Tech In Plain Sight: Meet The Robot That Does CPR

Usually in Tech In Plain Sight, we talk about technology you probably see every day, even if you don’t notice it. But we hope you don’t get to see one …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 881: Eating Its Own Tail

This week Jonathan chats with Olivier Vernin of Updatecli, the tool that helps you update everything! Need to roll out dependency updates intelligently? Or even automatically deploy to a server …read more

Hunting The Wild Vibrotruck

A few weeks ago, my wife was out walking the dog, and she sent me four or five photos of small orange boxes planted all around our neighborhood. (OK, I’ll …read more

Hackaday Europe 2026: Outdoors With Robots

Erin Kennedy has been building robots for over a decade now, with a focus on smaller bots that interact with, or maybe even clean up, the outdoor environment. Still other …read more

Hackaday Links: September 6, 2026

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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Big Infinity Mirror Clock Invites You To Gaze Deeply

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By Donald Papp | September 12, 2026

[Andy Huot] has a fantastic-looking infinity mirror digital clock that really raises the bar. It uses high quality components, smart use of RGB LED animations, and a clever “stacked diffuser” …read more
This Mac Is Open Source Hardware

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By Jenny List | September 12, 2026

Apple hardware has always been proprietary, sometimes to an extreme. But that’s not to say that it’s impossible to make something that does the same job, which is what [DosFox1] …read more
Supercon Is Nigh!

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By Elliot Williams | September 12, 2026

The 2026 Hackaday Superconference is just around the corner in November. It’s hard to believe that we’ve been having an annual gathering for so long, but this is number ten. …read more
The Heavy Disco-Ball Satellite Designed To Do… Nothing

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By Donald Papp | September 12, 2026

Launched in 1976, LAGEOS-1 (LAser GEOdynamic Satellite) is unusual in that it contains no instrumentation, no electronics, no power supply, and no means of propulsion. It’s spherical, weighs just under …read more
Looking At A TRS-80 12 MB External Hard Drive From 1983

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By Maya Posch | September 12, 2026

Although hard disks weren’t a common feature yet in many home computers in the 1980s, they were becoming increasingly more affordable. For relative meanings of the word ‘affordable’, naturally. This …read more
How To Fold Curved Lines In Metal Without Fancy Tools

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By Donald Papp | September 11, 2026

Folding a sheet of metal in a straight line is one thing, but how does one fold multiple curved lines into a sheet of aluminum without fancy machines? [John] demonstrates …read more
Trying To Fix A Suspiciously Cheap Enterprise-Grade Network Switch

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By Maya Posch | September 11, 2026

When you see a listing for an Ethernet switch whose specification list is in effect ‘yes’, with a four-digit price tag when new, and with the seller asking for less …read more

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