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This Printed Zipper Repair Requires No Unsewing If a zipper breaks, a 3D printer might not be the first tool one reaches for — but it’s more feasible than one might think. MisterJ]’s zipper slider replacement is […read more
15.03.2026 02:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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GNU Radio Gets a Makeover With PimpMyGRC idealdealy] had a problem. GNU Radio Companion was proving to be a powerful tool, but it just didn’t look… cool enough. The solution? A custom bit of software called PimpMyGRC, designed […read more
14.03.2026 23:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Take Pi for a Spin in this Orbital Simulator It’s Pi Day, and while we know that many of you celebrate privately, those that take a moment to put aside their contemplation of all things circular and join us …read more
14.03.2026 20:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Off-Grid Electricity and Hot Water from Scrap Wood Cooking with charcoal is a fairly common human activity, as much as others have come to prefer fuels like propane and propane accessories for their outdoor, summertime grilling. Although it’s …read more
14.03.2026 17:00 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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What is a Computer? On the podcast, Tom] and I were talking about the new generation of smartphones which are, at least in terms of RAM and CPU speed, on par with a decent […read more
14.03.2026 14:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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If You Like The Sound of a Thermoacoustic Stirling Engine, Check Out These Plans My Engines] has been doing some sterling work on Stirling engines for some years now. Their thermoacoustic engine is now finally far enough along to open-source, so the magic of […read more
14.03.2026 11:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Shockley 4-Layer Diode In 2026 The physicist William Shockley is perhaps today best known for three things: his role in the invention of the transistor, his calamitous management of Shockley Semiconductor which led to a …read more
14.03.2026 08:00 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Porting MS-DOS 2.0 to the Apple IIe Although the Apple II range of computers were based around the 6502 processor, they could still run x86 software using expansion cards that were effectively self-contained computers. This way an …read more
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Ford, Take Note: Classic Pickup Becomes the EV We Want Ford does sell an electric pickup, but not very many of them. We can’t say for sure, but it’s possible that if the F150 Lightning had the classic cool of …read more
14.03.2026 02:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Making a Bladeless Tesla Turbine Generator in Lego The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal-flow turbine invented by Nikola Tesla in 1913, using the boundary-layer effect rather than having a stream of gases or a fluid impinge on …read more
13.03.2026 23:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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No More Paperweight: This Vintage Brick Phone Is Back Online Remember those brick cellphones in the 1990s? They were comically large by today’s standards. These phones used the 1G network to communicate and, as such, have been unusable for decades …read more
13.03.2026 20:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hackaday Podcast Episode 361: Hackaday Podcast Mailbag, A Phone is Not a Computer, 3D Printing History is New Again Join Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi as they cover their favorite hacks and stories from the week. The episode kicks off with some updates about Hackaday Europe and …read more
13.03.2026 17:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Running a PC off AA Cells With Buck Converters Really Boosts Performance After the previous attempt of running a PC off AA cells got a lot of comments, ScuffedBits] decided to do the scientifically responsible thing and re-ran the experiment with all […read more
13.03.2026 15:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Perfecting the Shape-Changing Fruit Bowl Fruit bowls have an unavoidable annoyance– not flies and rotten fruit, those would be avoidable if your diet was better. No, it’s that the bowl is never the right size. …read more
13.03.2026 08:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Nintendo’s Family BASIC Keyboard Gets USB Upgrade America knew it as the Nintendo Entertainment System, but in Japan, it was the Family Computer (Famicom). It was more than just a home console—it was intended to actually do …read more
13.03.2026 05:00 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Replicating a Nuclear Event Detector For Fun and Probably Not Profit Last year, we brought you a story about the BhangmeterV2, an internet-of-things nuclear war monitor. With a cold-war-era HSN-1000 nuclear event detector at its heart, it had one job: announce …read more
13.03.2026 02:00 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Building a Robot Partner to Play Air Hockey With Air hockey is one of those sports that’s both incredibly fun, but also incredibly frustrating as playing it by yourself is a rather lonely and unfulfilling experience. This is where …read more
12.03.2026 23:00 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Mapping The Sound Field Of An Acoustic Levitator Sound! It’s a thing you hear, moreso than something you see with your eyes. And yet, it is possible to visualize sound with various techniques. PlasmatronX] demonstrates this well, using […read more
12.03.2026 20:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How Would a Field Sequential Home Computer Have Worked? The early history of colour TV had several false starts, of which perhaps one of the most interesting might-have-beens was the CBS field-sequential system. This was a rival to the …read more
12.03.2026 18:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Controlling Vintage Mac OS With AI Classic Mac OS was prized for its clean, accessible GUI when it first hit the scene in the 1980s. Back then, developers hadn’t even conceived of all the weird gewgaws …read more
12.03.2026 15:30 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Pokemon Go Had Players Capturing More Than They Realized Released in 2016, Pokemon Go quickly became a worldwide phenomenon. Even folks who weren’t traditionally interested in the monster-taming franchise were wandering around with their smartphones out, on the hunt …read more
12.03.2026 14:00 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Selective Ironing Adds Designs To 3D Prints While working on a project that involved super-thin prints, Julius Curt] came up with selective ironing, a way to put designs on the top surface of a print without adding […read more
12.03.2026 11:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Open Source Radar Has Up To 20 KM Range Phased-array radars are great for all sorts of things, whether you’re doing advanced radio research or piloting a fifth-generation combat aircraft. They’re also typically very expensive. Nawfal] hopes to make […read more
12.03.2026 08:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Radio Power Amplifier for Not a Lot When building a radio transmitter, unless it’s a very small one indeed, there’s a need for an amplifier before the antenna. This is usually referred to as the power amplifier, …read more
12.03.2026 05:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hands on with Creality’s new M1 Filament Maker Ever since 3D printing has become a popular tool, the question of waste has been looming in the background. The sad reality of rapid prototyping is that you’re going to …read more
12.03.2026 02:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Printing an Underwater Diving Helmet With Floating Air Supply Old-school diving helmets are deceivingly simple, even if they are – as Hyperspace Pirate] puts it in a recent video – essentially the equivalent of an upside-down bucket with an […read more
11.03.2026 23:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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3D Printing a Harmonic Pin-Ring Gearing Drive Cycloidal drives are a type of speed reducer that are significantly more compact than gearboxes, but they still come with a fair number of components. In comparison, the harmonic pin-ring …read more
11.03.2026 20:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Are We Finally At The Point Where Phones Can Replace Computers? There was an ideal of convergence, a long time ago, when one device would be all you need, digitally speaking. ETA Prime] on YouTube seems to think we’ve reached that […read more
11.03.2026 18:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Mini Multi-Arcade Game Cabinets with an ESP32 and Galagino Most people love arcade games, but putting a full-sized arcade cabinet in the living room can lead to certain unpleasant complications. Ergo the market for fun-sized cabinets has exploded alongside …read more
11.03.2026 11:00 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Calculator Case to Scratch-Built Pocket E-Reader E-readers are an awesome creation allowing you to display digital information in a way that requires little battery life. While there’s plenty of very impressive models to chose from on …read more
11.03.2026 08:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0