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

Hackaday Links: May 3, 2026

Software that collects public data from the Internet and uses it to provide half-assed answers to your questions might seem like a modern craze, but today we bid farewell to …read more

How TTY Opened Up The Phones For The Hard Of Hearing

The telephone was an invention that revolutionized human communication. No more did you have to physically courier a letter from one place to another, or send a telegram, or have …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 869: Linux On Your Toaster

This week Jonathan chats with Andrei, Mahir, and Praneeth, live on location at Texas Instruments! The team at TI has been working hard to provide really good Open Source support …read more

Bicycle Tubes Aren’t Just Made Of Rubber Anymore

For the average rider, inner tubes have been one of the most enduring and unchanging parts of bicycle design over the decades. They’re made of rubber, they have a Schrader …read more

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LightInk, A Solar Powered ESP32 Smartwatch

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By Tyler August | May 5, 2026

There’s something about the ESP32 family of microcontrollers and timekeeping. We probably see it in clocks as often as we do anything else; we also probably see more clocks with …read more
E-paper Dashboard Reimagines Smart Home’s Connection With Technology

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By Bryan Cockfield | May 5, 2026

When [Joel] and his partner got married, they had a goal to create a home with a healthy relationship to technology, which largely means avoiding smartphone use. Smartphones aren’t without …read more
Camera Slider: Build Instead Of Buy Goes Awry

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By Zoe Skyforest | May 4, 2026

[TheHyperFix] had a problem. He’d spied a brilliant camera slider, but didn’t want to lay out big money to acquire it. The natural solution? Build one! Only, life is seldom …read more
The Math You Need To Start Understanding LLMs

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By Maya Posch | May 4, 2026

Once you peel back the hype and mysticism, large language models (LLMs) are a fascinating application of statistical models, effectively what you get when you dial a basic auto-complete model …read more
Teardown Of A Shahed-136 Gimbaled Camera

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By Maya Posch | May 4, 2026

The Iranian Shahed-136’s basic design has seen many changes and additions since Russia began using them, with some featuring interesting payloads such as cameras in a gimbal, making these drones …read more
Sunlight Powered, Sunlight Readable: Solar Case For Nook Simple Touch

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By Tyler August | May 4, 2026

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. What if life gives you a pile of old e-book readers? Well, when [spiritplumber] got box of old Nook Simple Touch devices, …read more
A Shortwave Sensor To Monitor The Ionosphere

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By Aaron Beckendorf | May 4, 2026

The ionosphere is of great importance to shortwave radio transmissions, since it allows radio waves to be refracted and reflected over the horizon, and it’s therefore unfortunate that the height …read more

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