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https://hackaday.com/2025/04/14/jennys-not-quite-daily-drivers-raspberry-pi-1/ | Jenny’s (Not Quite) Daily Drivers: Raspberry Pi 1 | Jenny List | [
"computer hacks",
"Featured",
"History",
"Interest",
"Slider",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"linux",
"minimalist",
"raspberry pi"
] | An occasional series of mine on these pages has been
Daily Drivers
, in which I try out operating systems from the point of view of using them for my everyday Hackaday work. It has mostly featured esoteric or lesser-used systems, some of which have been unexpected gems and others have been not quite ready for the big t... | 47 | 23 | [
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"comment_id": "8118524",
"author": "KrakenTamer",
"timestamp": "2025-04-14T14:37:10",
"content": "Thank you for the reminder! I’ve got a couple of 3B’s in my drawer that I’ve been disregarding for their lack of integrated WiFi when I should really do some extra evaluation if any projects actually ... | 1,760,371,578.39586 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/12/diy-soldering-tweezers-extra-thrifty/ | DIY Soldering Tweezers, Extra Thrifty | Donald Papp | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"3d printed",
"diy",
"soldering iron",
"soldering tweezers",
"surface mount",
"TS101"
] | It started when [Mitxela] was faced with about a hundred incorrectly-placed 0603 parts. Given that he already owned two TS101 soldering irons, a 3D printer, and knows how to use FreeCAD (he had just finished designing a custom TS101 holder) it didn’t take long to create
cost-effective DIY soldering tweezers
.
Two screw... | 11 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "8118115",
"author": "jpa",
"timestamp": "2025-04-12T18:16:15",
"content": "It probably has better temperature regulation than Sequre HT140. That one seems to regulate purely based on heater resistance, which isn’t particularly accurate.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"... | 1,760,371,578.018623 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/12/biting-off-more-than-i-can-chew/ | Biting Off More Than I Can Chew | Elliot Williams | [
"Laser Hacks",
"Rants"
] | [
"diy",
"K40 laser cutter",
"problems",
"repair"
] | Earlier this year, I bought one of those K40-style laser machines that was listed at a ridiculously low price, and it arrived broken. Well, let me qualify that: the laser tube and the power supply work perfectly, but that’s about the best you can say about it.
On first power-up, it made a horrible noise, the Y-axis was... | 36 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "8118059",
"author": "DougM",
"timestamp": "2025-04-12T14:20:19",
"content": "These days many things I buy I expect to have to fix. I bought a really nice portable air compressor only to find out that the battery life was about 8 minutes. What’s worse was the standby life was only ... | 1,760,371,578.085567 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/12/tiny-pogo-robot-gets-wings-does-flips/ | Tiny Pogo Robot Gets Wings, Does Flips | Donald Papp | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"hopping robot",
"micro",
"mit",
"one-legged",
"pogo",
"wings"
] | Most robots depend on controlled environments, because the real world is hard to get around in. The smaller the robot, the bigger this problem because little wheels (or legs) can take only little steps. One way around that is
MIT’s latest one-legged hopping robot
, which sports a set of four insect-like wings on its to... | 8 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "8118036",
"author": "Harvie.CZ",
"timestamp": "2025-04-12T11:48:06",
"content": "If only it was able to stand itself upright after tiping over for whatever reason…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8118055",
"author": "craig",... | 1,760,371,578.131743 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/12/repairing-classic-sound-cards/ | Repairing Classic Sound Cards | Jenny List | [
"Repair Hacks",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"ISA card",
"sound card",
"SoundBlaster"
] | Sound hardware has been built into PC motherboards for so long now it’s difficult to remember the days when a sound card was an expensive add-on peripheral. By the mid to late 1990s they were affordable and ubiquitous enough to be everywhere, but three decades later some of them are starting to fail. [Necroware] takes ... | 15 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "8118005",
"author": "Tom",
"timestamp": "2025-04-12T08:15:31",
"content": "Anyone who cares about good audio will have a internal or external 96/192kHz 24 bit sound card.They are night vs day better than built in(motherboard) SC’sAnd if you are a ham who does “digi modes”- you will ... | 1,760,371,577.798005 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/tracing-the-how-the-linux-kernel-handles-the-shebang/ | Tracing The #!: How The Linux Kernel Handles The Shebang | Maya Posch | [
"Linux Hacks"
] | [
"linux kernel",
"shell script"
] | One of the delights in Bash, zsh, or whichever shell tickles your fancy in your OSS distribution of choice, is the ease of which you can use scripts. These can be shell scripts, or use the Perl, Python or another interpreter, as defined by the shebang (
#!
) at the beginning of the script. This signature is followed by... | 9 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117979",
"author": "El Gru",
"timestamp": "2025-04-12T05:28:03",
"content": "Fun fact: you can script almost anything.just use#!/use/bin/env THEAPPin the header of the file that you would send as an argument to the app, make the file executable und voila, you can run it.I recently ... | 1,760,371,578.305154 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/creating-a-somatosensory-pathway-from-human-stem-cells/ | Creating A Somatosensory Pathway From Human Stem Cells | Maya Posch | [
"Science"
] | [
"biology",
"organoids"
] | Human biology is very much like that of other mammals, and yet so very different in areas where it matters. One of these being human neurology, with aspects like the human brain and the somatosensory pathways (i.e. touch etc.) being not only hard to study in non-human animal analogs, but also (genetically) different en... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,371,577.844161 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/gemini-2-0-robotics-slam-dunk/ | Gemini 2.0 + Robotics = Slam Dunk? | John Elliot V | [
"Artificial Intelligence",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"ai",
"ALOHA robot",
"Google DeepMind",
"Google Gemini 2.0"
] | Over on the Google blog [Joel Meares] explains
how Google built the new family of Gemini Robotics models
.
The bi-arm ALOHA robot equipped with Gemini 2.0 software can take general instructions and then respond dynamically to its environment as it carries out its tasks. This family of robots aims to be highly dexterous... | 41 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117934",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2025-04-12T01:16:57",
"content": "Something for an aging population to consider.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8118120",
"author": "TG",
"timestamp": "2025-04-12T... | 1,760,371,577.968797 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/13/satisfy-your-high-voltage-urges-with-this-printable-flyback-transformer/ | Satisfy Your High-Voltage Urges With This Printable Flyback Transformer | Dan Maloney | [
"High Voltage"
] | [
"coil",
"corona",
"dielectric oil",
"flyback",
"igbt",
"inverter"
] | Sick of raiding old TVs and CRT monitors for flyback transformers to feed your high-voltage addiction? Never fear; if you’re careful,
a 3D-printed flyback
might be just the thing you’re looking for.
To be fair, it’s pretty easy to come by new flyback transformers, so building your own isn’t strictly necessary. But [Sci... | 11 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "8118288",
"author": "Gardoni",
"timestamp": "2025-04-13T14:07:16",
"content": "High voltage is very dangerous and there is a risk of death when touching. You’re better off using it remotly from behind a blast shield.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,371,577.894109 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/13/software-project-pieces-broken-bits-back-together/ | Software Project Pieces Broken Bits Back Together | Donald Papp | [
"Machine Learning",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"broken object",
"machine learning",
"puzzle solver",
"re-assembly"
] | With all the attention on LLMs (Large Language Models) and image generators lately, it’s nice to see some of the more niche and unusual applications of machine learning.
GARF
(
G
eneralizeable 3D re
A
ssembly for
R
eal-world
F
ractures) is one such project.
GARF may play fast and loose with acronym formation, but it ce... | 18 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "8118266",
"author": "fiveseven",
"timestamp": "2025-04-13T12:10:49",
"content": "Pft! Batman did it back in 2012.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8118271",
"author": "Bobtato",
"timestamp": "2025-04-13T12:24:49... | 1,760,371,578.260929 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/13/learning-linux-kernel-modules-using-com-binary-support/ | Learning Linux Kernel Modules Using COM Binary Support | Maya Posch | [
"Software Development",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"executable",
"linux kernel modules"
] | Have you ever felt the urge to make your own private binary format for use in Linux? Perhaps you have looked at creating the smallest possible binary when compiling a project, and felt disgusted with how bloated the ELF format is? If you are like [Brian Raiter], then this has led you down many rabbit holes, with the co... | 17 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "8118239",
"author": "olaf",
"timestamp": "2025-04-13T08:11:00",
"content": "felt disgusted with how bloated the ELF format is?Hm..yes! I thought it wenn Linus switched from aout to elf, but Linus did not listen to me. :-DOlaf",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [... | 1,760,371,578.454273 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/12/a-17th-century-music-computer/ | A 17th Century Music Computer | Al Williams | [
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"arca musarithmica",
"mechanical computer"
] | We don’t think of computers as something you’d find in the 17th century. But [Levi McClain] found plans for one in a book — books, actually — by [Athanasius Kirker] about music. The
arca musarithmica
, a machine to allow people with no experience to compose church music, might not fit our usual definition of a computer... | 10 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "8118267",
"author": "Gravis",
"timestamp": "2025-04-13T12:10:53",
"content": "I wonder if all the possible outputs from the algorithm are in the in the“all the music” datasets.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8118355",
... | 1,760,371,578.862919 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/12/the-incomplete-json-pretty-printer-brought-to-you-by-vibes/ | The Incomplete JSON Pretty Printer (Brought To You By Vibes) | Donald Papp | [
"Artificial Intelligence",
"Software Development",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"json",
"vibe coding"
] | Incomplete JSON (such as from a log that terminates unexpectedly) doesn’t parse cleanly, which means anything that usually prints JSON nicely, won’t. Frustration with this is what led [Simon Willison] to make
The Incomplete JSON pretty printer
, a single-purpose web tool that pretty-prints JSON regardless of whether it... | 21 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "8118195",
"author": "Bad Vibes",
"timestamp": "2025-04-13T02:28:28",
"content": "“Vibe coding ain’t all bad” but sure, put the blacl box on the open internet. Nothing can go wrong with that.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "811... | 1,760,371,579.247215 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/12/hacking-a-cheap-rechargeable-lamp-with-non-standard-usb-c-connector/ | Hacking A Cheap Rechargeable Lamp With Non-Standard USB-C Connector | Maya Posch | [
"Reverse Engineering",
"Teardown"
] | [
"ESP32",
"USB C"
] | Recently [Dillan Stock] bought a $17 ‘mushroom’ lamp from his local Kmart that listed ‘USB-C rechargeable’ as one of its features. Unfortunately while this is
technically
true, there’s a pretty major asterisk. This Inaya-branded lamp comes with a USB-C cable with a rather prominent label attached to it that tells you t... | 40 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "8118171",
"author": "Morz46",
"timestamp": "2025-04-12T23:34:47",
"content": "Just ran into something similar a couple days ago. I bought a new desk fan for my office at work and I accidentally bought one that’s powered by USB. It came with an USBA to USBC cable but the included U... | 1,760,371,579.182439 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/12/vibe-check-false-packages-a-new-llm-security-risk/ | Vibe Check: False Packages A New LLM Security Risk? | Tyler August | [
"Artificial Intelligence",
"Security Hacks",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"ai",
"code security",
"LLM"
] | Lots of people swear by large-language model (LLM) AIs for writing code. Lots of people swear at them. Still others may be planning to exploit their peculiarities, according to [Joe Spracklen] and other researchers at USTA. At least, the researchers have found a
potential exploit in ‘vibe coding’
.
