2026 Frikkin Lasers Contest: Steampunk, 360 O-Scope Does it with Tubes
Audiophiles all know everything sounds better fed through vacuum tubes, but did you know visualizers look better with them, too? That’s what we’re f…
FLOSS Weekly Episode 871: Rust Won’t Save You
This week Jonathan chats with Florian Gilcher about Rust and Ferrous Systems! How have we gotten here, what’s coming next, and what’s new in the Rus…
Skip the Embedded Filesystem with the TAR-like UTFS Format
If you need to store some data on a resource-constrained embedded platform, the prospect of dragging in a dependency for something like FAT filesystem access to…
Ask Hackaday: What Ever Happened to the Hero Nerd?
Knowing absolutely nothing about you other than the fact that you’re currently reading Hackaday, I can predict with a high degree of certainty that weR…
An Orbital StormWall Could Mitigate The Next Carrington Event
The Carrington Event was the most intense geomagnetic storm ever recorded. In September 1859, auroras were visible as close to the equator as Columbia and some …
Building an Organic Flow Battery Based on Green Tea
As simple of a concept flow batteries are, the used chemicals can still be somewhat problematic in the context of a school experiment. To this end [Markus Bindh…
Security Camera Gets Several Defensive Upgrades
Ever since the early web, people have been streaming video with inexpensive webcams, and since the advent of the Raspberry Pi and its dedicated camera slot we&#…
The Problem of Making a Good Metal-To-Glass Seal
If you’ve ever taken a close look at a vacuum tube, you’ll have seen the seals around the pins that keep everything air-tight while providing the th…
Smart Bulb WiFi Server Hosts “Banned” Literature
Let’s stop for a moment and pause to consider the smart bulb. Imagine going back 20 years and telling yourself that people will be putting computers capab…
How Did They Make View-Master Slides?
The basics of producing a stereophotograph of real life places were well-established by the time the View-Master arrived, but producing images of imaginary scen…