Procrastineers Rejoice! 2026 Supercon Call For Participation Extended

A few weeks ago, we put out the call for participation for this year’s 2026 Hackaday Supercon, taking place in Pasadena, CA this November. Today was going to be the …read more

However you make a digital computer, you need something to represent a binary digit. Usually this is some form of switch: a relay, a tube, or a transistor, although there …read more

Linux Fu: Heads Or Tails For VPN

If you’ve done much networking, you surely know the frustration of trying to connect to something, say a Raspberry Pi, that lives behind your consumer router. There are a number …read more

The Physics Of Keeping Thermal Power Stations Cool

Recently thermal power stations have been in the news quite a bit, mostly in the context of them being throttled back or shut down due to the river water used …read more

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Laser Layers For (Almost) Isotropicly Strong Prints

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By Tyler August | August 16, 2026

If there’s one defining factor about 3D printing you have to account for when you’re making a design, it’s probably layer adhesion. Sure, there are a lot of factors to …read more
Building An Actuator For A Walking Robot

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By Aaron Beckendorf | August 16, 2026

Unlike biological systems, which can use muscles, robots that try to imitate them don’t have particularly fast, powerful, compact linear actuators available. This puts walking robots at a particular disadvantage, …read more
R-Selecting Tiny Probes To Shotgun Into Saturn’s Rings

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By Tyler August | August 16, 2026

In ecology, there used to be a concept — now largely unfashionable — that species could be described as r- or K-selected, depending on how they treat their offspring. An …read more
Researchers Hack An Airline Analog

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By Fenix Guthrie | August 16, 2026

Modern airliners are rather complicated feats of engineering. Innumerable safety-critical components are connected with tens of miles of wiring, complex digital buses, and dozens (perhaps hundreds) of computers. But, as …read more
Machine Learning COFFIES “Hears” Sunspots Before We Can See Them

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By Tyler August | August 15, 2026

In this age of neural net “AI”, even the most skeptical of Butlerians have to agree that these machine learning models can be very, very good at pattern recognition if …read more
Turning Energy Drinks Into Rocket Fuel

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By Maya Posch | August 15, 2026

Sometimes claimed to give you wings, energy drinks can, at the very least, be used to make rockets fly. This is what [Nate Scovill] did in a recent video, where …read more
Peeling Fruit With The Power Of Steam

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By Fenix Guthrie | August 15, 2026

Steam power is a staple of the steampunk aesthetic, thermodynamics, and a checkpoint for the budding mechanical engineer studying heat cycles. But because food is largely made of water, steam …read more

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