Everyone who has use... | 23 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "8118142",
"author": "Jason",
"timestamp": "2025-04-12T20:18:26",
"content": "Stop checking my vibes.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8118144",
"author": "Henrik Olsson",
"timestamp": "2025-04-12T20:24:51",
"content":... | 1,760,371,578.928586 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/a-mouse-no-hands/ | A Mouse, No Hands! | Jenny List | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"brass",
"foot mouse",
"mouse"
] | There are some ideas which someone somewhere has to try. Take [Uri Tuchman]’s foot mouse.
It’s a computer mouse for foot operation
, but it’s not just a functional block. Instead it’s an ornate inlaid-wood-and-brass affair in the style of a very fancy piece of antique footwear.
The innards of an ordinary USB mouse are ... | 11 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117870",
"author": "Dave Boyer",
"timestamp": "2025-04-11T20:27:30",
"content": "The video is truly amazing. I love this project and I’m so excited for it’s creator for making such an incredible amalgamation of engineering prowess and artistic skill.",
"parent_id": null,
"d... | 1,760,371,578.979573 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/gps-broken-try-tv/ | GPS Broken? Try TV! | Al Williams | [
"gps hacks",
"Interest",
"News"
] | [
"ASTC",
"BPS",
"gps"
] | GPS and similar satellite navigation systems revolutionized how you keep track of where you are and what time it is. However, it isn’t without its problems. For one, it generally doesn’t work very well indoors or in certain geographic or weather scenarios. It can be spoofed. Presumably, a real or virtual attack could t... | 37 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117821",
"author": "3isenhorn",
"timestamp": "2025-04-11T17:15:12",
"content": "There are also other System under development, especially in the maritime domain. E.g.https://www.r-mode-baltic.eu/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": ... | 1,760,371,579.056386 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/hackaday-podcast-episode-316-soft-robots-linux-the-hard-way-cellphones-into-sbcs-and-the-circuit-graver/ | Hackaday Podcast Episode 316: Soft Robots, Linux The Hard Way, Cellphones Into SBCs, And The Circuit Graver | Tom Nardi | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Podcasts"
] | [
"Hackaday Podcast"
] | Join Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi as they talk about the best stories and hacks of the week. This episode starts off with a discussion of the Vintage Computer Festival East and Philadelphia Maker Faire — two incredible events that just so happened to be scheduled for the same weekend. From there the d... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117841",
"author": "serene85c23199e8",
"timestamp": "2025-04-11T18:13:38",
"content": "The soft robots thing sounds really cool. It doesn’t sound that far from being able to emulate animal muscles with hydraulic actuators.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
... | 1,760,371,579.099736 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/audio-effects-applied-to-text/ | Audio Effects Applied To Text | Al Williams | [
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"audio effects",
"oscilloscope music"
] | If you are a visual thinker, you might enjoy [AIHVHIA’s] recent video, which shows the effect of
applying audio processing
to text displayed on an oscilloscope. The video is below.
Of course, this presupposes you have some way to display text on an oscilloscope. Audio driving the X and Y channels of the scope does all ... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117808",
"author": "Charlie Strauss",
"timestamp": "2025-04-11T15:55:40",
"content": "My 65O2 based 2K memory computer from the 1970’s does this!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8117865",
"author": "Nikolai",
"timestamp... | 1,760,371,579.3402 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/this-week-in-security-ai-spam-sap-and-ivanti/ | This Week In Security: AI Spam, SAP, And Ivanti | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"News",
"Security Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"AI Spam",
"Ivanti",
"sap",
"This Week in Security"
] | AI continues to be used in new and exciting ways…
like generating spam messages
. Yes, it was inevitable, but we now have spammers using LLM to generate unique messages that don’t register as spam. AkiraBot is a Python-powered tool, designed to evade CAPTCHAs, and post sketchy SEO advertisements to web forms and chat b... | 13 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117873",
"author": "Jay",
"timestamp": "2025-04-11T20:33:56",
"content": "Welp, that sucks. Looking out for the next update to my mail client to make sure it filters out that AI spam crap.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8118... | 1,760,371,579.298563 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/the-jupiter-ace-remembered/ | The Jupiter Ace Remembered | Al Williams | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"forth",
"Jupiter Ace"
] | It is hard to imagine that it has been more than four decades since two of the original designers of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum broke off to market the Jupiter Ace.
[Nemanja Trifunovic] remembers the tiny computer in a recent post
, and we always love to recall the old computers that used TVs for screens and audio tape r... | 11 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117731",
"author": "Fungus",
"timestamp": "2025-04-11T11:35:41",
"content": "I had one. It was a case of “wrong time, wrong place”. If it had gone up against the ZX81 instead of the Spectrum it would have been a massive hit.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [... | 1,760,371,579.387666 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/brush-up-on-your-trade-craft-with-this-tiny-fm-bug/ | Brush Up On Your Trade Craft With This Tiny FM Bug | Dan Maloney | [
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"bug",
"fm",
"spy radio",
"transmitter"
] | Would-be spooks and spies, take note:
this one-transistor FM transmitter
is a circuit you might want to keep in mind for your bugging needs. True, field agents aren’t likely to need to build their own equipment, but how cool a spy would you be if you could?
Luckily, you won’t need too many parts to recreate [Ciprian (Y... | 19 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117679",
"author": "Benji",
"timestamp": "2025-04-11T08:16:26",
"content": "This was the first electronics project I ever did as a kid. So nice to see it pop back up nearly 35 years on.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8117685... | 1,760,371,579.444025 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/10/farewell-economy-7-a-casualty-of-the-long-wave-switch-off/ | Farewell Economy 7, A Casualty Of The Long Wave Switch-Off | Jenny List | [
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"long-wave",
"radio teleswitch"
] | If you paid attention to advertising in 1980s Britain, you were never far from Economy 7. It was the magic way to heat your house for less, using storage heaters which would run at night using cheap electricity, and deliver warmth day-long. Behind it all was an unseen force, a nationwide radio switching signal transmit... | 36 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117668",
"author": "BT",
"timestamp": "2025-04-11T07:15:26",
"content": "I have a modern but non-smart economy 7 meter for overnight car charging. I think it keeps track of time itself, maybe counting 50Hz cycles the old fashioned way. When the clocks go forwards or backwards, the ... | 1,760,371,579.698753 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/10/using-integer-addition-to-approximate-float-multiplication/ | Using Integer Addition To Approximate Float Multiplication | Maya Posch | [
"Software Development",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"floating point",
"FPU",
"gpu"
] | Once the domain of esoteric scientific and business computing, floating point calculations are now practically everywhere. From video games to large language models and kin, it would seem that a processor without floating point capabilities is pretty much a brick at this point. Yet the truth is that integer-based appro... | 14 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117634",
"author": "Gravis",
"timestamp": "2025-04-11T03:04:37",
"content": "Neat math trick.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8117635",
"author": "FEW",
"timestamp": "2025-04-11T03:05:23",
"content": "I recently lea... | 1,760,371,579.750126 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/10/windows-on-arm-on-arm/ | Windows On ARM On Arm | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Wearable Hacks"
] | [
"bootloader",
"kernel",
"pixel watch",
"smartwatch",
"UEFI",
"watch",
"wear os",
"windows",
"windows pe"
] | While some companies like Apple have gone all-in on the ARM architecture, others are more hesitant to dive into the deep end. For example, Microsoft remains heavily invested in the x86 architecture and although it does have some ARM offerings, a lot of them feel a bit half-baked. So you might question why someone like ... | 12 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117600",
"author": "Bill rowe",
"timestamp": "2025-04-10T23:48:52",
"content": "Very cool. Could you use a Bluetooth keyboard?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8117745",
"author": "RunnerPack",
"timestamp": "2025-04-11T1... | 1,760,371,579.920438 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/10/a-new-mechanical-keyboard-for-an-old-computer/ | A New Mechanical Keyboard For An Old Computer | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"3d printed",
"commodore",
"Commodore64",
"keyboard",
"mechanical keyboard",
"pcb",
"retrocomputing",
"retrofit"
] | As computers age, a dedicated few work towards keeping some of the more interesting ones running. This is often a losing battle of sorts, as the relentless march of time comes for us all, human and machine alike. So as fewer and fewer of these machines remain new methods are needed to keep them running as best they can... | 9 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117549",
"author": "Neil",
"timestamp": "2025-04-10T20:31:09",
