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Espresso, Meet Custom-Machined Stainless Steel Boiler ift.tt/tBSTUj1
Espresso, Meet Custom-Machined Stainless Steel Boiler

Espresso, Meet Custom-Machined Stainless Steel Boiler

While pondering some repairs for his Gaggia Classic Pro espresso machine, [Hans Gaensbauer] ended up machining an entirely new boiler from stainless steel. It was a nontrivial undertaking, since th…

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A LEGO 3D Printer ift.tt/WRnAcpJ
A LEGO 3D Printer

A LEGO 3D Printer

LEGO building blocks are a great toy, but every so often a hacker decides to take the little bricks outside of the toy room and make them an integral part of a build. [Adam Turaj] took that idea fu…

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It’s Elite, For The Commodore Pet ift.tt/1URnKSV
It’s Elite, For The Commodore Pet

It’s Elite, For The Commodore Pet

A few times in the life of someone interested in technology, there comes along something which after seeing it, you know the field is never going to be the same again. For a teenage future Hackaday…

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FLOSS Weekly Episode 883: Telnet Broke Us ift.tt/mWyKg9L
FLOSS Weekly Episode 883: Telnet Broke Us

FLOSS Weekly Episode 883: Telnet Broke Us

This week Jonathan chats with Sattyam Jain about Agent Audit Kit and Agent Airlock. We’re in a brave new world, where anyone can use AI to generate an AI agent. But what keeps those builds se…

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Modular, 3D Printed Train Whistles For Everyone ift.tt/czMQC24
Modular, 3D Printed Train Whistles For Everyone

Modular, 3D Printed Train Whistles For Everyone

If the word “train” didn’t grab your attention, you’re probably not the target audience for this project. If it did, then there is no need to explain why [AeroKoi] has come …

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CHIP 8: The Pong Game’s Afoot! ift.tt/ZdXqxJ6
CHIP 8: The Pong Game’s Afoot!

CHIP 8: The Pong Game’s Afoot!

Writing a computer game has always been hard. It is only the nature of the difficulty that changes. A modern game is as much about graphics, sound, and storytelling as it is about programming. But …

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The Drawer Every Standing Desk Needs ift.tt/nZTrmFQ
The Drawer Every Standing Desk Needs

The Drawer Every Standing Desk Needs

Adjustable standing desks have had some ergonomic and health benefits for many people who would otherwise be sitting down all day, but those benefits come at a cost of a bit of usability. They can …

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EV Batteries Are Proving Hardier Than Expected ift.tt/WUxZci5
EV Batteries Are Proving Hardier Than Expected

EV Batteries Are Proving Hardier Than Expected

Batteries have a habit of quietly getting worse. Anyone who has nursed an old smartphone through its final years knows the routine—it leaves the house at 100% and is begging for a charger by luncht…

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Why Engineers are Forced to Create Junk Designs ift.tt/TrfYPUn
Why Engineers Are Forced To Create Junk Designs

Why Engineers Are Forced To Create Junk Designs

It’s become a bit of a platitude to state that products were manufactured better in ‘the olden days’, but as [The Meandrous Engineer] covers in a recent video essay, the truth is …

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This Coffee Machine is DOOMed ift.tt/L8binJt
This Coffee Machine Is DOOMed

This Coffee Machine Is DOOMed

Somehow, seeing DOOM on things that were never meant to run DOOM never gets old. It’s probably hard to get further into the “never meant to run DOOM” weeds than a coffee maker, bu…

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Print & Place: Add Embedded Electronics While FDM Printing ift.tt/RG7juMZ
Print & Place: Add Embedded Electronics While FDM Printing

Print & Place: Add Embedded Electronics While FDM Printing

Although combining electronics and 3D-printed structures is fairly common, this usually entails some level of manual assembly. This contrasts strongly with the Print & Place approach demonstrat…

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Watching the Watchers ift.tt/RIp9tx5
Watching The Watchers

Watching The Watchers

Although it used to be a much more rare event, now almost any time at dawn or dusk, provided clear weather, a human observer can walk outside, look up, and spot an artificial satellite passing over…

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Gesture Controls With Only a Camera ift.tt/fnLejRv
Gesture Controls With Only A Camera

Gesture Controls With Only A Camera

Back in 2002, [Takahiro Yonemura] and others built a system that used a single webcam-like device to track a user’s hand and generate inputs for a computer. Given that this was more than 20 y…

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How CRISPR Could Mark Mutated Cancer Cells for Termination ift.tt/b5vQPc7
How CRISPR Could Mark Mutated Cancer Cells For Termination

How CRISPR Could Mark Mutated Cancer Cells For Termination

Over the past decades CRISPR, short for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”, has become somewhat of a household name, holding the promise of directly addressing …

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Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem ift.tt/DLcIw25
Simulating And Visualising The Central Limit Theorem

Simulating And Visualising The Central Limit Theorem

Statistics is one of those fields which people tend to love or hate when they’re confronted with it during their school time. Although incredibly useful and even essential in many fields, inc…

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DeviceTree For Hackers: Intro ift.tt/fGQwbjx
DeviceTree For Hackers: Intro

DeviceTree For Hackers: Intro

Raspberry Pi has just leaked information on the Pi Zero 3W. They did it by publishing a DeviceTree file that describes the hardware of the Pi Zero. This is how we know it has the BCM2711 (Pi 4 CPU)…

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Have You Ever Heard Of the Lobo MAX-80? ift.tt/ERaVTjm
Have You Ever Heard Of The Lobo MAX-80?

Have You Ever Heard Of The Lobo MAX-80?

[Adrian Black]’s enthusiasm is palpable as he shows off something truly unusual: a Lobo MAX-80 computer from 1982. To call this machine rare would be an understatement, as the company folded …

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Hacking the Sidekick in 2026 ift.tt/CD2AizK
Hacking The Sidekick In 2026

Hacking The Sidekick In 2026

The early 2000s saw a Cambrian Explosion of form factors for mobile devices, and one of the most feature-rich phones of the time was the Danger Hiptop, better known as the T-Mobile Sidekick. [ashe]…

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Robotic Car Charger Locks On With Suction ift.tt/NOoXEiP
Robotic Car Charger Locks On With Suction

Robotic Car Charger Locks On With Suction

Not only does [Mew463]’s robotic car charger take care of plugging in his vehicle for him, it has some really clever features that are great to see in action. We’ve seen a rover-platfor…

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You Wouldn’t Download A Car… ift.tt/Ilrp2VL
You Wouldn’t Download A Car…

You Wouldn’t Download A Car…

For as long as there have been sports cars, there have been blokes in tin sheds making their own sports cars. It’s a pursuit that has birthed famous marques and more than one motor racing ser…

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