-guitar-from-cardboard/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/27/luthier-crafts-guitar-from-cardboard/

2026-03-27 09:00:27 CET

This Flow Battery Operates With No Pump Required
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Flow batteries are rather unique. They generate electricity by the combination of two fluids flowing on either side of a membrane. Typically, this involves the use of some kind of https://hackaday.com/2026/03/27/this-flow-battery-operates-with-no-pump-required/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/27/this-flow-battery-operates-with-no-pump-required/

2026-03-27 06:00:55 CET

Improving Soda by Turning It Into Mead
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You can certainly just chug down that bottle of soda you purchased, but if you accept the premise that the preparation of food and drink is just a subset of https://hackaday.com/2026/03/26/improving-soda-by-turning-it-into-mead/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/26/improving-soda-by-turning-it-into-mead/

2026-03-27 03:00:31 CET

Momentus Clock Aims To Find Meaning
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A lot of the time, we must assign our own meaning to the numbers on the clock. 8:30 AM is work kicking off, 12 PM is lunch, and 5PM is https://hackaday.com/2026/03/26/momentus-clock-aims-to-find-meaning/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/26/momentus-clock-aims-to-find-meaning/

2026-03-26 21:00:56 CET

Looking at a bike built for the apocalypse
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So-called bug out cars are a rather silly venture that serve little purpose more than snagging your jumper. The odds of a car working well through a nuclear winter are https://hackaday.com/2026/03/26/looking-at-a-bike-built-for-the-apocalypse/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/26/looking-at-a-bike-built-for-the-apocalypse/

2026-03-26 19:30:30 CET

Reconstructed SC62015 Opcode Reference For Sharp Pocket Computers
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Pocket computers like Sharp’s 8-bit computing marvels were a big part of the 1980s, providing super-portable processing power to anyone who wanted a bit more than what something like a https://hackaday.com/2026/03/26/reconstructed-sc62015-opcode-reference-for-sharp-pocket-computers/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/26/reconstructed-sc62015-opcode-reference-for-sharp-pocket-computers/

2026-03-26 15:00:34 CET

3D Print Becomes Cast Iron Wrench Via Microwave
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Consumer-grade 3D printing is good for prototyping and making relatively soft plastic stuff. If you wanna make tough things, though, it’s really hard to beat the strength of metal. [Shake https://hackaday.com/2026/03/26/3d-print-becomes-cast-iron-wrench-via-microwave/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/26/3d-print-becomes-cast-iron-wrench-via-microwave/

2026-03-26 06:00:33 CET

Testing Severely Neglected VHS Tapes and CDs
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Physical media has a certain amount of durability associated with it, a quality which is naturally determined by the way that they’re stored. Generally this does not involve being abandoned https://hackaday.com/2026/03/25/testing-severely-neglected-vhs-tapes-and-cds/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/25/testing-severely-neglected-vhs-tapes-and-cds/

2026-03-26 03:00:47 CET

Demonstrating Gray Codes With Industrial Display
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Many people base huge swaths of their lives on foundational philosophical texts, yet few have read them in their entirety. The one that springs to the forefront of many of https://hackaday.com/2026/03/25/demonstrating-gray-codes-with-industrial-display/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/25/demonstrating-gray-codes-with-industrial-display/

2026-03-25 21:00:07 CET

The Most Intricate Of Freeform Digital Clocks
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Digital clock projects have been with us since the 1970s, when affordable LEDs and integrated circuits became available. In 2026 most of them use a microcontroller, but for the AliExpress https://hackaday.com/2026/03/25/the-most-intricate-of-freeform-digital-clocks/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/25/the-most-intricate-of-freeform-digital-clocks/

2026-03-25 19:30:41 CET

FLOSS Weekly Episode 867: Pangolin: People Can Lie
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This week Jonathan chats with Milo Schwartz about Pangolin, the Open Source tunneling solution. Why do we need something other than Wireguard, and how does Pangolin fix IoT and IT https://hackaday.com/2026/03/25/floss-weekly-episode-867-pangolin-people-can-lie/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/25/floss-weekly-episode-867-pangolin-people-can-lie/

2026-03-25 18:00:44 CET

Retail Fail: The :CueCat Disaster
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Digital Convergence Corporation is hardly a household name, and there’s a good reason for that. However, it raised about $185 million in investments around the year 2000 from companies such https://hackaday.com/2026/03/25/retail-fail-the-cuecat-disaster/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/25/retail-fail-the-cuecat-disaster/

