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The hits just keep coming for the International Space Station (ISS), literally in the case of a resupply mission scheduled for June that is now scrubbed thanks to a heavy… read more

Hackaday Podcast Episode 314: It’s Pi, But Also PCBs In Living Color And Ultrasonic Everything

It might not be Pi Day anymore, but Elliot and Dan got together for the approximately 100*Pi-th episode of the Podcast to run through the week’s coolest hacks. Ultrasound seemed… read more

This Week In Security: IngressNightmare, NextJS, And Leaking DNA

This week, researchers from Wiz Research released a series of vulnerabilities in the Kubernetes Ingress NGINX Controller that, when chained together, allow an unauthorized attacker to completely take over the… read more

Supercon 2024: Yes, You Can Use The Controller Area Network Outside Of Cars

Ah, the CAN bus. It’s become a communication standard in the automotive world, found in a huge swathe of cars built from the mid-1990s onwards. You’ll also find it in… read more

General Fusion Claims Success With Magnetized Target Fusion

It’s rarely appreciated just how much more complicated nuclear fusion is than nuclear fission. Whereas the latter involves a process that happens all around us without any human involvement, and… read more

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Golang On The PS2 2 Comments

ByLewin Day|March 31, 2025

A great many PlayStation 2 games were coded in C++, and there are homebrew SDKs that let you work in C. However, precious little software for the platform was ever… read more

Software Hacks Unlock Cheap Spectrometer 4 Comments

ByTom Nardi|March 31, 2025

A spectrometer is one of those tools that many of us would love to have, but just can’t justify the price of. Sure there are some DIY options out there,… read more

A Music Box Commanded By NFC Tags 4 Comments

ByLewin Day|March 31, 2025

[Luca Dentella] recently encountered a toy, which was programmed to read different stories aloud based on the figurine placed on top. It inspired him to build an audio device using… read more

Levitating Lego Generator Runs On Air 3 Comments

ByLewin Day|March 31, 2025

[Jamie] decided to build a generator, and Lego is his medium of choice. Thus was created a fancy levitating generator that turns a stream of air into electricity. The basic… read more

Building A Sliding Tile Clock 4 Comments

ByLewin Day|March 31, 2025

Hackers like making clocks, and we like reporting on them around these parts. Particularly if they’ve got a creative mechanism that we haven’t seen before. This fine timepiece from [gooikerjh]… read more

Zink Is Zero Ink — Sort Of 25 Comments

ByAl Williams|March 31, 2025

When you think of printing on paper, you probably think of an ink jet or a laser printer. If you happen to think of a thermal printer, we bet you… read more

A SNES CPU Replacement Via FPGA 14 Comments

ByLewin Day|March 31, 2025

Let’s say you had a SNES with a busted CPU. What would you do? Your SNES would be through! That is, unless, you had a replacement based on an FPGA… read more

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