The Death Of Baseload And Similar Grid Tropes

Anyone who has spent any amount of time in or near people who are really interested in energy policies will have heard proclamations such as that ‘baseload is dead’ and …read more

Practice Makes Perfect: The Wet Dress Rehearsal

If you’ve been even casually following NASA’s return to the Moon, you’re likely aware of the recent Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) for the Artemis II mission. You probably also heard …read more

Motorola’s Password Pill Was Just One Idea

Let’s face it; remembering a bunch of passwords is the pits, and it’s just getting worse as time goes on. These days, you really ought to have a securely-generated key-smash …read more

PROFS: The Office Suite Of The 1980s

Today, we take office software suites for granted. But in the 1970s, you were lucky to have a typewriter and access to a photocopier. But in the early 1980s, IBM …read more

Is That Ancient Reel Of PLA Any Good?

When it comes to knowledge there are things you know as facts because you have experienced them yourself or had them verified by a reputable source, and there are things …read more

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A Novelty Clock Makes The Best Tiny Mac Yet

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By Jenny List | February 16, 2026

We’re lucky enough in 2026 to have cheap single-board computers fast enough to emulate machines from the 1990s, touching on the 32-bit era. We’ve seen a few projects as a …read more
Inside A Fake Mean Well DIN-rail PSU

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By Maya Posch | February 16, 2026

These days, you can get fakes, bootlegs, and similar for just about anything. While a fake handbag isn’t such a big deal, in the case of a DIN-rail power supply, …read more
Microfluidic Display Teaches The Basics

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By Al Williams | February 15, 2026

We’ve always been interested in fluidic logic and, based on [soiboi’s] videos, he is too. His latest shows how to use silicone and a vacuum to build a multiplexed dot …read more
Removing The BIOS Administrator Password On A ThinkPad Takes Timing

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By Maya Posch | February 15, 2026

In the olden days, an administrator password on a BIOS was a mere annoyance, one quickly remedied by powering off the system and pulling its CMOS battery or moving a …read more
Hackaday Links: February 15, 2026

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By Tom Nardi | February 15, 2026

It probably won’t come as much of a surprise to find that most of the Hackaday staff aren’t exactly what you’d call sports fanatics, so we won’t judge if you …read more
Software Development On The Nintendo Famicom In Family BASIC

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By Maya Posch | February 15, 2026

Back in the 1980s, your options for writing your own code and games were rather more limited than today. This also mostly depended on what home computer you could get …read more
Can A Scan Tool Kill A Car?

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By Maya Posch | February 15, 2026

It’s no real secret that modern-day cars are basically a collection of computers on wheels, which also means that we get all the joys of debugging complex computer systems and …read more

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