Mac System 7 On a G4? Why Not! <img width="800" height="363" src=" alt=""/>Over the many years Apple Computer have been in operation, they have made a success of nearly-seamlessly transitioning multiple times between both operating systems and their underlying architecture. There have

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Mac System 7 On A G4? Why Not!

Over the many years Apple Computer have been in operation, they have made a success of nearly-seamlessly transitioning multiple times between both ...

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Mac System 7 On A G4? Why Not!

Over the many years Apple Computer have been in operation, they have made a success of nearly-seamlessly transitioning multiple times between both ...

This Week in Security: React, JSON Formatting, and the Return of Shai Hulud <img width="800" height="484" src=" alt=""/>After a week away recovering from too much turkey and sweet potato casserole, we’re back for more security news! And if you need something to shake you out of that

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This Week In Security: React, JSON Formatting, And The Return Of Shai Hulud

After a week away recovering from too much turkey and sweet potato casserole, we&#8217;re back for more security news! And if you need something to...

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This Week In Security: React, JSON Formatting, And The Return Of Shai Hulud

After a week away recovering from too much turkey and sweet potato casserole, we&#8217;re back for more security news! And if you need something to...

Off-Grid, Small-Scale Payment System <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>An effective currency needs to be widely accepted, easy to use, and stable in value. By now most of us have recognized that cryptocurrencies fail at all three things, despite

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Off-Grid, Small-Scale Payment System

An effective currency needs to be widely accepted, easy to use, and stable in value. By now most of us have recognized that cryptocurrencies fail a...

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Off-Grid, Small-Scale Payment System

An effective currency needs to be widely accepted, easy to use, and stable in value. By now most of us have recognized that cryptocurrencies fail a...

Biogas Production For Surprisingly Little Effort <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>Probably most people know that when organic matter such as kitchen waste rots, it can produce flammable methane. As a source of free energy it’s attractive, but making a biogas

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Biogas Production For Surprisingly Little Effort

Probably most people know that when organic matter such as kitchen waste rots, it can produce flammable methane. As a source of free energy it&#821...

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Biogas Production For Surprisingly Little Effort

Probably most people know that when organic matter such as kitchen waste rots, it can produce flammable methane. As a source of free energy it&#821...

Building a Microscope without Lenses <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt="A mirrorless camera is mounted on a stand, facing downwards toward a rotating microscope stage made of wood. A pair of wires come down from the stage, and a man's hand is pointing to the stage."/>It’s relatively easy to understand how optical microscopes work at low magnifications: one lens magnifies an image, the next magnifies the already-magnified image, and so on until it reaches the

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Building A Microscope Without Lenses

It’s relatively easy to understand how optical microscopes work at low magnifications: one lens magnifies an image, the next magnifies the alread...

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Building A Microscope Without Lenses

It’s relatively easy to understand how optical microscopes work at low magnifications: one lens magnifies an image, the next magnifies the alread...

Preventing a Mess with the Weller WDC Solder Containment Pocket <img width="800" height="498" src=" alt=""/>Have you ever tipped all the stray bits of solder out of your tip cleaner by mistake? [MisterHW] is here with a bit pf paraffin wax to save the day.

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Preventing A Mess With The Weller WDC Solder Containment Pocket

Have you ever tipped all the stray bits of solder out of your tip cleaner by mistake? [MisterHW] is here with a bit of paraffin wax to save the day...

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Preventing A Mess With The Weller WDC Solder Containment Pocket

Have you ever tipped all the stray bits of solder out of your tip cleaner by mistake? [MisterHW] is here with a bit of paraffin wax to save the day...

Build A Pocket-Sized Wi-Fi Analyzer <img width="800" height="449" src=" alt=""/>Wi-Fi! It’s everywhere, and yet you can’t really see it, by virtue of the technology relying on the transmission of electromagnetic waves outside the visual spectrum. Never mind, though, because

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Build A Pocket-Sized Wi-Fi Analyzer

Wi-Fi! It&#8217;s everywhere, and yet you can&#8217;t really see it, by virtue of the technology relying on the transmission of electromagnetic wav...

