MSYS2 And The No-Fuss Way To Get More GNU Into Your Windows

As great and streamlined as the Windows desktop experience is, one area where it’s at best disappointing and at worst rage-inducing is when it comes to its command line interface …read more

What Happens If Russia Shuts The Door On Their Leaky ISS Module?

There was a particularly tense moment aboard the International Space Station earlier this month, with NASA directing their astronauts to secure themselves in the Dragon capsule and prepare for a …read more

Ask Hackaday: What Ever Happened To The Hero Nerd?

Knowing absolutely nothing about you other than the fact that you’re currently reading Hackaday, I can predict with a high degree of certainty that we’re both fond of at least …read more

A Brief History Of Unix Commands On Windows: CoreUtils (Again)

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For …read more

Picking A CRC

You send a file, but how do you know it arrived intact? In other words, how do you know that it didn’t get cut off, garbled, or changed somehow? Simplistically, …read more

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EVs Always Beat Combustion Emissions Performance

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By Navarre Bartz | June 23, 2026

A pervasive story is that electric vehicles (EVs or BEVs) are actually dirtier than combustion vehicles if charged by a fossil fuel-based electricity grid. A new study reaffirms others that …read more
A Commodore Boombox: The 1350 As You’ve Never Heard It Before

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By Tyler August | June 23, 2026

No, this isn’t another product from [PeriFractic]’s revived company, though we hope he’s taking notes. This is, in fact, a hack on the beloved 1530 Datasette, using the tape mechanism …read more
Reviving MSN Messenger’s I-Buddy USB Accessory

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By Maya Posch | June 23, 2026

Some of our esteemed readers were not yet out of diapers back in 2013 when Microsoft decided to put MSN Messenger out to pasture, but the memories that this instant …read more
A BIOS For Your ESP32-C6

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By Jenny List | June 23, 2026

An old-style PC BIOS served the function of a bootloader in loading the operating system kernel, and of an API in providing a set of standard system calls through which …read more
A Custom PCB For The Casio G-Shock

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By Tom Nardi | June 23, 2026

With the PCB fabrication services available to the modern hobbyist, it’s become increasingly common to see replacement boards designed for all sorts of devices. Even so, it’s sometimes still a …read more
Linux Fu: Upcycling An Old Router

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By Al Williams | June 23, 2026

You’re wandering through a thrift store and spot an old router for ten bucks. Worthless, right? But in this case, it was a Google OnHub, which, at the time, was …read more
Status Display Keeps Eye On Your Prusa Fleet

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By Tom Nardi | June 23, 2026

Whether you’ve been dragging an old MK2 or MK3 kicking and screaming into the present through the available upgrade paths, or recently picked up a CORE One, pretty much any …read more

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