Supercon 2024: From Consultant To Prototyper On A Shoestring Budget

Many engineers graduate from their studies and head out into the workforce, seeking a paycheck and a project at some existing company or other. Often, it’s not long before an …read more

Screens Of Death: From Diagnostic Aids To A Sad Emoji

There comes a moment in the life of any operating system when an unforeseen event will tragically cut its uptime short. Whether it’s a sloppily written driver, a bug in …read more

The Blackberry Keyboard: How An Open-Source Ecosystem Sprouts

What could happen when you open-source a hardware project? No, seriously. I hold a fair few radical opinions – one is that projects should be open-source to the highest extent …read more

High-Stakes Fox Hunting: The FCC’s Radio Intelligence Division In World War II

With few exceptions, amateur radio is a notably sedentary pursuit. Yes, some hams will set up in a national or state park for a “Parks on the Air” activation, and …read more

Supercon 2024: How To Track Down Radio Transmissions

You turn the dial on your radio, and hear a powerful source of interference crackle in over the baseline noise. You’re interested as to where it might be coming from. …read more

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Building An Assembly Line For Origami Pigeons

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By John Elliot V | June 9, 2025

When it comes to hacks, the best ones go to extremes. Either beautiful in their simplicity, or magnificent in their excess. And, well, today’s hack is the latter: excessive. [HTX …read more
Saving Green Books From Poison Paranoia

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By Tyler August | June 9, 2025

You probably do not need us to tell you that Arsenic is not healthy stuff. This wasn’t always such common knowledge, as for a time in the 19th century a …read more
A Modern Take On Iconic Industrial Design

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By Aaron Beckendorf | June 9, 2025

The Functionalist design philosophy that Dieter Rams brought to Braun from the 50s to the 90s still inspires the look of a few devices, including Apple’s iPod, Teenage Engineer’s synthesizers …read more
Run A Lawnmower On Diesel With Hot Bulb Hack

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By Tyler August | June 9, 2025

If you’re into automotive hacks and don’t watch [Robot Cantina], you are missing out. This hack has [Jimbo] taking a break from automotive hacking to butcher a poor, innocent Tecumseh …read more
2025 Pet Hacks Contest: Fort Bawks Is Guarded By Object Detection

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By Tyler August | June 9, 2025

One of the difficult things about raising chickens is that you aren’t the only thing that finds them tasty. Foxes, raccoons, hawks — if it can eat meat, it probably …read more
Information Density: Microfilm And Microfiche

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By Al Williams | June 9, 2025

Today, we think nothing of sticking thousands of pages of documents on a tiny SD card, or just pushing it out to some cloud service. But for decades, this wasn’t …read more
Turning Up The Heat On HT-PLA’s Marketing

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By Tyler August | June 9, 2025

PLA is probably the most-printed filament on the market these days, and is there any wonder? It’s cheap, it’s easy, and it doesn’t poison you (as quickly as its competitors, …read more

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