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Yesterday, Isar Aerospace secured its place in the history books when the upper stage of their Spectrum rocket put a payload of CubeSats into low Earth orbit (LEO). Not only …read more

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Hackaday Europe 2026: Fluid Kernels And Optimizing C++ For MCUs

Oftentimes, when we’re using a microcontroller, we’re whipping up some very specific code focused on executing a particular task. The device is set up to execute code that does exactly …read more

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I’m an experienced programmer, and I’ve worked in many different languages. Sometimes being a programmer is a two-edged sword. You want to accomplish something, and you can do it easily …read more

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If you used a scientific calculator in the 1970s or 1980s, there was a fair chance that it worked differently from almost every calculator you see today. Instead of typing: …read more

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Decoding The NEC V20 Microcode ROM

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By Maya Posch | September 9, 2026

The NEC V20 is an Intel 8088-compatible processor that features the same use of microcode, though with its own characteristics. This makes it important to use this same microcode if …read more
Sick Of Wayland Vs. Xorg? How About GEM?

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By Tyler August | September 9, 2026

Between lawsuits from Apple, and Microsoft being Microsoft, Digital Research’s GEM desktop for DOS never really had a chance. It did have another life on Atari home computers, but it’s …read more
One Bit Sound With The ZX Spectrum

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By Al Williams | September 8, 2026

[Michael] has a thing for playing audio over beepers using a single bit. He’s done it with the Apple ][ and the IBM PC. This time he turns to the …read more
The Different Ways To Look At Negative Resistance

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By Donald Papp | September 8, 2026

[lcamtuf] has an in-depth look at the concept of negative resistance that goes somewhat further than one might expect. Normally, as voltage across a resistance increases so too does the …read more
Anti-Doomscroll Tamagotchi Only Lives If You Do

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By Tyler August | September 8, 2026

The odds are, you have a device deliberately designed to be addictive in your pocket or on the table next to you if you aren’t staring at it right now– …read more
Are Desktop PC-ABS Prints Outperformed By Industrial FDM? Not Really

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By Donald Papp | September 8, 2026

[Igor] of [My Tech Fun] set out to discover what differences, if any, can be found between parts printed in PC-ABS filament on an industrial 3D printer, and those from …read more
Fixing A 1990s LEGO Electric Train Speed Regulator

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By Maya Posch | September 8, 2026

Before LEGO train sets moved to battery-powered locomotives with plastic rails, all of them worked pretty much like any other train set of the era. This meant metal rails that …read more

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