2024
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2024 3,382
December 2024
- Doomscroll Precisely, and Wirelessly
- Sony Vaio Revived: Power, The Second 80%
- Why 2025 Will Not Be The Year Of Linux On The Desktop
- New Years Circuit Challenge: Make This RFID Circuit
- vPlayer Puts Smart Display in Palm of Your Hand
- Lowering Your Noise Floor, the Easy Way
- Fan Made Dreamcast Port of GTA 3 Steals The Show
- Re-engineering Potatoes To Remove Their All-Natural Toxins
- When The EU Speaks, Everyone Charges The Same Way
- 38C3: Save Your Satellite with These Three Simple Tricks
- Release Your Inner Ansel Adams With The Shitty Camera Challenge
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Copycat Keyboard
- Bringing OpenStreetMap Data into Minecraft
- The Twisted History of Ethernet on Twisted Pair Wiring
- Ball Nut Modification Charts a Middle Course Between Building and Buying
- [Kerry Wong] Talks (and Talks) About a 300 MHz Oscilloscope
- 38C3: Lawsuits are Temporary; Glory is Forever
- Beam me Up: Simple Free-Space Optical Communication
- 38C3: Xobs on Hardware Debuggers
- Wire Rope: Never Saddle a Dead Horse
- A Die-Level Look at the Pentium FDIV Bug
- A Review That Asks: Do You Need a Thermal Camera?
- The Business Card of DOOM
- Porting Dragon’s Lair to the Game Boy Color Was a Technical Triumph
- Full Color 3D Printing With PolyDye and Existing Inkjet Cartridges
- 38C3: Towards an Open WiFi MAC Stack on ESP32
- Circuit Secrets: Exploring a $5 Emergency Light
- Let it Snow with a sub $100 snowmaking machine.
- A Low-Cost Spectrometer Uses Discrete LEDs and Math
- Building a 3D Printed Phone Handset with Mil-Spec Style
- FallingWater Clock Puts New Spin on a Common LCD
- Creating a Mechanical Qubit that Lasts Longer Than Other Qubits
- Playing Around with the MH-CD42 Charger Board
- Lathe Gears Make a Clock
- 20 GHz LNB Testing and Teardown
- Do You Know Vail Code?
- LDU Decoded: The Untold Tale of LEGO Dimensions
- This Week in Security: License Plates, TP-Link, and Attacking Devs
- Minecraft in…COBOL?
- Uncanny Valley of Clean Conquered by Clever Chair
- Blast Away the Flux — With Brake Cleaner?
- Stream Deck Plus Reverse Engineered
- A LoRa Rain Gauge from the Ground Up
- A Mechanical Calculator For The Modern Age
- The TimeChi Never Shipped, but You Can Build One From Scratch
- Battery-Electric Ships: Coming Soon to a Harbor Near You?
- Blinded by the Light: the Problem with LED Headlights
- Tech in Plain Sight: Incandescent Bulbs
- OpenWRT, But On An Unsupported Router
- Open Source Lemontron 3D Printer is Ready to Build
- Taking “Movies” of Light in Flight
- Time Management for Toddlers
- Tweezers Probe Reviewed
- When It Comes To DOS, Don’t Forget DR-DOS.
- Esperanto: The Language That Hoped to Unite the World
- Open Source Multimeter Raises the Bar for DIY Tools
- Break Me Off a Piece of That Open Source Serial Adapter
- Going Digital: Teaching a TI-84 Handwriting Recognition
- Pi’s Evil Twin Goes for Infinity
- Holiday Jukebox Gets ESP32, Home Assistant Support
- A Twenty-Segment Display, Artistically
- Keeping Track of Old Computer Manuals with the Manx Catalog
- The Mystery of the Messed-Up Hammond X5
- Retrotechtacular: Quest for the “Big Boy” CRT Finds New Home in Mini Doc
- Calling Pink Floyd
- Watch Any Video on Your Game Boy, Via Link Cable
- ALSEP: Apollo’s Modular Lunar Experiments Laboratory
- Camera Slider Uses Repositionable Rail To Do Rotational Moves
- Crawler Challenge: Building Rope-Traversing Robots
- A Pi Pico Makes A Spectrum Laptop
- Atoms For Peace: the US Nuclear Fleet Build-Out and Modern-Day Revival
- Silicone Tubing as Springs for Capacitive Touch Buttons
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Keyboard-Mouse
- Handheld Satellite Dish is 3D Printed
- E-Paper Anniversary Counter Is A Charming Gift With Minimal Power Draw
- Faster Integer Division with Floating Point
- DIY Camera Slider Moves And Rotates For Slick Shots
- Hackaday Links: December 22, 2024
- 3D Printed Forklift Is A Cute Desk Toy
- Optimizing Your Linux Shell Experience
- Old 3D Printer Parts Repurposed Into DIY Camera Slider
- Dog Plays Chess on ESP32
- Vintage Audio Amp Gets LED Lighting Upgrade
- Inside a Diamond Plant
- Nanoscale Imaging and Control of Altermagnetism in MnTe
- An LCD, Touch Sensor, USB-C, And A Microcontroller for a Buck
- The Bendix G-15 Runs 75,000 Lines of Code
- Custom Firmware For Even Cheaper Bluetooth Thermometers
- Intel Terminates X86S Initiative After Formation of New Industry Group
- Building A Custom Swiss Army Knife
- Training a Self-Driving Kart
- 3D Printing a Big LEGO Christmas Tree
- It’s Official: The North Pole is Moving
- Rudolph’s Sleigh on a North Pole PCB
- Making a Mechanical Watch From Scratch Is Fine Work
- Building a Diet Coke Button
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 301: Hacking NVMe into Raspberry Pi, Lighting LEDs with Microwaves, and How to Keep Your Fingers
- Embossing Leather With a Pipe Bender and 3D Printed Tooling
- Subchannel Stations: The Radio Broadcasts You Didn’t Know Were There
- Multimeter Gets Socket Upgrade To Use Nicer Probes
- Watch a 3D Scan Become a Car Body Model
- Old BBC Micro Gets Some Disk Help From A Raspberry Pi
- Getting Dial-Up To Work Over VOIP Isn’t Always Easy
- Fixing 1986 Sinclair Spectrum+2 With a High-Score of Issues
- Fibonacci Clock Looks Like Beautiful Modern Art
- Measuring a Well with Just a Hammer and a Smartphone
- The Battle Over Vanishing Spray
- Better C Strings, Simply
- Human Civilization and the Black Plastic Kitchen Utensils Panic
- Where This Xmas Card’s Going, We Don’t Need Batteries!
- Homebrew Electron Beam Lithography with a Scanning Electron Microscope
- Back to the Future of Texting: SMS on a Panasonic Typewriter
- Bacterium Demonstrates Extreme Radiation Resistance Courtesy of an Antioxidant
- Simple Fluorometer Makes Nucleic Acid Detection Cheap and Easy
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 813a: Happy Holidays!
- Push for On, Hold for Off, AC Edition
- Upper Room UV-C Keeps Air Cleaner
- Enabling NVMe on the Raspberry Pi 500 With a Handful of Parts
- Why Did Early CD-ROM Drives Rely On Awkward Plastic Caddies?
- Catching the View from the Edge of Space
- Learning About The Flume Water Monitor
- Pulling Backward to Go Forward: The Brennan Torpedo Explained
- The World Morse Code Championship
- PCB Motor Holds Fast, Even After 1.6 Billion Spins
- A Compass That Looks to the Stars
- Why NASA Only Needs Pi To So Many Decimal Places
- Tech in Plain Sight: Table Saw Safety
- The Last Acorn BBC Computer Wasn’t a BBC Micro
- Man Overboard Systems Aim To Increase Survival Rates At Sea
- See What ‘They’ See In Your Photos
- 3D Printed Blaster Does it with Compliant Components
- Robot Air Hockey Player Predicts Your Next Move
- Versatile, yet Grounded: The Rotodyne Revisited
- Emulating The Battery Controller In An Ancient Acer PDA
- Using A Smartphone As A Touchscreen For Arduino
- 3D-Printed Boat Feeds The Fishes
- Sony Vaio Revived: How Does One Start?
- A Red Ring Light Show For Your Xbox 360
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Curvy Centerfold
- Building the Spectacular Fibonacci128 Simple Add-On
- Single Crystal Electrode Lithium Ion Batteries Last a Long Time
- Documented Source Code for Elite on the C64, BBC Micro and Others
- Finally… a Man Page for Life
- Hackaday Links: December 15, 2024
- Rainwater From the Road to the Garden
- Wago Terminals Make This Ham Radio Dipole Light and Packable
- An iPhone Case Study
- ESP8266 Keeps Tabs on Wood Stove Temperature
- Running Fusion 360 on Linux with Wine
- A Portable Chainsaw Sawmill
- Might Morphin’ Antenna
- How the Lost Mystery Pigment ‘Maya Blue’ Got Recreated
- Behold a Geared, Continuously Variable Transmission
- tldr-pages Keeps it Short, Wherever You Need It
- Hacker Tools, Hacked Tools
- A Self Balancing Bike for Crash Dummy Billy
- Personal Traffic Light Stops Them In Their Tracks
- Origami-Inspired, Self-locking Structures With 3D Printing
- Walkie Talkies, Jedi Style: Building a Communicator
- Flashy Paper Christmas Tree Does It With a 555
- Apple Newton Gets Rebuilt Battery Pack
- The Stern-Gerlach Experiment Misunderstood
- Hack On Self: How’d My Day Go?
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 300: The Dwingeloo 25 m Dish, a Dead-Tech Twofer, and Deconstructing PCBs
- Saving an Electron Microscope from the Trash
- This Week in Security: Recall, BadRAM, and OpenWRT
- Chirality Could Kill Us All, If We Let It
- Use Your RTL, In The Browser
- Automated Rig Grows Big, Beautiful Crystals Fast
- A Look Back at Google’s 2015 Chromecast
- British Spooks Issue Yearly Teaser
- Good Lighting on a Budget with Cordless Tool Batteries
- The Disappearing Capacitor
- The 6GHz Band Opens in the US
- It’s Critical: Don’t Pile Up Your Fissionable Material
- Ore To Iron In A Few Seconds: New Chinese Process Will Revolutionise Smelting
- Pico Logic Analyzer Gets New Version
- Tiny PONG , Big Ambitions: World’s Smallest Arcade
- Danger-Klipper Fork Renamed to Kalico
- Chaotic System Cooks Meat Evenly
- Retrotechtacular: 1980s Restoration of San Francisco’s Cable Car System
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 813: Turn Off the Internet
- It’s Remotely Ham Radio
- Amateur Radio Operators Detect Signals from Voyager 1
- The Hovercraft Revolution and Finding the Right Niche for a Technology
- Unexpectedly Interesting Payphone Gives Up Its Secrets
- The Math Behind the Music of the 80s
- From Felt to Fate: Building Your Own Sorting Hat
- A Potential Exploit with the Ext Filesystem
- Flying Drones That Can Walk and Jump into the Air: An Idea With Legs?
- 3D Printer Eliminates the Printer Bed
- Trying to Shatter the World’s Fastest RC Car Record
- 2025 Hackaday Europe CFP: We Want You!
- Creating A Radiation King Radio In The Real World
- Disc Film,When Kodak Pushed Convenience Too Far
- Updated Mouse Ring Does It With a Joystick
- An Engineer’s Perspective on Baking Gingerbread Houses
- A Simple Robot For Learning About Robotics
- Smartphone Runs Home Server
- PlayStation Motherboard Sanded and Scanned, But There’s More To Do
- Raspberry Pi 500 and the Case of the Missing M.2 Slot
- Do 3D Printers Dream of LEGO Sheep?
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Funny Keyboard
- Electric Bike Uses No Electronics, Weird Motor
- Finally Putting the RK1 Through its Paces
- Robot Rodents: How AI Learned to Squeak and Play
- Debugging the UE1 Paper Tape Reader and Amplification Circuit
- Magic Eye Images In Your Spreadsheet
- Silicon Carbide May Replace Zirconium Alloys for Nuclear Fuel Rod Cladding
- Hackaday Links: December 8, 2024
- Pedaling your Mobile Web Server Across the Globe
- New Tullomer Filament Claims to Beat PEEK
- Tiny NFC-Powered Keychain Thermometer
- The Audiophile Carrot
- WASM-4: Retro Game Dev Right in Your Browser
- Cheap FPGA PCIe Development
- A Look inside IKEA’s Vallhorn Motion Sensor Teardown
- Microchess Remembered
- The £25,000 Tom Evans Pre-Amp Repair and a Copyright Strike
- Liquid Metal Ion Thrusters Aren’t Easy
- Tis the Season
- Printing in Multi-material? Use These Filament Combos
- FlatMac: Building the 1980’s Apple iPad Concept
- 3D Printed Caliper Extensions Make Hole Measurement Easier
- Antenna Measurement in Theory and Practice
- Retro Computer Goes Back to the 1950s
- VNAs and Crystals
- Ampere WS-1: The Other APL Portable Computer
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 299: Beaming Consciousness, Understanding Holograms, and Dogfooding IPv6
- The 6809 8-Bit Microcomputer: A Father-Son Odyssey
- This Week in Security: National Backdoors, Web3 Backdoors, and Nearest Neighbor WiFi
- Hacked Ultrasonic Sensors Let You See With Sound
- Non-Planar Fuzzy Skin Textures Improved, Plus a Paint-On Interface
- A Hundred Year Old Solid State Amplifier
- Unconventional Oil Production, All You Need to Know
- Gray Matter on a Chip: Building an Artificial Brain with Luminol
- How Corroded Can a Motherboard Be?
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Folding Keyboard Mod
- A Brief History of Teleportation
- Cranking Up the Detail in a Flight Simulator from 1992
- Exercise Wheel Tracker Confirms Suspicions About Cats
- Gas Gauge Upgrade Keeps VW Restoration Classy
- LongChat for Ham Radio
- Rolling Your Own Ball Screws
- Runway-to-Space No More, Reaction Engines Cease Trading
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 812: Firefox and the Future
- Hack On Self: Headphone Friend
- Did You Know YoSys Knows VHDL Too?
- The London Underground Is Too Hot, But It’s Not An Easy Fix
- Sniffing Around Inside a ThinkPad Battery
- Fluke Meter Fails with a Simple Problem
- Fail of the Week: The SMD Crystal Radio That Wasn’t
- A Month Without IPV4 is Like a Month Without…
- 3D Printing Threaded Replacements
- Car Radio Chip Goes Into DIY Build
- Chess What: One More Pi-Powered Board
- Holograms: the Art of Recording Wavefronts
- Scratch And Sniff Stickers And The Gas Panic of ’87
- OSHW Battery Tester Aims to Help Tame Lithium Cells
- Torque Testing 3D Printed Screws
- From Cans To Sheet Metal, With Ease
- Modular Breadboard Snaps You Into Benchtop Tidiness
- The Automatic Battery Charger You Never Knew You Needed
- Unique 3D Printer Has a Print Head With a Twist
- A Free Speed Boost For Your Pi 5
- A Brief History of Calculator Watches
- Small Feathers, Big Effects: Reducing Stall Speeds With Strips Of Plastic
- Exploring the Sounds and Sights Of Alien Worlds
- Building Experience and Circuits for Lithium Capacitors
- ESP32 Powers DIY Smart Energy Meter
- Stripping GoPros To The Bone For Model Rocketry
- Electrostatic Puck: Making An Electret
- When Transistor Count Mattered
- Creating a Signature Wood Joint
- Tailwheel Trainer Go-Cart To Avoid Wrecked Planes
- 8-Bit Computers Crunch Advanced Scientific Computations
- Upgrading the M4 Mac Mini with More Storage
- Pushing 802.11ah to the Extreme with Drones
- Making a Stool from Clay
- Arduino VGA, The Old Fashioned Way
- Uncle Sam Wants You to Recover Energy Materials from Wastewater
November 2024
- It’s Like LightScribe, But For Floppies!
- Saving a Samsung TV From the Dreaded Boot Loop
- Thanks for Hacking
- The Many Reasons For Putting Microphones in Rainforests
- Building a Miniature Rainbow Sand Table
- Modernizing an Apple iPod, or: a Modern-Day Ship of Theseus
- Hacking Trees to Bring Back the American Chestnut
- Swapping Batteries Has Never Looked This Cool
- Simple Pen Plotter Rolls On The Table
- Building a Generator That Runs Off Hose Power
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 298: Forbidden USB-C, a Laser Glow-o-Scope, and the Epoch Super Cassette Vision
- Fully Submerge This Modernized pH Sensor
- Low-Profile Travel Keyboard Is Mostly 3D Printed
- GPS Enabled Pumpkin Spice Sprayer Knows When It’s PSL Season
- Ultra-Wide Gaming Handheld Channels The Nintendo DS
- US Is Getting Its First Onshore Wave Power Plant
- UFO 50 Inspired LX System Looks Straight Out of a Video Game
- Minichord Wants To Help You Find Rad Chord Progressions
- Chocolate-Coating Machine Mk. 2: the Merry-Go-Round
- The Japanese Console You Maybe Haven’t Heard Of
- Homebrew Phosphorescence Detector Looks for the Glow in Everyday Objects
- Even Apple Get Their Parts Wrong Sometimes
- A Look Under the Hood of Intermediate Frequency Transformers
- DIY Pipe Inspector Goes Where No Bot Has Gone Before
- Would an Indexing Feature Benefit Your Next Hinge Design?
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 811: Elixir & Nerves – Real Embedded Linux
- Could Nuclear Be The Way To Produce Synthetic Fuel On The Cheap?
- Retrotechtacular: The Deadly Shipmate
- Boss Byproducts: Corium Is Man-Made Lava
- Life Found On Ryugu Asteroid Sample, But It Looks Very Familiar
- Getting Started In Laser Cutting
- Massive Mural from Thermal Receipt Paper
- Your Undocumented Project May Also Baffle People Someday
- A Robot Meant for Humans
- A Laser with Mirrors makes a CRT-like Display
- Alternatives Don’t Need to be Bashed
- Linux Fu: Audio Network Pipes
- Recreating Unobtainium Weather Station Sensors
- Humans Can Learn Echolocation Too
- The Junk Machine Prints Corrupted Advertising On Demand
- Electric Motors Run Continuously at Near-Peak Power
- Building A Pi-Powered LED Chess Board
- Solar Orbiter Takes Amazing Solar Pictures
- An Over-Engineered Basement Monitor
- E-Ink Screen Combined With Analog Dial Is Epic Win
- Square Roots 1800s Style — No, the Other 1800s
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the TRON Keyboard
- Experimental Drone Flies Like A Bird
- Apollo-era PCB Reverse Engineering to KiCad
- The Lancaster ASCII Keyboard Recreated
- Hacking Global Positioning Systems Onto 16th-Century Maps
- Programmable Zener is Really an IC
- Aftershock II: How Students Shattered 20-Year Amateur Rocket Records
- Hackaday Links: November 24, 2024
- Double Your Analog Oscilloscope Fun with this Retro Beam Splitter
- Flyback, Done Right
- RISC CPU Lives in Excel
- Modular Multi-Rotor Flies Up To Two Hours
- Hacking the Soil to Combat Desertification
- $40 Ham Antenna Works Six Bands
- RFID From First Principles and Saving a Cat
- Forget Pixel Art: Try Subpixels
- Close Shave for an Old Oscilloscope Saved with a Sticky Note
- 3D Printed Boat Uses Tank Tracks For Amphibious Propulsion
- Open Source, Forced Innovation, and Making Good Products
- 3D Space Can Be Tiled With Corner-free Shapes
- Drilling Rig Makes Accurate Holes In Seconds
- Transforming Drone Drives and Flies
- Mammalian Ancestors Shed Light on The Great Dying
- Lasers, Galvos, Action: A Quest for Laser Mastery
- Build Yourself A Useful Resistor Decade Box
- OLED Screen Mounting, Without The Pain
- Hack On Self: The Un-Crash Alarm
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 297: Prusa Eschews Open Source Hardware, The Lemontron Prints Upside-Down, and the vecdec Cyberdeck Does Minority Report
- Enhiker Helps You Decide if its a Good Day to Hike
- This Week in Security: Footguns, Bing Worms, and Gogs
- A Surprisingly Simple Omnidirectional Display
- Learn About Robot Arms By Building Pedro 2.0
- Quick and Very Dirty Repair Gets Smoked PLC Back in the Game
- Creating and Control of Magnetic Skyrmions in Ferromagnetic Film Demonstrated
- Gear Up: A 15-Minute Intro on Involute Gears
- Custom Mouse Rocks Neat Thumbstick Design
- FREE-WILi Turns DC32 Badge Into Hardware Dev Tool
- USB-C For Hackers: Reusing Cables
- There’s Now a Wiki For Hacking Redbox Machines
- Blended Wing Body Passenger Airplanes and the End of Winged Tubes
- Measuring the Mighty Roar of SpaceX’s Starship Rocket
- Simple Hydrogen Generator Makes Bubbles and Looks Cool
- Simple Stack of Ferrites Shows How Fluxgate Magnetometers Work
- Stepping On LEGO For Science
- A Tube Stereo Amplifier, From Scratch
- A Cyberpunk Pocketwatch
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 810: A Rising Wallet Pays for All Boats
- If Life Gives You Lemons, Build this Lemontron
- With Core ONE, Prusa’s Open Source Hardware Dream Quietly Dies
- FreeCAD Version 1.0 Released
- Boss Byproducts: Calthemites Are Man-Made Cave Dwellers
- An Animated Walkthrough of How Large Language Models Work
- Junk Box Build Helps Hams with SDR
- Most Extreme Hypergravity Facility Starts Up in China With 1,900 Times Earth’s Gravity
- Batteries Not Included: Navigating the Implants of Tomorrow
- Dial-up Internet Using the Viking DLE-200B Telephone Line Simulator
- Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Seen in the Wild
- Supercon 2024 SAO Petal KiCad Redrawing Project
- The Vecdec Cyberdeck is More than a Pretty Case
- The Great Redbox Cleanup: One Company is Hauling Away America’s Last DVD Kiosks
- Power Supply With Benchtop Features Fits In Your Pocket
- The Barcode Beast Likes Your CDs
- Tearing Down A SLA Printer With The Engineers Who Built It
- Hacking Haptics: The 19-Sensor Patch Bringing Touch to Life
- A Very Fast Camera Slider For The Glam Shot
- Crowdsourcing Ionosphere Data with Phones
- Gloriously Impractical: Overclocking the Raspberry Pi 5 to 3.6 GHz
- Do You Dream in Color?
- Exploring the Gakken FX Micro-Computer
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Typo
- The Laser Shadow Knows
- Ruined 1993 ThinkPad Tablet Brought Back From The Brink
- Analog Shift Register Revealed
- Completing the UE1’s Paper Tape Reader and First Squiggles
- Hackaday Links: November 17, 2024
- US’s UFO-Hunting Aerial Surveillance System Detailed In Report
- Schooling ChatGPT on Antenna Theory Misconceptions
- ESP32 hosts a USB keyboard in this Typewriter
- A Handheld Gaming PC With Steam Deck Vibes
- Classic LED Bubble Displays Ride Again
- Register Renaming: The Art of Parallel Processing
- Open Source Universal ROM Programmer Grows Up
- Ethernet From First Principles
- World’s First Virtual Meeting: 5,100 Engineers Phoned In
- Playing Chess Against LLMs and the Mystery of Instruct Models
- Hackers, Patents, and 3D Printing
- Spotted at Supercon: Glowtape Wearable Display
- WiFi Status Indicator Keeps Eye on the Network
- It’s a Soldering Iron! It’s A Multimeter! Relax! It’s Both!
