Collaborate Disseminate
Back in the “beige box” days of computing, it was pretty easy to tell what your machine was doing just by listening to it, because the hard drive was constantly …read more Continue reading Tiny Dongle Brings the Hard Drive’s Song Back to Updated Retrocomputers
Join us on Wednesday, September 28 at noon Pacific for the Reverse Engineering Hack Chat with Matthew Alt! Our world is full of mysteries, from the nature of time to …read more Continue reading Reverse Engineering Hack Chat with Matthew Alt
Certain among our readership will no doubt remember attaching a playing card to the front fork of one’s bicycle so that the spokes flapped the card as the wheel rotated. …read more Continue reading This Found-Sound Organ Was Made with Python and a Laser Cutter
Looks like there’s trouble out at L2, where the James Webb Space Telescope suffered a mechanical anomaly back in August. The issue, which was just announced this week, involves only …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 25, 2022
On no planet is making your own X-ray tube a good idea. But that doesn’t mean we’re not going to talk about it, because it’s pretty darn cool. And when …read more Continue reading This Scratch-Built X-Ray Tube Really Shines
Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams took time out from Supercon planning to join Staff Writer Dan Maloney for a look through the hacking week that was. We always try to keep …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast 186: Weighing Cats, Slamming VU Meters, Slimmer Skimmers, and Clean Air on the Cheap
With an ever-growing constellation of Starlink satellites whizzing around over our heads, you might be getting the urge to start experimenting with the high-speed internet service. But at $100 or …read more Continue reading Snooping on Starlink With an RTL-SDR
When you’re a machinist, your stock in trade is precision, with measurements in the thousandths of your preferred unit being common. But when you’re a diemaker, your precision game needs …read more Continue reading Metric and Inch Threads Fight it Out for Ultra-Precise Positioning
While most of us live in a world where the once ubiquitous Raspberry Pi is now as rare as hens’ teeth, there’s a magical place where they’ve got so many …read more Continue reading It’s Pi All the Way Down With This Pi-Powered Pi-Picking Robot
We always love when people take the trouble to show information in new, creative ways — after all, there’s a reason that r/dataisbeautiful exists. But we were particularly taken by this …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 18, 2022