Simulation and Motion Planning for 6DOF Robotic Arm
?w=800" alt="ManiPylator focusing its laser pointer at a page."/>[Leo Goldstien] recently got in touch to let us know about a fascinating update he posted on the Hackaday.io page for ManiPylator — his 3D printed Six degrees of freedom, https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/simulation-and-motion-planning-for-6dof-robotic-arm/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/simulation-and-motion-planning-for-6dof-robotic-arm/
My Winter of ’99: The Year of the Linux Desktop is Always Next Year
?w=800" alt=""/>Growing up as a kid in the 1990s was an almost magical time. We had the best game consoles, increasingly faster computers at a pace not seen before, the rise https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/my-winter-of-99-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop-is-always-next-year/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/my-winter-of-99-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop-is-always-next-year/
Add Wood Grain Texture to 3D Prints – With a Model of a Log
?w=800" alt=""/>Adding textures is a great way to experiment with giving 3D prints a different look, and [PandaN] shows off a method of adding a wood grain effect in a way https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/add-wood-grain-texture-to-3d-prints-with-a-model-of-a-log/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/add-wood-grain-texture-to-3d-prints-with-a-model-of-a-log/
Spin-Casting This Telescope Mirror In Resin Didn’t Go To Plan
?w=800" alt=""/>For most of us, mirrors are something we buy instead of build. However, [Unnecessary Automation] wanted to craft mirrors of his own for a custom telescope build. As it turns https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/spin-casting-this-telescope-mirror-in-resin-didnt-go-to-plan/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/spin-casting-this-telescope-mirror-in-resin-didnt-go-to-plan/
The Keyboard Sinclair Never Made
?w=800" alt="ZX Mechtrum Deluxe keyboard close-up"/>For those of us who’ve spent far too long hammering rubber keys into submission, a glorious solution has arrived. [Lee Smith] designed the ZX Mechtrum Deluxe, the ultimate keyboard upgrade https://hackaday.com/2025/06/02/the-keyboard-sinclair-never-made/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/02/the-keyboard-sinclair-never-made/
The 1972 INTERCAL Compiler Revealed
?w=800" alt=""/>Have you ever heard of INTERCAL? If you haven’t, don’t feel bad. This relatively obscure language dates back to 1972 with the goal of being difficult to read and write. https://hackaday.com/2025/06/02/the-1972-intercal-compiler-revealed/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/02/the-1972-intercal-compiler-revealed/
Planetary Poetry with a Tiny Digital Core
?w=800" alt="Render of a simple clockwork orrery"/>Some hacks just tickle the brain in a very particular way. They’re, for a change, not overly engineered; they’re just elegant, anachronistic, and full of mischief. That’s exactly what [Frans] https://hackaday.com/2025/06/02/planetary-poetry-with-a-tiny-digital-core/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/02/planetary-poetry-with-a-tiny-digital-core/
3D Printing A Capable RC Car
?w=800" alt=""/>You can buy all sorts of RC cars off the shelf, but doing so won’t teach you a whole lot. Alternatively, you could follow [TRDB]’s example, and design your own https://hackaday.com/2025/06/02/3d-printing-a-capable-rc-car/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/02/3d-printing-a-capable-rc-car/
Ender 3 Pro Gets A Second Job As A Stator Winder
Sometimes, you find yourself in need of a coil. You could sit around winding thousands of turns of copper wire yourself, but that would be remarkably tedious. Thus, instead, you https://hackaday.com/2025/06/02/ender-3-pro-gets-a-second-job-as-a-stator-winder/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/02/ender-3-pro-gets-a-second-job-as-a-stator-winder/
Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the H.R. Giger Keyboard
?w=800" alt="Illustrated Kristina with an IBM Model M keyboard floating between her hands."/>I had to bust out Brain Salad Surgery to write this one, folks. It was that, or put on some Ministry or something. Just look at all the industrial-ness dripping https://hackaday.com/2025/06/02/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-h-r-giger-keyboard/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/02/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-h-r-giger-keyboard/
