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Zip-Drive Emulator Puts Big Disks Back on LPT Iomega’s Zip drives filled an interesting niche back in the 1990s. A magnetic disk that was physically floppy-sized, but much larger in capacity– starting at 100 MB, and reaching 750 …read more #hacking #projects https://hackaday.com/2026/03/17/zip-drive-emulator-puts-b…

Testing a Soviet 1000 Volt Insulation Tester from 1985 Although the term ‘Iron Curtain’ from the Cold War brings to mind something like the Berlin Wall and its forbidding No Man’s Land, there was still active trade between the …read more #hacking #projects https://hackaday.com/2026/03/17/testing-a-soviet-1000-vol…

Preparing to Fire Up a 90-Year-Old Boiler After Half a Century Continuing the restoration of the #1 Lancashire boiler at the Claymills Pumping Station in the UK, the volunteers are putting on the final touches after previously passing the boiler inspection. …read more #hacking #projects https://hackaday.com/2026/03/17/preparing-to-fire-up-a-90…

Hacking The System In A Moral Panic: We Need To Talk It seems that for as long as there have been readily available 3D printers, there have been moral panics about their being used to print firearms. The latest surrounds a …read more #hacking #projects https://hackaday.com/2026/03/17/hacking-the-system-in-a-m…

From 8086 to Z80: Building a NASM-Inspired SDK for 8-Bit Retro Computing Assembler syntax is a touchy subject, with many a flamewar having raged over e.g. Intel vs AT&T style syntax. Thus when [Humberto Costa] recently acquired an MSX system for some …read more #hacking #projects https://hackaday.com/2026/03/17/from-8086-to-z80-building…

Fictional Moon: Reality TV and SciFi Don’t Mix It is a safe bet that nearly all Hackaday readers like to at least imagine what it would be like to build and live in an orbital station, on the …read more #hacking #projects https://hackaday.com/2026/03/17/fictional-moon-reality-tv…

FullSpectrum is Like HueForge for 3D Models, but Bring Your Toolchanger Full-color 3D printing is something of a holy grail, if nothing else just because of how much it impresses the normies. We’ve seen a lot of multi-material units the past …read more #hacking #projects https://hackaday.com/2026/03/17/fullspectrum-is-like-huef…

Polyphonic Tunes On The Sharp PC-E500 If you’re a diehard fan of the chiptune scene, you’ve probably heard endless beautiful compositions on the Nintendo Game Boy, Commodore 64, and a few phat FM tracks from Segas …read more #hacking #projects https://hackaday.com/2026/03/17/polyphonic-tunes-on-the-s…

A Voltage Regulator Before Electronics Did you ever wonder how the mechanical voltage regulator — that big black box wired up to the generator on a car from the ’60s or before — worked? [Jonelsonster] …read more #hacking #projects https://hackaday.com/2026/03/16/a-voltage-regulator-befor…

Ternary RISC Processor Achieves Non-Binary Computing Via FPGA You would be very hard pressed to find any sort of CPU or microcontroller in a commercial product that uses anything but binary to do its work. And yet, other …read more #hacking #projects https://hackaday.com/2026/03/16/ternary-risc-processor-ac…

Recycled Plastic Compression Molding With 3D-Printed Molds Recycling plastic at home using 3D printed molds is relatively accessible these days, but if you do not wish to invest a lot of money into specialized equipment, what’s the …read more #hacking #projects https://hackaday.com/2026/03/16/recycled-plastic-compress…

Every Ham Shack Needs a Ham Clock Every ham radio shack needs a clock; ideally one with operator-friendly features like multiple time zones and more. [cburns42] found that most solutions relied too much on an internet connection …read more #hacking #projects https://hackaday.com/2026/03/16/every-ham-shack-needs-a-h…

Making a Better Kitchen Scale out of Junk Parts Kitchen scales are plentiful and cheap, but their accuracy and measuring speed often leave a lot to be desired. In particular the filtering out of noise can make small changes …read more #hacking #projects https://hackaday.com/2026/03/16/making-a-better-kitchen-s…

How I 3D Printed My Own Lego-Compatible Train Bridges Lego train sets have been available for decades, now. The Danish manufacturer long ago realized the magic of combining its building block sets with motors and plastic rails to create …read more #hacking #projects https://hackaday.com/2026/03/16/how-i-3d-printed-my-own-l…

LEGO Machine Plays Tic-Tac-Toe Without Electronics Tic-Tac-Toe is a relatively simple game, and one of the few which has effectively been solved for perfect play. The nature of the game made it possible for [Joost van …read more #hacking #projects https://hackaday.com/2026/03/16/lego-machine-plays-tic-ta…

Ask Hackaday: Wired or Wireless Headphones? They say you should never throw out old clothes because they will come back in style one day. Maybe they are right. We noted in a recent BBC post that, …read more #hacking #projects https://hackaday.com/2026/03/16/ask-hackaday-wired-or-wir…

The IPV4 We Didn’t Get If you have ever read science fiction, you’ve probably seen “alternate history” stories. You know, where Europeans didn’t discover the New World until the 19th century, or the ancient Egyptians …read more #hacking #projects https://hackaday.com/2026/03/16/the-ipv4-we-didnt-get/

ATtiny85 Plays the Chrome Dinosaur Game If you’ve ever had your internet connection drop out while running Chrome, you’ve probably seen a little dinosaur pop up to tell you what’s going on. You might have then …read more #hacking #projects https://hackaday.com/2026/03/16/attiny85-plays-the-chrome…

Magnetic-Suspension Hoverboard is Only 11 Years Late Anyone who saw Back to the Future II was disappointed when 2015 rolled around with nary a hoverboard in sight. There have been various attempts to fake it, but none …read more #hacking #projects https://hackaday.com/2026/03/15/magnetic-suspension-hover…

Building a Rad Bluetooth Speaker that Didn’t Really Exist [Nick] came across an awesome Bluetooth speaker online, only, there was a problem. It didn’t really exist—it was just a render of a device that would be nice to have. …read more #hacking #projects https://hackaday.com/2026/03/15/building-a-rad-bluetooth-…