The Fight To Save Lunar Trailblazer

After the fire and fury of liftoff, when a spacecraft is sailing silently through space, you could be forgiven for thinking the hard part of the mission is over. After …read more

Robots Want The Jobs You Can’t Do

There’s something ominous about robots taking over jobs that humans are suited to do. Maybe you don’t want a job turning a wrench or pushing a broom, but someone does. …read more

Hacking When It Counts: DIY Prosthetics And The Prison Camp Lathe

There are a lot of benefits to writing for Hackaday, but hands down one of the best is getting paid to fall down fascinating rabbit holes. These often — but …read more

Hackaday Links: July 13, 2025

There’s interesting news out of Wyoming, where a coal mine was opened this week. But the fact that it’s the first new coal mine in 50 years isn’t the big …read more

Trickle Down: When Doing Something Silly Actually Makes Sense

One of the tropes of the space race back in the 1960s, which helped justify the spending for the part of the public who thought it wasn’t worth it, was …read more

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Floating Buoy Measures Ocean Conditions

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By Lewin Day | July 22, 2025

Out on Maui, [rabbitcreek] desired to keep track of local ocean conditions. The easiest way to do that was by having something out there in the water to measure them. …read more
Coleco Adam: A Commodore 64 Competitor, Almost

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By Heidi Ulrich | July 21, 2025

For a brief, buzzing moment in 1983, the Coleco Adam looked like it might out-64 the Commodore 64. Announced with lots of ambition, this 8-bit marvel promised a complete computing …read more
Testing Your Knowledge Of JavaScript’s Date Class

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By Maya Posch | July 21, 2025

JavaScript is everywhere these days, even outside the browser. Everyone knows that this is because JavaScript is the best programming language, which was carefully assembled by computer experts and absolutely …read more
A Lockpicking Robot That Can Sense The Pins

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By Maya Posch | July 21, 2025

Having a robot that can quickly and unsupervised pick any lock with the skills of a professional human lockpicker has been a dream for many years. A major issue with …read more
2025 One-Hertz Challenge: It’s Hexadecimal Unix Time

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By Lewin Day | July 21, 2025

[danjovic] came up with a nifty entry for our 2025 One-Hertz Challenge that lands somewhere between the categories of Ridiculous and Clockwork. It’s a clock that few hackers, if any, …read more
Freezer Monitoring: Because Ice Cream Is A Dish Best Served Cold

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By John Elliot V | July 21, 2025

[Scott Baker] wrote in to let us know about his freezer monitor. After a regrettable incident where the ice cream melted because the freezer failed [Scott] decided that what was …read more
Fixing Human Sleep With Air Under Pressure

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By Lewin Day | July 21, 2025

By and large, the human body is designed to breathe from birth, and keep breathing continuously until death. Indeed, if breathing stops, lifespan trends relatively rapidly towards zero. There’s a …read more

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