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As a classic car enthusiast, my passion revolves around cars with a Made in West Germany stamp somewhere on them, partially because that phrase generally implied a reputation for mechanical …read more

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In the history of entertainment, few properties have made the sort of indelible mark on popular culture as Star Trek has. In 950 episodes across the twelve television series that …read more

Hackaday Links: October 12, 2025

We’ve probably all seen some old newsreel or documentary from The Before Times where the narrator, using his best Mid-Atlantic accent, described those newfangled computers as “thinking machines,” or better …read more

Hackaday Podcast Episode 341: Qualcomm Owns Arduino, Steppers Still Dominate 3D Printing, And Google Controls Your Apps

The nights are drawing in for Europeans, and Elliot Williams is joined this week by Jenny List for an evening podcast looking at the past week in all things Hackaday. …read more

This Week In Security: ID Breaches, Code Smell, And Poetic Flows

Discord had a data breach back on September 20th, via an outsourced support contractor. It seems it was a Zendesk instance that was accessed for 58 hours through a compromised …read more

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High Performance Motor Control With FOC From The Ground Up

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By Maya Posch | October 20, 2025

Vector Control, also known as Field Oriented Control or FOC is an AC motor control scheme that enables fine-grained control over a connected motor, through the precise control of its …read more
Blinking An LED With A Single Transistor

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By Lewin Day | October 20, 2025

Let’s say you want to blink an LED. You might grab an Arduino and run the Blink sketch, or you might lace up a few components to a 555. But …read more
Fail Of The Week: Beaker To Benchy More Bothersome Than Believed

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By Tyler August | October 20, 2025

Making nylon plastic from raw chemicals used to be a very common demo; depending where and when you grew up, you may well have done it in high school or …read more
Word Processing: Heavy Metal Style

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By Al Williams | October 20, 2025

If you want to print, say, a book, you probably will type it into a word processor. Someone else will take your file and produce pages on a printer. Your …read more
Classy Desk Simulates Beehive Activity

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By Lewin Day | October 20, 2025

Beehives are impressive structures, an example of the epic building feats that are achievable by nature’s smaller creatures. [Full Stack Woodworking] was recently building a new work desk, and decided …read more
Ask Hackaday: When Good Lithium Batteries Go Bad

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By Dan Maloney | October 20, 2025

Friends, I’ve gotten myself into a pickle and I need some help. A few years back, I decided to get into solar power by building a complete PV system inside …read more
Nanochat Lets You Build Your Own Hackable LLM

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By Donald Papp | October 20, 2025

Few people know LLMs (Large Language Models) as thoroughly as [Andrej Karpathy], and luckily for us all he expresses that in useful open-source projects. His latest is nanochat, which he …read more

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