- BASIC Co-Inventor Thomas Kurtz Has Passed Away
- RISC-V Pushes 400 Million Forth Words Per Second
- Bypassing Airpods Hearing Aid Georestriction With a Faraday Cage
- I Want To Believe: How To Make Technology Value Judgements
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 296: Supercon Wrapup with Tom and Al, The 3DP Brick Layering Controversy, and How To Weld in Space
- This Week in Security: Hardware Attacks, IoT Security, and More
- Homebrew pH Meter Uses Antimony Electrode
- Desert Island Acetylene from Seashells and Driftwood
- Retro Calculator Build Proves the Space Age Isn’t What It Used to Be
- Nebraskan Farmers Were Using Wind Turbines Before Environmentalism Was Invented
- Repairing The Questionable £25,000 Tom Evans Audiophile Pre-Amp
- Bluetooth Dongle Gives Up Its Secrets with Quick Snooping Hack
- US DOE Sets New Nuclear Energy Targets
- Microfluidic Motors Could Work Really Well For Tiny Scale Tasks
- Retrotechtacular: The TV Bombs of WWII
- The Life Cycle of Nuclear Fission Fuel: From Stars to Burn-Up
- Smart Thermostats Pitched for Texas Homes to Relieve Stressed Grid
- Building a Reproduction Apple I
- Laser Sound Visualizations Are Not Hard To Make
- AI Face Anonymizer Masks Human Identity in Images
- Open Cardiography Signal Measuring Device
- Landscape Motif Makes This E-Ink Weather Display Easy to Understand
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 809: Pi4J – Stable and Boring on the Raspberry Pi
- Making Sense of Real-Time Operating Systems in 2024
- A Vintage Radiator Core, From Scratch
- A Teletype by Any Other Name: The Early E-mail and Wordprocessor
- NASA Announces New Trials for In-Space Laser Welding
- Intuition about Maxwell’s Equations
- Remember the Tri-Format Floppy Disk?
- The End of Ondsel and Reflecting on the Commercial Prospects for FreeCAD
- WAV2VGM Plays Audio Via OPL3 Synthesis
- Teaching Computers to Read — Sort Of
- A Brief History of Cyrix, or How to Get Sued By Intel a Lot
- Retrotechtacular: Color TV
- You Wouldn’t Download a Chair…But You Could
- Ubiquitous Successful Bus: Version 3
- Minuteman ICBM Launch Tests Triple Warheads
- Z80 Testing the 80s Way
- A Handheld Replica Sound Voltex Game
- Britain’s Oldest Satellite on the Move: a Space Curiosity
- Automated Weed Spraying Drone Needs No Human Intervention
- Thermoelectric Blaster Flings Ice Projectiles
- Making a Unique Type Of Wind Gauge For Home Assistant Use
- Retrogadgets: Oscilloscope Cameras
- Videonics: The Dawn of Home Video Editing, Revisited
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With All the Espionage
- The Constant Monitoring and Work That Goes into JWST’s Optics
- Why the Saturn V Used Kerosene for its Hydraulics Fluid
- Cheap Sensor Changes Personality
- Welcome to SubTropolis: the Limestone Mine Turned Climate-Controlled Business Complex
- Hackaday Links: November 10, 2024
- Building a Motor Feed For the UE1 Vacuum Tube Computer’s Paper Tape Reader
- Component Tester Teardown
- Building a DIY Nipkow Disk Display
- A Beautifully Illustrated Guide to Making
- Inside an Arcade Joystick
- Brick Layers: the Promise of Stronger 3D Prints and Why We Cannot Have Nice Things
- Here’s Code for that AI-Generated Minecraft Clone
- All Aboard The Good Ship Benchy
- HIDman Brings Modern Input to Vintage PCs
- The Badge Hacks of Supercon
- Nix + Automated Fuzz Testing Finds Bug in PDF Parser
- Exploring the Physics Behind Cooling Towers
- Retrotechtacular: Computer-Generate Video 1968 Style!
- Ramsey Numbers and the Appearance of Order in Random Numbers
- DIY Digital Caliper Measures Up
- A Tiny Chemistry Lab
- Combination Safety Glasses and Measurement Tool
- The Rogue Emperor, And What To Do About Them
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 295: Circuit Graver, Zinc Creep, and Video Tubes
- Fuzzy Skin Finish for 3D Prints, Now On Top Layers
- This Week in Security: Linux VMs, Real AI CVEs, and Backscatter TOR DoS
- Ask Hackaday: How Much Would You Stake On An Online Retailer
- Teaching a Pi Pico E-Ink Panel New Tricks
- Help Wanted: Keep the World’s Oldest Windmills Turning
- Using AI To Help With Assembly
- DIY Lock Nuts
- Disposable Vape Batteries Power eBike
- 2023 Hackaday Supercon: One Year of Progress for Project Boondock Echo
- Hear a Vintage Sound Chip Mimic the Real World
- Mechanisms: Tension Control Bolts
- The Most Inexpensive Apple Computer Possible
- Reviewing the World’s 2nd Smallest Thermal Camera
- Check Your Clip Leads
- LEAF Mission Seeks to Grow Plants on the Moon
- Clever Circuit Makes Exercise Slightly Less Boring
- Rapid Prototyping PCBs With The Circuit Graver
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 808: Curl – Gotta Download ’em All
- Supercon 2023: Restoring the Apollo Guidance Computer
- Hardware-in-the-Loop Continuous Integration
- What Happens If You Speedrun Making A CPU?
- Amazon Receives FAA Approval for MK30 Delivery Drone
- A CO2 Traffic Light On An SAO
- Random Wire Antenna Uses No Wire
- Zinc Creep and Electroplasticity: Why Arecibo Collapsed
- PicoROM, A DIP-32 8-Bit ROM Emulator
- Split-Flap Clock Flutters Its Way to Displaying Time Without Numbers
- Open-Source Robot Transforms
- Ubiquitous Successful Bus: Hacking USB 2 Hubs
- Tracking Hydrogen in Space With a Home Radio Telescope For 21 cm Emissions
- Flirting With Kessler: why Space Debris Physics Make it Such an Orbital Pain
- AI Not Needed For Hackaday Projects
- Flaming Power Wheels Skeleton Wins Halloween
- iPod Clickwheel Games Preservation Project
- Humble Television Tubes Make An FM Regenerative Radio
- A Lesson in RF Design Thanks to This Homebrew LNA
- Power-Over-Skin Makes Powering Wearables Easier
- Supercon 2024: Badge Add-On Winners
- Pi Zero to AR: Building DIY Augmented Reality Glasses
- I Installed Gentoo So You Don’t Havtoo
- Reusing an Old Android Phone For GPIO With External USB Devices
- How to Shoot Actors with Arrows Sans CGI
- Building a Discrete 14-Bit String DAC
- GNSS Reception with Clone SDR Board
- Hackaday Links: November 3, 2024
- All You Need for Artificial Intelligence is a Commodore 64
- Polygons On a Lathe
- Oscillator Needs Fine-Tuning
- M.2 Makes An Unusual Microcontroller Form Factor
- Beth Deck is a Framework-Powered Gaming Handheld
- Transforming Pawn Changes the Game
- Measuring Temperature Without a Thermometer
- The Phantom PSP: Crafting The Handheld Sony Never Sold
- 3D Printed Hardware Sorter Keeps It Simple
- Supercon 2024: Streaming Live
- Don’t Forget Your Curve Tracer
- The Tsushin Booster – A PC Engine Modem Add-on With a Twist
- How Purdue Hackers Made a Big Sign That They’re Really Proud Of
- An RP2040-based PC-FX Development Cartridge
- A Neat Trick To 3D Print With Fewer Warping Issues
- Apple Forces the Signing of Applications in MacOS Sequoia 15.1
- Fix That Old Remote With Graphite
- Building a Hydrogen-Powered Foam Dart Cannon
- The Nixie Tube Multimeter That Almost Made a Comeback
- Capturing Light In A Vacuum: The Magic Of Tube Video Cameras
- Producing An Exquisite Wooden Keyboard
- This Week in Security: Playing Tag, Hacking Cameras, and More
- Fail of the Week: Subscription EV Charger Becomes Standalone, Briefly
- Combining Gyro Stabilisation With Weight Shift Balancing
- Cataract Surgery For An Old TV
- Few Things Are Cheaper than This Antenna
October 2024
- Bakelite to the Future – A 1950s Bluetooth Headset
- Small Volumetric Lamp Spins at 6000 RPM
- 3D Printing With a Hot Glue Gun
- Supercon 2024 Flower SAO Badge Redrawing in KiCad
- A Look Inside A Canadian Satellite TV Facility
- Voyager 1 Fault Forces Switch to S-Band
- Bogey Six O’clock!: The AN/APS-13 Tail Warning Radar
- An Electric Vehicle Conversion With A Difference
- KolibriOS: The Operating System That Fits on a 1.44 MB 3.5″ Floppy Disk
- Pi Pico Lays Down the Groove
- Tearing Down Nintendo’s Alarmo Alarm Clock
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 807: Bitten by the Penguin
- Haiku OS’s Beta 5 Release Brings Us Into a New BeOS Era
- Use PicoGlitcher For Voltage Glitching Attacks
- Supercon 2023: Cuddly Companion Bots
- Portable Solder Paste Station Prevents Smears With Suction
- Homebrew Sferics Receiver Lets You Tune Into Earth Music
- An International Hackerspace Map
- Electrostatic Motors are Making a Comeback
- Lies, Big Lies and LED Lightbulb Lifespan Promises
- Custom Fan Controller For Otherwise Fanless PCs
- Another Commodore Portable We Never (Quite) Received
- Boss Byproducts: Fulgurites Are Fossilized Lightning
- Little Quadruped Has PCB Spine And No Wiring
- 2024 Supercon: Last Minute Announcements
- Asahi Linux Brings Better Gaming to Apple Silicon
- Compact Dedicated News Reader Always Brings You CBC
- Making PCB Strip Filter Design Easy to Understand
- Raspberry Pi OS’s Wayland Transition Completed With Switch to Labwc
- Interfacing Old Burglar Alarm Sensors Into HomeAssistant
- Turning a Quansheng Handheld Into A Neat Desktop Transceiver
- The Woodworker’s Cyberdeck
- Word of the Day Calendar Is Great Use of E-Paper
- FreeBSD at 30: the History and Future of the Most Popular BSD-Based OS
- Video Provides Rare Look Inside China’s Space Station
- Lock-In Thermography on a Cheap IR Camera
- The Pound ( or Euro, Or Dollar ) Can Still Be In Your Pocket
- Hackaday Links: October 27, 2024
- BNCs For An Old Instrument
- Apple iOS 18’s New Repair Assistant: Easier Parts Pairing Yet With Many Limitations
- A Brand-New Additive PCB Fab Technique?
- Small Steam Generator Creates Educational Experience
- How Pollution Controls for Cargo Ships Made Global Warming Worse
- Clockwork Rover For Venus
- Geochron: Another Time, Another Timeless Tale
- The Glacial IPv6 Transition: Raising Questions on Necessity and NAT-Based Solutions
- McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Gain A DMCA Exemption
- A New Chinese Radio Breaks Cover, is it Worth it?
- DIY Laser Tag Project Does it in Style
- RF Detector Chip Helps Find Hidden Cameras and Bugs
- Chinese Humanoid Robot Establishes New Running Speed Courtesy of Running Shoes
- Atari’s Pac-Man Flop: How a Classic Went Off-Course
- Retrotechtacular: Making Enough Merlins to Win a War
- DIY 3D Hand Controller using a Webcam and Scripting
- Can You Homebrew A Running Shoe?
- ‘Upgrading’ a Microwave Oven To 20 kW
- Ham Radio in the Internet Age
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 294: SAO Badge Reveal, Precision on a Shoestring, and the Saga of Redbox
- Donated Atari Mega ST Gives a Peek at Game Development History
- This Week in Security: The Geopolitical Kernel, Roundcube, and The Archive
- A Birthday Cake for a Retrocomputer Designer
- Putting the New CryoGrip Build Plate to the Test
- Custom Drone Software Searches, Rescues
- Using an OLED Display’s Light for Embedded Sensors
- Mini Robotic Arm Lets You Start Your Own Mini Assembly Line
- Simple PCB Repairs Keep Old Vehicle Out of the Crusher
- Artificial Intelligence Runs on Arduino
- Supercon 2023: Building a Portable Vectrex, The Right Way
- Hands On With a Giant Nixie Tube
- Hacker Tactic: Building Blocks
- Keeping Tabs on an Undergraduate Projects Lab’s Door Status
- 3D Printed Tires, by the Numbers
- Seven New Street Fighter 2 Arcade Rom Hacks
- Singapore’s 4300 km Undersea Transmission Line With Australia Clears Regulatory Hurdle
- Signal Processing Shenanigans: The Createc SC 01 Pocket Oscilloscope
- A 3D Printed, Open Source Lathe?
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 806: Manyfold — The Dopamine of Open Source
- Silent Antenna Tuning
- Classic Heathkit OL-1 Scope Gets Some TLC
- Will .IO Domain Names Survive A Geopolitical Rearrangement?
- Tridora: A Full-Custom CPU Designed For Pascal
- 75-In-One Music
- Heathkit Signal Generator Gets an Update
- A Modern PC With a Retro OS
- Give Your SMD Components a Lift
- A Wobble Disk Air Motor with One Moving Part
- For Desalination, Follow the Sun
- The 2024 Hackaday Supercon SAO Badge Reveal
- Pushing the Plasma Limits With a Custom Flyback Transformer
- In its Second Year, JawnCon Was Bigger and Better
- Libre Space Foundation Aims to Improve Satellite Tech
- “Click to Cancel” Coming Soon
- Pac-Man Ghost Helps With Air Quality Sensing
- Nuclear Tomb Must Survive
- Zero To Custom MacroPad In 37 Easy Steps
- The 1983 Clock Four Decades in the Making
- Strange English Teaching Computer Might Have Been Big in Japan
- 2024 Supercon: Third Round of Super Speakers
- Open-Source, 3D Printed Trackpad
- An SAO for Hams
- I2C the Hard Way
- Save A Packet, Use Cheap Co-Ax!
- The Design Process For A Tiny Robot Brain
- Feeling a Pong of Nostalgia: Does it Hold Up In 2024?
- Hackaday Links: October 20, 2024
- DIY Air Bearings, No Machining Required
- Figuring Out the Most Efficient Way to Reuse Bags of Desiccant
- A Parts Bin MIDI Controller in 24 Hours
- Forget Flipper, How About Capybara?
- Behold a First-Person 3D Maze, Vintage Atari Style
- Ideal Diodes and How to Build Them
- Fundamentals of FMCW Radar Help You Understand Your Car’s Point of View
- Inside the RLL Hard Drive Protocol
- Make Your Own Remy the Rat This Halloween
- A Robust Guide To The Xbox 360 Glitch Hack
- Hackaday Hacked!
- Power Supply PCB Redesign
- Self-Portaging Canoe is Part Bicycle
- Little RC Car Project Takes Inspiration From Mario Kart
- Smart Glasses Read Text
- CNC Metal Forming
- FM Transmitter Remotely Controlled Via ESP32
- Teardowns Show Off Serious Satellite Hardware
- A Hacker’s Travel Guide To Europe
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 293: The Power of POKE, Folding Butterflies, and the CRT Effect
- Double-Slit Time Diffraction At Optical Frequencies
- This Week in Security: Quantum RSA Break, Out of Scope, and Spoofing Packets
- MOTU Audio Interface Resurrected After Some Reverse Engineering
- Overcomplicating the Magnetic Compass for a Reason
- Building A ZX Spectrum Using Only New Parts
- Redbox Is Dead, But The Machines Are Kind Of Hanging On
- Laser Painting Explained
- Tiny LoRa GPS Node Relies on ESP32
- Access the Information Superhighway With a Mac Plus
- Ubiquitous Successful Bus: Version 2
- The FNIRSI HRM-10 Internal Resistance Meter
- Mining and Refining: Mine Dewatering
- What Would It Take to Recreate Bell Labs?
- Read All About It: The 2024 Supercon Site is Live
- DIY Core Rope Memory Z80 Demonstrator Generating a Fibonacci Sequence
- Winamp Taken Down: Too Good For This Open Source World
- Module Makes Noisy Projects Easy
- Clockwork Derby : Digital Robo Rally , Steampunk Style
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 805: Mastodon — Bring Your Own Algorithm
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Folding Butterfly Keyboard
- Tech In Plain Sight: Tasers Shooting Confetti
- Linus Live-Codes Music on the Commodore 64
- Arduboy Cassette Award Explores New Features
- An Arduino Triggers a Flash With Sound
- Assessing Developer Productivity When Using AI Coding Assistants
- Solve: An ESP32-Based Equation Solving Calculator
- A Phone? A Ham Radio? Relax! It’s Both!
- Your Battery Holder Is Also Your Power Switch With ToggleSlot
- Experimenting with MicroPython on the Bus Pirate 5
- Mapping a Fruit Fly’s Brain with Crowdsourced Research
- Breaking News: 2024 Supercon SAO Contest Deadline Extended
- ANTIRTOS: No RTOS Needed
- Modular Magnetic LED Matrix
- What Actually Causes Warping In 3D Prints?
- A RISC-V LISP Compiler…Written In Lisp
- New Study Looks at the Potential Carcinogenicity of 3D Printing
- The Greengate DS:3 Part 2: Putting a Retro Sampler to use
- Solving a Retrocomputing Mystery with an Album Cover: Greengate DS:3
- Calculating the True Per Part Cost for Injection Molding vs 3D Printing
- The Biological Motors That Power Our Bodies
- Using the 555 for Everything
- Alphabet Soup: Haskell’s Single-Letter Naming Quirks
- Portable Pi Palmtop Provides Plenty
- DIY 3D-Printed Arduino Self-Balancing Cube
- Hackaday Links: October 13, 2024
- A Homebrew Gas Chromatograph That Won’t Bust Your Budget
- Retro Wi-Fi on a Dime: Amiga’s Slow Lane Connection
- Building An Automotive Load Dump Tester
- Levitating Magnet In A Spherical Copper Cage
- A VIC-20 with no VIC
- All System Prompts for Anthropic’s Claude , Revealed
- Solar Planes Are Hard
- Remembering John Wheeler: You’ve Definitely Heard of His Work
- Cockroaches in Space: Waste Processing and a Healthy Protein Source Combined
- Approximating an ADC with Successive Approximation
- If You Can’t Say Anything Nice
- Have You Heard Of The Liquid Powder Display?
- What’s Your SWR? Are You Sure?
- Are CRT TVs Important For Retro Gaming?
- PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Corporation Prolok
- Repairing a Component on a Flex Connector
- How To Make Conductive Tin Oxide Coatings On Glass
- C64 Gets a Graphics Upgrade Courtesy Of Your Favorite Piano Manufacturer
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 292: Stainless Steel Benchies, Lego Turing Machines, and a Digital Camera Made of Pure DIY
- The US’s New Nuclear Weapons, Mysterious Fogbanks and Inertial Confinement Fusion
- This Week in Security: The Internet Archive, Glitching With a Lighter, and Firefox In-the-wild
- Easily Program RP2040 Boards With Your Android Device
- Tiny Drones Do Distributed Mapping
- Symbolic Nixie Tubes Become Useful For Artistic Purposes
- Sailing the High Steppes
- A Power Supply With Ultra High Resolution Current Measurement Built In
- Building A Sound Camera For Under $400
- Supercon 2023: Receiving Microwave Signals from Deep-Space Probes
- Photochromic Dye Makes Up This Novel Optical Memristor
- Meet The Optical Data Format You’ve Never Heard Of Before
- The Internet Archive Has Been Hacked
- Wimbledon Goes Automated
- The Punched Card Detective
- On-Site Viral RNA Detection in Wastewater With Paper and Wax Microfluidics
- 3D Printed Bearings With Filament Rollers
- Fail of the Week: The Case of the Curiously Colored Streetlights
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 804: The AI Alliance — Asimov was Right
- Braun TS2 Radio Turns 68, Gets Makeover
- Lagrange Points and Why You Want to Get Stuck At Them
- Dot-Matrix Printer Brings Old School Feel to Today’s Headlines
- What Happened to Duracell PowerCheck?
- That’ll Go Over Like a Cement Airplane
- Soaring at Scale: Modular Airship Design
- A Flip Digit Clock, Binary Style
- Mechanical Tool Changing 3D Printing Prototype
- 3D Printering: Listen to Klipper
- Running Game Boy Games On STM32 MCUs is Peanuts
- Recycling Tough Plastics Into Precursors With Some Smart Catalyst Chemistry
- Printed Rack Holds Pair of LattePandas In Style
- Barbie’s Video Has Never Looked So Good
- GPS Tracking in the Trackless Land
- Using Donor Immune Cells to Mass-Produce CAR-T Autoimmune Therapies
- The Piezoelectric Glitching Attack
- The Turing Machine Made Real, In LEGO
- JawnCon 0x1 Kicks off Friday, Tickets Almost Gone
- Hack On Self: The Alt-Tab Annihilator
- Vehicle-To-Everything: the Looming Smart Traffic Experience
- First Benchies in Stainless Steel, With Lasers
- WiFi Meets LoRa for Long Range
- Towards Solderless PCB Prototyping
- Reversing Type 1 Diabetes With a Patient’s Own Stem Cells
- Hackaday Links: October 6, 2024
- Tinkering with Klipper: Making The ManiPilator Robotic Arm
- Tearing Down a Digital Scope from ’78
- 3D Printed Hydrofoil Goes From Model Scale To Human Scale With Flight Controller
- 2View: The Self-Erasing VHS Tape With Paperclip Hack
- Automated Pixel Art With Marbles
- Why Electric Trains Sound The Way They Do
- Memristors Are Cool, Radiation-resistant Memristors Even Moreso
- Quake in 276 KB of RAM
- See the “Pause-and-Attach” Technique for 3D Printing in Action
- Introducing the KanaChord Plus Keyboard カナコード・プラス・キーボード
- Where is the End of DIY?
