Keebin’ With Kristina: The One With The Ultimate Portable Split

What do you look for in a travel keyboard? For me, it has to be split, though this condition most immediately demands a carrying solution of some kind. Wirelessness I …read more

Surviving The RAM Apocalypse With Software Optimizations

To the surprise of almost nobody, the unprecedented build-out of datacenters and the equipping of them with servers for so-called ‘AI’ has led to a massive shortage of certain components. …read more

Ask Hackaday: What Goes Into A Legible Font, And Why Does It Matter?

There’s an interesting cultural observation to be made as a writer based in Europe, that we like our sans-serif fonts, while our American friends seem to prefer a font with …read more

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

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Simulating Driven-Dissipative Quantum Spin Dynamics On Consumer Hardware

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By Maya Posch | December 26, 2025

Physics simulations using classical mechanics is something that’s fairly easily done on regular consumer hardware, with real-time approximations a common feature in video games. Moving things to the quantum realm …read more
Mini Battery-Powered Vapor-Compression Air Conditioner

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By Maya Posch | December 26, 2025

When you think of air conditioners, you tend to think of rather bulky units, with the window-mounted appliances probably among the most compact. There’s however no real minimum size limit …read more
Pocket-sized Test Pattern Generator Helps Check Those CRTs

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By Donald Papp | December 26, 2025

[Nicholas Murray]’s Composite Test Pattern Generator is a beautifully-made, palm-sized tool that uses an ESP32-based development board to output different test patterns in PAL/NTSC. If one is checking out old …read more
Retrotechtacular: IBM’s The World Of OCR

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By Maya Posch | December 26, 2025

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) forms the bridge between the analog world of paper and the world of machines. The modern-day expectation is that when we point a smartphone camera at …read more
Hackaday Podcast: 2025 Holiday Placeholder Edition

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By Elliot Williams | December 26, 2025

This week the Hackaday Podcast is on vacation, but we’d like to wish you all happy holidays and a great 2026. Thanks for tuning in! We’ll be back next week. …read more
3D Printed PC Case Focuses On Ease Of Access

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By Lewin Day | December 26, 2025

There are all kinds of fun, glowing PC cases on the market these days. However, if you want something that focuses on serviceability over flash while still looking stylish, you …read more
NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux

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By Maya Posch | December 26, 2025

It’s no surprise that NVIDIA is gradually dropping support for older videocards, with the Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs most recently getting axed. What’s more surprising is the terrible way that …read more

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