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Yesterday, Isar Aerospace secured its place in the history books when the upper stage of their Spectrum rocket put a payload of CubeSats into low Earth orbit (LEO). Not only …read more

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Hackaday Europe 2026: Fluid Kernels And Optimizing C++ For MCUs

Oftentimes, when we’re using a microcontroller, we’re whipping up some very specific code focused on executing a particular task. The device is set up to execute code that does exactly …read more

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I’m an experienced programmer, and I’ve worked in many different languages. Sometimes being a programmer is a two-edged sword. You want to accomplish something, and you can do it easily …read more

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If you used a scientific calculator in the 1970s or 1980s, there was a fair chance that it worked differently from almost every calculator you see today. Instead of typing: …read more

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Sick Of Wayland Vs. Xorg? How About GEM?

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By Tyler August | September 9, 2026

Between lawsuits from Apple, and Microsoft being Microsoft, Digital Research’s GEM desktop for DOS never really had a chance. It did have another life on Atari home computers, but it’s …read more
One Bit Sound With The ZX Spectrum

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By Al Williams | September 8, 2026

[Michael] has a thing for playing audio over beepers using a single bit. He’s done it with the Apple ][ and the IBM PC. This time he turns to the …read more
The Different Ways To Look At Negative Resistance

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By Donald Papp | September 8, 2026

[lcamtuf] has an in-depth look at the concept of negative resistance that goes somewhat further than one might expect. Normally, as voltage across a resistance increases so too does the …read more
Anti-Doomscroll Tamagotchi Only Lives If You Do

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By Tyler August | September 8, 2026

The odds are, you have a device deliberately designed to be addictive in your pocket or on the table next to you if you aren’t staring at it right now– …read more
Are Desktop PC-ABS Prints Outperformed By Industrial FDM? Not Really

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By Donald Papp | September 8, 2026

[Igor] of [My Tech Fun] set out to discover what differences, if any, can be found between parts printed in PC-ABS filament on an industrial 3D printer, and those from …read more
Fixing A 1990s LEGO Electric Train Speed Regulator

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By Maya Posch | September 8, 2026

Before LEGO train sets moved to battery-powered locomotives with plastic rails, all of them worked pretty much like any other train set of the era. This meant metal rails that …read more
Hackaday Europe 2026: Outdoors With Robots

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By Elliot Williams | September 8, 2026

Erin Kennedy has been building robots for over a decade now, with a focus on smaller bots that interact with, or maybe even clean up, the outdoor environment. Still other …read more

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