AI Book Scanning: Just What Is A Rare Book?

One of the stories of the last few weeks has been that AI companies have been scanning books in very large numbers in order to train their models with content …read more

Anatomy Of An SLA Resin Printing Disaster

When I got back into SLA resin printing recently, I knew that I’d inevitably have to deal with the agony of failed prints and of course resin spills. This moment …read more

Tech In Plain Sight: Vacuum Blood Collection

If you’re blessed enough that you haven’t had blood drawn in a while, you might not have thought much about the process. You might imagine that a needle goes in, …read more

An Early History Of Space Stations: Where’s My Wheel?

Last time we found out the idea of space stations is surprisingly old. By the 1950s, everyone knew we’d be working in beautiful space stations that rotated like a wheel …read more

Hackaday Links: August 23, 2026

We’ll start this week off with some disappointing, though not entirely unexpected, news — the ambitious commercial mission to save NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is officially a bust. The …read more

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Sloan Digital Sky Survey Releases New Map Of Supermassive Black Holes

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By Maya Posch | August 26, 2026

The Universe is a large place, yet despite it being mostly empty space, there are still a lot of things to find and catalogue. This includes mildly terrifying things like …read more
Making An LCD UI Look More Like Classic Indicator Lamps

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By Zoe Skyforest | August 26, 2026

The TermDriver 2 is a USB-to-serial interface with a twist—it has a built-in screen for displaying relevant information. It can run at anywhere from 100 bit/s to 2Mbit/s, while showing …read more
Emulating The IPod

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By Zoe Skyforest | August 26, 2026

These days there are emulators for all the great consoles of yesteryear, as well as old retrocomputers and arcade machines and so much else to boot. Now, though, a particularly …read more
FLOSS Weekly Episode 879: Easy Like Butter

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By Jonathan Bennett | August 26, 2026

This week Jonathan chats with Nathan Freitas of the Guardian Project! What is going on at the forefront of Open Source and privacy advocacy? Where are we on a true …read more
How Packaging Can Kill An Electronics Microbusiness

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By Jenny List | August 26, 2026

Quite a few in our community make a bit of cash on the side by selling our creations, and it’s not uncommon to find that a project which catches your …read more
Hackaday Europe 2026: PCBs With A Plot

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By Zoe Skyforest | August 26, 2026

Printed circuit boards were developed first for function over form. They were a way to mount components and connect them in a stable, robust fashion, while taking into regard things …read more
Claude Plays DOOM

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By Zoe Skyforest | August 26, 2026

Large language models (LLMs) are generally thought of as machines that accept textual prompts and spit out textual content. However, if you’re creative in the way you interface with them, …read more

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