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2026 Frikkin Lasers Contest: Glow Engine is like an Open Air Slow Scan CRT
Slow-scan CRTs were never exactly common compared to their faster cousins, but given the popularity of Slow Scan TV (SSTV) amongst hams and NASA broadcasts, man…
The Adder at the Heart of Intel’s 8087 FPU
As simple as the concept of adding two numbers appears at first glance, doing it in the 1970s in Intel’s 8087 FPU with its 69-bit adder was still a tall o…
A Brief History of Unix Commands On Windows: CoreUtils (Again)
If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most o…
Honda Civics and Installing Software With Android Test Keys
As more and more of the ‘smart’ infotainment systems in cars begin to age out of support, it becomes increasingly more relevant to figure out how to…
Bike-Powered Shredder Makes Short Work of 3D Printer Waste
[Brogan M Pratt] and his students do a lot of 3D printing, and as such found themselves producing a lot of plastic waste. Seeing an opportunity, they built a bi…
Learning About Ground Loop Isolators thanks to a Scam Product
When [Denki Otaku] bought a ¥1,200 (roughly €6.5) XLR ground loop isolator off Japanese Amazon, he initially didn’t suspect that anything was off. Since t…
This Alarm Clock Has The Capacity To Wake You
Every now and then a project comes into the Hackaday feed that has so many levels of wrong about it that you really shouldn’t do it at home, but is amusin…
Building a Ceiling-Based Crane Robot to Keep a Room Clean
One of the joys you get to experience whether as a proud parent or pet owner is that a lot of things get left around haphazardly. You could of course pick every…
Ergonomic Mouse Gives Each Fingertip Its Own Saddle
Want to make your own ergonomic mouse but don’t know where to start? Why not try [psudoku]’s Kotinos design? It’s a scaffold-like fingertip sh…
Custer’s Revenge: eVTOL Drone Brings Back Channel Wings
You have to be a pretty big aviation nerd to know about [Willard Ray Custer] and his channel wing concept, but if you are, you’ll be giddy to hear about t…
Downloadable Xbox Thumbstick Toppers Give Gamers Accessibility Options
Microsoft has a history of taking accessibility options seriously for gaming controllers, and that trend continues with downloadable thumbstick toppers for Xbox…
Picking a CRC
You send a file, but how do you know it arrived intact? In other words, how do you know that it didn’t get cut off, garbled, or changed somehow? Simplisti…
Wooden Piano Keys Hold Your Less-Wooden, Not-Piano Keys
There are many ways to deal with keys: a bowl next to the entryway, a junk drawer, or you can just leave them in your pockets and hope you remember to check on …
The Y2K Bug in BSD 2.11 that Survived 2000
A year before the arrival of the brand-new 21st millennium, the Year 2000 Bug was predicted to grind modern society to a halt and ensure that at the dawn of the…
IKEA Storage Box Just Happens To Make Great Printer Cover
The Snapmaker U1 3D printer is an impressive machine for the price, but [Beaver Works] found the optional factory-offered top cover a wee bit expensive for his …
Building Your Own X-Ray Detector Screen
Fluoroscopy is probably the best-known method of X-ray imaging: an X-ray beam passes through the subject to be imaged, and the transmitted X-rays illuminate a p…
Hackaday Links: June 14, 2026
Times are tough out there, and many are starting to feel the pressure at the grocery store checkout line or the gas pump. But whenever you start to worry about …
Bavarian Court Tells Gemini It Can’t Be a Real Boy Until It Tells the Truth
Does anyone like Google’s AI summaries? If so, they weren’t on the Judge’s bench in a specific Bavarian courtroom recently, where it was ruled…
Why not yserver? It’s Xserver, but Rust-y.
If you’re not into Wayland as a display manager, it seems like your options are slowly dwindling. Xorg isn’t exactly a hotbed of activity, and the o…
OpenCAL: Computed Axial Lithographic 3D Printing For Everyone
Computed Axial Lithographic printing gets even closer to the Star Trek replicator fantasy than any other 3D printer we’ve seen: there’s a machine, i…