Reactive Heat And Wind Come To VR, Thanks To Smart Plugs
Hackadayby Donald Papp1 Sept 2026
Want to feel the heat of nearby fire, explosions, or radiation? Or even just the gentle warmth and breeze of a sunny day in the wasteland?
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top 19%Hackaday Europe 2026: Playstation 4 To Psychometer
Hackadayby Zoe Skyforest1 Sept 2026
There are many ways to detect stress in an individual. You can use self-reporting checklists, you could try and measure various vital signs like respiratory rate and pulse and infer things, or you...
PETG: The PLA Filament Alternative That Just Works
Hackadayby Maya Posch1 Sept 2026
A typical response to the previous article on why PLA filament is so darn brittle. This has led some people to not use PLA filament at all, while others promote using PLA only for prototyping and...
Crowdsourcing An Investigation Into Coil Whine
Hackadayby Zoe Skyforest1 Sept 2026
If you’ve heard the high-pitched whine or buzz from an electronic device when a current-carrying inductor is vibrating, you’ll know how unpleasant it can be.
Sliding Into Perfection: The Open Task Light
Hackadayby Matt Varian1 Sept 2026
A few years ago Dyson released a desk lamp that could slide up and down, in and out, balancing itself at every position. [Steven Bennett] saw that lamp and wanted to make his own.
Tricking An Air Conditioner Into Cooling
Hackadayby Bryan Cockfield1 Sept 2026
Modern heat pumps, of which air conditioners are a subset, seem like simple machines in theory. They just move heat from one place to another.
Fixing An Expensive Amprobe Cable Tracer With Mystery Fault
Hackadayby Maya Posch31 Aug 2026
Perhaps the most annoying kinds of faults are those that involve expensive equipment that just sit around in a cupboard, only for them to just stop working at all.
Defeating Bacteria In Hot Water Systems With A Heat Exchanger
Hackadayby Zoe Skyforest31 Aug 2026
The average hot water is a relatively simple appliance to understand. It uses gas or electricity to dump energy into water in the form of heat, keeping it at a pleasant temperature for uses like...
What’s Mu Metal?
Hackadayby Al Williams31 Aug 2026
If you tear into old TVs or recording equipment, you may see shields made from some exotic-looking metal.
Get Your Monitor Transmitting VHF With A Browser Tool
Hackadayby Zoe Skyforest31 Aug 2026
If you’re intending to transmit on the VHF band, you’re probably going to reach for a handheld or some kind of rackmount rig in your ham shack.
Hackaday Links: August 30, 2026
Hackadayby Tom Nardi30 Aug 2026
The big news today is, of course, the successful launch and deployment of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope earlier this morning.
LLM Moats Quickly Evaporating
Hackadayby Bryan Cockfield30 Aug 2026
In the business world, a moat is a quality of a business that makes it difficult for competitors to take that company’s profits.
Woodstove Assistant Keeps The Heat On Safely
Hackadayby Bryan Cockfield30 Aug 2026
Those who have never lived in a cold climate might romanticize winters around a fire, keeping warm under blankets while snow gently falls outside.
Fat Tire Brakes Get Wireless Upgrade
Hackadayby Bryan Cockfield30 Aug 2026
At first glance, wireless brakes seem like a recipe for disaster. For something as critical as braking, many bicyclists might prefer a physical connection to their method of safely controlling...
Motorized Planer Height Adjustment Dials In
Hackadayby Bryan Cockfield29 Aug 2026
Having access to a planer opens up a lot of options for woodworking. It enables a craftsman to work with much rougher lumber and the finished results generally have tighter tolerances.
Same As It Ever Was
Hackadayby Elliot Williams29 Aug 2026
Whether you like it or not, the use of LLMs to write code is kind of a big deal at the moment. We’ve been asking ourselves what, if anything, this means for us here at Hackaday.
3D Printed Piano Action Faithful To The Original
Hackadayby Bryan Cockfield29 Aug 2026
A piano’s internal mechanism for translating a key press into sound is surprisingly complicated. It has to do a lot of things simultaneously and quickly: provide precise control over velocity...
Playing Snake With A Pneumatic Display
Hackadayby Aaron Beckendorf29 Aug 2026
[soiboi soft]’s vacuum-driven dot matrix display is part suction gripper, part touchscreen, and altogether impressive.
This Week In Security: Android Malware, VOIP Hijack, Signal Contact Discovery, And TeamPCP Arrests
Hackadayby Mike Kershaw28 Aug 2026
On GitHub, [AyaanB] details buying a cheap Android TV streaming device, looking for, and finding, baked-in malware.
Support Bath Enables An Epoxy Benchy
Hackadayby Aaron Beckendorf28 Aug 2026
There’s plenty of substances that can theoretically be extruded from a nozzle, but only a regrettably small subset of them can actually be used for 3D printing.