Ask Hackaday: Using CoPilot? Are You Entertained?

There’s a great debate these days about what the current crop of AI chatbots should and shouldn’t do for you. We aren’t wise enough to know the answer, but we …read more

Solar Balconies Take Europe By Storm

Solar power has been around for a long time now. Once upon a time, it was mostly the preserve of research projects and large-scale municipal installations. Eventually, as the technology …read more

Medieval Alhambra’s Pulser Pump And Other Aquatic Marvels

Recently the Practical Engineering YouTube channel featured a functional recreation of a pump design that is presumed by some to have been used to pump water up to the medieval …read more

Spy Tech: Conflicts Bring A New Number Station

If you know much about radios and espionage, you’ve probably encountered number stations. These are mysterious stations that read out groups of numbers or otherwise encoded messages to… well… someone. …read more

This Week In Security: Second Verse, Worse Than The First

Isn’t there some claim events come in threes? After the extremely rare leak of the iOS Coruna exploit chain recently, now we have details from Google on a second significant exploit in …read more

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Following Artemis II’s Journey Around The Moon

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By Tom Nardi | April 1, 2026

NASA is going back to the Moon! We’ll follow the crew of Artemis II every step of the way.
Pan And Tilt The Weatherproof Way, With Bowden Cables

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By Jenny List | April 2, 2026

Over the years there have been many designs for pan-and-tilt camera mounts suitable for single board computer cameras. Often they mount small servos for the movement, but those in turn …read more
The Raspberry Pi 4 With 3 GB RAM Is No Joke

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By Maya Posch | April 2, 2026

Although easily dismissed by some as another cruel April Fools joke, Raspberry Pi’s announcement of a new 3 GB model of the Raspberry Pi 4 along with (more) price increases …read more
The Threadless Ball Screw Never Took Off, But Don’t Write It Off

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By Donald Papp | April 2, 2026

If you’ve never heard of the threadless ball screw, which was invented over sixty years ago, [Angus] of Maker’s Muse has a video demonstrating the whole thing, covering its history …read more
Windows 3.1 On A Modern AM5-Based PC Is Surprisingly Usable

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By Maya Posch | April 2, 2026

Although Windows 95 stole the show, Windows 3.0 was arguably the first version of Windows that more or less nailed the basic Windows UI concept, with the major 3.1 update …read more
Sega Meganet: Online Gaming In 1990

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By Lewin Day | April 2, 2026

It’s easy to think of online console gaming as an invention of the 2000s. Microsoft made waves when Xbox Live dropped in 2002, with Nintendo and Sony scrambling to catch …read more
Anything Can Be A Router, If You Try Hard Enough

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By Jenny List | April 2, 2026

If you’re an American and you use the Internet at home, it seems probable that routers are going to be in short supply. The US government recently mandated all such …read more

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