FLOSS Weekly Episode 852: Sir, This Is A Wendy’s

This week Jonathan talks to Robert Wolff about DevEco! How did this developer group come to be, and what is its purpose? What are the lessons learned about building communities …read more

What Happened To Running What You Wanted On Your Own Machine?

When the microcomputer first landed in homes some forty years ago, it came with a simple freedom—you could run whatever software you could get your hands on. Floppy disk from …read more

2025 Hackaday Supercon: Two New Workshops, Costume Party, Lightning Talks, And A New-Space Panel

So much news, so little time left until Supercon! We hope you all have your tickets. If not: Workshop and general admission tickets are on sale now. We’re getting down …read more

Ore Formation: Return Of The Revenge Of The Fluids

In the last edition of our ongoing series on how planets get ore– those wonderful rocks rich in industrial minerals worth mining– we started talking about hydrothermal fluid deposits. Hydrothermal …read more

Word Processing: Heavy Metal Style

If you want to print, say, a book, you probably will type it into a word processor. Someone else will take your file and produce pages on a printer. Your …read more

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Making Math Less Stressful With A Python Super-Calculator

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By John Elliot V | October 26, 2025

In a recent write-up, [David Delony] explains how he built a Wolfram Mathematica-like engine with Python. Core to the system is SymPy for symbolic math support. [David] said being able …read more
Spreadsheets Apple ][ Style

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By Al Williams | October 26, 2025

It is hard to remember a time when no one had a spreadsheet. Sure, you had big paper ledgers if you were an accountant. But most people just scribbled their …read more
HRV Gets Home Automation Upgrades

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By Bryan Cockfield | October 26, 2025

In our modern semi-dystopia, it seems like most companies add automation features to their products to lock them down and get consumers to buy even more proprietary, locked-down components. The …read more
Windows 95, With Just A Floppy Drive

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By Jenny List | October 26, 2025

It’s something of a shock to be reminded that Microsoft’s Windows 95 is now 30 years old — but the PC operating system that brought 32-bit computing to the masses …read more
A Nuclear Physics Lab In Your Pocket

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By Al Williams | October 25, 2025

If you want to work with radioactive material, a cheap Geiger counter isn’t really what you want. According to [Project 326], you need a gamma ray spectrometer. The video below …read more
A Simple $25 Robot Based On The ESP32

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By John Elliot V | October 25, 2025

[Paul McCabe] wrote in to let us know about his $25 robot. This small wheeled robot is based on an ESP32 and made using cardboard and hot glue. You drive …read more
What If Tinkercad Was Self-Hosted?

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By Al Williams | October 25, 2025

While we use a lot of CAD tools, many of us are fans of Tinkercad — especially for working with kids or just doing something quick. But many people dislike …read more

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