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An Open Heart Rate Monitor
We’re pleased to see [Milos Rasic]’s project then, an open-source version of one of those monitors. The heart rate…
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Writing an ESP32 Bluetooth Printer Driver In Two Acts
Writing An ESP32 Bluetooth Printer Driver In Two Acts No comments by: Tom Nardi September 14, 2026 Title: Copy Short…
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How High-Voltage Current Transformers Monitor the Grid
How High-Voltage Current Transformers Monitor The Grid No comments by: Maya Posch September 14, 2026 Title: Copy Short…
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A UPS For Your Pi That’s a Little Different
A UPS For Your Pi That’s A Little Different No comments by: Jenny List September 14, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy…
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Pulse: a New VHDL Simulator
Pulse is a new open-source VHDL simulator written in C++ that offers a complete toolchain including a compiler and…
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Hackaday Europe 2026: Space Oddities
Hackaday Europe 2026: Space Oddities No comments by: Zoe Skyforest September 14, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy If…
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Fly Brain Connectome Used to Trade Stocks and Play Games
Here the sexually dimorphic changes turned out to induce specific mating behavior that ensures that there will only be…
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Rosy Retrocomputing
Rosy Retrocomputing No comments by: Al Williams September 14, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Most of us are guilty…
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It’s The Speech Synthesiser You Wanted, For The Computer You Had
Michael Wessel has developed a drop-in DECtalk emulator card specifically designed for the Apple ][ computer. The…
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CircuitPython Goes Turbo With Precompiled Functions
CircuitPython has introduced a new Turbo feature that allows developers to precompile critical sections of code for…
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Dramatically Increasing Usable Closet Space
Dramatically Increasing Usable Closet Space No comments by: Bryan Cockfield September 13, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link:…
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Re-creating NASA’s Heat Shield Problem
Following the discovery of significant damage to the Orion capsule's heat shield during the Artemis I mission, a…
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Hackaday Links: September 13, 2026
Hackaday Links: September 13, 2026 No comments by: Tom Nardi September 13, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy We try to…
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Rusting an E-scooter (In a Good Way)
Rusting An E-scooter (In A Good Way) No comments by: Al Williams September 13, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy It is…
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A 386 PC For Your RP2350
A project we’ve been watching for a while is tiny386, an emulator for ESP32 boards that provides a 386 PC with just…
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Analyzing the FScale Instruction in Intel’s 8087 FPU
One of these, the FSCALE instruction turned out to be far more complicated than assumed, with one might assume to be a…
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Keeping Time on Tumbling Icosahedra
Each 3D-printed icosahedron has numerals sunk through each of its twelve sides, and is raised above the base of the…
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Whip-Cracking Machine Reliably Breaks the Sound Barrier
Reliably getting a crack out of a whip takes skill and practice, though, which is why [Craig Turner] built a…
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Spin FV-1 Emulator Simplifies Sound Pedal Development
A developer has created a PC-based emulator for the Spin Semiconductors FP-1 digital signal processor to streamline…
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2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: 16-Bit Homebrew Relay Computer
2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: 16-Bit Homebrew Relay Computer No comments by: Tyler August September 12, 2026 Title:…
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Big Infinity Mirror Clock Invites You To Gaze Deeply
Big Infinity Mirror Clock Invites You To Gaze Deeply No comments by: Donald Papp September 12, 2026 Title: Copy Short…
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This Mac Is Open Source Hardware
A hobbyist has developed the OSHintosh, an open-source PCB that emulates the original Mac 512k. The device boots from…
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Supercon is Nigh!
No comments by: Elliot Williams September 12, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy The 2026 Hackaday Superconference is…
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The Heavy Disco-Ball Satellite Designed to Do… Nothing
The Heavy Disco-Ball Satellite Designed To Do… Nothing No comments by: Donald Papp September 12, 2026 Title: Copy…
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Looking at a TRS-80 12 MB External Hard Drive from 1983
A 1983 TRS-80 12 MB external hard drive, originally priced at $3,495, was recently examined by YouTuber Clint from…
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All The Best Computers Boot To… Python?