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Build A Pocket-Sized Wi-Fi Analyzer

Wi-Fi! It&#8217;s everywhere, and yet you can&#8217;t really see it, by virtue of the technology relying on the transmission of electromagnetic wav...

Raising a GM EV1 from the Dead <img width="800" height="472" src=" alt=""/>Probably the biggest story in the world of old cars over the past couple of weeks has been the surfacing of a GM EV1 electric car for sale from an

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Raising A GM EV1 From The Dead

Probably the biggest story in the world of old cars over the past couple of weeks has been the surfacing of a GM EV1 electric car for sale from an ...

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Raising A GM EV1 From The Dead

Probably the biggest story in the world of old cars over the past couple of weeks has been the surfacing of a GM EV1 electric car for sale from an ...

An Introduction to Analog Filtering <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>One of the major difficulties in studying electricity, especially when compared to many other physical phenomena, is that it cannot be observed directly by human senses. We can manipulate it

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An Introduction To Analog Filtering

One of the major difficulties in studying electricity, especially when compared to many other physical phenomena, is that it cannot be observed dir...

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An Introduction To Analog Filtering

One of the major difficulties in studying electricity, especially when compared to many other physical phenomena, is that it cannot be observed dir...

Ore Formation: A Surface Level Look <img width="800" height="484" src=" alt=""/>The past few months, we’ve been giving you a quick rundown of the various ways ores form underground; now the time has come to bring that surface-level understanding to surface-level

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Ore Formation: A Surface Level Look

The past few months, we’ve been giving you a quick rundown of the various ways ores form underground; now the time has come to bring that surface...

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Ore Formation: A Surface Level Look

The past few months, we’ve been giving you a quick rundown of the various ways ores form underground; now the time has come to bring that surface...

UEFI On ARM? More Likely Than You Think <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>Now, Rock 5 ITX+ is no x86 board, sporting an ARM Rockship RK3588 on its ITX form-factor PCB, but reading this blog post’s headline might as well give you the

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UEFI On ARM? More Likely Than You Think

Now, Rock 5 ITX+ is no x86 board, sporting an ARM Rockchip RK3588 on its ITX form-factor PCB, but reading this blog post&#8217;s headline might as ...

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UEFI On ARM? More Likely Than You Think

Now, Rock 5 ITX+ is no x86 board, sporting an ARM Rockchip RK3588 on its ITX form-factor PCB, but reading this blog post&#8217;s headline might as ...

New Browser-based CAD System is Best Friends With Triangle Meshes <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>Who’s interested in a brand new, from-scratch boundary representation (BREP) kernel? How about one that has no topological naming problem, a web-native parametric CAD front end to play with, and

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New Browser-based CAD System Is Best Friends With Triangle Meshes

Who&#8217;s interested in a brand new, from-scratch boundary representation (BREP) kernel? How about one that has no topological naming problem, a ...

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New Browser-based CAD System Is Best Friends With Triangle Meshes

Who&#8217;s interested in a brand new, from-scratch boundary representation (BREP) kernel? How about one that has no topological naming problem, a ...

The Database Powering America’s Hospitals May Not be What You Expect <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>Ever heard of MUMPS? Both programming language and database, it was developed in the 1960s for the Massachusetts General Hospital. The goal was to streamline the increasingly enormous timesink that

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The Database Powering America&#8217;s Hospitals May Not Be What You Expect

Ever heard of MUMPS? Both programming language and database, it was developed in the 1960s for the Massachusetts General Hospital. The goal was to ...

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The Database Powering America&#8217;s Hospitals May Not Be What You Expect

Ever heard of MUMPS? Both programming language and database, it was developed in the 1960s for the Massachusetts General Hospital. The goal was to ...

Franken-engine Plays Its Own Swan Song at 15k RPM <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt="Two four-cylinder engines mechanically linked and exhausting into a trombone."/>Back during WWII, Chrysler bodged five inline-6 engines together to create the powerful A57 multibank tank engine. [Maisteer] has some high-revving inline-4 motorcycle engines he’s trying to put together too,

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Franken-engine Plays Its Own Swan Song At 15k RPM

Back during WWII, Chrysler bodged five inline-6 engines together to create the powerful A57 multibank tank engine. [Maisteer] has some high-revving...

