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[l] at 4/19/26 2:00am
Betteridges law applies, but with help and guidance by a human who knows his stuff, [Ready Z80] was able to get a functioning game of Wordle out of the French-named read more

[Category: Artificial Intelligence, Retrocomputing, assembly language, Claude Code, LLM, z80]

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[l] at 4/18/26 11:00pm
Capacitive displacement sensors span a wide range of resolution, from the touchscreen sensors which can only detect displacement as a binary state, all the way to the sensors in semiconductor read more

[Category: Parts, Raspberry Pi, capacitive, capacitive sensing, capacitive sensor, Raspberry Pi Pico]

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[l] at 4/18/26 8:00pm
The Unity game development platform was first released in 2005, long after the PlayStation had ceased to be a relevant part of the console market. And yet, you could use read more

[Category: Playstation Hacks, Software Hacks, lua, playstation, Sony Playstation, unity]

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[l] at 4/18/26 5:00pm
Ever encountered a minor annoying bug in a video game? How about one dating back to 2018? Usually, you have no hope of fixing it, but this time is different. read more

[Category: Games, jiggle physics, physics engine, source engine]

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[l] at 4/18/26 2:00pm
When Ridge Racer hit the arcades in the early 1990s, it came in a few different versions. The last variant used three large CRTs to create a wraparound display for the read more

[Category: Games, Software Hacks, arcade, arcade cabinet, mame, ridge racer]

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[l] at 4/18/26 11:00am
There are two UNIVAC 1219B computers that have survived since the 1960s and one of them is even operational. [Nathan Farlow] wanted to run a Minecraft server on it, so read more

[Category: Games, Retrocomputing, assembly code, Claude Code, emulators, minecraft, RISC-V, univac]

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[l] at 4/18/26 8:00am
There is a currently ongoing debate in the neuropsychology world about how we relate to the tools that we use. The theory of “tool embodiment” says that when we use read more

[Category: Hackaday Columns, Rants, newsletter, rants]

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[l] at 4/18/26 5:00am
[Jeremy Bell] loves scratching, but he had a problem. His Hercules DJ controller wasnt really doing a great job at emulating the kind of action one would get with a read more

[Category: Musical Hacks, DJ controller, DJ rig, Hercules, midi controller, scratching]

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[l] at 4/18/26 2:00am
Theres something to be said for a simple wind-up, free flight model airplane. With no controls, it must be built very well to fly well, and with only the limited read more

[Category: Battery Hacks, Toy Hacks, model airplane, supercapacitor, tom stanton]

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[l] at 4/17/26 11:00pm
Generally when a game console with an optical drive stops reading discs the first thing that people do is crank on the potentiometer that controls the power to the laser read more

[Category: Nintendo Hacks, Repair Hacks, gamecube, nintendo gamecube]

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[l] at 4/17/26 8:00pm
Those who have worked on a hobby operating system for x86 will have interacted with its rather complex and confusing interrupt model. [Evalyn] shows us why and how to use read more

[Category: Software Hacks, FRED, IDT, x86-64]

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[l] at 4/17/26 5:00pm
Although modern-day silvered glass mirrors have pretty much destroyed the market for bronze mirrors, these highly polished pieces of metal once were the pinnacle of mirror technology. Due to the read more

[Category: History, Misc Hacks, bronze, bronze casting, mirror]

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[l] at 4/17/26 2:00pm
Cooking food with fire is arguably the technology that propelled humans to become the dominant species on Earth. Its pretty straightforward to achieve, just requiring a fuel source, a supply read more

[Category: cooking hacks, cooking, discharge, flyback transformer, high voltage, lipo battery, plasma, portable, ZVS]

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[l] at 4/17/26 11:30am
Weve all had those times when your electrical device of choice is running low on battery. Sometimes you even plan ahead and are also carrying a battery pack, but what read more

[Category: contests, green hacks, Solar Hacks, 2026 Green-Powered Challenge, battery bank, IP5306, solar panel]

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[l] at 4/17/26 10:30am
Its the evening before publication, and a pair of Hackaday writers convene to record the weeks podcast. This week Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List, and its a bumper read more

[Category: Hackaday Columns, Podcasts, Hackaday Podcast]

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[l] at 4/17/26 9:30am
Well, this might just be a Hackaday first. Certainly not the circuit sculpture part, nor the wearable aspect, but the glorious combination of the two. Behold [CMoz]s Fashionably on Task: read more

[Category: Wearable Hacks, Circuit Sculpture, epaper, esp32-C3, pink microcontroller, reminder, to-do list, wearable]

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[l] at 4/17/26 8:00am
CVE-2026-34040 lets attackers bypass some Docker authentication plugins by allowing an empty request body. Present since 2024, this bug was caused by a previous fix to the auth workflow. In read more

[Category: Hackaday Columns, Security Hacks, docker, malware, microsoft, nist, openssl, rockstar, security, x.org, xwayland]

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[l] at 4/17/26 5:00am
You probably dont spend a lot of time using the FAT32 file system anymore, since its thoroughly been superseded many times over. Even so, Microsoft has seen fit to deliver read more

[Category: computer hacks, News, FAT32, file system, microsoft, windows]

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[l] at 4/17/26 2:00am
Unlike the current era where most consumer electronics are black rectangles, or the early 90s where most consumer electronics were black rectangles, we got a brief glimmer of color, light, read more

[Category: Games, animation, console, console mod, controller, gamecube, hot tub, model, nintendo, playable]

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[l] at 4/16/26 11:00pm
Kei trucks are some of the smallest commercial vehicles out on the roads today. You can also get lots of cute kei RC cars if youre into the toy side read more

[Category: Toy Hacks, ESP32, kei truck, R/C car, xbox one]

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[l] at 4/16/26 8:00pm
That boiling water is a contentious topic of discussion is clear, but what about hot air? When you take a 12 VDC, 280 Watt-rated air fryer and pit it against read more

[Category: cooking hacks, 12v, air fryer, power usage]

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