- An Open Source Mirrorless Camera You’d Want To Use
- Phoniebox: A Family-Friendly Simple Music Box
- Mechanical Switch Sci-Calc is Also a Macropad
- This Bluetooth GATT Course Is A Must Watch
- How to Revive a Tandon Floppy Drive
- Single Rotor Drone Spins For 360 Lidar Scanning
- Interactive Project Teaches Lessons About Electromagnets And Waves
- HackFest Enschede: The Type Of Indoor Event We Wanted All Along
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 291: Walking in Space, Lead in the Earth, and Atoms under the DIY Microscope
- V-Cut Vias Test Your Whole Panel At Once
- This Week in Security: Zimbra, DNS Poisoning, and Perfctl
- The Raspberry Pi 500 Hints At Its Existence
- Need High-Power Li-Ion Charging? How About 100 W
- Mobius Keyboard Wastes Little Space
- On the Nature of Electricity: Recreating the Early Experiments
- 3D Print A Stenciling Frame For Your PCB
- A Lightweight Balloon Tracker For High Altitude Missions
- Pulley System Makes Headphone Cables More Managable
- Supercon 2023: [Cory Doctorow] with an Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet’s Enshittification and Throw It Into Reverse
- Add USB-C to Your AirPods the Easy Way
- Polaris Dawn, and the Prudence of a Short Spacewalk
- Pi Zero Power Optimization Leaves No Stone Unturned
- The 1924 Martian Signal: A Cosmic Curiosity
- Laptop GPU Upgrade With Just A Little Reballing
- Voyager 2’s Plasma Spectrometer Turned Off in Power-Saving Measure
- MikroPhone – Open, Secure, Simple Smartphone
- Witch’s Staff Build is a Rad Glowing Costume Prop
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 803: Unconferencing with OggCamp
- Retrotechtacular: Another Thing Your TV No Longer Needs
- Drive For Show, Putt for Dough
- Mining and Refining: Lead, Silver, and Zinc
- Creating Video Games With AI: a Mario Example
- Easily Build This IMU Array Sandbox
- BBC Micro: A Retro Revamp with the 68008 Upgrade
- ROG Ally Community Rebuilds The Proprietary Asus eGPU
- Xiaomi M365 Battery Fault? Just Remove A Capacitor
- Print Yourself Penrose Wave Tiles As An Excellent Conversation Starter
- 2024 SAO Contest: We’ve Got SAOs for your SAOs
- Supercon 2023: Thea Flowers Renders KiCad Projects On The Web
- HP WebOS TouchPad Gets With The USB-C Times
- Java Ring: One Wearable to Rule All Authentications
- The Challenges Of Charging Drones From Power Lines
- Very Tiny Cube Has 384 RGB LEDs
- Ceefax: The Original News on Demand
September 2024
- Building a 3D Printed Scanning Tunneling Microscope
- Doing 1080p Video, Sort Of, On the STM32 Microcontroller
- iPhone 15 Gets Dual SIM Through FPC Patch
- Supercon 2023 – Going into Deep Logic Waters With The Pico’s PIO And The Pi’s SMI
- 3D Printer Swaps Build Plates to Automate Print Jobs
- Static Electricity And The Machines That Make It
- Switch Your RP2040 Between 3.3 V and 1.8 V
- Inside the F-4 Attitude Indicator
- Shoot Smooth Video From Your Phone With the Syringe Slider
- Some SPI Flash Chip Nuances Worth Learning
- Hackaday Links: September 29, 2024
- Thinkpad 13 Gets NVMe Support With Three Jumpers
- First Tentative Sales of Tandem Perovskite-Silicon PV Panels
- Seven Day Movement Makes a Rubbish Clock
- Curing CRT Cataracts Freshens Up Retro Roundy TVs
- Internet Connected TI-84 To Cut Your Academic Career Short
- An ESP32 Delivers Perfect Slot Car Control
- The Last Sun Sparc Workstation
- Dog Poop Drone Cleans Up the Yard So You Don’t Have To
- Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges
- VR Headset With Custom Face Fitting Gets Even More Custom
- What’s the Deal with AI Art?
- Winamp A Few Days Later: You Can Fork, And Watch For GPL Violations
- See the Hands-on Details Behind Stunning Helmet Build
- Spectroscopy on the Cheap
- Turn A Mouse Into An Analogue Tuning Knob
- 3D Printed Jellyfish Lights Up
- Hacking Kia: Remotely Hijack a Car Using Only Its License Plate
- 2024 SAO Contest: Speak, SAO
- Retro Gadgets: Things Your TV No Longer Needs
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 290: iPhone’s Electric Glue, Winamp’s Source Code, and Sonya’s Beautiful Instructions
- Makerpipe Turns Conduit Into Structures
- This Week in Security: Password Sanity, Tank Hacking, And The Mystery 9.9
- British Commuters Get Their WiFi Hacked
- Blinking an LED Passively
- Stretch Goal: 300X Arduino
- Want To Help Capture Some Digital Ephemera? Break Out Your VHS Player
- A Universal RF Amplifier
- Reverse Time Back to the Days of RPN
- Making A Split-Anode Magnetron
- Estimating the Size of a Single Molecule of Oil Using Water
- An Ode to the SAO
- Broadcast TV Simulator Keeps the Nostalgia Flowing
- Inside a 1999 Ramtron Ferroelectric RAM Chip
- Bread Proofing Box for the Hungry Hacker
- Remembering CompuServe: the Online Experience Before the World Wide Web
- The Statial-b Open Source Adjustable Mouse
- A DaVinci Screw-Cutting Machine
- Reviving a 15-Year Old Asus eeePC With Modern MX Linux
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 802: Emba – Layers Upon Layers of Bash
- 2024 Hackaday Superconference Speakers, Round Two
- Copper Bling Keeps Camera Chill
- Tech in Plain Sight: Zipper Bags
- Cyberpack Puts All the Radios Right on Your Back
- Learn GPU Programming With Simple Puzzles
- A Space Walk Through ISS
- Will You Need Ad Block for Your Car?
- Winamp Releases Source Code, But Is It Really Open?
- ESP32 Powers Custom Darkroom Timer
- 3D Printing On Top Of Laser Cut Acrylic
- Supercon 2023: The Road to Writing Great Step-by-Step Instructions
- Most Powerful Laser Diodes, Now More Powerful
- 2024 Hackaday Supercon Workshop Tickets Go On Sale Now
- Little Pharma on the Prairie
- Replacing Selenium Rectifiers
- Digital Audio Workstation In A Box
- The Possibility of Reverting Time on the Ageing of Materials
- Find My Power Tool Battery
- A Beautiful Lamp-Inspired PC Case
- Custom Mini-Neon Signs in 10 Minutes
- Revisiting 1990’s Mac Games That Never Were
- Fukushima Daiichi: Cleaning Up After a Nuclear Accident
- New Release of Vision Basic: Hot New Features!
- StratoSoar Glider Flies Itself from High Altitude
- Hands-on With New iPhone’s Electrically-Released Adhesive
- The Tiny Toolkit Manifesto
- 3D Printing a Wire-Wrap Tool: Emergency Fix or Permanent Solution?
- Hackaday Links: September 22, 2024
- Brass Propeller Gets Impressive Hand Trimming
- Robotic Touch Using a DIY Squishy Magnetic Pad
- Hackfest, A New Event For Your European Calendar
- Where Did the Japanese Computers Go?
- FreeCAD is Near 1.0
- The Surprising Effects of Fast Food Kiosks
- When Raw Network Sockets Aren’t Raw: Raw Sockets in MacOS and Linux
- Linux, Now In Real Time
- Jumperless Breadboard V5 Readies For Launch
- Against Elitism
- Steel Reinforcement Toughens Cracked Vintage Knobs
- There’s No Lower Spec Linux Machine Than This One
- Get Your Lisp On With The Dune Shell
- Amateur Astronomer Images Spy Satellite
- Mechanical Logic Gates With Amplification
- Raspberry Pi RP2350-E9 Erratum Redefined as Input Mode Leakage Current
- Fixing an Elgato HD60 S HDMI Capture Device
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 289: Tiny Games, Two Modern Modems, and the Next Big Thing
- Inviting the Public to Take Stereo Photos for Science
- This Week in Security: Open Source C2, Raptor Trains, and End to End Encryption
- COBB Tuning Hit With $2.9 Million Fine Over Emissions Defeat Devices
- Laser Fault Injection, Now With Optional Decapping
- Inside a Portable Satellite Dish
- 2024 SAO Contest: The Jolly Tagger Is a Golden Way to Share Info
- Is That A Coaster? No, It’s An LED Matrix!
- Reverse Engineering A Keyboard Driver Uncovers A Self-Destruct Code
- Lathe Outfitted with Electronic Gearbox
- Design and the Golden Rule
- Embossing Graphics By 3D Printing On Wood
- Switching Regulators: Mistake Fixing For Dummies
- Mothbox Watches Bugs, So You — Or Your Grad Students — Don’t Have To
- A Guide to Laser Cutting Metal, if You’ve Got the Cash
- Trees Turned Into Wind Turbines, Non-Destructively
- Creating a Twisted Grid Image Illusion With a Diffusion Model
- Blowing Up Shell Scripts
- Upgraded Raster Laser Projector Goes RGB
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 801: JBang — Not Your Parents Java Anymore
- Meet the Winners of the 2024 Tiny Games Contest
- Airline Seats Are for Dummies
- Catching The BOAT: Gamma-Ray Bursts and The Brightest of All Time
- Bringing the Horror of Seaman into the Real World
- From High Level Language to Assembly
- A Brand New USB Modem In The 2020s
- Thermal Runaway: Solving the Bane of Electric Vehicles
- Ferrites Versus Ethernet in the Ham Shack
- Latest PiEEG Shield Now Offers 16 Channels
- New duckyPad Pro is Bigger and Smarter than Original
- 2024 Hackaday Superconference Speakers, Round One
- PC Floppy Copy Protection: Electronic Arts Interlock
- Apple May Break Into the Hearing Aid Industry
- The Rise of Self-Cleaning, Cat-Killing Litter Boxes
- We’ll Take DIY Diamond Making for $200,000
- The Universe as We Know It May End Sooner Than Expected
- Raspberry Pi Becomes Secure VPN Router
- No Z80? No Problem!
- The JawnCon 0x1 Badge Dials Up a Simpler Time
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the (Mc)Cool Typewriter
- Real Time Hacking Of A Supermarket Toy
- Hack On Self: Collecting Data
- Hack Your Eyesight with High Tech Bifocals
- Usagi Electric’s Paper Tape Reader is Ready to Hop With the Tube Computer
- Microwave Forge Casts the Sinking-est Benchy Ever
- Exploring TapTo NFC Integration On The MiSTer
- Hackaday Links: September 15, 2024
- Archiving Data On Paper Using 2D Images
- An 80386 Upgrade Deal and Intel 486 Competitor: the Cyrix Cx486DLC
- G4 Mac Mini is a Wolf in Apple IIc Clothing
- An Espresso Machine for the DIY Crowd
- Non-planar Ironing Makes Smooth Prints
- Watch NASA’s Solar Sail Reflect Brightly in the Night Sky
- Cast21 Brings Healing Into 2024
- Taking Back The Internet With The Tildeverse
- An Earth-Bound Homage to a Martian Biochemistry Experiment
- Create Custom Gridfinity Boxes Using Images Of Tools
- Pong in a Petri Dish: Teasing Out How Brains Work
- Always Something New Under the Sun
- Soldering, Up Close and Personal
- A 1930s Ham Station
- Player Ukulele Pulls Your Strings
- Supercon 2024: Last Call For Display Tech Exhibit
- Pulling Apart An Old Satellite Truck Tracker
- Building A Multi-Purpose Electrochemistry Device
- 2024 Tiny Games Contest: Neat PCB Business Card Was Inspired By The Arduboy
- Where Do You Connect The Shield?
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 288: Cyanotypes, Antique 21-Segment Displays, and the Voynich Manuscript in a New Light
- Recreating a Popular Faux-Nixie Clock
- This Week in Security: Malicious Rollback, WHOIS, and More
- Doing MIDI With Discrete Logic Is Neat, If Not Particularly Useful
- Simple PCB Agitator Gets The Job Done
- There’s Already A Nixie Addon For The 2024 Supercon Badge
- Back Up Your Data On Paper With Lots Of QR Codes
- 2024 Tiny Games Contest: Spectacular Sub-Surface Simon
- Digital Bumper Sticker Tells Everyone What You’re Listening To
- How Photomultipliers Detect Single Photons
- Building A Subwoofer Box Out Of Decking Material
- Review: iFixit’s FixHub May Be The Last Soldering Iron You Ever Buy
- 2024 Tiny Games Contest: A Flappy Seagull Game With Sound in Only 500 Bytes
- Inkycal Makes Short Work of e-Paper Dashboards
- 2024 Tiny Games Contest: Micro One-Armed Bandit Hits the Cuteness Jackpot
- Train Speed Signaling Adapted For Car
- Hacking an NVIDIA CMP 170HX Crypto GPU for EM Sim Work
- IBM’s 1969 Educational Computing
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 800: Champagning the Ladybird Browser
- Supercon 2023: Aleksa Bjelogrlic Dives Into Circuits That Measure Circuits
- Using a Potato as Photographic Recording Surface
- Lithium-Ion Battery Hotswapping, Polarity, Holders
- Voyager 1 Completes Tricky Thruster Reconfiguration
- A Look Inside a DIY Rocket Motor
- The Apple Watch As An Ammeter
- Cruise Ship-Lengthening Surgery: All the Cool Companies Are Doing It
- Misleading GPS, Philosophy of Maps, And You
- Why have Seven Segments When You Can Have 21?
- Mobile Coffee Table Uses Legs to Get Around
- Assessing the Energy Efficiency of Programming Languages
- Rescuing High-Res Displays from Older Macs
- A Look At The Small Web, Part 1
- Shedding New Light on the Voynich Manuscript With Multispectral Imaging
- Slim Tactile Switches Save Classic TI Calculator with a Bad Keypad
- Hard Lessons Learned While Building a Solar RC Plane
- DOOM on a Volumetric Display
- PC Floppy Copy Protection: Softguard Superlok
- This Tiny Steam Engine Takes a Watchmaker’s Skill to Build
- One Giant Steppe for Space Flight
- Supercon 2023: Ben Combee And The Hacker’s Guide To Audio/Video Formats
- The Science of Coating Steel
- Reinforcing Plastic Polymers With Cellulose and Other Natural Fibers
- Orion Ceases Operations, Future of Meade Unclear
- Microsoft Sculpt Keyboard Lives Again with RP2040
- Mainframe Chip has 360MB of on-Chip Cache
- Printed in Space: 3D-Printed Metal Parts Shown Off After Returning From the ISS
- Hackaday Links: September 8, 2024
- Self Driving Cars Learn from Our Eyes
- Reverse Engineering The Web API of an Akaso EK7000 Action Camera
- 2024 Tiny Games Contest: An Epic Minimalist Entertainment System, Indeed
- Repairing a Hallicrafters S-120
- The Hidden Crystal Method
- How Hot is That Soldering Iron?
- Building a DIY MSX Mega Cartridge
- Rendering Skin Transparent Using the Food Dye Tartrazine
- Get Thee to Git
- Should You Run Servo Horns Or Direct Couplings In Your RC Planes?
- Fun and Failure
- Glowing Egg Is a One-Oeuf Solution for Tracking Cycles
- Large Language Models on Small Computers
- Getting Started With Polypropylene (PP) 3D Printing
- Bluetooth Version 6.0 Core Specification Released
- Hot Water Heater Hacked To Run On Solar Juice
- An Automatic Cat Feeder Built With A 4060 Binary Counter
- How Much Resolution Does Film Really Have?
- Ask Hackaday, What’s Next?
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 287: Raspberry Pi Woes, Blacker than Black, and Printing with Klipper
- An Electric Skateboard for the Dogs
- This Week in Security: EUCLEAK, Revival Hijack, and More
- 3D Print Yourself These Mini Workshop Tools
- Jump Cacti With an LDR and a Pico
- Build Yourself A Beautiful Interactive Light Toy
- Build A Super Cheap RC Trainer Plane With Foam
- It’s Spreadsheets All The Way Down for This 80s Handheld
- High-Speed Jelly Launcher Destroys Toast
- If Wood Isn’t The Biomass Answer, What Is?
- Launching Model Airplanes With a Custom Linear Induction Motor
- I2C For Hackers: Digging Deeper
- Getting Root on Cheap WiFi Repeaters, the Long Way Around
- Tactile Communication Board Speaks the Truth
- How Sony Mastered the Transistor
- Floorboard Is a Keyboard for Your Feet
- Humble 555 Gets a Boost for ESR Meter
- The Worsening Raspberry Pi RP2350 E9 Erratum Situation
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 799: Still Open Source at Percona
- Boss Byproducts: the Terrible Beauty of Trinitite
- 3D Printering: Switch and Klip(per)
- Multi-Material Printing Enables Low Cost Silicone Prototypes
- OpenSCAD Library Creates QR Codes on the Fly
- College Gives You Practical Electronics
- A Nibble Of Core Memory, In An SAO
- 2024 Tiny Games Contest: Batch Craze Is Portable Charades, Kind Of
- A Clean Linux Installation For an Android TV Box
- Mowing the Lawn With Lasers, For Science
- Supercon 2023: Teaching Robots How to Learn
- A Windows Control Panel Retrospective Amidst a Concerning UX Shift
- Portable Multi-SDR Rig Keeps Your Radios Cool
- 3D Printed RC Crane Has Epic 3-Foot Reach
- Building a Stylish iPhone Standby Dock
- Big Benchy Is a Boat That Really Boats
- Video Baby Monitor Repair Uncovers Private Data
- A Digital Replacement For Your Magic Eye
- 2024 Tiny Games Contest: Morse Quest Goes Where You Do
- Spiders Are Somehow Hacking Fireflies to Lure More Victims
- The Strangest Way to Stick PLA to Glass? With a Laser and a Bit of Foil
- Ultra-Black Material, Sustainably Made from Wood
- A Mini NUC Rack for Your Desktop
- VR Headset with HDMI Input Invites a New Kind of Cyberdeck
- Hackaday Links: September 1, 2024
- Film, As You Have Never Had It Explained Before
- 3D Printed Homes Are All the Hype, but What is Their Real Impact?
- Swiss Researchers May Have Solved Hydrogen Storage
- An Attractive Magnet Insertion Tool
- CL-32: The Minimum Possible For a Useful Handheld Computer
- CCFL Scanner Bulb Makes a Cool Desk Lamp
- Your Name In Landsat
August 2024
- The Trashiest Of Mains Inverters
- 2024 Tiny Games Contest: ATtinyBoy Does It with Tiny Cartridges
- Taking a Spirograph Mill for a Spin
- Make Your Own Point Contact Transistor
- Universal Power Bank Customized To Your Liking
- The Computer We All Wish We’d Had In The 8-Bit Era
- Putting a Pi in a Container
- Symmetrical Gear Spins One-Way, Harvesting Surrounding Chaos
- Dual-Port RAM For a Simple VGA Card
- 2024 Tiny Games Contest: Realistic Steering Wheel Joystick In Miniature
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 286: Showing off SAOs, Hiding from HOAs, and Beautiful Byproducts
- Is That Antenna Allowed? The Real Deal on the FCCs OTARD Rule
- Online Game Becomes Unexpected PixelFlut
- This Week in Security: The Rest of the IPv6 Story, CVE Hunting, and Hacking the TSA
- New 2 GB Raspberry Pi 5 Has Smaller Die and 30% Lower Idle Power Usage
- Adjustable Electric Hand Warmers
- A Little Optical Magic Makes This Floating Display Pop
- 2024 Tiny Games Contest: Mini Cyclone Tests Reaction Time
- Driven To Over-Engineer a Kids’ Car
- 2024 Tiny Games Contest: Blind Maze Is Fun For All
- Walking the Plank: Add-Ons for the Bus Pirate
- 3D Printering: Klipper, the Free 3D Printer Upgrade
- Reconfigurable Tracked Robot Has Some Neat Flexible Abilities
- Adding Human Detection to Home Automation
- A Non-Musical Use Case for 8-Track
- IBM’s Latest Quantum Supercomputer Idea: the Hybrid Classical-Quantum System
- SWD Interface Simplifies Debugging
- Hardware Bug in Raspberry Pi’s RP2350 Causes Faulty Pull-Down Behavior
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 798: Building the Rust Desktop with COSMIC
- Boss Byproducts: Fordites Are Pieces of American History
- The Commodordion Gets a Big Usability Upgrade
- Why Use a Sensor When a Pseudo-Sensor Will Do?
- Demonstrating The Photoelectric Effect Using Neon Lamps
- Proper Mag Lev Controller Makes Snail Lamp Much Cooler
- Exploring PC Floppy Protection: Formaster Copy-Lock
- DEC’s LAN Bridge 100: The Invention of the Network Bridge
- Hardware Reuse: The PMG001 Integrated Power Management Module
- Building A Small Gyro Stabilized Monorail
- Supercon 2024: May the Best Badge Add-Ons Win
- Hidden Gutter Antenna Keeps HOA Happy
- What’s New in 3D Scanning? All-In-One Scanning is Nice
- Using The Pi Pico As ‘Programmable Hardware’ For The Apple II
- Nice Retro Displays Set This Watch on Edge
- The Macintosh Plus Sounds Great If You Do Exactly This With It
- Robots Collaborate To Localize Themselves Precisely
- Fast 3D Printing With a Polar, Four Quadrant Custom Machine
- It Turns Out, A PCB Makes A Nice Watch Dial
- Experimenting with Interference on Thin Layers
- Supercon 2024: Show Off Your Unique Display Tech
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Folding Typewriter
- Backlight Switch for a Better Multimeter
- Everything You Wanted to Know about Early Macintosh Floppies
- A Simple But Effective Receiving Loop Antenna
- Building a Microcontroller from Scratch: The B4 Thinker Project
- Hackaday Links: August 25, 2024
- 3D Printed Electronics Breadboard
- A simple 6DOF Hall Effect ‘Space’ Mouse
- V-Slot Wheels or Linear Rails?
- Talking Milk Jug Says Glug-Glug-Glug
- Simulating Air Flow for 3D Printing
- Lunar Landing Lunacy: Charles Duke Confronted With Reality-Deniers
- Using a 2D Scanner to Make 3D Things
- Meta Cancels Augmented Reality Headset After Apple Vision Pro Falls Flat
- Comparing AliExpress vs LCSC-Sourced MOSFETs
- Flying Lotus is a Framework-Powered Portable All-in-One Computer
- Compact Driver Powers Steppers with USB-C PD
- A Journey Into Unexpected Serial Ports
- Intuitive Explanation of Arithmetic, Geometric & Harmonic Mean
- A Game of Snake on a LEGO Mechanical Computer
- You Can Get A Precision Instrument-Guided Landing Even In Antarctica
- Creating Customized Diffraction Lenses For Lasers
- Tiny Custom Keyboard Gets RGB
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 285: Learning Laser Tricks, Rocket Science, and a Laptop That’s Not a Laptop
- Ethernet History: Why Do We Have Different Frame Types?
- This Week in Security: Crash your iPhone, Hack Your Site, and Bluetooth Woes
- The Famous Computer Cafe Has Now Been Archived Online
- A Simple Guide to RF PCB Design
- Portable PS4 Is Easier To Move Than A Regular One
- Wardriving Tools In The Modern Era
- Second Human Neuralink Brain Implant Recipient Uses It For CAD and Videogaming
- You Can 3D Print Yourself Some Simple Magnetic Switches
- A Cheap DIY PLC Based on the Atmega328P
- A Field Guide to the North American Substation
- Citizen Scientists Spot Super Fast Moving Object in NASA Data
- Tech in Plain Sight: Speedometers
- Running Stock MS-DOS on a Modern ThinkPad
- Happy Birthday to Dad, Retrocomputer Style
- Tiny ’90s Laptop Gets Modern Power
- The First Mass Produced DRAM of the Soviet Union
- Farewell Magnetic Stripe
- Atari Announces the Atari 7800+ Nostalgia Console
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 797: Coreutils — Don’t rm -r Up the Tree
- Supercon 2023: Soft Actuators as Assistive Tech
- Jangle Box Plucks Strings At the Press of a Button
- Ask Hackaday: How Can We Leverage Tech for Education?
