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· 2w ago

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

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Laser Your Way Into Debug Mode On The RP2350

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

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· 2mo ago

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

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Reject Modernity, Return To 80s, Learn C.

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

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· 2mo ago

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

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Why Is Textile Work Not Taught To Engineers?

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

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· 3w ago

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

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Introducing The Periodic Table Of US Electrical Receptacles

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

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· 3w ago

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

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

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

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· 2w ago

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

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A Hotspot Becomes A Handheld

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

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· 2mo ago

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

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Old SSDs Find New Life As Game Cartridges

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

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· 1mo ago

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

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Neo-Cyclostyle: Automatic Document Copying Devices In 1890

Document duplication has been a highly desirable feature long before medieval monks slaved over yet another illuminated manuscript by flickering candlelight. Fortunately, one part of the Industrial…

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· 2mo ago

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

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Recycling Laptops And IMacs Makes PC Building Fun And Affordable Again

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

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· 2mo ago

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

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Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency And LLM-Generated Code Projects

Community-led open source project hosting site Codeberg has formally announced that projects whose code is largely or fully machine-generated through LLMs and other ‘AI’ tools will no l…

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· 2mo ago

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

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A Versatile PDP-11/70 Emulator

The PDP-11 was a 16-bit minicomputer that was very influential in its time. That’s what inspired [vanheusden] to start working on an emulator for the machine in 2018, which has since been dev…

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· 2mo ago

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

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V Formation Flying Of Birds Is Explained By A Minimal Wake–Vortex Model

Although it’s commonly suspected that migratory birds fly in a ‘V’ formation due to this saving energy for the birds in the slipstream, understanding the exact aerodynamics behind…

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· 1mo ago

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

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Running DOOM On A Cheap 104-in-One Handheld

Taking a break from putting DOOM on devices that absolutely were never conceived for use as gaming devices, [Aaron Christophel] recently got enticed by some cheapo handheld gaming systems at his lo…

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· 3mo ago

C64 Finally Gets the SRAM Corporate Wouldn’t Pay For

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

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C64 Finally Gets The SRAM Corporate Wouldn’t Pay For

If you think RAM is expensive now, try putting yourselves in the shoes of a Commodore engineer, circa 1981. RAM was eye-wateringly expensive by modern standards, and Jack Tramiel wanted 64K of the …

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· 2mo ago

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

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Picking A CRC

You send a file, but how do you know it arrived intact? In other words, how do you know that it didn’t get cut off, garbled, or changed somehow? Simplistically, you could just add up all the …

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· 2mo ago

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

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Building A Reproduction PlayStation Motherboard

Thanks to things like spilled drinks, leaky batteries, and the general ravages of time, older consoles can be tough to keep going. In particular, excessive damage to a motherboard can make repair d…

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· 2mo ago

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

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Tech In Plain Sight: Security Envelopes

You probably get a few of these things each week in the mail. And some of them actually do a good job of obscuring the contents inside, even if you hold the envelope up to the light. But have you e…

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· 1mo ago

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

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Encoding MOD Files Optically On Paper, Because Amiga’s Legacy Will Outlast M-Disks

All but a few of our very youngest readers are surely familiar with music formats that rely on optical disks. When we say [RobSmithDev] made a MOD tracker that uses an optical disk, then, you might…

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· 2mo ago

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

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The Orphaned Sources At The Hacker Camp: What Happened Next

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

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· 2mo ago

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

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Spotting Emacs In The Wild

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

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· 2mo ago

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

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A Compact Game Controller For Your Phone

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

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· 2mo ago

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

Hackaday

Want Energy Efficiency? Dude, You’re Getting A Dell!

With a title like “Intel Just Matched Apple Silicon. Seriously.”, the latest video from [Jeff Geerling] makes some pretty bold claims. But as we’d expect from [Jeff], he’s g…

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· 2mo ago

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

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Java Ring Restored After Nearly 30 Years

Back in the late 90s when absolutely everybody knew that Java was going to become the one programming language to rule them all, the Java Ring was handed out to folks at Java developer conferences …

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· 2mo ago

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

Hackaday

Could Reticulum Power A Post-Internet Network?

