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- Revisiting Making Your Own Internet Router in 2026by Maya Posch on June 1, 2026 at 2:00 pm
After my recent misadventures setting up an OpenWrt installation on a scruffy e-waste-level x86 PC, quite a few people chimed in with feedback, criticism and friendly hostility regarding things like …read more
- Reverse Engineering A Rock Bottom NES Cloneby Jenny List on June 1, 2026 at 11:00 am
The NES was Nintendo’s smash hit console of the 1980s, the international version of their Japanese Famicom system. It wasn’t a particularly complex device, so it was the subject of …read more
- Classically-named Argus Robot Is Terminator Meets Tumbleweedby Tyler August on June 1, 2026 at 8:00 am
If you were making a multi-limbed symmetric nightmare of a robot, where else would you look for a name but Greek Mythology? The team at Duke University that came up …read more
- Making a Zippy FDM Printer out of Woodby Maya Posch on June 1, 2026 at 5:00 am
Generally, the frame and other structural parts of an FDM printer use steel or similar, but could you use wood instead for that truly artisan look? As [Mitsu Makes] demonstrates …read more
- Off-Grid OCR Server Powered by iPhoneby Bryan Cockfield on June 1, 2026 at 2:00 am
Running an optical character recognition (OCR) server might sound like it would need some powerful hardware, like a rack-mounted, water-cooled machine, or at least a nice desktop or laptop. But …read more
- Hackaday Links: May 31, 2026by Tom Nardi on May 31, 2026 at 11:00 pm
If you’re located in the Northeast United States and thought you heard an explosion yesterday afternoon, it wasn’t just your imagination — multiple sources have now confirmed that a 1 …read more
- A Camera Viewfinder Makes A Great TVby Jenny List on May 31, 2026 at 8:00 pm
When we think of CRT camera viewfinders, most of us probably imagine the tiny CRTs you’d find in a 1980s camcorder. They’re super cute and a load of fun to …read more








