hackaday.comadded August 2026
Hackadayby Tyler August4d ago
[Nick Bild] evidently has a soft spot for the 6502, given that his Vectron65 Plus home computer project uses at least one of them, depending on the add-ons.
Hackadayby Donald Papp5d ago
[Mini Shaji Thomas] has a deeply interesting article on IEEE Spectrum detailing how the power distribution system for a city of over twenty million people went from failing to first-class.
Hackadayby Tyler August5d ago
A lot of the retrocomputing world is focused on the 1980s, and for good reason– the home computer revolution was in full swing in that decade, and there is a veritable Cambrian Explosion of capable...
Hackadayby Maya Posch6d ago
Generally making stuff stick to something like a ceiling requires resorting to suction cups, glue or something much more permanent, but [Steve Mould] starts his video featuring a playing card that...
Hackadayby Mike Kershaw6d ago
404 Media reports that the ShinyHunters group who stole multiple terabytes of FBI employee data say they do not plan to release the data.
Hackadayby Maya Posch6d ago
The past years we have been seeing screens pop up in many new places, but seeing them in USB-C cables is still a bit of a novel thing.
Hackadayby Tom Nardi6d ago
Unless it’s automated or using some other form of high-tech trickery, a vegetable garden isn’t exactly the sort of thing you’d expect to see on Hackaday.
Hackadayby Maya Posch7d ago
After previously exploring the impact of vapor pressure on the drying of desiccant and more, the conclusion was essentially that in order to drive moisture that’s not directly on a material’s...
Hackadayby Tyler August7d ago
Optical media may be dead for video games on the big corporate consoles, but not in [Emmet]’s heart– or on his DIY game console, that he built specifically to use optical media.
Hackadayby Tyler August7d ago
If you’re reading Hackaday there’s pretty good odds you’re at least somewhat fond of Star Trek. We’d bet good money most of you would quit your jobs today if a Starfleet recruiter showed up.
Hackadayby Maya Posch8d ago
After many months of painstaking work, [AlfMart CNC Garage] over at YouTube has finally reached the stage where he can fully assemble his DIY jet turbine and commence testing.
Hackadayby Zoe Skyforest8d ago
Contemplate the events that might end a space mission, and you might picture something dramatic: detonation on the pad, a dead guidance system, or micrometeoroids shattering delicate solar panels.
Hackadayby Jenny List8d ago
The events of the last few years have caused many in Europe to re-evaluate their reliance on large offshore technology companies, with a corresponding move to home-grown EU-based alternatives.
Hackadayby Bryan Cockfield9d ago
In the era before PCB shops would make almost any PCB imaginable, as well making many other manufacturing processes for prototypes available to hobbyists, there were several ways of making PCBs at...
Hackadayby Zoe Skyforest9d ago
You might think that if you dug some tunnels down into the ground where you could be out of the sunshine, that you might find them to be relatively cool and comfortable inside.
Hackadayby Maya Posch9d ago
Although we often think that we got certain aspects of aerodynamics pretty much licked at this point, details like the optimal shape of a propeller remains hotly debated, both in- and outside of...
Hackadayby Tyler August9d ago
The PICO-8 is what is known as a ‘fantasy console’– you can program it, and there are oodles of games, but it’s not actually the 8-bit console it pretends to be.
Hackadayby Aaron Beckendorf9d ago
It’s been more than a year since [Henrik Forstén] built the first iteration of his synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) imaging drone, and he’s certainly been productive in the meantime.
Hackadayby Jenny List10d ago
There are many benefits to spending time in the park, but perhaps few of them have a Hackaday angle.
Hackadayby Al Williams10d ago
FPGAs used to be mysterious, expensive devices, but these days you can buy surprisingly capable boards for very little money. Some years ago, I did an FPGA Bootcamp over on Hackaday.io.
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