What’s Your Favorite Kind of Hack? Talking with [Tom Nardi] on the podcast this week, he mentioned his favorite kind of hack: the community-developed open-source firmware that can be flashed into a commercial product that has …read more

What’s Your Favorite Kind of Hack?

Digging Into the Twilight Hack that Brought Us Wii Homebrew With each new game console, there’s an effort to get around whatever restrictions exist to run your own software on it. In the case of the Nintendo Wii, the system …read more

Digging Into the Twilight Hack that Brought Us Wii Homebrew

Otamatone Hacked Into Different, Cooler Synth: Trautonium Analog synths are fun because they combine music, which all humans seem hard-wired to enjoy in one form or another, and electronics, which… uh, this is Hackaday. If you don’t …read more

Otamatone Hacked Into Different, Cooler Synth: Trautonium

Implementing a Rhythm Game entirely in a GPU Shader Most rhythm games have a community creating custom charts, and Trombone Champ is no exception. What is exceptional, however, [CraftedCart]’s osu! played in a Trombone Champ chart. It all started …read more

Implementing a Rhythm Game entirely in a GPU Shader

Battle Born Explains How Its Battery Thermal Safety Works After users of Battle Born LFP batteries encountered issues such as a heavily discolored positive terminal and other signs of overheating, multiple autopsies showed that the cause appeared to be …read more

Battle Born Explains How Its Battery Thermal Safety Works

Hackaday Podcast Episode 365: Early 3DP Engineering, a New CAD Interface, and Flying Around the Moon Humans flew around the Moon this week, but Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi were stuck on Earth — luckily, there was no shortage of stories and hacks to …read more

Hackaday Podcast Episode 365: Early 3DP Engineering, a New CAD Interface, and Flying Around the Moon

This Week in Security: Flatpak Fixes, Android Malware, and SCADA was IOT Before IOT was Cool Rowhammer attacks have been around since 2014, and mitigations are in place in most modern systems, but the team at gddr6.fail has found ways to apply the attack to current-generation GPUs. …read more

This Week in Security: Flatpak Fixes, Android Malware, and SCADA was IOT Before IOT was Cool

Reflecting on Microsoft Windows Vista in 2026 It’s a bit of an understatement that at release Windows Vista rather fell flat. Much of the problem was due to how rushed of a release it was, with incomplete …read more

Reflecting on Microsoft Windows Vista in 2026

Upgrading a MacBook Neo Using a 1 TB iPhone NAND Flash For some reason the newly introduced MacBook Neo appears to be the subject of a lot of modding, though a recent mod by [dosdude1] leans into the fact that this …read more

Upgrading a MacBook Neo Using a 1 TB iPhone NAND Flash

The Brits Made a Rocket. What Happened To It? Like many long-established broadcasters, the BBC put out a selection of their archive material for us all to enjoy online. Their most recent may be of interest to Hackaday readers …read more

The Brits Made a Rocket. What Happened To It?

You’ve All Seen A Hackintosh, But Have You Seen One On A Wii? The Intel era of Apple Macs led to so-called “Hackintoshes”, more normal PCs running x86 MacOS X. Now Brian Keller proves that a Hackintosh isn’t restricted to the x86 era, …read more

You’ve All Seen A Hackintosh, But Have You Seen One On A Wii?

Nissan Shuts Down NissanConnect App for Older Leaf EVs Back in late February Nissan Leaf owners began to receive messages from Nissan informing them that the remote features in their cars would cease operation as the NissanConnect app would …read more

Nissan Shuts Down NissanConnect App for Older Leaf EVs

Variable-Pitch Propellers for More Efficient Quadcopter Quadcopters tend to have very poor efficency because of their high disk loading. High disk loading– that is, how much weight each square meter of area swept by the propellers …read more

Variable-Pitch Propellers for More Efficient Quadcopter

Dodging a 60-Year-Old Design Flaw In Your RAM Modern computers use dynamic RAM, a technology that allows very compact bits in return for having to refresh for about 400 nanoseconds every 3-4 microseconds. But what if you couldn’t …read more

Dodging a 60-Year-Old Design Flaw In Your RAM

2001: An Air Quality Odyssey 2001: A Space Odyssey not only pushed the boundaries of filmmaking, but introduced us to one of the most enduring villains in all of media. The HAL 9000 artificial intelligence …read more

2001: An Air Quality Odyssey

AI For The Skeptics: Pick Your Reasons To Be Excited It’s odd being a technology writer in 2026, because around you are many people who will tell you that your craft is outdated. Like the manufacturers of buggy-whips at the …read more

AI For The Skeptics: Pick Your Reasons To Be Excited

Are We Surrendering Our Thinking To Machines? “Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” — so …read more

Are We Surrendering Our Thinking To Machines?

