Building a Handheld Pong Game
?w=800" alt=""/>Pong was one of the first video games to really enter the public consciousness. While it hasn’t had the staying power of franchises like Zelda or Call of Duty, it nonetheless still resonates https://hackaday.com/2025/03/21/building-a-handheld-pong-game/
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A Modern Take on the Etch A Sketch
?w=800" alt=""/>The Etch A Sketch is a classic children’s toy resembling a picture frame where artwork can be made by turning two knobs attached to a stylus inside the frame. The https://hackaday.com/2025/03/20/a-modern-take-on-the-etch-a-sketch/
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World’s Smallest Blinky, Now Even Smaller
?w=800" alt=""/>Here at Hackaday, it’s a pretty safe bet that putting “World’s smallest” in the title of an article will instantly attract comments claiming that someone else built a far smaller https://hackaday.com/2025/03/19/worlds-smallest-blinky-now-even-smaller/
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Pick Up A Pebble Again
?w=800" alt=""/>A decade ago, smartwatches were an unexplored avenue full of exotic promise. There were bleeding-edge and eye-wateringly expensive platforms from the likes of Samsung or Apple, but for the more https://hackaday.com/2025/03/19/pick-up-a-pebble-again/
FLOSS Weekly Episode 825: Open Source CI With Semaphore
?w=800" alt=""/>This week, Jonathan Bennett and Ben Meadors talk to Darko Fabijan about Semaphore, the newly Open Sourced Continuous Integration solution! Why go Open, and how has it gone so far? https://hackaday.com/2025/03/19/floss-weekly-episode-825-open-source-ci-with-semaphore/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/19/floss-weekly-episode-825-open-source-ci-with-semaphore/
Spy Tech: Build Your Own Laser Eavesdropper
?w=800" alt="DIY laser microphone on cutting mat"/>Laser microphones have been around since the Cold War. Back in those days, they were a favorite tool of the KGB – allowing spies to listen in on what was https://hackaday.com/2025/03/18/spy-tech-build-your-own-laser-eavesdropper/
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The Capacitor Plague of the Early 2000s
?w=800" alt=""/>Somewhere between the period of 1999 and 2007 a plague swept through the world, devastating lives and businesses. Identified by a scourge of electrolytic capacitors violently exploding or splurging their https://hackaday.com/2025/03/18/the-capacitor-plague-of-the-early-2000s/
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Simple Robot Assembled From E-Waste Actually Looks Pretty Cool
?w=800" alt=""/>If you’re designing a robot for a specific purpose, you’re probably ordering fresh parts and going with a clean sheet design. If you’re just building for fun though, you can https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/simple-robot-assembled-from-e-waste-actually-looks-pretty-cool/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/simple-robot-assembled-from-e-waste-actually-looks-pretty-cool/
Repairing a Legendary Elka Synthex Analog Synthesizer
?w=800" alt=""/>Somehow, an Elka Synthex analog synthesizer made it onto [Mend it Mark]’s repair bench recently. It had a couple of dud buttons, and some keys produced the wrong tone. Remember, https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/repairing-a-legendary-elka-synthex-analog-synthesizer/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/repairing-a-legendary-elka-synthex-analog-synthesizer/
The Amiga No One Wanted
?w=749" alt=""/>The Amiga has a lot of fans, and rightly so. The machine broke a lot of ground. However, according to [Dave Farquhar], one of the most popular models today — https://hackaday.com/2025/03/16/the-amiga-no-one-wanted/
Wire Recording Speaks Again
?w=800" alt=""/>If you think of old recording technology, you probably think of magnetic tape, either in some kind of cassette or, maybe, on reels. But there’s an even older technology that https://hackaday.com/2025/03/16/wire-recording-speaks-again/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/16/wire-recording-speaks-again/
Repairing a Kodak Picture Maker Kiosk
?w=800" alt=""/>Photo-printing kiosks are about as common as payphones these days. However, there was a time when they were everywhere. The idea was that if you didn’t have a good printer https://hackaday.com/2025/03/15/repairing-a-kodak-picture-maker-kiosk/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/15/repairing-a-kodak-picture-maker-kiosk/
Make Your Cheap Thermal Camera into a Microscope
?w=800" alt=""/>[Project 326] has a cheap thermal camera that plugs into a smart phone. Sure they are handy, but what if you could hack one into a microscope with a resolution https://hackaday.com/2025/03/14/make-your-cheap-thermal-camera-into-a-microscope/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/14/make-your-cheap-thermal-camera-into-a-microscope/
The Mysterious and Important Work of Prop Design on Severance
Have you seen Severance? Chances are good that you have; the TV series has become wildly popular in its second season, to the point where the fandom’s dedication is difficult https://hackaday.com/2025/03/13/the-mysterious-and-important-work-of-prop-design-on-severance/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/13/the-mysterious-and-important-work-of-prop-design-on-severance/
Got Junk? Then Build This Scrappy TEA Laser
?w=800" alt=""/>A piece of glass, some bits of tinfoil, a sheet of plastic, a couple of razor blades, and a few assorted bits and bobs are all it takes to build https://hackaday.com/2025/03/13/got-junk-then-build-this-scrappy-tea-laser/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/13/got-junk-then-build-this-scrappy-tea-laser/
Meshtastic Adds Wireless Connectivity to Possum Trap
?w=800" alt=""/>Perhaps every gardener to attempt to grow a tomato, lettuce, or bean has had to contend with animals trying to enjoy the food before the gardener themselves can, whether it’s https://hackaday.com/2025/03/12/meshtastic-adds-wireless-connectivity-to-possum-trap/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/12/meshtastic-adds-wireless-connectivity-to-possum-trap/
Classy Paper Tape Reader Complements Homebrew Retrocomputer
?w=800" alt=""/>If you were one of the earliest of early adopters in the home computing revolution, you might have had to settle for paper tape mass storage. It was slow, it https://hackaday.com/2025/03/11/classy-paper-tape-reader-complements-homebrew-retrocomputer/
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A Deep Dive Into Canon Autofocus Lenses
?w=625"/>Although taken for granted these days, autofocus (AF) used to be a premium feature on film- and digital cameras, with [Markus Kohlpaintner] taking us through an exhaustive overview of Canon’s https://hackaday.com/2025/03/11/a-deep-dive-into-canon-autofocus-lenses/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/11/a-deep-dive-into-canon-autofocus-lenses/
Hacking a Heavyweight Philco Radio
?w=800" alt="Red and gold bakelite Philco farm radio on a workbench"/>There’s something magical about the clunk of a heavy 1950s portable radio – the solid thunk of Bakelite, the warm hum of tubes glowing to life. This is exactly why https://hackaday.com/2025/03/10/hacking-a-heavyweight-philco-radio/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/10/hacking-a-heavyweight-philco-radio/
Freeing Windows
?w=800" alt=""/>There have been several attempts to make an unencumbered version of Windows. ReactOS is perhaps the best-known, although you could argue Wine and its progeny, while not operating systems in https://hackaday.com/2025/03/10/freeing-windows/