Roman Telescope Saves Fuel, Doubles Mission

Contemplate the events that might end a space mission, and you might picture something dramatic: detonation on the pad, a dead guidance system, or micrometeoroids shattering delicate solar panels. More …read more

Geothermal Cooling For New York’s Subways

You might think that if you dug some tunnels down into the ground where you could be out of the sunshine, that you might find them to be relatively cool …read more

Places To Visit: Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord

There are many benefits to spending time in the park, but perhaps few of them have a Hackaday angle. There’s a park in Germany you might want to make an …read more

The FPGA Chronicles: Exploring The Tang Nano 20K

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

Hackaday Links: 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

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A Good DIY Solder Stencil Begins With A Cleanly-Sliced Soda Can

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By Donald Papp | October 3, 2026

Solder stencils are a fantastic way to accurately apply solder paste to a PCB. Professionally-made stencils are cut from steel, but for the home hacker, soda cans continue to be …read more
2026 Retrocomputer Challenge: Vectron65 Plus Puts The Emphasis On Plus

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By Tyler August | October 3, 2026

[Nick Bild] evidently has a soft spot for the 6502, given that his Vectron65 Plus home computer project uses at least one of them, depending on the add-ons. You see, …read more
The ESP32, An SDR In Itself

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By Jenny List | October 3, 2026

Perhaps the most famous of all the software-defined radio (SDR) receivers is the RTL-SDR, a digital TV receiver on which an undocumented feature was found. Perhaps other radio-enabled chips also …read more
Fixing A Power Grid That Loses Over Half Its Power To Inefficiency And Theft

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By Donald Papp | October 3, 2026

[Mini Shaji Thomas] has a deeply interesting article on IEEE Spectrum detailing how the power distribution system for a city of over twenty million people went from failing to first-class. …read more
Own The OSD Chip In Your Cheap Composite Monitor

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By Jenny List | October 3, 2026

[Ogrinz Labs] has built a Robbie the Robot suit, which is super-cool, but has a huge flaw. When inside the suit, he’s too tall to do what the original Robbie …read more
That’s No Moon… That’s An Exoplanet!

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By Al Williams | October 3, 2026

It wasn’t that long ago that a science teacher would have told students that there was no evidence of planets around other star systems. Even more recently, they might have …read more
Is This The Smallest Internet Radio?

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By Jenny List | October 2, 2026

Internet radios have been a thing in some form for the last quarter century, and the advent of cheap networked microcontrollers has made them easier than ever to build. But …read more

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