Collaborate Disseminate
A piece of glass, some bits of tinfoil, a sheet of plastic, a couple of razor blades, and a few assorted bits and bobs are all it takes to build …read more Continue reading Got Junk? Then Build This Scrappy TEA Laser
If you were one of the earliest of early adopters in the home computing revolution, you might have had to settle for paper tape mass storage. It was slow, it …read more Continue reading Classy Paper Tape Reader Complements Homebrew Retrocomputer
Unless you’ve got an especially small lap, calling the Toshiba Libretto a laptop is a bit of a stretch. The diminutive computers from the mid-1990s had a lot of the …read more Continue reading Tiny Laptop Gets a New Case and an Unlocking
It’s been a busy week in space news, and very little of it was good. We’ll start with the one winner of the week, Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, which …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: March 9, 2025
The late 1950s were such an optimistic time in America. World War II had been over for less than a decade, the economy boomed thanks to pent-up demand after years …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Better Living Through Nuclear Chemistry
There’s been a lot of buzz about Meshtastic lately, and with good reason. The low-power LoRa-based network has a ton of interesting use cases, and as with any mesh network, …read more Continue reading Get Into Meshtastic On the Cheap With This Tiny Node Kit
Just about any 3D printer can be satisfying to watch as it works, but delta-style printers are especially hypnotic. There’s just something about the way that three linear motions add …read more Continue reading Trio of Mods Makes Delta Printer More Responsive, Easier to Use
We’ll take a guess that most readers have a set of digital calipers somewhere close to hand right now. The cheapest ones tend to be a little unsatisfying in the …read more Continue reading Hacking Digital Calipers for Automated Measurements and Sorta-Micron Accuracy
The current generation of USB-powered soldering irons have a lot going for them, chief among them being portability and automatic start and stop. But an iron that turns off in …read more Continue reading Piggyback Board Brings Touch Sensing to USB Soldering Iron
Humans have been chemically modifying their world for far longer than you might think. Long before they had the slightest idea of what was happening chemically, they were turning clay …read more Continue reading Big Chemistry: Glass