This Week In Security: Vibecoding, Router Banning, And Remote Dynamic Dependencies

Vibecoding. What could possible go wrong? That’s what [Kevin Joensen] of Baldur wondered, and to find out he asked Anthropic’s Sonnet 4.5 to build a secure login with Two Factor …read more

The Time Of Year For Things That Go Bump In The Night

Each year around the end of October we feature plenty of Halloween-related projects, usually involving plastic skeletons and LED lights, or other fun tech for decorations to amuse kids. It’s …read more

This Reactor Is On Fire! Literally…

If I mention nuclear reactor accidents, you’d probably think of Three Mile Island, Fukushima, or maybe Chernobyl (or, now, Chornobyl). But there have been others that, for whatever reason, aren’t …read more

Expert Systems: The Dawn Of AI

We’ll be honest. If you had told us a few decades ago we’d teach computers to do what we want, it would work some of the time, and you wouldn’t …read more

Know Audio: Lossy Compression Algorithms And Distortion

In previous episodes of this long-running series looking at the world of high-quality audio, at every point we’ve stayed in the real world of physical audio hardware. From the human …read more

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2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Dawg Gone LED Tester

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By Jenny List | November 9, 2025

The Hackaday 2025 Component Abuse Challenge is all about abusing electronic components in the service of making them do things they were never intended to. It’s not the 2025 Food …read more
Concrete Lathe Turns Metal

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By Al Williams | November 9, 2025

Full disclosure. If you want a lathe capable of turning metal stock, you probably should just buy one. But what fun is that? You can do like [kachurovskiy] and build …read more
Mesmerizing Marble Runs From Procedural Generation

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By Aaron Beckendorf | November 9, 2025

There are few things that can keep a certain kind of mechanically-inclined mind entranced as well as a marble run, and few structures that look as interestingly organic as procedurally-generated …read more
Target The Best AA, And Take No Flak

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By Tyler August | November 9, 2025

In this era of cheap lithium pouch cells, it might seem mildly anachronistic to build AA batteries into a project. There are enough valid reasons to do so, however, and …read more
The Cardboard Airplane Saga Continues

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By Fenix Guthrie | November 9, 2025

History is full of engineers making (or attempting to make) things out of the wrong stuff, from massive wooden aircraft to boats made of ice and sawdust. [PeterSripol] is attempting …read more
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Heat Activated LED Candles

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By John Elliot V | November 8, 2025

[Miroslav Hancar] wasn’t satisfied with abusing just a single component for our Component Abuse Challenge. He decided to abuse a whole assembly, in particular, some LED candles. In this project, …read more
Teardown Of HP Optical Link And Signal Investigations Using Siglent Technology

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By John Elliot V | November 8, 2025

Anything with a laser has undeniable hacker appeal, even if the laser’s task is as pedestrian as sending data over a fiber optic cable. [Shahriar] from [The Signal Path] must …read more

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