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BMW i3 Mod Brings Small Trucks to the EV Future ift.tt/rjCvKql

BMW I3 Mod Brings Small Trucks To The EV Future

Trucks are handy, especially if you’ve got messy or dirty loads, but there aren’t a lot of options if you want a small electric pickup yet. [Michael Pick] decided to convert a BMW i3 in…

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The Fascinating World of IrDA and Other Infrared Protocols ift.tt/zC0BRAs

The Fascinating World Of IrDA And Other Infrared Protocols

Infrared (IR) communication technologies are probably one of the most influential, yet also one of the least flashiest. The fact that IR communication tends to be highly directional and often limit…

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Hiding Virtualization From Other Software ift.tt/FWG1MEd

Hiding Virtualization From Other Software

The Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) allows Linux systems to function as hypervisors without needing any extra software, but VMs created with it don’t behave exactly like real hardware does…

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Hairy Armor For Combat Robot? It’s Not Terrible! ift.tt/nd0xXby

Hairy Armor For Combat Robot? It’s Not Terrible!

[Angus] of Maker’s Muse enjoys combat robotics, in which contenders zip about in an arena, attempting to disable one another with weapons that lift, spin, and smash. He got a funny idea a sho…

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Building a Swashplate-less Helicoper Rotor ift.tt/5POgB4k

Building A Swashplate-less Helicoper Rotor

A helicopter blade uses a swash plate and a set of linkages to change the angle of the blades. Not only does it vary the collective pitch to increase or decrease thrust, but it varies each blade’s …

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Transforming a Tungsten Ditelluride Monolayer into a Transistor ift.tt/Af82M3t

Transforming A Tungsten Ditelluride Monolayer Into A Transistor

In the world of silicon semiconductors, the process of creating transistors and similar structures involves various rounds of modifications and additions in order to create the requisite functional…

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Forget Xbox Live... Sega was way ahead of the curve when it came to getting consoles online. hackaday.com/2026/04/02/sega…

Sega Meganet: Online Gaming In 1990

It’s easy to think of online console gaming as an invention of the 2000s. Microsoft made waves when Xbox Live dropped in 2002, with Nintendo and Sony scrambling to catch up with their own off…

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Hackaday Links: October 25, 2026 ift.tt/klN8iKz

Hackaday Links: October 25, 2026

Some disappointing, but perhaps not entirely unsurprising news this week out of Denmark — after announcing last year that they would transition away from Microsoft’s proprietary softwar…

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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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Here's your opportunity to show us your favorite wacky console accessories. Shout out to the weird Brazilian Sega modem.
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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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