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The longest-running hardware hacking blog on the internet, going strong since 2004. Hackaday covers everything from ESP32 projects and 3D-printed contraptions to retrocomputing deep dives and reverse engineering teardowns. The writing treats every project — from a blinking LED to a custom CPU — with the same genuine enthusiasm. It's the kind of site that makes you want to go build something.
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Embossing Precision Ball Joints for a Micromanipulator
[Diffraction Limited] has been working on a largely 3D-printed micropositioner for some time now, and previously reached a resolution of about 50 nanometers. There was still room for improvement, though, and his latest iteration improves the linkage arms by embossing tiny ball joints into them. The micro-manipulator, which we’ve covered before, uses three sets of parallel rod linkages to move a platform. Each end of each rod rotates on a ball joint. In the previous iteration, the parallel rods...
Vape-powered Car Isn’t Just Blowing Smoke
Disposable vapes aren’t quite the problem/resource stream they once were, with many jurisdictions moving to ban the absurdly wasteful little devices, but there are still a lot of slightly-smelly lithium batteries in the wild. You might be forgiven for thinking that most of them seem to be in [Chris Doel]’s UK workshop, given that he’s now cruising around what has to be the world’s only vape-powered car. Technically, anyway; some motorheads might object to calling donor ve...
FLOSS Weekly Episode 865: Multiplayer Firewall
This week Jonathan chats with Philippe Humeau about Crowdsec! That company created a Web Application Firewall as on Open Source project, and now runs it as a Multiplayer Firewall. What does that mean, and how has it worked out as a business concept? Watch to find out! https://github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec https://crowdsec.net https://www.linkedin.com/company/53443483 Did you know you can watch the live recording of the show right on our YouTube Channel? Have someone you’d like us t...
Linux Fu: The USB WiFi Dongle Exercise
The TX50U isn’t very Linux-friendly If you’ve used Linux for a long time, you know that we are spoiled these days. Getting a new piece of hardware back in the day was often a horrible affair, requiring custom kernels and lots of work. Today, it should be easier. The default drivers on most distros cover a lot of ground, kernel modules make adding drivers easier, and dkms can automate the building of modules for specific kernels, even if it isn’t perfect. So ordering a cheap WiF...
Success With FreeDOS on a Modern Platform
Last summer we took a look at FreeDOS as part of the Daily Drivers series, and found a faster and more complete successor to the DOS of old. The sojourn into the 16-bit OS wasn’t perfect though, as we couldn’t find drivers for the 2010-era network card on our newly DOS-ified netbook. Here’s [Inkbox] following the same path, and bringing with it a fix for that networking issue. The video below is an affectionate look at the OS alongside coding a TRON clone in assembler, and it s...
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