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Turning a GDB Coredump Debug Session Into a Murder Mystery Debugging an application crash can oftentimes feel like you’re an intrepid detective in a grimy noir detective story, tasked with figuring out the sordid details behind an ugly crime. Slogging …read more

Turning a GDB Coredump Debug Session Into a Murder Mystery

Blood Tests Could Provide Early Warning of Alzheimers Disease Alzheimer’s disease remains a frustratingly difficult condition to manage for the millions of patients affected worldwide and their families. The cause of the disease is still not properly understood, and …read more

Blood Tests Could Provide Early Warning of Alzheimers Disease

Power Control for a Busy Workbench Who among us does not have a plethora of mains-powered devices on their workbench, and a consequent mess of power strips to run them all? [Jeroen Brinkman] made his more …read more

Power Control for a Busy Workbench

The “Tin Blimp” Was a Neither Tin Nor a Blimp: The Detroit ZMC-2 Story After all the crashing and burning of Imperial Germany’s Zeppelins in the later part of WWI – once the Brits managed to build interceptors that could hit their lofty altitude, …read more

The “Tin Blimp” Was a Neither Tin Nor a Blimp: The Detroit ZMC-2 Story

Arduino’s New AI-Centric Board is the VENTUNO Q There have been many questions about what direction Arduino would take after being bought by Qualcomm. Now it would seem that we’re getting a clearer picture. Perhaps unsurprisingly the answer …read more

Arduino’s New AI-Centric Board is the VENTUNO Q

Diagnosing a Mysterious Fault with a Commodore 1541 Disk Drive Recently [TheRetroChannel] came across an interesting failure mode on a Commodore 1541 5.25″ floppy disk drive, in the form of the activity LED blinking just once after power-up with the …read more

Diagnosing a Mysterious Fault with a Commodore 1541 Disk Drive

Building a Class 100 Semiconductor Cleanroom Inside a Shed Most people see that garden shed as little more than a place to store some gardening tools in, but if you’re like [Dr. Semiconductor], then what you see is a …read more

Building a Class 100 Semiconductor Cleanroom Inside a Shed

Real-Time ISS Tracker Shows Off the Goods What hardware hacker doesn’t have a soft spot for transparent cases? While they may have fallen out of mainstream favor, they have an undeniable appeal to anyone with an interest …read more

Real-Time ISS Tracker Shows Off the Goods

Ask Hackaday: What Will An LLM Be Good For In The Plateau of Productivity? A friend of mine has been a software developer for most of the last five decades, and has worked with everything from 1960s mainframes to the machines of today. She …read more

Ask Hackaday: What Will An LLM Be Good For In The Plateau of Productivity?

Secure Communication, Buried In A News App Cryptography is a funny thing. Supposedly, if you do the right kind of maths to a message, you can send it off to somebody else, and as long as they’re …read more

Secure Communication, Buried In A News App

Reverse-Engineering the Bluetooth Fichero Thermal Label Printer Protocol It’s hard to deny that label printers have become more accessible than ever, but an annoying aspect of many of these cheap units is that their only user interface is …read more

Reverse-Engineering the Bluetooth Fichero Thermal Label Printer Protocol

Experiment With The Pi Camera The Modular Way The various Raspberry Pi camera modules have become the default digital camera hacker’s tool, and have appeared in a huge number of designs over the past decade. They’re versatile and …read more

Experiment With The Pi Camera The Modular Way

Hackaday Links: March 8, 2026 As pointed out by Tom’s Hardware, it’s been 26 years since the introduction of the gigahertz desktop CPU. AMD beat Intel to the punch by dropping the 1 GHz Athlon …read more

Hackaday Links: March 8, 2026

How Usable is Windows 98 in 2026? With the RAM and storage crisis hitting personal computing very hard – along with new software increasingly suffering the effects of metastasizing ‘AI’ – more people than ever are pining …read more

How Usable is Windows 98 in 2026?

