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AI Book Scanning: Just What Is A Rare Book?

One of the stories of the last few weeks has been that AI companies have been scanning books in very large numbers in order to train their models with content …read more

Anatomy Of An SLA Resin Printing Disaster

When I got back into SLA resin printing recently, I knew that I’d inevitably have to deal with the agony of failed prints and of course resin spills. This moment …read more

Tech In Plain Sight: Vacuum Blood Collection

If you’re blessed enough that you haven’t had blood drawn in a while, you might not have thought much about the process. You might imagine that a needle goes in, …read more

An Early History Of Space Stations: Where’s My Wheel?

Last time we found out the idea of space stations is surprisingly old. By the 1950s, everyone knew we’d be working in beautiful space stations that rotated like a wheel …read more

Hackaday Links: August 23, 2026

We’ll start this week off with some disappointing, though not entirely unexpected, news — the ambitious commercial mission to save NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is officially a bust. The …read more

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  • Analog Optical Feedback Generates 4K Fractals With No Computer

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    By Tyler August | August 27, 2026

    For users of a certain age, fractal patterns and computers are nearly synonymous. Typing in BASIC programs and seeing the Mandelbrot set or other fractals slowly render on screen is …read more

  • Eeink Provides EInk, ESP32 Powered Text Adventures

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    By Tyler August | August 27, 2026

    There’s a niche genre of text adventure that’s halfway between a traditional novel and a videogame. Think Zork if it had an extra few novels worth of words of well-crafted …read more

  • Encoding MOD Files Optically On Paper, Because Amiga’s Legacy Will Outlast M-Disks

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    By Tyler August | August 26, 2026

    All but a few of our very youngest readers are surely familiar with music formats that rely on optical disks. When we say [RobDevBuilds] made a MOD tracker that uses …read more

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey Releases New Map Of Supermassive Black Holes

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    By Maya Posch | August 26, 2026

    The Universe is a large place, yet despite it being mostly empty space, there are still a lot of things to find and catalogue. This includes mildly terrifying things like …read more

  • Making An LCD UI Look More Like Classic Indicator Lamps

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    By Zoe Skyforest | August 26, 2026

    The TermDriver 2 is a USB-to-serial interface with a twist—it has a built-in screen for displaying relevant information. It can run at anywhere from 100 bit/s to 2Mbit/s, while showing …read more

  • Emulating The IPod

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    By Zoe Skyforest | August 26, 2026

    These days there are emulators for all the great consoles of yesteryear, as well as old retrocomputers and arcade machines and so much else to boot. Now, though, a particularly …read more

  • FLOSS Weekly Episode 879: Easy Like Butter

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    By Jonathan Bennett | August 26, 2026

    This week Jonathan chats with Nathan Freitas of the Guardian Project! What is going on at the forefront of Open Source and privacy advocacy? Where are we on a true …read more

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