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- How to Have a Medium Format Camera Without Breaking The Bankby Jenny List on September 16, 2025 at 6:30 pm
For most people, experimentation with film photography comes in the form of the 35 mm format. Its ubiquity in snapshot photography means cameras are readily available at all levels, and …read more
- 2025 Hackaday Component Abuse Challenge: Let the Games Begin!by Elliot Williams on September 16, 2025 at 5:00 pm
In theory, all parts are ideal and do just exactly what they say on the box. In practice, everything has its limits, most components have non-ideal characteristics, and you can …read more
- This Rail Speeder Needs a Little Workby Jenny List on September 16, 2025 at 3:30 pm
If you take the wheels off a FIAT Punto, you might just notice that those rims fit nicely on a rail. [AT Lab] did, and the resulting build makes for …read more
- Serious Chemical Threat Sniffer on a Budgetby Heidi Ulrich on September 16, 2025 at 11:00 am
Chemical warfare detection was never supposed to be a hobbyist project. Yet here we are: Air Quality Guardian by [debdoot], the self-proclaimed world’s first open source chemical threat detection system, …read more
- Jointly is a Typeface Designed for CNC Joineryby Tyler August on September 16, 2025 at 8:00 am
If you have a CNC router, you know you can engrave just about any text with the right tool, but Jointly is a typeface that isn’t meant to be engraved. …read more
- The Microtronic Phoenix Computer Systemby John Elliot V on September 16, 2025 at 5:00 am
A team of hackers, [Jason T. Jacques], [Decle], and [Michael A. Wessel], have collaborated to deliver the Microtronic Phoenix Computer System. In 1981 the Busch 2090 Microtronic Computer System was …read more
- See Voyager’s 1990 ‘Solar System Family Portrait’ Debutby Maya Posch on September 16, 2025 at 2:00 am
It’s been just over 48 years since Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 from Cape Canaveral, originally to study our Solar System’s planets. Voyager 1 would explore Jupiter …read more