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Own The OSD Chip In Your Cheap Composite Monitor ift.tt/3TcLBbK

Own The OSD Chip In Your Cheap Composite Monitor

[Ogrinz Labs] has built a Robbie the Robot suit, which is super-cool, but has a huge flaw. When inside the suit, heā€™s too tall to do what the original Robbie actor did, which was to look throā€¦

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Thatā€™s No Moonā€¦ Thatā€™s an Exoplanet! ift.tt/506Qy3U

Thatā€™s No Moonā€¦ Thatā€™s An Exoplanet!

It wasnā€™t that long ago that a science teacher would have told students that there was no evidence of planets around other star systems. Even more recently, they might have said that while weā€¦

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Is This The Smallest Internet Radio? ift.tt/7EIHZDs

Is This The Smallest Internet Radio?

Internet radios have been a thing in some form for the last quarter century, and the advent of cheap networked microcontrollers has made them easier than ever to build. But just how small can one bā€¦

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2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Lunar Lander on the PDP-1 ift.tt/VaZbct4

2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Lunar Lander On The PDP-1

A lot of the retrocomputing world is focused on the 1980s, and for good reasonā€“ the home computer revolution was in full swing in that decade, and there is a veritable Cambrian Explosion of cā€¦

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Electronic Busy Board is Fun for Kids and Hackers ift.tt/09DG8Cw

Electronic Busy Board Is Fun For Kids and Hackers

While you may not be familiar with the term ā€œbusy boardā€, youā€™ve almost certainly seen one. Itā€™s the sort of toy with a bunch of buttons, switches, and of course LEDs, that ā€¦

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2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: A Homebrew Computer In Only Three ICs ift.tt/EyDhmen

2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: A Homebrew Computer In Only Three ICs

Homebrew computers donā€™t have to be retrocomputers, but [Just4Fun]ā€™s all-through-hole, 68008-based ā€œ68k-MBCā€ certainly qualifies, so it is a worthy entry in our ongoing contā€¦

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Hackaday Podcast Episode 389: Spinning Lightfield Displays, and Jenny Visits a Blast Furnace ift.tt/wjcoGhs

Hackaday Podcast Episode 389: Spinning Lightfield Displays, And Jenny Visits A Blast Furnace

Another all-European podcast for you this week, as Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List for an evening looking at the past week in Hackaday. And this week there is a particularly good selection ā€¦

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Using Vibration to Make Stuff Stick Contact-Free to Ceilings ift.tt/kGSr2Bg

Using Vibration To Make Stuff Stick Contact-Free To Ceilings

Generally making stuff stick to something like a ceiling requires resorting to suction cups, glue or something much more permanent, but [Steve Mould] starts his video featuring a playing card that ā€¦

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This Week in Security: ShinyHunters Wonā€™t Dox the FBI, Pentagon Data Stolen, and OBS Vulnerable ift.tt/IuOiLPa

This Week In Security: ShinyHunters Wonā€™t Dox The FBI, Pentagon Data Stolen, And OBS Vulnerable

404 Media reports that the ShinyHunters group who stole multiple terabytes of FBI employee data say they do not plan to release the data. Known for ransomware and extortion of innumerable companiesā€¦

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Teardown of an USB-C Cable with integrated LCD ift.tt/zb7MNOJ

Teardown Of An USB-C Cable With Integrated LCD

The past years we have been seeing screens pop up in many new places, but seeing them in USB-C cables is still a bit of a novel thing. Out of sheer curiosity [Aaron Christophel] recently took apartā€¦

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The Game Boy Test Lab Provides a Cartridge-Sized Diagnostic Lab ift.tt/anojuCB

The Game Boy Test Lab Provides A Cartridge-Sized Diagnostic Lab

Most of the time when you see a repair video of a Game Boy itā€™ll be demonstrated with a cartridge inserted and booting up into the game, but does this actually mean that the system is truely ā€¦

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Gardening Withā€¦OpenSCAD? ift.tt/g9NXYab

Gardening Withā€¦OpenSCAD?

Unless itā€™s automated or using some other form of high-tech trickery, a vegetable garden isnā€™t exactly the sort of thing youā€™d expect to see on Hackaday. Be that as it may, the boā€¦

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Power It With Sodium (But Please Donā€™t) ift.tt/K35f7Yc

Power It With Sodium (But Please Donā€™t)

[Applied Science] has a new demo of an old 1970s patent for a portable generator that is both interesting and terrifying. The generator uses sodium and water, which, if you remember your old chemisā€¦

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Elgato Key Lights Get Matter Upgrade ift.tt/NPKg90v

Elgato Key Lights Get Matter Upgrade

[Michael H Thiesen] had a couple of Elgato Key Lights in his home streaming setup. The only problem was that they would stop responding regularly, requiring a power cycle to get them going again. Hā€¦

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A Mechanical Radio, Sort Of ift.tt/Nu9Zl4t

A Mechanical Radio, Sort Of

[The Mike Stuff] has an interesting proposition. He asserts that ancient people like the Greeks could have built a form of radio that was purely mechanical. We arenā€™t sure we agree, but even ā€¦

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Drum Machina Go! as a New Music Tool for the Game Boy ift.tt/bzCjkGN

Drum Machina Go! As A New Music Tool For The Game Boy

The Nintendo Game Boy is quite possibly the most popular console in the international chiptune community. You might have seen musicians cranking out tunes with LSDJ or Nanoloop, but now thereā€™ā€¦

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Archiving The Worldā€™s Oldest Webcam Feed ift.tt/8YzJuqk

Archiving The Worldā€™s Oldest Webcam Feed

FogCam is the oldest webcam feed thatā€™s still up and running. Installed at San Francisco State University, itā€™s been slowly uploading a new image to the web every 20 to 60 seconds or soā€¦

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Vacuum Drying and Making Stuff Hot in a Vacuum ift.tt/aPfAXGI

Vacuum Drying And Making Stuff Hot In A Vacuum

After previously exploring the impact of vapor pressure on the drying of desiccant and more, the conclusion was essentially that in order to drive moisture thatā€™s not directly on a material&#ā€¦

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The Whole Computer Is Vim ift.tt/79R4ZDX

The Whole Computer Is Vim

Love it or hate it, Vim, the vi-compatible minimalist editor, is a common denominator between a huge array of operating systems. If you need to edit a file, itā€™s usually safe to expect it theā€¦

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SDRā€“ Lets You Patch Together Your Setup ift.tt/UNXCpLf

SDRā€“ Lets You Patch Together Your Setup

It is often helpful to think of a radio as a series of interconnected functional blocksā€”hence the use of block diagrams to convey how a given radio operates. [Julian Haag] has brought this ethos toā€¦

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