Channel Surfing Nostalgia Machine As any generation of people get older, they tend to look back fondly on their formative years when there was less responsibility and more wonder. Even if things have objectively …read more #hacking #projects image
A New Way to Make (Almost) Holograms with Lasers The spectrum of laser technologies available to hackers has gradually widened from basic gas lasers through CO2 tubes, diode lasers, and now fiber lasers. One of the newer entries is …read more #hacking #projects image
Radio Astronomy in the Palm of Your Hand When you think of a radio telescope, you usually think of a giant dish antenna pointing skyward. But [vhuvanmakes] built Wavy-Scope, a handheld radio telescope that can find the Sun …read more #hacking #projects image
F/0.38 Camera Lens Made With Oil Immersion Microscope Objective Over on YouTube [Applied Science] shows us how to make an f/0.38 camera lens using an oil immersion microscope objective. The f-number of a lens indicates how well it will …read more #hacking #projects image
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Boosting Voltage With Just a Wire Switching power supplies are familiar to Hackaday readers, whether they have a fairly conventional transformer, are a buck, a boost, or a flyback design. There’s nearly always an inductor involved, …read more #hacking #projects image
Hackaday Podcast Episode 342: Poopless Prints, Radio in Your Fillings, and One Hyperspectral Pixel at a Time It was Elliot and Dan on the podcast today, taking a look at the best the week had to offer in terms of your hacks. We started with surprising news …read more #hacking #projects image
DIY Telescope Uses Maker Tools You’ve got a laser cutter. You’ve got a 3D printer. What do you make? [Ayushmaan45] suggests a telescope. The modest instrument isn’t going to do serious astronomy with only 8X …read more #hacking #projects image
This Week in Security: F5, SonicWall, and the End of Windows 10 F5 is unintentionally dabbling in releasing the source code behind their BIG-IP networking gear, announcing this week that an unknown threat actor had access to their internal vulnerability and code …read more #hacking #projects image
Site of Secret 1950s Cold War Iceworm Project Rediscovered The overall theme of the early part of the Cold War was that of subterfuge — with scientific missions often providing excellent cover for placing missiles right on the USSR’s …read more #hacking #projects image
A New Golden Age of Browser Games Arguably, the golden age of browser gaming occurred in the 00s mostly revolving around Adobe Flash. This was an era with high creativity and a low barrier of entry, and …read more #hacking #projects image