JPEG-XL Is Back On The Menu

Many of the image formats we’re familiar with have been around for decades. We all know JPEG and PNG like the back of our hands, and GIF even had a …read more

How Bad Is That Bridge: A Government Database

Bridges! We kind of expect them to just be there and do their job, ad infinitum. They are built into the landscape, and we often take them and the routes …read more

The Fascinating World Of IrDA And Other Infrared Protocols

Infrared (IR) communication technologies are probably one of the most influential, yet also one of the least flashiest. The fact that IR communication tends to be highly directional and often …read more

Hackaday Links: October 25, 2026

Some disappointing, but perhaps not entirely unsurprising news this week out of Denmark — after announcing last year that they would transition away from Microsoft’s proprietary software, the realities of …read more

Japan Launches Mission To Study Martian Moon

Humanity has been sending robotic explorers to Mars since the 1970s, and for our efforts we’ve been rewarded with not only incredible imagery of the Red Planet’s magnificent desolation, but …read more

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2026 Hackaday Supercon: All The Speakers!

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By Elliot Williams | October 29, 2026

We announced our first round of speakers, and then the workshops, and we were going to dribble out updates on the rest of the speakers as they came in, but …read more
Robot Picks Up Othello

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By Al Williams | October 29, 2026

Experience is a great teacher. Ask [Jeneus], who, in high school, tried to make a program that played Othello. It didn’t go well. But years later, the idea produced an impressive …read more
Exploring What’s Left Of Google’s VR Dreams

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By Tom Nardi | October 29, 2026

You’re likely familiar with Google’s Cardboard, and the legions of cheap virtual reality headsets it spawned. By sticking a smartphone to the wearer’s head, all these headsets needed were some …read more
An AI Chatbot For The Apocalypse

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By Al Williams | October 29, 2026

You don’t have to be a full-on “prepper” to at least occasionally wonder what would happen if civilization collapsed. One thing you probably couldn’t do is go on the Internet …read more
Magnetic Lock Opens By Magic

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By Al Williams | October 29, 2026

Over on IEEE Spectrum, [Stephen Cass] has a project that would probably have seemed like a magic a few centuries ago. Imagine a box that uses a magnetic device to …read more
2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Custom RISC-V Processor For Retro System

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By Bryan Cockfield | October 28, 2026

Although once little more than an academic endeavor, the RISC-V architecture is slowly supplanting applications that would have normally gone to ARM. Even a few microcontrollers have chips running this …read more
Battery Prototype Uses Superextensive Quantum Effects To Charge Faster

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By Maya Posch | October 28, 2026

Although the term ‘quantum battery’ is a bit of a vague term, the cell that [Kieran Hymas] et al. demonstrate in a recent paper does seem to suggest that it …read more

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