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· 2w ago

Laser Your Way into Debug Mode on the RP2350 https://hackaday.com/2026/09/19/laser-your-way-into-debug-mode-on-the-rp2350/

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Laser Your Way Into Debug Mode On The RP2350

The RP2350 is actually a pretty secure chip, all things considered. It has secure boot, ARMv8’s TrustZone to split secure and non-secure execution, and you can permanently disable debug — the…

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· 2mo ago

Reject Modernity, Return to 80s, Learn C. https://hackaday.com/2026/07/10/reject-modernity-return-to-80s-learn-c/

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Reject Modernity, Return To 80s, Learn C.

We’re not exactly sure how old [SnailMail] is, but he’s probably a member of Generation Alpha considering that to our wizened eyes the lad looks only slightly older than a fetus– …

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· 2mo ago

Why Is Textile Work Not Taught To Engineers? https://hackaday.com/2026/07/28/why-is-textile-work-not-taught-to-engineers/

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Why Is Textile Work Not Taught To Engineers?

A talk from the recent Electromagnetic Field event in the UK caught our eye, in which [Amy Jeskins] looked at the overlooked engineering skill of pattern cutting. She takes us through the mechanics…

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· 3w ago

Introducing the Periodic Table of US Electrical Receptacles https://hackaday.com/2026/09/16/introducing-the-periodic-table-of-us-electrical-receptacles/

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Introducing The Periodic Table Of US Electrical Receptacles

Although things may seem simple on the North American grid as an end-user if you limit yourself to just 120 VAC and NEMA 1-15 and 5-15 connectors, there is a veritable zoo of different voltages and…

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· 3w ago

After 6 Years as Road Ornament a Widescreen Sony Trinitron Lives Again https://hackaday.com/2026/09/15/after-6-years-as-road-ornament-a-widescreen-sony-trinitron-lives-again/

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After 6 Years As Road Ornament A Widescreen Sony Trinitron Lives Again

After previously adopting a big Sony Trinitron CRT TV that had been trying to hitch a ride along the side of a road in Italy for at least six years, [Happychoice] didn’t give up on trying to …

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· 2w ago

A Hotspot Becomes A Handheld https://hackaday.com/2026/09/19/a-hotspot-becomes-a-handheld/

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A Hotspot Becomes A Handheld

A Linux handheld computer is, in theory, easy and inexpensive given the availability of single-board computers, but in practice the budget invariably edges well into three figures. There’s an…

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· 2mo ago

Old SSDs Find New Life as Game Cartridges https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/old-ssds-find-new-life-as-game-cartridges/

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Old SSDs Find New Life As Game Cartridges

Game companies might not like physical media much anymore, but gamers sure do. There’s nothing like pawing over your collection to find what to play, and inserting a cartridge with a satisfyi…

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· 1mo ago

Neo-Cyclostyle: Automatic Document Copying Devices in 1890 https://hackaday.com/2026/08/23/neo-cyclostyle-automatic-document-copying-devices-in-1890/

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· 2mo ago

Recycling Laptops and iMacs Makes PC Building Fun and Affordable Again https://hackaday.com/2026/07/19/recycling-laptops-and-imacs-makes-pc-building-fun-and-affordable-again/

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Recycling Laptops And IMacs Makes PC Building Fun And Affordable Again

Building a PC used to be a fun adventure — what’s the latest, what’s the greatest, what can I afford? Well, that last question seems to have taken over and sucked all the fun out …

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· 2mo ago

Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency and LLM-Generated Code Projects https://hackaday.com/2026/07/24/codeberg-bans-cryptocurrency-and-llm-generated-code-projects/

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· 2mo ago

A Versatile PDP-11/70 Emulator https://hackaday.com/2026/08/03/a-versatile-pdp-11-70-emulator/

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· 2mo ago

V Formation Flying of Birds is Explained by a Minimal Wake–Vortex Model https://hackaday.com/2026/07/22/v-formation-flying-of-birds-is-explained-by-a-minimal-wake-vortex-model/

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· 1mo ago

Running DOOM on a Cheap 104-in-One Handheld https://hackaday.com/2026/08/11/running-doom-on-a-cheap-104-in-one-handheld/

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· 3mo ago

C64 Finally Gets the SRAM Corporate Wouldn’t Pay For

https://hackaday.com/2026/07/08/c64-finally-gets-the-sram-corporate-wouldnt-pay-for/

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· 2mo ago

How do you pick the right checksum for the job? Al Williams investigates. https://hackaday.com/2026/06/15/picking-a-crc/

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· 2mo ago

Building a Reproduction PlayStation Motherboard https://hackaday.com/2026/07/31/building-a-reproduction-playstation-motherboard/

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· 2mo ago

Ever wondered how security envelopes work at the low level? Kristina Panos dives in... https://hackaday.com/2025/01/08/tech-in-plain-sight-security-envelopes/