"content": "Are there any series resistors? IIRC the original keys have a ~50 ohm impedance when closed. Modern switches probably less. Could that cause any issues?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies"... | 1,760,371,580.034067 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/10/improving-magnetoplasmadynamic-ion-thrusters-with-superconductors/ | Improving Magnetoplasmadynamic Ion Thrusters With Superconductors | Maya Posch | [
"Space"
] | [
"ion drive",
"space propulsion"
] | Ion thrusters are an amazing spacecraft propulsion technology, providing very high efficiency with relatively little fuel. Yet getting one to produce more thrust than that required to lift a sheet of A4 paper requires a lot of electricity. This is why they have been only used for applications where sustained thrust and... | 24 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117515",
"author": "Paul",
"timestamp": "2025-04-10T18:56:05",
"content": "I wonder why all the bother with a superconductor. They say the magnet coil draws 1 watt to generate a 0.5 Tesla magnetic field, “a 99 percent reduction in input power compared to a copper electromagnet”.I ... | 1,760,371,580.162644 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/10/ask-hackaday-whats-a-sun-like-star/ | Ask Hackaday: What’s A Sun-Like Star? | Al Williams | [
"Ask Hackaday",
"Rants",
"Slider"
] | [
"astronomy",
"exoplanets"
] | Is a bicycle like a motorcycle? Of course, the answer is it is and it isn’t. Saying something is “like” something else presupposes a lot of hidden assumptions. In the category “things with two wheels,” we have a winner. In the category “things that require gasoline,” not so much. We’ve noticed before that news stories ... | 20 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117402",
"author": "ono",
"timestamp": "2025-04-10T14:27:00",
"content": "Yawn. Like nothing new under the sun-like sun.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8117406",
"author": "Pedro",
"timestamp": "2025-04-10T14:28:18",
... | 1,760,371,580.09131 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/10/clever-engineering-leaves-appliance-useless/ | Clever Engineering Leaves Appliance Useless | Tom Nardi | [
"Repair Hacks"
] | [
"LED display",
"multiplexing",
"optimization",
"short circuit"
] | Around these parts, we generally celebrate clever hacks that let you do more with less. So if somebody wrote in to tell us how they used multiplexing to drive the front panel of their latest gadget with fewer pins on the microcontroller than would normally be required, we’d be all over it. But what if that same hack en... | 23 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117324",
"author": "Josh",
"timestamp": "2025-04-10T11:10:21",
"content": "It’s a bit of a shame as this is otherwise the best dehumidifier on the market.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8117327",
"author": "jeremy S",
... | 1,760,371,579.98704 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/10/everyones-talking-gpmi-should-you/ | Everyone’s Talking GPMI, Should You? | Jenny List | [
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [
"displayport",
"GPMI",
"hdmi"
] | The tech press has been full of announcements over the last day or two regarding GPMI. It’s a new standard with the backing of a range of Chinese hardware companies, for a high-speed digital video interface to rival HDMI. The Chinese semiconductor company HiSilicon
have a whitepaper on the subject
(Chinese language,
Go... | 74 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117276",
"author": "Carl Breen",
"timestamp": "2025-04-10T08:27:29",
"content": "The Licensing Administrations in the U.S. will never allow it. Even the more free Display Port is being kept out of AV receivers and TVs. HDMI doesn’t have to be a technically superior standard, but a ... | 1,760,371,580.352627 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/09/making-liquid-oxygen-far-from-easy-but-worth-the-effort/ | Making Liquid Oxygen: Far From Easy But Worth The Effort | Dan Maloney | [
"chemistry hacks"
] | [
"concentrator",
"cryocooler",
"cryogenic",
"Liquid oxygen",
"LOX",
"oxygen",
"pressure swing adsorption",
"PSA",
"stirling"
] | Normally, videos over at The Signal Path channel on YouTube have a certain vibe, namely teardowns and deep dives into high-end test equipment for the microwave realm. And while we always love to see that kind of content,
this hop into the world of cryogenics and liquid oxygen production
shows that [Shahriar] has other ... | 26 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117281",
"author": "metalman",
"timestamp": "2025-04-10T08:56:47",
"content": "next step is to create liquid o² injectors for a drag race motor…,……….….no intake side….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8117307",
"author... | 1,760,371,580.232186 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/09/ask-hackaday-vibe-coding/ | Ask Hackaday: Vibe Coding | Jenny List | [
"Artificial Intelligence",
"Ask Hackaday",
"Slider",
"Software Development"
] | [
"ai",
"LLM",
"vibe coding"
] | Vibe coding is the buzzword of the moment. What is it? The practice of writing software by describing the problem to an AI large language model and using the code it generates. It’s not quite as simple as just letting the AI do your work for you because the developer is supposed to spend time honing and testing the res... | 92 | 41 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117227",
"author": "prosper",
"timestamp": "2025-04-10T02:15:57",
"content": "Personally, I’ve found that going through the thought process well enough to articulate it for an AI to grok is like 90% of the mental effort of designing a program anyway. You need to think about the pro... | 1,760,371,580.488593 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/09/going-to-the-top-with-a-raspberry-pi-elevator/ | Going To The Top With A Raspberry Pi Elevator | Al Williams | [
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"elevator",
"mqtt"
] | [BorisDigital] was mesmerised by a modern elevator. He decided to see how hard it would be to design
his own elevator
based on Raspberry Pis. He started out with a panel for the elevator and a call panel for the elevator lobby. Of course, he would really need three call panels since he is pretending to have a three-flo... | 17 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117221",
"author": "dremu",
"timestamp": "2025-04-10T00:14:19",
"content": "One word: SimTower. Or is that two? Or four? Either way,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimTower.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8117222",
"author":... | 1,760,371,580.545972 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/09/floss-weekly-episode-828-incus-inception/ | FLOSS Weekly Episode 828: Incus Inception | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Podcasts",
"Slider"
] | [
"FLOSS Weekly"
] | This week,
Jonathan Bennett
and
Rob Campbell
talk to
Stéphane Graber
about LXC, Linux Containers, and Incus! Why did Incus fork from LXD, why are Fortune 500 companies embracing it, and why might it make sense for your home lab setup? Watch to find out!
https://stgraber.org
Incus:
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus
Onli... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,371,580.589412 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/09/self-hosting-a-cluster-on-old-phones/ | Self-Hosting A Cluster On Old Phones | Bryan Cockfield | [
"handhelds hacks"
] | [
"bootloader",
"k3s",
"kubernetes",
"linux",
"postmarketos",
"raspberry pi",
"smartphone",
"unlockable"
] | The phones most of us carry around in our pockets every day hold a surprising amount of computing power. It’s somewhat taken for granted now that we can get broadband in our hands in most places; so much so that when one of these devices has reached the end of its life it’s often just tossed in a junk drawer even thoug... | 35 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117108",
"author": "zoobab",
"timestamp": "2025-04-09T17:52:09",
"content": "Try proot-docker under Termux, you can spin docker images without being root.Working on adding skopeo to Termux.With proot it fakes the root, but you can run a lot of stuff.I am sure i could run a simple s... | 1,760,371,580.665725 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/09/you-shouldnt-build-an-x-ray-machine-but-you-could/ | You Shouldn’t Build An X-Ray Machine, But You Could | Al Williams | [
"Medical Hacks",
"Science"
] | [
"x-ray"
] | Ever wanted your own X-ray machine? Of course you have! Many of us were indoctrinated with enticing ads for X-ray specs and if you like to see what’s inside things, what’s better than a machine that looks inside things? [Hyperspace Pirate] agrees, and he shows you the dangers of having
your own X-ray machine
in the vid... | 18 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117081",
"author": "zxm",
"timestamp": "2025-04-09T15:51:45",
"content": "my father had a 1920s copy of ‘the boy electrician’ which showed how to make one. an earlier copy is on project gutenburg. the parts were more available back then.https://www.gutenberg.org/files/63207/63207-h... | 1,760,371,580.810492 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/09/in-2025-the-philly-maker-faire-finds-its-groove/ | In 2025, The Philly Maker Faire Finds Its Groove | Tom Nardi | [
"cons",
"Featured",
"Slider"
] | [
"Philadelphia Maker Faire"
] | The first Philadelphia Maker Faire was extremely impressive
, and seemed poised to be one of the premier maker events on the East Coast. Unfortunately, it had the misfortune of happening just a few months before COVID-19 made such events impossible. Robbed of all its momentum, the event tried out different venues after... | 9 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117050",
"author": "Greg A",
"timestamp": "2025-04-09T14:43:38",
"content": "hahaha totally off the wall “why won’t this guy shut up” anecdote herein dec 2000 i was taking a greyhound trip to NYC and i had a substantial layover in philadelphia and i thought i would take advantage o... | 1,760,371,580.873898 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/09/forget-propellers-embrace-tentacle-based-locomotion/ | Forget Propellers, Embrace Tentacle-based Locomotion | Donald Papp | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"flagella",
"marine",
"robot",
"rov",
"tentacles",
"underwater"
] | Underwater robots face many challenges, not least of which is how to move around.
ZodiAq
is a prototype underwater soft robot
(link is to research paper) that takes an unusual approach to this problem: multiple flexible appendages. The result is a pretty unconventional-looking device that can not only get around effect... | 25 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116993",
"author": "jon",
"timestamp": "2025-04-09T11:09:00",
"content": "If I saw this whilst swimming, I’d release my brown ink.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8116997",
"author": "ono",
"timestamp": "2025-... | 1,760,371,580.999308 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/09/better-bearings-take-the-wobble-out-of-premium-scroll-wheel/ | Better Bearings Take The Wobble Out Of Premium Scroll Wheel | Dan Maloney | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"bluetooth",
"moment of inertia",
"scroll wheel"
] | Sitting in front of a computer all day isn’t exactly what the firmware between our ears was tuned to do. We’re supposed to be hunting and gathering, not hunting and pecking. So anything that makes the computing experience a little more pleasurable is probably worth the effort, and
this premium wireless scroll wheel
cer... | 12 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116979",
"author": "paulvdh",
"timestamp": "2025-04-09T09:02:10",
"content": "I am interested in a better mouse, but not in a separate scroll wheel, but still, this looks like quite a nice project if you want this kind of thing.Some Ideas I had while watching the video:The device c... | 1,760,371,580.929696 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/08/salamander-robot-is-squishy/ | Salamander Robot Is Squishy | Al Williams | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"microfluidics",
"salamander"
] | If you want to get started in microfluidic robotics, [soiboi soft’s]
salamander
is probably too complex for a first project. But it is impressive, and we bet you’ll learn something about making this kind of robot in the video below.
The pneumatic muscles are very impressive. They have eight possible positions using thr... | 7 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116986",
"author": "shinsukke",
"timestamp": "2025-04-09T10:19:38",
"content": "Only indecent things come to my mind, every time I see a soft robot/actuators",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8117168",
"author": "O",
... | 1,760,371,581.039614 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/08/dozens-of-solenoids-turn-vintage-typewriter-into-a-printer/ | Dozens Of Solenoids Turn Vintage Typewriter Into A Printer | Dan Maloney | [
"classic hacks",
"Parts"
] | [
"Electric Typewriter",
"matrix",
"mosfet",
"printer",
"solenoid",
"typewriter"
] | An electric typewriter is a rare and wonderful thrift store find, and even better if it still works. Unfortunately, there’s not as much use for these electromechanical beauties, so if you find one, why not follow [Konstantin Schauwecker]’s lead and
turn it into a printer
?
The portable typewriter [Konstantin] found, a ... | 16 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116876",
"author": "Kenneth Welles",
"timestamp": "2025-04-09T02:22:00",
"content": "Printers were way beyond my graduate student budget in 1975 when I got my Altair 8800. I bought a used IBM Selectric and added about 11 or 12 solenoids to make it into a printer (~5 char / second)... | 1,760,371,581.190046 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/08/ascii-to-mainframe/ | ASCII To Mainframe | Al Williams | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"ibm",
"mainframe"
] | IBM mainframes are known for very unusual terminals. But IBM made many different things, including the
IBM 3151 ASCII terminal
, which uses a cartridge to emulate a VT220 terminal. [Norbert Keher] has one and explains in great detail how to connect it to a mainframe.
It had the 3151 personality cartridge for emulating ... | 11 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116863",
"author": "jbx",
"timestamp": "2025-04-09T00:19:24",
"content": "csmt shut, yes",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8116934",
"author": "Old Guy",
"timestamp": "2025-04-09T06:21:01",
"content": "Z... | 1,760,371,581.101271 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/08/designing-a-tone-control-properly/ | Designing A Tone Control Properly | Jenny List | [
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [
"audio",
"filters",
"headphone amplifier",
"tone control"
] | Many years ago, audio equipment came with a tone control, a simple RC filter that would cut or boost the bass to taste. As time passed, this was split into two controls for bass and treble, and then finally into three for bass, mid, and treble. When audiophile fashion shifted towards graphic equalisers, these tone cont... | 12 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116814",
"author": "mime",
"timestamp": "2025-04-08T20:10:26",
"content": "Just for additional info; I can’t yet find the exact page but there was a long ago article which explained that with treble and bass (baxandall) style equalisation a larger range of adjustment is possible.Th... | 1,760,371,581.282958 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/08/the-computers-of-epcot/ | The Computers Of EPCOT | Al Williams | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"exec 8",
"univac"
] | Even if you aren’t a Disney fan, you probably know about EPCOT — Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow — a Disney attraction that promised a glimpse of the future. [ErnieTech] takes
a glimpse at the UNIVAC computer that ran the operation
in the 1980s. A lot of schools had UNIVAC 1100-series computers back in tho... | 8 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116829",
"author": "rclark",
"timestamp": "2025-04-08T20:59:57",
"content": "Brings back memories. My wife and I were at EPCOT back in the late 80s and saw the computer area. It was really ‘cool’ to see at the time for me, as a newly ‘fresh’ CS major working with real-time system... | 1,760,371,581.232896 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/08/freedos-1-4-released/ | FreeDOS 1.4 Released | Maya Posch | [
"News",
"Software Development"
] | [
"freedos",
"operating systems"
] | Even in 2025 there are still many applications for a simple Disk Operating System (DOS), whether this includes running legacy software (including MS-DOS games & Windows 3.x), or (embedded) systems running new software where the overhead of a full-fat Linux or BSD installation would be patently ridiculous.
This is where... | 22 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116749",
"author": "CJay",
"timestamp": "2025-04-08T16:04:08",
"content": "There’s some weirdness going on with Freedos, it’s not possible to install it on a UEFI system but HP offer it as an option on brand new, UEFI only laptops that have no option for legacy modes in the BIOS.I’... | 1,760,371,581.34305 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/08/turning-old-cellphones-into-sbcs/ | Turning Old Cellphones Into SBCs | Elliot Williams | [
"Cellphone Hacks",
"computer hacks",
"green hacks"
] | [
"cellphone",
"computer",
"recycling",
"single board computer"
] | [David] sent us a tip about a company in Belgium, Citronics, that is looking to
turn old cellphones into single-board computers for embedded Linux applications
. We think it’s a great idea, and
have long lamented how many pocket supercomputers simply get tossed in the recycling stream
, when they could be put to use in... | 35 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116719",
"author": "RunnerPack",
"timestamp": "2025-04-08T14:23:39",
"content": "Great idea! I would throw in a capacitive touch PCB that could connect to the phone’s interface, to make it easy to add controls to a project. Even if it’s not identical to the original glass, it shoul... | 1,760,371,581.697209 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/08/layerlapse-simplifies-3d-printer-time-lapse-shots/ | LayerLapse Simplifies 3D Printer Time-lapse Shots | Tom Nardi | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"g-code",
"hall effect sensor",
"time-lapse",
"timelapse 3d printing"
] | We know you’ve seen them: the time-lapses that show a 3D print coming together layer-by-layer without the extruder taking up half the frame. It takes a little extra work compared to just pointing a camera at the build plate, but it’s worth it to see your prints materialize like magic.
Usually these are done with a plug... | 15 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116701",
"author": "Alexander Pruss",
"timestamp": "2025-04-08T13:24:08",
"content": "If the camera has a wifi or USB connection that streams its preview data, you could stick a marker that OpenCV can easily recognize (e.g. arUco) on the extender, and take pictures after it disappe... | 1,760,371,581.60547 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/08/printed-robotic-arm-pumps-up-with-brushless-motors/ | Printed Robotic Arm Pumps Up With Brushless Motors | Tom Nardi | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"6dof",
"BLDC",
"BLDC controller",
"CAN",
"robotic arm"
] | [JesseDarr] recently wrote in to tell us about their
dynamic Arm for Robitc Mischief (dARM)
, a mostly 3D printed six degrees of freedom (6DOF) robotic arm that’s designed to be stronger and more capable than what we’ve seen so far from the DIY community.
The secret? Rather than using servos, dARM uses brushless DC (BL... | 17 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116654",
"author": "eMpTy-10",
"timestamp": "2025-04-08T10:51:15",
"content": "Of course it’s shaky, it’s all plastic",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8116658",
"author": "George",
"timestamp": "2025-04-08T11:0... | 1,760,371,581.760784 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/07/the-1980s-computer-french-style/ | The 1980s Computer, French Style | Jenny List | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"6803",
"french computers",
"Matra Alice"
] | Should you travel around Europe, you may notice that things in France are ever so slightly
different
. Not necessarily better or worse, simply that the French prefer to plough their own furrow rather than importing cultural tends from their neighbors.
In the 1980s this was evident in their home computers, because as we... | 10 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116591",
"author": "ChrisMicro",
"timestamp": "2025-04-08T05:47:23",
"content": "The main information is missing in this video: What type is the microprocessor and the other chips? What architecture has the computer?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{... | 1,760,371,581.812098 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/07/simple-antenna-makes-for-better-esp32-c3-wifi/ | Simple Antenna Makes For Better ESP32-C3 WiFi | Dan Maloney | [
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"antenna",
"CA-C03",
"esp32-C3",
"RSSI",
"wifi"
] | We’ve seen tons of projects lately using the ESP32-C3, and for good reason. The microcontroller has a lot to offer, and the current crop of tiny dev boards sporting it make adding a lot of compute power to even the smallest projects dead easy. Not so nice, though, is the poor WiFi performance of some of these boards, w... | 44 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116552",
"author": "Feinfinger (M-x totally-tame-mode)",
"timestamp": "2025-04-08T02:38:38",
"content": "Would replacing the onboard antenna with a pigtail work?I’d have some more freedom to attach different antennae then.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
... | 1,760,371,581.899068 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/07/atomic-clock-trades-receiver-for-an-esp8266/ | Atomic Clock Trades Receiver For An ESP8266 | Tom Nardi | [
"clock hacks",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"atomic clock",
"ESP8266",
"radio clock",
"simulator",
"wwvb"
] | The advantage of a radio-controlled clock that receives the time signal from WWVB is that you never have to set it again. Whether it’s a little digital job on your desk, or some big analog wall clock that’s hard to access, they’ll all adjust themselves as necessary to keep perfect time. But what if the receiver conks o... | 20 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116526",
"author": "Paul",
"timestamp": "2025-04-07T23:40:14",
"content": "It’s better than even odds that the 60 kHz receiver is functioning just fine, and that it is just swamped by rising ambient noise floor from more and more bad switching power supplies in the vicinity.",
... | 1,760,371,583.677474 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/07/buyer-beware-cheap-power-strips-hold-hidden-horrors/ | Buyer Beware: Cheap Power Strips Hold Hidden Horrors | Dan Maloney | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"contact",
"Ground",
"harbor freight",
"outlet",
"spring",
"testing",
"tools"
] | We’ve got a love-hate relationship with discount tool outlet Harbor Freight: we hate that we love it so much. Apparently, [James Clough] is of much the same opinion, at least now that
he’s looked into the quality of their outlet strips
and found it somewhat wanting.
