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Experiment With The Pi Camera The Modular Way The various Raspberry Pi camera modules have become the default digital camera hacker’s tool, and have appeared in a huge number of designs over the past decade. They’re versatile and …read more

Experiment With The Pi Camera The Modular Way

Hackaday Links: March 8, 2026 As pointed out by Tom’s Hardware, it’s been 26 years since the introduction of the gigahertz desktop CPU. AMD beat Intel to the punch by dropping the 1 GHz Athlon …read more

Hackaday Links: March 8, 2026

How Usable is Windows 98 in 2026? With the RAM and storage crisis hitting personal computing very hard – along with new software increasingly suffering the effects of metastasizing ‘AI’ – more people than ever are pining …read more

How Usable is Windows 98 in 2026?

Pulse Jet Ski Chases the Winter Blues Away A long winter has a way of making a lot of us northerners a little bit squirrly. In [Build N Pulsejets]’s case, squirly enough to mount a home-made propane-powered pulse-jet …read more

Pulse Jet Ski Chases the Winter Blues Away

Restoring a Commodore PET 3032 in Rough Condition The Commodore CBM 3032 is a successor to the original Commodore PET 2001, yet due a conflicting trademark issue with Philips these first European PETs were called ‘CBM’ instead. Hence …read more

Restoring a Commodore PET 3032 in Rough Condition

Building a Super-Compact Cistercian Numerals Clock Around the thirteenth century CE, European society was in the midst between transitioning from Roman numerals to the Arabic numerals that we use today. Less remembered are the Cistercian numerals, …read more

Building a Super-Compact Cistercian Numerals Clock

Quarterhorse vs Blackbird: Hermeus’ Flight Puts them One Step Closer to Record You’ve got to be ambitious to target a legend. If there’s one thing the folks at Hermeus Aerospace are, though, it’s ambitious: not only do they plan on their Quarterhorse …read more

Quarterhorse vs Blackbird: Hermeus’ Flight Puts them One Step Closer to Record

How the Chornobyl NPP Got Modernized in the 1990s During the 1990s the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant – formerly the Chernobyl NPP – continued operating with its remaining three RBMK reactors, but of course the 1970s-era automation with its …read more

How the Chornobyl NPP Got Modernized in the 1990s

The Tragic Demise of the Technirama Prism-Based Anamorphic Lens Although to the average person a camera lens is just that bit of glass you stick on the front of the camera to make stuff appear in focus, there’s a …read more

The Tragic Demise of the Technirama Prism-Based Anamorphic Lens

Instant Photography For The Maker Instant photography is a miracle of the analog age, chemical photographs that develop in your hands moments after the shutter has been pressed. You can buy instant cameras and film …read more

Instant Photography For The Maker

Choice, Control, and Interruption We were talking about [Maya Posch]’s rant on smartphones, “The Curse of the Everything Device”. Maya’s main point is that because the smartphone, or computer, can do everything, it’s hard …read more

Choice, Control, and Interruption

Fixing an Onkyo Receiver with Multiple Faults Modern-day receivers are miracles of digital audio and video processing, but compared to their more analog brethren, they can come with a host of new and fascinating faults. The Onkyo …read more

Fixing an Onkyo Receiver with Multiple Faults

How an Old Automatic Stoker was Hacked Onto a Modern Lancashire Boiler Hacks are of all ages, with the Victorian-era Claymills Pumping Station being no exception. When its old Lancashire boilers from the 19th century were  finally replaced with modern 1930s boilers, …read more

How an Old Automatic Stoker was Hacked Onto a Modern Lancashire Boiler

One Sailing Pulley To Rule Them All When thinking of humanity’s ability to harness wind energy, many people will conjure images of windmills from places like The Netherlands or Persia. But people have been using wind energy …read more

One Sailing Pulley To Rule Them All

The World’s Smallest Marble Clock With Pick and Place Arm Clocks come in many styles and sizes, with perhaps the most visually pleasing ones involving marbles. Watching these little spheres obey gravity and form clearly readable numbers on a clock …read more

The World’s Smallest Marble Clock With Pick and Place Arm

Hackaday Podcast Episode 360: Cool Rubber Bands, Science-y Stuff, and the Whys of Office Supplies This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over assorted beverages to bring you the latest news, mystery sound results show, and of course, a big bunch of …read more

Hackaday Podcast Episode 360: Cool Rubber Bands, Science-y Stuff, and the Whys of Office Supplies

Reverse Engineering the PROM for the SGI O2 The SGI O2 was SGI’s last-ditch attempt at a low-end MIPS-based workstation back in 1996, and correspondingly didn’t use the hottest parts of the time, nor did it offer much …read more

Reverse Engineering the PROM for the SGI O2

This Week In Security: Getting Back Up to Speed Editor’s Note: Over the course of nearly 300 posts, Jonathan Bennett set a very high bar for this column, so we knew it needed to be placed in the hands …read more

This Week In Security: Getting Back Up to Speed

Linux Hotplug Events Explained There was a time when Linux was much simpler. You’d load a driver, it would find your device at boot up, or it wouldn’t. That was it. Now, though, people …read more

Linux Hotplug Events Explained

California’s Problematic Attempt to add Age-Verification to Software Last year California’s Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043) was signed into law, requiring among other things that operating system providers implement an API for age verification purposes. With the …read more

California’s Problematic Attempt to add Age-Verification to Software

Railway End Table Powered By Hand Crank Most end tables that you might find in a home are relatively static objects. However, [Peter Waldraff] of Tiny World Studios likes to build furniture that’s a little more interesting. …read more

Railway End Table Powered By Hand Crank

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Beginner’s Guide to Split Keyboards Curious about split keyboards, but overwhelmed by the myriad options for every little thing? You should start with [thehaikuza]’s excellent Beginner’s Guide to Split Keyboards. Your education begins with the …read more

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Beginner’s Guide to Split Keyboards

A Live ISO For Those Vibe Coding Experiments Vibe coding is all the rage at the moment if you follow certain parts of the Internet. It’s very easy to dunk upon it, whether it’s to mock the sea …read more

A Live ISO For Those Vibe Coding Experiments

SpyTech: The Underwater Wire Tap In the 1970s, the USSR had an undersea cable connecting a major naval base at Petropavlovsk to the Pacific Fleet headquarters at Vladivostok. The cable traversed the Sea of Okhotsk, …read more

SpyTech: The Underwater Wire Tap

Using a Solid-State Elastocaloric Cooler to Freeze Water Elastocaloric materials are a class of materials that exhibit a big change in temperature when exposed to mechanical stress. This could potentially make them useful as solid-state replacement for both …read more

Using a Solid-State Elastocaloric Cooler to Freeze Water

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 …read more

Vape-powered Car Isn’t Just Blowing Smoke

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 …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 865: Multiplayer Firewall

Linux Fu: The USB WiFi Dongle Exercise 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 …read more

Linux Fu: The USB WiFi Dongle Exercise

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 …read more

Success With FreeDOS on a Modern Platform

New Artemis Plan Returns to Apollo Playbook In their recent announcement, NASA has made official what pretty much anyone following the Artemis lunar program could have told you years ago — humans won’t be landing on the …read more

New Artemis Plan Returns to Apollo Playbook