Hackaday Links: August 31, 2025

Back in March, we covered the story of Davis Lu, a disgruntled coder who programmed a logic bomb into his employers’ systems. His code was malicious in the extreme, designed …read more

Picture By Paper Tape

The April 1926 issue of “Science and Invention” had a fascinating graphic. It explained, for the curious, how a photo of a rescue at sea could be in the New …read more

Where There Is No Down: Measuring Liquid Levels In Space

As you can probably imagine, we get tips on a lot of really interesting projects here at Hackaday. Most are pretty serious, at least insofar as they aim to solve …read more

Debugging The Instant Macropad

Last time, I showed you how to throw together a few modules and make a working macropad that could act like a keyboard or a mouse. My prototype was very …read more

Radio Apocalypse: America’s Doomsday Rocket Radios

Even in the early days of the Cold War, it quickly became apparent that simply having hundreds or even thousands of nuclear weapons would never be a sufficient deterrent to …read more

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Ask Hackaday: Now You Install Your Friends’ VPNs. But Which One?

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By Jenny List | September 3, 2025

Something which may well unite Hackaday readers is the experience of being “The computer person” among your family or friends. You’ll know how it goes, when you go home for …read more
One ROM: The Latest Incarnation Of The Software Defined ROM

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By John Elliot V | September 3, 2025

Retrocomputers need ROMs, but they’re just so read only. Enter the latest incarnation of [Piers]’s One ROM to rule them all, now built with a RP2350, because the newest version …read more
Field Guide To North American Crop Irrigation

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By Dan Maloney | September 3, 2025

Human existence boils down to one brutal fact: however much food you have, it’s enough to last for the rest of your life. Finding your next meal has always been …read more
The Nintendo Famicom Reimagined As A 2003-era Family Computer

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By Maya Posch | September 3, 2025

If there’s one certainty in life, it is that Nintendo Famicom and similar NES clone consoles are quite literally everywhere. What’s less expected is that they were used for a …read more
Reverse-Engineering Mystery TV Equipment: The Micro-Scan

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By Donald Papp | September 3, 2025

[VWestlife] ended up with an obscure piece of 80s satellite TV technology, shown above. The Micro-Scan is a fairly plan metal box with a single “Tune” knob on the front. …read more
An Amiga Demo With No CPU Involved

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By Jenny List | September 2, 2025

Of the machines from the 16-bit era, the Commodore Amiga arguably has the most active community decades later, and it’s a space which still has the power to surprise. Today …read more
The Case For Pascal, 55 Years On

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By Tyler August | September 2, 2025

The first version of Pascal was released by the prolific [Niklaus Wirth] back in 1970. That’s 55 years ago, an eternity in the world of computing. Does anyone still use …read more

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