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3D Printing a Giant Beyblade Arena Beyblade spinning tops are pretty easy to find at toy shops, department stores, and even some supermarkets. However, the arenas in which the tops do battle? They’re much harder to come …read more
09.08.2025 11:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Learn C with a Lisp One reason Forth remains popular is that it is very simple to create, but also very powerful. But there’s an even older language that can make the same claim: LISP. …read more
09.08.2025 08:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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One File, Six Formats: Just Change The Extension Normally, if you change a file’s extension in Windows, it doesn’t do anything positive. It just makes the file open in the wrong programs that can’t decode what’s inside. However, …read more
09.08.2025 05:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Whispers From The Void, Transcribed With AI ‘Hearing voices’ doesn’t have to be worrisome, for instance when software-defined radio (SDR) happens to be your hobby. It can take quite some of your time and attention to pull …read more
09.08.2025 02:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tearing Down A Mysteriously Cheap $5 Fiber Optic To Cable TV Adapter In his regular browsing on AliExpress, Ben Jeffrey] came across something he didn’t understand—a $5 fiber optic to RF cable TV adapter. It was excessively cheap, and even more mysteriously, […read more
08.08.2025 23:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Clock of Clocks Expands, Goes Digital Some people just want to have their cake and eat it too, but very few of us ever get to pull it off. Erich Styger] has, though with V5 of […read more
08.08.2025 20:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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2025 One Hertz Challenge: The Real-Time Clock The VIC-20 Never Had Like many early microcomputers, the Commodore VIC-20 did not come with an interna real-time clock built into the system. David Hunter] has seen fit to rectify that with an add-on […read more
08.08.2025 18:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hackaday Podcast Episode 332: 5 Axes are Better than 3, Hacking Your Behavior, and the Man Who Made Models Elliot and Dan got together this week for a review of the week’s hacking literature, and there was plenty to discuss. We addressed several burning questions, such as why digital …read more
08.08.2025 16:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Talking Robot Uses Typewriter Tech For Mouth Many decades ago, IBM engineers developed the typeball. This semi-spherical hunk of metal would become the heart of the Selectric typewriter line. James Brown] has now leveraged that very concept […read more
08.08.2025 15:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This Week in Security: Perplexity v Cloudflare, GreedyBear, and HashiCorp The Internet is fighting over whether robots.txt applies to AI agents. It all started when Cloudflare published a blog post, detailing what the company was seeing from Perplexity crawlers. Of …read more
08.08.2025 14:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Microsoft’s New Agentic Web Protocol Stumbles With Path Traversal Exploit If the term ‘NLWeb’ first brought to mind an image of a Dutch internet service provider, you’re probably not alone. What it actually is – or tries to become – …read more
08.08.2025 02:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Teardown of a Persil Smartwash Smart Laundry Detergent Ball Ever since the invention of washing machines, the process of doing laundry has become rather straightforward. Simply toss the dirty laundry into the machine, fill up the detergent, and let …read more
07.08.2025 23:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Repeater for WWVB For those living in the continental US who, for whatever reason, don’t have access to an NTP server or a GPS device, the next best way to make sure the …read more
07.08.2025 20:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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2025 One Hertz Challenge: The Easy Way to Make a Nixie Tube Clock Let’s say you want to build a Nixie clock. You could go out and find some tubes, source a good power supply design, start whipping up a PCB, and working …read more
07.08.2025 18:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The 64-Degree Egg, And Other Delicious Variants Many of us have boiled an egg at some point or another in our lives. The conventional technique is relatively straightforward—get the water boiling, drop the egg in, and leave …read more
07.08.2025 17:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Buying Large LiFePO4 Batteries: How Cheap is Too Cheap? It’s a well-known factoid that batteries keep getting cheaper while capacity increases. That said, as with any market that is full of people who are hunting for that ‘great deal’, …read more
07.08.2025 15:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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VRML and the Dream of Bringing 3D to the World Wide Web You don’t have to be a Snow Crash or Tron fan to be familiar with the 3D craze that characterized the rise of the Internet and the World Wide Web in …read more
07.08.2025 14:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A PC That Uses Hot Coffee As Coolant Modern computers generate a great deal of heat when under load, thus we cool them with fans and sometimes even water cooling systems. Doug MacDowell] figured that water was alright, […read more
07.08.2025 11:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sparks Fly: Building a 330 kV Supply from a PC PSU If you’re hunting for a bench power supply, you’ll quickly notice options dry up above 48 V or so, and you definitely won’t find a 330 kV supply on the …read more
07.08.2025 08:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Robot Controller With The Compute Module 5 The regular Raspberry Pi line is a flexible single-board computer, but sometimes you might find yourself wishing for a form factor that was better designed for installation into a greater …read more
06.08.2025 20:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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2025 One Hertz Challenge: Square Waves The Way You Want ‘Em On an old fashioned bench a signal generator was once an indispensable instrument, but has now largely been supplanted by the more versatile function generator. Sometimes there’s a less demanding …read more
06.08.2025 18:30 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Jenny’s Daily Drivers: FreeDOS 1.4 When I was a student, I was a diehard Commodore Amiga user, having upgraded to an A500+ from my Sinclair Spectrum. The Amiga could do it all, it became my …read more
06.08.2025 17:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Portable 12 VDC Water Chiller for the Chemistry Lab Having a chiller is often essential for the chemistry laboratory, but what if you’re somewhere without easy access to water, nevermind a mains outlet to plug your usual chiller into? …read more
06.08.2025 15:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Australia’s Space Program Finally Gets Off The Pad, But Only Barely Australia is known for great beaches, top-tier coffee, and a laidback approach to life that really doesn’t square with all the rules and regulations that exist Down Under. What it …read more
06.08.2025 14:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Can a Thermal Printer Cure ADHD? No, of course not. Per Betteridge’s law, that’s the answer to any headline with a question mark. On the other hand, while a thermal printer might not cure ADHD, it …read more
06.08.2025 11:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Speed Loader For Your 3D Printer Filament Reloading filament on a 3D printer is hardly anyone’s favorite task, but it’s even worse when you’re trying to shove stiff filament down a long and winding Bowden tube. Enter …read more
06.08.2025 08:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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LoRaSense Pi Hat aims to Kick Start IoT Projects Avi Gupta] recently sent in their LoRaSense RGB Pi HAT project. This “HAT” (Hardware Attached to Top) is for any Raspberry Pi with 40-pin header. The core of the build […read more
06.08.2025 05:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why Names Break Systems Web systems are designed to be simple and reliable. Designing for the everyday person is the goal, but if you don’t consider the odd man out, they may encounter some …read more
06.08.2025 02:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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2025 One Hertz Challenge: Shoulda Put a Ring Oscillator On It Entries keep ticking in for the One Hertz Challenge, some more practical than others. Pierre-Loup M.]’s One Hertz Sculpture has no pretensions of being anything but pretty, but we can […read more
05.08.2025 23:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Flex PCB Underlies the Watch of the Future If you were at OpenSauce, you may have seen new Youtuber Sahko] waltzing about with a retrofuturistic peice of jewelery that revealed itself as a very cool watch. If you […read more
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