Announcing The 2026 Hackaday Retrocomputing Challenge

What is it about retrocomputing? For some people, it’s nostalgia. For others, it’s the appeal of simplicity. For still others, it’s the chance to save old machines from the graveyard. …read more

Procrastineers Rejoice! 2026 Supercon Call For Participation Extended

A few weeks ago, we put out the call for participation for this year’s 2026 Hackaday Supercon, taking place in Pasadena, CA this November. Today was going to be the …read more

Getting Back Into Resin Printing: First Results

When we last left off, I had just set up a new SLA resin printer and was on the verge of doing the initial round of printing to see just …read more

PC-1: The 1954 Computer With No Tubes, Relays, Or Transistors

However you make a digital computer, you need something to represent a binary digit. Usually this is some form of switch: a relay, a tube, or a transistor, although there …read more

Linux Fu: Heads Or Tails For VPN

If you’ve done much networking, you surely know the frustration of trying to connect to something, say a Raspberry Pi, that lives behind your consumer router. There are a number …read more

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Running Zork On The Steam Controller

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By Zoe Skyforest | August 20, 2026

The Steam Controller is a device capable of many interesting feats. It’s intended to act simply as an input device, and yet, it can run games all on its own. …read more
Superconducting Temperature Record Set At Ambient Pressure

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By Maya Posch | August 20, 2026

An interesting type of superconductors available to us today are the ones that achieve this property at room temperature, with only the small snag that they require crushing pressures that …read more
Samsung Printer Is The Next Frontier Of Minecraft Servers

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By Tyler August | August 20, 2026

While DOOM remains the undisputed champion of ‘game you play on every piece of hardware’ it seems that the role of ‘game you play on everything just because you can’ …read more
Homebrew 68K Machine Has A PCI Bus

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By Zoe Skyforest | August 20, 2026

The Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus was first introduced all the way back in 1992. It quickly became the standard way to interface add-on cards on the PC platform, supplanting …read more
Foldable OLED Displays And The Bane Of Dust

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By Maya Posch | August 20, 2026

Much like Apple’s once vaunted super-slim butterfly keyboard, today’s range of portable devices featuring flexible OLED displays – which can fold said display into a much smaller form factor – …read more
3D Printering: Why Is My PLA So Brittle?

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By Maya Posch | August 20, 2026

Over the years poly(lactic acid) (PLA) – also known as polylactide – has become a popular thermoplastic for a variety of reasons. One of these reasons is that it’s easily …read more
Miniaturizing The Atari 2600 Console

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By Bryan Cockfield | August 20, 2026

For as popular as Atari was in their heyday, it wasn’t until well after they were on their famous decline that they released their first handheld, the Atari Lynx. In …read more

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