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3D Printed Cubes Provide Passive Cooling

Published: September 4, 2026 15:30

Passive evaporative cooling has been used for centuries to reduce temperatures. Heat is drawn off as water evaporates, which in turn reduces temperature. The more efficiently this process happens the …read more

This Week in Security: Baked-in Malware, Freezers Not Freezing, Zoom Snoops Clipboards, and AI Makes Things Worse, Faster

Published: September 4, 2026 14:00

The AI platform ServiceNow which offers both hosted and on-premises versions just patched a trifecta of CVSS-10 vulnerabilities. CVSS rankings are determined by the severity of a flaw, the ease …read more

Tube Launch Boosts Rocket’s Performance

Published: September 4, 2026 05:00

If you want improve a model rocket’s performance, all the common options come with serious trade-offs: you could increase the motor’s size, which raises safety issues, or you could cut …read more

How to Avoid Getting Arc Flashed

Published: September 3, 2026 23:00

After getting called out in the field to troubleshoot a large PV solar installation, [Derek] found himself suddenly in the midst of an arc flash, causing burns all over his …read more

Switch Mod Fixes Fiddly Car Door Projector

Published: September 3, 2026 05:00

While the Citroën logo they project onto the pavement looks great, [OrangeTungsten] wasn’t thrilled with how their door-mounted projectors actually functioned. The mechanism for detecting when they should kick on …read more

Has FDM 3D Printing Hit Its Peak?

Published: September 3, 2026 02:00

Over the time Hackaday has been in existence, the art of 3D printing has evolved from a relatively crude hit-and-miss affair to something approaching what we all imagined back then. …read more

Doubling Thermal Printer Resolution by Wiggling

Published: September 2, 2026 23:00

Thermal printers are still extremely common today, using small heating elements in combination with temperature-sensitive paper to create a dot matrix-like effect without messing with ink ribbons and complex mechanisms. …read more

How a 1981 RAM Expansion Worked

Published: September 2, 2026 15:30

Sir Clive Sinclair and his company were notorious for pushing the limits of electronic parts in search of a low price, and his ZX series 8-bit computers were fine examples …read more

HDMI For the Color Computer 2

Published: September 2, 2026 11:00

[Scott Baker] bought a TRS-80 Color Computer off eBay some five years ago. He’d always intended to add a CoCoVGA or CoCoDV upgrade to hook it up to a monitor, …read more

A Defrag Simulator In Your Browser

Published: September 2, 2026 05:00

Disk Defragmenter was a wonderful utility that Microsoft included with Windows back in the day. Back then, you’d use it to theoretically speed up disk access. Today, you can run …read more

Haiku OS Releases Beta 6

Published: September 2, 2026 02:00

After just a little over 25 years of the Haiku project trying to keep the BeOS spirit alive, the team has now released Beta 6. The spicy details of what …read more

Building An Airsoft Claymore Mine

Published: September 1, 2026 23:00

The Claymore mine is a rather fearsome weapon of war, using explosives to blast a cone of shrapnel towards advancing enemies. It’s not really something you should try and build …read more

It’s Teletext, But On The Radio

Published: September 1, 2026 15:30

Old-school teletext with its pixelated text and block graphics may now be largely a thing of the past, but that doesn’t mean it’s without enthusiasts or there’s no more life …read more

ReactOS Gets An Upgrade

Published: September 1, 2026 02:00

A perennial in the esoteric operating system space is ReactOS, a project with its roots in the 1990s which is doing a pretty good job of creating an open source …read more

Simulating UAVs In Unreal Engine

Published: August 31, 2026 18:30

When it comes to building real-world flying vehicles, testing can be arduous and expensive. You have to find somewhere to fly, then you have to contend with environmental conditions and …read more

What’s Mu Metal?

Published: August 31, 2026 14:00

If you tear into old TVs or recording equipment, you may see shields made from some exotic-looking metal. Old timers will tell you it’s called mu metal, and its purpose …read more

Digital “Film” For Your Pi Camera

Published: August 31, 2026 11:00

The formula of a Raspberry Pi camera is such that it’s almost a self-assembly kit of parts. Over the years we’ve seen a lot of attempts to make one that’s …read more

Hackaday Links: August 30, 2026

Published: August 30, 2026 23:00

The big news today is, of course, the successful launch and deployment of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope earlier this morning. The space agency’s latest observatory lifted off at …read more

Fat Tire Brakes Get Wireless Upgrade

Published: August 30, 2026 02:00

At first glance, wireless brakes seem like a recipe for disaster. For something as critical as braking, many bicyclists might prefer a physical connection to their method of safely controlling …read more

Same As It Ever Was

Published: August 29, 2026 14:00

Whether you like it or not, the use of LLMs to write code is kind of a big deal at the moment. We’ve been asking ourselves what, if anything, this …read more

Playing Snake with a Pneumatic Display

Published: August 29, 2026 05:00

[soiboi soft]’s vacuum-driven dot matrix display is part suction gripper, part touchscreen, and altogether impressive. Its display capabilities are entirely shadow-based, with each pixel being made of a cavity behind …read more

DOOM Played on Series of 555 Timers

Published: August 28, 2026 20:00

It’s technically true that any piece of software can be reproduced in hardware, although modern software’s size and complexity generally makes this a non-starter. But if we go far enough …read more

Casting Engine Parts from 3D Prints

Published: August 28, 2026 18:30

After building a couple of internal combustion engines by milling billet aluminium stock and cringing at the absolute waste of material this created, [Camden Bowen] figured he’d give casting metal …read more

Support Bath Enables an Epoxy Benchy

Published: August 28, 2026 05:00

There’s plenty of substances that can theoretically be extruded from a nozzle, but only a regrettably small subset of them can actually be used for 3D printing. One limiting factor …read more