Depositing Metal On Glass with Fiber Laser
?w=800" alt=""/>Fiber lasers aren’t nearly as common as their diode and CO2 cousins, but if you’re lucky enough to have one in your garage or local makerspace, this technique for depositing https://hackaday.com/2025/06/02/depositing-metal-on-glass-with-fiber-laser/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/02/depositing-metal-on-glass-with-fiber-laser/
This BB Shooter Has a Spring, But Not For What You Think
?w=800" alt=""/>[It’s on my MIND] designed a clever BB blaster featuring a four-bar linkage that prints in a single piece and requires no additional hardware. The interesting part is how it https://hackaday.com/2025/06/02/this-bb-shooter-has-a-spring-but-not-for-what-you-think/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/02/this-bb-shooter-has-a-spring-but-not-for-what-you-think/
Testing Brick Layers in OrcaSlicer With Staggered Perimeters
?w=800" alt=""/>The idea of staggered (or brick) layers in FDM prints has become very popular the past few years, with now nightly builds of OrcaSlicer featuring the ‘Stagger Perimeters’ option to https://hackaday.com/2025/06/01/testing-brick-layers-in-orcaslicer-with-staggered-perimeters/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/01/testing-brick-layers-in-orcaslicer-with-staggered-perimeters/
2025 Pet Hacks Contest: Weigh Your Dog The Easy Way
?w=800" alt=""/>If you need to weigh your pet, you’ll soon find that getting an animal to stand on a weighing machine to order is very difficult indeed. If the critter in https://hackaday.com/2025/06/01/2025-pet-hacks-contest-weigh-your-dog-the-easy-way/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/01/2025-pet-hacks-contest-weigh-your-dog-the-easy-way/
It’s MIDI for the TRS-80!
?w=800" alt=""/>The Radio Shack TRS-80 was a much-loved machine across America. However, one thing it lacked was MIDI. That’s not so strange given the era it was released in, of course. https://hackaday.com/2025/06/01/its-midi-for-the-trs-80/
Plenty Of LEDs And Useful Too: The 2025 DORS/CLUC Badge
?w=800" alt=""/>It’s always nice to see new developments in the world of electronic badges, and while there are events and badge teams pushing the technological envelope there’s still plenty of scope https://hackaday.com/2025/06/01/plenty-of-leds-and-useful-too-the-2025-dors-cluc-badge/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/01/plenty-of-leds-and-useful-too-the-2025-dors-cluc-badge/
Making The Codec Communicator From Metal Gear Solid
?w=800" alt=""/>[3DSage] likes building replicas of hardware from movies and video games, often with a functional twist. His latest build aimed to bring the Codec from Metal Gear Solid to life. https://hackaday.com/2025/06/01/making-the-codec-communicator-from-metal-gear-solid/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/01/making-the-codec-communicator-from-metal-gear-solid/
Adaptive Optics Take Clearest Pictures of the Sun Yet
?w=800" alt=""/>It’s sometimes easy to forget that the light in the sky is an actual star. With how reliable it is and how busy we tend to be as humans, we https://hackaday.com/2025/06/01/adaptive-optics-take-clearest-pictures-of-the-sun-yet/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/01/adaptive-optics-take-clearest-pictures-of-the-sun-yet/
Portal 2 Becomes An Impressively Capable Web Server
?w=800" alt=""/>Portal 2 is mostly known as the successful sequel to Valve’s weird physics platformer, Portal. It’s not really known for being a webserver. That might change, though, given the hard work of https://hackaday.com/2025/06/01/portal-2-becomes-an-impressively-capable-web-server/
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/01/portal-2-becomes-an-impressively-capable-web-server/
Disarming a Nuke… Twice
?w=677" alt=""/>Since the tail end of World War II, humanity has struggled to deal with its newfound ability to harness the tremendous energy in the nucleus of the atom. Of course https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/disarming-a-nuke-twice/
Can We Replace a Program Counter with a Linear-Feedback Shift Register? Yes We Can!
