2026 Hackaday Supercon: Call For Proposals

We are absolutely stoked to announce that the Hackaday Superconference is taking place this year November 6th through 8th in glorious Pasadena California, and we want to see you there! …read more

The Death Of Physical Media And The Real Challenges To Software Archiving

Along with the many displays of outrage, gnashing of teeth and other displays of profound grief at the recent news that Sony will no longer manufacture physical game discs come …read more

A Brief History Of The Crazy Old 7-Segment Display

How old is the seven-segment display? Surely it is a product of the 1970s. After all, calculators started showing up, and the height of junior high humor was plugging 7734 …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 874: Really, We Do PDFs

This week Jonathan chats with Andrea Gallo about RISC-V! What does it mean for RISC-V to be an Open ISA? Where is RISC-V popping up, and what’s the new frontier? …read more

Linux Fu: The Local Phonebook

I’ll admit it: I miss the simplicity of /etc/hosts. There was something elegant about it. You wanted laserprinter to mean 192.168.1.40, so you opened a text file and wrote: 192.168.1.40 …read more

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Java Ring Restored After Nearly 30 Years

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By Maya Posch | July 21, 2026

Back in the late 90s when absolutely everybody knew that Java was going to become the one programming language to rule them all, the Java Ring was handed out to …read more
20 FPS On E-Paper Display Without Help

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By Bryan Cockfield | July 21, 2026

If electronic paper displays have one downside, it’s generally refresh rate. Earlier versions of the tech might only have been able to do single-digit frames per second, while modern, mid-range …read more
Google Maps Killed The Restaurant Star

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By Navarre Bartz | July 20, 2026

We all know that Google and other big players pick and choose what information people see, but we sometimes overlook it outside of the search and social media space. [Lauren …read more
Detection Of A Four-Carbon Sugar In Interstellar Space

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By Maya Posch | July 20, 2026

Although life tends to find a way, something first has to kickstart said lifeforms. Exactly how the first biological cells formed on Earth – and potentially on other worlds – …read more
Sail Virtually Aboard The “Itanic” With IA-64 Emulator

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By Tyler August | July 20, 2026

Intel’s Itanium architecture was an interesting experiment, but it has gone down in history as one of the chip giant’s bigger flops, so much so that it earned the name …read more
Echolocation For Drones

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By Navarre Bartz | July 20, 2026

Bats are remarkable creatures, able to fly at night or inside the confines of caves without light to guide their way. A team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) …read more
A Feature-Rich Drum Machine

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By Bryan Cockfield | July 20, 2026

A little over a month ago, we featured a project from [Igor] who built 64 bits of DRAM from scratch using discrete components. Jokes about memory pricing aside, he did …read more

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