Assembling And Testing A DIY Jet Turbine
Hackadayby Maya Posch11d 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.
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top 3%Roman Telescope Saves Fuel, Doubles Mission
Hackadayby Zoe Skyforest11d 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.
No More Windows For The Dutch Government, Ze Kiezen Nu Linux
Hackadayby Jenny List12d 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.
Improved Double-Sided Toner Transfer Method
Hackadayby Bryan Cockfield12d 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...
Geothermal Cooling For New York’s Subways
Hackadayby Zoe Skyforest12d 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.
Pitting A CFD-Optimized Toroidal Propeller Against A Conventional One
Hackadayby Maya Posch13d 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...
This PICO-8 Handheld Is No Fantasy
Hackadayby Tyler August13d 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.
Synthetic Aperture Radar Drone Gets Interferometric Imaging
Hackadayby Aaron Beckendorf13d 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.
Places To Visit: Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord
Hackadayby Jenny List13d ago
There are many benefits to spending time in the park, but perhaps few of them have a Hackaday angle.
The FPGA Chronicles: Exploring The Tang Nano 20K
Hackadayby Al Williams13d 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.
Hackaday Links: September 27, 2026
Hackadayby Al Williams14d ago
It isn’t quite hailing frequencies open, but researchers from Harvard claim they’ve picked up a radio signal directly from a nearby exoplanet.
Center-Pivot System Modified To Mow Lawn
Hackadayby Bryan Cockfield14d ago
When flying over the United States, Australia, and a few other vast and relatively empty parts of the world, strange circular formations can be spotted.
Going On A Tangent With The Intel 8087’s Hybrid CORDIC Algorithm
Hackadayby Maya Posch14d ago
Continuing their reverse-engineering of Intel’s 8087 FPU, [Ken Shirriff] and friends took a look at one of the trigonometric functions, specifically FPTAN.
Ways To Empirically Identify A Magnet’s Polarity
Hackadayby Donald Papp14d ago
Every magnet has a north and a south pole, but which is which? Sometimes it matters. If a product one builds features a magnetic closure or other part, the polarity of those magnets should be...
The Least Annoying Of All Evils
Hackadayby Elliot Williams15d ago
If you missed the hubbub this week, it was discovered that the Raspberry Pi Foundation added code in the firmware that locks the boot process up if non-original RAM chips are detected onboard.
Abusing SQL To Play DOOM
Hackadayby Bryan Cockfield16d ago
Most laypeople who encounter SQL think of it purely as a tool for managing large datasets. While that is certainly what it was designed for, SQL is still a programming language at its core.
The Low-Level Waste Dumps In The Atlantic Have Become Ecosystems
Hackadayby Maya Posch16d ago
Recently French and international researchers took a look at the state of the thousands of barrels of radioactive waste that were dumped into the Atlantic Ocean between 1950 and 1990, trying to...
Reviving The PoE++ Feature On A Ubiquiti Switch
Hackadayby Maya Posch16d ago
Recently [The Parallel Port] was asked to take a look at repairing the PoE++ feature on a Ubiquiti switch that otherwise worked fine.
This Week In Security: FBI Gets Hacked, Muse Vulnerable To ClickFix, Popular Rust Developers At Risk, Attacking The RP2350, And New Attacks Against RSA
Hackadayby Mike Kershaw16d ago
The prolific ShinyHunters group has announced it used a zero-day vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft to exploit the FBI jobs website and gain access to the AWS GovCloud instances and dump 2 TB of...
UDP Broadcasting And The Brave New World Of IPv6
Hackadayby Maya Posch17d ago
After recently working our way through UDP broadcasting and network subnetting all in the comfort zone of IPv4, it’s time to address the elephant in the room, the one wearing a bright neon ‘IPv6’...