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05 Oct 2026 edition

21 articles · 5 sources ·

Top topics: Hardware

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Ambition, Thy Name is a 3D Printed Transonic R/C Jet

Building anything that flies from scratch is an ambitious undertaking, even if it’s ‘just’ radio-controlled. 3D printing the aircraft isn’t that odd these days, but putting a hot jet engine …read more

Source: Hackaday Tyler August
Hardware

How to Grow a Giant Crystal from Copper Sulfate

Copper sulfate crystals are probably among one of the prettiest crystals you can grow at home, with even just a simple setup with some copper scrap and vinegar already capable …read more

Source: Hackaday Maya Posch
Hardware

Eye Pendant V2

A followup to last year’s Soul Cage vishalsoniindia has another entry in the spooky wearable category. The Eye Pendant is a wearable electronic pendant with a small round display that shows an animated eye. The eye…

Source: Adafruit Blog Ben
Hardware

Failing to Make a Fanless PC

The discerning modern gamer’s quest is to find a quieter computer without sacrificing performance. That proves challenging when modern components are highly efficient at producing monumental quantities of thermal…

Source: Hackaday Fenix Guthrie
Hardware

How A British Engineer Homebrewed The Quietest Carbine

Hollywood has a lot to answer for when it comes to “silencers” on firearms. On screen, a suppressed pistol makes a pinging thud, and the bad guy in the next …read more

Source: Hackaday Zoe Skyforest
Hardware

Building a Cheap, Dexterous Robot Hand

Most of the time, assuming nothing’s gone wrong with them, we take our hands so much for granted that it’s easy to forget what remarkable pieces of engineering they are: …read more

Source: Hackaday Aaron Beckendorf
Hardware

The Smallest Internet Radio (probably)

There’s something about when someone claims to have made a suuuuuper small (or even the smallest version of something) that immediately draws me in. This build by maker Milen is no exception! He cites yoradio as his…

Source: Adafruit Blog Kelly
Hardware

Building a Lava Lamp Reef Tank

Sydney Reefing turns a lava lamp into a reef tank in this video on YouTube. Follow along on YouTube to see the process and problem solving involved with this project. Ranjib Dey wrote an awesome reef-pi project for the…

Source: Adafruit Blog Stephanie
Hardware

The FPGA Chronicles: Open Source It

Last time, we looked at getting started with the GOWIN tools and a Tang Nano 20K FPGA. The software from GOWIN isn’t bad, but it isn’t open source, and there …read more

Source: Hackaday Al Williams
Hardware

Porting Video Games to VHS

Although VHS-based games have existed for about as long as VHS players have sat in millions of living rooms, they always tended to be rather sparse gaming experiences. For example, …read more

Source: Hackaday Maya Posch
Hardware

Conveyor Belt GBoard Brings the Keys to You

It must be April in October again, because Google Japan has a new, hilariously impractical reimagining of the keyboard: a conveyor belt. This time it’s on GitHub with firmware, STLs, …read more

Source: Hackaday Tyler August
Hardware

It’s GW-BASIC, Jim, But Not as We Know It

Back in the old days the IBM-PC, like most of its contemporary computers, shipped with BASIC in ROM. Even after it stopped living in ROM, IBM-Compatibles shipped with GW-BASIC, and …read more

Source: Hackaday Tyler August
Hardware

Upgrading a Benchtop Laser for Megawatt Power

One fascinating thing about a pulsed laser is that, though the average power may be measured in watts or milliwatts, the peak power can easily reach millions of times that. …read more

Source: Hackaday Aaron Beckendorf

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