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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MQTT Pager Build Is Bringing Beepers Back

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By Lewin Day | December 25, 2025

Pagers were once a great way to get a message to someone out in public; they just had to be cool enough to have one. These days, they’re mostly the …read more
Born To Burn: The Battle Born LFP Battery

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By Maya Posch | December 25, 2025

Would you feel confident in buying US-made LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries? While the answer here is generally expected to be ‘yes’, especially compared to getting an unbranded LFP battery off eBay …read more
Twelve Days Of Christmas As Performed By 1980s Speech Chip

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By Tyler August | December 25, 2025

In a curious historical twist, the “Twelve days of Christmas” are actually the days of revelry that followed the 25th. The preceding period, Advent, was traditionally a fast, not unlike …read more
Building A High-Performance Shifter For Sim Racing

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By Lewin Day | December 25, 2025

These days, sim racing is more realistic than ever. There are better screens, better headsets, and better steering wheels with better force-feedback, all of which help make you feel like …read more
Printing With Metal On The Ender 3 Using Only A Friction Wheel

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By Maya Posch | December 24, 2025

Printing metal as easily as it is to printed with thermoplastics has been a dream for a very long time, with options for hobbyists being very scarce. This is something …read more
Mesh “Lens” Lets Your Camera Make Weird Pixel Art

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By Lewin Day | December 24, 2025

We seldom talk about 3D printing lenses because most techniques can’t possibly produce transparent parts of optical quality. However, you can 3D print something like a lens, as [Luke Edwin] demonstrates, …read more
Abusing X86 SIMD Instructions To Optimize PlayStation 3 Emulation

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By Maya Posch | December 24, 2025

Key to efficient hardware emulation is an efficient mapping to the underlying CPU’s opcodes. Here one is free to target opcodes that may or may not have been imagined for …read more

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