IPV4, IPV6… Hey! What Happened to IPV5?
?w=800" alt=""/>If you’ve ever been configuring a router or other network device and noticed that you can set up IPv4 and IPv6, you might have wondered what happened to IPv5. Well, https://hackaday.com/2025/03/09/ipv4-ipv6-hey-what-happened-to-ipv5/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/09/ipv4-ipv6-hey-what-happened-to-ipv5/
Retrotechtacular: Better Living Through Nuclear Chemistry
?w=800" alt=""/>The late 1950s were such an optimistic time in America. World War II had been over for less than a decade, the economy boomed thanks to pent-up demand after years https://hackaday.com/2025/03/08/retrotechtacular-better-living-through-nuclear-chemistry/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/08/retrotechtacular-better-living-through-nuclear-chemistry/
Transceiver Reveals Unusual Components
?w=800" alt=""/>[MSylvain59] likes to tear down old surplus, and in the video below, he takes apart a German transceiver known as a U-600M. From the outside, it looks like an unremarkable https://hackaday.com/2025/03/08/transceiver-reveals-unusual-components/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/08/transceiver-reveals-unusual-components/
The Pentium Processor’s Innovative (and Complicated) Method of Multiplying by Three, Fast
?w=800" alt=""/>[Ken Shirriff] has been sharing a really low-level look at Intel’s Pentium (1993) processor. The Pentium’s architecture was highly innovative in many ways, and one of [Ken]’s most recent discoveries https://hackaday.com/2025/03/08/the-pentium-processors-innovative-and-complicated-method-of-multiplying-by-three-fast/
The Road to Lucid Dreaming Might be Paved With VR
?w=800" alt=""/>Lucid dreaming is the state of becoming aware one is dreaming while still being within the dream. To what end? That awareness may allow one to influence the dream itself, https://hackaday.com/2025/03/07/the-road-to-lucid-dreaming-might-be-paved-with-vr/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/07/the-road-to-lucid-dreaming-might-be-paved-with-vr/
Open Source Hardware, How Open Do You Want It To Be?
?w=800" alt=""/>In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a lot of us release our https://hackaday.com/2025/03/07/open-source-hardware-how-open-do-you-want-it-to-be/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/07/open-source-hardware-how-open-do-you-want-it-to-be/
The Long Goodbye: More Instruments Shut Down on the Voyagers as End Nears
?w=800" alt=""/>Saying farewell is hard, and in the case of the Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft doubly so, seeing as how they have been with us for more than 47 years. https://hackaday.com/2025/03/07/the-long-goodbye-more-instruments-shut-down-on-the-voyagers-as-end-nears/
Open Safety In The Auto Business: Renault Shares Its Battery Fire Suppression Tech
?w=800" alt=""/>As consumers worldwide slowly make the switch from internal combustion vehicles to lower-carbon equivalents, a few concerns have appeared about electric vehicles. Range anxiety is ebbing away as batteries become https://hackaday.com/2025/03/07/open-safety-in-the-auto-business-renault-shares-its-battery-fire-suppression-tech/
Hackaday Europe 2025 Welcomes David Cuartielles, Announces Friday Night Bring-a-Hack
?w=800" alt=""/>If you’re coming to Hackaday Europe 2025, you’ve got just over a week to get your bags packed and head on out to Berlin. Of course you have tickets already, https://hackaday.com/2025/03/06/hackaday-europe-2025-welcomes-david-cuartielles-announces-friday-night-bring-a-hack/
The Future We Never Got, Running a Future We Got
?w=800" alt=""/>If you’re familiar with Java here in 2025, the programming language you know is a world away from what Sun Microsystems planned for it in the mid-1990s. Back then it https://hackaday.com/2025/03/06/the-future-we-never-got-running-a-future-we-got/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/06/the-future-we-never-got-running-a-future-we-got/
FLOSS Weekly Episode 823: TuxCare, 10 Years Without Rebooting!
?w=800" alt=""/>This week, Jonathan Bennett and Aaron Newcomb talk with Joao Correia about TuxCare! What’s live patching, and why is it so hard? And how is this related to .NET 6? https://hackaday.com/2025/03/05/floss-weekly-episode-823-tuxcare-10-years-without-rebooting/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/05/floss-weekly-episode-823-tuxcare-10-years-without-rebooting/
Haptic Displays Bring Sports To The Vision Impaired
?w=800" alt=""/>When it comes to the majority of sports broadcasting, it’s all about the visual. The commentators call the plays, of course, but everything you’re being shown at home is on https://hackaday.com/2025/03/05/haptic-displays-bring-sports-to-the-vision-impaired/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/05/haptic-displays-bring-sports-to-the-vision-impaired/
Is This The Oldest HD Video Online?
?w=800" alt=""/>Take a look at this video from [Reely Interesting], showing scenes from traditional Japanese festivals. It’s well filmed, and as with any HD video, you can see real detail. But https://hackaday.com/2025/03/05/is-this-the-oldest-hd-video-online/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/05/is-this-the-oldest-hd-video-online/
Big Chemistry: Glass
?w=800" alt=""/>Humans have been chemically modifying their world for far longer than you might think. Long before they had the slightest idea of what was happening chemically, they were turning clay https://hackaday.com/2025/03/05/big-chemistry-glass/
China Claims Commercial Nuclear Fusion by 2050 as Germany Goes Stellarator
?w=800" alt=""/>Things are heating up in the world of nuclear fusion research, with most fundamental issues resolved and an increasing rate of announcements being made regarding commercial fusion power. China’s CNNC https://hackaday.com/2025/03/05/china-claims-commercial-nuclear-fusion-by-2050-as-germany-goes-stellarator/
Speaking Computers from the 1970s
?w=800" alt=""/>Talking computers are nothing these days. But in the old days, a computer that could speak was quite the novelty. Many computers from the 1970s and 1980s used an AY-3-8910 https://hackaday.com/2025/03/05/speaking-computers-from-the-1970s/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/05/speaking-computers-from-the-1970s/
Build a Parametric Speaker of Your Own
?w=800" alt=""/>The loudspeaker on your home entertainment equipment is designed to project audio around the space in which it operates, if it’s not omnidirectional as such it can feel that way https://hackaday.com/2025/03/04/build-a-parametric-speaker-of-your-own/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/04/build-a-parametric-speaker-of-your-own/
Smartwatches Could Flatten the Curve of the Next Pandemic
?w=800" alt=""/>While we’d like to think that pandemics and lockdowns are behind us, the reality is that a warming climate and the fast-paced travel of modern life are a perfect storm https://hackaday.com/2025/03/04/smartwatches-could-flatten-the-curve-of-the-next-pandemic/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/04/smartwatches-could-flatten-the-curve-of-the-next-pandemic/
Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Schreibmaschine
?w=800" alt="Illustrated Kristina with an IBM Model M keyboard floating between her hands."/>Remember that lovely Hacktric centerfold from a couple Keebins ago with the Selectric keycaps? Yeah you do. Well, so does [Sasha K.], who saw the original reddit post and got https://hackaday.com/2025/03/04/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-schreibmaschine/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/04/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-schreibmaschine/
Cheap Hackable Smart Ring Gets a Command Line Client
?w=800" alt=""/>Last year, we’ve featured a super cheap smart ring – BLE, accelerometer, heart sensor, and a battery, all in a tiny package that fits on your finger. Back when we https://hackaday.com/2025/03/04/cheap-hackable-smart-ring-gets-a-command-line-client/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/04/cheap-hackable-smart-ring-gets-a-command-line-client/