Espressif’s New ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V with WiFi 6 and GBit Ethernet In a move that’s no doubt going to upset and confuse many, Espressif has released its newest microcontroller — the ESP32-S31. The confusing part here is that the ESP32-S series …read more

Espressif’s New ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V with WiFi 6 and GBit Ethernet

Intel 486 Support Likely to be Removed in Linux 7.1 Although everyone’s favorite Linux overlord [Linus Torvalds] has been musing on dropping Intel 486 support for a while now, it would seem that this time now has finally come. In …read more

Intel 486 Support Likely to be Removed in Linux 7.1

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! The Magic Of The Scroll-Like Phone Which Wast Not! When LG left the smartphone market, quite a number of strange devices were left behind. While some, like the Wing, made it to consumers, others did not. The strangest of …read more

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! The Magic Of The Scroll-Like Phone Which Wast Not!

Magnetic Levitation using an Induction Cooktop Adding another item on the list of things you probably shouldn’t be trying at home, we got [Brainiac75] giving magnetic levitation a shot using an unmodified induction cooktop and aluminium …read more

Magnetic Levitation using an Induction Cooktop

CCA Ethernet Cables: Not Up To Scratch, But Are They Dangerous? If you’ve ever bought a suspiciously cheap Ethernet cable from an online listing, there’s a decent chance you’ve encountered Copper Clad Aluminum. Better known as CCA, it’s exactly what it …read more

CCA Ethernet Cables: Not Up To Scratch, But Are They Dangerous?

The Heat Island Effect is Warming Up the AI Data Center Controversy There’s been a lot of virtual ink spilled in environmental circles about the cooling water requirements of data centers, but less consideration of what happens with all the heat coming …read more

The Heat Island Effect is Warming Up the AI Data Center Controversy

934 MHz: When The Government Really Doesn’t Want You To Have CB In the mid 1970s there were a spate of movies depicting the romance and lifestyle of truck drivers in the southern half of the United States. Over on the other …read more

934 MHz: When The Government Really Doesn’t Want You To Have CB

Rescuing a Pokémon off a Pokéwalker After Losing the Game Cartridge The Pokéwalker is a gadget that was sold alongside the Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver games for the Nintendo DS, using which you could take a Pokémon of your choice with …read more

Rescuing a Pokémon off a Pokéwalker After Losing the Game Cartridge

So Expensive, A Caveman Can Do It A few years back a company had an ad campaign with a discouraged caveman who was angry because the company claimed their website was “so easy, even a caveman could …read more

So Expensive, A Caveman Can Do It

Playing DVDs on the Sega Dreamcast Although the Sega Dreamcast had many good qualities that made it beloved by the thousands of people who bought the console, one glaring omission was the lack of DVD video …read more

Playing DVDs on the Sega Dreamcast

In Space (Probably) Everyone Can Hear You.. Well, You Know The news is full of reports from the moon-bound Integrity, otherwise known as Artemis II. Mostly, the news is good, but there has been one “Houston, we have a problem…” …read more

In Space (Probably) Everyone Can Hear You.. Well, You Know

Lab Gloves May be Skewing Microplastics Data The topic of micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) has become increasingly prevalent over the past years, as amidst dismissal and panic, researchers attempt to distinguish just how much of a problem …read more

Lab Gloves May be Skewing Microplastics Data

With Affordable Storage Options Dwindling, Where to Store Our Data? These days our appetite for more data storage is larger than ever, with video files larger, photo resolutions higher, and project files easily zipping past a few hundred MB. At …read more

With Affordable Storage Options Dwindling, Where to Store Our Data?