Hackaday Links: August 16, 2026
We’re no strangers to unusual hardware failures around these parts, but even so, a swarm of jellyfish clogging up the works is a new one to us. That’s exactly what …read more
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Another Radio on a Chip Design
It used to be a rite of passage to build some sort of AM radio receiver. Many people started with a crystal radio, of course, but you’d graduate to maybe …read more
Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round Up: Back to School, LED Devil Horns, and more!
ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up of what we’ve been up…
Laser Layers for (Almost) Isotropicly Strong Prints
If there’s one defining factor about 3D printing you have to account for when you’re making a design, it’s probably layer adhesion. Sure, there are a lot of factors to …read more
Building an Actuator for a Walking Robot
Unlike biological systems, which can use muscles, robots that try to imitate them don’t have particularly fast, powerful, compact linear actuators available. This puts walking robots at a particular disadvantage, …read…
It’s National Roller Coaster Day #NationalRollerCoasterDay #coasterday
Cyclone Roller Coaster, Coney Island, New York via Wikipedia Did you know every August 16 is National Roller Coaster Day? Ride out the summer, with all of the ups and downs, on a coaster of your choosing. If you can…
r-Selecting Tiny Probes to Shotgun Into Saturn’s Rings
In ecology, there used to be a concept — now largely unfashionable — that species could be described as r- or K-selected, depending on how they treat their offspring. An …read more
Researchers Hack an Airline Analog
Modern airliners are rather complicated feats of engineering. Innumerable safety-critical components are connected with tens of miles of wiring, complex digital buses, and dozens (perhaps hundreds) of computers. But, as…
Using the Khadas Mind Graphics 2 (NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti USB4 eGPU) on Ubuntu 26.04
When we used the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB-based Khadas Mind Graphics 2 dock with a mini PC running Ubuntu 26.04 last week, the USB4-connected eGPU was detected and enabled automatically, but we encountered two…
Machine Learning COFFIES “Hears” Sunspots Before We Can See Them
In this age of neural net “AI”, even the most skeptical of Butlerians have to agree that these machine learning models can be very, very good at pattern recognition if …read more
Turning Energy Drinks Into Rocket Fuel
Sometimes claimed to give you wings, energy drinks can, at the very least, be used to make rockets fly. This is what [Nate Scovill] did in a recent video, where …read more