Sep 06, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots! Weekly Robotics #375 Today in Weekly Robotics: A modular skid-steer UGV you can build yourself, a winning SLAM implementation, balancing a pole with propellers, GPT-6 for robotic manipulation, and more!
Sep 06, 2026 from Thranpages phpBB 1.4.4 in Docker The final release of the 2001 forum software, running on PHP5 + Apache + mySQL 4 in a modern Docker container. Also included are some screenshots.
Sep 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social PSA on RSSAmplifierBot and BriskBot I discovered two new bots in my server logs last week: RSSAmplifierBot and BriskBot. They come from RSS Amplifier and Brisk News respectively. Bot sites are built by Profullstack, Inc. I discovered...
Sep 06, 2026 from Hackaday Saturn’s South Pole is Apparently Decagon-Shaped Although some would argue that the hexagon is the bestagon, astronomers have discovered that Saturn appears to favor the ten-sided decagon on its south pole. This comes as its south …read more
Sep 06, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Kept is an open-source self-hosted alternative to Google Keep notes It looks and feels like Google Keep notes, but is private and tracker-free. It has some extra features too, such as location notifications, CalDAV integrations, collaborative editing, file attachme...
Sep 06, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 6 September 2026 Ambiguous Index Edition Top Story Word of caution: If you ever rewrite your own blogging platform and use your personal website as a scratch monkey, remember to unmount it before trying to post you...
Sep 06, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Microsoft is adding monthly caps to Xbox Cloud Gaming of up to 15 hours per month Microsoft is introducing monthly limits for Xbox Cloud Gaming starting in November 2026, replacing the unlimited access currently included with Game Pass. Ultimate subscribers will now get 15 hours...
Sep 06, 2026 from Hackaday Is This the Year of The Linux… Television? The Year of the Linux Desktop hasn’t been on its way for quite as long as nuclear fusion plants, but somehow it seems to recede into the horizon at just …read more
Sep 06, 2026 from It's FOSS Switzerland's Federal Government is Replacing Microsoft on 3,000 Computers This is the pilot phase, with 3,000 workstations moving away from Microsoft 365. The federal administration has over 54,000 computers.
Sep 06, 2026 from Hackaday This Clavichord is a Well-Tempered Project The Clavichord needs no introduction to fans of Early Music, and a lengthy one to literally everyone else. Even classical music buffs who have heard of Bach’s works for the …read more
Sep 06, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Book Swap: A Night in the Lonesome October I did a Book Swap with some friends. I got “A Night in the Lonesome October” by Roger Zelazny.
Sep 06, 2026 from Hackaday Printing Micron-Scale Benchies With Resin and Turmeric Resin 3D printing has opened up a whole new scale of resolution for hackers, but the technology can go still finer; commercial micro-SLA and two-photon polymerization printers can print items …read...
Sep 06, 2026 from Hackaday WordStar Lives Again (and Again) Word processors and editors are a funny thing. It doesn’t really matter what’s “best,” whatever that means. If you have finger memory built up for one program, it’s painful to …read more
Sep 06, 2026 from Hackaday There’s Whole Computer Inside This Mouse [Gadget Industry] bills it as “a PC inside a Mouse“, but that depends on your definition of a “PC”. This is a Personal Computer inside a mouse, yes, but there’s …read more
Sep 06, 2026 from Hackaday Can AI Now Design PCBs That Just Work? With the recent release of its GPT-6 Astra model, OpenAI explicitly pushed the claim that it is capable of designing complete circuit boards in KiCad, starting from a provided schematic …read more
Sep 05, 2026 from Hackaday Running Apple ][ Software on a Commodore 64 — Silently The computer business in 1984 was a bizarre mix of hobby-level companies, a few small companies that had made it big, and a lot of big companies starting to take …read more
Sep 05, 2026 from Bobby Hiltz There Aren't Enough Quarters in the World (Toaplan Arcade Collection Volume 2) A review of Toaplan Arcade Collection Volume 2 on the Nintendo Switch, a good collection for fans of Toaplan shmups
Sep 05, 2026 from Hackaday Pixel Watch 5 Demonstrates Good Repairability Although we often find ourselves drowning in a seemingly unending sea of portable devices that are effectively e-waste once an internal component gives out, it’s good to remind ourselves that …read...
