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The Engineering Behind Valve’s new VR Headset
The Engineering Behind Valve’s new VR Headset
Valve’s new Steam Frame is what all the well-connected YouTubers are talking about, but most of them are talking about what it’s like to game on it. That’s great content …read more
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November 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The Engineering Behind Valve’s new VR Headset
The Value of a Worked Example
The Value of a Worked Example
I was looking over the week’s posts on Hackaday – it’s part of my job after all – and this gem caught my eye: a post about how to make …read more
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November 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The Value of a Worked Example
eVTOL for Everyone
eVTOL for Everyone
While most of the world’s venture capital is off chasing anything with “AI” in the name in what many think looks increasingly like an inflated spherical film of soap molecules, …read more
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November 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
eVTOL for Everyone
Intel GPUs on Raspberry Pi Is So Wrong it Feels Right
Intel GPUs on Raspberry Pi Is So Wrong it Feels Right
While you might not know it from their market share, Intel makes some fine GPUs. Putting one in a PC with an AMD processor already feels a bit naughty, but …read more
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November 15, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Intel GPUs on Raspberry Pi Is So Wrong it Feels Right
Building a Drivable, Life-Size 3D-Printed LEGO Technic Buggy
Building a Drivable, Life-Size 3D-Printed LEGO Technic Buggy
It’s part of the great circle of life that toys and scale models that provide a reflection of macro-sized objects like vehicles and buildings will eventually be scaled up again …read more
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November 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Building a Drivable, Life-Size 3D-Printed LEGO Technic Buggy
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: The VIA Makes Noise, Again
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: The VIA Makes Noise, Again
In the days of 8-bit home computing, the more fancy machines had sound chips containing complete synthesizers, while budget machines made do with simple output ports connected to a speaker …read more
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November 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: The VIA Makes Noise, Again
Hackaday Podcast Episode 345: A Stunning Lightsaber, Two Extreme Cameras, and Wrangling Roombas
Hackaday Podcast Episode 345: A Stunning Lightsaber, Two Extreme Cameras, and Wrangling Roombas
It’s a wet November evening across Western Europe, the steel-grey clouds have obscured a rare low-latitude aurora this week, and Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List for this week’s …read more
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November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Hackaday Podcast Episode 345: A Stunning Lightsaber, Two Extreme Cameras, and Wrangling Roombas
This Week in Security: Landfall, Imunify AV, and Sudo Rust
This Week in Security: Landfall, Imunify AV, and Sudo Rust
Let’s talk about LANDFALL. That was an Android spyware campaign specifically targeted at Samsung devices. The discovery story is interesting, and possibly an important clue to understanding this particular bit …read more
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November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This Week in Security: Landfall, Imunify AV, and Sudo Rust
Android Developer Verification Starts as Google Partially Retreats on Measures
Android Developer Verification Starts as Google Partially Retreats on Measures
In a recent blog post Google announced that the early access phase of its Android Developer Verification program has commenced, as previously announced. In addition to this new announcement Google …read more
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November 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Android Developer Verification Starts as Google Partially Retreats on Measures
FPGA Brings Antique Processor to Life
FPGA Brings Antique Processor to Life
For the retro gaming enthusiast, nothing beats original hardware. The feel of the controllers and the exact timing of the original, non-emulated software provide a certain experience that’s difficult or …read more
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November 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
FPGA Brings Antique Processor to Life
An Improbable, Doomed Star System in a Clockwork Coffee Table
An Improbable, Doomed Star System in a Clockwork Coffee Table
The major objects in our solar system orbit along the plane of the ecliptic, plus or minus few degrees, and it turns out most exoplanet systems are the same — …read more
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November 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
An Improbable, Doomed Star System in a Clockwork Coffee Table
Tiny386 on an Espressif ESP32-S3
Tiny386 on an Espressif ESP32-S3
Some people may remember the joys of trying to boot Linux on an 8-bit AVR microcontroller, which was an absolute exercise in patience. In comparison [He Chunhui]’s Tiny386 emulator running …read more
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November 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Tiny386 on an Espressif ESP32-S3
What Do You Call an Ekranoplan With an Outboard Motor?
What Do You Call an Ekranoplan With an Outboard Motor?
If there’s one thing [rctestflight] likes, it’s… probably radio controlled test flights. If there are two things [rctestflights] likes, the second one is probably ground-effect vehicles, AKA Ekranoplans. Tired of …read more
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November 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
What Do You Call an Ekranoplan With an Outboard Motor?
