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FloppoScope is a Disk Image Analyzer ift.tt/txRbHP9
FloppoScope Is A Disk Image Analyzer

FloppoScope Is A Disk Image Analyzer

If youā€™re a big retro tech fan, you might still have a floppy drive on hand, or even some sort of high-end disk imaging solution. If youā€™re a little less committed, you may still have pā€¦

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Turning Syngas into Hydrocarbons with the Right Alpha ift.tt/LaRnjHX
Turning Syngas Into Hydrocarbons With The Right Alpha

Turning Syngas Into Hydrocarbons With The Right Alpha

Although the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (F-T synthesis) process is well-known and on face value quite straightforward, using it for DIY production of a somewhat defined length hydrocarbons is fairlyā€¦

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Building an ADS-B Receiver For Less Than You Think ift.tt/4hVysDX
Building An ADS-B Receiver For Less Than You Think

Building An ADS-B Receiver For Less Than You Think

If youā€™ve ever wondered about the planes flying above your head, you could always listen in to ADS-B transmissions to learn more about them. [thefatmoop] has built a rig to do just that, and ā€¦

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Huge PalmOS Development Archive Goes Online, Thanks to Personal Backups ift.tt/GTulrZj
Huge PalmOS Development Archive Goes Online, Thanks To Personal Backups

Huge PalmOS Development Archive Goes Online, Thanks To Personal Backups

Palm OS, an operating system for a range mobile devices that predated mobile phones, is largely forgotten today. Or at least, thatā€™s what [Aaron Ardiri] thought. That all changed when he was ā€¦

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Upgrading an Action Camera with an External Battery ift.tt/YltN3Vq
Upgrading An Action Camera With An External Battery

Upgrading An Action Camera With An External Battery

[Evan Monsma], the prolific experimenter with cameras, found himself with an issue: he had a small Sony action camera with good performance in every respect but battery life, which was as low as twā€¦

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Rooting an Amazon Echo Dot ift.tt/nf4JjE9
Rooting An Amazon Echo Dot

Rooting An Amazon Echo Dot

The Amazon Echo Dot is one of Amazonā€™s so-called ā€˜smart speakerā€™ offerings that tie into their larger Alexa-fueled ecosystem, designed to be a pretty minimalistic device that giveā€¦

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Voyager 1 Briefly Goes Silent, Scaring Everyone ift.tt/i02hX8x
Voyager 1 Briefly Goes Silent, Scaring Everyone

Voyager 1 Briefly Goes Silent, Scaring Everyone

Itā€™s no big secret at this point that we are looking at the final years of the two venerable Voyager spacecraft. With their power supplies diminishing and their 1970s-era electronics still giā€¦

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DIY WiFi Analyzer Sniffs Out Congestion and Coverage Issues, Suggests Fixes ift.tt/IL9eaE5
DIY WiFi Analyzer Sniffs Out Congestion And Coverage Issues, Suggests Fixes

DIY WiFi Analyzer Sniffs Out Congestion And Coverage Issues, Suggests Fixes

[Roni Bandini]ā€™s JEV WiFi Analyzer is an interesting experiment that glues together a single-board Linux computer, a USB WiFi adapter, and a specialized AI model to create a new kind of automā€¦

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Bring On Supercon! ift.tt/dbFRt2r
Bring On Supercon!

Bring On Supercon!

In just under a week from today, almost 700 hackers will be getting together in Pasadena, CA for three days of scheming, soldering, and socializing. If youā€™re able to join us, you absolutely shouldā€¦

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Learn to Edit STL Files in Just a Few Minutes ift.tt/H8zpywP
Learn To Edit STL Files In Just A Few Minutes

Learn To Edit STL Files In Just A Few Minutes

Sometimes an STL file needs a bit of editing, but if one doesnā€™t already know how to use a mesh editor itā€™s unlikely that one has the time to sit down and learn it in the middle of a prā€¦

