Word Processing: Heavy Metal Style If you want to print, say, a book, you probably will type it into a word processor. Someone else will take your file and produce pages on a printer. Your …read more #hacking #projects image
Classy Desk Simulates Beehive Activity Beehives are impressive structures, an example of the epic building feats that are achievable by nature’s smaller creatures. [Full Stack Woodworking] was recently building a new work desk, and decided …read more #hacking #projects image
Ask Hackaday: When Good Lithium Batteries Go Bad Friends, I’ve gotten myself into a pickle and I need some help. A few years back, I decided to get into solar power by building a complete PV system inside …read more #hacking #projects image
Nanochat Lets You Build Your Own Hackable LLM Few people know LLMs (Large Language Models) as thoroughly as [Andrej Karpathy], and luckily for us all he expresses that in useful open-source projects. His latest is nanochat, which he …read more #hacking #projects image
Don’t Believe Planck’s Constant? Measure It Yourself We aren’t sure if [Looking Glass Universe] didn’t trust the accepted number for Planck’s constant, or just wanted the experience of measuring it herself. Either way, she took some LEDs …read more #hacking #projects image
CoreXY 3D Printer Has A Scissor-Lift Z-axis So It Folds Down! We don’t know about you, but one of the biggest hassles of having a 3D printer at home or in the ‘shop is the space it takes up. Wouldn’t it …read more #hacking #projects image
Game of Theseus Gets Graphics Upgrade, Force Feedback 30 Years On Indycar Racing 2 was a good game, back in 1995; in some ways, it was the Crysis of the Clinton years, in that most mortals could not run it to …read more #hacking #projects image
Hackaday Links: October 19, 2025 After a quiet week in the news cycle, surveillance concern Flock jumped right back in with both feet, announcing a strategic partnership with Amazon’s Ring to integrate that company’s network …read more #hacking #projects image
The MSL10 Mechanosensor Makes Venus Flytrap Plants Touchy Carnivorous plants are a fascinating part of the natural world, especially species like the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) that rely on what is effectively a spring-loaded trap to ensnare unsuspecting …read more #hacking #projects image
Filming at the Speed of Light, About One Foot per Nanosecond [Brian Haidet] published on his AlphaPhoenix channel a laser beam recorded at 2 billion frames per second. Well, sort of. The catch? It’s only a one pixel by one pixel …read more #hacking #projects image