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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A Function Generator From The Past

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By Jenny List | October 10, 2025

It’s always a pleasure to find a hardware hacker who you haven’t seen before, and page back through their work. [Bettina Neumryr]’s niche comes in building projects from old electronics …read more
Hackaday Podcast Episode 341: Qualcomm Owns Arduino, Steppers Still Dominate 3D Printing, And Google Controls Your Apps

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By Jenny List | October 10, 2025

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
QUIC! Jump To User Space!

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By Al Williams | October 10, 2025

Everyone knows that Weird Al lampooned computers in a famous parody song (It’s All About the Pentiums). But if you want more hardcore (including more hardcore language, so if you …read more
This Week In Security: ID Breaches, Code Smell, And Poetic Flows

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By Jonathan Bennett | October 10, 2025

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
BenchVolt PD: USB PD Meets Benchtop Precision

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By Matt Varian | October 10, 2025

USB power has become ubiquitous — everything from phones to laptops all use it — so why not your lab bench? This is what [EEEngineer4Ever] set out to do with …read more
Inside A Germanium Transistor

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By Jenny List | October 10, 2025

The first transistors were point contact devices, not far from the cats-whiskers of early radio receivers. They were fragile and expensive, and their performance was not very high. The transistor …read more
One ROM Gets A USB Stack

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By John Elliot V | October 9, 2025

Our hacker [Piers Finlayson] is at it again, and this time he has added USB support to One ROM. With this new connectivity you can attach your One ROM to …read more

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