Posts tagged "tech"

Ubuntu’s Official Flavour List Is Shrinking, And That’s Not a Bad Thing

There are fewer official flavors with 26.04 LTS version. Is it alarming?

Peripherals Hacks

Custom peripheral projects are among the most rewarding. Especially if you’re like me and you sit at the computer eight hours per day, anything that you can use on a …read more

This Handy Synth Packs An ESP32

Since the first electronic hobbyist wired up a multivibrator to a keyboard many decades ago, electonic synthesisers have been a staple of home-made projects. Now with the proliferation of significa...

Debugging a Stopped Foucault Pendulum’s Electronics

After the Foucault pendulum at the Houston Museum of Natural Science stopped working a while back after maintenance on the building, workers set out to determine what was wrong with …read more

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Rust Helps Make A $1 Handheld Console

These days, even an old Game Boy will set you back $100 or more, and a new handheld console will be many multiples of that. However, you can build a …read more

3D Printed Orrery Runs On A Single Motor

The solar system is kind of hard to observe in motion all at once. Sometimes, it’s nice to have a little model to look at, so you can see the …read more

Testing Vue components in the browser

Hello! One of my long term projects on here is figuring out how to write frontend Javascript without using Node or any other server JS runtime. One issue I run into a lot in my frontend JS projects...

Magnetic Induction Heats Water

Producing hot water off-grid is a surprisingly energy-intensive activity, and although it looks simple on its surface it can get quite complicated especially when used in large scale for something ...

Blogging in 2026

Blog post about blogging and blogs in which I blog about blogging and the top 5 blogging platforms are not featured here and neither are the 10 greatest AI writing prompts for blogs that guarantee ...

Adapting a 100-Year-Old Lens To A Modern Camera

You can get all kinds of fancy lenses for modern cameras, with all sorts of mechanical and electronic wizardly to make them shoot better images. But what if you paired …read more

Running DOOM on a Travel Router With Touch Screen

Continuing his quest to put DOOM on literally everything that has a capable enough processor and a screen, [Aaron Christophel]’s most recent target is a Slate 7 Pro travel router. With …read more

Daily News Stuff 1 May 2026

Yay Edition Top Story CPanel, a web hosting software suite used by 70 million sites worldwide, had a security hole big enough to drive a Kenworth through without needing to check for clearance. (Bl...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-01-26

We welcome May with a new edition of the daily Pook-Emu Bee links (after a spotty week). It looks nice outside my window… 1. Stripe introduces Link, a digital wallet that autonomous AI agents can u...

Thoughts on Leaving GitHub

I've read a few posts about people leaving GitHub recently, and following my short note to the Fediverse a number of people have piped up saying they're not fans of GitHub, either. From the reading...

Hackaday Podcast Episode 368: A Pencil that Draws Against You, 3D Printing Stuff, and Tablet, Shmablet!

This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over the international tubes to bring you the latest news, mystery sound results show, and of course, a big bunch …read more

Compact Calendar Display Reduces Phone Dependency

Phones can be distracting objects if you’re not an enlightened master of the mental arts. Even just reading an email or glancing at your calendar can get you caught up …read more

ElevenLabs launches ElevenMusic, a new AI music generation platform

ElevenLabs has just introduced ElevenMusic, its new AI music platform for streaming, creating, remixing, and sharing AI-generated songs. Some may remember that the company announced a similarly nam...

This Week in Security: State Malware, State Hardware Bans, and Stuxnet before Stuxnet was Cool

Making headlines everywhere is the CopyFail Linux kernel vulnerability, which allows local privilege escalation (LPE) from any user to root privileges on most kernels and distributions. Local privi...

Mistral Medium 3.5 launches with dense 128B model and remote coding agents in Vibe

Mistral has introduced Medium 3.5, its new flagship dense AI model that consolidates chat, reasoning, coding, and agentic functions within a single system. Unlike its previous approach of deploying...