- How Jurassic Park’s Dinosaur Input Device Bridged the Stop-Motion and CGI Worlds
- Pulling Apart a Premium WebCam
- Does Solar Energy Make Us Vulnerable?
- WOW! It Wasn’t Aliens After All!
- Are You Using Your Calipers Wrong?
- Pulling Hydrogen out of the Water
- Remapping HID for Fun and… Well Fun
- Open Source Liquid Rocket Reaches for the Sky
- Australia Didn’t Invent WiFi, Despite What You’ve Heard
- Learning How a Nuclear Missile Stays on Target
- Close-Up On The RP2350 HSTX Peripheral
- 2024 Tiny Games Contest: Save the Stranded Puppies of Moon Base P!
- Amiga, Interrupted: A Fresh Take On Amiga OS
- A Trackball Retro Laptop
- Cost-Optimized Raspberry Pi 5 Released With 2 GB RAM and D0 Stepping
- Historical Microsoft and Apple Artifacts Among First Christie’s Auction of Living Computers Museum
- Portable Router Build: Finding An LTE Modem
- Get More Freedom With This Guitar Pedal
- This Is Not a Laptop, It’s a KVM Combo
- Building a Paper Tape Reader To Read Bytes
- An Open Source 6kW GaN Motor Controller
- Machining Copper from Algaecide
- Quantum Sensor Uses Synthetic Diamond
- Hackaday Links: August 18, 2024
- 2024 Tiny Games Contest: Coming At Ya with Zero-Dimensional PONG
- Meta Doesn’t Allow Camera Access on VR Headsets, So Here’s a Workaround
- Reverse-Engineering the AMD Secure Processor Inside the CPU
- Categorizing Steel
- Simple 3D-Printed Table Loom for Complex Weavings
- Retrotechtacular: Powerline Sagging and Stringing in the 1950s
- Spy Tech: Making Microdots
- Olympic Sprint Decided By 40,000 FPS Photo Finish
- 2024 Tiny Games Challenge: It’s 2048, But with LEDs
- Your Data in the Cloud
- The First Air Force One and How it Was Nearly Lost Forever
- Laser Art Inspired by the Ford Motor Company
- A USA Feature for a Europe-Market Sony Receiver
- Canadarm2 Scores Milestone With Catching Its 50th Spacecraft
- Roll Your Own Presence Sensor
- Fighting the Scourge of “Screwdriver Mange”
- 2024 Tiny Games Contest: Salsa One Handheld Requires No PCB
- This Week in Security: Three Billion SS Numbers, IPv6 RCE, and Ring -2
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 284: Laser Fault Injection, Console Hacks, and Too Much Audio
- Lunar Lander Game Asks You to Write a Simple Autopilot
- A Modern Take on an Old Language
- Rebuilding The First Digital Personal Computer
- Robust Speech-to-Text, Running Locally on Quest VR Headset
- UC Berkeley Prints Glass Nanoparticles
- Make a Catch With a 3D Printed Rod
- The Sunchronizer Keeps Your Solar Panel Aligned
- Edge-Lit, Thin LCD TVs Are Having Early Heat Death Issues
- Open Source Residential Energy Storage
- Australia’s Controlled Loads Are In Hot Water
- Help The LEGO Camera Become a Reality
- Unusual Tool Gets an Unusual Repair
- Autonomous Boat Plots Lake Beds
- Entangled Photons Maintained Using Existing Fiber Under NYC’s Streets
- Handsome Sim Racing Button Box Is A Super Easy Build
- Handheld Oscilloscope Meter Reviewed
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 796: Homebrew, I’m More of a Whopper Guy
- Hacker Tactic: Pimp Your Probes
- A Really Low Level Guide To Doing Ethernet on an FPGA
- Laser Cutters: Where’s the Point?
- Wacky Science: Using Mayonnaise to Study Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
- Ryobi Battery Pack Gives Up Its Secrets Before Giving Up the Ghost
- Original Game Boy Gets Display “Upgrade”
- Possible Discovery of Liquid Water In Mars’ Mid-Crust by the Insight Lander
- From Vehicle-to-Grid to DIY Home Powerwalls
- Cheap DIY Button Pad Uses Neat Punchcard Trick
- Stemfie, The 3D-Printable Construction Set
- Portable Router Build: Picking Your CPU
- DIY Gaming Laptop Built Entirely With Desktop Parts
- The Long, Slow Demise of DVD-RAM
- DIY Rabbit R1 Clone Could Be Neat With More Hardware
- RC Submarine Build Starts with Plenty of Research
- A Simple Portable PS4 Build
- Hydrogen Generation with Seawater, Aluminum, and… Coffee?
- Globe-Shaped World Clock Is A 3D-Printed Mechanical Marvel
- Can You Hack The RP2350? There’s $10,000 On The Line
- Prusa Picks Up the Pace with New MK4S Printer
- Audio On Pi: Here Are Your Options
- Pi Pico SDR on a Breadboard
- 2024 Tiny Games Contest: Are You a Good Judge of Time?
- The First New Long Wave Radio Station Of This Millennium
- Hackaday Links: August 11, 2024
- If You Give A Dev A Tricked Out Xbox, They’ll Patch Halo 2
- Moonbounce Music
- A Tiny Knob Keeps You In Control
- Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
- Inside the Mecanum Wheel
- Proxxon CNC Conversion Makes a Small Mill a Bit Bigger
- Potential Cure For All of England’s Beta Thalassemia Patients Within Reach
- Robot Arm Gives Kids the Roller Coaster Ride of their Lives
- 3D Printed Jet Engine Goes Turbo
- Be your own DJ with QN8066 and an Arduino Library
- Better Living Through Hackery
- Video Game Preservation – Stop Killing Games!
- What is SystemVerilog, Really?
- The Luminiferous Theremin
- Laser Fault Injection on the Cheap
- The Waveguide Explanation You Wish You’d Had At School
- The First Fitbit: Engineering and Industrial Design Lessons
- 500cc Of 4-Wheel Off-Road Fun
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 283: Blinding Lasers, LEDs, and ETs
- Custom Pneumatic Cylinders Lock This Monitor Arm in Place
- This Week in Security: GhostWrite, Localhost, and More
- Liquid (Reversibly) Solidifies at Room Temperature, Gets Used for 3D Prints
- Fixing a Busted Fluke While Fighting a Wonky Schematic
- Mouse Doesn’t Play Pong… It IS Pong!
- Kickflips and Buffer Slips: An Exploit in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
- Building AI Models To Diagnose HVAC Issues
- Internet Appliance to Portable Terminal
- Adapter Salad: Making Your Own Server Cables Because HP Won’t Sell Them To You
- A Smart LED Dice Box Thanks To The Internet of Things
- Raspberry Has a New Pico, Built with the New RP2350
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the KiCad Plugin
- Magnesium and Copper Makes an Emergency Flashlight
- Tulip is a Micropython Synth Workstation, in an ESP32
- Forget Ship in a Bottle, How About Joule Thief in a Fuse Tube?
- The First Real Sputnik
- Vintage Crystal Radio Draws the Waves
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 795: Liferay, Now We’re Thinking With Portals
- Compiling Four Billion If Statements
- On Carbon Fiber Types and Their Carcinogenic Risks
- An ESP Makes A Bicycle Odometer
- I2C For Hackers: The Basics
- Obscure Sci Fi Robots
- Kali Cyberdeck Looks the Business
- Tiny Trackpad Fits On Ergonomic Keyboard
- 1000 Picks Make for a Weird Guitar
- Old Time Stereographs Get New Photos
- RC Car Gets Force Feedback Steering
- Tickets for Supercon 2024 Go On Sale Now!
- Benchy In A Bottle
- Hack On Self: Sense Of Time
- Creating 1 um Features The Hacker Way
- A Look Inside the Space Shuttle’s First Printer
- The 555 As A MOSFET Driver
- Cisco Ball is the Tumbleweed Opposite of a Disco Ball
- A Two-Stroke Engine Made From Scratch Using Basic Hardware Store Parts
- Asteroids: Kessler Syndrome Edition
- Embedded Python: MicroPython Toolkits
- Serve Your Next Website with QuickBasic
- Radio Apocalypse: HFGCS, The Backup Plan for Doomsday
- Proof that find + mkdir are Turing-Complete
- At Last, Chumby is Ready
- The Ultimate Seed Vault Backup? How About the Moon
- Apollo Computer: The Forgotten Workstations
- Hackaday Links: August 4, 2024
- Your ESP32 As A USB Bluetooth Dongle
- All The Air Ducting Parts You Could Ever Need
- PC-9800 Boot Sounds for Modern Computers!
- Detecting Faster Than Light Travel by Extraterrestrials
- Bringing The UMPCs Back With A Pi Zero
- Pixel Art and the Myth of The CRT Effect
- Need A USB Sniffer? Use Your Pico!
- Steam Deck, Or Single Board Computer?
- Homebrew Relay Computer Features Motorized Clock
- How About Privacy and Hackability?
- Get Your Glitch on With a PicoEMP and a 3D Printer
- Linux Handheld Packs Dual Batteries So It’s Never out of Juice
- Better Battery Design Through Science
- Taco Bell to Bring Voice AI Ordering to Hundreds of US Drive-Throughs
- Sliding Shelves Supersize Storage
- Custom Hat Gives Vintage Mitutoyo Calipers a New Lease on Life
- Over-molding Wires with Hot Glue and 3D Printed Molds
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 282: Saildrones, a New Classic Laptop, and SNES Cartridges are More Than You Think
- Solar Fountain Aerates Garden Pond
- This Week in Security: Echospoofing, Ransomware Records, and Github Attestations
- Getting a Laser Eye Injury and How to Avoid it
- Rube Goldberg Floppy Disk Cleaner
- Altermagnetism in Manganese Telluride and Others: the Future of Spintronics?
- What are Photons, Anyway?
- Getting an Old HVAC System Online
- Cardboard R/C Plane Actually Flies
- 2024 Tiny Games Contest: Pi-O-Scope-Pong
- The Atomic Gardener Of Eastbourne
- Programming Ada: Implementing the Lock-Free Ring Buffer
- Programming Tiny Blinkenlight Projects with Light
- Secret Messages On Plastic, Just Add Tesla Coil
- Spin Your Own Passive Cooling Fibres
- A New Era for US Passenger Rail?
July 2024
- DIY Off Grid Battery Pack from EV Battery
- LightBurn Turns Back the Clock, Bails on Linux Users
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 794: Release Them All with JReleaser
- Reverse Engineering a Soundsystem’s API
- Polaroid in an Instant
- Climate Change May Make Days Longer
- A Look Inside the Super Nintendo Cartridges and Video System
- AI Image Generator Twists In Response to MIDI Dials, in Real-time
- Overhauling Subway Cars is a Big Job
- Making an Aluminium Foil Glider to Prototype Hydroforming
- The Last Instrument to get Auto-Tuned
- This Home Made Mac Has a Real CRT
- Programming Ada: Designing a Lock-Free Ring Buffer
- Re-imagining Telepresence With Humanoid Robots and VR Headsets
- Undersea Cable Repair
- Read Utility Meters via SDR to Fill Out Smart Home Stats
- Junk Bin Build Lets You Test Fuel Injectors On the Cheap
- Building the Unreleased Lemmings Arcade Cabinet from 1991
- Saildrones Searching the Sea for Clues to Hurricane Behavior
- Getting Linux Process List Without Forking Using Just a Bash Script
- Foliodeck Squeezes a Writerdeck into a Planner
- A Brief History of AlphaSmart
- Hacker Tactic: Multi-Design Panels
- A Soviet Cassette Recorder Receiving Some Love
- An Antenna to Throw You for a Loop
- A Look at the Intel N100 Radxa X4 SBC
- Making USB Blaster Clones Work For Linux
- The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart: a Maglev Bridge to Life
- You’ve Got The Portable Radio, Now What About The Antenna?
- Hackaday Links: July 28, 2024
- An RC Tracked Robot, Without The Pain
- A Demo Party On A Chip
- Printed Portable Computer Inspired by the Classics
- Low-Gravity Playground Looks Highly Entertaining (and Useful)
- AMD Returns to 1996 With Zen 5’s Two-Block Ahead Branch Predictor
- Print Your Own Magnetic Connector
- The BAPPR Keeps Your Addressable LED System Cool
- MIDI Controller in a Cubic Inch
- Need Many Thin Parts? Try Multi-material Stack Printing
- A History of Internet Outages
- Hacker Olympics
- OSHW Model Rocket Kit Embraces the Hexagon
- George Washington Gets Cleaned Up With a Laser
- Vintage Ribbon Cable Repair Saves Poqet PC
- Analyzing Feature Learning in Artificial Neural Networks and Neural Collapse
- Your QuickTake Camera And Your Modern PC
- Electromagnetic Actuator Mimics Muscle
- Ask Hackaday: Is Shortwave on Life Support?
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 281: Metal Clay, Desiccants, Silica Gel, and Keeping Filament Dry
- You Can Program AVRs From The Commodore 64
- This Week in Security: EvilVideo, Crowdstrike, and InSecure Boot
- Building a Keychain Wii Looks Possible
- Can Cats Solve Puzzles?
- Car Becomes a Massive Bubble Machine
- A Robot Face with Human Skin
- Cutting An IoT Fan Free Of The Cloud
- 3D-Printed RC Drift Car Comes With Smoke Effects
- USB-C Powered Hotplate Is Not For Food
- Linux Fu: Failing Pipelines
- A Simple Liquid Level Indicator With a Single IC
- End of an Era: Sony Cuts Production Of Writable Optical Media
- Retro Inspired Cyberdeck Scrolls Around Cyberspace
- Pnut: A Self-Compiling C Transpiler Targeting Human-Readable POSIX Shell
- Hacking an IoT Camera Reveals Hard-Coded Root Password
- Manually Computing Logarithms to Grok Calculators
- A Lenticular Clock Spells Out The Hours
- A Puzzle for the Visually Impaired, or Blindfolded
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 793: Keeping an Eye on Things with Hilight.io
- Supercon 2023: Jesse T. Gonzalez Makes Circuit Boards That Breathe and Bend
- Exploring Soap Films
- The Rise of The Disappearing Polymorphs
- Is It Time for Synthetic Diamonds to Shine?
- Tiny Games Challenge: A Retro Racing Game on a 16×2 LCD
- Need a Tube? Reach for Plywood!
- Colour Film Processing For The 2020s Hacker
- Workholding Options for the Beginner CNC Operator
- Automatic Garbage Can Keeps Cooking Cleaner
- 2024 Tiny Games Challenge: Improving Reaction Time
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Key Cap Map
- Could Carbon Fiber be the New Asbestos?
- You Can Use LEDs As Sensors, Too
- Photoresistor-based Single Pixel Camera
- Brain Implant Uses Graphene Instead of Metal Probes
- Exploring Cheap Tantalum Caps of Mysterious Provenance
- Mechanical Intelligence and Counterfeit Humanity
- CW Not Hard Enough? Try This Tiny Paddle
- Bluetooth Printer works with AppleTalk
- A Throne for LEGO Baron Harkonnen
- Small Mammals Appear To Have A Secret Infrared Sense
- Making a Solid State 6AK8 Tube
- Reviewing Nuclear Accidents: Separating Fact From Fiction
- FauxTRS Is Definitely Not A Trash 80
- An AVO 8 Teardown
- Coax Stub Filters Demystified
- CeraMetal Lets You Print Metal, Cheaply and Easily
- Hackaday Links: July 21, 2024
- A Modchip for a Fridge
- Powering Biology with Batteries
- Ask Hackaday: Should We Teach BASIC?
- Welding Wood Is As Simple as Rubbing Two Sticks Together
- All About PNP Transistors
- Using Femtosecond Laser Pulses to Induce Metastable Hidden States in Magnetite
- Working Through The Art of Electronics Exercises
- New Additive Manufacturing Contenders: HIP and Centrifugal Printing
- This Vintage Computing Device is No Baby Food
- 2024 Business Card Challenge: CardTunes Bluetooth Speaker
- Do Your Research
- Sealed Packs of Pokémon Cards Give Up Their Secrets Without Opening Them
- Robot Seeks and Sucks Up Cigarette Butts, With Its Feet
- Modern In-Circuit Emulator for the 6809
- The Continuing Venusian Mystery of Phosphine and Ammonia
- Desiccants, Tested Side By Side
- Watch This RC Jet Thrust System Dance
- How Ten Turn Pots Are Made
- Supercon 2023: [Pierce Nichols] is Teaching Robots To Sail
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 280: TV Tubes as Amplifiers, Smart Tech in Sportsballs, and Adrian Gives Us the Fingie
- So You Can Tuna Fish
- This Week in Security: Snowflake, The CVD Tension, and Kaspersky’s Exit — And Breaking BSOD
- Carbon–Cement Supercapacitors Proposed as an Energy Storage Solution
- Retro Calculator Panders to Trekkies… or Trekkers
- Mechanical Keyboard + Laptop = Clacktop
- Retrotechtacular: Ford Model T Wheels, Start to Finish
- Using OpenCV To Catch a Hungry Thief
- Single-Stepping the 6502 Processor
- A Nostalgic Look at a Kid’s Shortwave Receiver
- Supercon 2023: Bringing Arcade Classics to New Hardware
- This Modded Shopping Cart Probably Isn’t Street Legal
- Secrets of the Old Digital Design Titans
- Lasers Could Help Us Recycle Plastics Into Carbon Dots
- Are Hackers The Future of Amateur Radio?
- Free and Open E-Reader from the Ground Up
- Las Vegas’ Sphere: Powered By Nvidia GPUs and with Impressive Power Bill
- Office Supplies Make Math Sculptures If You Know What You’re Doing
- Digitally Reading a Micrometer’s Output
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 792: Rust Coreutils
- Hacker Tactic: Single-PCB Panels
- Making Art With Maxwell’s Equations
- FDM Filament Troubles: Keeping Hygroscopic Materials From Degrading
- Hacking an IP Camera To Run Your Own Software
- A Look at the DEC VT220, A Proper Serial Terminal
- Seiko Had A Smartwatch In 1984
- Remembering Seymour Cray
- DME with a Twist of LimeSDR
- Playing Rock, Paper Scissors With A Time of Flight Sensor
- CUDA, But Make It AMD
- Show Us Your Minimalist Games, and Win
- Giving People an Owl-like Visual Field via VR Feels Surprisingly Natural
- Smart Ball Technology Has Reached Football, But The Euros Show Us It’s Not Necessarily For The Better
- Time’s Up For Mbed
- Flexures Make Robotic Fingers Simpler to Print
- Sharing 3D Printing with Kids
- Turning Horrible Browser Controls Into A Game
- Low-Cost Cryocooler Pumps Out Cheap DIY Liquid Nitrogen
- How the Bell System Was Built
- Congratulations to the 2024 Business Card Challenge Winners!
- Reverse-Engineering a Shahed-136 Drone Air Data Computer
- Nitric Acid Is The Hot New Way To Pick Locks
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the 24-Hour Macro Pad
- Linksys Velop Routers Caught Sending WiFi Creds in the Clear
- Simple Version of Pong Played On a Row of LEDs
- A 64-bit x86 Bootloader from Scratch
- Using Forward- And Reverse-Osmosis to let Astronaut EVA Suits Produce Fresh Water From Urine
- Hackaday Links: July 14, 2024
- Five Ways to Repair Broken PCB Traces
- Undo Arduino Encryption with an Oscilloscope
- Wrap Your Keyboard With A Vacuum Former
- Ask Hackaday: Has Firefox Finally Gone Too Far?
- The Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Was Possibly Just For Knitting
- Print Wave Metal Casting
- C++ Design Patterns for Low-Latency Applications
- Axial 3D Printer Aces Test Aboard Virgin Spaceplane
- Docker-Powered Remote Gaming with Games on Whales
- The NSA Is Defeated By A 1950s Tape Recorder. Can You Help Them?
- It’s Not Unusual to Love Hacking
- Particle Physics on a Small, Affordable PCB
- Rulers of the Ancient World — Literally!
- A Teeny 3D-Printed Printing Press, Thanks Gutenberg
- Surgery — Not Just For Humans Anymore
- Tiny Transceiver Gets It Done with One Transistor
- Home Automation Panel Looks Industrial
- Iron Man Arc Reactor Clock Is A Stylish Piece
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 279: Solar Flares, Flash Cells, and Free Airline WiFi
- Holy Keyboard Case, Batman!
- This Week in Security: Blast-RADIUS, Gitlab, and Plormbing
- DIY Spacer Increases FDM Flow Rate for Faster, Better Printing
- Making SD Cards More Nostalgic With More Cartridge-ness
- You Can Use A CRT As An Audio Amplifier Tube
- Why The 555 Is Not a Timer, But Can Be One
- Build Your Own Hydroelectric Dam
- Newly Completed Overly-Complex Clock Synchronizes Multiple Mechanisms
- 2024 Business Card Challenge: The Gift of Music
- You Can Build A Little Car That Goes Farther Than You Push It
- Embedded Python: MicroPython Is Amazing
- Ticketmaster SafeTix Reverse-Engineered
- Celebrating the [Jack Ells] Automatic Photometric Telescope
- Giving The Original Xbox 256 MB Of Memory
- Hacking Airline WiFi the Hard Way
- Bring Your Reusable Grocery Bag on Your Head
- If You Want An Expensive Chair Just Print Your Own
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 791: It’s All About Me!
- Supercon 2023: Why More Hackers Should Earn Their Wings
- Bringing the 555 Mini-Notebook to Video
- PCB Design Review: HAB Tracker With ATMega328P
- A New Raspberry 5 DSI Cable Makes Using Screens Easier
- Model Rocket Nails Vertical Landing After Three-Year Effort
- Build Your Own 16 MB 30-Pin SIMMs For Vintage PCs
- Misconceptions About Loops, or: Static Code Analysis is Hard
- Looking At Standard-Cell Design in the Pentium processor
- Building A Cassette Deck Controller To Save a Locked Out Car Stereo
- Hackable Ham Radio Gives Up Its Mechanical Secrets
- Supercon Call For Proposals Extended: July 16th
- Keep Your Lungs Clean and Happy with a DIY Supplied-Air Respirator
- Solar Dynamics Observatory: Our Solar Early Warning System
- Samsung Killed The Online Service, This 20 Dollar Dongle Brings It Back
- Making EV Motors, And Breaking Up with Rare Earth Elements
- Going Ham Mobile on a Bicycle
- Open Source High Speed SiGe IC Production For Free!
