SpaceX Drops The Ball On Catching Fairings

You don’t have to look very hard to find another rousing success by SpaceX. It’s a company defined by big and bold moves, and when something goes right, they make …read more

Ask Hackaday: If Aliens Came By, Would We Even Notice?

A few years ago we talked about the chance that the first known extrasolar visitor — Oumuamua — might be a derelict solar sail. That notion has been picking up …read more

Julius Sumner Miller Made Physics Fun For Everyone

Let’s face it — for the average person, math and formulas are not the most attractive side of physics. The fun is in the hands-on learning, the lab work, the …read more

The Soviet RBMK Reactor: 35 Years After The Chernobyl Disaster

Thirty-five years ago, radiation alarms went off at the Forsmark nuclear power plant in Sweden. After an investigation, it was determined that the radiation did not come from inside the …read more

Linux Fu: Mixing Bash And Python

Although bash scripts are regularly maligned, they do have a certain simplicity and ease of creation that makes them hard to resist. But sometimes you really need to do some …read more

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Automate Your Poultry With CoopCommand

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By Jenny List | May 8, 2021

A fresh egg taken from beneath a slumbering hen is something to which the taste of a supermarket equivalent rarely compares. The satisfaction of having a contented flock does come …read more
A Dutch City Gets A €600,000 Fine For WiFi Tracking

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By Jenny List | May 8, 2021

It’s not often that events in our sphere of technology hackers have ramifications for an entire country or even a continent, but there’s a piece of news from the Netherlands …read more
This POV Clock Combines A Nixie With A Pendulum

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By Dan Maloney | May 7, 2021

Talk about your mixed timekeeping metaphors: there are clocks, and pendulum clocks, and there are Nixie clocks, and persistence of vision clocks. But this is a Nixie pendulum POV clock, …read more
The Fine Structure Constant In A Blink

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By Al Williams | May 7, 2021

Electronics is really an applied branch of physics, so it isn’t surprising that if you are serious about your electronics, you probably know a little physics, too. If you’ve ever …read more
K’nex Pinball Machine Is A Playable Work Of Art

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By Kristina Panos | May 7, 2021

It’s really a wonder that we missed this one, what with all the extra time in front of a computer we’ve had over the last year or so. But better …read more
A Trip Down The Vacuum Clamping Rabbit Hole

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By Dan Maloney | May 7, 2021

We all know how easy it is to fall down the rabbit hole, something that turns a seemingly simple job into an accidental journey of experimentation and discovery. And perhaps …read more
Homemade Metal Band Saw

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By Danie Conradie | May 7, 2021

As the channel name implies, [Workshop From Scratch] is building a growing list of tools and machines from scratch. His latest edition is a heavy-duty metal band saw. As with …read more

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