2026-03-25 16:30:30 CET

Stadia Controller Reborn as Bluetooth Gamepad Adapter
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Tech has a problem, an e-waste problem. Google is a common offender when it comes to this, creating a product just to end support a couple of years later. Thankfully, https://hackaday.com/2026/03/25/stadia-controller-reborn-as-bluetooth-gamepad-adapter/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/25/stadia-controller-reborn-as-bluetooth-gamepad-adapter/

2026-03-25 09:00:50 CET

You Can Now Run MS-DOS Applications on the Apple IIe
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After a lot of debugging, [Seth Kushniryk] has managed to get the last issuess shaken out of his port of MS-DOS 2.0 to the Apple II, and has released the https://hackaday.com/2026/03/25/you-can-now-run-ms-dos-applications-on-the-apple-iie/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/25/you-can-now-run-ms-dos-applications-on-the-apple-iie/

2026-03-25 06:00:28 CET

3D Printed Robot Arm Built For Learning Purposes
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If you want to work with robots you can do all sorts of learning with software and simulation, but nothing quite beats getting to grips with real machinery. That was https://hackaday.com/2026/03/24/3d-printed-robot-arm-built-for-learning-purposes/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/24/3d-printed-robot-arm-built-for-learning-purposes/

2026-03-25 03:00:15 CET

Testing Expensive Graphene-Reinforced Nylon Filament
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Although usually nylon (generally PA6) filament is pretty cheap, there are some more exotic variants out there, such as the PA12-based Lyten 3D graphene filament that comes in at a https://hackaday.com/2026/03/24/testing-expensive-graphene-reinforced-nylon-filament/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/24/testing-expensive-graphene-reinforced-nylon-filament/

2026-03-24 21:00:36 CET

US FCC Prohibits Approval of New Foreign-Made Consumer Routers
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The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is tasked with regulating both wired and wireless communications, which also includes a national security component. This is how previously the FCC tossed networking https://hackaday.com/2026/03/24/us-fcc-prohibits-approval-of-new-foreign-made-consumer-routers/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/24/us-fcc-prohibits-approval-of-new-foreign-made-consumer-routers/

2026-03-24 18:00:17 CET

Age-Verification and the World Before Social Media
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Although it may be hard to believe for current generations, there was a time when the Internet and the World Wide Web were not as integrated into society as it https://hackaday.com/2026/03/24/age-verification-and-the-world-before-social-media/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/24/age-verification-and-the-world-before-social-media/

2026-03-24 09:00:17 CET

Disposable Vape Becomes Breath-Activated Synth
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Makers and hardware hackers have been collecting disposable vapes for some time now, usually to salvage their batteries or the unique displays many models now come with. But you can https://hackaday.com/2026/03/24/disposable-vape-becomes-breath-activated-synth/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/24/disposable-vape-becomes-breath-activated-synth/

2026-03-24 06:00:26 CET

Venus Flytrap Takes Ride Through a Particle Accelerator
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In the blue corner, we have the VENUS FLYTRAP! In the red corner, we have the underdog of the century, AN ENTIRE PARTICLE ACCELERATOR. Yes, you read that right. When https://hackaday.com/2026/03/23/venus-flytrap-takes-ride-through-a-particle-accelerator/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/23/venus-flytrap-takes-ride-through-a-particle-accelerator/

2026-03-24 03:00:11 CET

Low Self-Discharge, High-Voltage Supercapacitors Using Porous Carbon
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Supercapacitors rely mostly on double-layer capacitance to bridge the divide between chemical batteries and traditional capacitors, but they come with a number of weaknesses. Paramount among these are their relatively https://hackaday.com/2026/03/23/low-self-discharge-high-voltage-supercapacitors-using-porous-carbon/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/23/low-self-discharge-high-voltage-supercapacitors-using-porous-carbon/

2026-03-23 21:00:34 CET

Acoustic Drone Detection On the Cheap with ESP32
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We don’t usually speculate on the true identity of the hackers behind these projects, but when [TN666]’s accoustic drone-detector crossed our desk with the name “Batear”, we couldn’t help but https://hackaday.com/2026/03/23/acoustic-drone-detection-on-the-cheap-with-esp32/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/23/acoustic-drone-detection-on-the-cheap-with-esp32/

