The Vacuum Tube’s Last Stand(s)

When most people think about vacuum tubes, they picture big glass bottles glowing inside antique radios or early computers. History often treats tubes as a dead-end technology that was suddenly …read more

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While Artemis II was primarily a demonstration flight of the architecture NASA plans to use for future lunar missions, it was also an excellent excuse for the crew to snap …read more

Hackaday Podcast Episode 369: IR, E-Ink, And Avgas

In this episode, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start things off by discussing the latest reason that cheap PCB fabrication isn’t quite as cheap as it once was. …read more

This Week In Security: Another Linux Exploit, Ubuntu Knocked Offline, Finals Interrupted, And Backdoored Tools

After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and a …read more

Congratulations To The Green Powered Challenge Winners!

For this challenge, we asked you to show off your hacks that power themselves sustainably from the environment around them. After all, nobody likes wires, and changing batteries is just …read more

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After Stumbling From CVE To CVE Will Linux Get A Kill Switch?

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By Maya Posch | May 16, 2026

For the few people who have spent the past weeks living under a security rock, the Linux kernel has found itself the subject of multiple severe bugs in the form …read more
21st Century Punch Cards Are 3D Printed And Read By OpenCV

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By Tyler August | May 16, 2026

While a punch card is perhaps the lowest-density storage medium available, it has some distinct advantages. As [Bitroller] points out in the write-up of his punch card project, if he …read more
Salvaged VFDs In Nixie-Like Clock

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By Bryan Cockfield | May 16, 2026

In between the Nixie tube era of the 50s and 60s and the advent of multi-digit vacuum fluorescent displays (VFDs) common in 80s and 90s consumer technology, there was a …read more
Fixing A Cotton Candy Vending Machine

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By Maya Posch | May 16, 2026

Cotton candy is probably the best way to eat pure sugar, which makes having your very own cotton candy vending machine to automate making it a bit of a dream. …read more
Mixapps: The Mixtape Of The Internet Age

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By Zoe Skyforest | May 16, 2026

Mixtapes used to be a way that we cultivated a personal selection of music for our own enjoyment, or to give as gifts to those we wanted to impress with …read more
A Precision Drill Press For Tiny Bits

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By Aaron Beckendorf | May 16, 2026

Anyone who’s worked with even a 1 mm bit knows that while a drill press is all but essential, it isn’t proof against broken bits. Working with a 0.1 mm …read more
Restoring A 3DO Blaster Card From The Early 90s

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By Bryan Cockfield | May 15, 2026

Before the modern trifecta of video game giants came to dominate the market around two decades ago, the world was awash in video game consoles. Many of these retro platforms …read more

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