- — Teardown of a Scam Ultrasonic Cleaner
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at 4/3/25 2:00pmEveryone knows that ultrasonic cleaners are great, but not every device thats marketed as an ultrasonic cleaner is necessarily such a device. In a recent video on the Cheap Cheerful read more- — Australia’s Silliac Computer
- at 4/3/25 12:30pmWhen you think about the dawn of modern computers, you often think about the work done in the UK and the US. But Australia had an early computer scene, too, read more
- — Ditto That
- at 4/3/25 11:00amIn the 1982 movie Fast Times At Ridgemont High, a classroom of students receives a set of paperwork to pass backward. Nearly every student in the room takes a big read more
- — MIT Wants You to Secure Your Hardware Designs
- at 4/3/25 9:30amWhen you think of attacking or defending computer systems, you probably think of software viruses and the corresponding anti-virus software. But MITs 6.5950 class teaches secure hardware design how read more
- — Remembering Betty Webb: Bletchley Park & Pentagon Code Breaker
- at 4/3/25 8:00amOn 31 March of this year we had to bid farewell to Charlotte Elizabeth Betty Webb (née Vine-Stevens) at the age of 101. She was one of the cryptanalysts who read more
- — A Very Trippy Look at Microsoft’s Beginnings
- at 4/3/25 5:00amIts not often youll see us singing the praises of Microsoft on these pages, but credit where credit is due, this first-person account of how the software giant got its read more
- — Handheld 18650 Analyzer Scopes Out Salvaged Cells
- at 4/3/25 2:00amYou can salvage lithium 18650 cells from all sorts of modern gadgets, from disposable vapes to cordless power tools. The tricky part, other than physically liberating them from whatever they read more
- — The Magic Touch: A 555 Touch Switch
- at 4/2/25 11:00pmThere seems to be nothing a 555 cant do. Weve seen it before, but [electronzapdotcom] reminds us you can use a 555 and a few parts to make a reasonable read more
- — Monitor Your Smart Plugs on the Command Line
- at 4/2/25 8:00pmThe plethora of smart home devices available today deliver all manner of opportunities, but its fair to say that interfacing with them is more often done in the browser or read more
- — One Book to Boot Them All
- at 4/2/25 5:00pmSomewhere in the universe, theres a place that lists every x86 operating system from scratch. Not just some bootloaders, or just a kernel stub, but documentation to build a fully read more
- — Programmer’s Macro Pad Bangs Out Whole Functions
- at 4/2/25 2:00pmMacro pads are handy for opening up your favorite programs or executing commonly used keyboard shortcuts. But why stop there? Thats what [Jeroen Brinkman] must have been thinking while creating read more
- — FLOSS Weekly Episode 827: Yt-dlp, Sometimes You Can’t See the Tail
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at 4/2/25 12:30pmThis week, Jonathan Bennett chats with Bashonly about yt-dlp, the audio/video downloader that carries the torch from youtube-dl! Why is this a hard problem, and what does the future hold read more - — Supercon 2024: Rethinking Body Art With LEDs
- at 4/2/25 11:02amTattoos. Body paint. Henna. All these are popular kinds of body art with varying histories and cultural connotations, many going back centuries or even longer. They all have something in read more
- — 70 DIY Synths on One Webpage
- at 4/2/25 9:30amIf you want to dip your toes into the deep, deep water of synth DIY but don’t know where to start, [Atarity] has just the resource for you. He’s compiled read more
- — Australia’s Steady March Towards Space
- at 4/2/25 8:00amThe list of countries to achieve their own successful orbital space launch is a short one, almost as small as the exclusive club of states that possess nuclear weapons. The read more
- — The Lowly Wall Wart Laid Bare
- at 4/2/25 5:00amGetting a look at the internals of a garden variety wall wart isnt the sort of thing thats likely to excite the average Hackaday reader. Youve probably cracked one open read more
- — A Toothbrush Hacked, in Three Parts
- at 4/2/25 2:00amIts official, were living in the future. Certainly thats the only explanation for how [wrongbaud] was able to write a three-part series of posts on hacking a cheap electric toothbrush read more
- — Why the LM741 Sucks
- at 4/1/25 11:00pmFirst of all, wed like to give a big shout-out to [Afrotechmods]! After a long hiatus, he has returned to YouTube with an awesome new video all about op-amp characteristics, read more
- — An Elegant Writer for a More Civilized Age
- at 4/1/25 8:00pmOne of the most exciting trends weve seen over the last few years is the rise of truly personal computers that is, bespoke computing devices that are built by read more
- — A Forgotten Photographic Process Characterised
- at 4/1/25 5:00pmEarly photography lacked the convenience of the stable roll film we all know, and instead relied on a set of processes which the photographer would have to master from film read more
- — Malfunctional Timekeeping With The Vetinari Clock
- at 4/1/25 2:00pmLord Vetinari from the Discworld series is known for many things, but perhaps most of all a clock that doesnt quite keep continuous time. Instead, it ticks away at random read more
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