AI On Every Machine: The LLM You Probably Didn’t Want

It’s been a story of the last week or so if you follow the kind of news channels a Hackaday scribe does, that Google have quietly installed an LLM as …read more

Retrotechtacular: Julius Sumner Miller Breaks Lamps With Magnets

If you watched the Mickey Mouse Club way back when, you might remember Professor Wonderful, who was, in reality, physics professor [Julius Sumner Miller]. He also had his own show, …read more

How Giant Tanks Of Fluid Could Help Support The Power Grid

If you’ve been paying any attention to the renewable energy space, you’ll know that generation isn’t really the problem anymore. Solar panels are cheap, and wind turbines are everywhere. The …read more

Strange Ways To Make Cold

Making stuff cool and keeping it that way has been a pretty essential part of human civilization for thousands of years, with only in the past few hundred years man-made …read more

Why Leaded Fuel Is Still A Thing

Leaded fuel is considered one of the greatest environmental failures in modern human history. Adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knock in internal combustion engines, which was widely considered a …read more

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Speech Jammer Gets Jammed Up

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By Tyler August | May 10, 2026

This project is perhaps the single most passive-aggressive thing we’ve ever seen on this site: rather than tell someone directly to ‘shut up’, [Blytical]’s speech jammer lets you hack their …read more
Tracing Olfactory Receptor Mapping Between The Nose And Brain

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By Maya Posch | May 10, 2026

The way that the sense of smell works is that olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) are wired up to olfactory receptors (ORs) in the nasal epithelium, from which they send signals …read more
Challenging The Way We Pedal

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By Jenny List | May 9, 2026

The bicycle is an invention that has not changed in its fundamentals since the first recognisably modern machines appeared in the closing years of the 19th century. Its frame uses …read more
Running Your Own 3G Network

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By Aaron Beckendorf | May 9, 2026

CDMA2000 was one of the protocols defined for 3G networks and is now years out of date and being phased out worldwide. Nevertheless, there are still vast numbers of phones …read more
The Noctua Fan Files And The Limits Of 3D Printing PC Fans

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By Maya Posch | May 9, 2026

After Noctua recently released CAD files for a range of their computer fans, one of the first thoughts that popped up for most people was: Can you just to 3D …read more
Remembering The BBC Computer Literacy Project

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By Jenny List | May 9, 2026

There comes a point in everybody’s life when things that they were a part of are presented as history, and for the 8-bit generation, that time is now. It’s interesting …read more
Machining A Two-Stroke Engine Out Of Aluminium

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By Maya Posch | May 9, 2026

Recently [Camden Bowen] took a swing at machining a two-stroke engine out of billet aluminium, following adventures in 3D printing such an engine, as well as building one out of …read more

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