- Keyboard Contains Entire Mini PC, Just BYOD
- 2024 Business Card Challenge: A Very Annoying Business Card, Indeed
- Hack All The Things, Get All The Schematics
- [Usagi Electric’s] Bendix G15 Gets DC Power
- The Flash Memory Lifespan Question: Why QLC May Be NAND Flash’s Swan Song
- Unlocking the Mystery of an Aircraft ADI
- Plight of The Lowly Numitron Tube
- PeLEDs: Using Perovskites to Create LEDs Which Also Sense Light
- Korean Multifunction Counter Teardown
- Hackaday Links: July 7, 2024
- New Battery Has no Anode
- C Compiler Exists Entirely in Vim
- Custom Microcode Compiler, Made in Google Sheets
- 2024 Business Card Challenge: Magnetic Fidget Card
- Hacking a Brother Label Maker: Is your CUPS half empty or half full?
- Repeatable “One-Click” Fusion, From Your Cellphone
- British Trains To (Maybe) Make Way For Steam Once More
- Full-Scale Flying DeLorean Gets Closer to Liftoff
- 2024 Business Card Challenge: a Battery Tester with Blinkenlights
- Arduino PLC Keeps the Beat
- Halfway Between Inspiration and Engineering
- Candle Powered Lantern Isn’t as Silly as You Think
- New Solar Spheres Claim to be Better than Solar Panels
- Building an IR Thermometer That Fits on Your Keychain
- Dad? Where Did Printed Circuit Boards Come From?
- The Thermite Process Iron Foundry
- A Look Back at the USSR’s Mi-6 Helicopter Airliner
- Hacking a Quansheng Handheld To Transmit Digital Modes
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 278: DIY Subs, the ErgoRing, and Finding NEMA 17
- Build A DIY Spinner To Get Your Tempest Game Going
- This Week in Security: Hide Yo SSH, Polyfill, and Packing It Up
- Toyota Heater Switches Learn New Tricks
- How To Turn Cheap Speakers Into Something A Little Better
- Useless Robot Gets Cute, Has Personality
- Cavity Filters, The Black Art You Have A Chance Of Pursuing
- Shapeways Files for Bankruptcy
- Mini 3D-Printed Press Is Sure To Make An Impression
- A Cute Sentry Scans Your Net for Scullduggery
- Cloudflare Adds Block for AI Scrapers and Similar Bots
- A Second OctoPrint Plugin Has been Falsifying Stats
- Smartwatch Snitches on Itself and Enables Reverse Engineering
- The Workstation You Wanted In 1990, In Your Pocket
- A Trip Down Electronic Toy Memory Lane
- VHF/UHF Antennas, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Even Worse
- Responsive LCD Backlights With A Little Lateral Thinking
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 790: Better Bash Scripting with Amber
- USB And The Myth Of 500 Milliamps
- Retrotechtacular: The Tools And Dies That Made Mass Production Possible
- Peering Into The Black Box of Large Language Models
- The ErgO Ring Makes Computer Interactions Comfortable
- Lasers Al Fresco: Fun with Open-Cavity Lasers
- Everyone Needs a 1950s Signal Generator in their Life
- Google Drive Now Bootable
- Instant Filament Drying Satisfies an Immediate Need
- Putting Some Numbers on Your NEMAs
- Make a Cheap Robot Mower Much Smarter
- Access To Fresh And Potable Water: An Ancient And Very Current Challenge
- USB PD On CH32V003 Teaches You Everything
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Tasty Snacks Board
- Fork! Ladybird Browser and SerenityOS To Go Separate Ways
- Meccano-based Hellschreiber Machine
- So Much Going On In So Few Components: Dissecting A Microwave Radar Module
- SIMD-Accelerated Computer Vision on the ESP32-S3
- A DIY Proximity Sensor, Using Just Scrap Parts and Software
- Split A USB-C PD Port Into Three Port-ions
- Casting Concrete With A 3D-Printed Mould
- FreeCAD Foray: Shells For All Our PCBs
- Modeling Home Heating Systems With Circuit Simulation Software
- A Brief History of Perpetual Motion
- An IBM M2 Keyboard Lives Again
- ChatGPT and Other LLMs Produce Bull Excrement, Not Hallucinations
- Hackaday Links: June 30, 2024
- Almost Google Glass in 1993
June 2024
- An Open XBOX Modchip Enters The Scene
- A Vintage AC Bridge Teardown
- Root Your Sleep Number Smart Bed, Discover It Phoning Home
- 3D Printing with a Twist
- Swapping Vinyl for Cardboard with this ESP32 Turntable
- Try Out MCUs With This Jumperable TSSOP20 Adapter
- Apple May Use Electrical Debonding For Battery Replacement
- Go Forth With This Portable Programmer
- Building a Hydraulic System With 3D Printed SLA Resin Parts
- Solar Energy Plant Creates Fuel
- Danger is My Middle Name
- Long-Term OctoPrint Stat Manipulation Uncovered
- Can We Ever Achieve Fusion Power?
- Hosting Your Own PixMob Party Made Easy
- 8MM Digitization For Anyone
- 3D Printing with Sublime Sublimation
- 2024 Business Card Challenge: POV Fidget Keeps Your Info In Their Hands
- Reviving a Free 1990s Millport CNC Vertical Mill
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 277: Edible Robots, a Personal Eclipse, and DIY PCBs to Die For
- Cleaning Up World War 2’s Legacy on the Seafloor With Robots
- This Week in Security: Kaspersky Ban, Project Naptime, and More
- Solving Cold Cases With Hacked Together Gear
- Spinning Magnets Do Your Dice Rolling for You
- Rock Out Without Getting Knocked Out
- 8-Bits and 1,120 Triodes
- Activated Alumina for Desiccating Your Filament
- Portable, Full-Size Arcade Cabinets
- A Previously Unknown Supplier For A Classic Chip
- Powering Airplanes With Microwaves: an Aviation Physics Challenge Amidst Many
- The SS United States : The Most Important Ocean Liner We May Soon Lose Forever
- LEGO Bricks: Now Out Of This World
- Enjoy Totality Every Day With This Personal Eclipse Generator
- $3 Smartwatch Can Run Python
- Llama.ttf is AI, in a Font
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 789: You Can’t Eat the Boards
- Decoding Meshtastic with GNU Radio
- As Cheap As Chips: The MiFare Ultra Light Gets A Closer Look
- Making Your Wireless Keyboard Truly Low-Power
- 3D Printering: Adaptive Bed Leveling
- Bats Can No Longer Haunt Apple VR Headsets Via Web Exploit
- Coupling STM32 And Linux? Consider HID over I2C
- All About CRTs
- Paul Allen’s Living Computers Museum and Labs to be Auctioned
- 3D Scanning, Phone Edition
- ESP-Hosted Turns ESP32 Into Linux WiFi/BT Adapter
- Injection Molding Using a 3D Printer
- The Amstrad E-m@iler, The Right Product With The Wrong Business Model
- Torment Poor Milton With Your Best Pixel Art
- The SpinMeister, For a Perfect Pizza Every Time!
- Using the Wind and Magnets to Make Heat
- One-handed PS-OHK Keyboard Doesn’t Need Chording or Modifier Keys
- How the CD-ROM Lost the Multimedia Dream to the Internet
- 2024 Business Card Challenge: Go Tic-Tac-Toe-to-Toe with Them
- An Easy Transparent Edge Lit Display
- Build Your Own Core Rope Memory Module?
- Inside NFC
- The Book That Could Have Killed Me
- Testing Large Language Models for Circuit Board Design Aid
- ESP32 Brings New Features To Classic Geiger Circuit
- Bit of OpenSCAD Code Caps off Wiremold
- Kernel Hack Brings Windows XP to the 486
- Hackaday Links: June 23, 2024
- The Best DIY PCB Method?
- Rescued iMac G4 Restored and Upgraded With Mac Mini M1 Guts
- TSMC’s Long Path From Round to Square Silicon Wafers
- Fixed Point Math Exposed
- Nearly 30 Years of FreeDOS and Looking Ahead to the Future
- Clearly 3D Printing
- In Future, Printer Documents You
- An Arduino Nano Clone in a DIP-Sized Footprint
- Uncovering ChatGPT Usage in Academic Papers Through Excess Vocabulary
- 2024 Business Card Challenge: NoiseCard Judges the Sound Around You
- Thanks for the Great Comments!
- Thumb Nuts For Not a Lot
- Learning Morse Code with a DIY Trainer
- Vintage Hacks for Dot Matrix Printers in China
- Tired With Your Robot? Why Not Eat it?
- Build Your Own Tape Recorder/Player
- Tiny Tapeout 4: A PWM clone of Covox Speech Thing
- 2024 Business Card Challenge: Integrated Game Card
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 276: A Mac on a Pico, Ropes on the Test Stand, A Battleship up on Blocks
- See Them Knocking with a Doorbell Alert
- This Week in Security: Chat Control, Vulnerability Extortion, and Emoji Malware
- Polyphase Wireless EV Fast Charging Moves Forward
- Is That a Large Smartwatch? Or a Tiny Cray?
- The ’80s Multi-Processor System That Never Was
- First Hubble Image Taken in New Single Gyro Pointing Mode
- Adding Texture to 3D Prints
- Electronic Etch-A-Sketch, No Microcontroller Required
- Arduino + TFT = Micro Star Chart
- Ask Hackaday: How Do You Make Front Panels?
- Watch SLS 3D Printed Parts Become Printed Circuits
- Can You Freeze-Dry Strawberries Without a Machine?
- Probably The Cheapest Mac Emulation Hardware
- UV-K5 All-Band Mod, Part 2: Easier Install, Better Audio, and Two Antennas
- What You Can See with a SEM?
- Mapping Litter in the Oceans From Space With Existing Satellites
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 788: Matrix, It’s Git, for Communications
- A Simple Laser Harp MIDI Instrument
- 2024 Business Card Challenge: PCB Business Cards for Everybody
- Taking a Look Underneath the Battleship New Jersey
- Open Source Your Air Ride Suspension
- Linux Fu: Kernel Modules Have Privileges
- A Closer Peek at the Frame AR Glasses
- Bent Shaft Isn’t a Bad Thing for This Pericyclic Gearbox
- Human Brains Can Tell Deepfake Voices from Real Ones
- Lindroid Promises True Linux on Android
- Programming Robots is Hard, Figuring out How to Make it Easier is Harder
- Astroscale’s ADRAS-J Satellite Takes Up-Close Photo of Discarded Rocket Stage
- Recovering An Agilent 2000a/3000a Oscilloscope With Corrupt Firmware NAND Flash
- The Guinness Brewery Invented One of Science’s Most Important Statistical Tools
- PCB Design Review: Switching Regulator Edition
- TDK Claims Solid State Battery with 100X Energy Density
- McDonald’s Terminates Its Drive-Through Ordering AI Assistant
- A Brief Look Inside a Homebrew Digital Sampler from 1979
- The US Surgeon General’s Case for a Warning Label on Social Media
- Improving Wind Turbine Testing with a Better Air Source
- Harmonic Table Keyboard Brings Old Idea Back to Life
- postmarketOS Now Boots on Over 250 Devices
- The Solar System is Weirder Than You Think
- Magic Cane is the Secret Behind Lightsaber
- Preview Markdown in the Terminal with Bash
- 3D Printing a Bottle Labeling Assembly Line
- SIPing a Vintage Phone
- Hackaday Links: June 16, 2024
- New Part Day: A Hackable Smart Ring
- RC Batwing Actually Flies
- ESP32 Powers Single-PCB ZX Spectrum Emulator
- Use Your Thinkpad X1 Tablet’s Keyboard Standalone
- Early “Computer Kit” Really Just a Fancy Calculator
- Uncovering Secrets Of Logitech M185’s Dongle
- Educational Breadboard Synth Module
- When Your Rope is Your Life
- An Enigma Machine Built in Meccano
- Reverse-Engineering Makita Batteries To Revive Them
- Giant Brains, Or Machines That Think
- Voyager 1 Once Again Returning Science Data From All Four Instruments
- Homebrew Reader Brings Paper Tape Programs Back to Life
- Easy Retro 3D Look With Voxel Displacement Renderer
- A LEGO CNC Pixel Art Generator
- Busted: Toilet Paper As Solder Wick
- 2024 Business Card Challenge: BAUDI/O For the Audio Hacker
- RIP Lynn Conway, Whose Work Gave Us VLSI And Much More
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 275: Mud Pulse Telemetry, 3D Printed Gears in Detail, and Display Hacking in our Future
- How Good (Or Bad) Are Fake Power Semiconductors?
- This Week in Security: Unicode Strikes Again, Trust No One (Redditor), and More
- A Super-Simple Standalone WSPR Beacon
- 2024 Business Card Challenge: T-800’s 555 Brain
- This Open Source Active Probe Won’t Break the Bank
- Forsp: A Forth & Lisp Hybrid Lambda Calculus Language
- Shipping Your Illicit Software on Launch Hardware
- Marimbatron: A Digital Marimba Prototyping Project
- A 1940s Car Radio Receives Some Love
- TDS 744A Scope Teardown Fixes Dodgy Channel
- PCB Design Review: A 5V UPS With LTC4040
- Long-Awaited SLS4All 3D Printer Now Shipping
- Raspberry Pi Saves Printer from Junk Pile
- Restoring a Vintage CGA Card with Homebrew HASL
- Startup Claims it Can Boost CPU Performance by 2-100X
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 787: VDO Ninja — It’s a Little Bit Hacky
- Tight Handheld CRT Asteroids Game Curses in Tuscan
- The World’s First DIY Minicomputer Was Almost Australian
- Supercon 2023: Reverse Engineering Commercial Coffee Machines
- Studying the Finer Points of 3D Printed Gears
- Displays We Love Hacking: DSI
- Baldur’s Gate III Comes to the TRS-80 Model 100
- Remixed Pi Recovery Kit v2 Offers Another Path
- From Nissan ICE Pickup to BEV With Nissan Leaf Heart
- Maker Skill Trees Help You Level Up Your Craft
- A C64 SID Replacement With Built-in Games
- BikeBeamer Adds POV Display to Bicycle Wheels
- 2024 Business Card Challenge: Make Them Shake Your Handiwork
- Raspberry Pi Goes Public
- OpenSCAD Cranks out Parametric CNC Clamps
- Scrapping the Local Loop, by the Numbers
- ESP32 Powered Crunch-E Makes Beats on the Go
- 2024 Business Card Challenge: Weather Or Not You Get the Job
- Donkey Kong Bongos Ditch the GameCube, Go Mobile
- AI Kayak Controller Lets the Paddle Show the Way
- EMO: Alibaba’s Diffusion Model-Based Talking Portrait Generator
- Bidirectional Data Transfer Through Mud ?
- 2024 Business Card Challenge: Who Do You Love?
- Switching Regulator Layout For Dummies
- A Peek Inside Apple Durability Testing Labs
- 8-Tracks Are Back? They Are In My House
- Comparing Those Ten Cent Microcontrollers
- A Guide To Running Your First Docker Container
- Fixing Issues With Knockoff Altera USB Blasters
- A LEGO Orrery
- Hackaday Links: June 9, 2024
- Making Intel Mad, Retrocomputing Edition
- Can a Toy Printer Be Made Great?
- A Wireless Monitor Without Breaking The Bank
- A Compact Electrohydrodynamic Pump Using Copper and TPU
- What If The Matrix was Made in the 1950s?
- Oral-B Hopes You Didn’t Use Your $230 Alexa-Enabled Toothbrush
- Embrace IPv6 before its too late?
- Screwless Eyeballs Are a Lesson in Design-For-Assembly
- How Many Western ICs Are There In Russia’s Weapons?
- Gas-Tight FDM 3D Printing Is Within Your Grasp
- Happy Birthday, Tetris !
- Baffle the Normies with This Binary Thermometer
- The Cheap CNC3018 Gets a Proper Revamp
- The End of BLHeli_32: Long Live AM32?
- Make Your Code Slower With Multithreading
- An MXM Take On The 3dfx Voodoo
- Reverse Engineering Keeps Early Ford EVs Rolling
- The IBM PC: Brainchild of a Misfit
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 274: Capstan Robots, Avionics of Uncertain Purpose, and What the Frack?
- Comparing x86 and 68000 in an FPGA
- This Week in Security: Recall, Modem Mysteries, and Flipping Pages
- Interfacing a Cheap HDMI Switch With Home Assistant
- A3 Audio: The Open Source 3D Audio Control System
- Linamp, the IRL Winamp
- Using Kick Assembler and VS Code to write C64 Assembler
- Automating 3D Printer Support Hardware
- 2024 Business Card Challenge: Tiny MIDI Keyboard
- Foosbar: The World’s Best* Foosball Robot From Scratch
- Retrotechtacular: TVO
- What’s the Difference Between Tang 9K and 20K (It isn’t 11…)
- Hands On: Inkplate 6 MOTION
- Tarzan , Lost Since 1983, Swings Back Onto The Atari 2600
- Is That a Triboelectric Generator in Your Shoe?
- USB Dongle Brings Python-Controlled GPIO to the Desktop
- The Pi Pico, An SDR Receiver Front End
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 786: What Easy Install Script?
- Old Knobs with a Cast of Thousands
- Gamma Ray Spectroscopy the Pomelo Way
- Displays We Like Hacking: HDMI
- Fourier, the Animated Series
- Mining and Refining: Fracking
- Thermoelectric Module Keeps Printer Filament Cool and Dry
- Mechanic Prince of Tides
- The Amiga We All Wanted In 1993
- Ham Busts the Myth of Ground
- VFD Tube Calculator Shows off Wide Array of Skills
- The Dyke Delta: A DIY Flying Wing Fits Four
- Tunneling TCP By File Server
- Pasteurisation: Probably Why You Survived Childhood
- Programming Ada: Records and Containers for Organized Code
- GlowBlaster Uses 405 nm Laser To Make Its Mark
- Old Dot-Matrix Displays Give Up Their Serial Secrets
- A Human-Sized Strowger Telephone Exchange
- Gears are Old and Busted, Capstans are Cool
- ATtiny85 Mouse Jiggler Lets You Take a Break
- Aiken’s Secret Computing Machines
- Intentionally Overly-Complex Clock is Off to a Good Start
- Tech in Plain Sight: Theodolites
- Glitching An ATMega328P Has Never Been Simpler
- A Treasure Trove In An English Field
- Turbocase Generates A PCB Shell For You
- Using the Moiré Effect for Unique Clock Face
- This Mobile Hackerspace Can Be Yours
- Building and Testing a 1912-style Radio
- Hackaday Links: June 2, 2024
- Make a Super Cute LiDAR Measurement Module
- 2024 Business Card Challenge: Snakes On a Business Card
- MicroPython 1.23 Brings Custom USB Devices, OpenAMP, Much More
- Give Your Thinkpad X1 Nano An Internal USB Port
- Why Your Old Phone Sounded The Way It Did
- Hands-On With The Electromagnetic Field 2024 Badge
- Use That One Port For High-Speed FPGA Data Export
- GlobeTune Will Widen Your Musical Horizons
- An Ingenious Blu-Ray Mini-Disk Player
- Take Control of MS Flight Sim With Your Smartphone
- Sometimes It’s Not the Solution
- Inside a Mystery Aerospace Computer with [Ken Shirriff]
- A Super-Size Functional Tribute To An Ultrasonic Sensor
- How to Cram 945 LEDs into a Teeny Tiny Vegas-Style Sphere
- Quick & Capable WiFi For Your Nice-Power Supply
May 2024
- A Look Inside the Geochron Clock
- CH32V003 Makes for Dirt Cheap RISC-V Computer
- Generating a Lost Password By Traveling Back In Time
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 273: A Tube Snoot, Dynamic Button Blobs, and Tokamaks Aren’t Whack
- A Scope Test Tool You Can Build With Just a Pico
- This Week in Security: Operation Endgame, Appliance Carnage, and Router Genocide
- Tell Time and Predict the Heavens with this Astronomical Timepiece
- Intel’s Anti-Upgrade Tricks Defeated With Kapton Tape
- Noodles Time Themselves While Cooking
- Clock Mixes Analog, Digital, Retrograde Displays
- 2024 Business Card Contest: A Game for Two
- Fixing A Camera’s WiFi Connectivity With Ghidra
- Old Spotify Car Thing Hacks Gain New Attention
- Walking Through a Scene from Riven on the Apple II
- CH32V003 Provides Ultra Cheap Speech Recognition
- Tiny Orrery Is a Watchmaker’s Tour de Force
- Can You Hear Me Now? Try These Headphones
- The Genius of Slide Rule Precision
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 785: Designing GUIs and Building Instruments with EEZ
- Pixel Graphics From an HD44780, By Cutting Wires
- Printing a Replacement Case for the ThinkPad 701c
- How Facebook Killed Online Chat
- Looking Forward To EMF 2024
- Printed Case Lets Pair of RTL-SDRs Go Mobile
- The 6809 Lives On in an FPGA
- Whole-Fruit Chocolate: Skipping the Sugar By Using the Entire Cacao Pod
- Digital Meter From 1973, A Teardown
- Play Giant Tetris On Second-Floor Window
- Spark Plug Becomes Glass Cutter
- Keebin’ with Kristina: The One with the Auto Harp Typewriter
- Rotary Phone Lives on as Arduino Kitchen Timer
- The Tragic Story Of The Ill-Fated Supergun
- Feast Your Eyes on These AI-Generated Sounds
- Adafruit Badges Turned Electronic Invitations
- An Improved Spectrometer, No Lasers Required
- Recycling of Portland Cement and Steel in Electric Arc Furnaces
- Connecting (And Using) High-Capacity Batteries in Parallel
- The Emperor’s New Computer
- A System Board for the 8008
- Camera and Lens Repair Hack Chat
- The Long Road Towards Reverse Engineering The ESP32 Wi-Fi Driver
- Reinventing Rotary Switches with Stepper Motors
- So What’s All This HaLow Long-Range WiFi About Then?
- Hunting For Part Numbers: Analyzing The Buck Converter On Mini 560 Modules
- Hackaday Links: May 26, 2024
- ICQ Will Shut Down On June 26 This Year
- How Do You Fill The 1N34 Void?
- Weird Old Stereo Accessories
- 2024 Business Card Challenge: Adding Some Refinement to Breadboard Power Supplies
- Homebrew Computer from the Ground Up
- The Secret Behind the Motion of Microsoft’s Bendy Mouse
- One Man’s Trash is… a Rare $60,000 Historical Computer
- Germany’s Solar Expansion and the Negative Effects of Electricity Overproduction
- How A DOS Format Blunder Revealed Some Priceless Source Code
- A Look At 3D Printed Shoes: Hybrid, Fully Printed and Plain Weird
- Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The ULN2003
- BASIC Classroom Management
- Hype Robot Rocks Out With The Twitch Chat
- Linear LED Clock Looks Decidedly Vintage
- Regular Expressions Finally Come to Microsoft Excel
- Tentacle Robot Wants to Hold You Gently
- Building An 8-Color Automated Filament Changer
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 272: Desktop EDM, Silence of the Leaves, and the Tyranny of the Rocket Equation
- Dynamic Buttons Are Weird Blobs You Can Press
- This Week in Security: Drama at the C-Level, Escape Injection, and Audits
- Console Calculator Moves One Step Closer to Original Design
- Locate Faults With the Leakseeker-89R
- Lightweight Haptic Gloves With Electro-Osmotic Pump Arrays
- Roboticized 3D Printer Has Been Developing Shock Absorbing Structures For Years
- Orange FM Brings Radio to the GameBoy
- Almost Breaking The World Record For The Tiniest Humanoid Robot, But Not Quite
- Turning an ATX PSU Into a Variable Bench Supply
- Mapping the Human Brain and Where This May Lead Us
- Grid Leak Radio Draws the Waves
- Design Review: USB-C PD Input For Yaesu FRG7700
- CADmium moves CAD to the Browser
- Camera Lucida – Drawing Better Like It’s 1807
- How To Find Replacement Parts When Model Numbers Don’t Match
- Is This The World’s Smallest Multichannel Voltmeter?
