Back To Basics: Hacking On Key Matrixes

A lot of making goes on in this community these days, but sometimes you’ve just gotta do some old fashioned hacking. You might have grabbed an old Speak and Spell that …read more

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Many different types of printers have entered the market over the years. Most of us are intimately familiar with the common inkjet and laser, both of which can be found …read more

Accidental Climate Engineering With Disintegrating Satellites

For many decades humankind has entertained the notion that we can maybe tweak the Earth’s atmosphere or biosphere in such a way that we can for example undo the harms …read more

Hackaday Links: March 1, 2026

We’ll start this week off with a bit of controversy from Linux Land. Anyone who’s ever used the sudo command knows that you don’t see any kind of visual feedback …read more

The Joys Of 3D Printing

Al and I were talking on the podcast today about a sweet 3D printed wide-format camera build, and we got to musing on why we 3D-print. For Al, it’s an …read more

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Power Control For A Busy Workbench

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By Jenny List | March 10, 2026

Who among us does not have a plethora of mains-powered devices on their workbench, and a consequent mess of power strips to run them all? [Jeroen Brinkman] made his more …read more
The “Tin Blimp” Was A Neither Tin Nor A Blimp: The Detroit ZMC-2 Story

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By Tyler August | March 10, 2026

After all the crashing and burning of Imperial Germany’s Zeppelins in the later part of WWI – once the Brits managed to build interceptors that could hit their lofty altitude, …read more
Arduino’s New AI-Centric Board Is The VENTUNO Q

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By Maya Posch | March 10, 2026

There have been many questions about what direction Arduino would take after being bought by Qualcomm. Now it would seem that we’re getting a clearer picture. Perhaps unsurprisingly the answer …read more
Seeing The World Through Animal Eyes

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By Al Williams | March 10, 2026

If you think about it, you can’t be sure that what you see for the color red, for example, is what anyone else in the world actually sees. All you …read more
Diagnosing A Mysterious Fault With A Commodore 1541 Disk Drive

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By Maya Posch | March 9, 2026

Recently [TheRetroChannel] came across an interesting failure mode on a Commodore 1541 5.25″ floppy disk drive, in the form of the activity LED blinking just once after power-up with the …read more
The Sweetest Programming Language: MNM

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By Al Williams | March 9, 2026

Admit it. If you haven’t created your own little programming language, you’ve probably at least thought about it. [Muffed] decided to create a unique — and sweet — programming language …read more
Building A Class 100 Semiconductor Cleanroom Inside A Shed

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By Maya Posch | March 9, 2026

Most people see that garden shed as little more than a place to store some gardening tools in, but if you’re like [Dr. Semiconductor], then what you see is a …read more

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