- — Smelting Bog Ore As It Should Be Done
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at 9/23/26 2:00pmSometimes along comes a hack with a personal angle, and in a video showing Irish bog ore smelting, we find an appropriate follow up to a Hackaday expedition back in read more- — A Mini’s Infotainment System and the Joys of Aftermarket Car Parts
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at 9/23/26 12:30pmAlthough [Arkandas] disclaims any interest in being a car guy, this is somewhat ironic in light of the sheer amount of modding he has performed on a range of cars read more - — Forget Trees, add Fins to your 3D Prints Instead
- at 9/23/26 11:00amPerhaps one of the most contentious issues in 3D printing is that of supports, both because theyre an uncomfortable reminder of how gravity affects our prints and because the very read more
- — 2026 Hackaday Supercon: Announcing our First Round of Speakers
- at 9/23/26 10:00amSupercon is the Ultimate Hardware Conference™ and you need to be there November 6-8 in Pasadena, California! Below is just the tip of the speakers iceberg, but if thats not read more
- — How Pixar Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Linux
- at 9/23/26 5:00amIf you werent already aware, it will probably come as no surprise to hear that the pioneering computer-animation studio Pixar built its early workflow on Silicon Graphics SGI workstations. These read more
- — A JavaScript OS for the ESP32
- at 9/23/26 2:00amGiven the incredible power of modern microcontrollers, weve seen quite a few attempts to turn them into more general purpose computers over the years. KryonOS from [Haris] is the latest, read more
- — Myst on the Atari 2600
- at 9/22/26 11:00pmAlthough the Atari 2600 was a hugely popular game console in the late 70s, its hardware specs were limited, to say the least. For a dedicated game console of the read more
- — Why Raindrops Make for Pretty Good Antennae
- at 9/22/26 8:00pmA good rule of thumb is that everything that can interact with electromagnetic (EM) radiation is an antenna, which includes our mostly-salty-water-containing bodies and also raindrops and moisture in the read more
- — ESP32 Replacement for Lighting Display Controller
- at 9/22/26 5:00pmAs a company, NanoLeaf has been producing modular lights that can be easily snapped together into various geometric shapes for around a decade. Similar to the addressable LED light strips read more
- — Dumpster-dived Window A/C becomes Ground-Source Heat Pump
- at 9/22/26 2:00pmHeat pumps are great, because they pump heat around, and we often dont want heat where it is. Need it somewhere else? Pump it! Its great. Its also a bit read more
- — Determining the Body Temperature of Tyrannosaurus rex
- at 9/22/26 12:30pmOne of the most fun challenges in paleontology is determining characteristics of long-dead species like their behavior and body temperature based on nothing but some fossils and traces that are read more
- — Raspberry Pi RAM Restrictions No Big Deal, Frankly
- at 9/22/26 11:00amHacking on Raspberry Pi board internals is one of my favourite topics. I know a bunch of obscure things about these cute little boards. Three years ago, I covered a read more
- — Digital Upgrade Brings Medium Format Camera Into the 21st Century
- at 9/22/26 9:00amLarge format cameras can produce amazing shots, but are a bit too bulky to be practical. Medium format is a different story, as [Wenting] demonstrates with his Sitina B220M read more
- — Raspberry Pi Locks Down RAM Upgrades
- at 9/22/26 5:00amIn a recent video [Jeff Geerling] addresses an issue discovered with the Raspberry Pi firmware, specifically how since around 2024 the firmware locks down what RAM size and even module read more
- — Tiny Scratch-Built Cyberdeck is in Mint Condition
- at 9/22/26 2:00am[Salim Benbouziyane] shows off his TN Deck, a tiny custom cyberdeck built into an Altoids tin. Its a skillful build that really makes the most of the available space, and read more
- — A Computer Terminal the Old Way
- at 9/21/26 11:00pmHere in 2026 if we need a terminal the chances are we fire one up on our computer and continue on our way without a thought. What we are doing read more
- — New Research Suggests that a Neutrino Laser is Impossible
- at 9/21/26 8:00pmAs cool as it would have been to wield lasers that produce a beam of neutrinos, recently two papers were published by MIT researchers that seem to dampen the likelihood read more
- — The Mazda Suitcase Car Rides Again
- at 9/21/26 5:00pmOnce you arrive at your destination via plane, it can be a drag waiting for a rental car. Why not bring your own with a replica of the Mazda suitcase read more
- — Trying a New Radial Impeller Design for Quadcopters
- at 9/21/26 2:00pmEven if the world has already settled on plain old propellers as the way to make quadcopter drones fly, this doesnt mean that you cannot give other designs a shake read more
- — Pedal Harder for Affordability
- at 9/21/26 12:30pmIn the US, among other places, housing costs are skyrocketing. It can sometimes be difficult to get a feel for the scale of the issue and how it hits neighborhoods read more
- — The First Floating Nuclear Power Station
- at 9/21/26 11:00amNuclear power really hit its stride in the 1950s. In the post-war period, there was a rush to develop peaceful uses for splitting the atom, beyond its application as a read more
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