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Hackaday Links: September 13, 2026

We try to steer clear of politics and societal issues here at Hackaday, so a protest is not usually the sort of thing we’d cover. But we figure it’s safe …read more

Rusting an E-scooter (In a Good Way)

It is a classic Hackaday situation. You have an Egret GT E-scooter. It has a screen that shows the usual dash stats, but that led to an annoyance. You could …read more

Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: T3CAD, CircuitPython Turbo, 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…

Driving 512 LEDs from a Nintendo Switch: ESP32, WS2812, and a 240fps

Brewser is a homebrew web runtime for modded Switch consoles. The app Matrix Studio lets you drive an LED Matrix from your Switch! Matrix Studio is a pixel art and animation app running in Brewser, a homebrew web…

A 386 PC For Your RP2350

We’re at a fortunate moment: microcontrollers available at modest prices are edging into the capability level previously reserved for full-fat systems and can, through emulation, run software beyond classic 8-bit …read…

Adafruit Bluefruit LE UART Friend

Would you like to add powerful and easy-to-use Bluetooth Low Energy to your robot, art or other electronics project? Heck yeah! With BLE now included in modern smart phones and tablets, its fun to add wireless…

A Glowing Modern Grandfather Clock

Get a bonus inside look into a planer in Full Stack Woodworking’s modern grandfather clock build video on YouTube: Building a sculptural, kinetic timepiece from Iroko hardwood. An ESP32 micro controller gets the time…

Analyzing the FScale Instruction in Intel’s 8087 FPU

During his continuing analysis of the architecture and microcode of Intel’s highly influential 8087 floating point unit (FPU) co-processor, [Ken Shirriff] has now arrived at the point where he can …read more

Keeping Time on Tumbling Icosahedra

Clocks are almost the ideal devices to inspire creativity in hackers — they have a simple, well-defined task, but there’s an almost unlimited number of ways to carry it out. …read more

Whip-Cracking Machine Reliably Breaks the Sound Barrier

We tend to think of breaking the sound barrier as a comparatively modern accomplishment, but on a smaller scale, cattle herders have been breaking it for centuries: the cracking sound …read more

M5Stack Module13.2 LoRa-1262 expansion board integrates 14×10 mm Stamp LoRa-1262 module

After launching the SX1262-based M5Stamp C6LoRa tiny module, M5Stack has launched two SX1262-based LoRa add-ons for the 868–923 MHz band: the tiny Stamp LoRa-1262 SMD module for custom PCBs, and the stackable Module13.2…

Spin FV-1 Emulator Simplifies Sound Pedal Development

If you’ve never heard of the Spin Semiconductors FP-1 digital signal processor chip, don’t worry– that just means you haven’t been deep into guitar petals and audio effects hardware lately. …read more

2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: 16-Bit Homebrew Relay Computer

You want Retro? We did, when we started our retrocomputing challenge. [Peter] decided that transistors weren’t retro enough, and sent us this lovely homebrew relay computer, complete with 16- bit …read more

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