The outlet strips in question are Harbor Freight’s fo... | 84 | 25 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116457",
"author": "Cogidubnus Rex",
"timestamp": "2025-04-07T20:16:32",
"content": "Fault seems to lie with the flakey NEMA outlet that generally falls out should you look at it the wrong way. Easily solved with something like a CEE 7 or BS 4373.",
"parent_id": null,
"dept... | 1,760,371,584.174763 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/07/a-tiny-tape-synth/ | A Tiny Tape Synth | Jenny List | [
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"cassette tape",
"tape loop",
"tape synth"
] | Afficionados of vintage electric organs will know about the Melotron, an instrument from the 1960s that had pre-recorded sounds on a bank of tape loops. A real Melotron in working order will set you back a bit, but it’s possible to play with the idea using much more attainable hardware. [Decurus]
has made a simple tape... | 12 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116428",
"author": "HaHa",
"timestamp": "2025-04-07T19:12:34",
"content": "Story is incomplete without noting that this organ was a cheap/bad knockoff of a Hammond.Hammond organs were much neater.They had hard drive style platters (stacked high) rotating at variable speed with diff... | 1,760,371,583.601744 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/07/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-where-we-embrace-the-jank/ | Keebin’ With Kristina: The One Where We Embrace The Jank | Kristina Panos | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Peripherals Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"cozy vibes",
"jank",
"Maskelyne",
"Maskelyne typewriter",
"mice",
"MMO mice",
"MMO trackball",
"sawn keyboard",
"trackball mouse"
] | Yeah, yeah — not a keyboard. But one keyboard-adjacent topic I’m certainly interested in is
that of finding a satisfying mouse
. Why settle for ticky micro-switches when you could have full-on thock in both peripherals?
My own personal peripherals. Banana mat for scale.
I’ve been using a Logitech Ergo M575 for a couple... | 17 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116382",
"author": "Snarkenstein",
"timestamp": "2025-04-07T17:25:33",
"content": "I used to have that same trackball, Kristina – until I started getting tendon pain in my right arm. I had to move to a Kensington with the ball in the middle to give my thumb some relief. No trouble ... | 1,760,371,583.998874 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/07/fiber-laser-gives-diy-pcbs-a-professional-finish/ | Fiber Laser Gives DIY PCBs A Professional Finish | Tom Nardi | [
"PCB Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"fiber laser",
"PCB etching",
"silkscreen",
"soldermask",
"UV resin"
] | While low-cost professional PCB fabrication has largely supplanted making circuit boards at home, there’s still something to be said for being able to go from design to prototype in an afternoon. Luckily we aren’t limited to the old toner transfer trick for DIY boards these days, as CNC routers and powerful lasers can ... | 12 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116387",
"author": "Alex",
"timestamp": "2025-04-07T17:45:34",
"content": "The results look amazing!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8116426",
"author": "Tomsz",
"timestamp": "2025-04-07T18:59:17",
"content": "Doubl... | 1,760,371,583.460253 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/07/which-browser-should-i-use-in-2025/ | Which Browser Should I Use In 2025? | Jenny List | [
"Featured",
"Interest",
"internet hacks",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"browser",
"comparison"
] | Over the history of the Web, we have seen several major shifts in browsing software. If you’re old enough to have used NCSA Mosaic or any of the other early browsers, you probably welcomed the arrival of Netscape Navigator, and rued its decline in the face of Internet Explorer. As Mozilla and then Firefox rose from Net... | 84 | 33 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116324",
"author": "El Gru",
"timestamp": "2025-04-07T14:19:00",
"content": "Firefox with a bunch of extensions on Desktop. Brave on Mobile. Chrome on both to check how normal people experience the hell hole the internet has become.And if the rare case occurs I have to design somet... | 1,760,371,583.939373 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/07/why-usb-c-splitters-can-cause-magic-smoke-release/ | Why USB-C Splitters Can Cause Magic Smoke Release | Maya Posch | [
"Tech Hacks"
] | [
"PSA",
"USB C",
"USB-C PD"
] | Using USB for powering devices is wonderful, as it frees us from a tangle of incompatible barrel & TRS connectors, not to mention a veritable gaggle of proprietary power connectors. The unfortunate side-effect of this is that the obvious thing to do with power connectors is to introduce splitters, which can backfire ho... | 40 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116259",
"author": "shinsukke",
"timestamp": "2025-04-07T11:07:59",
"content": "What an absolutely hilarious problem, truly shotgun to your own foot worthy.Why not just stick 5K1 on the CC1 and CC2 lines and be done with it? Again, I’m no expert on USB-PD et al, but that seems like... | 1,760,371,584.245606 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/05/a-look-inside-macpaint/ | A Look Inside MacPaint | Al Williams | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"macintosh",
"macpaint"
] | Usually when we talk about retrocomputing, we want to look at — and in — some old hardware. But [Z→Z] has a different approach:
dissecting MacPaint
, the Apple drawing program from the 1980s.
While the program looks antiquated by today’s standards, it was pretty hot stuff back in the day. Things we take for granted tod... | 28 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115691",
"author": "Technophobe",
"timestamp": "2025-04-05T15:37:09",
"content": "“A software “monkey” was made to type keys, move things, and click menus randomly.”I have no clue what a software monkey is, even if you put it in quotation marks.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth"... | 1,760,371,583.804943 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/05/disneys-bipedal-bdx-series-droid-gets-the-diy-treatment/ | Disney’s Bipedal, BDX-Series Droid Gets The DIY Treatment | Donald Papp | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"bipedal",
"disney",
"robot",
"robotics",
"walking"
] | [Antoine Pirrone] and [Grégoire Passault] are making a DIY miniature re-imagining of Disney’s BDX droid design, and while it’s still early, there is definitely a lot of progress to see. Known as the
Open Duck Mini v2
and coming in at a little over 40 cm tall, the project is expected to have a total cost of around 400 U... | 5 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116075",
"author": "Cad the Mad",
"timestamp": "2025-04-06T20:05:46",
"content": "Disney’s droids were co-developed with Nvidia and each carries an Nvidia Jetson Orin. They connect to a larger GPU-enabled server wirelessly and use the Nvidia Omniverse platform to run realtime AI mo... | 1,760,371,583.727686 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/05/8-pins-for-linux/ | 8 Pins For Linux | Jenny List | [
"Linux Hacks"
] | [
"8-pin",
"linux",
"soic"
] | We’ve seen a Linux-based operating system made to run on some widely varying pieces of hardware over the years, but [Dmitry Grinberg]’s latest project may be one of the most unusual. It’s a PCB with 3 integrated circuits on it which doesn’t seem too interesting at first, but
what makes it special is that all three of t... | 27 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115583",
"author": "Peter",
"timestamp": "2025-04-05T08:16:29",
"content": "But can it run Doom?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8115708",
"author": "Dmitry Grinberg",
"timestamp": "2025-04-05T17:00:53",
... | 1,760,371,584.061069 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/04/lockdown-remote-control-project-is-free-and-open/ | Lockdown Remote Control Project Is Free And Open | Elliot Williams | [
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"lockdown",
"project",
"quad",
"radio control",
"rc",
"receiver",
"transmitter"
] | If you flew or drove anything remote controlled until the last few years, chances are very good that you’d be using some faceless corporation’s equipment and radio protocols. But recently, open-source options have taken over the market, at least among the enthusiast core who are into squeezing every last bit of perform... | 8 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115559",
"author": "Fred",
"timestamp": "2025-04-05T05:57:08",
"content": "“Heck, the transmitter even has a game of Pong implemented so that you can keep yourself amused when it’s too rainy to go flying.”What, no Doom?!?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
... | 1,760,371,584.285329 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/04/the-transputer-in-your-browser/ | The Transputer In Your Browser | Al Williams | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"cpu",
"parallel architecture",
"transputer"
] | We remember when the transputer first appeared. Everyone “knew” that it was going to take over everything. Of course, it didn’t. But [Oscar Toledo G.] gives us a taste of what life could have been like with a
JavaScript emulator for the transputer
, you can try in your browser.
If you don’t recall, the transputer was a... | 11 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115578",
"author": "Tom G",
"timestamp": "2025-04-05T08:05:27",
"content": "There is a modern equivalent to the Transputer plus Occam from one of the same team (David May): the XMOS xCORE plus xC; buy them at DigiKey.Up to 32 processors on a chip (i.e. 4000MIPS) and expandable.xC h... | 1,760,371,584.330499 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/04/first-pcb-with-the-smallest-mcu/ | First PCB With The Smallest MCU? | Elliot Williams | [
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"microcontroller",
"tiny"
] | [Morten] works very fast. He has already
designed, fabbed, populated, and tested a breakout board for the new tiniest microcontroller on the market
, and he’s even made a video about it, embedded below.
