Retrotechtacular: Soldering The Tek Way

For a lot of us, soldering just seems to come naturally. But if we’re being honest, none of us was born with a soldering iron in our hand — ouch! …read more

Physical Media Is Dead, Long Live Physical Media

Much has been written about the demise of physical media. Long considered the measure of technological progress in audiovisual and computing fields, the 2000s saw this metric seemingly rendered obsolete …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 815: You Win Some, You Lose Some

This week, Jonathan Bennett and Randal chat with Matija Šuklje about Open Source and the Law! How do Open Source projects handle liability, what should a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) …read more

Running AI Locally Without Spending All Day On Setup

There are many AI models out there that you can play with from companies like OpenAI, Google, and a host of others. But when you use them, you get the …read more

Tech In Plain Sight: Security Envelopes

You probably get a few of these things each week in the mail. And some of them actually do a good job of obscuring the contents inside, even if you …read more

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It’s A Bench, But It’s Not Benchy

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By Jenny List | January 12, 2025

Whatever the nuances are surrounding the reported taking down of remixes derived from the famous Benchy 3D printer stress test, it was inevitable that in its aftermath there would be …read more
Bad Apple But It’s 6,500 Regex Searches In Vim

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By Maya Posch | January 11, 2025

In the world of showing off, there is alongside ‘Does it play Doom?’ that other classic of ‘Does it play Bad Apple?’. Whereas either would be quaint in the context …read more
Retrotechtacular: The 1951 Telephone Selector

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By Al Williams | January 11, 2025

Telephone systems predate the use of cheap computers and electronic switches. Yesterday’s phone system used lots of stepping relays in a box known as a “selector.” If you worked for …read more
IFixit Releases Command Line Docs For FixHub Iron

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By Tom Nardi | January 11, 2025

When we reviewed the iFixit FixHub back in September, one of the most interesting features of the portable soldering station was the command line interface that both the iron and …read more
Blinkenlights-First Retrocomputer Design

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By Elliot Williams | January 11, 2025

[Boz] wants to build a retrocomputer, but where to start? You could start with the computery bits, like say the CPU or the bus architecture, but where’s the fun in that? …read more
In Praise Of Simple Projects

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By Elliot Williams | January 11, 2025

Hackaday was at Chaos Communication Congress last week, and it’s one of those big hacker events that leaves you with so much to think about that I’m still processing it. …read more
Comparing Ways To Add Threads To Your 3D Prints

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By Maya Posch | January 11, 2025

Adding threads to your 3D prints is a life-changing feature, but obviously there are a lot of trade-offs and considerations when deciding on how to go about this exactly. Between …read more

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