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at 8/13/26 11:00amHackers, start your engines! We’re opening up ticket sales for our tenth, the 2026 Hackaday Supercon, to take place Nov 6-8 in Pasadena, CA. As always, because we haven’t announced read more- — Holograms, From Your Plotter
- at 8/13/26 9:30amWhen mass-printed holograms appeared on magazines in the 1980s they were a huge novelty, before degrading to the level of kids stickers in the years since. At the time they read more
- — Bladerunners and the Mother of Invention
- at 8/13/26 8:00amThere are plenty of stories about inventors who see a problem and decide they can do better. But Van Phillips had a little more motivation than most. The problem was read more
- — Hacking Fiber To The Home
- at 8/13/26 5:00amWhen we think about security threats, we generally imagine them coming from far away across the wider internet. But what if the connection between you and your ISP was the read more
- — The Chernobyl NPP and Forty Years of Robots for High Radiation Environments
- at 8/13/26 2:00amWith the massive steam explosion that shredded the #4 RBMK reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 it suddenly made robots that could survive a high ionizing radiation read more
- — Smart Clock Helps With Medication Management
- at 8/12/26 11:00pmThere are all kinds of smart devices on the market these days, but if you want one to solve a particular personal problem, sometimes its easiest to just build your read more
- — Have Scientists Stuck the Landing on the Glueball Discovery?
- at 8/12/26 8:00pmExciting discoveries in particle physics are one of those things that it can be easy to get blase about. Some people get caught up in the obvious excitement, while others read more
- — Your Laptop Keyboard, On Another Device
- at 8/12/26 5:00pmIts likely many of us have been in the position of first set-up on a machine such as a Raspberry Pi, and had keyboard problems. Either no spare keyboard is read more
- — The Agony of Packaging Linux Apps
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at 8/12/26 2:00pmOne of the great things of Linux as an ecosystem is that there is so much choice. Yet this is also its greatest weakness, as unlike on MacOS and Windows read more - — Read a USB Logitech Racing Wheel on an ESP32‑S3
- at 8/12/26 12:30pmNow that MCUs like the ESP32-S3 are quite capable computer systems including USB host functionality, it only makes sense that you can connect USB peripherals like Logitech racing wheels to read more
- — Procrastineers Rejoice! 2026 Supercon Call For Participation Extended
- at 8/12/26 11:00amA few weeks ago, we put out the call for participation for this year’s 2026 Hackaday Supercon, taking place in Pasadena, CA this November. Today was going to be the read more
- — Watch Today’s Eclipse at Home
- at 8/12/26 9:30amIn a few hours, there is a solar eclipse that will be visible with a track that goes from Spain up through Greenland. Too late to travel for it, but read more
- — Getting Back Into Resin Printing: First Results
- at 8/12/26 8:00amWhen we last left off, I had just set up a new SLA resin printer and was on the verge of doing the initial round of printing to see just read more
- — 3 KB Solitaire Fits in QR-Code, Runs in DOS
- at 8/12/26 5:00amIn these days of hundred-gigabyte-and-more monster games, it can be nice to stop and remember what a human can do with assembly language and very, very little storage space. In read more
- — Lighting 3D Printed Parts on Fire for Science
- at 8/12/26 2:00amAlthough lighting 3D prints on fire is rarely the intended outcome, its possible that said print will at some point in its future come into contact with either an open read more
- — Titanic-esqe Telegraph Keeps Relationship Afloat
- at 8/11/26 11:00pmWhen people say the key to a happy, long-lasting marriage is communication, they generally mean the verbal kind: talking things out with your spouse, sharing your feelings, and all that read more
- — Is Manual Filament Tuning Still Worth It?
- at 8/11/26 8:00pmIn this era of consumer-grade FDM printers that have automatic bed levelling, automatic pressure advance tuning, automatic temperature regulation and so on buttoned away behind bullet-proof presets and automation, something read more
- — Fixing a Dead Makita Battery with a 20 Cent Part
- at 8/11/26 5:00pmIts no real secret that battery packs for power tools arent the foremost when it comes to user serviceability, so if said battery pack suddenly stops charging outside of warranty, read more
- — Splitting a Ball Bearing to Cut Out Backlash
- at 8/11/26 2:00pmGears are usually the biggest contributors to backlash in a mechanical system, but they’re far from the only culprits. Ball bearings are a less obvious source of imprecision, since any read more
- — Turning a Toy Game Boy into a Real Game Boy
- at 8/11/26 12:30pmIn the world of childrens toys there are many offerings which are meant to look like devices used by older kids or even adults, with the Fisher Price Laugh read more
- — The PC OS That Would Have Blown Your Mind Back In 1984
- at 8/11/26 9:30amAs far as desktop microcomputers for mere mortals went in the first half of the 1980s, there was a sharp distinction between home computers such as the many 8-bit machines read more
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