Jul 25, 2026 from PRBS23 Announcement: FreeFall 800 (v0.1.0) Today I’m publicly releasing a project I’ve been working on for a while: FreeFall 800. FreeFall 800 is a local first, open source firmware project, that replaces the factory firmware that comes on ...
Jul 25, 2026 from Hackaday Team Repair Breaks Things to Teach People How to Fix Them Would you buy a broken device, fix it, then return the repaired item? [Team Repair] hopes you will. Many people would rather repair what they have than have to get …read more
Jul 25, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 25 July 2026 Chimken II Electric Boogaloo Edition Top Story Anthropic's Opus 5 model is here - nearly as smart as Fable for half the price, and less annoying. (Engadget) It has been trained similarly but with m...
Jul 25, 2026 from Hackaday 3D On The Playdate Handheld The Playdate is a small handheld console with a dedicated fanbase. Among them is [Cristina Ramos], who recently decided to try and push the limits of the hardware by implementing …read more
Jul 25, 2026 from GadgeteerZA EskomSePush app transitioned to neighbourhood service disruptions otherwise it would have died This is the story of how the app evolved from being a high demand app to manage the electricity load shedding across South Africa, to something completely different after load shedding went away. T...
Jul 25, 2026 from Thejesh GN Ride to Gandikota Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are the least explored states in the South for me. I have been adding places of interest to my list. Gandikota has been on that list for a while. I wanted to do it post...
Jul 25, 2026 from Hackaday Add Sensors to Everything! “You can’t control what you can’t measure” goes the old chestnut. But that’s a little bit negative, in my opinion. Instead, think of the benefits of sprinkling sensors around everywhere: …read more
Jul 25, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Africa’s most popular phones have a tracking problem and explains where data disappears to “Roughly one in two smartphones sold in Africa is made by a company most buyers have never heard of. Transsion, a Shenzhen-based manufacturer, owns the Tecno, Infinix and Itel brands, which togethe...
Jul 25, 2026 from Hackaday Repairing a RED Cinema Camera On The Cheap [ALT CINE] took a punt recently when purchasing a damaged RED Komodo camera online. In functional form, the 6K-capable camera sells for several thousand pounds (or dollars, or euros), whether …read...
Jul 25, 2026 from Hackaday ICCU Monitor Logs Data in E-GMP EV Failures EVs are less mechanically complicated than their combustion kin, but that doesn’t mean they’re immune to component failure. The Integrated Charge Control Unit (ICCU) has been the main failure point...
Jul 25, 2026 from Personal Log at usebox.net It is the game, stupid! Paraphrasing the famous American catchphrase, I have noticed a pattern in my gamedev failures. Generally, people get to see the successes –or games that I finish–, but they don’t see all the projec...
Jul 25, 2026 from It's FOSS Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray": All the New Features So Far As usual, Canonical is using an interim release to test features headed for the next LTS. Her, we keep a track of the features as they are added.
Jul 25, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Microsoft Entra ID to default to passkeys, phasing out SMS and voice codes by 2027 Microsoft will make passkeys the default authentication method for Microsoft Entra ID starting September 1, 2026. The change primarily affects businesses and organizations that use Entra ID to mana...
Jul 25, 2026 from Hackaday 3D Printed Go Kart Designed to Fit in a Suitcase [Ivan Miranda] is famous for his large-scale 3D printed vehicles. They’re pretty fun, but they’re also pretty big and heavy—which can make transporting them around rather impractical. Hence, when h...
Jul 25, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Facebook launches free Verified badges to distinguish real users from AI bots Facebook is introducing Facebook Verified, a free identity verification system designed to show that a real person is behind an account rather than an AI bot. This new feature responds to the rise ...
Jul 25, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5 with near-Fable performance at half the cost Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5, its latest advanced AI model for complex coding, agentic workflows, scientific research, and knowledge work. It replaces Opus 4.8 at the same API pricing of $5...
Jul 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social On Tactics to Hit the Hacker News Front Page I read a post by Herbert Lui titled 5 tactics for hitting the Hacker News front page. I had six New Leaf Journal articles make Hacker News page one between April 2021 and January 2024, and can say ...
Jul 25, 2026 from Hackaday Fast Volumetric Imaging of Seizures with Adaptive Optics Light Sheet Microscopy Key to understanding something like epilepsy is to be able to record highly transient events in biological tissues. Generally this is done using light sheet microscopy, which provides effectively a...
Jul 24, 2026 from Hackaday Hands-Free Mouse Uses Eyes And Muscles Instead The standard computer mouse is a perfectly useful peripheral if your hands work. If you’ve got some trouble in that area, you might appreciate an alternative input solution. To that end, [Varun …re...
Jul 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Tadej Pogacar Shatters Pantani’s 1995 Alpe d’Huez Record by 1:15 I haven’t watched the Tour de France since 2016, mainly due to the fact I dropped cable and would need to subscribe to a streaming service that may or may not work with my all-Linux set-up. But I s...
