Apr 12, 2026 from Hackaday Testing Refrigerants and Capillary Tubes to Find Peak Performance Although vapor-compression refrigeration is a simple concept, there are still a lot of details in the implementation of such a system that determines exactly how efficient it is. After making …read...
Apr 12, 2026 from Hackaday Kiki is the Unknown Array Language Kiki bills itself as the “array programming system of unknown origin.” We thought it reminded us of APL which, all by itself, isn’t a bad thing. The announcement post is …read more
Apr 11, 2026 from Hackaday A Suction-Driven Seven-Segment Display There’s a long history of devices originally used for communication being made into computers, with relay switching circuits, vacuum tubes, and transistors being some well-known examples. In a smal...
Apr 11, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Amazon Luna is slowly starting to die, killing game purchases & third party subscriptions While the news is not yet that the service has shut down, that day doesn't seem far off, as Amazon has just announced major changes to its game streaming service Amazon Luna, with support for indiv...
Apr 11, 2026 from Bobby Hiltz A Message from the SCHOLSBAG Foundation A satirical post about alternative Android operating systems
Apr 11, 2026 from Hackaday Implementing PCIe over Fiber Using SFP Modules Although we can already buy commercial transceiver solutions that allow us to use PCIe devices like GPUs outside of a PC, these use an encapsulating protocol like Thunderbolt rather than …read more
Apr 11, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Mastodon introduces Collections, its take on Bluesky starter packs for account discovery Mastodon is getting its own version of Bluesky’s Starter Packs with Collections, a new feature coming in Mastodon 4.6 that lets people bundle and share recommended accounts. Mastodon has openly sai...
Apr 11, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Bitsocial is an Open Source P2P Network for Social Apps There are so many peer-to-peer networks now in existence that I have seriously lost count of them. You may think that they just come and go, but that is because they are not really visible outside ...
Apr 11, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 11 April 2026 Crazy Eddie Edition Top Story Look around, find the worst price! But don't buy before you come to Micro Center because we can't be beat! Our prices are insane! (WCCFTech) And not in a good way. Els...
Apr 11, 2026 from Hackaday Authenticate SSH with Your TPM You probably don’t think about it much, but your PC probably has a TPM or Trusted Platform Module. Windows 11 requires one, and most often, it stores keys to validate …read more
Apr 11, 2026 from Peter's Path Veluwe Wander Trail part 08 Hiked part 8/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 14.7 kilometres from Putten centrum to Leuvenum. On this route you will pass four significant heathlands, Groevenbeekse Heide, Ermelose Heide, Westeindsc...
Apr 11, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Deepin 25.1 launches with Linux 6.18, UOS AI upgrades, and new immutable system features Deepin 25.1 is the first major update in the Deepin 25 series, with new ISOs for AMD64, ARM64, Loong64, and a RISC V technology preview. It moves from Linux 6.12 to Linux 6.18 LTS, bringing updated...
Apr 11, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Instead of upgrading your motherboard you may be able to use your spare PCIe x1 slot It’s true that most often we just use one slot for the video card and there are another two or three empty slots waiting to be used. Such a slot can easily accept a card that will provide upgraded ...
Apr 11, 2026 from Hackaday What’s Your Favorite Kind of Hack? Talking with [Tom Nardi] on the podcast this week, he mentioned his favorite kind of hack: the community-developed open-source firmware that can be flashed into a commercial product that has …read ...
Apr 11, 2026 from Hackaday Rust-y Firmware for Waveshare Smartwatch Waveshare makes a nifty little ESP32-S3 based smartwatch product, but its firmware is apparently not to everyone’s liking. Specifically, it’s not to [infiniton] a.k.a [Bright_Warning_8406]’s liking...
Apr 11, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net SQLite 3.53 fixes WAL-reset bug, adds QRF library, new SQL features, improved CLI and more SQLite 3.53 has been released as the latest version of this free and open-source relational database engine. This update addresses a critical stability issue by fixing the longstanding database cor...
Apr 11, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Immich Kiosk turns any screen into a photo display “No processing happens on the tablet, it is just a display for the image output. In fact, you won’t even have much of configuration options since all of that is done through a config file. My table...
Apr 11, 2026 from Hackaday Digging Into the Twilight Hack that Brought Us Wii Homebrew With each new game console, there’s an effort to get around whatever restrictions exist to run your own software on it. In the case of the Nintendo Wii, the system …read more
Apr 11, 2026 from Hackaday Otamatone Hacked Into Different, Cooler Synth: Trautonium Analog synths are fun because they combine music, which all humans seem hard-wired to enjoy in one form or another, and electronics, which… uh, this is Hackaday. If you don’t …read more
Apr 11, 2026 from Hackaday A Mercury Rover Could Explore the Planet by Sticking to the Terminator With multiple rovers currently scurrying around on the surface of Mars to continue a decades-long legacy, it can be easy to forget sometimes that repeating this feat on other planets …read more