Pulse Jet Ski Chases the Winter Blues Away A long winter has a way of making a lot of us northerners a little bit squirrly. In [Build N Pulsejets]’s case, squirly enough to mount a home-made propane-powered pulse-jet …read more

Pulse Jet Ski Chases the Winter Blues Away

Restoring a Commodore PET 3032 in Rough Condition The Commodore CBM 3032 is a successor to the original Commodore PET 2001, yet due a conflicting trademark issue with Philips these first European PETs were called ‘CBM’ instead. Hence …read more

Restoring a Commodore PET 3032 in Rough Condition

Building a Super-Compact Cistercian Numerals Clock Around the thirteenth century CE, European society was in the midst between transitioning from Roman numerals to the Arabic numerals that we use today. Less remembered are the Cistercian numerals, …read more

Building a Super-Compact Cistercian Numerals Clock

Quarterhorse vs Blackbird: Hermeus’ Flight Puts them One Step Closer to Record You’ve got to be ambitious to target a legend. If there’s one thing the folks at Hermeus Aerospace are, though, it’s ambitious: not only do they plan on their Quarterhorse …read more

Quarterhorse vs Blackbird: Hermeus’ Flight Puts them One Step Closer to Record

How the Chornobyl NPP Got Modernized in the 1990s During the 1990s the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant – formerly the Chernobyl NPP – continued operating with its remaining three RBMK reactors, but of course the 1970s-era automation with its …read more

How the Chornobyl NPP Got Modernized in the 1990s

The Tragic Demise of the Technirama Prism-Based Anamorphic Lens Although to the average person a camera lens is just that bit of glass you stick on the front of the camera to make stuff appear in focus, there’s a …read more

The Tragic Demise of the Technirama Prism-Based Anamorphic Lens

Instant Photography For The Maker Instant photography is a miracle of the analog age, chemical photographs that develop in your hands moments after the shutter has been pressed. You can buy instant cameras and film …read more

Instant Photography For The Maker

Choice, Control, and Interruption We were talking about [Maya Posch]’s rant on smartphones, “The Curse of the Everything Device”. Maya’s main point is that because the smartphone, or computer, can do everything, it’s hard …read more

Choice, Control, and Interruption

Fixing an Onkyo Receiver with Multiple Faults Modern-day receivers are miracles of digital audio and video processing, but compared to their more analog brethren, they can come with a host of new and fascinating faults. The Onkyo …read more

Fixing an Onkyo Receiver with Multiple Faults

How an Old Automatic Stoker was Hacked Onto a Modern Lancashire Boiler Hacks are of all ages, with the Victorian-era Claymills Pumping Station being no exception. When its old Lancashire boilers from the 19th century were  finally replaced with modern 1930s boilers, …read more

How an Old Automatic Stoker was Hacked Onto a Modern Lancashire Boiler

One Sailing Pulley To Rule Them All When thinking of humanity’s ability to harness wind energy, many people will conjure images of windmills from places like The Netherlands or Persia. But people have been using wind energy …read more

One Sailing Pulley To Rule Them All

The World’s Smallest Marble Clock With Pick and Place Arm Clocks come in many styles and sizes, with perhaps the most visually pleasing ones involving marbles. Watching these little spheres obey gravity and form clearly readable numbers on a clock …read more

The World’s Smallest Marble Clock With Pick and Place Arm

Hackaday Podcast Episode 360: Cool Rubber Bands, Science-y Stuff, and the Whys of Office Supplies This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over assorted beverages to bring you the latest news, mystery sound results show, and of course, a big bunch of …read more

Hackaday Podcast Episode 360: Cool Rubber Bands, Science-y Stuff, and the Whys of Office Supplies

Reverse Engineering the PROM for the SGI O2 The SGI O2 was SGI’s last-ditch attempt at a low-end MIPS-based workstation back in 1996, and correspondingly didn’t use the hottest parts of the time, nor did it offer much …read more

Reverse Engineering the PROM for the SGI O2

This Week In Security: Getting Back Up to Speed Editor’s Note: Over the course of nearly 300 posts, Jonathan Bennett set a very high bar for this column, so we knew it needed to be placed in the hands …read more

This Week In Security: Getting Back Up to Speed

Linux Hotplug Events Explained There was a time when Linux was much simpler. You’d load a driver, it would find your device at boot up, or it wouldn’t. That was it. Now, though, people …read more

Linux Hotplug Events Explained