Hackaday Links: October 17, 2026

While Hackaday doesn’t maintain a crime blotter, we couldn’t help but start this week’s post off with a bit of civil disobedience — a retired professor from the University of …read more

Discovering SDRs Everywhere

To quote commenter [douyarou], “It’s like our little version of a Precambrian explosion”. A bunch of hackers have discovered, independently and building on each other’s work, software-defined radio (SDR) capabilities …read more

Hackaday Podcast Episode 391: Tuned In To ESP32 SDR, New Old Pagers, And Bugs On Mars

Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start this episode off with a discussion about Philadelphia’s budding hacker conference and the imminent retirement of the EZ80. After considering the parallels …read more

This Week In Security: Critical DNS Keys Rotated, Hacking Freezers Isn’t Cool, OpenAI Spies On Itself, And Advanced Hardware Wallet Hacks

Critical Internet keys changed this week. Did you notice? The keys behind DNSSEC, the system for cryptographically validating DNS responses, rolled over on October 11 2026. This is the second …read more

2026 Hackaday Supercon: Workshops Are Open!

Supercon is Hackaday’s annual gathering, and you absolutely need to be there. Today, we’re pleased to announce our lineup of workshops, and it’s more than we’ve ever offered, thanks to …read more

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Hacking A Marine Radio Dish

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By Zoe Skyforest | October 27, 2026

Having watched some fun videos on repurposed satellite dishes on YouTube, [Melan] wanted to get in on the action. She managed to source herself an Intellian i4, a dish built …read more
Airborne Particle Monitoring, The BIG Way

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By Jenny List | October 27, 2026

Airborne micro particles can be a significant health hazard in a workshop, and thus it’s important to maintain a high standard of ventilation. But monitoring their concentration is also important, …read more
How A Single University Project Started Everything

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By Jenny List | October 27, 2026

If we care to cast an eye over the history of ubiquitous personal computing as we know it today, we might immediately point at the original IBM PC. After all, …read more
2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Explore Space With A Credit Card Reader

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By Tom Nardi | October 27, 2026

The humble credit card reader — most of us have used hundreds, perhaps even thousands of them over the years. But even for folks like us, it’s not the sort …read more
Where Did Your Mouse Come From?

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By Jenny List | October 27, 2026

Many readers will be familiar with Douglas Englebart’s 1968 so-called “Mother of All Demos”, in which he described many of the devices and technologies we would be using two or …read more
How Bad Is That Bridge: A Government Database

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By Zoe Skyforest | October 27, 2026

Bridges! We kind of expect them to just be there and do their job, ad infinitum. They are built into the landscape, and we often take them and the routes …read more
SIMD-accelerated Machine Vision On An ESP32-S3

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By Maya Posch | October 27, 2026

Recently [shraiwi] decided to have a bit of good nerdy fun and implement the FAST machine vision algorithm on an ESP32-S3 using its SIMD ISA. This involves using the assembly …read more

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