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

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· 2mo ago

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

Hackaday

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

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

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· 2mo ago

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

Hackaday

A Labour Of Love Brings A Kids Book To The Spectrum

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

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· 2mo ago

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

Hackaday

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

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

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· 2mo ago

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

Hackaday

AIM-ing For A More Open Platform Than Discord

Do you remember AIM? It may suprize you to hear that AOL’s instant messanger was actually supported all the way up to 2017– two years after Discord launched. Unlike Discord, AIM is a pr…

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· 2mo ago

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

Hackaday

Scanwheel: A Pocket-Sized POV TV

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

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hackaday @hackaday@hackaday.social

· 2mo ago

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

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CGI Motion Capture With Only A Camera

Computer-generated imagery (CGI) has largely replaced physical models in major film productions these days, but the transition didn’t exactly happen overnight. For a time there was an effort …

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· 3mo ago

Get a Handle on This Compact Pi Portable

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

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Get A Handle On This Compact Pi Portable

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

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· 3mo ago

Fixing a Dodgy Cheap Audio DAC

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

Hackaday

Fixing A Dodgy Cheap Audio DAC

One of the attractions of buying at the bottom end of the electronics market by mail order from China is that you never quite know what will come your way. Sometimes it’s a diamond in the rou…

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· 3mo ago

Die Casting Comes Home

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

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Die Casting Comes Home

You don’t normally think of die casting as something to do at home. Pressurized fluids demand respect at all times, which is perhaps in part why we see most projects skipping hydraulics for l…

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· 2mo ago

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

Hackaday

M.A.S.K.-Inspired Cyberdeck For All Your Portable Computing Needs

There are infinite varieties of cyberdeck you could make, each with their own inspirations. Today, [RadioactiveArtist] shows us a M.A.S.K. lunchbox cyberdeck faithful to the 80s show. To know why p…

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· 2mo ago

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

Hackaday

Mic Jammer Relies On Ultrasound

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

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hackaday @hackaday@hackaday.social

· 2mo ago

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

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Open Source Vacuum Avoids Cloud

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

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hackaday @hackaday@hackaday.social

· 2mo ago

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

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A Feature-Rich Drum Machine

A little over a month ago, we featured a project from [Igor] who built 64 bits of DRAM from scratch using discrete components. Jokes about memory pricing aside, he did have a use case for such a sm…

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· 2mo ago

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

Hackaday

Flex Filament Stuck To Your Build Platform? Reach For The Isopropanol

3D printing has been around long enough that everyone’s heard at least one weird trick regarding 3D prints. [Angus] of [Maker’s Muse] puts a few to the test, and came away with one soli…

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· 2mo ago

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

Hackaday

Using Solar Air Heating To Dry Clothes

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

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· 3mo ago

A Brief History of the Crazy Old 7-Segment Display

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

Hackaday

A Brief History Of The Crazy Old 7-Segment Display

How old is the seven-segment display? Surely it is a product of the 1970s. After all, calculators started showing up, and the height of junior high humor was plugging 7734 into your calculator and …

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· 2mo ago

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

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· 2mo ago

Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social

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

Hackaday

FreeBSD Just Removed The Last Of Its GPL-Licensed Code

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

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· 2mo ago

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

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

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

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· 2mo ago

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

Hackaday

New Method Accelerates Color 3D Printing

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

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· 2mo ago

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

Hackaday

QT6 Brings BASIC To The Web Browser, Or Your Computer

In the old days, you either swore by BASIC or you swore at it — but just about everybody got their start on the educational language. Nowadays, the kids are learning Python, but there’s…

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· 2mo ago

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

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GOES-19 Goes Down, NOAA Investigating

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

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hackaday @hackaday@hackaday.social

· 2mo ago

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

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

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

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· 2mo ago

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

Hackaday

Open-Source Mid-Drive E-Bike Motor Has Lots Of Promise, And Hyphens

[Pedro Neves] has a mid-drive e-bike, but he doesn’t own it — not truly, since he can’t repair the motor unit. For a hacker to be in that position, there are only two options: cra…

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· 2mo ago

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

Hackaday

Team Repair Breaks Things To Teach People How To Fix Them

Would you buy a broken device, fix it, then return the repaired item? [Team Repair] hopes you will. Many people would rather repair what they have than have to get a new device and deal with all th…

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· 2mo ago

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

Hackaday

Cross-Sectioning Crickets With A Femtosecond Laser

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

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