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The Big Moon Plot ift.tt/Qxjh7Lz

The Big Moon Plot

When you look into the night sky, you canā€™t help but wish to bring the outer worlds to your doorstep. One of the best ways to do that is to photograph the Moonā€™s surface to display in aā€¦

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Debloat The Internet With a Self-Hosted Compressing Proxy ift.tt/NgOrq5X

Debloat The Internet With A Self-Hosted Compressing Proxy

Itā€™s no secret that the size of webpages has been slowly ā€” or not so slowly ā€” creeping up over the years. Does a simple website need to span multiple floppy disks? [PortalRunner&#ā€¦

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Play PlayStation 2 and XBox 1 Games on Your Jailbroken PS5 ift.tt/xjS57XT

Play PlayStation 2 And XBox 1 Games On Your Jailbroken PS5

Whereas PlayStation 3 and earlier were rather specialized consoles, todayā€™s consoles like the PlayStation 5 are essentially x86-based gaming PCs in a fancy case, with custom firmware to lock ā€¦

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A Good DIY Solder Stencil Begins With a Cleanly-Sliced Soda Can ift.tt/ktg9Kie

A Good DIY Solder Stencil Begins With A Cleanly-Sliced Soda Can

Solder stencils are a fantastic way to accurately apply solder paste to a PCB. Professionally-made stencils are cut from steel, but for the home hacker, soda cans continue to be the alternative of ā€¦

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2026 Retrocomputer Challenge: Vectron65 Plus Puts the Emphasis on Plus ift.tt/jwRKDCa

2026 Retrocomputer Challenge: Vectron65 Plus Puts The Emphasis On Plus

[Nick Bild] evidently has a soft spot for the 6502, given that his Vectron65 Plus home computer project uses at least one of them, depending on the add-ons. You see, he hasnā€™t just made a homā€¦

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The ESP32, An SDR In Itself ift.tt/U5ORhn0

The ESP32, An SDR In Itself

Perhaps the most famous of all the software-defined radio (SDR) receivers is the RTL-SDR, a digital TV receiver on which an undocumented feature was found. Perhaps other radio-enabled chips also haā€¦

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Fixing a Power Grid That Loses Over Half Its Power to Inefficiency and Theft ift.tt/YTlGXL1

Fixing A Power Grid That Loses Over Half Its Power To Inefficiency And Theft

[Mini Shaji Thomas] has a deeply interesting article on IEEE Spectrum detailing how the power distribution system for a city of over twenty million people went from failing to first-class. In the eā€¦

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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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