This Week In Security: The Shai-Hulud Worm, ShadowLeak, And Inside The Great Firewall

Hardly a week goes by that there isn’t a story to cover about malware getting published to a repository. Last week it was millions of downloads on NPM, but this …read more

Radio Apocalypse: Clearing The Air With SCATANA

For the most part, the Radio Apocalypse series has focused on the radio systems developed during the early days of the atomic age to ensure that Armageddon would be as …read more

A New Generation Of Spacecraft Head To The ISS

While many in the industry were at first skeptical of NASA’s goal to put resupply flights to the International Space Station in the hands of commercial operators, the results speak …read more

Forgotten Internet: The Story Of Email

It is a common occurrence in old movies: Our hero checks in at a hotel in some exotic locale, and the desk clerk says, “Ah, Mr. Barker, there’s a letter …read more

2025 Hackaday Component Abuse Challenge: Let The Games Begin!

In theory, all parts are ideal and do just exactly what they say on the box. In practice, everything has its limits, most components have non-ideal characteristics, and you can …read more

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Restoring A Vintage Computer And Its Plotter

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By Bryan Cockfield | September 22, 2025

Repairing vintage computers is bread-and-butter for many of us around here. The machines themselves tend to be fairly fixable, assuming spare parts are available and there hasn’t been too much …read more
Mandrel Magic: Small Box Assembly With 3D Printing

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By Matt Varian | September 21, 2025

Often, we face tedious tasks with no way around them. Sometimes, you just have to grit your teeth and push through. But small tweaks can make the onerous task a …read more
First Transistor Computer Reborn

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By Al Williams | September 21, 2025

Ok, we’ll admit it. If you asked us what the first transistorized computer was, we would have guessed it was the TC from the University of Manchester. After all, Dr. …read more
Hackaday Links: September 21, 2025

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By Dan Maloney | September 21, 2025

Remember AOL? For a lot of folks, America Online was their first ISP, the place where they got their first exposure to the Internet, or at least a highly curated …read more
A Serial Mouse For A Homebrew 8-bit Computer

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By Al Williams | September 21, 2025

[Too Many Wires] has a custom computer he’s building. He wanted a mouse, but USB is a bit of a stretch for the fledgling computer. We might have opted for …read more
Welding With Natural Gas And Oxygen

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By Aaron Beckendorf | September 21, 2025

By virtue of its triple bond, acetylene burns hotter than any other common hydrocarbon when mixed with oxygen, but it isn’t the only flame hot enough for welding. With the …read more
Low-Cost, High-Gain: A Smart Electronic Eyepiece For Capturing The Cosmos

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By Matt Varian | September 21, 2025

We’ve all seen spectacular pictures of space, and it’s easy to assume that’s how it looks to the naked eye through a nice telescope. But in most cases, that’s simply …read more

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