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Using pitot tubes for more than aircraft

When we hear the words “pitot tube,” we tend to think more of airplanes than of ...

MiSTer For Mortals: Meet the Multisystem 2

If you’ve ever squinted at a DE10-Nano wondering where the fun part begins, you’...

In Memory of Ed Smylie, Whose Famous Hack Saved the Apo...

Some hacks are so great that when you die you receive the rare honor of both an ...

Designing A Hobbyist’s Semiconductor Dopant

[ProjectsInFlight] has been on a mission to make his own semiconductors for abou...

Hackaday Links: May 18, 2025

Saw what you want about the wisdom of keeping a 50-year-old space mission going,...

Speed Up Arduino with Clever Coding

We love Arduino here at Hackaday; they’ve probably done more to make embedded pr...

Christmas Comes Early With AI Santa Demo

With only two hundred odd days ’til Christmas, you just know we’re already feeli...

Magnetohydrodynamic Motors to Spin Satellites

Almost all satellites have some kind of thrusters aboard, but they tend to use t...

Casting Shade on “Shade-Tolerant” Solar Panels

Shade is the mortal enemy of solar panels; even a little shade can cause a dispr...

MCP Blender Addon Lets AI Take the Wheel and Wield the ...

Want to give an AI the ability to do stuff in Blender? The BlenderMCP addon does...

Escaping US Tech Giants Leads European YouTuber to Open...

The video (embedded below) by [TechAltar] is titled “1 Month without US tech gia...

The Lost 256 KB Japanese ROM for the MacIntosh Plus Has...

The Apple MacIntosh Plus was one of the most long-lived Apple computers and saw ...

Determine Fundamental Constants with LEDs and a Multimeter

There are (probably) less than two dozen fundemental constants that define the p...

This Extra-Large, Two-Stage Fume Extractor Really Sucks

Solder fumes are not nice on the lungs; nor are fumes from superglue, epoxy, or ...

Zen Flute is a Teensy Powered Mouth Theramin

An intriguing mouth-played instrument emerged—and won—at the 2023 Guthman Musica...

Open Source Hiding in Plain Sight

On the podcast, [Tom] and I were talking about the continuing saga of the libogc...

Animated Widgets On Apple Devices via a Neat Backdoor

If you’ve ever looked at widgets on your iPhone, you’ve probably noticed they’re...

Making Sure the Basement Stays Dry with an ESP8266

The hack we have for you today is among our most favorite types of hack: a good,...

Hack Aims for Polaroid, Hits Game Boy Camera Sweet Spot

There’s just some joy in an instant camera. They were never quality cameras, eve...

Moon Phase Flip Clock is Fantastic

We love clocks, but we especially love unusual timepieces that aren’t just about...

New Bismuth Transistor Runs 40% Faster and Uses 10% Les...

Recently in material science news from China we hear that [Hailin Peng] and his ...

A Portable M4 Mac mini

The Mac mini is the closest to an Apple-based SBC you can get, so it lends itsel...

The Screamer Is Just Like The Clapper But Even More Ann...

Remember The Clapper? It was a home automation tool (of sorts) that let you turn...

ChatGPT & Me. ChatGPT Is Me!

For a while now part of my email signature has been a quote from a Hackaday comm...

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