Back To Basics: Hacking On Key Matrixes

A lot of making goes on in this community these days, but sometimes you’ve just gotta do some old fashioned hacking. You might have grabbed an old Speak and Spell that …read more

LED Printers: The Quiet Achievers You May Not Have Heard Of

Many different types of printers have entered the market over the years. Most of us are intimately familiar with the common inkjet and laser, both of which can be found …read more

Accidental Climate Engineering With Disintegrating Satellites

For many decades humankind has entertained the notion that we can maybe tweak the Earth’s atmosphere or biosphere in such a way that we can for example undo the harms …read more

Hackaday Links: March 1, 2026

We’ll start this week off with a bit of controversy from Linux Land. Anyone who’s ever used the sudo command knows that you don’t see any kind of visual feedback …read more

The Joys Of 3D Printing

Al and I were talking on the podcast today about a sweet 3D printed wide-format camera build, and we got to musing on why we 3D-print. For Al, it’s an …read more

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Using A Solid-State Elastocaloric Cooler To Freeze Water

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By Maya Posch | March 5, 2026

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
Running Video Through A Guitar Effects Pedal

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By Lewin Day | March 4, 2026

Guitar pedals are designed to take in a sound signal, do fun stuff to it, and then spit it out to your amplifier where it hopefully impresses other people. However, …read more
Trying A Vibe-Coded Operating System

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By Maya Posch | March 4, 2026

If you were to read the README of the Vib-OS project on GitHub, you’d see it advertised as a Unix-like OS that was written from scratch, runs on ARM64 and …read more
Embossing Precision Ball Joints For A Micromanipulator

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By Aaron Beckendorf | March 4, 2026

[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, …read more
Vape-powered Car Isn’t Just Blowing Smoke

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By Tyler August | March 4, 2026

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
FLOSS Weekly Episode 865: Multiplayer Firewall

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By Jonathan Bennett | March 4, 2026

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
Linux Fu: The USB WiFi Dongle Exercise

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By Al Williams | March 4, 2026

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

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