You might have heard about this new TI ARM Cortex MO micro on these very pages, where we asked you
what you’d do with... | 31 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115528",
"author": "Nathan",
"timestamp": "2025-04-05T00:37:23",
"content": "^second",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8115535",
"author": "lordnothing0.0@gmail.com",
"timestamp": "2025-04-05T01:08:35",
... | 1,760,371,584.852805 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/04/vintage-computer-festival-east-this-weekend/ | Vintage Computer Festival East This Weekend | Elliot Williams | [
"News",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"Brian Kernighan",
"Vintage Computer Festival",
"Vintage Computer Festival East"
] | If you’re on the US East Coast, you should head on over to Wall, NJ and
check out the Vintage Computer Festival East
. After all, [Brian Kernighan] is going to be there. Yes,
that
[
Brian Kernighan
].
Events are actually well underway, and you’ve already missed the first few
TRS-80 Color Computer programming workshops
... | 6 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115502",
"author": "Jonathan Wilson",
"timestamp": "2025-04-04T22:02:53",
"content": "I wish there was something as cool as VCF where I am here in Brisbane, Australia.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8115539",
"author... | 1,760,371,584.614617 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/04/supercon-2024-quick-high-feature-boards-with-the-circuit-graver/ | Supercon 2024: Quick High-Feature Boards With The Circuit Graver | Lewin Day | [
"cons",
"Featured",
"Slider"
] | [
"2024 Hackaday Superconference",
"circuit graver",
"copper clad",
"pcb",
"Printed Circuit Board"
] | These days, if you want to build something with modern chips and components, you probably want a custom PCB. It lets you build a neat and compact project that has a certain level of tidiness and robustness that you can’t get with a breadboard or protoboard. The only problem is that ordering PCBs takes time, and it’s ea... | 11 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115483",
"author": "Bobtato",
"timestamp": "2025-04-04T20:15:40",
"content": "That’s very cool.As someone who has been frustrated by the realities of PCB milling for years, I’m open to any alternative that might actually be reliable. The pressure feedback part sounds very promisin... | 1,760,371,585.002169 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/04/hackaday-podcast-episode-315-conductive-string-theory-decloudified-music-players-and-wild-printing-tech/ | Hackaday Podcast Episode 315: Conductive String Theory, Decloudified Music Players, And Wild Printing Tech | Kristina Panos | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Podcasts",
"Slider"
] | [
"Hackaday Podcast"
] | This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up across the (stupid, lousy) time zones to bring you the latest news, mystery sound, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the previous week.
Again, no news is good news. On What’s That Sound, Kristina didn’t get close at all, but at least had a guess thi... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "8117116",
"author": "bj",
"timestamp": "2025-04-09T18:16:39",
"content": "Hi, XOXBOX is a tb303 clone not a 909. Thanks for sharing the awesome list!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,371,584.699307 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/04/3d-print-and-play-the-super-mario-tune-as-a-fidget-toy/ | 3D Print (and Play!) The Super Mario Tune As A Fidget Toy | Donald Papp | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"3d printed",
"music",
"Music box",
"musical instrument",
"retrogaming",
"theme"
] | [kida] has a highly innovative set of 3D-printable,
musical fidget toys that play classic video game tunes
. Of course there’s the classic Super Mario ditty, but there’s loads more. How they work is pretty nifty, and makes great use of a 3D printer’s strengths.
To play the device one uses a finger to drag a tab (or str... | 34 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115407",
"author": "smellsofbikes",
"timestamp": "2025-04-04T16:55:07",
"content": "This is among the cleverest things I’ve seen on hackaday, ever. What a great design.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8115590",
"auth... | 1,760,371,584.948295 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/04/this-week-in-security-target-coinbase-leaking-call-records-and-microsoft-hotpatching/ | This Week In Security: Target Coinbase, Leaking Call Records, And Microsoft Hotpatching | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"News",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"coinbase",
"github",
"Oracle",
"This Week in Security"
] | We know a bit more about
the GitHub Actions supply chain attack
from last month. Palo Alto’s Unit 42 has been leading the charge on untangling this attack, and they’ve
just released an update to their coverage
. The conclusion is that Coinbase was the initial target of the attack, with the open source
agentkit
package ... | 2 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115426",
"author": "rclark",
"timestamp": "2025-04-04T17:26:48",
"content": "“The Hotpatches will be available for 8 of the 12 monthly security patches, with an enforced quarterly update via traditional updates and a reboot.” . That would be nice(r) for work. Every week we reboot ... | 1,760,371,584.662427 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/04/keep-bears-at-bay-with-the-crackle-of-280000-volts/ | Keep Bears At Bay With The Crackle Of 280,000 Volts | Lewin Day | [
"High Voltage"
] | [
"arc",
"Plasma Channel",
"spark",
"voltage multiplier"
] | Bears! Are they scared of massive arcs that rip through the air, making a lot of noise in the process? [Jay] from the
Plasma Channel
sure hopes so,
because that’s how his bear deterrent works!
[Jay] calls it the
Bear Blaster 5000
. Right from the drop, this thing looks like some crazy weapon out of
Halo.
That’s because... | 42 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115303",
"author": "lj",
"timestamp": "2025-04-04T11:27:11",
"content": "“This lunch makes funny noises”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8115457",
"author": "David H",
"timestamp": "2025-04-04T18:50:55",
... | 1,760,371,585.23273 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/04/a-portable-electronics-workstation/ | A Portable Electronics Workstation | Al Williams | [
"Raspberry Pi",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"portable workshop"
] | You don’t see them as often as you used to, but it used to be common to see “electronics trainers” which were usually a collection of components and simple equipment combined with a breadboard, often in a little suitcase. We think [Pro Maker_101’s]
portable electronics workstation
is in the same kind of spirit, and it ... | 26 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115265",
"author": "shinsukke",
"timestamp": "2025-04-04T08:26:23",
"content": "For what purpose?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8115268",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2025-04-04T08:40:21",
"cont... | 1,760,371,585.059416 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/playstacean-evolves-the-psone-into-the-crab-it-was-always-meant-to-be/ | Playstacean Evolves The PSOne Into The Crab It Was Always Meant To Be | Navarre Bartz | [
"Games"
] | [
"carcinization",
"Case mods",
"console",
"console hack",
"playstation",
"sony"
] | Odd hardware designs crop up in art and renders far more frequently than in the flesh, but console modder [GingerOfOz] felt the need to bring [Anh Dang]’s image of the
inevitable carcinization of our gaming consoles
to life.
Starting with the image as inspiration, [GingerOfOz] got to work in CAD, creating an entirely n... | 6 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115226",
"author": "ford",
"timestamp": "2025-04-04T05:20:52",
"content": "It’s not giant and it’s not an enemy that existed in ancient japan. Meh.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8115229",
"author": "Kaz",
"t... | 1,760,371,585.096271 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/a-proper-os-for-the-sega-genesis-megadrive/ | A Proper OS For The Sega Genesis/Megadrive | Jenny List | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"FUSIX",
"sega genesis",
"Sega Megadrive"
] | The console wars of the early 1990s had several players, but the battle that mattered was between Nintendo’s SNES and Sega’s Genesis, or Megadrive if you are European. They are both famous for their games, but in terms of software they can only run what’s on a cartridge. The Genesis has a Motorola 68000 on board though... | 20 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115201",
"author": "Vinny",
"timestamp": "2025-04-04T02:32:30",
"content": "You mean Megadrive in the rest of the world, not just Europe. It was huge in Brazil back in the day.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8115283",
... | 1,760,371,585.151647 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/the-weird-way-a-dec-alpha-boots/ | The Weird Way A DEC Alpha Boots | Jenny List | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"alphastation",
"dec alpha",
"workstation"
] | We’re used to there being an array of high-end microprocessor architectures, and it’s likely that many of us will have sat in front of machines running x86, ARM, or even PowerPC processors. There are other players past and present you may be familiar with, for example SPARC, RISC-V, or MIPS. Back in the 1990s there was... | 46 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115191",
"author": "anachronda",
"timestamp": "2025-04-04T00:52:55",
"content": "mv5+, a vax that is (mostly) pin-compatible with an alpha, boots by loading a serial eprom into its cache and jumping to it. i once wroye a forth that lived entirely within the nv5+ cache. it could pre... | 1,760,371,585.309575 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/teardown-of-a-scam-ultrasonic-cleaner/ | Teardown Of A Scam Ultrasonic Cleaner | Maya Posch | [
"hardware"
] | [
"scam",
"ultrasonic cleaning"
] | Everyone knows that ultrasonic cleaners are great, but not every device that’s marketed as an ultrasonic cleaner is necessarily such a device. In
a recent video
on the
Cheap & Cheerful
YouTube channel the difference is explored, starting with a teardown of a fake one. The first hint comes with the use of the descriptio... | 11 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115176",
"author": "Yer Mowth",
"timestamp": "2025-04-03T22:28:46",
"content": "TMI Greg.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8115199",
"author": "jbx",
"timestamp": "2025-04-04T02:10:49",
"content": "When a product loo... | 1,760,371,585.356083 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/australias-silliac-computer/ | Australia’s Silliac Computer | Al Williams | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"Australia",
"illiac",
"SILLIAC"
] | When you think about the dawn of modern computers, you often think about the work done in the UK and the US. But Australia had an early computer scene, too, and [State of Electronics] has done a series of videos about the history of computers down under.
