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A 3D Printed Marble Clock, but it’s Scrolling Text ift.tt/VkWsMgc

A 3D Printed Marble Clock, But It’s Scrolling Text

With the topic of marble clocks having been quite well explored at this point, it raises the question of how easy it would be to take the basic principle and create a text display using black and w…

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Mesh Network Telephony Over Bluetooth on Android Phones ift.tt/Mq8KwQt

Mesh Network Telephony Over Bluetooth On Android Phones

Telephony is a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, being able to talk to people in far off places is kind of neat, at least in theory. On the other hand, you’re usually reliant on a centrali…

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Simple, Reliable RF Remote Control ift.tt/MY2Fqed

Simple, Reliable RF Remote Control

Some of the first remote controls available to consumers used sound, visible light, or even just wires to communicate with their parent device. It was many years between these first rudimentary rem…

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Meshtastic Pet Tracking ift.tt/D1XZwYp

Meshtastic Pet Tracking

Most commercial pet trackers require a subscription or network connection to function. [Jon G Aguado] wanted a better way and designed LIA, a Meshtastic collar tracker. LIA uses a custom PCB contai…

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Remembering the Weirdest Nintendo DSi Accessory ift.tt/Bj1CA36

Remembering The Weirdest Nintendo DSi Accessory

The Nintendo DSi was released in November 2008, and boasted a new feature not formerly seen on the brand’s handhelds—it had two cameras, inside and outside. It let the console take photos, a …

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An Analog TV Station For Anyone ift.tt/b8MDd2Q

An Analog TV Station For Anyone

If you’re a collector of older TVs, you’re probably facing the problem in some form of having no transmissions to tune in to. With many sets you can use a SCART or other A/V input, but …

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Pushing Bluetooth out to 12 Kilometers ift.tt/fNbw2BF

Pushing Bluetooth Out To 12 Kilometers

Bluetooth is a short-range protocol that’s great for peripherals and finding your keys, but it’s limited range is mainly a product of how it’s usually implemented. A recent video …

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Remembering the Weirdest Nintendo DSi Accessory ift.tt/Bj1CA36

Remembering The Weirdest Nintendo DSi Accessory

The Nintendo DSi was released in November 2008, and boasted a new feature not formerly seen on the brand’s handhelds—it had two cameras, inside and outside. It let the console take photos, a …

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The Slurptop is Both Drool Worthy and Practical ift.tt/HVsLXYI

The Slurptop Is Both Drool Worthy And Practical

There are two kinds of cyberdeck: the kind someone makes on a lark and operates purely on ‘rule of cool’, and the kind designed to do practical work. The Slurptop by [Slurpburgers] is d…

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2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: I Would Do Anything For Serial Data ift.tt/qoexSzl

2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: I Would Do Anything For Serial Data

These days we take high-speed networking for granted, but it can be difficult to get vintage computers talking to modern machines. To help solve this problem [jaime] came up with Meatloaf which can…

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That Weird 7-Pin S-Video Port on Old Laptops ift.tt/8hAZCd7

That Weird 7-Pin S-Video Port On Old Laptops

Even though laptops from around the early 2000s came with just about every conceivable port on them, they still would often feature a somewhat unusual combined video output port. While at its core …

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Making for Others ift.tt/Z18sDuj

Making For Others

One of the nicest things about the Hackaday community, and the open-source hardware community at large, is the incredible generosity of one hacker to another. But it’s not purely altruism – it’s al…

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Watch VCF Southwest in Retrotastic SGI-Edited Footage ift.tt/kqyh6F0

Watch VCF Southwest In Retrotastic SGI-Edited Footage

There’s just something about backing way, way off the cutting edge to rediscover the simpler joys of yesteryear. We’ve got a contest about to wrap up along those lines, and there are fe…

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A Walkie Talkie Interface For Claude ift.tt/sn2Xlb4

A Walkie Talkie Interface For Claude

[Bookmari] had a problem — working as a delivery driver, they wanted to work on various projects with Claude Code while out and about. Unfortunately, it simply wasn’t practical to write…

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Using an Unmodded GBA as a Music Synth ift.tt/WVvrlC9

Using An Unmodded GBA As A Music Synth

The style and sound of older video games is unique enough that they’re still copied in relatively modern games like Undertale, Celeste, or Shovel Knight. There’s also a vibrant chiptune…

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RepRapMicron Uses Fibre Optics To Print Tiny Benchy in Resin ift.tt/6PtnVjy

RepRapMicron Uses Fibre Optics To Print Tiny Benchy In Resin

The RepRapMicron (also µRepRap) is pretty much the microscopic take on what RepRap did for more macroscale manufacturing, with the most recent innovation being a UV print head, called the PIKA UV H…

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Automatic Coil Winder Takes the Tedium out of Actuators ift.tt/XHq4WPN

Automatic Coil Winder Takes The Tedium Out Of Actuators

Anyone who’s ever built their own motors knows how tedious winding the coils soon becomes; in [Larry]’s case, the issue was even worse. He’s building his own flip-dot matrix display, and each dot u…

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Reconstructing the Ancient Chinese Storm of Crows Weapon ift.tt/8KzfVYc

Reconstructing The Ancient Chinese Storm Of Crows Weapon

The Chinese had been using large crossbows – akin to Greek and Roman ballistae – for warfare for many of the same reasons that European armies loved them. Their single, large arrow was …

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Running a Philips CD-i Off USB-C ift.tt/wO3AeEB

Running A Philips CD-i Off USB-C

The Philips CD-i is a console with many shortcomings, and those include the power supply. For whatever reason, the engineering team decided it should use an 8P8C connector just like Ethernet. Thus,…

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Hackaday Podcast Episode 392: Microscopes, Drones, and Other DIY Things ift.tt/Du2sfd5

Hackaday Podcast Episode 392: Microscopes, Drones, And Other DIY Things

Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams met to review the week in Hackaday. Turns out, it was a week for tiny things, cybersecurity, nostalgia, and projects that would have been nearly imp…

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