FLOSS Weekly Episode 869: Linux On Your Toaster

This week Jonathan chats with Andrei, Mahir, and Praneeth, live on location at Texas Instruments! The team at TI has been working hard to provide really good Open Source support …read more

Ask Hackaday: Do You Need A Tablet?

There’s an old saying that the happiest days of a boat owner’s life are the day they buy the boat, and the day they sell it. For me, the happiest …read more

The GPS III Rollout Is Almost Complete, But What Is It?

Considering how integral it is to our modern way of life, you could be excused for thinking that the Global Positioning System (GPS) is a product of the smartphone era. …read more

Hackaday Links: April 26, 2026

It’s been three weeks since the Artemis II crew returned to Earth, and while the mission might be over for Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch, and Jeremy Hansen, …read more

Hackaday Podcast Episode 367: Radioactive Weather, Continuous Pickles, And Moon Junk

When Elliot Williams and Al Williams compare their notes on the week in Hackaday, you know you’ll get at least one or two bad puns. How bad? Tune in and …read more

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Matching Transistors

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By Al Williams | May 2, 2026

Transistors in some circuit configurations work together and, frequently, need to be matched. This is so common that you can sometimes find ICs that are just a pair of transistors …read more
Let Twitch Chat Control Your LED Strings

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By Zoe Skyforest | May 2, 2026

Once upon a time, someone set up a livestream wherein the messages from Twitch chat could control a game of Pokemon. Since then, we’ve seen Twitch control all sorts of …read more
Pushing As Many Pixels As Possible To A CRT: Interlaced 4K

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By Tyler August | May 2, 2026

Some people love CRTs to a degree that the uninitiated may find obsessive. We all have our thing, and for [Found Tech], it’s absolutely pointing particle accelerators at his face …read more
IR Device Control That Lives Off The Cloud

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By Zoe Skyforest | May 2, 2026

There are lots of smart home systems that will let you blast your older dumb appliances with infrared to control them. However, many are tied to ugly cloud systems that …read more
Peripherals Hacks

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By Elliot Williams | May 2, 2026

Custom peripheral projects are among the most rewarding. Especially if you’re like me and you sit at the computer eight hours per day, anything that you can use on a …read more
This Handy Synth Packs An ESP32

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By Jenny List | May 2, 2026

Since the first electronic hobbyist wired up a multivibrator to a keyboard many decades ago, electonic synthesisers have been a staple of home-made projects. Now with the proliferation of significantly …read more
Debugging A Stopped Foucault Pendulum’s Electronics

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By Maya Posch | May 2, 2026

After the Foucault pendulum at the Houston Museum of Natural Science stopped working a while back after maintenance on the building, workers set out to determine what was wrong with …read more

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