Making an Air-Powered Circular Saw with LEGO
Although building a table saw out of LEGO is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you look at those colorful bits of plastic, [Jamie] has been …read more
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Big Infinity Mirror Clock Invites You To Gaze Deeply
[Andy Huot] has a fantastic-looking infinity mirror digital clock that really raises the bar. It uses high quality components, smart use of RGB LED animations, and a clever “stacked diffuser” …read more
This Mac Is Open Source Hardware
Apple hardware has always been proprietary, sometimes to an extreme. But that’s not to say that it’s impossible to make something that does the same job, which is what [DosFox1] …read more
Happy National Video Games Day 2026
image of Magnavox Odyssey via Wikipedia September 12th is National Video Games Day!! Released 54 years ago in 1972 the Magnavox Odyssey was the first commercial home video game console. And while there seem to bet a few…
Supercon is Nigh!
The 2026 Hackaday Superconference is just around the corner in November. It’s hard to believe that we’ve been having an annual gathering for so long, but this is number ten. …read more
The Heavy Disco-Ball Satellite Designed to Do… Nothing
Launched in 1976, LAGEOS-1 (LAser GEOdynamic Satellite) is unusual in that it contains no instrumentation, no electronics, no power supply, and no means of propulsion. It’s spherical, weighs just under …read more
Looking at a TRS-80 12 MB External Hard Drive from 1983
Although hard disks weren’t a common feature yet in many home computers in the 1980s, they were becoming increasingly more affordable. For relative meanings of the word ‘affordable’, naturally. This …read more
All The Best Computers Boot To… Python?
Among all the machines of the 8-bit home computer era which booted straight to a BASIC prompt, there were a very few that went their own way with another language. …read more
NeoEyes NE302 – A tiny USB-C-powered WiFi 6 Edge AI Vision camera based on STM32N6 MCU
CamThink NeoEyes NE302 is a tiny WiFi 6 Edge AI camera based on an STM32N6 Arm Cortex-M55 MCU with Neural-ART NPU which the company says is “especially suitable for developers and makers”. I initially thought about it…
How To Fold Curved Lines in Metal Without Fancy Tools
Folding a sheet of metal in a straight line is one thing, but how does one fold multiple curved lines into a sheet of aluminum without fancy machines? [John] demonstrates …read more
Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction