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02 Sep 2026 edition

40 articles · 4 sources ·

Top topics: Hardware · AI · General

Hardware

Doubling Thermal Printer Resolution by Wiggling

Thermal printers are still extremely common today, using small heating elements in combination with temperature-sensitive paper to create a dot matrix-like effect without messing with ink ribbons and complex mechanisms.…

Source: Hackaday Maya Posch
Hardware

Fine, I’ll build my own text editor

David Bushell set out to build his own browser based text editor. His first attempt drew everything to a <canvas> element at 60 to 120 frames per second. It worked, but canvas gives nothing for free: no text selection,…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

The WT | Wearable Tech Conference is Happening this Month

The WT | Wearable Technologies Conference is happening this month on the 15the and 16th. Interested to see what’s to come in the wearable world. The WT | Wearable Technologies Conference is the world’s leading event for…

Source: Adafruit Blog Takara
Hardware

3D PCB previews are a delight

James Bowman has added 3D board previews to cuflow, his Python-based PCB design tool, and wrote about it on the Excamera Labs Substack. When he designed the TermDriver hardware, parts showed up only as silkscreen…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Harvesting Namib Desert Fog with High Voltage

As fun as mucking about with simulated environments in a laboratory is, at some point you have to do those field tests to demonstrate that your prototype actually works in …read more

Source: Hackaday Maya Posch
Hardware AI

A GeoJSON map viewer

Simon Willison built a GeoJSON map viewer. He needed it while helping gather maps of local political boundaries for the Granada Community Services District and the Midcoast Community Council. The requirement was simple:…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Sounds of the 1980s: NES

The Computer History Museum posted a 15 second short on YouTube featuring the sounds of Nintendo’s first home gaming console. Not game sounds but sounds as one uses the machine. The console started out in Japan as the…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

How Gold Plastic Syndrome is killing toys and game consoles

The Transformers Wiki keeps a detailed entry on Gold Plastic Syndrome (GPS), a fan term for plastic that decomposes and then crumbles to bits under almost no force. It differs from ordinary stress fracturing. Normal…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

A Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos

Weedout is a Safari extension that removes videos YouTube has labeled “Made with AI” from what you see. Instead of covering them with a warning screen, it takes them out of the home feed, search results, related videos…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Creating green clothing with living fungi

Maya Posch, writing at Hackaday, covers a Science Advances paper from Ke Li and colleagues on a fungal platform for living textiles. Most fabric is dead tissue, or was never part of an organism at all. This work falls…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

FLOSS Weekly Episode 880: The Two Wolves

This week Jonathan chats with Benjamin Samuels of Trail of Bits! The conversation focuses on Patch the Planet, a new initiative to help Open Source projects deal with the fallout …read more

Source: Hackaday Jonathan Bennett
Hardware

TIME Trailblazers: Designing and Making the Future

Alex Honnold is one of the TIME Trailblazers, image via Wikipedia Commons: Alex Honnold in 2023 in Antarctica by Christopher Michel TIME Magazine has released a list of their TIME Trailblazers: Designing and Making the…

Source: Adafruit Blog Ben
Hardware

How to change Raspberry Pi WiFi details from the SD card

Abhishek Prakash at It’s FOSS wrote up a way to fix a Raspberry Pi that can no longer reach your network: edit the WiFi settings straight from the microSD card. This is handy when the router changed, the SSID and…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

I vibecoded Morrowind, Duke Nukem, and Serious Sam onto an iPhone

Arjun Krishna Lal, writing at TechSpot, describes how he got Morrowind, Duke Nukem 3D, and Serious Sam: The First Encounter running natively on an iPhone without knowing how to code. He used AI coding agents and a $100…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Smart Phone Mittens #AdafruitLearnSystem

Believe it or not its that time of year and sweater weather is just around the corner. Its never too early to start knitting up a pair of conductive mittens for when the seasons change. Have you missed a call because…

Source: Adafruit Blog Jessie Mae
Hardware

GPIBee (UsbGpib V3) USB-to-GPIB adapter gains PoE Ethernet

Jean-Luc Aufranc writes at CNX Software that XyphroLabs has released the third revision of its UsbGpib adapter, now called GPIBee. The adapter connects legacy GPIB/IEEE-488 test instruments to modern computers. V3 adds…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Where will RISC-V be in 20 Years? Poll results

Babbage, writing at The Chip Letter, re-ran a reader poll asking where RISC-V will be in 20 years. The first poll ran in August 2023, during a series of posts on the architecture. It was framed around a line from Krste…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela

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