2026-03-23 16:30:23 CET

A Simple Switch for Simply too much Current
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A switch is simple: connect two pieces of metal together and bam! Except, it’s not that simple at high currents. How much current? Just about 400 car batteries worth would https://hackaday.com/2026/03/23/a-simple-switch-for-simply-too-much-current/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/23/a-simple-switch-for-simply-too-much-current/

2026-03-23 15:00:20 CET

The Zero-Power Flight Computer
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In the early days of aviation, pilots or their navigators used a plethora of tools to solve common navigation and piloting problems. There was definitely a need for some kind https://hackaday.com/2026/03/23/the-zero-power-flight-computer/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/23/the-zero-power-flight-computer/

2026-03-23 09:00:25 CET

Better Faux-Analog VU Meters
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One of the coolest things about old hi-fi hardware is that it often came with flickety needles that danced with the audio level. You can still buy these if you https://hackaday.com/2026/03/23/better-faux-analog-vu-meters/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/23/better-faux-analog-vu-meters/

2026-03-23 06:00:38 CET

Building a Laser-Driven Photoacoustic Speaker
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An MRI scan is never a pleasant occasion – even if you aren’t worried about the outcome, lying still in a confined, noisy space for long periods of time is https://hackaday.com/2026/03/22/building-a-laser-driven-photoacoustic-speaker/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/22/building-a-laser-driven-photoacoustic-speaker/

2026-03-23 03:00:58 CET

The 3DFX Voodoo Lives Again In An FPGA
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The 3DFX Voodoo was not the first dedicated 3D graphics chipset by any means, but it became the favourite for gamers among the early mass-market GPUs. It would be found https://hackaday.com/2026/03/22/the-3dfx-voodoo-lives-again-in-an-fpga/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/22/the-3dfx-voodoo-lives-again-in-an-fpga/

2026-03-22 18:00:06 CET

Storing Solar Energy As Ice For Air Conditioning
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Thermal energy storage is pretty great, as phase-change energy storage is very consistent with its energy output over time, unlike chemical batteries. You also get your pick from a wide https://hackaday.com/2026/03/22/storing-solar-energy-as-ice-for-air-conditioning/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/22/storing-solar-energy-as-ice-for-air-conditioning/

2026-03-22 15:00:54 CET

Arduino Code? On my 8051? It’s More Likely Than You Think
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The 8051 was an 8-bit Harvard-architecture microcontroller first put out by Intel in 1980. They’ve since discontinued that line, but it lives on in the low-cost STC8 family of chips, https://hackaday.com/2026/03/22/arduino-code-on-my-8051-its-more-likely-than-you-think/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/22/arduino-code-on-my-8051-its-more-likely-than-you-think/

2026-03-22 06:00:19 CET

An Electric Jellyfish For Androids
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We have to admit, we didn’t know that we wanted a desktop electric jellyfish until seeing [likeablob]’s Denki-Kurage, but it’s one of those projects that just fills a need so https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/an-electric-jellyfish-for-androids/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/an-electric-jellyfish-for-androids/

2026-03-22 03:00:41 CET

Analog Video From an 8-Bit Microcontroller
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Although the CRT has largely disappeared from our everyday lives, there was a decades-long timeframe when this was effectively the only display available. It’s an analog display for an analog https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/analog-video-from-an-8-bit-microcontroller/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/analog-video-from-an-8-bit-microcontroller/

2026-03-21 21:00:44 CET

ESP32: When Is A P4 A P4, But Not The P4 You Thought It Was
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We’re used to electronic parts of the same type staying predictably the same, sometimes over many years. An early Z80 from the mid 1970s can be exchanged with one from https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/esp32-when-is-a-p4-a-p4-but-not-the-p4-you-thought-it-was/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/esp32-when-is-a-p4-a-p4-but-not-the-p4-you-thought-it-was/

2026-03-21 18:00:00 CET

Analog Siren for Psychedelic Soundscapes
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For better or worse, there are a few instruments that have been pigeonholed into specific genres of popular music. For example, banjos are often heard in bluegrass or folk, harmonicas https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/analog-siren-for-psychedelic-soundscapes/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/analog-siren-for-psychedelic-soundscapes/

