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Hackadayby Bryan Cockfield27 Aug 2026
The Honda Goldwing is one of the more famous motorcycles ever produced. It’s known for its reliability and comfort, but also for being one of the first motorcycles Honda rolls out new technology...
Hackadayby Maya Posch27 Aug 2026
Over the centuries there have been an incredible number of purported medical devices released onto the market, with some having more outrageous claims than others.
Hackadayby Zoe Skyforest27 Aug 2026
The phones! They were one of the basic utilities of the 20th century, and were just about as reliable as death and taxes.
Hackadayby Tyler August27 Aug 2026
For users of a certain age, fractal patterns and computers are nearly synonymous. Typing in BASIC programs and seeing the Mandelbrot set or other fractals slowly render on screen is a key memory...
Hackadayby Tyler August27 Aug 2026
All but a few of our very youngest readers are surely familiar with music formats that rely on optical disks.
Hackadayby Zoe Skyforest26 Aug 2026
Printed circuit boards were developed first for function over form. They were a way to mount components and connect them in a stable, robust fashion, while taking into regard things like packaging...
Hackadayby Donald Papp26 Aug 2026
[Matt Lenhard] has an interesting writeup explaining exactly how fraudsters offer access to cutting-edge AI models at a tenth of the price.
Hackadayby Tyler August25 Aug 2026
Fluid simulations are one of the “killer apps” of high-performance computing, but if you can’t afford the performance, they can take a depressingly long time to run.
Hackadayby Jenny List25 Aug 2026
One of the stories of the last few weeks has been that AI companies have been scanning books in very large numbers in order to train their models with content guaranteed to have been written before...
Hackadayby Maya Posch25 Aug 2026
When I got back into SLA resin printing recently, I knew that I’d inevitably have to deal with the agony of failed prints and of course resin spills.
Hackadayby Donald Papp25 Aug 2026
Printed footwear is an intriguing idea, but as far as projects go it is somewhat more complex than it first appears.
Hackadayby Maya Posch25 Aug 2026
Hypoesthesia, more commonly referred to as numbness, is one of the more distressing ailments that can affect us humans, primarily because it reminds us of just how much we rely on our sensation of...
Hackadayby Zoe Skyforest24 Aug 2026
If you’re blessed enough that you haven’t had blood drawn in a while, you might not have thought much about the process.
Hackadayby Al Williams24 Aug 2026
Last time we found out the idea of space stations is surprisingly old. By the 1950s, everyone knew we’d be working in beautiful space stations that rotated like a wheel to give us the illusion of...
Hackadayby Maya Posch24 Aug 2026
Sapphires and rubies aren’t just pretty, they also got a range of practical uses. This makes it even more useful to be able to make them at home for obviously completely innocent experiments.
Hackadayby Tom Nardi23 Aug 2026
We’ll start this week off with some disappointing, though not entirely unexpected, news — the ambitious commercial mission to save NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is officially a bust.
Hackadayby Aaron Beckendorf23 Aug 2026
Impressive as it most certainly is when an amateur fabricates a semiconductor, most of the projects we’ve seen are more demonstrations than workable chips. [Dr.
Hackadayby Tyler August23 Aug 2026
There’s no actual data, but if we had to guess the least-favourite Disney movie of former Amiga owners would have to be Frozen, because none of them will ever be able to “Let it Go”.
Hackadayby Aaron Beckendorf22 Aug 2026
Drone control links are, from a radio signals perspective, nothing short of amazing: using a transmitter capable of transmitting, at most, one watt, a protocol such as ExpressLRS (ELRS) can control...
Hackadayby Elliot Williams22 Aug 2026
On Hackaday last week, and on the podcast, we were talking about one of the educational toys of yesteryear that launched a thousand careers, at least if the comment section is to be believed: the...
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