Hackaday Podcast Episode 288: Cyanotypes, Antique 21-Segment Displays, and the Voynich Manuscript in a New Light

It’s Friday the 13th, and despite having to dodge black cats and poorly located ladders, Elliot and Dan were able to get together and run down the best hacks of …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 288: Cyanotypes, Antique 21-Segment Displays, and the Voynich Manuscript in a New Light

2024 Tiny Games Contest: A Flappy Seagull Game With Sound in Only 500 Bytes

It was probably a reasonable assumption that the “Tiny” in our recently concluded Tiny Games Contest mostly referred to the physical footprint of the game. And indeed, that’s the way …read more Continue reading 2024 Tiny Games Contest: A Flappy Seagull Game With Sound in Only 500 Bytes

This Tiny Steam Engine Takes a Watchmaker’s Skill to Build

When your steam engine build requires multiple microscopes, including those of the scanning electron variety, you know you’re building something really, really tiny. All of the usual tiny superlatives and …read more Continue reading This Tiny Steam Engine Takes a Watchmaker’s Skill to Build

Hackaday Links: September 8, 2024

Hackaday Links Column Banner

OK, sit down, everyone — we don’t want you falling over and hurting yourself when you learn the news that actually yes, your phone has been listening to your conversations …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 8, 2024

Hackaday Links: September 1, 2024

Hackaday Links Column Banner

Why is it always a helium leak? It seems whenever there’s a scrubbed launch or a narrowly averted disaster, space exploration just can’t get past the problems of helium plumbing. …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 1, 2024