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Open Source Commercial Synthesisers You Will Love
Drumboy and Synthgirl from Randomwaves are a a pair of compact electronic instruments, a drum machine and a synthesiser. They are commercial products which were launched on Kickstarter, and if …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/04/23/open-source-commercial-synthesisers-you-will-love/
To See Within: Detecting X-Rays
It’s amazing how quickly medical science made radiography one of its main diagnostic tools. Medicine had barely emerged from its Dark Age of bloodletting and the four humours when X-rays …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/04/23/to-see-within-detecting-x-rays/
Unsolved Questions in Astronomy? Try Dark Matter!
Sometimes in fantasy fiction, you don’t want to explain something that seems inexplicable, so you throw your hands up and say, “A wizard did it.” Sometimes in astronomy, instead of …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/04/23/unsolved-questions-in-astronomy-try-dark-matter/
A Scratch-Built Commodore 64, Turing Style
Building a Commodore 64 is among the easier projects for retrocomputing fans to tackle. That’s because the C64’s core chipset does most of the heavy lifting; source those and you’re …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/04/23/a-scratch-built-commodore-64-turing-style/
Virtual Nodes, Real Waves: a Colpitts Walkthrough
If you’ve ever fumbled through circuit simulation and ended up with a flatline instead of a sine wave, this video from [saisri] might just be the fix. In this walkthrough …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/04/22/virtual-nodes-real-waves-a-colpitts-walkthrough/
How Supercritical CO2 Working Fluid Can Increase Power Plant Efficiency
Using steam to produce electricity or perform work via steam turbines has been a thing for a very long time. Today it is still exceedingly common to use steam in …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/04/22/how-supercritical-co2-working-fluid-can-increase-power-plant-efficiency/
eInk PDA Revisited
In the dark ages, before iOS and Android phones became ubiquitous, there was the PDA. These handheld computers acted as simple companions to a computer and could often handle calendars, …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/04/22/eink-pda-revisited/
DIY Record Cutting Lathe is Really Groovy
Back in the day, one of the few reasons to prefer compact cassette tape to vinyl was the fact you could record it at home in very good fidelity. Sure, …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/04/22/diy-record-cutting-lathe-is-really-groovy/
British Wartime Periscope: a Peek Into the Past
We all know periscopes serve for observation where there’s no direct line-of-sight, but did you know they can allow you to peer through history? That’s what [msylvain59] documented when he …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/04/22/british-wartime-periscope-a-peek-into-the-past/
Oh hi 
This is your monthly reminder that if you're stuck using #Windows at work there is a nice tiling window manager written in #Rust called komorebi which only consumes ~10MB RAM that you can use to save your sanity
It also has a full event subscription API so you can build whatever custom stuff you want on top!
(Screenshot from AmnWeb on GitHub)
Game Boy PCB Assembled With Low-Cost Tools
As computers have gotten smaller and less expensive over the years, so have their components. While many of us got our start in the age of through-hole PCBs, this size …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/04/22/game-boy-pcb-assembled-with-low-cost-tools/
Why Physical Media Deserved To Die
Over the course of more than a decade, physical media has gradually vanished from public view. Once computers had an optical drive except for ultrabooks, but these days computer cases …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/04/22/why-physical-media-deserved-to-die/
What’s Sixty Feet Across and Superconducting?
What’s sixty feet (18.29 meters for the rest of the world) across and superconducting? The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), and probably not much else. The last parts of the …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/04/22/whats-sixty-feet-across-and-superconducting/
Making A One-Of-A-Kind Lime2 SBC
Upgrading RAM on most computers is often quite a straightforward task: look up the supported modules, purchase them, push a couple of levers, remove the old, and install the new. …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/04/22/making-a-one-of-a-kind-lime2-sbc/
Making Your Own Light Bulb Using a Jar, a Pencil, and Two Bolts
This Short from [ProShorts 101] shows us how to make an incandescent light bulb from a jar, a pencil lead, two bolts, and a candle. Prepare the lid of the …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/04/21/making-your-own-light-bulb-using-a-jar-a-pencil-and-two-bolts/
How to turn old clothes into new zokin 
https://dotart.blog/karin-wanderer-learns/h-is-for-housekeeping
PoX: Super-Fast Graphene-Based Flash Memory
Recently a team at Fudan University claimed to have developed a picosecond-level Flash memory device (called ‘PoX’) that has an access time of a mere 400 picoseconds. This is significantly …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/04/21/pox-super-fast-graphene-based-flash-memory/