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 784: I’ll Buy You A Poutine
- Passive Diplexer Makes One Antenna Act Like Two
- Amber Compiles to Bash
- Nuclear Fusion R&D In 2024: Getting Down To the Gritty Details
- Using a Spring As a Capacitive Touch Button
- Hands On: AD409-Max Microscope
- 90s PowerBook runs macOS Monterey
- Filming The Eclipse From 80,000 Feet
- Mechanical 7-Segment Display Looks Clean
- Industrial Solar Heat Hits 1000˚C
- Ribbon Cable Repair Saves Touch ID
- Home Automation Terminal Has Great Post-Apocalyptic Look
- Tabletop Handybot is Handy, And Powered By AI
- Linux Fu: The Root Cause
- This MIDI BoomBox Takes Floppies
- Peeking Underground With Giant Flying Antennas
- Static Recompilation Brings New Life to N64 Games
- Quad-Motor Electric Kart Gets A Little Too Thrilling
- Home Assistant Display Uses E-Ink
- Pi Pico Helps Restring Badminton Rackets
- 3D Printed Braille Trainer Reduces Barrier to Entry
- Trying to Build A Communications Device With a 1-Pound Laser And a 7805
- Etch-A-Sketch Camera is Open Source
- Supercon 2023: Exploring the Elegance of the Voja4
- How To Lace Cables Like It’s 1962
- Single-Stage-to-Orbit: The Launch Technology We Wish Was Real
- Try Image Classification Running In Your Browser, Thanks to WebGPU
- Finding and Resurrecting Archie: the Internet’s First Search Engine
- DIY Eye and Face Tracking for the Valve Index VR Headset
- Radio Caroline at 60
- Hackaday Links: May 19, 2024
- Lost Foam Casting In Action
- [Scott Manley] Explains GPS Jamming
- This WiFi Filament Sensor is Unnecessary, But Awesome
- Rediscovering The Nile: The Ancient River That Was Once Overlooked By The Egyptian Pyramids
- Möbius String Robot Goes Round and Round
- A Tiny Tuner For The Low Power Ham
- M1 Development Board from Scraps
- Hack Your Own Adventure Story with Yarn Spinner
- How Italians Got Their Power
- Students’ Leaf Blower Suppressor To Hit Retail
- About Right
- Flexures Keep This Printed Displacement Sensor In Line
- NetBSD Bans AI-Generated Code From Commits
- Put a Little Pigeon in Your Next Clock Project
- Winamp Source Code Will be Opened Up, Company Says
- Improved 3D Scanning Rig Adds Full-Sized Camera Support
- Emulating Biology For Robots With Rolling Contact Joints
- Raspberry Pi Files Paperwork With The London Stock Exchange
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 271: Audio Delay in a Hose, Ribbon Cable Repair, and DIY Hacker Metrology
- Nature vs Nurture in Beethoven’s Genome
- This Week in Security: The Time Kernel.org Was Backdoored and Other Stories
- Betta Aims to Bring Wire EDM to the Desktop
- Running Four Brushless Motors With A Single Pi Pico
- Customizable Bird Clock Sings The Hours By
- Is The Frequency Domain a Real Place?
- MIDI Spoon Piano Is Exactly What You Think It Is
- Big Server Fan Becomes Fume Extractor
- Pump It Up Gets Homebrew GBA Port That Rocks
- DisplayPort: Hacking And Examples
- Non-Split-Flap Clock Does It With Fewer Flaps
- Measure Three Times, Design Once
- You Can Now Jailbreak a PS4 With An LG TV
- Adaptive Chef’s Knife Provides Better Leverage
- Generative AI Hits The Commodore 64
- Think Again: Tips On Finding and Flexing Your Creativity
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 783: Teaching Embedded with the Unphone
- Designing A Quality Camera Slider Can Be Remarkably Satisfying
- How AI Large Language Models Work, Explained Without Math
- Hackaday Supercon 2024 Call for Participation: We Want You!
- Here’s The Norwegian Tape Deck Teardown You’ve Been Waiting For
- A Slice of Simulation, Google Sheets Style
- Introduction to MOSFET Switching Losses
- Custom Polyurethane Belts Made Easy
- BreadboardOS, a Command Line Interface For The Pico
- The Perfect Desktop Kit For Experimenting With Self Driving Cars
- Vibrating Braille Display is Portable
- 3D Print a Drill-Powered Helicopter Toy Because It’s Simply Fun
- PCB Design Review: HDMI To LVDS Sony Vaio LCD Devboard
- The Alien Energy Crisis Solved
- Supercon 2023: Building The Ultimate Apple IIe, Decades Later
- Printable Keycaps Keep The AlphaSmart NEO Kicking
- Power Resistance isn’t Futile
- GitHub Hosts Ham Radio
- The New Extremely Large Telescopes and The US’ Waning Influence In Astronomy
- Broken Lens Provides Deep Dive Into Camera Repair
- GPS at Any Speed
- Sandwizz Promises to Reinvent the Breadboard
- The Art of Hackaday Hack Chat
- New Quadcopter Speed World Record Set At Nearly 500 Km/h
- You’ve Probably Never Considered Taking an Airship To Orbit
- This Tiny Game Boy Lets the Real Thing Play Online
- CP/M on an Eight Line Display
- Emulate a KIM-1 with a Commodore 64
- Answering All Your iSCSI Scanner Questions
- Hackaday Links: May 12, 2024
- Autochrome For The 2020s
- IRCB S73-7 Satellite Found After Going Untracked For 25 Years
- JTAG Hacking An SSD With A Pi: A Primer
- Tweeze Your Way To Soldering Success!
- A Master-Class On Reverse-Engineering Six AR Glasses
- No Solder! Squeeze Your Parts to the PCB
- The Minimalistic Dillo Web Browser Is Back
- BlueBerry Is a Smartphone-Agnostic Keyboard Firmware
- Software Bug Results in Insulin Pump Injuries, Spurs Recall
- The Impossible Repair: Ribbon Cables
- Institutional Memory, On Paper
- Gather ‘Round This Unique 4-Player Arcade Cabinet
- Protoboard Z80 Computer Teaches the Basics
- An Umbrella Can Teach a Thing or Two About Product Longevity
- AI-Created Coffee Blend Isn’t Terrible
- Split-Flap Clock Uses Magnets Everywhere
- DIY Bimetallic Strip Dings for Teatime
- The 3D Printed Computer Space Takes Shape
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 270: A Cluster of Microcontrollers, a rocket engine from scratch, and a look inside Voyager
- Reflecting on The State Of Game Boy Emulation In 2024
- This Week in Security: TunnelVision, Scarecrows, and Poutine
- This Typewriter Types Toast
- DIY Keyboard Can Handle Up To Three Host Devices
- The ZX Spectrum Takes To The Airwaves Again
- An Audio Delay, The Garden Hose Way
- Introducing the Swiss Army… Tool?
- POV Digital Clock Is the Literal Sands of Time
- Fully 3D Printed Case Is Stacked High With Mini PCs
- Ask Hackaday: Do You Calibrate Your Instruments?
- Raspberry Pi Narrates (And Tattles On) Your Cat, Nature Documentary Style
- The Great Green Wall: Africa’s Ambitious Attempt To Fight Desertification
- The Moondrop MIAD 01: a Smartphone With Balanced Audio Output
- Matchbox Transceiver Pushes the Spy Radio Concept to Its Limits
- ardEEG Lowers the Cost of Brain-Computer Interfaces
- How We Got the Scanning Electron Microscope
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 782: Nitric — In Search of the Right Knob
- Robotic Platform Turns Shop Vac into Roomba
- Much Faster Cold Brew Through Cavitation
- Displays We Love Hacking: LVDS and eDP
- AI Helps Make Web Scraping Faster and Easier
- Your Open-Source Client Options In the non-Mastodon Fediverse
- Remembering Dick Rutan and His Non-Stop Flight Around the World
- 3D Printed Fidget Knife Snaps Back and Forth All Day Long
- Mostly Printed CNC Gets a Few Upgrades
- Mitre Wants the Feds to Play in Its Sandbox
- Your Pi, From Anywhere
- Z80s From the ’80s Had Futuristic Design
- Bluepad32 Brings All the Controllers To Your MCU
- The 2024 Business Card Challenge Starts Now
- 256-Core RISC-V Megacluster
- Supercon 2023: MakeItHackin Automates the Tindie Workflow
- Imperva Report Claims That 50% of the World Wide Web is Now Bots
- RepTrap Keeps Watch Over Our Cold-Blooded Friends
- Tokyo Atacama Observatory Opens As World’s Highest Altitude Infrared Telescope
- Peering Inside the Tang FPGA
- Retrotechtacular: How Not to Use Hand Tools
- Upgrading a Cheap LX-2BUPS UPS Board To Fix Fatal Flaws
- Non Contact Scope Probe Costs Nearly Nothing
- Retrogadgets: The Ageia PhysX Card
- Spend an Hour in the Virtual Radio Museum
- The Computers of Voyager
- MIDI Bookmark Marks the Spot Where Work and Play Intersect
- The History of the World’s First Planetarium
- A Portable DLNA Server Hack Helps You Tame OpenWRT
- Poking Atomic Nuclei With Lasers For Atomic Clocks and Energy Storage
- Hackaday Links: May 5, 2024
- This Windows Installer Installs Linux
- Building a Rocket Engine from Scratch
- Hive Monitor Is the Bee’s Knees
- This Robot Picks Locks, If You’re Very Patient
- Dune 3D: Open Source 3D Parametric Modeler From the Maker of Horizon EDA
- RISC OS Gets An Update
- Giving Your KiCad PCB Repository Pretty Pictures
- Ham Radio Paddles Cost Virtually Nothing
- 3D Printing in Custom PLA With a TPU Core
- Almost Making a Camera Sensor From Scratch
- Tool-Building Mammals
- How Does the Raspberry Pi Rack Up Against a Mini PC?
- ROG Ally SD Card Slot Fix Shines Light On PTC Fuse Failure Modes
- Here’s How That Disney 360° Treadmill Works
- Google Removes RISC-V Support From Android
- A Vernier Take On A 3D Printer Extruder Indicator
- Follow the Red Ball Wobble Disk Roaster to Coffee Excellence
- Plasma Cutter Gets CNC Treatment at Low Cost
- My Space
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 269: 3D Printed Flexure Whegs, El Cheapo Bullet Time, and a DIY Cell Phone Sniffer
- Put More Korry in Your Flight Sim Switches
- This Week in Security: Default Passwords, Lock Slapping, and Mastodown
- Dual-Screen Mod For The ROG Ally Handheld
- MUDLink Is Making UART Data Links More Reliable
- [DiyOtaku] Gives Old Devices A New Life
- Don’t Object to Python Objects
- Start Your Creepy Jack-O-Lantern Project Early This Year With Gourdan
- Bypass PoE And Power Your Starlink Terminal Directly
- Cute Solar Power Gauge Brightens the Day
- 3D Printed Wheels Passively Transform To Climb Obstacles
- NASA Is Now Tasked With Developing A Lunar Time Standard, Relativity Or Not
- $1 TinyML Board For Your “AI” Sensor Swarm
- Building a Mechanical Keyboard as a Learning Project
- T3rminal Cyberdeck Has Looks to Die For
- A Primer On Optical Storage Data Preservation
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 781: Resistant To The Wrath Of God
- Tiny Prisms Let You See What Lies Beneath a BGA Chip
- Manta: An Open On-FPGA Debug Interface
- Programming Ada: Packages and Command Line Applications
- This Arduino Is Feeding The Fishes
- Supercon 2023: Jose Angel Torres On Building A Junkyard Secure Phone
- Pssst… Wanna Buy An Old Supercomputer?
- Cheap Musical Tesla Coil Put Through Its Paces
- Simplest Speaker Oscillator, Now Even Simpler
- Making Beer Like It’s 1574, For Science And Heritage
April 2024
- 3D-Printed Macro Pad Plate Is LEGO-Compatible
- The Cheapest USB Blaster Ever, Thanks To CH552
- Possibly The Cheapest Way To Film In Bullet Time
- Singleboard: Alpha is a Very Stylish Computer on a Single PCB
- 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: The Winners Are In
- Turn Your Qualcomm Phone Or Modem Into Cellular Sniffer
- Squeeze Another Drive into a Full-Up NAS
- You Can Use Visual Studio Code To Write Commodore 64 Assembly
- Sound and Water Make Weird Vibes in Microgravity
- This Is How a Pen Changed the World
- Tiny Arduino Drone Even Has an FPV Camera
- A CH552G Devboard In Case You Missed It
- Upgrade Your Test Probes
- Make 3D Scenes With a Holodeck-Like Voice Interface
- VAR Is Ruining Football, and Tech Is Ruining Sport
- Farewell MFJ
- DIY Passive Radar System Verifies ADS-B Transmissions
- AI Can Now Compress Text
- Hack In Style With This Fallout Cyberdeck
- Hackaday Links: April 28, 2024
- You Can Run BASIC On an Old HP 4592 Protocol Analyzer
- Corral Some Zippy Blue Flames Into 3D Printed Troughs
- Boneblocker Is A Big LED Wall That Rocks
- The Z80 Is Dead. Long Live The Free Z80!
- Train a GPT-2 LLM, Using Only Pure C Code
- Pi Pico Gets a ZX Spectrum Emulator
- Wine in Beverage Cans Had a Rotten Egg Problem, Until Now
- RGB LED HexaClock Doesn’t Actually Light Up the Night
- 3D Printed Adapter Helps You Eat Chicken Nuggets On The Highway
- Welcome Back, Voyager
- Photo Shows Real Spiders From Mars
- How Additional Aerodynamic Drag Helped Make GTA III Work on PS2
- Nearly-Destroyed Commodore Gets New Life
- Australian Library Uses Chatbot To Imitate Veteran With Predictable Results
- Keep Tabs on PC Use with Custom Analog Voltmeter
- Build Your Own Class-E Musical Tesla Coil
- 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: Spray Bottle Turret Silences Barking
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 268: RF Burns, Wireless Charging Sucks, and Barnacles Grow on Flaperons
- This Week in Security: Cisco, Mitel, and AI False Flags
- Microsoft Updates MS-DOS GitHub Repo to 4.0
- How To Cast Silicone Bike Bits
- AI System Drops a Dime on Noisy Neighbors
- Synthesis of Goldene: Single-Atom Layer Gold With Interesting Properties
- Combadge Project Wants to Bring Trek Tech to Life
- A Smart Power Distribution Unit for Home Automation
- The Myth of Propellantless Space Propulsion Refuses to Die
- Reverse Engineering A Fancy Disposable Vape
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Transmitting Typewriter
- Chip Mystery: The Case of the Purloined Pin
- Implantable Battery Charges Itself
- Sticky Situation Leads To Legit LEGO Hack
- The Performance Impact of C++’s `final` Keyword for Optimization
- Downloading Satellite Imagery With a Wi-Fi Antenna
- More Mirrors (and a Little Audio) Mean More Laser Power
- DIY Electronics Plus Woodworking Equal Custom Lamp
- Supercon 2023: Alex Lynd Explores MCUs in Infosec
- The First European Pocket Calculator Came From Yugoslavia
- Mining and Refining: Uranium and Plutonium
- Chinese Subs May Be Propelled Silently By Lasers
- Flute Now Included on List of Human Interface Devices
- No Active Components in This Mysterious Audio Oscillator
- New JEDEC DDR5 Memory Specification: Up To 8800 MT/s, Anti-Rowhammer Features
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 780: Zoneminder — Better Call Randal
- 80s Function Generator is Both Beauty and Beast
- Amazon Ends California Drone Deliveries While Expanding to Arizona
- An Elbow Joint That Can
- Programming Ada: First Steps on the Desktop
- Your Smart TV Does 4K, Surround Sound, Denial-of-service…
- Reverse Engineering the Quansheng Hardware
- Dual-Wavelength SLA 3D Printing: Fast Continuous Printing With ROMP And FRP Resins
- Optical Tweezers Investigate Tiny Particles
- NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth
- Ancient Cable Modem Reveals Its RF Secrets
- AI + LEGO = A Brickton of Ideas
- Slicing and Dicing the Bits: CPU Design the Old Fashioned Way
- How Wireless Charging Works and Why It’s Terrible
- The Hunt for MH370 Goes On With Barnacles As A Lead
- Going Canadian: The Rise and Fall of Novell
- AI Camera Only Takes Nudes
- Restoring a Vintage German EV
- The MUSE Permanent Magnet Stellarator: Fusion Reactor With Off-The-Shelf Parts
- Hackaday Links: April 21, 2024
- Keeping Alive The Future Of Cars, 1980s Style
- Manual Supports for 3D Printing
- Radio Frequency Burns, Flying a Kite, and You
- From Z80 to eZ80: Porting 8-bit Sonic 2 to the TI-84+ CE
- An Open-Source Gaming Mouse
- Trolling IBM’s Quantum Processor Advantage With a Commodore 64
- AM Radio Broadcast Uses Phasor To Let Eight Towers Spray One Big Signal
- Solar Panel Keeps Cheap Digital Calipers Powered Up
- Relatively Universal ROM Programmer Makes Retro Tech Hacking Accessible
- Let the Solder Scroll Take Care of Your Feed Needs
- The Long and the Short of It
- Bad Experiences With a Cheap Wind Turbine
- 3D Printer Streaming Solution Unlocks Webcam Features
- Building a Giant Boardgame Isn’t Easy
- Measuring An Unknown Velocity Factor
- End-Of-Life for Z80 CPU and Peripherals Announced
- Roboticizing An Etch-a-Sketch
- Crystal Radio Kit from the 1970s
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 267: Metal Casting, Plasma Cutting, and a Spicy 555
- Ultra-Tiny Wii Uses Custom Parts And Looks Amazing
- This Week in Security: Putty Keys, Libarchive, and Palo Alto
- NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Transitions Into Stationary Testbed
- Build Your Own RGB Fill Light For Photography
- PC Watercooling Prototype is Pumpless
- Computing Via (Virtual) Dominos
- Remove Wall Plugs Fast With A Custom Tool
- DIY Quad-Motor Go-Kart is a Thrilling Ride
- Early CD Player Teardown
- LYFT: Standing Up for Better IKEA BEKANT Control
- MXM: Powerful, Misused, Hackable
- Unraveling The Secrets of Apple’s Mysterious Fisheye Format
- Hacked Oscilloscope Plays Breakout , Hints at More
- Raspberry Pi Scanner Digitizes On the Cheap
- Source Code to the 1999 FPS Game Descent 3 Released
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 779: Errata Prevention Specialist
- This Go-Kart Rides on a Pallet
- Compiling and Running Turbo Pascal in the Browser
- VCF East 2024 Was Bigger and Better Than Ever
- Custom Dog Door Prevents Culinary Atrocities
- Human-Interfacing Devices: HID over I2C
- Getting Started with Radio Astronomy
- A ROG Ally Battery Mod You Ought To Try
- Cyberpunk Guitar Strap Lights Up with Repurposed PCBs
- Still Up and Coming: Non-Planar FDM 3D Printing With 3 or 6 Axes
- More Microwave Metal Casting
- Recycling Wires for Breadboarding
- The Next Evolution Of The Raspberry Pi Recovery Kit
- Microsoft Killed My Favorite Keyboard, And I’m Mad About It
- Fail of the Week: Can an Ultrasonic Cleaner Remove Bubbles From Resin?
- Linux Fu: Stupid Systemd Tricks
- Why Pulse Current Charging Lithium-Ion Batteries Extends Their Useful Lifespan
- Retrotechtacular: The Other Kind of Fallout Show
- Alternate Threaded Inserts for 3D Prints
- Building a Tape Echo In A Coke Can Tape Player That Doesn’t Really Work
- Compaq Portable III is More Than Meets the Eye
- Plasma Cutter on the Cheap Reviewed
- 3D Printing a Cassette Is Good Retro Fun
- Logic Analyzers: Decoding And Monitoring
- Analyzing the Code From The Terminator’s HUD
- Remembering Peter Higgs and the Gravity of His Contributions to Physics
- How Do You Make A Repairable E-Reader
- Waveform Generator Teardown is Nearly Empty
- A Buggy Entry in the Useless Robot Category
- Voice Control for a Vintage Heathkit Radio
- Hackaday Links: April 14, 2024
- Porting Modern Windows Applications to Windows 95
- Danish Vintage LRC Meter Reveals Inside
- The BBC Micro, Lovingly Simulated in VR
- Dump a Code Repository as a Text File, For Easier Sharing with Chatbots
- A Slew Of AI Courses To Get Yourself Up to Speed
- When Your Level Shifter Is Too Smart To Function
- M17 Digital Communications Go From Strength To Strength
- PicoNtrol Brings Modern Controllers to Atari 2600
- Who’s Afraid Of A CRT?
- Delays and Timers in LTSpice (no 555)
- A Bend Sensor Developed With 3D Printer Filament
- Vintage Particle Counter is a Treasure Trove of Classic Parts
- Hackaday Europe 2024 is Live
- Rabbit Sighted In The Wild
- No Lathe? Build Your Own
- Git Good, By Playing a Gamified Version of Git
- Electromagnets Make Vertical CNC Cutter a Little Stickier
- HDMI DDC Keypad Controls Monitor From Rack
- Crank-Powered Train Uses No Batteries or Plugs
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 266: A Writer’s Deck, Patching Your Battleship, and Fact-Checking the Eclipse
- Beating IBM’s Eagle Quantum Processor On An Ising Model With a Classical Tensor Network
- This Week in Security: BatBadBut, DLink, and Your TV Too
- The Future Looks Bleak for Alexa Skill Development
- Make Your Music Simpler With the User-Unfriendliest Cassette Deck Ever
- The Aimbot V3 Aims To Track & Terminate You
- Tearing into a Sparky Sandwich
- Small, Quiet Air Compressor Puts 3D-Printed Parts to Best Use
- Garage Door Automation With No Extra Hardware
- Cryo-EM: Freezing Time to Take Snapshots of Myosin and Other Molecular Systems
- Do You Trust Your Cheap Fuses?
