Custom AMOLED Wearable Makes Great Icebreaker
Hackadayby Donald Papp·10 Sept 2026
Nifty little AMOLED screens are easy to get nowadays, and [Sophie D] demonstrates they are both thin and light enough to be worn with OpenChoker, a design for a choker necklace that was a hit at...
Tech In Plain Sight: Meet The Robot That Does CPR
Hackadayby Al Williams·10 Sept 2026
Usually in Tech In Plain Sight, we talk about technology you probably see every day, even if you don’t notice it.
Local LLMs Can Work Better Than Claude, At Least For Some
Hackadayby Tyler August·9 Sept 2026
This is going to be a very personal question, because when you’re talking cloud vs local anything, it comes down to this: how much are you willing to pay for independence?
Hunting The Wild Vibrotruck
Hackadayby Elliot Williams·9 Sept 2026
A few weeks ago, my wife was out walking the dog, and she sent me four or five photos of small orange boxes planted all around our neighborhood. (OK, I’ll bite!)
Decoding The NEC V20 Microcode ROM
Hackadayby Maya Posch·9 Sept 2026
The NEC V20 is an Intel 8088-compatible processor that features the same use of microcode, though with its own characteristics.
Anti-Doomscroll Tamagotchi Only Lives If You Do
Hackadayby Tyler August·8 Sept 2026
The odds are, you have a device deliberately designed to be addictive in your pocket or on the table next to you if you aren’t staring at it right now– your smartphone.
Are Desktop PC-ABS Prints Outperformed By Industrial FDM? Not Really
Hackadayby Donald Papp·8 Sept 2026
[Igor] of [My Tech Fun] set out to discover what differences, if any, can be found between parts printed in PC-ABS filament on an industrial 3D printer, and those from prosumer-grade machines and...
Hackaday Europe 2026: Outdoors With Robots
Hackadayby Elliot Williams·8 Sept 2026
Erin Kennedy has been building robots for over a decade now, with a focus on smaller bots that interact with, or maybe even clean up, the outdoor environment.
The Helicopter With Radioactive Blades
Hackadayby Adam Fabio·7 Sept 2026
Sometimes you find gold in unexpected places. In this case, it’s from a video about the CH-53 helicopter. The CH-53 Sea Stallion first entered service in 1966.
NES Radar Tracks Flights At 9600 Baud
Hackadayby Tyler August·7 Sept 2026
Air traffic visualizers seem to be having a bit of a moment right now, and now that moment has come to the venerable NES thanks to [k6lcm]’s NES Radar project, which is open-source under the GPL on...
Hackaday Links: September 6, 2026
Hackadayby Tom Nardi·6 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).
This Clavichord Is A Well-Tempered Project
Hackadayby Tyler August·6 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 Beckendorf·6 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 Williams·6 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 Williams·5 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 Williams·5 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 Papp·5 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 Posch·4 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 Papp·4 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 Kershaw·4 Sept 2026
The AI platform ServiceNow which offers both hosted and on-premises versions just patched a trifecta of CVSS-10 vulnerabilities.
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