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Franken-engine Plays Its Own Swan Song At 15k RPM

Back during WWII, Chrysler bodged five inline-6 engines together to create the powerful A57 multibank tank engine. [Maisteer] has some high-revving...

FLOSS Weekly Episode 857: SOCification <img width="800" height="484" src=" alt=""/>This week Jonathan chats with Konstantinos Margaritis about SIMD programming. Why do these wide data instructions matter? What’s the state of Hyperscan, the project from Intel to power regex with

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FLOSS Weekly Episode 857: SOCification

This week Jonathan chats with Konstantinos Margaritis about SIMD programming. Why do these wide data instructions matter? What&#8217;s the state of...

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FLOSS Weekly Episode 857: SOCification

This week Jonathan chats with Konstantinos Margaritis about SIMD programming. Why do these wide data instructions matter? What&#8217;s the state of...

3D Printering: That New Color Printer <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt="Art of 3D printer in the middle of printing a Hackaday Jolly Wrencher logo"/>Color 3D printing has gone mainstream, and we expect more than one hacker will be unpacking one over the holidays. If you have, say, a color inkjet printer, the process

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3D Printering: That New Color Printer

Color 3D printing has gone mainstream, and we expect more than one hacker will be unpacking one over the holidays. If you have, say, a color inkjet...

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3D Printering: That New Color Printer

Color 3D printing has gone mainstream, and we expect more than one hacker will be unpacking one over the holidays. If you have, say, a color inkjet...

That Power Bank Isn’t Quite So Sweet <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt=""/>An unlikely hit of the last few months’ consumer hardware has been a power bank branded by the German confectionery company Haribo. It first gained attention in backpacking circles because

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That Power Bank Isn&#8217;t Quite So Sweet

An unlikely hit of the last few months&#8217; consumer hardware has been a power bank branded by the German confectionery company Haribo. It first ...

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That Power Bank Isn&#8217;t Quite So Sweet

An unlikely hit of the last few months&#8217; consumer hardware has been a power bank branded by the German confectionery company Haribo. It first ...

In Which I Vibe-Code a Personal Library System <img width="800" height="484" src=" alt=""/>When I was a kid, I was interested in a number of professions that are now either outdated, or have changed completely. One of those dreams involved checking out books

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In Which I Vibe-Code A Personal Library System

When I was a kid, I was interested in a number of professions that are now either outdated, or have changed completely. One of those dreams involve...

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In Which I Vibe-Code A Personal Library System

When I was a kid, I was interested in a number of professions that are now either outdated, or have changed completely. One of those dreams involve...

Shelf Life Extended: Hacking E-Waste Tags into Conference Badges <img width="800" height="450" src=" alt="PN26 badge"/>Ever wonder what happens to those digital price tags you see in stores once they run out of juice? In what is a prime example of e-waste, many of those

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Shelf Life Extended: Hacking E-Waste Tags Into Conference Badges

Ever wonder what happens to those digital price tags you see in stores once they run out of juice? In what is a prime example of e-waste, many of t...

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Shelf Life Extended: Hacking E-Waste Tags Into Conference Badges

Ever wonder what happens to those digital price tags you see in stores once they run out of juice? In what is a prime example of e-waste, many of t...

Get to the Games on Time with This Ancient-Style Waterclock <img width="800" height="480" src=" alt=""/>One easy way to make a very accurate clock is with a WiFi-enabled microcontroller like an ESP32 and a display: set up NTP, and you’ll never be off by more

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Get To The Games On Time With This Ancient-Style Waterclock

One easy way to make a very accurate clock is with a WiFi-enabled microcontroller like an ESP32 and a display: set up NTP, and you&#8217;ll never b...

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Get To The Games On Time With This Ancient-Style Waterclock

One easy way to make a very accurate clock is with a WiFi-enabled microcontroller like an ESP32 and a display: set up NTP, and you&#8217;ll never b...