- Linux Fu: Getting Started with Systemd
- WSPR To The Wind With A Pi Pico High Altitiude Balloon
- Let Your Finger Do the Soldering With Solder Sustainer v2
- Exploring the Bendix G-15’s Typewriter
- Synesthetic Clock Doesn’t Require Synesthesia
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 778: OctoPrint — People Are Amazing at Breaking Things
- Baseboard Heaters Get Automated
- Chandra X-ray Observatory Threatened by Budget Cuts
- Homebrew Network Card with No CPU
- Get Today’s Forecast in Classic 90s Weather Channel Style
- Wozamp Turns Apple II Into Music Player
- Hackaday Europe is Almost Here, Last Call for Tickets
- How DEC’s LANBridge 100 Gave Ethernet a Fighting Chance
- Emails Over Radio
- Soldering the Elusive USB C Port
- Double-Checking NASA’s Eclipse Estimate at Home
- On Cloud Computing And Learning to Say No
- In a Twist, Humans Take Jobs from AI
- Adjustable Lights Help Peer Inside Chips with IR
- Bye Bye Green Screen, Hello Monochromatic Screen
- PumpkinOS: A Modern Reimplementation of PalmOS for Today’s Platforms
- Query Your C Code
- A Brief History of Keyboard Encoding
- Royal Typewriter Gets a Second (or Third) Life
- The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics
- Ultimate Power: Lithium-Ion Packs Need Some Extra Circuitry
- 1950s Switching Power Supply Does it Mechanically
- Heating Mars On The Cheap
- Fortran and WebAssembly: Bringing Zippy Linear Algebra to NodeJS & Browsers
- KanaChord Is a Macro Pad for Japanese Input
- Fixing an Expensive Smart Toaster is Worth the Time
- A Spark Gap Transmitter, Characterized
- Hackaday Links: April 7, 2024
- Emergency DIP Pin Repair For Anyone
- Squishy Miter Saw Shroud Spares you the Sneezy Bits
- The Easy Way To Make A Smart Appliance
- Comparing Desoldering Tools
- Jpegli: Google’s Better JPEG and Possible Death Knell for WebP
- Inside a Hisense TV Repair Attempt
- How to Properly Patch Your Iowa -Class Battleship
- DIY 6 GHZ Pulse Compression Radar
- Kid’s Ride Gets Boosted Battery, ESP32 Control
- IRC Client on Bare Metal
- Understand Your Tools: Finger Exercises
- Voyager 1 Issue Tracked Down to Defective Memory Chip
- Linear Feedback Shift Registers for FPGAs
- ColecoVision Cart Rises from Ashes
- A Simple Line Injector Shows You The Wonderful World Of PSRR
- 3D Printer Hot Off the Griddle
- ESP32 Provides Distraction-Free Writing Experience
- A Drone Motor Does e-Bikes
- Fictional Computers: The Three Body Problem
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 265: Behind the Epic SSH Hack, 1980s Cyber Butler, The Story of Season 7
- Extenders And Translators For Your I2C Toolkit
- This Week in Security: XZ, ATT, and Letters of Marque
- Europa Clipper Asks Big Questions of the Jovian Moon
- 3M’s Floppy Disks: A Story of Success and the Birth of Imation
- Finally Taming Thunderbolt With Third-Party Chips
- TOMOS Moped Becomes Electric Beast
- USB HID And Run Exposes Yet Another BadUSB Surface
- Vibratory Rock Tumbler Bounces on Printed Spring
- 3D Navigator for Blender
- Ultimate Power: Lithium-Ion Batteries In Series
- How Much Thrust Is Your Prop Really Making?
- Where Graph Theory Meets The Road: The Algorithms Behind Route Planning
- Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ Shopping is Out, Moves to Dash Carts at Its Grocery Stores
- A Fun Exploit For Canon Printers Brings GDB Gifts
- Make A GPS Antenna Compatible With Same Manufacturer’s Receiver
- A NanoVNA as a Dip Meter
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 777: Asterisk — Wait, Faxes?
- ESP-Prog-Adapter Makes Your ESP32 Tinkering Seamless
- Making the Halo 2 Battle Rifle Real
- PCB Design Review: Tinysparrow, A Module For CAN Hacking Needs
- Recovering a Physically Broken SD Card
- Space Mirrors: Dreams of Turning The Night Into Day Around the Clock
- A Giga-Sunset For Gigaset IoT Devices
- A Long-Range Meshtastic Relay
- The Apple They Should Have Made, But Didn’t
- Crash IoT Devices Through Protocol Fuzzing
- Lamp Becomes Rotating, Illuminated Sign for Festival Table
- A Nifty F1C100S Dual-Board Computer
- Wear Testing Different 3D Printer Filaments
- Giant Sails Actually Help Cargo Ships Save Fuel, And the Planet In Turn
- Multiply Your Multimeter with Relays and USB
- Mining and Refining: Tungsten
- Espressif’s ESP32-P4 Application Processor: Details Begin To Emerge
- PhotonPower Zero For Effortless Solar Pi Zero Projects
- A Supercapacitor From Mushrooms
- Why Is My 470uF Electrolytic Cap More Like 20uF?
- Fire Up The 3D Printer and Build Yourself a Spiderbot
- Pinkpad, A DIY Laptop You Must Print In Pink
- SatCat5: UART, SPI and I2C via Ethernet With FPGA-Based Design
- How Star Trek Breached The Defences Of A Major Broadcaster
- 6502 Hacking Hack Chat
- OSHW Framework Laptop Expansion Hides Dongles
- Wrencher-2: A Bold New Direction For Hackaday
- Flipper Zero Panic Spreads To Oz: Cars Unaffected
- Cold Boot Attack You Can Do With A Pi
- 3D Printing Computer Space
- Exploit the Stressed-out Package Maintainer, Exploit the Software Package
March 2024
- Hackaday Links: March 31, 2024
- Give Your Pi Pico Captouch Inputs For All Your Music Needs
- ESP-Drone: Building an ESP32-Based Quadcopter For Not Much Cash
- Drop-In Switch Mode Regulators
- Modular Vacuum Table Custom-Fits The Parts
- A Threat Level Monitor For Everyone
- Playing Chess Against Your Printer, with PostScript
- Using Electroadhesion To Reversibly Adhere Metals and Graphite to Hydrogels and Tissues
- A Single Transistor Solid State Tesla Coil
- A Practical Guide To Understanding How Radios Work
- SMD Soldering, Without The Blobs
- Too Much Over-optimization is Never Enough!
- How Much Bandwidth Does CW Really Occupy?
- A Telegraph Interface For the Hacker Hotel 2024 Badge
- Video Killed the Radio Alarm Clock
- Experiencing Visual Deficits and Their Impact on Daily Life, With VR
- Security Alert: Potential SSH Backdoor Via Liblzma
- Electrospinning Artificial Heart Valves
- Retrotechtacular: The IBM 7070
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 264: Cheap Minimills, 65-in-1 Electronics, and Time on Moon
- The Most Annoying Thing On The Internet Isn’t Really Necessary
- This Week in Security: Peering Through the Wall, Apple’s GoFetch, and SHA-256
- Art Exhibit Lets You Hide From Self-Driving Cars
- LoRA, With No Radio
- The Intel 8088 and 8086 Processor’s Instruction Prefetch Circuitry
- Is Your Mental Model of Bash Pipelines Wrong?
- Saving a Clock Radio with an LM8562
- Exploring The Sega Saturn’s Wacky Architecture
- Retrogadgets: Butler in a Box
- Homebrew GPU Tackles Quake
- Tech Support… Can AI be Worse?
- A Stirling Engine From Minimal Parts
- Fictional Computers: Colossus and Guardian
- Hybrid Binaries On Windows for ARM: ARM64EC and ARM64X Explained
- Automation Makes Traditional Japanese Wood Finishing Easier
- Webserver Runs on Android Phone
- Retrotechtacular: TOPS Runs the 1970s British Railroad
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 776: Dnsmasq, Making the Internet Work Since 1999
- 3D Printing with (Ersatz) Moon Dust
- 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: [HEX]POD – Climate Tracker and Digital Nose
- The Roller Ship Was Not An Effective Way To Cross The High Seas
- Sort of Electromagnet Attracts Copper, Aluminum
- Japan’s First Commercial Rocket Debuts With a Bang
- 3D Printing Real Wood With Just Cellulose and Lignin
- Automatic Position Reporting Over HF Radio
- Cosmic Ray Detection at Starbucks?
- Galvanize Your Grip On Grep With This Great Grep Guide
- Trick Your (1970) Pickup Truck
- 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: SMS Controlled Heating
- 2024 Hackaday Europe: Workshops Announced, Get Your Tickets
- Retrotechtacular: Build Your Own Dune Buggy, 1970s Style
- Night Vision the Old Way
- How Does Time Work On The Moon?
- Reprogrammable Transistors
- This Air Particulate Sensor Can Also Check Your Pulse Rate
- Documenting Real Hidden Messages in Music
- Complex Organic Chemistry In Sulfuric Acid and Life on Venus
- Are Minimills Worth It?
- AxxSolder 3.0 Now Takes USB Power Delivery
- The Cryotron Remembered
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Pickle Pi
- Dodge, The Weird Tripod Robot
- User Beware: The Fine Line Between Content and Code
- A 65-in-1 the 2024 Way
- Retro Hackintosh Made from Retro Parts
- Retrotechtacular: Right to Repair 1987
- Building A Tiny Organic Swimming Pool With Natural Filtering
- Hackaday Links: March 24, 2024
- A Dial Phone SIPs Asterisk
- An ASIC For A Secret File
- Concrete Clears its Own Snow
- Fail of the Week: A Potentially Lethal Tattoo Removal Laser Power Supply
- Obfuscated C 8080 Emulator Ported
- It’s Never Been Easier To Build A WiFi-Controlled RC Car
- Interactive Cake Takes Your Picture
- Clever E-Ink Driver Does 32 Levels of Grey, Avoids Update Flicker, And More
- Building A Tribute Version of Mattel’s VertiBird Toy
- Tiny Signal Generator Revealed
- New Pens For Old Plotters
- It’s About Time
- A Low-Cost ROM Programmer With an AI Twist
- The Electromagnetic Field 2024 Badge Is A Little Different
- Wico Boss Joystick Modded To Use Cherry MX Keyboard Switches
- Generative AI Now Encroaching on Music
- Roll Your Own DRO With An Added Twist
- YouTuber Builds Onewheel With Tracks Instead And It’s Not Great
- Build Yourself a Vacuum Tube VU Meter
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 263: Better DMCA, AI Spreadsheet Play, and Home Assistants Your Way
- R/C Smoke Grenade Rolls With the Changes
- This Week in Security: Loop DOS, Flipper Responds, and More!
- AI Image Generation Meets Virtual Dress Up
- Open HT Surgery Gives Cheap Transceiver All-Band Capabilities
- Video Poker Takes Your Money in 10 Lines of BASIC
- Weird Things To Do With FPGAs
- Chording Keyboard Leaves Your Mouse Hand Free
- Vastly Improved Servo Control, Now Without Motor Surgery
- A Binary Version of the Enigma Machine
- Why x86 Needs To Die
- Magnetic Power Cable Makes Mobility Scooter Much Better
- The Long Strange Trip to US Color TV
- Your Voice Assistant Doesn’t Have To Be Cloudy
- Apple Vision Pro’s Secret to Smooth Visuals? Subtly Substandard Optics
- These Keycaps Are 100% Recycled Plastic
- You Should Be Allowed To Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines, Say Federal Regulators
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 775: Meshtastic Central
- DIY RC Controller Built With Old-School Parts
- 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: A DIY SCADA smart home
- The Lunar Odyssey: Moon Landings From the 1960s to Today’s Attempts
- A Tape Echo For Anyone
- The Hunt For Alien Radio Signals Began Sooner Than You Think
- Commodore CHESSmate Replica Runs on the ESP32
- Arduino Gear Shift Indicator Finds ‘Em So You Won’t Grind ‘Em
- Repairing a Gear with a Candle (and Some Epoxy)
- Your Text Needs More JPEG
- Breadboard SDR Doesn’t Need Much
- Cute CO2 Gauge Tells You When to Crack a Window
- 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: A Piano-Controlled Smart Home
- PCB Design Review: ESP32-S3 Round LCD Board
- Running Power and Data Over Just Two Wires
- The Greenhouse Effect Isn’t For Greenhouses
- Photoresistors Provide Air Gap Data Transfer, Slowly
- Modern Microcontroller Boosts Classic Logic Analyzer To New Heights
- DIY Pocket PONG Breaks the Mobile Spell
- Learn AI via Spreadsheet
- Faux Silkscreen On A PCB Made With A Laser Cutter
- Using a Framework Mainboard for a Custom Gaming Handheld
- Proper Routing Makes for Many Happy Return Paths
- The F Number On A Lens Means Something? Who Knew!
- The Chandra X-Ray Observatory Faces Shutdown in FY2025 Budget
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Offset-Stem Keycaps
- Ancient Instrument Goes Digital: The Digi-Gurdy
- RNODE: A Portable Unrestricted Digital Radio
- Thrift Store CD Rack Turns Into Small Parts Storage Playground
- Shôtarô Kaneda’s Motorcycle, For Real
- Hackaday Links: March 17, 2024
- RP2040 Boot Loader is a Worm
- Simple NTP Clock Uses Custom RGB 7-Segment Displays
- A Fully Automatic British Breakfast: Ready While You Sleep
- Creating a Numbers Station Of Your Very Own
- The Most Famous Room In Rock-n-Roll You’ve Never Seen
- Arduino Turned Into Something Kinda Like A Pager
- Radicle: An Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative
- NASA Engineers Poke Voyager 1 and Receive Memory Dump
- A Nine-Year-Old’s Z80 Drawing Program
- A Simple Seismometer You Can Build Yourself
- A SPIF-fy Way of Forming Metal
- Cheap DIY Microscope Lamp Makes Tiny Macro Shots Look Great
- Super-Portable, Tunable VHF Antenna
- Retro Unit Converter is a Neat Little Gadget
- Do We Need a New Hardware Description Language?
- TOPS, the DIY Robot Dog, Has Great Moves
- Folding Solar Panel is Underpowered
- Glow Plug Turned Metal-Capable 3D Printer Hotend
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 262: Wheelchair Hacking, Big Little Science at Home, Arya Talks PCBs
- The Perils of Return Path Gaps
- This Week in Security: Apple Backdoors Curl, Tor’s New Bridge, and GhostRace
- CATS: A New Communication and Telemetry System
- A Look Inside a 70-GHz Electromechanical Attenuator
- Bonkers Nerf Blaster Sprays Balls Everywhere
- Making Floating Point Calculations Less Cursed When Accuracy Matters
- Celebrating Pi Day with a Ghostly Calculator
- Building A Hydraulic Loader For A Lawn Tractor
- New Brains Save 12 V Fridge From the Scrap Heap
- Retrotechtacular: Air Mail for the Birds
- Dev Board Watch Takes Path of Least Resistance
- Lithium-Ion Batteries Power Your Devboards Easily
- High-Voltage Fun with an Inexpensive Power Supply
- A Compact SCARA Arm Plotter
- The Flex Computer System: UK’s Forgotten Capability Computer Architecture
- Gentle Introduction To White Light Interferometry
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 774: Let’s Get Rusty
- Goldilocks Beverage Coaster Tells You When It’s Just Right
- PDP-10 Fits in Your Living Room
- 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: Simple Window Closer Relies On Gravity
- Review: The New Essential Guide To Electronics in Shenzhen
- A Solar-Powered Wristwatch With an ATtiny13
- The Short Workbench
- Custom Library Rescues Good LoRa Hardware from Bad Firmware
- 4D Knit Dress Skirts Waste
- Randomly Move Marionette With Steel Balls and Geneva Drives
- An Optical Computer Architecture
- LEGO Keyboard Stand Fits Just Right
- Playing Audio on The Pi Pico With No DAC To Speak Of
- LED Choker Is a Diamond In the Junk Pile
- PCB Design Review: DPI-LVDS Sony Vaio LCD Devboard
- This Piano Does Not Exist
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Pocket Cyberdeck
- Unusual Port Combines DisplayPort and HDMI
- Stressless Shortwave Reviewed
- A 555-Shaped Discrete Component 555
- 3D Imaging for Natural Science — For Free
- Playing ZX Spectrum’s Manic Miner on the Arduino Uno
- Hack Makes Microwave Cookies Fast and Not Terrible
- Share Your Projects: KiCad Automations And Pretty Renders
- Generator Control Panel Unlocked with Reverse Engineering Heroics
- On an Aging Space Station, Air Leaks Become Routine
- Reducing Seams In FDM Prints With Scarf Joint Seams
- Measuring Nanometers at Home
- μRepRap: Taking RepRap Down to Micrometer-Level Manufacturing
- Got to Go Fast: The Rise of Super-Fast FPV Drones
- Hackaday Links: March 10, 2024
- How Thermal Post-Curing Resin Prints Affects Their Strength
- Ford Patent Wants to Save Internal Combustion
- Custom Mouse-Making: Clay Is the Way
- STM32 Draws on Scope
- Your Cat Needs Its Own TV
- Ender 3 Plotter Attachment for Printing Onto Cassettes
- The Insurance Buys The Wheelchair, But Not The App To Run It
- Upgrading PC Cooling With Software
- A Vanadium Redox Flow Battery You Can Build
- Rosie the Robot Runs for Real
- Hacking and Working on the Go
- Create Virtual USB Sticks With a Raspberry Pi Zero
- Simple Optical Meter Sets New Standards For Documentation
- That’s a Lot of Building Systems
- Inside America’s Last Morse Code Station
- Pairing A New Remote To A Cheap RC Car
- Ferrules and 3D Prints Revive Classic Microphone
- 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: Plantpal Is a Friend to You Both
- Retro Gadgets: Pay TV in the 1960s
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 261: Rickroll Toothbrush, Keyboard Cat, Zombie Dialup
- More Progress on Perovskite Solar Cells
- This Week in Security: Blame the Feds, Emergency Patches, and the DMA
- Extracting SecOC Keys From a 2021 Toyota RAV4 Prime
- Beverage Coaster Indicates Ideal Drinking Temperature
- RP2040, ESP32, And An Atmega Have An ADC-Off
- Raspinamp: It Really Replicates Questionable Activities Involving Llamas
- Motherboard Revived With Simplest 1.8V SPI Shifter Ever
- An ESP32 MultiFactor TOTP Generator
- Micro Jeep Model Kit is Both Business Card and Portfolio
- Ethernet For Hackers: Transformers, MACs And PHYs
- CT Scan Reveals Secrets Of Heinz’s New Ketchup Cap
- Stacking Solar Cells Is A Neat Trick To Maximise Efficiency
- Older Nissan Leafs Lose Their App, Are They The First Of Many?
- Fabbing a Fab New Watch Face
- Best of Both Worlds: The MacPad
- Harvard claims breakthrough in anode behavior of solid state lithium batteries
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 773: NodeBB — Don’t Do the Math
- The $16 PCB Robot
- How Powerful Should An Electric bike Be? The UK Is Asking
- The 1970s Computer: A Slice of Computing
- Thumbs Up To This Pico MIDI Kalimba
- Dial-Up Is Still, Just Barely, a Thing
- GPS Antenna Mods Make Starlink Terminal Immune To Jammers
- Automated System Keeps Camper Van Air Fresh and Warm
- Yuzu and Citra Emulators Shut Down After Legal Pressure From Nintendo
- Large Language Model Can Help You Develop For The Amiga
- RGB LED Disco Ball Reacts to Sound and Color
- Making a Crystodyne Radio With Zinc Oxide and Cat’s Whiskers
- Gaming on a TP-Link TL-WDR4900 Wireless Router
- Jenny’s Daily Drivers: Damn Small Linux 2024
- A Simple Hack For Running Low-Power Gear From a USB Battery Pack
- Walking and Talking Through the UK National Museum of Computing
- Hacking an Actual WiFi Toothbrush With An ESP32-C3
- Reverse Engineering the Behringer Ultranet Protocol
- Goatee Pasta Maker Makes Us Hunger for Hair
- Accelerate your large builds locally with distcc
- Design Tips to Hide Layer Lines in 3D Printed Parts
- Optical Guitar Pickup Works With Nylon Strings
- Pager Lives Again Thanks to Python And Mastodon
- Retrotechtacular: The Free Piston Engine
- High Vacuum Hack Chat
- Luggable Cyberdeck Can Still Be a Luggable PC
- Avi Loeb and the Interstellar Lottery
- Can’t Disable DJI Drone ID? Spoof It With An ESP!
- The Juggler: In Rust
- Fail of the Week: The Little Remote-Controlled Snowblower That Couldn’t
- iPhone 6S NVMe chip Tapped Using a Flexible PCB
- Hackaday Links: March 3, 2024
- Outdated HP Microserver Gets a New Brain
- Bring Linux To CH32V003 Through, Yes, RISC-V Emulation
- What’s a Transfluxor?
- Building Your Own 4G LTE Base Station
- A Better Use For The AGP Slot, Decades Later
- Cybiko Repair-A-Thon With Memory Upgrade
- Lost Print Vacuum Casting in a Microwave
- Cheap Microscope Can Take Amazing Images With Some Simple Upgrades
- It’s a CoCo! No, it’s an Apple II!
- DIY Geophone Build Performs Well
- Sometimes It’s the Little Things
- Designing a USB-C Upgrade PCB for the MX Ergo Mouse
- On the Merits of a Solid-State Dehumidifier Filament Dry Box
- Bluetooth Wearable Becomes Rad Synth Controller
- The Six Million Dollar Jellyfish
- An Open SPARCstation USB Keyboard&Mouse Adapter
- Educational Arduino Clock Uses Analog Meters For Display
- Build Yourself A Little Mangonel, You Deserve One
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 260: KiCad 8, Two Weather Stations, and Multiple I2Cs
- If You Thought Sega Only Made Electronic Games, Think Again
- This Week in Security: Forksquatting, RustDesk, and M&Ms
- ThinkPad X1 Carbon Turned USB Device Through Relentless Digging
- DOOM Runs On Husqvarna’s Robot Lawnmower
- Easily Add Link Cable Support to Your Homebrew GBA Game
- Internet of Production Alliance Wants You to Think Globally, Make Locally
- A 3-tool selector box for a JBC soldering station
February 2024
- For Today Only, Pi=3
- Washing Machine Motors Unlocked
- The White House Memory Safety Appeal is a Security Red Herring
- Piano Feeder Gets Pets Playing for their Supper
- NASA Found Another Super Earth With Tantalizing Possibilities
- An Automotive Locksmith On The Flipper Zero And Car Theft
- A “Full” Keyboard for $5*
- Flux is Your Friend for Archiving Old Floppy Disks
- Restoring Starlink’s Missing Ethernet Ports
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 772: Raspberry Pi From the Man Himself
- Making a Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Is Almost DIY-able
- The Strange Metal Phase and Its Implications for Superconductivity
- Ethernet For Hackers: Equipment Exploration
- The Photodiode You Never Knew You Had
- Air Canada’s Chatbot: Why RAG is Better Than an LLM For Facts
- Avoid I2C Address Conflicts On ESP32 By Pin Muxing
- ESP32 Weather Station Looks Great With Color E-Paper Display
- Wire Wrap Odyssey: a 7400-series Homebrew 8-bit Computer
- Blast From the Past: Schematic Templates
- Wireless Telescope Guidance You Can Build On The Cheap
- 3D-Printed Automated Development Tank For Classic Photo Films
- Underwater Sensor Takes Single Pair Ethernet for a Dip
- Joost Bürgi and Logarithms
- Big Chemistry: Hydrofluoric Acid
- Big Candy Is Watching You: Facial Recognition in Vending Machines Upsets University
- Classic Calculator Goes RPN, With New Brain
- A Deep Dive Into a 1980s Radio Shack Computer Trainer
- Integration Taught Correctly
- The DeDeterminator Uses Quantum Physics To Make Decisions So You Don’t Have To
- KiCad 8 Makes Your Life Better Without Caveats
- Radioactive 3D Printed Flower Glows and Glows
- DietPi Version 9.1: Now With Raspberry Pi 5 Support And More
- Ask Hackaday: What If You Did Have a Room Temperature Superconductor?
