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The “Unbreakable” Beer Glasses Of East Germany

We like drinking out of glass. In many ways, it’s an ideal material for the job....

Parametric Design Process Produces Unique Speakers

When building one-off projects, it’s common to draw up a plan on a sheet of pape...

USB Stick Hides Large Language Model

Large language models (LLMs) are all the rage in the generative AI world these d...

DaVinci’s New Threads

Last year, we saw [How To Make Everything’s] take on [DaVinci’s] machine for cut...

Using Antimony To Make Qubits More Stable

One of the problems with quantum bits, or “qubits”, is that they tend to be rath...

Hackaday Links: February 16, 2025

Just when you thought the saga of the Bitcoin wallet lost in a Welsh landfill wa...

How Hard is it to Write a Calculator App?

How hard can it be to write a simple four-function calculator program? After all...

Graphene Tattoos: The Future of Continuous Health Monit...

In the near future, imagine a world where your health is continuously monitored,...

[Quinn Dunki] Makes a Screw Shortener Fit for Kings

It’s common problem when you’re building anything with screws: this one is too l...

Piano Gets an Arduino Implant

[Paul] likes his piano, but he doesn’t know how to play it. The obvious answer: ...

Scrapyard Vacuum Dehydrator Sucks the Water from Hydrau...

Anyone who has ever had the misfortune of a blown head gasket knows that the old...

Curious Claim of Conversion of Aluminium into Transpare...

Sometimes you come across a purported scientific paper that makes you do a tripl...

Chop, Chop, Chop: Trying Out VR for Woodworking

Virtual Reality in woodworking sounds like a recipe for disaster—or at least a f...

You Know This Font, But You Don’t Really Know It

Typography enthusiasts reach a point at which they can recognise a font after se...

Octet of ESP32s Lets You See WiFi Like Never Before

Most of us see the world in a very narrow band of the EM spectrum. Sure, there a...

How To Find Where a Wire in a Cable is Broken

Determining that a cable has a broken conductor is the easy part, but where exac...

Valentine’s Day…Hacks?

How do you reconcile your love for hacking projects together with your love for ...

Adding USB-C (Kinda) to a PowerMac G4

For those who’ve never bitten the Apple, the PowerMac G4 was a blue-tinted deskt...

Game Bub Plays ROMs and Cartridges

With today’s technology, emulating video game consoles from the 90s or before is...

A Guide to Making the Right Microcontroller Choice

Starting a new microcontroller project can be pretty daunting. While you have at...

Most Energetic Cosmic Neutrino Ever Observed by KM3NeT ...

On February 13th of 2023, ARCA of the kilometre cubic neutrino telescope (KM3NeT...

Magnetic Vise Makes Positioning Your Workpiece Easier

[Chris Borge] was doing some fine tapping operations, and wanted a better way to...

3DBenchy Sets Sail into the Public Domain

Good news for everyone who cannot get enough from improbably shaped boats that g...

Satellite Internet On 80s Hardware

Portability has been a goal of a sizable section of the computing world for many...

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