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 #hacking #projects image
DIY 35mm Film Scanning 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 #hacking #projects image
PVC Pipe Structure Design That Skips Additional Hardware [Baptiste Marx] shares his take on designing emergency structures using PVC pipe in a way that requires an absolute minimum of added parts. CINTRE (French, English coverage article here) is …read more #hacking #projects image
Tubeless X-Ray Runs on Patience Every time we check in on [Project326], he’s doing something different with X-rays. This week, he has a passive X-ray imager. On paper, it looks great. No special tube is …read more #hacking #projects image
Removing Infill to Make 3D Printed Parts Much Stronger When it comes to FDM 3D prints and making them stronger, most of the focus is on the outer walls and factors like their layer adhesion. However, paying some attention …read more #hacking #projects image
The Subtle Art of Letterform Design Typeface (such as Times New Roman) refers to the design that gives a set of letters, numbers, and symbols their signature “look”. Font, on the other hand, is a specific …read more #hacking #projects image
Save Your USB-C Plugs From Oblivion USB-C as the “One Cable To Rule Them All” has certainly been a success. While USB-A is still around for now, most of us have breathed a hefty sigh of …read more #hacking #projects image
Bose SoundTouch Smart WiFi Speakers are about to go Dumb Bose SoundTouch speakers were introduced in 2013, offering the ability to connect to online streaming services and play back audio on multiple speakers simultaneously using the accompanying mobile app. Now …read more #hacking #projects image
A Deep Dive into The Coolness That Was CRT Projectors CRT monitors: there’s nothing quite like ’em. But did you know that video projectors used to use CRTs? A trio of monochrome CRTs, in fact: one for each color; red, …read more #hacking #projects image
Entering the Wild World of Power Over Ethernet As Ethernet became the world-wide standard for wired networking, there was one nagging problem. You already have to plug in the network cable. But then you have to also plug …read more #hacking #projects image