Collaborate Disseminate
If you’ve been reading Hackaday for awhile, you’ll know we’re big fans of OpenSCAD around these parts. There’s a number of reasons it’s a tool we often reach for, but …read more Continue reading OpenSCAD Library Creates QR Codes on the Fly
Blink and you could have missed it, but a viral sensation for a few weeks this summer was One Million Checkboxes, a web page with as you might expect, a …read more Continue reading Online Game Becomes Unexpected PixelFlut
You’ve probably heard that a 3D printer is capable of producing its own replacement parts. Sometimes, that even includes upgraded or improved versions of the parts it was originally built …read more Continue reading Simulating Air Flow for 3D Printing
It might seem like the days of MS-DOS were a lifetime ago because…well, they basically were. Version 6.22 of the venerable operating system, the last standalone release, came out back …read more Continue reading Running Stock MS-DOS on a Modern ThinkPad
Serena OS is not just another operating system—it’s a playground for hackers, tinkerers, and Amiga enthusiasts pushing vintage hardware to new limits. Born from modern design principles and featuring pervasive …read more Continue reading Amiga, Interrupted: A Fresh Take On Amiga OS
The cameras at the front of Meta’s Quest VR headsets are off-limits to developers, but developer [Michael Gschwandtner] created a workaround (Linkedin post) and shared implementation details with a VR …read more Continue reading Meta Doesn’t Allow Camera Access on VR Headsets, So Here’s a Workaround
With modern tools, you have to try very hard to do something stupid, because the tools (rightly) recognize you’re doing something stupid. [Andreas Karlsson] can speak to that first hand …read more Continue reading Compiling Four Billion If Statements
Data manipulation is at the heart of computation, and a system is said to be Turing-complete if it can be configured to manipulate data in a way that makes implementing …read more Continue reading Proof that find + mkdir are Turing-Complete
For most people, you turn on your computer, and it starts the operating system. However, the reality is much more complex as [Thasso] discovered. Even modern x86 chips start in …read more Continue reading A 64-bit x86 Bootloader from Scratch
In a world where so much of our lives depend on the use of online services, the web browser used to access those services becomes of crucial importance. It becomes …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Has Firefox Finally Gone Too Far?