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3D Printed Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator Cools with Fire ift.tt/FJQiVUs
3D Printed Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator Cools With Fire

3D Printed Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator Cools With Fire

They may not deliver the highest efficiency, but absorption refrigerators have earned a persistent place in camper vans and industrial plants thanks to a few distinct advantages: they can operate uā€¦

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Novelty Camera To USB Camera ift.tt/EmHcFKI
Novelty Camera To USB Camera

Novelty Camera To USB Camera

The Godox C100 is a cheap camera thatā€™s best described as a toy, its party trick being a large clear viewfinder with a head-up-display light meter. Itā€™s by no means a high quality devicā€¦

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VR Headset Ditches the Base Stations with DIY Tracking ift.tt/VbIhNmy
VR Headset Ditches The Base Stations With DIY Tracking

VR Headset Ditches The Base Stations With DIY Tracking

Those in the virtual reality scene might be interested in [Prohurtz]ā€™s add-on for the Bigscreen Beyond VR headset.Ā BSB-SLAM adds SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) tracking to the hā€¦

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A 1982 Modem for $100 ift.tt/hWHNCcQ
A 1982 Modem For $100

A 1982 Modem For $100

[Dave Farquhar] takes a walk down memory lane about the Commodore 1600 VICModem, perhaps the first phone modem to sell for less than $100. Commodore, of course, was famous for making cheaper computā€¦

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Making Internal Combustion Engines Better With More Valves ift.tt/lbR6MWt
Making Internal Combustion Engines Better With More Valves

Making Internal Combustion Engines Better With More Valves

When it comes to internal combustion engines (ICEs), itā€™s generally accepted that each cylinder doesnā€™t have more valves to let in a fresh fuel mixture and to exhaust the aftermath thanā€¦

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A Modern Smalltalk ift.tt/sUelnbS
A Modern Smalltalk

A Modern Smalltalk

In the history of object-oriented (OO) computer languages, Smalltalk has a special place. It wasnā€™t the first OO language, and it hasnā€™t spread as well as some others. But it was the fiā€¦

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Hackaday Podcast Episode 393: Epaper, Tamagotchi Hacks, and Supercon Talks Galore ift.tt/LPbHYz8
Hackaday Podcast Episode 393: Epaper, Tamagotchi Hacks, And Supercon Talks Galore

Hackaday Podcast Episode 393: Epaper, Tamagotchi Hacks, And Supercon Talks Galore

This weekā€™s podcast comes from Europe, as Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List, who wishes to apologies for the poor sound quality from her headset microphone. The news this week is our Suā€¦

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How Britain Narrowly Escaped a Grid Blackout in June 2026 ift.tt/gzSe8sR
How Britain Narrowly Escaped A Grid Blackout In June 2026

How Britain Narrowly Escaped A Grid Blackout In June 2026

Amidst one of the worst heatwaves in European history, Britainā€™s national grid saw itself faced with a quiet crisis this summer. On June 23rd, the grid frequency dropped to 49.657 Hz, down frā€¦

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This Week in Security: Broken Embargoes, UEFI Overflow, Wormable Tailscale, Starlink Ad Snooping, and a DHS Directory Dump ift.tt/ngPJdcX
This Week In Security: Broken Embargoes, UEFI Overflow, Wormable Tailscale, Starlink Ad Snooping,...

This Week In Security: Broken Embargoes, UEFI Overflow, Wormable Tailscale, Starlink Ad Snooping,...

Last week brought us at least two broken embargoes: php2shell leaked onto Hacker News a day early, and a batch of Linux kernel bugs landed on the public kernel mailing list instead of the private sā€¦

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The Sounds of the World, One Random Album at a Time ift.tt/Xpb9e2g
The Sounds Of The World, One Random Album At A Time

The Sounds Of The World, One Random Album At A Time

In the streaming era itā€™s easy to forget that thereā€™s still a lot of stuff being broadcast over the radio for anyone who cares enough to dial in their receiver. Give me an antenna big eā€¦

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