The latest episode talks about SILLIAC
, a computer similar to IL... | 17 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115122",
"author": "Jace",
"timestamp": "2025-04-03T19:04:37",
"content": "A lot of articles hailing Australian technology…sounds like southern-Hemisphere propaganda to me! Don’t forget that we Northerners will ALWAYS be on top!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replie... | 1,760,371,585.497466 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/ditto-that/ | Ditto That | Kristina Panos | [
"Featured",
"History",
"Interest",
"Slider"
] | [
"cyclostyle",
"ditto",
"ditto machine",
"hectograph",
"makin' copies",
"mimeograph",
"spirit duplicator",
"stencil duplicator"
] | All the news that was fit to print. Image via
Wikipedia
In the 1982 movie
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
, a classroom of students receives a set of paperwork to pass backward. Nearly every student in the room takes a big whiff of their sheet before setting it down. If you know, you know, I guess, but if you don’t, keep ... | 42 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115091",
"author": "Anonymous",
"timestamp": "2025-04-03T17:33:06",
"content": "“or, if you were loaded” nice one.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8115097",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2025-04-03T18:03:32",
"c... | 1,760,371,585.435195 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/mit-wants-you-to-secure-your-hardware-designs/ | MIT Wants You To Secure Your Hardware Designs | Al Williams | [
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"education",
"mit",
"Rowhammer"
] | When you think of attacking or defending computer systems, you probably think of software viruses and the corresponding anti-virus software. But MIT’s 6.5950 class teaches secure hardware design — how to attack and defend CPUs from bad actors. Interested? The
course is open source
, so you can follow along as long as y... | 9 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115074",
"author": "Alexey",
"timestamp": "2025-04-03T16:16:12",
"content": "And the sources repo ishttps://github.com/MATCHA-MIT/SHD-StarterCode?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8115094",
"author": "Jan",
"timestamp": ... | 1,760,371,585.675328 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/remembering-betty-webb-bletchley-park-pentagon-code-breaker/ | Remembering Betty Webb: Bletchley Park & Pentagon Code Breaker | Maya Posch | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Slider"
] | [
"Bletchley Park",
"obituary"
] | S/Sgt Betty Vine-Stevens, Washington DC, May 1945.
On 31 March of this year we
had to bid farewell
to Charlotte Elizabeth “Betty” Webb (née Vine-Stevens) at the age of 101. She was one of the cryptanalysts who
worked at Bletchley Park
during World War 2, as well as being one of the few women who worked at Bletchley Par... | 30 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115053",
"author": "Titis",
"timestamp": "2025-04-03T15:01:27",
"content": "Bro, you mad?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8115056",
"author": "Titus431",
"timestamp": "2025-04-03T15:07:01",
"content": "Dude, serious... | 1,760,371,585.971315 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/07/tracking-the-iss-made-easy/ | Tracking The ISS Made Easy | Elliot Williams | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"international space station",
"tracker"
] | If you made something blink, and now it’s time for you to make something
move
, something like a point-to-a-satellite tracker is a great idea.
[Farid Rener] made this moving arrow that always points at the ISS
, and documented it nicely to boot.
And there’s a little bit of everything here, from orbital mechanics and fe... | 3 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116361",
"author": "victroniko",
"timestamp": "2025-04-07T15:44:58",
"content": "Graphite powder is a well known lubricant for keylocks and small (metal) machinery in general. IDK how it performs on plastics over time, though. I tend to use silicone grease.Just be aware it’s higly ... | 1,760,371,585.71028 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/06/a-tale-of-nuclear-shenanigans-from-down-under/ | A Tale Of Nuclear Shenanigans From Down Under | Jenny List | [
"News",
"Science"
] | [
"crime",
"law",
"Plutonium"
] | It’s likely that among the readers of this article there will be many who collect something. Whether it’s rare early LEDs or first-year-of-manufacture microprocessors, you’ll scour the internet to find them, and eagerly await mystery packages from the other side of the world.
There’s a tale emerging from Australia feat... | 47 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116156",
"author": "Cad the Mad",
"timestamp": "2025-04-07T05:03:27",
"content": "I collect mercury tilt switches. I don’t think they’re illegal…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8116166",
"author": "Vik",
"tim... | 1,760,371,585.79061 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/06/plutos-not-a-planet-but-it-is-a-spectrum-analyzer/ | Pluto’s Not A Planet, But It Is A Spectrum Analyzer | Al Williams | [
"Tool Hacks",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"ADALM-PLUTO",
"plutosdr",
"spectrum analyzer"
] | The RTL-SDR dongles get most of the love from people interested in software-defined radio, but the Pluto is also a great option, too. [FromConceptToCircuit] shares code to turn one of these radios into
a spectrum analyzer
that sweeps up to 6 GHz and down to 100 MHz. You can see a video of how it works below.
While it m... | 8 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116157",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2025-04-07T05:09:46",
"content": "Ouch on the price tag though.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8116187",
"author": "CJay",
"timestamp": "2025-04-07T07:17:16",
... | 1,760,371,586.024303 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/06/command-and-conquer-ported-to-the-pi-pico-2/ | Command And ConquerPorted To The Pi Pico 2 | Tom Nardi | [
"classic hacks",
"Games"
] | [
"Command and Conquer",
"electronic arts",
"port",
"raspberry pi pico 2"
] | A couple of months back, Electronic Arts did something uncharacteristically benevolent and released several of the old
Command and Conquer
games under the GPLv3. Logically, we knew that opened the doors up to the games being ported to new operating systems and architectures, but we admit that it was still a little surp... | 9 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116184",
"author": "mc",
"timestamp": "2025-04-07T07:11:54",
"content": "It’d be great to have this game on a handheld form factor with touch-LCD. A dedicated device to play just 1 game sounds a little extra but sometimes that’s just what I’d love to have right now.",
"parent_i... | 1,760,371,586.074198 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/06/reverse-engineering-the-ibm-pc110-one-pcb-at-a-time/ | Reverse Engineering The IBM PC110, One PCB At A Time | Tom Nardi | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"drop-in replacement",
"ibm pc110",
"KiCAD",
"reverse engineering"
] | There’s a dedicated group of users out there that aren’t ready to let their beloved IBM PC110 go to that Great Big Data Center in the Sky. Unfortunately, between the limited available technical information and rarity of replacement parts, repairing the diminutive palmtops can be tricky.
Which is why
[Ahmad Byagowi] has... | 9 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116084",
"author": "ono",
"timestamp": "2025-04-06T20:26:58",
"content": "I´m impatient to see AI taking over PCB reverse engineering. This is a rewarding and interesting task for bubbling AI specialists.Identifying chips, pulling datasheets, building a BOM, a netlist from visible ... | 1,760,371,586.122175 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/06/an-amstrad-pcw-receives-a-bit-of-love/ | An Amstrad PCW Receives A Bit Of Love | Jenny List | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"Amstrad",
"amstrad PCW",
"pcw"
] | If Clive Sinclair’s genius in consumer electronics was in using ingenious hacks to make cheaper parts do greater things, then his Amstrad competitor Alan Sugar’s was in selling decade-old technology to consumers as new and exciting. His PCW series of computers are a great example, 1970s CP/M machines smartly marketed f... | 6 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8116039",
"author": "Joshua",
"timestamp": "2025-04-06T18:23:06",
"content": "Wonderful! 💚 Where I live the PCW was known as the Schneider Joyce!This electric video typewriter was so underrated.It could run CP/M-80 and had hi-res graphics comparable to Hercules (MGA) on IBM PC (720... | 1,760,371,586.166891 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/06/emulating-iphone-on-qemu/ | Emulating IPhone On QEMU | Al Williams | [
"iphone hacks"
] | [
"ios",
"iphone",
"qemu"
] | [Georges Gagnerot] has been trying to emulate iOS and run iPhone software in a virtual environment. There were a few choices, and qemu-t8030 had a number of interesting features that you can
check out in his post
.
The project requires a patched QEMU, and [Georges] did some basic jailbreaking techniques. The real probl... | 4 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115971",
"author": "Jouni",
"timestamp": "2025-04-06T14:47:51",
"content": "This is some next level commitment and crazynes!Hats off.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8115984",
"author": "Gravis",
"timestamp": ... | 1,760,371,586.292915 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/a-very-trippy-look-at-microsofts-beginnings/ | A Very Trippy Look At Microsoft’s Beginnings | Tom Nardi | [
"classic hacks",
"News"
] | [
"bill gates",
"microsoft",
"web design"
] | It’s not often you’ll see us singing the praises of Microsoft on these pages, but credit where credit is due,
this first-person account
of how the software giant got its foot in the proverbial door by Bill Gates himself is pretty slick.
Now it’s not the story that has us excited, mind you. It’s the website itself. As y... | 38 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "8114991",
"author": "hammarbytp",
"timestamp": "2025-04-03T11:19:43",
"content": "In 1975, Paul Allen and I created Microsoft because we believed in our vision of gouging out every cent for software you use – fixed it for yahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists",... | 1,760,371,586.253232 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/handheld-18650-analyzer-scopes-out-salvaged-cells/ | Handheld 18650 Analyzer Scopes Out Salvaged Cells | Tom Nardi | [
"Battery Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"18650",
"battery charger",
"battery tester"
] | You can salvage lithium 18650 cells from all sorts of modern gadgets, from disposable vapes to cordless power tools. The tricky part, other than physically liberating them from whatever they are installed in, is figuring out if they’re worth keeping or not. Just because an 18650 cell takes a charge doesn’t necessarily ... | 10 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "8114980",
"author": "JPB",
"timestamp": "2025-04-03T10:02:54",
"content": "Missing a critical parameter => Internal Resistance !",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8115079",
"author": "arifyn",
"timestamp": "2025-... | 1,760,371,586.410461 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/02/the-magic-touch-a-555-touch-switch/ | The Magic Touch: A 555 Touch Switch | Al Williams | [
"classic hacks",
"Parts"
] | [
"555",
"touch switch"
] | There seems to be nothing a 555 can’t do. We’ve seen it before, but [electronzapdotcom] reminds us you can use a 555 and a few parts to make a
reasonable touch switch
in this video, embedded below.