2026-03-21 15:00:31 CET

The Unreasonable Power Density of Lithium-Ion
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We’re all used to it by now, but I’d just like to reflect on how insanely power-packed lithium ion batteries are, and everything that’s afforded us. I’m trying to think https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/the-unreasonable-power-density-of-lithium-ion/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/the-unreasonable-power-density-of-lithium-ion/

2026-03-21 09:00:20 CET

3D Printed Clock Just Taps It In
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The famous cuckoo clock, with its moving, chirping mechanical bird indicating various divisions of time, has been around since at least the 1600s. The most famous of them come from https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/3d-printed-clock-just-taps-it-in/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/3d-printed-clock-just-taps-it-in/

2026-03-21 03:00:35 CET

Slug Algorithm for On-GPU Rendering of Fonts with Bézier Curves now in Public Domain
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The Slug Algorithm has been around for a decade now, mostly quietly rendering fonts and later entire GUIs using Bézier curves directly on the GPU for games and other types https://hackaday.com/2026/03/20/slug-algorithm-for-on-gpu-rendering-of-fonts-with-bezier-curves-now-in-public-domain/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/20/slug-algorithm-for-on-gpu-rendering-of-fonts-with-bezier-curves-now-in-public-domain/

2026-03-20 21:00:34 CET

How Long Can a Quadcopter Drone Fly on Just Solar?
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The dream of fully powering everything from aircraft to cars on just the power generated from solar panels attached to the machine remains a tempting one, but always seems to https://hackaday.com/2026/03/20/how-long-can-a-quadcopter-drone-fly-on-just-solar/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/20/how-long-can-a-quadcopter-drone-fly-on-just-solar/

2026-03-20 16:30:53 CET

Powering USB Devices with a Bench Supply Adapter Board
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Sometimes you wanna test a piece of USB hardware, but you don’t just want to plug it into a random old phone charger. [KS-Elektronikdesign] has whipped up a useful tool https://hackaday.com/2026/03/20/powering-usb-devices-with-a-bench-supply-adapter-board/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/20/powering-usb-devices-with-a-bench-supply-adapter-board/

2026-03-20 15:00:30 CET

This Week in Security: Linux Flaws, Python Ownage, and a Botnet Shutdown
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The ides of security March are upon us — Qualys reports the discovery by their threat research unit of vulnerabilities in the Linux AppArmor system used by SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, and https://hackaday.com/2026/03/20/this-week-in-security-linux-flaws-python-ownage-and-a-botnet-shutdown/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/20/this-week-in-security-linux-flaws-python-ownage-and-a-botnet-shutdown/

2026-03-20 03:00:12 CET

Studying a Battle Born LFP Battery’s Death Under Controlled Conditions
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There has been quite a bit of news recently about the Battle Born LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries and how they are dying in droves if not outright melting their plastic enclosures. https://hackaday.com/2026/03/19/studying-a-battle-born-lfp-batterys-death-under-controlled-conditions/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/19/studying-a-battle-born-lfp-batterys-death-under-controlled-conditions/

2026-03-19 21:00:46 CET

Retro Weather Display Acts Like It’s Windows 95
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Sometimes you really need to know what the weather is doing, but you don’t want to look at your phone. For times like those, this neat weather display from [Jordan] https://hackaday.com/2026/03/19/retro-weather-display-acts-like-its-windows-95/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/19/retro-weather-display-acts-like-its-windows-95/

2026-03-19 18:20:35 CET

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Ultra-Thin Split
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But sir, it is wafer-thin. That’s how they get you! Just when you couldn’t possibly justify building another keyboard, let alone owning one, along comes the Kambala by [aroum2]. Now, https://hackaday.com/2026/03/19/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-ultra-thin-split/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/19/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-ultra-thin-split/

2026-03-19 16:30:09 CET

Sega Genesis Finally Gets Long-Awaited Stock Ticker App 37 Years After Launch
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Until now, if you were seated at your Sega Genesis and wanted to check your stock portfolio, you were out of luck. You had to get a smartphone, or a https://hackaday.com/2026/03/19/sega-genesis-finally-gets-long-awaited-stock-ticker-app-37-years-after-launch/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/19/sega-genesis-finally-gets-long-awaited-stock-ticker-app-37-years-after-launch/

