Hackaday Links: October 5, 2025

What the Flock? It’s probably just some quirk of The Almighty Algorithm, but ever since we featured a story on Flock’s crime-fighting drones last week, we’ve been flooded with other …read more

How Hydraulic Ram Pumps Push Water Uphill With No External Power Input

Imagine you have a natural stream running through a low-lying area on your farm. It’s a great source of fresh water, only you really need it to irrigate some crops …read more

On 3D Scanners And Giving Kinects A New Purpose In Life

The concept of a 3D scanner can seem rather simple in theory: simply point a camera at the physical object you wish to scan in, rotate around the object to …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 849: Veilid: Be A Brick

This week Jonathan talks with Brandon and TC about Veilid, the peer-to-peer networking framework that takes inspiration from Tor, and VeilidChat, the encrypted messenger built on top of it. What …read more

Lost Techniques: Bond-out CPUs And In Circuit Emulation

These days, we take it for granted that you can connect a cheap piece of hardware to a microcontroller and have an amazing debugging experience. Stop the program. Examine memory …read more

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Smart Bulbs Are Turning Into Motion Sensors

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By Lewin Day | October 7, 2025

If you’ve got an existing smart home rig, motion sensors can be a useful addition to your setup. You can use them for all kinds of things, from turning on …read more
A Childhood Dream, Created And Open Sourced

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By Tyler August | October 7, 2025

Some kids dream about getting a pony, others dream about a small form factor violin-style MIDI controller. [Brady Y. Lin] was one of the latter, and now, with the skills …read more
A Lorenz Teletype Shows Us Its Secrets

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By Jenny List | October 7, 2025

When we use the command line on Linux, we often refer to it as a terminal. It’s a word with a past invoking images of serial terminals, rows of green-screened …read more
A New Cartridge For An Old Computer

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By Bryan Cockfield | October 6, 2025

Although largely recognizable to anyone who had a video game console in the 80s or 90s, cartridges have long since disappeared from the computing world. These squares of plastic with …read more
Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration

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By Maya Posch | October 6, 2025

After the news cycle recently exploded with the announcement that Google would require every single Android app to be from a registered and verified developer, while killing third-party app stores …read more
Finding Simpler Schlieren Imaging Systems

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By Aaron Beckendorf | October 6, 2025

Perhaps the most surprising thing about shadowgraphs is how simple they are: you simply take a point source of light, pass the light through a the volume of air to …read more
2G Gone? Bring It Back Yourself!

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By Tyler August | October 6, 2025

Some parts of the world still have ample 2G coverage; for those of in North America, 2G is long gone and 3G has either faded into dusk or beginning its …read more

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