- On-click install local AI applications using pinokio
- Deep Dive Into a Prison Laptop
- TuneShroom Is An Artistic Mushroom-Themed MIDI Controller
- There’s Hope For That Cheap Lathe Yet!
- Hackaday Links: February 25, 2024
- Streaming Deck Removes Need for Dedicated Hardware
- Internet Radio Built In Charming Cassette-Like Form Factor
- One Object to Print, but So Many Settings!
- A Smarter Solar Water Heater
- What is x86-64-v3?
- Recreating the Pop Ball
- Bit-Serial CPU: Ultra-Tiny VHDL-Based CPU With Forth Interpreter
- Tetris Goes Round and Round
- Tiny Motion Detection Alarm Does the Trick
- Apple AirTag: Antitheft or Antistalking?
- Want to Learn Binary? Draw Space Invaders!
- You Got Fusion in My Coal Plant!
- Your Scope, Armed and Ready
- MovieCart Plays Videos On The Atari 2600
- Mirror, Mirror, Electron Mirror…
- Reggaeton-Be-Gone Disconnects Obnoxious Bluetooth Speakers
- Op-Amp Drag Race Turns Out Poorly for 741
- Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C Makes It to the Lunar Surface in US Return After Half a Century
- Ask Hackaday: What’s in Your Garage?
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 259: Twin-T, Three-D, and Driving to a Tee
- Tool Demagnetizers and the Magnetic Stray Field
- This Week in Security: Wyze, ScreenConnect, and Untrustworthy Job Postings
- Your Noisy Fingerprints Vulnerable to New Side-Channel Attack
- ESP32 Oscilloscope Skips Screen for the Browser
- The Latest Advancements in Portable N64 Modding
- The ELIZA Archaeology Project: Uncovering the Original ELIZA
- Making Wooden Shingles with Hand Tools
- Solar E-Ink Weather Station Works on Dark Days, Too
- The Book8088 Gets a Post-Hype Review
- 2024 Hackaday Europe Call for Participation Extended
- Filters are in Bloom
- Using Gallium Oxide as a Resistive Memory Element
- Unlimited Cloud Storage YouTube Style
- Replacement PCB Replicates Early 80s Modem
- Turing Complete Origami
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 771: Kalpa — Because Nobody Knows what Hysteresis Is
- Rebuilding a $700k Refrigerator
- Spectrum Analyzer Buyer’s Guide
- Power Tool Packs Make a Portable Powerhouse
- Car Driving Simulators for Students, or: When Simulators Make Sense
- LED Matrix Earrings Show Off SMD Skills
- Stereo Photography with Smartphones Made Better With Syncing
- Mapping the Nintendo Switch PCB
- New Modelling Shows That Flat Protoplanets Might be a Thing
- Daisugi – Growing Straight Lumber without Killing the Tree
- Multicolor Resin Prints: Give it a Shot
- Sketchy Logg Dogg Logging Robot Remote Control Hacking
- Our Home Automation Contest Starts Now!
- Pi Pico Enhances RadioShack Computer Kit
- Measuring Trees Via Satellite Actually Takes A Great Deal of Field Work
- A Straightforward AI Voice Assistant, On a Pi
- Gold Recovery from E-Waste with Food-Waste Amyloid Aerogels
- Making the Commodore SX-64 Mini
- ForceGen: Using a Diffusion Model to Help Design Novel Proteins
- Watch The OpenScan DIY 3D Scanner In Action
- Installing SteamOS and Windows on a Google Meet Video Conference Computer
- Steampipe: All SQL All the Time
- Linux Fu: Forward to the Past!
- A Classroom-Ready Potentiometer From Pencil and 3D Prints
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the 200% Typewriter
- Not a FrogPad but Close
- Printable Keyboard Dock Puts Steam Deck to Work
- Double Fed Induction Motors: Clever Motor Control Through Frequency
- Low-Cost Saliva-based Biosensor For Cancer Detection
- Hackaday Links: February 18, 2024
- No Inductors Needed for This Simple, Clean Twin-Tee Oscillator
- 3D Print Train Wheels For Garden Railway
- Doubling the CPU Speed of the TRS-80 Model 100 With a Mod Board
- Extreme Waterproof 3D Prints
- Canned Air is Unexpectedly Supersonic
- Metal 3D Printing Gets Really Fast (and Really Ugly)
- A Badge For AI-Free Content – 100% Human!
- Star Wars-Inspired Cosplay Prop Uses Old Vintage Camera
- Back to Basics with a 555 Deep Dive
- Enthusiast Seeks Keycap Designer for Alphasmart NEO
- Wireless All the Things!
- WoWMIPS: A MIPS Emulator for Windows Applications
- Salvaged Meter Movements Really Pop in This DIY VU Meter Bridge
- Sneaky Fix Gets Simon Back Up And Running
- Bioluminescent Glowing Petunias Are Now A Thing
- Deadblow Axe Splits Wood with Minimal Rebound
- Sonolithography With The Raspberry Pi Pico
- Change The Jingle In Your Makita Charger Because You Can
- Slime Mold-Powered Smart Watches See Humans Fall In Love With The Goo
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 258: So Much Unix, Flipper Flip-out, and the Bus Pirate 5
- Compact Cycloidal Drive Lives Inside This Custom Brushless Motor
- This Week in Security: Filename Not Sanitized, MonikerLink, and Snap Attack!
- The Latest Windows 11 Release Might Not Work On Your Oldest Machines
- All-Sky Camera Checks for Aurora
- How Intel Gave Us The PCI Bus While Burying VESA’s VL-Bus
- You Could Be Relatively Cooler In Diamond-Coated Clothing
- Why Stealing a Car with Flipper Zero is a Silly Idea
- Brushless ESC Becomes Dual-Motor Brushed ESC With A Few Changes
- Retrotechtacular: Some Days You Just Can’t Get Rid of a Nuclear Bomb
- Linux Fu: Curling C
- A 1960s PLC Gives Up Its Secrets
- Electrical Steel: The Material at the Heart of the Grid
- Make Your Bookshelf Clickable
- Lift Those Pins With Ease
- Developing In Pascal On The Commodore 64 With Abacus Super Pascal 64
- Shuji Nakamura: The Man Who Gave Us the Blue LED Despite All Odds
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 770: 10% More Internet
- Ring Around the Inverter
- How Different are SpaceX Thermal Tiles From the Space Shuttle’s?
- Inputs of Interest: the Svalboard Could Be Your Salvation
- How Many Time Zones Are There Anyway?
- Parts We Miss: The Mains Transformer
- Apple Pushes Back on Right To Repair Bill Due to Parts Pairing
- AI-Powered Bumper Sticker Provides Context-Sensitive Urban Camouflage
- Thermal Earring Tracks Body Temperature
- Writing – So Easy a Caveperson Could Do It
- Tool Changing? Bah! Just Add a Second Gantry
- Memory Box Shows Photos Based On Fingerprint
- A Clock Made Out of Electromechanical Relays
- Have a Ball with This 3D Printed Sphere-Making Machine
- Sprint: The Mach 10 Magic Missile That Wasn’t Magic Enough
- Piezo Transducers Could Turn Displays Into Speakers
- Stepping Inside Art in VR, and the Workflow Behind It
- Tandy Pocket Computer Assembly is… Weird
- Meet GOODY-2, the World’s Most Responsible (And Least Helpful) AI
- Melodio Self Mate
- Bringing Modern Technology to a Sled
- Understanding Deep Learning: Free MIT Press EBook For Instructors And Students
- Ethernet For Hackers: The Very Basics
- 3D Printing Functional Human Brain Tissue For Research Purposes
- Hands On: Bus Pirate 5
- Canada Bans Flipper Zero Over What It Imagines It Does
- EasyThreed K9: The Value In A €72 AliExpress FDM 3D Printer
- AI’s Existence Is All It Takes To Be Accused Of Being One
- Target Lifting Mechanism Goes Wireless
- Hackaday Links: February 11, 2024
- 3D Printed Basketball Could Be a Game Changer
- Printing a Log
- Benchmarking Latency Across Common Wireless Links For MCUs
- 3D Printed DIN Rail Mount is Attractive
- Running UNIX On a Nintendo Entertainment System
- Analog Engineer’s Pocket Reference Needs a Big Pocket
- Pimp My Pot Redux, Now Cheaper and Even Better
- Wooden Desk Lamp Uses Unusual Dimmer
- Pi 5 and SDR Team Up for a Digital Scanner You Can Actually Afford
- The Usage Of Embedded Linux In Spacecraft
- One Project at a Time, Or a Dozen?
- Minitel, The 1980s Console Game Platform You Never Had
- Simple Magnetic Levitator
- Droplet Watch Keeps Time Via Electrowetting
- Breaking Through The 1 MB Barrier In DOS With Unreal Mode And More
- 20,000 Volt plasma Knife Slices, Dices, and Sparks
- Keeping Track of the Night Sky with Discrete Logic Chips
- FOSDEM Saved, With 3D Printing
- Better Living Through Biomedical Engineering
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 256: 0, 256, 400, 0x100, and 10000000
- NIF’s Laser Fusion Experiment’s Energy Gain Passes Peer Review
- This Week in Security: Broken Shims, LassPass, and Toothbrushes?
- Flipped Bit Could Mark the End of Voyager 1 ‘s Interstellar Mission
- Power Supply Efficiency Measurements
- [Usagi] Whips a Chain Printer Into Shape
- Synthetic Spider Silk
- Lawny Five Keeps Lawn Mowed, Snow Plowed
- 3D Printing Silicone Parts
- A Tube Tester Laid Bare
- The End of Landlines?
- Revisiting a Z80 Game From 1990
- How Airplanes Mostly Stopped Flying Into Terrain And Other Safety Improvements
- The Revolver: A 3D-Printed… Screwdriver!
- Custom Multi-Segment E-Ink Displays from Design to Driving
- Will Large Satellite Constellations Affect Earth’s Magnetic Field?
- Metal Crystal Stops Electrons
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 769: OpenCost — We Spent How Much?
- Your 1983 Video Phone is Finally Ready
- Tetris Goes Full Circle
- Friendly Flexible Circuits: The Cables
- Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize Awarded And 2024’s New Challenge
- In Defense of Anthropomorphizing Technology
- Schematics, For A Modern Flagship Phone
- Harbor Freight and LEGO PCB Vise is Cheap and Effective
- Recreating The Quadrophonic Sound of the 70s
- Evidence For Graphite As A Room Temperature Superconductor
- Beating Bitlocker in 43 seconds
- IoT Air Purifier Makes a Great Case Study in Reverse Engineering
- Retrotechtacular: The Master Hands of the Early Automotive Industry
- Human-Interfacing Devices: Packing for the Descriptor Heist
- It Wasn’t DOOM That Killed The Amiga
- They Want To Put A Telescope In A Crater On The Moon
- Atopile Wants you to Code Schematics
- Sailing (Directly) Into the Wind
- LEGO Coin Sorter Is So Money
- 3D Printed Pelvis And Femur Implants For Bone Cancer Treatment
- Open-Source Solar Modules
- Give Your Projects A Retro Tint With This 8051-based Arduino Uno
- An Apple ][ With A Pendulum
- Biomedical Engineering Hack Chat
- Hackaday Europe 2024 is On, and We Want You!
- Building Robots With A 20×20 Grid
- Arctic Adventures with a Data General Nova II — The Equipment
- Starlink’s Inter-Satellite Laser Links Are Setting New Record With 42 Million GB Per Day
- Fail of the Week: PCB LED Cube Fails Successfully
- Decoding JS1YMG: First Ham Radio Station On The Moon After SLIM Mission
- A Crossbar Telephone Switch Explained
- Hackaday Links: February 4, 2024
- Altoids Tin Keyboard Is a Breath of Fresh Air
- Sega’s AI Computer Embraces The Artificial Intelligence Revolution
- Popup Playground Roams Around
- POP! Goes The Hydrogen Howitzer
- Common Enzyme Breaks Down PLA Fast
- HF In Small Spaces
- Why Not Try A DIAC?
- Recovering a Busted Video Capture Device With Firmware Flashing Tricks
- Tricky 3D Printed Joinery Problem? Give Heat Staking a Try
- Avocado-Shaped Robot Makes Its Way Through The Rainforest
- Transforming EDF Backpack for a Speed Boost
- Fixing a Tractor Dashboard From Over 10,000 Miles Away
- Resistor Color Code Clock is a Bit of Fun
- Electric Boomerang Does Laps
- Satellite Provides Detailed Data on Antarctic Ice
- An Alternative Orientation For 3D Printed Enclosures
- A Wiper Motor 101
- Your Surface RT Can Become Useful Again, With Raspberry Pi OS
- Will There Be Any Pi Left For Us?
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 255: Balloon on the Moon, Nanotech Goblets, and USB All the Way
- The Case Against Calibration Cubes
- This Week in Security: Glibc, Ivanti, Jenkins, and Runc
- Fixing a Malfunctioning Keithley Model 179 Digital Multimeter
- Retro-Styled Rasti Laptop Packs Framework Mobo
- Multi-way Capacitor Replacement Without the Pain
- Navigate Burning Man With Ease With This Custom Tool
- Eliminate That Pesky Power-Only USB Cable With This Cable Tester
- A Concrete Solution to Balance And Protect Camera Gear
- Robot Can Read Braille Much Faster Than Humans With New Sensor
- Polynesian Wayfinding Traditions Let Humans Roam The Pacific Ocean
- Flat-Pack Multi-Tool Has Many Dimensions
- How Much Longer Will Cars Have Cigarette Lighter Ports?
- This Time It’s Toyota: Takata Airbag Recalls Continue
- Cheap Hack Gets PCI-X Card Working In PCI Slot
- The Gyro Monorail: How To Make Trains Better With A Gyroscope
- Check Out These Amazing Self-Soldering Sleeves From World War II
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 768: Open Source Radio
January 2024
- High Caliber Engineering On A Low Torque PCB Servo Motor
- 3D Mouse With 3D Printed Flexures And PCB Coils
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Typewriter Orchestra
- Making an Aircraft Wing Work for an Audience
- The Cockpit Voice Recorder Controversy
- Resistor Swap Gives Honda Insights More Power
- Low-Cost DSP for Scanning Probe Microscopy
- Swapping Nunchucks for a Steering Wheel
- How To Build Your Own 16-Bit System-on-Spreadsheet
- A Basic USB-C Primer
- Design Secrets of Fantastic, Hand-made Puzzle Boxes
- Simon Says with an RP2040
- Human-Interfacing Devices: The Descriptor Heist
- The World’s First Microprocessor: F-14 Central Air Data Computer
- The Past, Present, and Future of Inflatable Space Habitats
- Ingenuity May Be Grounded, But its Legacy Will Be Grand
- Building a Semi-Auto Cookie Dough Gun
- A Complete Exchange From Scratch For Your Rotary Dial Phones
- New Robots To Explore New Areas Of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant
- A Mouse Becomes A Camera
- 3D Printed Axial Compressor is On a Mission to Inflate Balloons
- A Vintage Monitor Lives Again with a New Heart
- Tech in Plain Sight: Escalators
- Need a Serial Data Plotter? Better Write Your Own
- 3D Printering: Speed Is So Hot Right Now
- Roman Dodecahedrons: A Mystifying Archaeological Find
- Flux, From Scratch
- Ballpoint Switch Is Oh-So Satisfying
- Lorenz Attractor Analog Computer with Octave Simulation
- Hackaday Links: January 28, 2024
- Building Nanoleaf-Inspired Wall Panels That Look Great
- Bringing An IBM Butterfly Laptop Back From The Dead
- Getting Started With USB-C And Common Pitfalls With Charging And Data Transfer
- 3D Printed RC Kart Actually Made Entirely By Hand
- No Dish? Try a Portable Weave Helix Antenna
- Hotshot 3D Printed Hovercraft is Devastatingly Fast
- Harvesting Electricity From High-Voltage Transmission Lines Using Fences
- Ground-Effect Vehicle to Carry Passengers Around Hawaii
- A Look at 3D Printed Professional LED Signage
- A General-Purpose PID Controller
- In Praise of “Simple” Projects
- A Hydroelectric Dam, Built Out of LEGO
- Soldering Holder from Old Lamps
- A ZX Spectrum Raytracer, in BASIC
- Nanotechnology in Ancient Rome? There Is Evidence
- Hacking A Xiaomi Air Purifier’s Filter DRM To Extend Its Lifespan
- Building A Cable-Driven Delta Printer
- A DIY E-Ink Tank Watch
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 254: AI, Hijack Guy, and Water Rockets Fly
- Wearable Robot Makes Mountain Climbing a Breeze for Seniors
- This Week in Security: MOAB, Microsoft, and Printers
- San Francisco Sues To Keep Autonomous Cars Out Of The City
- Reviving a Sensorless X-Ray Cabinet with Analog Film
- Building a Mouse That’s Also A Computer
- Open Vehicle Monitoring System is the Window to Your EV’s Soul
- So Long and Thanks for All the Flights: Ingenuity Permanently Grounded After 72 Flights
- You Can Use A Crappy Mixer As A Neat Synthesizer
- POTS at a Hacker Camp
- Displays We Love Hacking: Parallel RGB
- Bus Pirate 5 Now Shipping
- Could Moon Mining Spoil Its Untouched Grandeur And Science Value?
- The NSA’s Furby Artificial Intelligence Scare: FOIA Documents Provide Insight
- A Paddle Wheel Ground Effect Vehicle
- Upgrading At Least One Component of a TI Calculator
- Steamboat Willie Never Sounded Better
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 767: Owntracks, Are We There Yet?
- Robot: You Keep Using That Word But It Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
- FairBerry Brings the PKB Back to Your Smartphone
- Ask Hackaday: What About Imperfect Features?
- Random Number Generation by Brain
- Human-Written Or Machine-Generated: Finding Intelligence In Language Models
- This Unique Flip-Flop Uses Chemistry and Lasers
- Massive Water Rocket Is Impressive But Accessible
- Crusty: The Story of the Mac SE that Could
- A Live Map Display In A 1960s Airliner
- Reverse Engineering The Apple Touch Bar Screen
- Autofeeding CNC Lathe Cranks Out Parts All By Itself
- Testing Your C Knowledge With This One Simple Quiz
- Could Solar-Powered Airships Offer Cleaner Travel?
- Is This the World’s Smallest N-Scale Train Layout?
- DB Cooper Case Could Close Soon Thanks To Particle Evidence
- Another Chance To Revive Your Nabaztag
- AI on the Hunt for Better Batteries
- Writing And Running Atari 2600 Games In Your Browser
- Kites Fill Electricity Generation Gaps
- X-Ray CT Scanners From eBay, Brought Back to Life
- Read QR Codes without a Computer
- Inside a Fake LM358
- Switching Regulators For Dummies
- X-Ray Investigations Hack Chat
- Fixing A PDP-11/03 Power Supply Is Easy When You Understand It
- Bell Labs is Leaving the Building
- 3D Printed Screw Compressor Revisited
- Haier Europe Eases Off On Legal Threat And Seeks Dialogue
- FM Radio is Discriminating
- 640k Was Never Enough For Anyone: How DOS Broke Free
- Hackaday Links: January 21, 2024
- Simulating Cellular Biology in the Browser
- Creators Can Fight Back Against AI With Nightshade
- Computer Logic Spins with No Electricity
- Reverse-Engineering the Web-@nywhere Watch For 2001-Era Smartwatch Action
- Garden Light Turned Mesh Network Node
- Learn Sailing Mechanics Without Leaving Dry Land
- How A Steam Bug Once Deleted All Of Someone’s User Data
- The Giant LEGO You Always Wanted To Play With
- HOPE is On, Spread the Word
- Street Photography, With RADAR!
- Hardware Should Lead Software, Right?
- Erasing EEPROMs isn’t Always as Easy as it Seems
- Arduino Provides No Fuss SNES-To-USB Conversion
- Testing The Atlas ICBM: A 1958 Time Capsule Video
- Can Car Parts Grow on Trees?
- Alarm Panel Hack Defeats Encryption By Ignoring It
- ‘Radar’ Glasses Grant Vision-free Distance Sensing
- You Wouldn’t Download a House
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 253: More Wood Robot, Glitching and Fuming Nitric Acid, We Heart USB-C
- Z80 I/O Madness
- This Week in Security: Gitlab, VMware, and PixeFAIL
- Haier Threatens Legal Action Against Home Assistant Plugin Developer
- Cute Brass Lunar Lander is a Neat Little Environment Monitor
- Don’t Panic: a Cooperative Bomb Defusing Game
- How To Spend A Million Dollars on The Ultimate Stereo
- Turning A 1:150 Scale Model Car Into A Real Driving Car With Lights
- Lessons Learned from a High-Voltage Power Supply
- Crippled Peregrine Lander to Make Fiery Return Home
- Tech in Plain Sight: Windshield Frit
- Deep Dive into 3D Printing Nozzles
- Predicting the A-Bomb: The Cartmill Affair
- A Dim Bulb Tester Is For Testing Other Equipment, Not Bulbs
- Android-Powered Rigol Scopes Go Wireless
- Neon Watch Glows Rather Nicely, Tells Time
- Modeling Network Latency
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 766: WebRTC — The Hack that Connects Everyone to Everything
- Blastoise Humidifier Shows Us You Don’t Need A 3D Printer If You’re This Good With A 3D Pen
- Arduino, Virtually
- Linux Fu: Where’s That Darn File?
- Fan With Automatic Door Is Perfect For Camper Vans
- Sun on the Run: Diving into Solar with a Mobile PV System
- Compute the Mandelbrot Set With a Custom RISC-V CPU
- Printed Centrifugal Dust Separator Stays on Budget
- Check Out This PDP-11 Running Unix With A Teletype Terminal
- Need a Refresher on RMS?
- Reverse-Engineering A Russian Tornado-S Guidance Circuit Board
- Kinetic Clock Is A Clean Modern Way To Tell Time
- $50 10Gbps Mesh Network uses USB4
- Ask Hackaday: Why Are Self-Checkouts Failing?
- A Practical Open Source Air Purifier
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Really Snazzy Folding Keyboard
- Betavoltaic Battery Rated To Provide Power For 50 Years
- Countdown to a Spaceship Simulator
- Breaking The Flash Encryption Feature Of Espressif’s Microcontrollers
- AI Binoculars Know More About Birds Than You
- PDP-11 Trouble With A Ruthless Power Supply Issue
- Feeding The Fire by Robot
- Reverse-Engineering The ESP32’s WiFi Binary Blob With A Faraday Cage
- USB-C PD: New Technology Done Right
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- 2023: As The Hardware World Turns
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