Hackaday Links: September 6, 2026
Hackadayby Tom Nardi6 Sept 2026
Yesterday, Isar Aerospace secured its place in the history books when the upper stage of their Spectrum rocket put a payload of CubeSats into low Earth orbit (LEO).
Hackaday
hackaday.comadded August 2026
top 36%This Clavichord Is A Well-Tempered Project
Hackadayby Tyler August6 Sept 2026
The Clavichord needs no introduction to fans of Early Music, and a lengthy one to literally everyone else.
Printing Micron-Scale Benchies With Resin And Turmeric
Hackadayby Aaron Beckendorf6 Sept 2026
Resin 3D printing has opened up a whole new scale of resolution for hackers, but the technology can go still finer; commercial micro-SLA and two-photon polymerization printers can print items with...
WordStar Lives Again (and Again)
Hackadayby Al Williams6 Sept 2026
Word processors and editors are a funny thing. It doesn’t really matter what’s “best,” whatever that means. If you have finger memory built up for one program, it’s painful to change.
If At First You Don’t Succeed…
Hackadayby Elliot Williams5 Sept 2026
… at least document what failed and give the failure analysis a good effort. And then later on, you can “try, try again” or let someone else carry on with the work; they’ll have a good basis to...
COSMAC Elf Turns 50
Hackadayby Al Williams5 Sept 2026
If you were interested in computers in the early 1970s, you struggled to get time on real computers since owning your own was all but impossible.
Parchment Paper Paired With 3D-Printed Grid Gives A Nice Glow
Hackadayby Donald Papp5 Sept 2026
This custom enclosure for a 64×64 RGB LED matrix by [Davisan1001] not only provides a mount point for a Raspberry Pi, but presents a clean and smooth face with square pixels thanks to a 3D-printed...
Fixing An Expensive Seagate LaCie Hard Drive Array
Hackadayby Maya Posch4 Sept 2026
After the [Slow Mo Guys] acquired a 168 TB Seagate LaCie Thunderbolt 3-based RAID storage system back in 2019 to store their video footage, they were obviously slightly miffed when suddenly it...
3D Printed Cubes Provide Passive Cooling
Hackadayby Donald Papp4 Sept 2026
Passive evaporative cooling has been used for centuries to reduce temperatures. Heat is drawn off as water evaporates, which in turn reduces temperature.
This Week In Security: Baked-in Malware, Freezers Not Freezing, Zoom Snoops Clipboards, And AI Makes Things Worse, Faster
Hackadayby Mike Kershaw4 Sept 2026
The AI platform ServiceNow which offers both hosted and on-premises versions just patched a trifecta of CVSS-10 vulnerabilities.
Tube Launch Boosts Rocket’s Performance
Hackadayby Aaron Beckendorf4 Sept 2026
If you want improve a model rocket’s performance, all the common options come with serious trade-offs: you could increase the motor’s size, which raises safety issues, or you could cut down on...
How To Avoid Getting Arc Flashed
Hackadayby Maya Posch3 Sept 2026
After getting called out in the field to troubleshoot a large PV solar installation, [Derek] found himself suddenly in the midst of an arc flash, causing burns all over his face and arms.
Hackaday Europe 2026: Fluid Kernels And Optimizing C++ For MCUs
Hackadayby Zoe Skyforest3 Sept 2026
Oftentimes, when we’re using a microcontroller, we’re whipping up some very specific code focused on executing a particular task.
From A Ten-Line Script To A Real Utility With Codex
Hackadayby Al Williams3 Sept 2026
I’m an experienced programmer, and I’ve worked in many different languages. Sometimes being a programmer is a two-edged sword.
Miniaturized, Working Replica Of Vintage Leslie Speaker
Hackadayby Bryan Cockfield3 Sept 2026
Few pieces of vintage audio gear from the turn of the century (the previous one) inspire the kind of devotion that a Leslie speaker does.
Switch Mod Fixes Fiddly Car Door Projector
Hackadayby Tom Nardi3 Sept 2026
While the Citroën logo they project onto the pavement looks great, [OrangeTungsten] wasn’t thrilled with how their door-mounted projectors actually functioned.
Has FDM 3D Printing Hit Its Peak?
Hackadayby Jenny List3 Sept 2026
Over the time Hackaday has been in existence, the art of 3D printing has evolved from a relatively crude hit-and-miss affair to something approaching what we all imagined back then.
Harvesting Namib Desert Fog With High Voltage
Hackadayby Maya Posch2 Sept 2026
As fun as mucking about with simulated environments in a laboratory is, at some point you have to do those field tests to demonstrate that your prototype actually works in the real world, under...
“I’m Not Dead Yet!” Reverse Polish Notation Calculators You Can Still Buy
Hackadayby Al Williams2 Sept 2026
If you used a scientific calculator in the 1970s or 1980s, there was a fair chance that it worked differently from almost every calculator you see today.
A Defrag Simulator In Your Browser
Hackadayby Zoe Skyforest2 Sept 2026
Disk Defragmenter was a wonderful utility that Microsoft included with Windows back in the day. Back then, you’d use it to theoretically speed up disk access.