What One-Winged Squids Can Teach The Airship Renaissance

It’s a blustery January day outside Lakehurst, New Jersey. The East Coast of North America is experiencing its worst weather in decades, and all civilian aircraft have been grounded the …read more

Keebin’ With Kristina: The One With The Uni-body That Does The Splits

Personally, I love a monoblock or uni-body split. You’ll pry this Kinesis Advantage from under my cold, dead hands. But on the go, I really like the Glove 80, a …read more

Railguns: Making Metal Go Fast Using The Lorentz Force

In science fiction, the use of gunpowder-based weapons is generally portrayed as something from a savage past, with technology having long since moved on to more civilized types of destructive …read more

Tech In Plain Sight: Projection Clocks

You wake up in the middle of the night. Is it time to get up? Well, you can look at the nightstand clock. Unless your partner is in the way. …read more

How Safe Are Old Airbags, Anyway?

Automotive airbags are key safety devices that aim to reduce injuries and mortality in the event of motor vehicle accidents. These rapidly-inflating cushions act to soften the blow of an …read more

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Teardown Of Dangerous Fake Wago Connectors

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By Maya Posch | March 1, 2026

Everyone loves Wago connectors for how versatile and effective they are for quickly and securely connecting conductors, but it can be tempting to buy a bag of the significantly cheaper …read more
Making A 286 Think It’s Alive Again

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By Lewin Day | March 1, 2026

[Nagy Krisztián] had an Intel 286 CPU, only… There was no motherboard to install it in. Perhaps not wanting the processor to be lonely, [Nagy] built a simulated system to …read more
Hackaday Links: March 1, 2026

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By Tom Nardi | March 1, 2026

We’ll start this week off with a bit of controversy from Linux Land. Anyone who’s ever used the sudo command knows that you don’t see any kind of visual feedback …read more
Turning A Cast-Iron Radiator Into A Water-Cooled PC

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By Maya Posch | March 1, 2026

Water-cooled PCs generally have in common that there’s a radiator somewhere in the loop, yet nobody said that you can’t build the PCB into the radiator. Something like a genuine …read more
Fish Drives Tank

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By Bryan Cockfield | March 1, 2026

Fish are popular animals to keep as pets, and for good reason. They’re relatively low maintenance, relaxing to watch, and have a high aesthetic appeal. But for all their upsides, …read more
The Long Afterlife Of The Console Modchip

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By Jenny List | March 1, 2026

For a late-1990s engineer with good soldering skills, many a free pint of beer could be earned by installing modchips on the game consoles of the day. Modchips were usually …read more
Color Mixing Spray Paint On The Fly

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By Lewin Day | March 1, 2026

One of the problems with being a graffiti artist is that you have to carry around a different spray can for each color you intend to use. [Sandesh Manik] decided …read more

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