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Using tools properly takes skill, and this goes for software tools as well as hardware. You don’t just buy a paintbrush and on day one paint the Mona Lisa. Similarly, …read more

Hackaday Podcast Episode 387: Superhuman Clocks, CAN In USB-C, And The Joys Of Bare Metal

This week, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start the episode off by discussing the latest CircuitPython developments before covering some impressive reverse engineering efforts, the benefits of modeling …read more

This Week In Security: Flock Cameras Are Old, Microsoft Patches Patches, And Researchers Attack SSH

Leak site Distributed Denial of Secrets has released a dump of the filesystems of a Flock camera, and Micah Lee has published a dive into the contents. Apparently the Flock …read more

FCC ISM Rules May Shatter Lora Mesh Communities

Although everyone has their own reasons for exploring a new hobby, one of the driving factors behind the popularity of Meshtastic and MeshCore has been the incredible accessibility offered by …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 882 With OSADL: Better Together

This week Jonathan chats with Jan Altenberg of the Open Source Automation Development Lab, a cooperative of nerds that care about Linux and Open Source! Jan and OSADL helped push …read more

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Dumpster-dived Window A/C Becomes Ground-Source Heat Pump

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By Tyler August | September 22, 2026

Heat pumps are great, because they pump heat around, and we often don’t want heat where it is. Need it somewhere else? Pump it! It’s great. It’s also a bit …read more
Determining The Body Temperature Of Tyrannosaurus Rex

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By Maya Posch | September 22, 2026

One of the most fun challenges in paleontology is determining characteristics of long-dead species like their behavior and body temperature based on nothing but some fossils and traces that are …read more
Raspberry Pi RAM Restrictions No Big Deal, Frankly

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By Arya Voronova | September 22, 2026

Hacking on Raspberry Pi board internals is one of my favourite topics. I know a bunch of obscure things about these cute little boards. Three years ago, I covered a …read more
Digital Upgrade Brings Medium Format Camera Into The 21st Century

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By Tyler August | September 22, 2026

Large format cameras can produce amazing shots, but are a bit too bulky to be practical. Medium format is a different story, as [Wenting] demonstrates with his Sitina B220M — …read more
Raspberry Pi Locks Down RAM Upgrades

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By Maya Posch | September 22, 2026

In a recent video [Jeff Geerling] addresses an issue discovered with the Raspberry Pi firmware, specifically how since around 2024 the firmware locks down what RAM size and even module …read more
Tiny Scratch-Built Cyberdeck Is In Mint Condition

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By Donald Papp | September 22, 2026

[Salim Benbouziyane] shows off his TN Deck, a tiny custom cyberdeck built into an Altoids tin. It’s a skillful build that really makes the most of the available space, and …read more
A Computer Terminal The Old Way

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By Jenny List | September 21, 2026

Here in 2026 if we need a terminal the chances are we fire one up on our computer and continue on our way without a thought. What we are doing …read more

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