Ask Hackaday: What’s the Top Programming Language of 2025 We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released …read more #hacking #projects

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Ask Hackaday: What’s The Top Programming Language Of 2025

We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen...

Driving a Laser at 200 Volts for Nanoseconds If there’s one lesson to be learned from [Aled Cuda]’s pulsed laser driver, it’s that you can treat the current limits on electronic components as a suggestion if the current …read more #hacking #projects

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Driving A Laser At 200 Volts For Nanoseconds

If there’s one lesson to be learned from [Aled Cuda]’s pulsed laser driver, it’s that you can treat the current limits on electronic componen...

YouTube… Over Dial Up In the days of yore, computers would scream strange sounds as they spoke with each other over phone lines. Of course, this is dial up, the predecessor to modern internet …read more #hacking #projects

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YouTube… Over Dial Up

In the days of yore, computers would scream strange sounds as they spoke with each other over phone lines. Of course, this is dial up, the predeces...

Creating Python GUIs with GIMP GUI design can be a tedious job, requiring the use of specialist design tools and finding a suitable library that fits your use case. If you’re looking for a lightweight …read more #hacking #projects

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Creating Python GUIs With GIMP

GUI design can be a tedious job, requiring the use of specialist design tools and finding a suitable library that fits your use case. If you’...

TekaSketch: Where Etch A Sketch Meets Graph Theory The Etch A Sketch was never supposed to meet a Raspberry Pi, a camera, or a mathematical algorithm, but here we are. [Tekavou]’s Teka-Cam and TekaSketch are a two-part hack …read more #hacking #projects

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TekaSketch: Where Etch A Sketch Meets Graph Theory

The Etch A Sketch was never supposed to meet a Raspberry Pi, a camera, or a mathematical algorithm, but here we are. [Tekavou]’s Teka-Cam and...

Macintosh System 7 Ported To x86 With LLM Help You can use large language models for all sorts of things these days, from writing terrible college papers to bungling legal cases. Or, you can employ them to more interesting …read more #hacking #projects

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Macintosh System 7 Ported To X86 With LLM Help

You can use large language models for all sorts of things these days, from writing terrible college papers to bungling legal cases. Or, you can emp...

Lumafield Shows Why Your Cheap 18650 Cells Are Terrible Lithium-ion cells deliver very high energy densities compared to many other battery technologies, but they bring with them a danger of fire or explosion if they are misused. We’re mostly …read more #hacking #projects

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Lumafield Shows Why Your Cheap 18650 Cells Are Terrible

Lithium-ion cells deliver very high energy densities compared to many other battery technologies, but they bring with them a danger of fire or expl...

Ask Hackaday: How Do You Distro Hop? If you read “Jenny’s Daily Drivers” or “Linux Fu” here on Hackaday, you know we like Linux. Jenny’s series, especially, always points out things I want to try on different …read more #hacking #projects

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Ask Hackaday: How Do You Distro Hop?

If you read “Jenny’s Daily Drivers” or “Linux Fu” here on Hackaday, you know we like Linux. Jenny’s series, esp...

10″ LEGO Tyre is Practical Nostalgia If there’s one thing that has come to define the generations after the baby boom, it’s probably nostalgia. It’s heavily marketed and weaponized by the market: yearning for better, simpler …read more #hacking #projects

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10″ LEGO Tyre Is Practical Nostalgia

If there’s one thing that has come to define the generations after the baby boom, it’s probably nostalgia. It’s heavily marketed ...

Two Decades Of Hackaday In Words I think most of us who make or build things have a thing we are known for making. Where it’s football robots, radios, guitars, cameras, or inflatable textile sculptures, we …read more #hacking #projects

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Two Decades Of Hackaday In Words

I think most of us who make or build things have a thing we are known for making. Where it’s football robots, radios, guitars, cameras, or in...