Collaborate Disseminate
[Applied Science] has a new demo of an old 1970s patent for a portable generator that is both interesting and terrifying. The generator uses sodium and water, which, if you …read more Continue reading Power It With Sodium (But Please Don’t)
[The Mike Stuff] has an interesting proposition. He asserts that ancient people like the Greeks could have built a form of radio that was purely mechanical. We aren’t sure we …read more Continue reading A Mechanical Radio, Sort Of
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 …read more Continue reading The FPGA Chronicles: Exploring the Tang Nano 20K
It isn’t quite hailing frequencies open, but researchers from Harvard claim they’ve picked up a radio signal directly from a nearby exoplanet. Before you get too excited, planets in our …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 27, 2026
This week, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams had a lot to talk about. From advice for a young hacker to using a laser to break into a microcontroller, …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 388: RAM-Swapping on Raspberry Pi, Raindrops on Radar, and a Fine Mesh
When you think of wartime cryptography, you probably think of World War II and Enigma, although there were other famous codes used during that war. But in fact, there have …read more Continue reading World War I Coded Message Appears Cracked, Finally
When you think of wartime cryptography, you probably think of World War II and Enigma, although there were other famous codes used during that war. But in fact, there have …read more Continue reading World War I Coded Message Appears Cracked, Finally
There are so many things we approximate to make life simple. Wires, for example, have no resistance or other strange effects. Crystal oscillators output their exact frequency. But surely our …read more Continue reading Emulating Memory Access: How Hard Can It Be?
If you’ve used MicroPython much, you know that debugging usually amounts to printing a few things out, trying your code out, and then repeating. But [ghi-electronics] wants you to have …read more Continue reading On Chip Debug for (Some) MicroPython
In 1982, desktop computers were coming into their own, and no clear leaders had emerged. But everyone knew they wanted a piece of the action. This led to, among other …read more Continue reading Sony’s First Computer