UDP Broadcasting And The Brave New World Of IPv6

After recently working our way through UDP broadcasting and network subnetting all in the comfort zone of IPv4, it’s time to address the elephant in the room, the one wearing …read more

After Decades, NASA May Finally Replace Mars Relays

We’ve yet to find any definitive evidence that there’s biological life on present-day Mars, but to say it’s a dead planet isn’t exactly accurate. Since the first Viking lander touched …read more

2026 Hackaday Supercon: Announcing Our First Round Of Speakers

Supercon is the Ultimate Hardware Conference™ and you need to be there November 6-8 in Pasadena, California! Below is just the tip of the speakers’ iceberg, but if that’s not …read more

Raspberry Pi RAM Restrictions No Big Deal, Frankly

Hacking on Raspberry Pi board internals is one of my favourite topics. I know a bunch of obscure things about these cute little boards. Three years ago, I covered a …read more

DIY Router On X86 E-Waste: OpenWrt And OPNsense

In previous installments of this series we looked at how creating a DIY router using an e-waste-level PC has changed over the years, before attempting to boot OpenWrt for x86 …read more

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The FPGA Chronicles: Exploring The Tang Nano 20K

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By Al Williams | September 28, 2026

FPGAs used to be mysterious, expensive devices, but these days you can buy surprisingly capable boards for very little money. Some years ago, I did an FPGA Bootcamp over on …read more
Using The SNES Super FX Chip To Run Super Mario 64

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By Maya Posch | September 28, 2026

Although the Nintendo 64 was the first to bring real 3D graphics to the table in 1996, the Super Nintendo had an ace up its sleeve in the form of …read more
An IR Blaster Project, In A Nutshell

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By Bryan Cockfield | September 28, 2026

The speed that computers have gotten smaller is a bit mind-bending. Most of us now walk around with computers in our pockets that would have rivaled the supercomputers from a …read more
Hackaday Links: September 27, 2026

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By Al Williams | September 27, 2026

It isn’t quite hailing frequencies open, but researchers from Harvard claim they’ve picked up a radio signal directly from a nearby exoplanet. Before you get too excited, planets in our …read more
Center-Pivot System Modified To Mow Lawn

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By Bryan Cockfield | September 27, 2026

When flying over the United States, Australia, and a few other vast and relatively empty parts of the world, strange circular formations can be spotted. These are typically center-pivot irrigation …read more
Going On A Tangent With The Intel 8087’s Hybrid CORDIC Algorithm

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By Maya Posch | September 27, 2026

Continuing their reverse-engineering of Intel’s 8087 FPU, [Ken Shirriff] and friends took a look at one of the trigonometric functions, specifically FPTAN. The most exciting part with such reverse-engineering is …read more
Defeating Satellite Spoofing With Galileo’s Encryption

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By Aaron Beckendorf | September 27, 2026

Considering how important it is for everything from navigation to keeping clocks in sync, satellite navigation systems are surprisingly vulnerable to a variety of attacks, ranging from simple jamming to …read more

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