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 image
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 image
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 image
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 image
A Compact, Browser-Based ESP32 Oscilloscope An oscilloscope is usually the most sensitive, and arguably most versatile, tool on a hacker’s workbench, often taking billions of samples per second to produce an accurate and informative representation …read more #hacking #projects image
Shoot Instax Film In A Polaroid Camera With The Aid Of Tape Polaroid cameras have been very popular for a very long time and are especially hot gifts this year. Fresh film is easy to find but relatively expensive. In contrast, Fuji’s …read more #hacking #projects image
A Heavily Modified Rivian Attempts the Cannonball Run There are few things more American than driving a car really fast in a straight line. Occasionally, the cars will make a few left turns, but otherwise, this is the …read more #hacking #projects image
A Tiny Reflecting Telescope For Portable Astronomy For most of us who are not astronomers, the image that comes to mind when describing a reflecting telescope is of a huge instrument in its own domed-roof building on …read more #hacking #projects image
Building a Multi-Channel Pipette for Parallel Experimentation One major reason for the high cost of developing new drugs and other chemicals is the sheer number of experiments involved; designing a single new drug can require synthesizing and …read more #hacking #projects image
Hardware Store Marauder’s Map is Clarkian Magic The “Marauder’s Map” is a magical artifact from the Harry Potter franchise. That sort of magic isn’t real, but as Arthur C. Clarke famously pointed out, it doesn’t need to …read more #hacking #projects image