Ambition, Thy Name Is A 3D Printed Transonic R/C Jet
Hackadayby Tyler August6d ago
Building anything that flies from scratch is an ambitious undertaking, even if it’s ‘just’ radio-controlled.
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top 13%How To Grow A Giant Crystal From Copper Sulfate
Hackadayby Maya Posch6d ago
Copper sulfate crystals are probably among one of the prettiest crystals you can grow at home, with even just a simple setup with some copper scrap and vinegar already capable of producing lots of...
Failing To Make A Fanless PC
Hackadayby Fenix Guthrie6d ago
The discerning modern gamer’s quest is to find a quieter computer without sacrificing performance.
How A British Engineer Homebrewed The Quietest Carbine
Hackadayby Zoe Skyforest6d ago
Hollywood has a lot to answer for when it comes to “silencers” on firearms. On screen, a suppressed pistol makes a pinging thud, and the bad guy in the next room flops to the floor.
Building A Cheap, Dexterous Robot Hand
Hackadayby Aaron Beckendorf6d ago
Most of the time, assuming nothing’s gone wrong with them, we take our hands so much for granted that it’s easy to forget what remarkable pieces of engineering they are: not only are they precise...
The FPGA Chronicles: Open Source It
Hackadayby Al Williams6d ago
Last time, we looked at getting started with the GOWIN tools and a Tang Nano 20K FPGA. The software from GOWIN isn’t bad, but it isn’t open source, and there are a few oddities about it.
Conveyor Belt GBoard Brings The Keys To You
Hackadayby Tyler August7d ago
It must be April in October again, because Google Japan has a new, hilariously impractical reimagining of the keyboard: a conveyor belt.
Upgrading A Benchtop Laser For Megawatt Power
Hackadayby Aaron Beckendorf7d ago
One fascinating thing about a pulsed laser is that, though the average power may be measured in watts or milliwatts, the peak power can easily reach millions of times that.
Hackaday Links: October 3, 2026
Hackadayby Tom Nardi7d ago
If you’re interested in aerospace, there’s an excellent chance you’ve heard the rumor that NASA is trying to get its SR-71 flying again.
AI On Your Gaming PC
Hackadayby Al Williams7d ago
If you want to experiment with LLMs, you typically have a choice of sending your requests to someone else’s computer or fielding a very large GPU and CPU setup to run models locally.
2026 Retrocomputer Challenge: Vectron65 Plus Puts The Emphasis On Plus
Hackadayby Tyler August8d 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.
Fixing A Power Grid That Loses Over Half Its Power To Inefficiency And Theft
Hackadayby Donald Papp8d 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.
2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Lunar Lander On The PDP-1
Hackadayby Tyler August9d 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...
Using Vibration To Make Stuff Stick Contact-Free To Ceilings
Hackadayby Maya Posch9d 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...
This Week In Security: ShinyHunters Won’t Dox The FBI, Pentagon Data Stolen, And OBS Vulnerable
Hackadayby Mike Kershaw9d 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.
Teardown Of An USB-C Cable With Integrated LCD
Hackadayby Maya Posch9d 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.
Gardening With…OpenSCAD?
Hackadayby Tom Nardi10d 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.
Vacuum Drying And Making Stuff Hot In A Vacuum
Hackadayby Maya Posch10d 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...
DIY Game Console Does It With Optical Disks
Hackadayby Tyler August11d 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.
Open Source Tricorder Is In It For The Science
Hackadayby Tyler August11d 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.