?w=800" alt="Circuit diagram of linear-feedback shift register."/>Today we heard from [Richard James Howe] about his new CPU. This new 16-bit CPU is implemented in VHDL for an FPGA. The really cool thing about this CPU is https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/can-we-replace-a-program-counter-with-a-linear-feedback-shift-register-yes-we-can/
ESPer-CDP Plays CDs and Streams in Style
?w=800" alt=""/>What do you get when you combine an ESP32, a 16-bit DAC, an antique VFD, and an IDE CD-ROM drive? Not much, unless you put in the work, which [Akasaka https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/esper-cdp-plays-cds-and-streams-in-style/
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/esper-cdp-plays-cds-and-streams-in-style/
Hot Rod Backyard Bath on Steel Spring Legs
?w=800" alt="Rusty bathtub outdoors on equally rusty car springs"/>In a fusion of scrapyard elegance and Aussie ingenuity, [Mark Makies] has given a piece of old steel a steamy second life with his ‘CastAway Tub’. Call it a bush https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/hot-rod-backyard-bath-on-steel-spring-legs/
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/hot-rod-backyard-bath-on-steel-spring-legs/
Building a Wireless Motorized Fader For Lighting Control
?w=800" alt=""/>Motorized faders are very cool, and you can find them in everything from expensive mixing desks to high-end video editing decks. If you want to build your own wireless motorized https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/building-a-wireless-motorized-fader-for-lighting-control/
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/building-a-wireless-motorized-fader-for-lighting-control/
Pulling Back the Veil, Practically
?w=800" alt=""/>In a marvelous college lecture in front of a class of engineering students, V. Hunter Adams professed his love for embedded engineering, but he might as well have been singing https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/pulling-back-the-veil-practically/
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/pulling-back-the-veil-practically/
A CRT Display for Retro Weather Forecasting
?w=800"/>It would be hard to find any electronics still in production which use CRT displays, but for some inscrutable reason it’s easy to find cheap 4-inch CRTs on AliExpress. Not https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/a-crt-display-for-retro-weather-forecasting/
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/a-crt-display-for-retro-weather-forecasting/
2025 Pet Hacks Contest: Keep The Prey At Bay With The Cat Valve
?w=800" alt=""/>Some cats are what you might call indoor cats, happy to stretch out in the lap of indoor luxury and never bother themselves with the inclement outdoors again. Others however https://hackaday.com/2025/05/30/2025-pet-hacks-contest-keep-the-prey-at-bay-with-the-cat-valve/
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/30/2025-pet-hacks-contest-keep-the-prey-at-bay-with-the-cat-valve/
Sustainable 3D Prints with Decomposable Filaments
?w=800" alt="3D Filament lizards show decomposable joints"/>What if you could design your 3D print to fall apart on purpose? That’s the curious promise of a new paper from CHI 2025, which brings a serious hacker vibe https://hackaday.com/2025/05/30/sustainable-3d-prints-with-decomposable-filaments/
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/30/sustainable-3d-prints-with-decomposable-filaments/
Researchers Are Slowly Finding Ways To Stem The Tide Of PFAS Contamination
?w=800" alt=""/>If you’ve been following environmental news over the past couple of decades, you’ve probably heard about PFAS – those pesky “forever chemicals” that seem to turn up everywhere from drinking https://hackaday.com/2025/05/29/researchers-are-slowly-finding-ways-to-stem-the-tide-of-pfas-contamination/
Bring Back The BIOS! (To UEFI Systems, That Is)
?w=800" alt=""/>At the dawn of the PC, IBM provided the Basic Input Output System (BIOS). It took care of bringing the machine up, and exposed a series of software hooks for https://hackaday.com/2025/05/29/bring-back-the-bios-to-uefi-systems-that-is/
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/29/bring-back-the-bios-to-uefi-systems-that-is/
A Love Letter to Embedded Systems by V. Hunter Adams
?w=454"/>Today we’re going to make a little digression from things that we do to look at perhaps why we do the things that we do. This one is philosophical folks, https://hackaday.com/2025/05/28/a-love-letter-to-embedded-systems-by-v-hunter-adams/