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· 1mo ago

Encoding MOD Files Optically On Paper, Because Amiga’s Legacy Will Outlast M-Disks https://hackaday.com/2026/08/26/encoding-mod-files-optically-on-paper-because-amigas-legacy-will-outlast-m-disks/

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· 2mo ago

The Orphaned Sources At The Hacker Camp: What Happened Next https://hackaday.com/2026/07/28/the-orphaned-sources-at-the-hacker-camp-what-happened-next/

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The Orphaned Sources At The Hacker Camp: What Happened Next

At the 2024 Electromagnetic Field event in the UK, some awkward items turned up at the swap meet: radioactive sources. Fortunately there was [Tryst] at hand, who works in the nuclear industry, so t…

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· 2mo ago

Spotting Emacs in the Wild https://hackaday.com/2026/08/03/spotting-emacs-in-the-wild/

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Spotting Emacs In The Wild

Emacs is one of the big classic text editors, right up there next to vi. It’s famous for its interface and its ubiquity across the *nix world. It’s such a core piece of software in the …

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· 2mo ago

A Compact Game Controller For Your Phone https://hackaday.com/2026/08/01/a-compact-game-controller-for-your-phone/

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A Compact Game Controller For Your Phone

[Gil Yankovitch] noted that playing games on a touchscreen phone gave up a certain something in terms of the tactile feedback one gets from real buttons. To that end, he was inspired to build a con…

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· 2mo ago

Want Energy Efficiency? Dude, You’re Getting a Dell! https://hackaday.com/2026/08/08/want-energy-efficiency-dude-youre-getting-a-dell/

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· 2mo ago

Java Ring Restored After Nearly 30 Years https://hackaday.com/2026/07/21/java-ring-restored-after-nearly-30-years/

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· 2mo ago

Could Reticulum Power a Post-Internet Network? https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/could-reticulum-power-a-post-internet-network/

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Could Reticulum Power A Post-Internet Network?

These days, it is easy to think you always have access to the Internet. But some wonder if — in spite of its ARPANET, nuclear-war-planning heritage — you can actually count on it to be …

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· 2mo ago

This Week in Security: What’s in a name, the AI Bugpocalypse Hits Everyone, OpenWRT flaws, and Duress Passwords https://hackaday.com/2026/07/31/this-week-in-security-whats-in-a-name-the-ai-bugpocalypse-hits-everyone-openwrt-flaws-and-duress-passwords/

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This Week In Security: What’s In A Name, The AI Bugpocalypse Hits Everyone, OpenWRT Flaws, And Duress Passwords

The great thing about standards is there’s so many to pick from, right?. (Insert obligatory XKCD #927 here.) Several companies have developed naming schemes to refer to groups of attacks, and…

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· 2mo ago

A Labour Of Love Brings A Kids Book To The Spectrum https://hackaday.com/2026/07/27/a-labour-of-love-brings-a-kids-book-to-the-spectrum/

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A Labour Of Love Brings A Kids Book To The Spectrum

Back in the early 1980s when 8-bit home computers became affordable educational toys for children, the traditional paper publishing industry did its best to keep up. For a few brief years, there we…

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· 2mo ago

Re-Testing an Apollo Guidance Computer Module that Failed Certification Testing https://hackaday.com/2026/07/27/re-testing-an-apollo-guidance-computer-module-that-failed-certification-testing/

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Re-Testing An Apollo Guidance Computer Module That Failed Certification Testing

After getting his hands on a rope driver module from the Apollo project era that had a big ‘Scrapped Module’ stamped on it, [Mike Stewart] was naturally left curious as to what exactly …

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· 2mo ago

AIM-ing For a More Open Platform Than Discord https://hackaday.com/2026/07/14/aim-ing-for-a-more-open-platform-than-discord/

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· 2mo ago

Scanwheel: A Pocket-Sized POV TV https://hackaday.com/2026/07/26/scanwheel-a-pocket-sized-pov-tv/

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Scanwheel: A Pocket-Sized POV TV

When you hear the word TV, you probably think of a big LED screen, maybe even the old CRT TVs, but in either case it’s something large and fairly complicated. However, thanks to the persistence of …

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· 2mo ago

CGI Motion Capture with only a Camera https://hackaday.com/2026/07/12/cgi-motion-capture-with-only-a-camera/

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· 3mo ago

Get a Handle on This Compact Pi Portable

https://hackaday.com/2026/07/09/get-a-handle-on-this-compact-pi-portable/

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Get A Handle On This Compact Pi Portable

Between the speed and reliability of modern desktop 3D printers and the abundance of powerful single-board computers, there’s never been a better time to build a personal computing device tha…

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· 3mo ago

Fixing a Dodgy Cheap Audio DAC

https://hackaday.com/2026/07/09/fixing-a-dodgy-cheap-audio-dac/

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· 3mo ago

Die Casting Comes Home

https://hackaday.com/2026/07/09/die-casting-comes-home/

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· 2mo ago

M.A.S.K.-Inspired Cyberdeck for all your Portable Computing needs https://hackaday.com/2026/07/27/m-a-s-k-inspired-cyberdeck-for-all-your-portable-computing-needs/

