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Airborne Particle Monitoring, the BIG way ift.tt/V1Zw4Ec

Airborne Particle Monitoring, The BIG Way

Airborne micro particles can be a significant health hazard in a workshop, and thus it’s important to maintain a high standard of ventilation. But monitoring their concentration is also impor…

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How a Single University Project Started Everything ift.tt/aghDvYS

How A Single University Project Started Everything

If we care to cast an eye over the history of ubiquitous personal computing as we know it today, we might immediately point at the original IBM PC. After all, for most of us our machines share back…

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2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Explore Space with a Credit Card Reader ift.tt/WOHcKL3

2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Explore Space With A Credit Card Reader

The humble credit card reader — most of us have used hundreds, perhaps even thousands of them over the years. But even for folks like us, it’s not the sort of device we give a lot of th…

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Where Did Your Mouse Come From? ift.tt/kMKsgSr

Where Did Your Mouse Come From?

Many readers will be familiar with Douglas Englebart’s 1968 so-called “Mother of All Demos”, in which he described many of the devices and technologies we would be using two or th…

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How Bad Is That Bridge: A Government Database ift.tt/B5kzVqN

How Bad Is That Bridge: A Government Database

Bridges! We kind of expect them to just be there and do their job, ad infinitum. They are built into the landscape, and we often take them and the routes they open up for granted. The reality, as a…

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SIMD-accelerated Machine Vision on an ESP32-S3 hackaday.com/2026/10/27/simd…

SIMD-accelerated Machine Vision On An ESP32-S3

Recently [shraiwi] decided to have a bit of good nerdy fun and implement the FAST machine vision algorithm on an ESP32-S3 using its SIMD ISA. This involves using the assembly instructions for the I…

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ESP32 Rotary Display Makes Ideal Timer ift.tt/vao5GVL

ESP32 Rotary Display Makes Ideal Timer

We’re big fans of pushing hardware into situations it wasn’t designed for here at Hackaday, but sometimes you’ve got to appreciate a nicely designed gadget doing more or less exac…

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The Oldest Windows App To Still Run On WIndows 11 ift.tt/oHFvnhO

The Oldest Windows App To Still Run On WIndows 11

In the open source world we are used to software being compiled from source for our particular distro, so while in a few cases an ancient release may still be in use, it’s just going to run o…

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In Praise Of A Legendary Power Transistor ift.tt/kQRUWSI

In Praise Of A Legendary Power Transistor

There are some devices which achieve electronic immortality, it’s likely that you have used a few of them yourself. The 555 timer of course, or the 741 op-amp. [ElectronicsNotes] is here with…

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Enable Resizable BAR on Unsupported Motherboards ift.tt/uzPaGdy

Enable Resizable BAR On Unsupported Motherboards

Recently [Rod Burlamaqui] released the arc-rebar project on GitHub, enabling Intel GPUs to work significantly more efficiently if the system’s mainboard does not support resizable BAR. It doe…

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Practice Japanese on an Inkplate 4Tempera eInk Device ift.tt/lLYC0xi

Practice Japanese On An Inkplate 4Tempera EInk Device

Learning a new natural language can be a daunting proposition at the best of times, with repetition and immersion generally considered to be the best ways to build up not only vocabulary but also t…

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Arduino Engine Runs Many Games ift.tt/mnqoILz

Arduino Engine Runs Many Games

A few years ago, [Smashcat] ported a ZX Spectrum game called Manic Miner to the Arduino Uno. The Arduino has less memory than the original Spectrum did, so doing all this on an 8-bit microcontrolle…

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BMW i3 Mod Brings Small Trucks to the EV Future ift.tt/rjCvKql

BMW I3 Mod Brings Small Trucks To The EV Future

Trucks are handy, especially if you’ve got messy or dirty loads, but there aren’t a lot of options if you want a small electric pickup yet. [Michael Pick] decided to convert a BMW i3 in…

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The Fascinating World of IrDA and Other Infrared Protocols ift.tt/zC0BRAs

The Fascinating World Of IrDA And Other Infrared Protocols

Infrared (IR) communication technologies are probably one of the most influential, yet also one of the least flashiest. The fact that IR communication tends to be highly directional and often limit…

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Hiding Virtualization From Other Software ift.tt/FWG1MEd

Hiding Virtualization From Other Software

The Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) allows Linux systems to function as hypervisors without needing any extra software, but VMs created with it don’t behave exactly like real hardware does…

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Hairy Armor For Combat Robot? It’s Not Terrible! ift.tt/nd0xXby

Hairy Armor For Combat Robot? It’s Not Terrible!

[Angus] of Maker’s Muse enjoys combat robotics, in which contenders zip about in an arena, attempting to disable one another with weapons that lift, spin, and smash. He got a funny idea a sho…

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Building a Swashplate-less Helicoper Rotor ift.tt/5POgB4k

Building A Swashplate-less Helicoper Rotor

A helicopter blade uses a swash plate and a set of linkages to change the angle of the blades. Not only does it vary the collective pitch to increase or decrease thrust, but it varies each blade’s …

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Transforming a Tungsten Ditelluride Monolayer into a Transistor ift.tt/Af82M3t

Transforming A Tungsten Ditelluride Monolayer Into A Transistor

In the world of silicon semiconductors, the process of creating transistors and similar structures involves various rounds of modifications and additions in order to create the requisite functional…

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Forget Xbox Live... Sega was way ahead of the curve when it came to getting consoles online. hackaday.com/2026/04/02/sega…

Sega Meganet: Online Gaming In 1990

It’s easy to think of online console gaming as an invention of the 2000s. Microsoft made waves when Xbox Live dropped in 2002, with Nintendo and Sony scrambling to catch up with their own off…

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Hackaday Links: October 25, 2026 ift.tt/klN8iKz

Hackaday Links: October 25, 2026

Some disappointing, but perhaps not entirely unsurprising news this week out of Denmark — after announcing last year that they would transition away from Microsoft’s proprietary softwar…

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