Tech In Plain Sight: Meet The Robot That Does CPR

Usually in Tech In Plain Sight, we talk about technology you probably see every day, even if you don’t notice it. But we hope you don’t get to see one …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 881: Eating Its Own Tail

This week Jonathan chats with Olivier Vernin of Updatecli, the tool that helps you update everything! Need to roll out dependency updates intelligently? Or even automatically deploy to a server …read more

Hunting The Wild Vibrotruck

A few weeks ago, my wife was out walking the dog, and she sent me four or five photos of small orange boxes planted all around our neighborhood. (OK, I’ll …read more

Hackaday Europe 2026: Outdoors With Robots

Erin Kennedy has been building robots for over a decade now, with a focus on smaller bots that interact with, or maybe even clean up, the outdoor environment. Still other …read more

Hackaday Links: September 6, 2026

Yesterday, Isar Aerospace secured its place in the history books when the upper stage of their Spectrum rocket put a payload of CubeSats into low Earth orbit (LEO). Not only …read more

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Analyzing The FScale Instruction In Intel’s 8087 FPU

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By Maya Posch | September 13, 2026

During his continuing analysis of the architecture and microcode of Intel’s highly influential 8087 floating point unit (FPU) co-processor, [Ken Shirriff] has now arrived at the point where he can …read more
Keeping Time On Tumbling Icosahedra

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By Aaron Beckendorf | September 13, 2026

Clocks are almost the ideal devices to inspire creativity in hackers — they have a simple, well-defined task, but there’s an almost unlimited number of ways to carry it out. …read more
Whip-Cracking Machine Reliably Breaks The Sound Barrier

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By Aaron Beckendorf | September 13, 2026

We tend to think of breaking the sound barrier as a comparatively modern accomplishment, but on a smaller scale, cattle herders have been breaking it for centuries: the cracking sound …read more
Spin FV-1 Emulator Simplifies Sound Pedal Development

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By Tyler August | September 12, 2026

If you’ve never heard of the Spin Semiconductors FP-1 digital signal processor chip, don’t worry– that just means you haven’t been deep into guitar petals and audio effects hardware lately. …read more
2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: 16-Bit Homebrew Relay Computer

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By Tyler August | September 12, 2026

You want Retro? We did, when we started our retrocomputing challenge. [Peter] decided that transistors weren’t retro enough, and sent us this lovely homebrew relay computer, complete with 16- bit …read more
Making An Air-Powered Circular Saw With LEGO

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By Maya Posch | September 12, 2026

Although building a table saw out of LEGO is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you look at those colorful bits of plastic, [Jamie] has been …read more
Big Infinity Mirror Clock Invites You To Gaze Deeply

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By Donald Papp | September 12, 2026

[Andy Huot] has a fantastic-looking infinity mirror digital clock that really raises the bar. It uses high quality components, smart use of RGB LED animations, and a clever “stacked diffuser” …read more

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