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Using tools properly takes skill, and this goes for software tools as well as hardware. You don’t just buy a paintbrush and on day one paint the Mona Lisa. Similarly, …read more

Hackaday Podcast Episode 387: Superhuman Clocks, CAN In USB-C, And The Joys Of Bare Metal

This week, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start the episode off by discussing the latest CircuitPython developments before covering some impressive reverse engineering efforts, the benefits of modeling …read more

This Week In Security: Flock Cameras Are Old, Microsoft Patches Patches, And Researchers Attack SSH

Leak site Distributed Denial of Secrets has released a dump of the filesystems of a Flock camera, and Micah Lee has published a dive into the contents. Apparently the Flock …read more

FCC ISM Rules May Shatter Lora Mesh Communities

Although everyone has their own reasons for exploring a new hobby, one of the driving factors behind the popularity of Meshtastic and MeshCore has been the incredible accessibility offered by …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 882 With OSADL: Better Together

This week Jonathan chats with Jan Altenberg of the Open Source Automation Development Lab, a cooperative of nerds that care about Linux and Open Source! Jan and OSADL helped push …read more

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Solar Powered Traffic Monitoring

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By Zoe Skyforest | September 24, 2026

[Marios Christoforou] recently undertook a Computer Engineering degree at the University of Cyprus. His final year project involved implementing a solar-powered device to count vehicular traffic, while logging results to …read more
Reconstructing Device Firmware From SPI Reads

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By Tom Nardi | September 24, 2026

If you wanted to extract the firmware from a mystery device, you might pull the flash chip out of it and toss it into a reader. But if you only …read more
Audio Spectrum Analyzer On An ESP32 Display Board

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By Tom Nardi | September 23, 2026

A slick spectrum analyzer used to be the kind of thing that would have been tricky to include in a DIY project, but as [Mirko “mircemk” Pavleski] demonstrates, a modern …read more
A Tiny Toy Synth For Smaller Computers

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By Jenny List | September 23, 2026

Even for the non-musical among us there is a lot of fun to be had with a simple synthesiser and sequencer, as the different controls can be manipulated to show …read more
Modern USB Controllers On Win98 (and Up)

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By Tyler August | September 23, 2026

[Yeo Kheng Meng] has a problem: he likes Windows 98, but he also likes his 2020 ThinkPad, which only has an xHCI USB controller– you know, the kind needed for …read more
Smelting Bog Ore As It Should Be Done

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By Jenny List | September 23, 2026

Sometimes along comes a hack with a personal angle, and in a video showing Irish bog ore smelting, we find an appropriate follow up to a Hackaday expedition back in …read more
A Mini’s Infotainment System And The Joys Of Aftermarket Car Parts

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By Maya Posch | September 23, 2026

Although [Arkandas] disclaims any interest in being a ‘car guy’, this is somewhat ironic in light of the sheer amount of modding he has performed on a range of cars …read more

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