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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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The MSX Gets A New Sound Expansion Cartridge ift.tt/dLbqDaA

The MSX Gets A New Sound Expansion Cartridge

If we’re honest, there aren’t a whole lot of accessories coming out for the MSX computer line this holiday period. There is, however, a new sound expansion cartridge for the diehard fan…

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This Week in Security: Record Patch Tuesday, PHP’s Bad Time, The Oldest Vuln, AI Armies, and More ift.tt/vDARUHT

This Week In Security: Record Patch Tuesday, PHP’s Bad Time, The Oldest Vuln, AI Armies, And More

It’s no longer a proper month without Microsoft breaking its own record for security fixes, and October’s Patch Tuesday was no exception. Brian Krebs brings the roundup: more than 1,400…

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When You Can’t Pick Between Electric and Jet Power, This Buggy Has You Covered ift.tt/nwPBy6X

When You Can’t Pick Between Electric And Jet Power, This Buggy Has You Covered

Technically, what [Macona] built with a surplus Solar T-62 turbine is not a dune buggy, but a sand rail, but it does have the delightfully rare combination of electric and turbine drive that is abs…

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DOOM Ported to a $30 Clamp Meter ift.tt/qv50G8F

DOOM Ported To A $30 Clamp Meter

DOOM. Boil it, mash it, stick it in a stew, it’s the game that runs on anything and everything. Now, the classic shooter is running on a rather unlikely target—a cheap clamp meter of very lim…

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Restoring a Soviet ES-4001 Mainframe Control Panel ift.tt/Ee4zBin

Restoring A Soviet ES-4001 Mainframe Control Panel

Recently the [Chornobyl Family] got their hands on an ES-4001 control panel for a 1970s-era Soviet mainframe, with the intention to restore it to full working order. Not just because they’re …

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NASA Batteries Survive Extreme Cold and Heat ift.tt/M28zAT3

NASA Batteries Survive Extreme Cold And Heat

One of the major limits of mass-produced batteries is the electrolyte. From lead-acid to lithium ion, there’s some temperature where the electrolyte will freeze and cause all sorts of problem…

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Car’s Camera Footage Backed up to NAS ift.tt/4GoLict

Car’s Camera Footage Backed Up To NAS

For as many sensors, cameras, and computers as there are on modern cars, they ought to be a dream to poke around in and customize to one’s liking. Unfortunately they’re generally plague…

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An Open Source Linear Capacitive Encoder ift.tt/cumJVj3

An Open Source Linear Capacitive Encoder

If you’ve ever pulled apart a set of digital calipers, you’ve probably marvelled at the capacitive encoder that does all the measuring work. There’s nothing stopping you from usin…

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Keeping Old Wi-Fi Radios Alive With Stream Conversion ift.tt/IsEyCr8

Keeping Old Wi-Fi Radios Alive With Stream Conversion

There are plenty of Wi-Fi radios out there that were built over the last two decades or so. However, many older models are now becoming less useful because many internet radio stations are switchin…

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KiCad… In The Browser? ift.tt/hXP9VMS

KiCad… In The Browser?

KiCad is a useful tool for designing printed circuit boards, but it’s of no use to you if you can’t install it on the computer you’re on. To get around that, [Akshay Rukade] has w…

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