After Decades, NASA May Finally Replace Mars Relays
Hackadayby Tom Nardi17d ago
We’ve yet to find any definitive evidence that there’s biological life on present-day Mars, but to say it’s a dead planet isn’t exactly accurate.
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top 38%Reconstructing Device Firmware From SPI Reads
Hackadayby Tom Nardi18d ago
If you wanted to extract the firmware from a mystery device, you might pull the flash chip out of it and toss it into a reader.
A Mini’s Infotainment System And The Joys Of Aftermarket Car Parts
Hackadayby Maya Posch18d ago
Although [Arkandas] disclaims any interest in being a ‘car guy’, this is somewhat ironic in light of the sheer amount of modding he has performed on a range of cars over the years, a recent...
2026 Hackaday Supercon: Announcing Our First Round Of Speakers
Hackadayby Elliot Williams18d ago
Supercon is the Ultimate Hardware Conference™ and you need to be there November 6-8 in Pasadena, California!
How Pixar Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love Linux
Hackadayby Tyler August19d ago
If you weren’t already aware, it will probably come as no surprise to hear that the pioneering computer-animation studio Pixar built its early workflow on Silicon Graphics SGI workstations.
Dumpster-dived Window A/C Becomes Ground-Source Heat Pump
Hackadayby Tyler August19d ago
Heat pumps are great, because they pump heat around, and we often don’t want heat where it is. Need it somewhere else? Pump it! It’s great.
Raspberry Pi RAM Restrictions No Big Deal, Frankly
Hackadayby Arya Voronova19d ago
Hacking on Raspberry Pi board internals is one of my favourite topics. I know a bunch of obscure things about these cute little boards.
The First Floating Nuclear Power Station
Hackadayby Zoe Skyforest20d ago
Nuclear power really hit its stride in the 1950s. In the post-war period, there was a rush to develop peaceful uses for splitting the atom, beyond its application as a weapon of war.
DIY Router On X86 E-Waste: OpenWrt And OPNsense
Hackadayby Maya Posch20d ago
In previous installments of this series we looked at how creating a DIY router using an e-waste-level PC has changed over the years, before attempting to boot OpenWrt for x86 on it.
Hackaday Links: September 20, 2026
Hackadayby Tom Nardi21d ago
Some sad news to start this week off — after 52 years in business, Sherline has announced they are winding down their manufacturing operations.
Reviving TEMPEST Attacks With An Injected Signal
Hackadayby Aaron Beckendorf21d ago
TEMPEST attacks are often the most effective way to break air-gapped security: rather than directly accessing a computer, the attacker records the system’s unintended radio emissions and uses them...
Ski Lift Removes Mice From Chicken Coop
Hackadayby Bryan Cockfield21d ago
Getting rid of rodents like squirrels, mice, or groundhogs is a lot like digging a hole on the beach. No matter how much you remove, it’ll always fill back in.
World War I Coded Message Appears Cracked, Finally
Hackadayby Al Williams21d ago
When you think of wartime cryptography, you probably think of World War II and Enigma, although there were other famous codes used during that war.
No GPU, No Problem: Flagship LLMs On A GPU-less Teenaged Server
Hackadayby Tyler August22d ago
There are lots of reasons to run LLMs locally, from privacy concerns to just wanting to futz about with the technology, but if you want to run the big models, the standard logic is that you need...
Teardown And Repair Of A Insoma Water Timer
Hackadayby Maya Posch22d ago
Water timers are nifty devices that can water the lawn at set times or keep that vegetable garden from turning into a dustbowl.
Coreboot Hikes The Bay Trail To DRAM Initialization
Hackadayby Tyler August22d ago
This article is written on an open-source operating system, but not an open-source machine — the BIOS isn’t open-source, and even if it were supported by the coreboot project (formerly LinuxBIOS)...
Teaching A Robot Hand To Walk
Hackadayby Aaron Beckendorf22d ago
Although it wasn’t apparently designed with this in mind, it seems particularly fortuitous that this walking robotic hand was released in time for Halloween.
What Are Your Indispensable Software Skills?
Hackadayby Elliot Williams22d ago
Using tools properly takes skill, and this goes for software tools as well as hardware. You don’t just buy a paintbrush and on day one paint the Mona Lisa.
Emulating Memory Access: How Hard Can It Be?
Hackadayby Al Williams23d ago
There are so many things we approximate to make life simple. Wires, for example, have no resistance or other strange effects. Crystal oscillators output their exact frequency.
Sony’s First Computer
Hackadayby Al Williams23d ago
In 1982, desktop computers were coming into their own, and no clear leaders had emerged. But everyone knew they wanted a piece of the action.