2025 Hackaday Component Abuse Challenge: Let The Games Begin!

In theory, all parts are ideal and do just exactly what they say on the box. In practice, everything has its limits, most components have non-ideal characteristics, and you can …read more

Going Native With Android’s Native Development Kit

Originally Android apps were only developed in Java, targeting the Dalvik Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and its associated environment. Compared to platforms like iOS with Objective-C, which is just C …read more

Hackaday Links: September 14, 2025

Is it finally time to cue up the Bowie? Or was the NASA presser on Wednesday announcing new findings of potential Martian biosignatures from Perseverance just another in a long …read more

This Week In Security: NPM, Kerbroasting, And The Rest Of The Story

Two billion downloads per week. That’s the download totals for the NPM packages compromised in a supply-chain attack this week. Ninety-nine percent of the cloud depends on one of the …read more

Dragon Is The Latest, And Final, Craft To Reboost ISS

The International Space Station has been in orbit around the Earth, at least in some form, since November of 1998 — but not without help. In the vacuum of space, …read more

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Listening For The Next Wow! Signal With Low-Cost SDR

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By Tom Nardi | September 18, 2025

As you might expect, the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo has a fascination with radio signals from space. While doing research into the legendary “Wow! Signal” detected back in …read more
Give Your Band The Music Of The Bands

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By Jenny List | September 18, 2025

The way to get into radio, and thence electronics, in the middle years of the last century, was to fire up a shortwave receiver and tune across the bands. In …read more
When Is Your Pyrex Not The Pyrex You Expect?

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By Jenny List | September 17, 2025

It’s not often that Hackaday brings you something from a cooking channel, but [I Want To Cook] has a fascinating look at Pyrex glassware that’s definitely worth watching. If you …read more
Getting The Most Out Of ISM Transceivers Using Math

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By Fenix Guthrie | September 17, 2025

WiFi is an excellent protocol, but it certainly has its weaknesses. Its range in even a normal home is relatively limited, so you could imagine the sort of performance you’d …read more
It’s A Variable Capacitor, But Not As We Know It

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By Jenny List | September 17, 2025

Radio experimenters often need a variable capacitor to tune their circuits, as the saying goes, for maximum smoke. In decades past these were readily available from almost any scrap radio, …read more
Smooth! Non-Planar 3D Ironing

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By Elliot Williams | September 17, 2025

Is 2025 finally the year of non-planar 3D printing? Maybe it won’t have to be if [Ten Tech] gets his way! Ironing is the act of going over the top …read more
FLOSS Weekly Episode 847: This Is Networking

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By Jonathan Bennett | September 17, 2025

This week Jonathan and Rob chat with Tom Herbert about XDP2! It’s the brand new framework for making networking really fast, making parsers really simple, and making hardware network acceleration …read more

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