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Hackaday Links: December 21, 2025

It’s amazing how fragile our digital lives can be, and how quickly they can fall to pieces. Case in point: the digital dilemma that Paris Buttfield-Addison found himself in last …read more

Bare Metal STM32: Increasing The System Clock And Running Dhrystone

When you start an STM32 MCU with its default configuration, its CPU will tick along at a leisurely number of cycles on the order of 8 to 16 MHz, using …read more

Catching Those Old Busses

The PC has had its fair share of bus slots. What started with the ISA bus has culminated, so far, in PCI Express slots, M.2 slots, and a few other …read more

Keebin’ With Kristina: The One With The Curious Keyboards

I love first builds! They say so much about a person, because you see what’s paramount to them in a keyboard. You can almost feel their frustration at other keyboards …read more

Thorium-Metal Alloys And Radioactive Jet Engines

Although metal alloys is not among the most exciting topics for most people, the moment you add the word ‘radioactive’, it does tend to get their attention. So too with …read more

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  • How To Build Good Contact Mics

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    By Lewin Day | December 22, 2025

    We’re most familiar with sound as vibrations that travel through the atmosphere around us. However, sound can also travel through objects, too! If you want to pick it up, you’d …read more

  • Lichtenberg Lightning In A Bottle, Thanks To The Magic Of Particle Accelerators

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    By Tyler August | December 22, 2025

    You’ve probably seen Lichtenberg figures before, those lightning-like traces left by high-voltage discharge. The safe way to create them is using an electron beam to embed charge inside an acrylic …read more

  • Origami On Another Level With 3D Printing

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    By Ian Bos | December 21, 2025

    Origami has become known as a miracle technique for designers. Elegant compliant mechanisms can leverage the material properties of a single geometry in ways that are sometimes stronger than those …read more

  • The Unusual Pi Boot Process Explained

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    By Jenny List | December 21, 2025

    If you’ve ever experimented with a microprocessor at the bare metal level, you’ll know that when it starts up, it will look at its program memory for something to do. …read more

  • Hackaday Links: December 21, 2025

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    By Dan Maloney | December 21, 2025

    It’s amazing how fragile our digital lives can be, and how quickly they can fall to pieces. Case in point: the digital dilemma that Paris Buttfield-Addison found himself in last …read more

  • Pause Print, Add Hardware, And Enjoy Strength

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    By Tyler August | December 21, 2025

    3D Printing is great, but it is pretty much the worst way to make any given part– except that every other technique you could use to make that part is …read more

  • Why Chopped Carbon Fiber In FDM Prints Is A Contaminant

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    By Maya Posch | December 21, 2025

    A lot of claims have been made about the purported benefits of adding chopped carbon fiber to FDM filaments, but how many of these claims are actually true? In the …read more

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