No comments by: Jenny List September 11, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Among all the machines of the 8-bit home…
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How To Fold Curved Lines in Metal Without Fancy Tools
A maker demonstrates a technique for folding curved lines in aluminum sheet metal using only hand tools and patience.…
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Trying to Fix a Suspiciously Cheap Enterprise-Grade Network Switch
A hobbyist purchased a heavily discounted Juniper EX4100-F-12P enterprise network switch, hoping to repair it for a…
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Making a Neo Nuvistor Project in 2026
Eric Schlaepfer recently constructed a discrete 555-style timer using tetrode nuvistors to demonstrate the practical…
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Hackaday Podcast Episode 386: Doomscroll Tamagotchis, Clavichords, and Vibrotrucks
German company Isar Aerospace can now claim that they’ve launched the first spacecraft into orbit from Europe. Be sure…
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Hand-Coded ASM Powers Homebrew SNES Game
Hand-Coded ASM Powers Homebrew SNES Game No comments by: Tyler August September 11, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy…
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This Machine Makes 35mm (Almost) Film
This Machine Makes 35mm (Almost) Film No comments by: Jenny List September 11, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy The…
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This Week in Security: It’s Patch Tuesday Again, TVs Spying, Supply Chain Worms Return, Prolonged Hack Impacts, Stolen IDs
The August 2026 patch set actually seemed to catch up. Was this a sign of the bug apocalypse lessening? Brian Krebs at…
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Purely Random TV In Your Browser
Purely Random TV In Your Browser 2 Comments by: Zoe Skyforest September 11, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy One of…
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This Circuit Sculpture is an ESP32-Powered Console
This Circuit Sculpture Is An ESP32-Powered Console No comments by: Tyler August September 11, 2026 Title: Copy Short…
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Lara Croft on a Microcontroller
Lara Croft On A Microcontroller No comments by: Zoe Skyforest September 10, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Once…
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Have Scientists Stuck the Landing on the Glueball Discovery?
Have Scientists Stuck The Landing On The Glueball Discovery? 5 Comments by: Tyler August August 12, 2026 Title: Copy…
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The PiShot Is Ready For Your Snaps
The PiShot Is Ready For Your Snaps No comments by: Jenny List August 10, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy The formula…
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Cotton-Fiberglass Composite Makes Lightweight RV Countertops
The technique is very similar to the sort of moldless composite work Burt Rutan pioneered in aircraft use. The…
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Building a bicycle dropper seat post
Building A Bicycle Dropper Seat Post No comments by: Fenix Guthrie August 10, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy A…
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Teardown of an Oxford Nanopore MinION DNA Sequencer
The Oxford Nanopore MinION DNA Sequencer is a portable device that has made DNA sequencing more accessible and…
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Linux Fu: Heads or Tails for VPN
Linux Fu: Heads Or Tails For VPN No comments by: Al Williams August 10, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy If you’ve…
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Functional Jumping Pokéball from an Ancient Pokémon World
A functional jumping Pokéball has been created by Kiara, inspired by an ancient Pokémon world. The ball features smoke…
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The Physics of Keeping Thermal Power Stations Cool
Obviously this is a problem, but it helps to understand how we got to this point and what can be done to fix it.…
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Triggering Lightning with a Rocket
Triggering Lightning With A Rocket No comments by: Aaron Beckendorf August 10, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy…
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Even on the Red Planet, Hexagons are the Bestagons
Don’t take it up with us– start an argument with the God of War, because its his planet that’s showing off six sided…
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Creating a Supersonic Trebuchet
Modern engineers have modified the medieval trebuchet to achieve supersonic projectile speeds. By winding the…
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Retrotechtacular: A View of the Moon from 1964
The article reflects on public excitement for the 1960s lunar race, highlighting the Ranger program’s early challenges…
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Hackaday Links: August 9, 2026
Their industry sources indicate that what we’re experiencing currently is just a prelude to when things get really…
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The Stages of Grief in Repairing a Trinitron Found in the Trash
The Stages Of Grief In Repairing A Trinitron Found In The Trash No comments by: Maya Posch August 9, 2026 Title: Copy…
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