Hackaday Podcast Episode 347: Breaking Kindles, Baby’s First Synth, And Barcodes!

This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over coffee to bring you the latest news, mystery sound, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the …read more

Chinese Regulators May Kill Retractable Car Door Handles That Never Should Have Existed

Headlights. Indicators. Trunk releases. Seatbelts. Airbags. Just about any part of a car you can think of is governed by a long and complicated government regulation. It’s all about safety, …read more

So Long Firefox, Hello Vivaldi

It’s been twenty-three years since the day Phoenix was released, the web browser that eventually became Firefox. I downloaded it on the first day and installed it on my trusty …read more

Keebin’ With Kristina: The One With The Elegant Macro Pad

Some people are not merely satisfied with functionality, or even just good looks. These persnickety snoots (I am one of them) seek something elegant, a true marriage of form and …read more

The Unexpected Joys Of Hacking An Old Kindle

In the closing hours of JawnCon 0x2, I was making a final pass of the “Free Stuff for Nerds” table when I noticed a forlorn Kindle that had a piece …read more

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Retrotechtacular: Learning The Slide Rule The New Old Fashioned Way

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By Al Williams | December 2, 2025

Learning something on YouTube seems kind of modern. But if you are watching a 1957 instructional film about slide rules, it also seems old-fashioned. But Encyclopædia Britannica has a complete …read more
How Cross-Channel Plumbing Fuelled The Allied March On Berlin

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By Lewin Day | December 2, 2025

During World War II, as the Allies planned the invasion of Normandy, there was one major hurdle to overcome—logistics. In particular, planners needed to guarantee a solid supply of fuel …read more
A Stylish Moon And Tide Clock For The Mantlepiece

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By Lewin Day | December 2, 2025

Assuming you’re not stuck in a prison cell without windows, you could feasibly keep track of the moon and tides by walking outside and jotting things down in your notebook. …read more
Give Us One Manual For Normies, Another For Hackers

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By Lewin Day | December 2, 2025

We’ve all been there. You’ve found a beautiful piece of older hardware at the thrift store, and bought it for a song. You rush it home, eager to tinker, but …read more
Build Your Own Glasshole Detector

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By Arya Voronova | December 2, 2025

Connected devices are ubiquitous in our era of wireless chips heavily relying on streaming data to someone else’s servers. This sentence might already start to sound dodgy, and it doesn’t …read more
Little Lie Detector Is Probably No Worse Than The Big Ones

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By Lewin Day | December 2, 2025

Want to know if somebody is lying? It’s always so hard to tell. [dbmaking] has whipped up a fun little polygraph, otherwise known as a lie detector. It’s nowhere near …read more
Converting A 1980s Broadcast Camera To HDMI

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By Bryan Cockfield | December 1, 2025

Although it might seem like there was a sudden step change from analog to digital sometime in the late 1900s, it was actually a slow, gradual change from things like …read more

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