AI On Every Machine: The LLM You Probably Didn’t Want

It’s been a story of the last week or so if you follow the kind of news channels a Hackaday scribe does, that Google have quietly installed an LLM as …read more

Retrotechtacular: Julius Sumner Miller Breaks Lamps With Magnets

If you watched the Mickey Mouse Club way back when, you might remember Professor Wonderful, who was, in reality, physics professor [Julius Sumner Miller]. He also had his own show, …read more

How Giant Tanks Of Fluid Could Help Support The Power Grid

If you’ve been paying any attention to the renewable energy space, you’ll know that generation isn’t really the problem anymore. Solar panels are cheap, and wind turbines are everywhere. The …read more

Strange Ways To Make Cold

Making stuff cool and keeping it that way has been a pretty essential part of human civilization for thousands of years, with only in the past few hundred years man-made …read more

Why Leaded Fuel Is Still A Thing

Leaded fuel is considered one of the greatest environmental failures in modern human history. Adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knock in internal combustion engines, which was widely considered a …read more

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Hackaday Links: May 10, 2026

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By Tom Nardi | May 10, 2026

While Artemis II was primarily a demonstration flight of the architecture NASA plans to use for future lunar missions, it was also an excellent excuse for the crew to snap …read more
Why Using Cardboard For A PC Case Is A Chore

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By Maya Posch | May 10, 2026

The idea of using cardboard for a sloppy PC case isn’t new; it’s a time-honored tradition dating back to at least the 1990s. That said, with today’s CNC cutters and …read more
Multimaterial SLA Printer Will Make Your Head Spin

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By Tyler August | May 10, 2026

For the last few years, the must-have feature that companies are competing to show off on their filament deposition 3D printers is multi-material printing. Be it tool swapping or a …read more
Why You Probably Shouldn’t DIY A Car Airbag

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By Maya Posch | May 10, 2026

Car airbags are both a very simple concept and a marvel of engineering, replacing the bone-shattering impact of unforgiving plastic and steel with a relatively soft landing in a funky-smelling …read more
Speech Jammer Gets Jammed Up

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By Tyler August | May 10, 2026

This project is perhaps the single most passive-aggressive thing we’ve ever seen on this site: rather than tell someone directly to ‘shut up’, [Blytical]’s speech jammer lets you hack their …read more
Tracing Olfactory Receptor Mapping Between The Nose And Brain

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By Maya Posch | May 10, 2026

The way that the sense of smell works is that olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) are wired up to olfactory receptors (ORs) in the nasal epithelium, from which they send signals …read more
Challenging The Way We Pedal

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By Jenny List | May 9, 2026

The bicycle is an invention that has not changed in its fundamentals since the first recognisably modern machines appeared in the closing years of the 19th century. Its frame uses …read more

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