Ask Hackaday: What Goes Into A Legible Font, And Why Does It Matter? There’s an interesting cultural observation to be made as a writer based in Europe, that we like our sans-serif fonts, while our American friends seem to prefer a font with …read more #hacking #projects
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Ask Hackaday: What Goes Into A Legible Font, And Why Does It Matter?
There’s an interesting cultural observation to be made as a writer based in Europe, that we like our sans-serif fonts, while our American fri...
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The Music of the Sea For how crucial whales have been for humanity, from their harvest for meat and oil to their future use of saving the world from a space probe, humans knew very …read more #hacking #projects
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The Music Of The Sea
For how crucial whales have been for humanity, from their harvest for meat and oil to their future use of saving the world from a space probe, huma...
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Internet-Connected Consoles Are Retro Now, And That Means Problems A long time ago, there was a big difference between PC and console gaming. The former often came with headaches. You’d fight with drivers, struggle with crashes, and grow ever …read more #hacking #projects
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Internet-Connected Consoles Are Retro Now, And That Means Problems
A long time ago, there was a big difference between PC and console gaming. The former often came with headaches. You’d fight with drivers, st...
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How To Build Good Contact Mics We’re most familiar with sound as vibrations that travel through the atmosphere around us. However, sound can also travel through objects, too! If you want to pick it up, you’d …read more #hacking #projects
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How To Build Good Contact Mics
We’re most familiar with sound as vibrations that travel through the atmosphere around us. However, sound can also travel through objects, to...
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Lichtenberg Lightning in a Bottle, Thanks To The Magic of Particle Accelerators You’ve probably seen Lichtenberg figures before, those lightning-like traces left by high-voltage discharge. The safe way to create them is using an electron beam to embed charge inside an acrylic …read more #hacking #projects
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Lichtenberg Lightning In A Bottle, Thanks To The Magic Of Particle Accelerators
You’ve probably seen Lichtenberg figures before, those lightning-like traces left by high-voltage discharge. The safe way to create them is u...
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Origami on another Level with 3D Printing Origami has become known as a miracle technique for designers. Elegant compliant mechanisms can leverage the material properties of a single geometry in ways that are sometimes stronger than those …read more #hacking #projects
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Origami On Another Level With 3D Printing
Origami has become known as a miracle technique for designers. Elegant compliant mechanisms can leverage the material properties of a single geomet...
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The Unusual Pi Boot Process Explained If you’ve ever experimented with a microprocessor at the bare metal level, you’ll know that when it starts up, it will look at its program memory for something to do. …read more #hacking #projects
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The Unusual Pi Boot Process Explained
If you’ve ever experimented with a microprocessor at the bare metal level, you’ll know that when it starts up, it will look at its prog...
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Hackaday Links: December 21, 2025 It’s amazing how fragile our digital lives can be, and how quickly they can fall to pieces. Case in point: the digital dilemma that Paris Buttfield-Addison found himself in last …read more #hacking #projects
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Hackaday Links: December 21, 2025
It’s amazing how fragile our digital lives can be, and how quickly they can fall to pieces. Case in point: the digital dilemma that Paris But...
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Pause Print, Add Hardware, and Enjoy Strength 3D Printing is great, but it is pretty much the worst way to make any given part– except that every other technique you could use to make that part is …read more #hacking #projects
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Pause Print, Add Hardware, And Enjoy Strength
3D Printing is great, but it is pretty much the worst way to make any given part– except that every other technique you could use to make tha...
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Why Chopped Carbon Fiber in FDM Prints is a Contaminant A lot of claims have been made about the purported benefits of adding chopped carbon fiber to FDM filaments, but how many of these claims are actually true? In the …read more #hacking #projects
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Why Chopped Carbon Fiber In FDM Prints Is A Contaminant
A lot of claims have been made about the purported benefits of adding chopped carbon fiber to FDM filaments, but how many of these claims are actua...
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