Oct 04, 2026 from Hackaday Tearing Down a Heavy Oscilloscope When [Thomas] showed his 1960s-era Tektronix 545A oscilloscope in a recent video, it made us both nostalgic and happy. Nostalgic because we miss the days when our oscilloscopes were “mainframes” …r...
Oct 04, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 4 October 2026 Fake Parrot Sketch Edition Top Story East during the spring and west during the fall: You know you're in for a ride when you read an article that includes the sentence Most magnets have two poles: ...
Oct 04, 2026 from Hackaday AVR Laptop Pushes the Limits of 8-Bit If you saw a device that had a laptop form factor playing sound and video, alt-tabbing over to play a game or take some notes, then back to the video …read more
Oct 04, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Re-Filling My Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser 3 I documented my then-new Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser on The New Leaf Journal last December. I then documented my second refill of Mr. Gingerbread Man back in July. Today, it was time for re-fill...
Oct 04, 2026 from Kev Quirk Would You Like to Write to Me? I really enjoy writing. Not typing - writing. With a fountain pen on good quality paper. I find the whole process cathartic; putting pen to paper demands far more use of my grey matter than hammeri...
Oct 04, 2026 from Hackaday Motion Control via Belt [Tolko] wanted to encourage kids to have some physical activity, but noted that they only wanted to play games. That led to BlobJump, a Raspberry Pi-based game sort of like …read more
Oct 04, 2026 from Adventures in Open Source Software 2026 Postgres Summit US - New York City While my role at Percona is focused on MariaDB, I still have a soft spot for PostgreSQL, so when a spot became available for Postgres Summit US I jumped at the opportunity to attend. TL;DR; Postgre...
Oct 04, 2026 from It's FOSS ORICO X50 Review: A Sleek Thunderbolt 5 SSD Enclosure A slim, silver NVMe enclosure that turns your spare SSD into fast external storage. Excellent if you have Thunderbolt 5 on your machine.
Oct 04, 2026 from Hackaday AI on Your Gaming PC If you want to experiment with LLMs, you typically have a choice of sending your requests to someone else’s computer or fielding a very large GPU and CPU setup to …read more
Oct 04, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Pure CSS font-switch Wie man nur mit HTML und CSS, ohne Javascript in einer statischen HTML-Datei einen Schalter baut, der die Schriftart wechselt.
Oct 04, 2026 from Hackaday The Big Moon Plot When you look into the night sky, you can’t help but wish to bring the outer worlds to your doorstep. One of the best ways to do that is to …read more
Oct 04, 2026 from It's FOSS DigitalOcean Quietly Ends Open Source Credits Program Some project maintainers have received emails that they will no longer get any more free credits from Digital Ocean.
Oct 04, 2026 from Hackaday Debloat The Internet With a Self-Hosted Compressing Proxy It’s no secret that the size of webpages has been slowly — or not so slowly — creeping up over the years. Does a simple website need to span multiple …read more
Oct 04, 2026 from Hackaday Play PlayStation 2 and XBox 1 Games on Your Jailbroken PS5 Whereas PlayStation 3 and earlier were rather specialized consoles, today’s consoles like the PlayStation 5 are essentially x86-based gaming PCs in a fancy case, with custom firmware to lock it …re...
Oct 03, 2026 from Hackaday A Good DIY Solder Stencil Begins With a Cleanly-Sliced Soda Can Solder stencils are a fantastic way to accurately apply solder paste to a PCB. Professionally-made stencils are cut from steel, but for the home hacker, soda cans continue to be …read more
Oct 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Issue 300 of The Newsletter Leaf Journal I mailed the 300th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal earlier this afternoon. I launched the newsletter back in July 2020 as a companion to The New Leaf Journal. While it still serves the purpo...
Oct 03, 2026 from Hackaday 2026 Retrocomputer Challenge: Vectron65 Plus Puts the Emphasis on Plus [Nick Bild] evidently has a soft spot for the 6502, given that his Vectron65 Plus home computer project uses at least one of them, depending on the add-ons. You see, …read more
Oct 03, 2026 from Hackaday The ESP32, An SDR In Itself Perhaps the most famous of all the software-defined radio (SDR) receivers is the RTL-SDR, a digital TV receiver on which an undocumented feature was found. Perhaps other radio-enabled chips also …r...
Oct 03, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 3 October 2026 Kleene-Belnap Jailbreak Edition Top Story I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further. (Tech Crunch) Apple is changing the meaning of granting applications full disk access, because ...
Oct 03, 2026 from Hackaday Fixing a Power Grid That Loses Over Half Its Power to Inefficiency and Theft [Mini Shaji Thomas] has a deeply interesting article on IEEE Spectrum detailing how the power distribution system for a city of over twenty million people went from failing to first-class. …read more