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Relay Used As Guitar Pickup
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Relay Used As Guitar Pickup
We’ve all built projects that are a rats’ nest of wiring and feature creep, but the best projects in the end are usually those that use a simple solution to …read more
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November 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Relay Used As Guitar Pickup
The Pi 500 Turned Overkill Bluetooth Keyboard
The Pi 500 Turned Overkill Bluetooth Keyboard
Perhaps we’ve all found ourselves at one time or another with more computers in use than keyboards and other peripherals at hand to use them with. With a single user …read more
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November 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The Pi 500 Turned Overkill Bluetooth Keyboard
If IRobot Falls, Hackers are Ready to Wrangle Roombas
If IRobot Falls, Hackers are Ready to Wrangle Roombas
Things are not looking good for iRobot. Although their robotic Roomba vacuums are basically a household name, the company has been faltering financially for some time now. In 2024 there …read more
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November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
If IRobot Falls, Hackers are Ready to Wrangle Roombas
Running a Minecraft Server on a WiFi Light Bulb
Running a Minecraft Server on a WiFi Light Bulb
WiFi-enabled ‘smart’ light bulbs are everywhere these days, and each one of them has a microcontroller inside that’s capable enough to run all sorts of interesting software. For example, [vimpo] …read more
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November 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Running a Minecraft Server on a WiFi Light Bulb
3D Printed Mail is a Modern Solution to an Ancient Problem
3D Printed Mail is a Modern Solution to an Ancient Problem
The human body and sharp objects don’t get along very well, especially when they are being wielded with ill-intent. Since antiquity there have been various forms of armor designed to …read more
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November 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
3D Printed Mail is a Modern Solution to an Ancient Problem
Installing an 84MB Hard Drive Into a PDP-11/44
Installing an 84MB Hard Drive Into a PDP-11/44
Over on YouTube [Usagi Electric] shows us how he installed an 84MB hard drive into his PDP-11/44. In the beginning he purchased a bunch of RA70 and RA72 drives and …read more
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November 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Installing an 84MB Hard Drive Into a PDP-11/44
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Light an LED With Nothing
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Light an LED With Nothing
Should you spend some time around the less scientifically informed parts of the internet, it’s easy to find “Free power” stories. Usually they’re some form of perpetual motion machine flying …read more
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November 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Light an LED With Nothing
FLOSS Weekly Episode 854: The Big Daddy Core
FLOSS Weekly Episode 854: The Big Daddy Core
This week Jonathan and Ben chat with Jason Shepherd about Ocre and Atym.io! That’s the lightweight WebAssembly VM that lets you run the same containers on Linux and a host …read more
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November 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
FLOSS Weekly Episode 854: The Big Daddy Core
Radio Apocalypse: Survivable Low-Frequency Communication System
Radio Apocalypse: Survivable Low-Frequency Communication System
In the global game of nuclear brinksmanship, secrets are the coin of the realm. This was especially true during the Cold War, when each side fielded armies of spies to …read more
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November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Radio Apocalypse: Survivable Low-Frequency Communication System
Join the The Newest Social Network and Party Like its 1987
Join the The Newest Social Network and Party Like its 1987
Algorithms? Datamining? Brainrot? You don’t need those things to have a social network. As we knew back in the BBS days, long before anyone coined the phrase “social network”, all …read more
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November 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Join the The Newest Social Network and Party Like its 1987
Wayland’s Never-Ending Opposition to Multi-Window Positioning
Wayland’s Never-Ending Opposition to Multi-Window Positioning
There are many applications out there that use more than one window, with every modern-day platform and GUI toolkit offering the means for said application to position each of its …read more
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November 12, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Wayland’s Never-Ending Opposition to Multi-Window Positioning
Emulating a 74LS48 BCD-to-7-Segment Decoder/Driver with an Altera MAX 7000 “S” Series Complex Programmable Logic Device
Emulating a 74LS48 BCD-to-7-Segment Decoder/Driver with an Altera MAX 7000 “S” Series Complex Programmable Logic Device
Over on the [Behind The Code with Gerry] YouTube channel our hacker [Gerry] shows us how to emulate a 74LS48 BCD-to-7-segment decoder/driver using an Altera CPLD Logic Chip From 1998. …read more
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November 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Emulating a 74LS48 BCD-to-7-Segment Decoder/Driver with an Altera MAX 7000 “S” Series Complex Programmable Logic Device