Sep 19, 2026 from It's FOSS Elecrow CrowPanel Advanced HMI Display Review: A Tinkerer's Touchscreen A big touchscreen board for makers who want a physical control panel for their homelab, if you don't mind doing the work yourself.
Sep 19, 2026 from Hackaday What are Your Indispensable Software Skills? Using tools properly takes skill, and this goes for software tools as well as hardware. You don’t just buy a paintbrush and on day one paint the Mona Lisa. Similarly, …read more
Sep 19, 2026 from Hackaday Using Azo Photoisomerization to Alter Semiconductor Film Properties Generally semiconductor devices like transistors have fixed properties, but using an azobenzene (Azo) compound it’s possible to optically alter these properties by exposing them to UV light. This i...
Sep 19, 2026 from Kev Quirk Amelia the Chicken We lost our favourite chicken last night. I know, just a chicken, right? Big deal. It's not like we lost a pet. But that's the thing, Amelia was more than just a chicken. She was a pet. She was ver...
Sep 19, 2026 from Hackaday Emulating Memory Access: How Hard Can It Be? There are so many things we approximate to make life simple. Wires, for example, have no resistance or other strange effects. Crystal oscillators output their exact frequency. But surely our …read ...
Sep 19, 2026 from Hackaday The Concertina Goes Electronic The concertina is an instrument that features heavily in European folk music, of which there are a variety of types. [Xcott Craver] has built one, an anglo concertina of the …read more
Sep 19, 2026 from Hackaday On Chip Debug for (Some) MicroPython If you’ve used MicroPython much, you know that debugging usually amounts to printing a few things out, trying your code out, and then repeating. But [ghi-electronics] wants you to have …read more
Sep 19, 2026 from Isaac Clayton Personal software blog series Short post today. I have a little bit of free time as classes are still ramping up. I’ve done a lot of writing, and I’ve worked on a few of fun projects in the past couple of weeks, that I’d like t...
Sep 18, 2026 from Hackaday Sony’s First Computer In 1982, desktop computers were coming into their own, and no clear leaders had emerged. But everyone knew they wanted a piece of the action. This led to, among other …read more
Sep 18, 2026 from Kev Quirk A day is short, a life is long A day is short, a life is longby Kevin WammerKevin talks about some of the stuff he's figured out in his life now that he's turned 35.Read post ➡ Really enjoyed this post because it's honest, level...
Sep 18, 2026 from Hackaday Making a Digital Music Player for Cassette Decks In the cross-over between the era of tapes into that of MP3s, you’d see quite a few of those special cassette tapes that were actually digital music players inside. Some …read more
Sep 18, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Rollenspielszenen: Ein Hund Fällt mir was an dem Hund auf? *roll* …es ist ein Hund.
Sep 18, 2026 from Hackaday Reconstructing a Pin on a Pin Grid Array Package Before moving to land grid array (LGA) packaging whereby each pin on the substrate is just a copper pad, processors commonly used pin grid array (PGA) packaging, including the still …read more
Sep 18, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 18 September 2026 Asdfghjkl Plus Edition Top Story AI researchers warned that the AIs they were researching would go rogue, and then the AIs being researched by the AI researchers went rogue. (The Verge) Someone fin...
Sep 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net GrapheneOS claims Android 17 QPR1 APIs remain exclusive to Pixel devices GrapheneOS reports Android 17 QPR1 adds app developer APIs that remain exclusive to Pixel software rather than being released to the Android Open Source Project. It also claims that September 2026 ...
Sep 18, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Podcast Episode 387: Superhuman Clocks, CAN in USB-C, and the Joys of Bare Metal This week, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start the episode off by discussing the latest CircuitPython developments before covering some impressive reverse engineering efforts, the ...
Sep 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Ktor 3.6.0 adds typed auth and experimental HTTP/3 support Ktor 3.6.0 introduces experimental typed authentication, with role-based access and anonymous-user support, alongside a new typed Oidc plugin for OpenID Connect. The Netty engine adds experimental ...
Sep 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Perplexity Computer gets new effort controls on the web Perplexity is rolling out effort controls in Computer’s model selector on the web. The presets pair an orchestrator model with a reasoning depth to control how deeply and efficiently Computer works...
Sep 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Claude Projects can now coordinate cloud work threads remotely Claude Projects now lets users direct parallel cloud-based threads from a single conversation in Claude Code, with work continuing after their computer is closed or offline. Threads share project m...
Sep 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net ChatGPT comes to Microsoft Word with drafting and edits ChatGPT can now be added to Microsoft Word, where it can turn notes into drafts, revise difficult passages, proofread text, suggest edits, and flag formatting issues. The Word integration is availa...