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· 2mo ago

Mic Jammer Relies on Ultrasound https://hackaday.com/2026/07/23/mic-jammer-relies-on-ultrasound/

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Mic Jammer Relies On Ultrasound

Today’s phone microphones are perfectly adept at picking up sound in all sorts of conditions, and they’re backed by all kinds of processing techniques to filter out noise and capture cl…

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· 2mo ago

Open Source Vacuum Avoids Cloud https://hackaday.com/2026/07/21/open-source-vacuum-avoids-cloud/

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Open Source Vacuum Avoids Cloud

As more and more of the technology that we paid for turns becomes a subscription, there’s slowly been a momentum shift in the open source world of building replacements for these intrusive re…

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· 2mo ago

A Feature-Rich Drum Machine https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/a-feature-rich-drum-machine/

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· 2mo ago

Flex Filament Stuck To Your Build Platform? Reach For The Isopropanol https://hackaday.com/2026/07/17/flex-filament-stuck-to-your-build-platform-reach-for-the-isopropanol/

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· 2mo ago

Using Solar Air Heating to Dry Clothes https://hackaday.com/2026/07/17/using-solar-air-heating-to-dry-clothes/

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Using Solar Air Heating To Dry Clothes

About a month ago, [Greenhill Forge] built a few solar panels to collect energy from the sun. Unlike solar photovoltaics, which turn sunlight directly into electricity, these were designed to gathe…

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· 3mo ago

A Brief History of the Crazy Old 7-Segment Display

https://hackaday.com/2026/07/09/a-brief-history-of-the-crazy-old-7-segment-display/

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· 2mo ago

Replying to

@darwinwoodka@mastodon.social A shame when anyone criticises cool maker projects!

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· 2mo ago

Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social

FreeBSD Just Removed the Last of its GPL-Licensed Code https://hackaday.com/2026/07/28/freebsd-just-removed-the-last-of-its-gpl-licensed-code/

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FreeBSD Just Removed The Last Of Its GPL-Licensed Code

With a recent change that removed dialog in favor of bsddialog, FreeBSD has now retired the last piece of GPL-licensed code in its base system. Although the impact of this change will be minor for …

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· 2mo ago

How Film Industry Data Website The-Numbers.com got Mauled by Bots https://hackaday.com/2026/07/25/how-film-industry-data-website-the-numbers-com-got-mauled-by-bots/

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How Film Industry Data Website The-Numbers.com Got Mauled By Bots

A lot has been made about the increase of automated traffic on the Internet, with the past years LLM-related crawlers having quite literally swarmed the picture here. Not only does this drive up tr…

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· 2mo ago

New Method Accelerates Color 3D Printing https://hackaday.com/2026/07/23/new-method-accelerates-color-3d-printing/

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New Method Accelerates Color 3D Printing

Multi-color 3D printing is notorious for being difficult to get right. Even with modern printers, you often end up using much more filament (and tool changes) than you would for a single-color prin…

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· 2mo ago

QT6 brings BASIC to the Web Browser, or Your Computer https://hackaday.com/2026/07/19/qt6-brings-basic-to-the-web-browser-or-your-computer/

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· 2mo ago

GOES-19 Goes Down, NOAA Investigating https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/goes-19-goes-down-noaa-investigating/

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GOES-19 Goes Down, NOAA Investigating

Some breaking news from geostationary orbit, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced that its newest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) sat…

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· 2mo ago

Team Repair Breaks Things to Teach People How to Fix Them https://hackaday.com/2026/07/25/team-repair-breaks-things-to-teach-people-how-to-fix-them/

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· 2mo ago

Cross-Sectioning Crickets with a Femtosecond Laser https://hackaday.com/2026/07/18/cross-sectioning-crickets-with-a-femtosecond-laser/

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Cross-Sectioning Crickets With A Femtosecond Laser

Unlike most cutting lasers, femtosecond lasers don’t vaporize materials; rather, they produce such short, intense bursts of light that the affected region is ablated without having the chance to he…

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· 2mo ago

Open-Source Mid-Drive e-Bike Motor Has Lots of Promise, and Hyphens https://hackaday.com/2026/07/18/open-source-mid-drive-e-bike-motor-has-lots-of-promise-and-hyphens/

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· 2mo ago

Hackaday Europe 2026: Half Quad, Half Blimp: Test. Fly. Survive. https://hackaday.com/2026/07/23/hackaday-europe-2026-half-quad-half-blimp-test-fly-survive/

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Hackaday Europe 2026: Half Quad, Half Blimp: Test. Fly. Survive.

A great many drones out there, whether homebuilt or store-bought, follow the same basic format. Four motors, some kind of controller, and a lithium-polymer battery supplying the juice to keep every…

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