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23 Aug 2026 edition
Hardware

Hackaday Links: August 23, 2026

We’ll start this week off with some disappointing, though not entirely unexpected, news — the ambitious commercial mission to save NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is officially a bust. The …read more

Source: Hackaday Tom Nardi
Hardware

Pixel Quest

martina. shares how they created this handheld game console that doubles as a photo-editing control surface. Check out the project details on hackster.io **PIXEL QUEST** is a handheld game console you can hold in both…

Source: Adafruit Blog Takara
Hardware

Using the Basic SNES Hardware to Play Minecraft

After previously putting a very basic version of Minecraft on the Game Boy Color, [Tobi] decided to have some fun and port that version also to the Super Nintendo (SNES), …read more

Source: Hackaday Maya Posch
Hardware

Making LEDs in the Home Fab

Impressive as it most certainly is when an amateur fabricates a semiconductor, most of the projects we’ve seen are more demonstrations than workable chips. [Dr. Semiconductor], however, is going much …read more

Source: Hackaday Aaron Beckendorf
Hardware

Amiga-Inspired AROS Goes Bare Metal on Raspberry Pi

There’s no actual data, but if we had to guess the least-favourite Disney movie of former Amiga owners would have to be Frozen, because none of them will ever be …read more

Source: Hackaday Tyler August
Hardware

Bluetooth Shock Collar Keeps Wearer On Task

Like a lot of us [Liam Kloppers] had a problem with doomscrolling. Unwilling to go cold-turkey because he does find some utility in social media. He tried a number of …read more

Source: Hackaday Tyler August
Hardware

So, You Found a Foden Steam Lorry in a Field. What Next?

It’s quite likely that many readers will have harbored dreams of owning, or at least driving, a steam engine of some kind. [James Hervey-Bathurst] was lucky enough to do so …read more

Source: Hackaday Jenny List
Hardware

An Atari Desktop On A Sega

Over recent years there have been a range of classic 16-bit consoles coaxed into running familiar operating systems, with -nommu Linux being a favourite. But the 16-bit era had its …read more

Source: Hackaday Jenny List