The circuit uses some very large resistors so that noise from your body can overcome the logic level on the trigger and th... | 14 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "8114941",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2025-04-03T05:04:18",
"content": "In b4 someone suggests you could have used a ‘555.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8114954",
"author": "Carl Breen",
"timestamp": "2... | 1,760,371,586.461985 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/02/monitor-your-smart-plugs-on-the-command-line/ | Monitor Your Smart Plugs On The Command Line | Jenny List | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"cli",
"power measurement",
"smart plug"
] | The plethora of smart home devices available today deliver all manner of opportunities, but it’s fair to say that interfacing with them is more often done in the browser or an app than in the terminal.
WattWise from [Naveen Kulandaivelu]
is a tool which changes all that, it’s a command-line interface (CLI) for power mo... | 4 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "8114994",
"author": "Larry Matthews",
"timestamp": "2025-04-03T11:43:19",
"content": "I use about 15 TP-Link type smart plugs with my Sense home monitor system. They are the best thing since sliced bread to know how much energy you are using every minute in your home. When I switch ... | 1,760,371,586.64757 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/02/one-book-to-boot-them-all/ | One Book To Boot Them All | Heidi Ulrich | [
"how-to"
] | [
"book",
"development",
"guide",
"operating system",
"os",
"Step-by-step",
"x86"
] | Somewhere in the universe, there’s a place that lists every x86 operating system from scratch. Not just some bootloaders, or just a kernel stub, but documentation to build a fully functional, interrupt-handling, multitasking-capable OS. [Erik Helin and Adam Renberg] did just that by documenting every step in
The Little... | 19 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "8114885",
"author": "Gravis",
"timestamp": "2025-04-03T00:15:04",
"content": "Another good resource is theOSDev Wikiwhich has even more info and for more than just x86.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8115006",
"author... | 1,760,371,586.582119 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/02/programmers-macro-pad-bangs-out-whole-functions/ | Programmer’s Macro Pad Bangs Out Whole Functions | Tom Nardi | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"Arduino Micro Pro",
"macro pad",
"programming"
] | Macro pads are handy for opening up your favorite programs or executing commonly used keyboard shortcuts. But why stop there?
That’s what [Jeroen Brinkman] must have been thinking while creating the
Programmer’s Macro Pad
. Based on the Arduino Pro Micro, this hand-wired pad is unique in that a single press of any of i... | 24 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "8114842",
"author": "HaHa",
"timestamp": "2025-04-02T20:45:45",
"content": "No coder, in history, has been limited by typing speed.Not even when using Ada.Which, being a government/DOD spec language, requires you code in triplicate.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"repl... | 1,760,371,586.738665 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/02/floss-weekly-episode-827-yt-dlp-sometimes-you-cant-see-the-tail/ | FLOSS Weekly Episode 827: Yt-dlp, Sometimes You Can’t See The Tail | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Podcasts",
"Slider"
] | [
"FLOSS Weekly",
"youtube-dl",
"yt-dlp"
] | This week,
Jonathan Bennett
chats with Bashonly about yt-dlp, the audio/video downloader that carries the torch from youtube-dl! Why is this a hard problem, and what does the future hold for this swiss-army knife of video downloading? Watch to find out!
https://github.com/bashonly
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
https... | 3 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115211",
"author": "Drone",
"timestamp": "2025-04-04T04:10:50",
"content": "How to Use YT-DLP: Guide and Commands (2025)By Diego Asturias (you can skip the email harvesting attempts)Last updated on March 7, 2025https://www.rapidseedbox.com/blog/yt-dlp-complete-guideNote: If you are... | 1,760,371,587.512954 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/06/celebrating-30-years-of-windows-95/ | Celebrating 30 Years Of Windows 95 At VCF | Adam Fabio | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"CommodoreZ",
"microsoft",
"Ms-Dos5",
"VCF East 2025",
"windows 95"
] | It’s been 30 years since Windows 95 launched. [
Ms-Dos5
] and [
Commodore Z
] are celebrating with an epic exhibit at
Vintage Computer Festival East 2025
. They had no fewer than nine computers — all period-correct machines running versions of Windows 95. The pictures don’t do it justice, so if you are near Wall, NJ, o... | 78 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115922",
"author": "Joshua",
"timestamp": "2025-04-06T11:32:34",
"content": "By the way, its predecessor, Windows 3.1 was released 33 years ago today – on April 6, 1992.https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1x",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
... | 1,760,371,586.864264 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/06/a-low-f-number-lens-from-scratch/ | A Low F Number Lens, From Scratch | Jenny List | [
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"f-stop",
"lens",
"projector lens"
] | The F-number of a photographic lens is a measure of its light-gathering ability, and is expressed as its aperture diameter divided by its focal length. Lenses with low F-numbers are prized by photographers for their properties, but are usually expensive because making a good one can be something of a challenge. Neverth... | 52 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115909",
"author": "Tony",
"timestamp": "2025-04-06T10:43:41",
"content": "Small correcrion, f-number is measure by focal length divided by the aperture diameter. That why it is written f/8. The f stands for focal length. Great read! Thanks for the article.",
"parent_id": nul... | 1,760,371,587.123387 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/05/ben-eater-vs-microsoft-basic/ | Ben Eater Vs. Microsoft BASIC | Elliot Williams | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [] | [Ben Eater]’s breadboard 6502 computer is no stranger to these parts, so it was a bit of a surprise that when [Mark] wrote in asking us if we’d covered [Ben]’s getting MS BASIC running on the breadboard, that our answer was “no”. Well, that changes today!
This is a three-part video series, documenting how [Ben Eater] p... | 12 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115850",
"author": "8bitwiz",
"timestamp": "2025-04-06T06:04:39",
"content": "I’ve been working with MS-BASIC since the original TRS-80, and I’ve seen and disassembled most of the different versions for all the different CPUs. It’s really fun that there are enough versions of the o... | 1,760,371,586.927617 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/05/inside-an-edison-phonograph/ | Inside An Edison Phonograph | Al Williams | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"edison",
"phonograph",
"wax cylinder"
] | If you think of records as platters, you are of a certain age. If you don’t remember records at all, you are even younger. But there was a time when audio records were not flat — they were drums, which was how the original Edison phonograph worked. [Our Own Devices] did a video earlier showing one of these devices, but... | 14 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115822",
"author": "few",
"timestamp": "2025-04-06T02:30:00",
"content": "They have and operate one of these at Greenfield Village, in Detroit, where the original Edison labs have been moved to. I didn’t watch the video, but the Greenfield Village recordings both record and play ba... | 1,760,371,587.225923 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/05/how-shrinking-feature-size-made-modern-wireless-work/ | How Shrinking Feature Size Made Modern Wireless Work | Elliot Williams | [
"hardware",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"cmos",
"history",
"RF ICs"
] | If you’re living your life right, you probably know what as MOSFET is. But do you know the MESFET? They are like the faster, uninsulated, Schottky version of a MOSFET, and they used to rule the roost in radio-frequency (RF) silicon. But if you’re like us, and you have never heard of a MESFET, then give
this phenomenal ... | 4 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115821",
"author": "J",
"timestamp": "2025-04-06T02:25:16",
"content": "“CPU manufacturers pushed CMOS theses features smaller”What?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "8115867",
"author": "Gravis",
"timestamp": "... | 1,760,371,587.273833 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/05/how-a-tiny-relay-became-a-usb-swiss-army-knife/ | How A Tiny Relay Became A USB Swiss Army Knife | Heidi Ulrich | [
"computer hacks",
"Linux Hacks",
"Microcontrollers",
"News",
"PCB Hacks"
] | [
"BOOT0",
"relay",
"servo",
"stm32",
"swiss army knife",
"swiss knife",
"uart",
"usb"
] | Meet the little board that could:
[alcor6502]’s tiny USB relay controller
, now evolved into a multifunction marvel. Originally built as a simple USB relay to probe the boundaries of JLCPCB’s production chops, it has become a compact utility belt for any hacker’s desk drawer. Not only has [alcor6502] actually built the... | 17 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115778",
"author": "Gravis",
"timestamp": "2025-04-05T22:22:49",
"content": "I wouldn’t call it multifunction device so much as call it multipurpose PCB. The reason being that in order to switch between functions, you must bridge or remove a particular set of components. Unless you... | 1,760,371,587.179588 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/05/if-youre-3d-scanning-youll-want-a-way-to-work-with-point-clouds/ | If You’re 3D Scanning, You’ll Want A Way To Work With Point Clouds | Donald Papp | [
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"3d scanning",
"mesh",
"point cloud",
"software"
] | 3D scanning is becoming much more accessible, which means it’s more likely that the average hacker will use it to solve problems — possibly odd ones. That being the case, a handy tool to have in one’s repertoire is a way to work with point clouds. We’ll explain why in a moment, but that’s where
CloudCompare
comes in (
... | 7 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "8115715",
"author": "David",
"timestamp": "2025-04-05T17:31:18",
"content": "Could use an article on HunYuan3D-2, currently the best close to open source model that’s out there, it’s able to take a literal sketch on a napkin, or literally any photo of any object, or AI genned object... | 1,760,371,587.321119 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/02/supercon-2024-rethinking-body-art-with-leds/ | Supercon 2024: Rethinking Body Art With LEDs | Lewin Day | [
"cons",
"Hackaday Columns",
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"2024 Hackaday Supercon",
"body art",
"glowable",
"glowables",
"glowing",
"led",
"sprite lights"
] | Tattoos. Body paint. Henna. All these are popular kinds of body art with varying histories and cultural connotations, many going back centuries or even longer. They all have something in common, though—they all change how the body reflects light back to the viewer. What if, instead, body art could shine a light of its ... | 3 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "8114879",
"author": "dielectric",
"timestamp": "2025-04-02T23:06:22",
"content": "Now that’s some good hacking!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "8114950",
"author": "Skalamanga",
"timestamp": "2025-04-03T06:34:44",
"c... | 1,760,371,587.368458 |
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