The Slurptop is Both Drool Worthy and Practical
There are two kinds of cyberdeck: the kind someone makes on a lark and operates purely on ‘rule of cool’, and the kind designed to do practical work. The Slurptop …read more
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2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: I Would Do Anything For Serial Data
These days we take high-speed networking for granted, but it can be difficult to get vintage computers talking to modern machines. To help solve this problem [jaime] came up with …read more
Observe El Niño with NASA
This visualization compares three ocean data products, sea surface temperature anomaly, apparent visible wavelength, and sea surface height anomaly, over the same months in 2025 and 2026. Signals of El Niño in each map…
ESP32-Powered Talking Smoke Pumpkin #ElectronicHalloween
This is a paper papier-mâché jack-o-lantern that emanates smoke and lights up with the help of an ESP32. Once trick-or-treaters are near an ultra sonic sensor triggers a terrifying sequence including a very creepy voice…
That Weird 7-Pin S-Video Port on Old Laptops
Even though laptops from around the early 2000s came with just about every conceivable port on them, they still would often feature a somewhat unusual combined video output port. While …read more
Sound Reactive Paper Lanterns with LedFx
Make a strand of sound reactive paper lanterns and hang them in your space. Control them with a Feather ESP32 running WLED software. Add sound reactive animations using the sound on your computer over WiFi using the…
GitHub – ankur608/ArduinoUnoQ_AdafruitTouch
Developer ankur608 has published an open source Arduino library on GitHub for using the Adafruit 2.8″ TFT Touch Shield v2 with Capacitive Touch (PID 1947) on the Arduino UNO Q, which runs an STM32U585 core. The shield…
Making for Others
One of the nicest things about the Hackaday community, and the open-source hardware community at large, is the incredible generosity of one hacker to another. But it’s not purely altruism …read more
The Hidden Speakers of Cirque du Soleil’s “O”
Matt Obernesser, head of audio for Cirque du Soleil’s O, takes Dallas Taylor on a sound tour. This one’s for the audio folks!
Reverse engineering a commercial spatial audio effect
Austin Shijo wanted a Linux version of a Windows audio effect that pushed music out of the head and made it feel less pressed against the ears. Writing on epestr.com, he describes first trying to rebuild the effect by…
Watch VCF Southwest in Retrotastic SGI-Edited Footage
There’s just something about backing way, way off the cutting edge to rediscover the simpler joys of yesteryear. We’ve got a contest about to wrap up along those lines, and …read more
The Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: subscribe for free
The Python for Microcontrollers Newsletter is the place for the latest news involving Python on hardware (microcontrollers AND single board computers like Raspberry Pi). This ad-free, spam-free weekly email is filled…
A Walkie Talkie Interface For Claude
[Bookmari] had a problem — working as a delivery driver, they wanted to work on various projects with Claude Code while out and about. Unfortunately, it simply wasn’t practical to …read more
Using an Unmodded GBA as a Music Synth
The style and sound of older video games is unique enough that they’re still copied in relatively modern games like Undertale, Celeste, or Shovel Knight. There’s also a vibrant chiptune community making music …read more
ZOTAC ZBOX PRO CM5-PICO – A compact Raspberry Pi CM5-based fanless industrial mini PC
ZOTAC ZBOX PRO CM5-PICO is a compact fanless industrial mini PC built around the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 (CM5) with up to 16 GB LPDDR4x memory, optional WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0 wireless connectivity. The mini PC…
RepRapMicron Uses Fibre Optics To Print Tiny Benchy in Resin
The RepRapMicron (also µRepRap) is pretty much the microscopic take on what RepRap did for more macroscale manufacturing, with the most recent innovation being a UV print head, called the …read more
Adafruit New Products this Week
We’ve got the New nEw NEW for you right here This week we debut 2 New Products. Visit www.adafruit.com/new for more info. Adafruit RV-8803 High Accuracy Real Time Clock Breakout Board – STEMMA QT / Qwiic Adafruit Metro…