2026-03-13 16:30:34 CET

Running a PC off AA Cells With Buck Converters Really Boosts Performance
<img width="800" height="388" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/aa_battery_powered_pc_second_try_scuffedbits_youtube.jpg?w=800" alt=""/>After the previous attempt of running a PC off AA cells got a lot of comments, [ScuffedBits] decided to do the scientifically responsible thing and re-ran the experiment with all https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/running-a-pc-off-aa-cells-with-buck-converters-really-boosts-performance/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/running-a-pc-off-aa-cells-with-buck-converters-really-boosts-performance/

2026-03-13 15:00:18 CET

This Week in Security: Plenty of Patches, Replacing Old Gear, and Phrack Calls for Papers
<img width="800" height="484" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/darkarts.jpg?w=800" alt=""/>When Friday the Thirteenth and Patch Tuesday happen on the same week, we’re surely in for a good time. Anyone who maintains any sort of Microsoft ecosystem knows by now https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/this-week-in-security-plenty-of-patches-replacing-old-gear-and-phrack-calls-for-papers/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/this-week-in-security-plenty-of-patches-replacing-old-gear-and-phrack-calls-for-papers/

2026-03-13 12:00:23 CET

OS/2 Never Went Away. Its Successor Has Received An Update
<img width="800" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/arcaos-featured.jpg?w=800" alt=""/>ArcaOS is an operating system you might not have heard of, but you will recognize it when we tell you that it’s the direct descendant of IBM’s OS/2. It’s just https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/os-2-never-went-away-its-successor-has-received-an-update/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/os-2-never-went-away-its-successor-has-received-an-update/

2026-03-13 09:00:59 CET

Perfecting the Shape-Changing Fruit Bowl
<img width="800" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/fruitbowl-feat.jpg?w=800" alt=""/>Fruit bowls have an unavoidable annoyance– not flies and rotten fruit, those would be avoidable if your diet was better. No, it’s that the bowl is never the right size. https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/perfecting-the-shape-changing-fruit-bowl/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/perfecting-the-shape-changing-fruit-bowl/

2026-03-12 21:00:27 CET

Mapping The Sound Field Of An Acoustic Levitator
<img width="800" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/I-Built-a-CT-Scanner-to-See-Sound-8-42-screenshot.png?w=800" alt=""/>Sound! It’s a thing you hear, moreso than something you see with your eyes. And yet, it is possible to visualize sound with various techniques. [PlasmatronX] demonstrates this well, using https://hackaday.com/2026/03/12/mapping-the-sound-field-of-an-acoustic-levitator/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/12/mapping-the-sound-field-of-an-acoustic-levitator/

2026-03-12 19:30:01 CET

How Would a Field Sequential Home Computer Have Worked?
<img width="800" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/field-sequential-cbs.jpg?w=800" alt=""/>The early history of colour TV had several false starts, of which perhaps one of the most interesting might-have-beens was the CBS field-sequential system. This was a rival to the https://hackaday.com/2026/03/12/how-would-a-field-sequential-home-computer-have-worked/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/12/how-would-a-field-sequential-home-computer-have-worked/

2026-03-12 16:30:50 CET

Controlling Vintage Mac OS With AI
<img width="800" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/claude-logo-outta.jpg?w=800" alt=""/>Classic Mac OS was prized for its clean, accessible GUI when it first hit the scene in the 1980s. Back then, developers hadn’t even conceived of all the weird gewgaws https://hackaday.com/2026/03/12/controlling-vintage-mac-os-with-ai/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/12/controlling-vintage-mac-os-with-ai/

2026-03-12 12:00:06 CET

Selective Ironing Adds Designs To 3D Prints
<img width="800" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Using-Ironing-to-Add-Graphics-to-3D-Prints-3-34-screenshot-banner.png?w=800" alt=""/>While working on a project that involved super-thin prints, [Julius Curt] came up with selective ironing, a way to put designs on the top surface of a print without adding https://hackaday.com/2026/03/12/selective-ironing-adds-designs-to-3d-prints/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/12/selective-ironing-adds-designs-to-3d-prints/

2026-03-12 09:00:14 CET

Open Source Radar Has Up To 20 KM Range
<img width="800" height="449" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/5106001773010796560_7fb03f-e1773288507424.jpg?w=800" alt=""/>Phased-array radars are great for all sorts of things, whether you’re doing advanced radio research or piloting a fifth-generation combat aircraft. They’re also typically very expensive. [Nawfal] hopes to make https://hackaday.com/2026/03/12/open-source-radar-has-up-to-20-km-range/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/12/open-source-radar-has-up-to-20-km-range/

