Hackaday Links: October 12, 2025

We’ve probably all seen some old newsreel or documentary from The Before Times where the narrator, using his best Mid-Atlantic accent, described those newfangled computers as “thinking machines,” or better …read more

Hackaday Podcast Episode 341: Qualcomm Owns Arduino, Steppers Still Dominate 3D Printing, And Google Controls Your Apps

The nights are drawing in for Europeans, and Elliot Williams is joined this week by Jenny List for an evening podcast looking at the past week in all things Hackaday. …read more

This Week In Security: ID Breaches, Code Smell, And Poetic Flows

Discord had a data breach back on September 20th, via an outsourced support contractor. It seems it was a Zendesk instance that was accessed for 58 hours through a compromised …read more

Meshtastic: A Tale Of Two Cities

If I’m honest with myself, I don’t really need access to an off-grid, fault-tolerant, mesh network like Meshtastic. The weather here in New Jersey isn’t quite so dynamic that there’s …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 850: One ROM To Rule Them All

This week Jonathan and Aaron chat with Piers Finlayson about One ROM! Why does the retro-computing world need a solution for replacement ROMs? How difficult was it to squeeze a …read more

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Give Your Microscope Polarized $5 Shades To Fight Glare

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By Maya Posch | October 13, 2025

Who doesn’t know the problem of glare when trying to ogle a PCB underneath a microscope of some description? Even with a ring light, you find yourself struggling to make …read more
Deforming A Mirror For Adaptive Optics

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By Aaron Beckendorf | October 13, 2025

As frustrating as having an atmosphere can be for physicists, it’s just as bad for astronomers, who have to deal with clouds, atmospheric absorption of certain wavelengths, and other irritations. …read more
SLM Co-extruding Hotend Makes Poopless Prints

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By Tyler August | October 13, 2025

Everyone loves colourful 3D prints, but nobody loves prime towers, “printer poop” and all the plastic waste associated with most multi-material setups. Over the years, there’s been no shortage of …read more
Making A 2-Transistor AM Radio With A Philips Electronic Engineer EE8 Kit From 1966

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By John Elliot V | October 12, 2025

Back in 1966, a suitable toy for a geeky kid was a radio kit. You could find simple crystal radio sets or some more advanced ones. But some lucky kids …read more
The Singing Dentures Of Manchester And Other Places

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By Jenny List | October 12, 2025

Any radio amateur will tell you about the spectre of TVI, of their transmissions being inadvertently demodulated by the smallest of non-linearity in the neighbouring antenna systems, and spewing forth …read more
Hackaday Links: October 12, 2025

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By Dan Maloney | October 12, 2025

We’ve probably all seen some old newsreel or documentary from The Before Times where the narrator, using his best Mid-Atlantic accent, described those newfangled computers as “thinking machines,” or better …read more
DIY 35mm Film Scanning

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By Al Williams | October 12, 2025

If you are sitting on a horde of negatives, waiting for the digital photography fad to die off, it may be time to think about digitizing your old film. [Kinpro1024] …read more

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