The Vacuum Tube’s Last Stand(s)

When most people think about vacuum tubes, they picture big glass bottles glowing inside antique radios or early computers. History often treats tubes as a dead-end technology that was suddenly …read more

Hackaday Links: May 10, 2026

While Artemis II was primarily a demonstration flight of the architecture NASA plans to use for future lunar missions, it was also an excellent excuse for the crew to snap …read more

Hackaday Podcast Episode 369: IR, E-Ink, And Avgas

In this episode, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start things off by discussing the latest reason that cheap PCB fabrication isn’t quite as cheap as it once was. …read more

This Week In Security: Another Linux Exploit, Ubuntu Knocked Offline, Finals Interrupted, And Backdoored Tools

After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and a …read more

Congratulations To The Green Powered Challenge Winners!

For this challenge, we asked you to show off your hacks that power themselves sustainably from the environment around them. After all, nobody likes wires, and changing batteries is just …read more

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VTech Toy Becomes PinkPad, The DIY Linux Laptop

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By Donald Papp | May 13, 2026

Originally envisioned as a simple DIY laptop project, [kati]’s PinkPad V1 ended up being considerably more involved than expected. But the end result is a perfectly usable, stunningly pink, and …read more
Build The CPU, Then Build The Calculator

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By Jenny List | May 13, 2026

It’s possible that among Hackaday readers are the largest community of people who have designed their own CPU in the world. We have featured many here, but it’s possible that …read more
The Truth About The Hindenberg

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By Al Williams | May 12, 2026

The Hindenburg disaster recently marked its 89th anniversary, and [The History Guy] marked the event with a video that dispels many of the myths surrounding the airship. Example: the disaster …read more
The Dark Side Of Unitree Robot Dogs

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By Maya Posch | May 12, 2026

Continuing on his quest to expose the dark underbelly of modern technology, [Benn Jordan] recently did a deep-dive into the rise of so-called robot dogs. Although their most striking resemblance …read more
Trying To Fix A GoPro Hero 10 With No Camera Input Issue

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By Maya Posch | May 12, 2026

In the search for more exciting broken electronics to repair, [Hugh Jeffreys] bought a GoPro Hero 10 for US$100 with an apparently rather common issue of no camera input, along …read more
CRTs Are Too Mainstream, So Game On A Mechanical TV Instead

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By Tyler August | May 12, 2026

Aside from nostalgia, people claim to like CRTs because they’re apprehendable– the technology just makes more sense than the arcane wibbly-wobbly solid-state madness going on inside the driver chip of …read more
A Cyberdeck That Runs Linux…in An Altoids Tin

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By Jenny List | May 12, 2026

In the time Hackaday has been in existence we must have brought you plenty of projects housed in Altoids tins, as well as a sizeable number of cyberdecks. But until …read more

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