2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (541+ words) Usually in Tech In Plain Sight, we talk about technology you probably see every day, even if you don’t notice it. But we hope you don’t get to see one of the latest crop of medical robots, such as the…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (188+ words) September 8, 2026 hackaday.com Netbooks were a class of tiny laptops which hit their peak over a decade ago, with the idea being that you could use the Internet and do your computing on the move with ease. Unfortunately manufacturers were…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (38+ words) Sometimes you find gold in unexpected places. In this case, it's from a video about the CH-53 helicopter. The CH-53 Sea Stallion first entered service in 1966. It's a huge helicopter, capable of lifti......

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (307+ words) Hackaday Air traffic visualizers seem to be having a bit of a moment right now, and now that moment has come to the venerable NES thanks to [k6lcm]’s NES Radar project, which is open-source under the GPL on GitHub…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (35+ words) Modern heat pumps, of which air conditioners are a subset, seem like simple machines in theory. They just move heat from one place to another. But in order to operate efficiently, they need specific t......

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (283+ words) Hackaday If you’re intending to transmit on the VHF band, you’re probably going to reach for a handheld or some kind of rackmount rig in your ham shack But you needn’t bother with all that complexity, when…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (33+ words) After building a couple of internal combustion engines by milling billet aluminium stock and cringing at the absolute waste of material this created, [Camden Bowen] figured he'd give casting metal par......

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (415+ words) August 26, 2026 Hackaday Large language models (LLMs) are generally thought of as machines that accept textual prompts and spit out textual content. However, if you’re creative in the way you interface with them, you can get them to do a wider…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (37+ words) A pyrotechnic charge is set off by passing a high voltage through a filament within it, melting the filament and igniting the charge. We could think of a variety of circuits that could do this, but pe......