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

See all blog entries

2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Load Cell Anemometer

8 Comments
By Tyler August | October 9, 2025

When you think anemometer, you probably don’t think “load cell” — but (statistically speaking) you probably don’t live in Hurricane Country, which is hard on wind-speed-measuring-whirligigs. When [BLANCHARD Jordan] got …read more
Holy Parachute Out Of Kirigami

3 Comments
By Ian Bos | October 9, 2025

If you have a fear of heights and find yourself falling out of an airplane, you probably don’t want to look up to find your parachute full of holes. However, …read more
Meshtastic: A Tale Of Two Cities

19 Comments
By Tom Nardi | October 9, 2025

If I’m honest with myself, I don’t really need access to an off-grid, fault-tolerant, mesh network like Meshtastic. The weather here in New Jersey isn’t quite so dynamic that there’s …read more
Google Japan Turn Out Another Keyboard, And It’s A Dial

13 Comments
By Jenny List | October 9, 2025

There’s a joke that does the rounds, about a teenager being given a dial phone and being unable to make head nor tail of it. Whether or not it’s true, …read more
Billy Bass Gets New Job As A Voice Assistant

5 Comments
By Bryan Cockfield | October 9, 2025

For those who were alive and conscious before the modern Internet, there were in fact things that went “viral” and became cultural phenomenon for one reason or another. Although they …read more
Why Stepper Motors Still Dominate 3D Printing

31 Comments
By Maya Posch | October 8, 2025

It’s little secret that stepper motors are everywhere in FDM 3D printers, but there’s no real reason why you cannot take another type of DC motor like a brushless DC …read more
Where Is Mathematics Going? Large Language Models And Lean Proof Assistant

11 Comments
By John Elliot V | October 8, 2025

If you’re a hacker you may well have a passing interest in math, and if you have an interest in math you might like to hear about the direction of …read more

← Older posts

Hackaday

Hackaday Links: October 5, 2025

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

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

FLOSS Weekly Episode 849: Veilid: Be A Brick

Lost Techniques: Bond-out CPUs And In Circuit Emulation

Search

Never miss a hack

If you missed it

Meshtastic: A Tale Of Two Cities

Reshaping Eyeballs With Electricity, No Lasers Or Cutting Required

Smart Bulbs Are Turning Into Motion Sensors

Airbags, And How Mercedes-Benz Hacked Your Hearing

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

Our Columns

FLOSS Weekly Episode 850: One ROM To Rule Them All

Ask Hackaday: Why Is TTL 5 Volts?

2025 Hackaday Supercon: More Wonderful Speakers

Know Audio: Distortion Part Two

Hackaday Links: October 5, 2025

Hackaday Links: October 5, 2025

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

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

FLOSS Weekly Episode 849: Veilid: Be A Brick

Lost Techniques: Bond-out CPUs And In Circuit Emulation

Search

Never miss a hack

Subscribe

If you missed it

Our Columns