A Brief History Of The Crazy Old 7-Segment Display

How old is the seven-segment display? Surely it is a product of the 1970s. After all, calculators started showing up, and the height of junior high humor was plugging 7734 …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 874: Really, We Do PDFs

This week Jonathan chats with Andrea Gallo about RISC-V! What does it mean for RISC-V to be an Open ISA? Where is RISC-V popping up, and what’s the new frontier? …read more

Linux Fu: The Local Phonebook

I’ll admit it: I miss the simplicity of /etc/hosts. There was something elegant about it. You wanted laserprinter to mean 192.168.1.40, so you opened a text file and wrote: 192.168.1.40 …read more

When An Engineering Education Doesn’t Teach You How To Really Make Anything

In the sweltering temperatures of an unusually hot European heatwave, I found myself having a chat with a friend of mine from my university days. After discussing the health of …read more

Is Now The Time For Volumetric 3D Printing?

Of all innovations adopted by the maker community within the past couple of decades, one stands among the rest on top for anything regarding manufacturing. It goes without saying here …read more

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Newton’s Cradle Isn’t Really Perpetual

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By Al Williams | July 13, 2026

If any astute Hackaday reader saw [dongvua90]’s Newton’s cradle go on without human intervention all day long, they’d probably suspect the truth: there’s a battery and a magnet involved. But …read more
CGI Motion Capture With Only A Camera

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By Ian Bos | July 12, 2026

Computer-generated imagery (CGI) has largely replaced physical models in major film productions these days, but the transition didn’t exactly happen overnight. For a time there was an effort to blend …read more
Musing On AI From 1964

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By Al Williams | July 12, 2026

[Irving John Good] was at Trinity College, Oxford back in 1964. His paper, “Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine” could have been a topic for today, as we deal with …read more
Hackaday Links: July 12, 2026

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By Tom Nardi | July 12, 2026

Although we’d rather bring you news of clever modifications and repairs down on the farm, more often than not, the name “John Deere” has appeared on the pages of Hackaday …read more
Porting The Nvidia GPU Driver To Haiku For 3D Acceleration

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By Maya Posch | July 12, 2026

As good as a desktop OS may be, at some point it has to feature accelerated 3D graphics. This has been a bit of a sticking point for Haiku OS, …read more
Building A Better CNC Hot Wire Foam Cutter

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By Maya Posch | July 12, 2026

Cutting foam with a hot wire is a common technique to shape foam in a wide variety of shapes. If you want to cut something detailed and precise, like an …read more
Speak Silently With An Ultrasound Probe

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By Donald Papp | July 12, 2026

Speaking is much faster than typing, and while it’s an increasingly convenient way to interact with computers, it’s hardly private. Providing speech privacy in a way we haven’t seen before …read more

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