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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Linux Fu: Speak Up!

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By Al Williams | September 15, 2026

Apparently, people hate typing. As every movie and TV show suggests, the future is talking to computers. There was a time when speech recognition was complex and not very good. …read more
Every ZX81 Expansion Card You Ever Wanted, All At Once

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By Jenny List | September 15, 2026

The Sinclair ZX81 was a masterpiece of Sir Clive’s desire to get the most out of the least hardware, being about as minimalist as it was possible to get and …read more
Fixing A Ubiquiti 16-Port PoE Switch With An Extra Hole

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By Maya Posch | September 15, 2026

After saving a £300, 16-port Ubiquiti network switch from getting tossed into the trash, [Buy It Fix It] got the honor of trying to repair it. With four ports and …read more
An Open Heart Rate Monitor

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By Jenny List | September 14, 2026

If you spend any time near a gym, you may be familiar with Bluetooth heart rate monitors — a small pack of electronics mounted on a strap round the chest …read more
Writing An ESP32 Bluetooth Printer Driver In Two Acts

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By Tom Nardi | September 14, 2026

[Bas BotBerg] wanted to use a portable Bluetooth thermal printer to run off reports on sensor data collected by an ESP32-C3 microcontroller. But as is so often the case these …read more
How High-Voltage Current Transformers Monitor The Grid

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By Maya Posch | September 14, 2026

Being able to monitor voltages and currents is essential for many applications, with the national electrical grid being no exception. The obvious complication here is that the voltages and currents …read more
A UPS For Your Pi That’s A Little Different

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By Jenny List | September 14, 2026

There are many uninterruptible power supply (UPS) solutions for the Raspberry Pi that take the form of HATs with a battery on board, but they’re not suitable for every situation. …read more

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