2025-11-12 10:00:21 CET

Join the The Newest Social Network and Party Like its 1987
<img width="800" height="449" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/cyberspace_feat.jpg?w=800" alt=""/>Algorithms? Datamining? Brainrot? You don’t need those things to have a social network. As we knew back in the BBS days, long before anyone coined the phrase “social network”, all https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/join-the-the-newest-social-network-and-party-like-its-1987/
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/join-the-the-newest-social-network-and-party-like-its-1987/

2025-09-07 01:00:00 CEST

Camera and ChArUco Keep the Skew Out of Your 3D Prints
<img width="800" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/skew_a200c3.jpeg?w=800" alt=""/>Do you or a loved one suffer from distorted 3D prints? Does your laser cutter produce parallelograms instead of rectangles? If so, you might be suffering from CNC skew miscalibration, https://hackaday.com/2025/09/06/camera-and-charuco-keep-the-skew-out-of-your-3d-prints/
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/06/camera-and-charuco-keep-the-skew-out-of-your-3d-prints/

2025-07-11 22:00:27 CEST

Designing a CPU with only Memory Chips
<img width="800" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/epromint_cpu.png?w=800"/>Building a simple 8-bit computer is a great way to understand computing fundamentals, but there’s only so much you can learn by building a system around an existing processor. If https://hackaday.com/2025/07/11/designing-a-cpu-with-only-memory-chips/
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/11/designing-a-cpu-with-only-memory-chips/

2025-05-14 16:00:02 CEST

Version Control to the Max
<img width="800" height="484" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/git01.jpg?w=800" alt=""/>There was a time when version control was an exotic idea. Today, things like Git and a handful of other tools allow developers to easily rewind the clock or work https://hackaday.com/2025/05/14/version-control-to-the-max/
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/14/version-control-to-the-max/

2024-10-17 04:00:40 CEST

Winamp Taken Down: Too Good For This Open Source World
<img width="800" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/winamp-featured.jpg?w=800" alt=""/>If you picked today in your hackerspace’s sweepstake on when Winamp would pull their code repository, congratulations! You’re a winner! The source for the Windows version of the venerable music https://hackaday.com/2024/10/16/winamp-taken-down-too-good-for-this-open-source-world/
https://hackaday.com/2024/10/16/winamp-taken-down-too-good-for-this-open-source-world/

2024-09-01 22:00:39 CEST

Film, As You Have Never Had It Explained Before
<img width="800" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/film-formats-featured.jpg?w=800" alt=""/>For all the advances in digital photography, there remains a mystique for photographers and filmmakers about chemical film. Using it presents an artistic and technical challenge, and it lends an https://hackaday.com/2024/09/01/film-as-you-have-never-had-it-explained-before/
https://hackaday.com/2024/09/01/film-as-you-have-never-had-it-explained-before/

2024-08-31 01:00:03 CEST

Dual-Port RAM For a Simple VGA Card
<img width="800" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/dual-port-vga-featured.jpg?w=800" alt=""/>Making microcontrollers produce video has long been a staple of hardware hacking, but as the resolution goes up, it becomes a struggle for less capable silicon. To get higher resolution https://hackaday.com/2024/08/30/dual-port-ram-for-a-simple-vga-card/
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/30/dual-port-ram-for-a-simple-vga-card/

2024-08-29 10:00:30 CEST

Adding Human Detection to Home Automation
<img width="800" height="429" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/radar-main.png?w=800" alt=""/>Radar made a huge impact when it was first invented, allowing objects to be detected using radio waves which would normally be difficult or impossible to observe through other means. https://hackaday.com/2024/08/29/adding-human-detection-to-home-automation/
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/29/adding-human-detection-to-home-automation/

2024-08-21 20:30:52 CEST

FLOSS Weekly Episode 797: Coreutils — Don’t rm -r Up the Tree
<img width="800" height="484" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Pipewire.jpg?w=800" alt=""/>This week Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch chat with Pádraig Brady about Coreutils! It’s been around since the 90s, and is still a healthy project under active development. You’ve almost https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/floss-weekly-episode-797-coreutils-dont-rm-r-up-the-tree/
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/21/floss-weekly-episode-797-coreutils-dont-rm-r-up-the-tree/