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The Near Space Adventures of Bradfield the Bear

Posted on December 13, 2025 by Al Williams

Admit it or not, you probably have a teddy bear somewhere in your past that you were — or maybe are — fond of. Not to disparage your bear, but …read more Continue reading The Near Space Adventures of Bradfield the Bear→

Posted in high altitude balloon, near space, News, teddy bear

Hackaday Podcast Episode 349: Clocks, AI, and a New 3D Printer Guy

Posted on December 12, 2025 by Al Williams

Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams met up to cover the best of Hackaday this week, and they want you to listen in. There were a hodgepodge of hacks …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 349: Clocks, AI, and a New 3D Printer Guy→

Posted in Hackaday Columns, Hackaday Podcast, Podcasts

Step into my Particle Accelerator

Posted on December 12, 2025 by Al Williams

If you get a chance to visit a computer history museum and see some of the very old computers, you’ll think they took up a full room. But if you …read more Continue reading Step into my Particle Accelerator→

Posted in laser hacks, particle accelerator, Science

3D Printering: That New Color Printer

Posted on December 3, 2025 by Al Williams
Art of 3D printer in the middle of printing a Hackaday Jolly Wrencher logo

Color 3D printing has gone mainstream, and we expect more than one hacker will be unpacking one over the holidays. If you have, say, a color inkjet printer, the process …read more Continue reading 3D Printering: That New Color Printer→

Posted in 3d Printer hacks, 3D Printing, Hackaday Columns, Multicolor 3D printing

Retrotechtacular: Learning the Slide Rule the New Old Fashioned Way

Posted on December 2, 2025 by Al Williams

Learning something on YouTube seems kind of modern. But if you are watching a 1957 instructional film about slide rules, it also seems old-fashioned. But Encyclopædia Britannica has a complete …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Learning the Slide Rule the New Old Fashioned Way→

Posted in Instructional, Retrotechtacular, slide rule, tool hacks, training film

MicroCAD Programs CAD

Posted on November 26, 2025 by Al Williams

We love and hate OpenSCAD. As programmers, we like describing objects we want to 3D print or otherwise model. As programmers, we hate all the strange things about OpenSCAD that …read more Continue reading MicroCAD Programs CAD→

Posted in 3d modeling, CAD, openscad, software hacks

DIY Test Gear from 1981

Posted on November 26, 2025 by Al Williams

We can’t get enough of [Bettina Neumryn’s] videos. If you haven’t seen her, she takes old electronics magazines, finds interesting projects, and builds them. If you remember these old projects, …read more Continue reading DIY Test Gear from 1981→

Posted in classic hacks, elektor, magazine, vintage

Citizen Science by the Skin of Your Teeth

Posted on November 25, 2025 by Al Williams

If you are a schoolkid of the right age, you can’t wait to lose a baby tooth. In many cultures, there is a ritual surrounding it, like the tooth fairy, …read more Continue reading Citizen Science by the Skin of Your Teeth→

Posted in Hackaday Columns, nuclear testing, Strontium

Heater is Either a Miracle or a Scam

Posted on November 25, 2025 by Al Williams

[Big Clive] picked up a tiny heater for less than £8 from the usual sources. Would you be shocked to learn that its heating capacity wasn’t as advertised? No, we …read more Continue reading Heater is Either a Miracle or a Scam→

Posted in bigclive, ceramic heater, heater, teardown

Water on Mars? Maybe Not

Posted on November 25, 2025 by Al Williams

We were as excited as anyone when MARSIS (the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding) experiment announced there was possibly liquid water under the southern polar ice cap. …read more Continue reading Water on Mars? Maybe Not→

Posted in Mars, MRO, Science, Space

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