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/28/a-love-letter-to-embedded-systems-by-v-hunter-adams/
Supercon 2024: Using an Oscilloscope to Peek Below the Noise Floor
?w=800" alt=""/>When you’re hunting for a signal with your oscilloscope, the stronger it is, the better. If it’s weak, you might struggle to tease it out from other interference, or even https://hackaday.com/2025/05/28/supercon-2024-using-an-oscilloscope-to-peek-below-the-noise-floor/
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/28/supercon-2024-using-an-oscilloscope-to-peek-below-the-noise-floor/
Washington Consumers Gain Right to Repair for Cellphones and More
?w=800" alt=""/>Starting January 1st, 2026, Washington state’s new Right to Repair law will come into effect. It requires manufacturers to make tools, parts and documentation available for diagnostics and repair of https://hackaday.com/2025/05/28/washington-consumers-gain-right-to-repair-for-cellphones-and-more/
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/28/washington-consumers-gain-right-to-repair-for-cellphones-and-more/
Fixing a Fatal Genetic Defect in Babies With a Bit of Genetic Modification
?w=800" alt=""/>Genetic defects are exceedingly common, which is not surprising considering just how many cells make up our bodies, including our reproductive cells. While most of these defects have no or https://hackaday.com/2025/05/27/fixing-a-fatal-genetic-defect-in-babies-with-a-bit-of-genetic-modification/
A Forth OS in 46 Bytes
?w=720"/>It’s not often that we can include an operating system in a Hackaday article, but here’s the full 46-byte source of [Philippe Brochard]’s 10biForthOS in 8086 opcodes: 50b8 8e00 31d8 https://hackaday.com/2025/05/27/a-forth-os-in-46-bytes/
Mouse Model Suggests Starch-Based Plastics Are Still Bad For You
?w=800" alt=""/>To paraphrase The Simpsons: plastics are the solution to – and cause of – all of mankind’s problems. Nowhere is this more clear in the phenomenon of microplastics. Some have https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/mouse-model-suggests-starch-based-plastics-are-still-bad-for-you/
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/mouse-model-suggests-starch-based-plastics-are-still-bad-for-you/
NASA Is Shutting Down the International Space Station Sighting Website
?w=800" alt=""/>Starting on June 12, 2025, the NASA Spot the Station website will no longer provide ISS sighting information, per a message recently sent out. This means no information on sighting https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/nasa-is-shutting-down-the-international-space-station-sighting-website/
How to Build an STM32 Web Dashboard Using the Mongoose Wizard
?w=800" alt="Screen shot of Mongoose Wizard."/>Today from the team at Cesanta Software — the people who gave us the open-source Mongoose Web Server Library and Mongoose OS — we have an article covering how to https://hackaday.com/2025/05/25/how-to-build-an-stm32-web-dashboard-using-the-mongoose-wizard/
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/25/how-to-build-an-stm32-web-dashboard-using-the-mongoose-wizard/
Hackaday Links: May 18, 2025
?w=800" alt="Hackaday Links Column Banner"/>Saw what you want about the wisdom of keeping a 50-year-old space mission going, but the dozen or so people still tasked with keeping the Voyager mission running are some https://hackaday.com/2025/05/18/hackaday-links-may-18-2025/
New Bismuth Transistor Runs 40% Faster and Uses 10% Less Power
?w=800" alt=""/>Recently in material science news from China we hear that [Hailin Peng] and his team at Peking University just made the world’s fastest transistor and it’s not made of silicon. https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/new-bismuth-transistor-runs-40-faster-and-uses-10-less-power/
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/new-bismuth-transistor-runs-40-faster-and-uses-10-less-power/
3D Printing A Useful Fixturing Tool
?w=800" alt=""/>When you start building lots of something, you’ll know the value of accurate fixturing. [Chris Borge] learned this the hard way on a recent mass-production project, and decided to solve https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/3d-printing-a-useful-fixturing-tool/
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/3d-printing-a-useful-fixturing-tool/