Hackaday Podcast Episode 324: Ribbon Microphone From A Gumstick, Texture From a Virtual Log, and a Robot Arm From PVC

This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos joined forces to bring you the latest news, mystery sound, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the previous week. …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/06/hackaday-podcast-episode-324-ribbon-microphone-from-a-gumstick-texture-from-a-virtual-log-and-a-robot-arm-from-pvc/

Solder Stencil Done Three Ways

This project, sent in by [Henk], goes through a few different ways to make a solder stencil using a vinyl cutter, a CO2 laser, and a fiber laser. The project …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/06/solder-stencil-done-three-ways/

In Film, What’s Old May Still Be New Again

We recently published an affectionate look at a Polaroid Land camera, whose peel-apart instant film is long out of production except for a very few single exposure packs form a …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/06/in-film-whats-old-may-still-be-new-again/

Soviet Calculator Teardown Reveals Similarities And Differences

Tearing down hardware from different parts of the world can be revealing, showing unique parts, techniques, and tricks employed by engineers living in a very different world from our own. …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/06/soviet-calculator-teardown-reveals-similarities-and-differences/

SPACEdeck is Half Cyberdeck, Half Phone Case, All Style

It’s been at least a few hours since Hackaday last featured a cyberdeck, so to avoid the specter of withdrawal, we present you with [Sp4m]’s SPACEdeck, a stylish phone-based cyberdeck! …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/spacedeck-is-half-cyberdeck-half-phone-case-all-style/

A Flashlight of Fire and Ice

[Daniel Salião Ferreira] may or may not be a Game of Thrones fan, but he does have a fun demo of the Seebeck effect in the form of a flashlight …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/a-flashlight-of-fire-and-ice/

Building an Analog Echo Plate

These days, when you think reverb, you probably think about a guitar pedal or a plugin in your audio software. But you can also create reverb with a big metal …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/building-an-analog-echo-plate/

Turning the Pluto SDR into a Network Analyzer

Usually when we see a project using a software-defined radio (SDR), the SDR’s inputs and outputs are connected to antennae, but [FromConceptToCircuit]’s project connected an ADALM-Pluto SDR to an RF …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/turning-the-pluto-sdr-into-a-network-analyzer/

Leakage Control for Coupled Coils

Think of a circuit model that lets you move magnetic leakage around like sliders on a synth, without changing the external behavior of your coupled inductors. [Sam Ben-Yaakov] walks you …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/leakage-control-for-coupled-coils/

Supercon 2024: From Consultant to Prototyper On A Shoestring Budget

Many engineers graduate from their studies and head out into the workforce, seeking a paycheck and a project at some existing company or other. Often, it’s not long before an …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/supercon-2024-from-consultant-to-prototyper-on-a-shoestring-budget/

A Steady Vacuum For The Fastest Cassette Tape Drive Ever

If you think of a 1960s mainframe computer, it’s likely that your mental image includes alongside the cabinets with the blinkenlights, a row of reel-to-reel tape drives. These refrigerator-sized units …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/a-steady-vacuum-for-the-fastest-cassette-tape-drive-ever/

Screens of Death: From Diagnostic Aids to a Sad Emoji

There comes a moment in the life of any operating system when an unforeseen event will tragically cut its uptime short. Whether it’s a sloppily written driver, a bug in …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/screens-of-death-from-diagnostic-aids-to-a-sad-emoji/

Piko, Your ESP32 Powered Fitness Buddy

Over on Hackaday.io there’s a fun and playful write-up for a fun and playful project — the Piko, an ESP32 powered smartwatch. Our hackers [Iloke Alusala], [Lulama Lingela], and [Rafael …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/piko-your-esp32-powered-fitness-buddy/

Running FreeDOS and 8086tiny on the Game Boy Advance Because You Can

How many people haven’t looked at their Game Boy Advance (GBA) handheld gaming device and wondered how much better it might be if it could run FreeDOS. Inside an 8086 …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/running-freedos-and-8086tiny-on-the-game-boy-advance-because-you-can/

Passive Saturation Box is a Cheap Way To Distort Your Sound

Distortion pedals and overdrive effects usually have a bunch of lovely transistors or op-amps inside and lots of knobs and dials to tweak the sound to your personal taste. However, …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/04/passive-saturation-box-is-a-cheap-way-to-distort-your-sound/

Slide Rule by Helix

It is no secret that we like slide rules around the Hackaday bunker, and among our favorites are the cylindrical slide rules. [Chris Staecker] likes them, too, and recently even …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/04/slide-rule-by-helix/

Making solder wick less painful

For some people (e.g. this author) solder wick is a tool of last resort. Unfortunately, solder suckers and vacuum pumps lose most of their utility when you move from through-hole …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/04/making-solder-wick-less-painful/

Adding Assistive Technology to a Doorbell

The advent of affordable computing over the last few decades has certainly been a boon for many people with disabilities, making it easier to access things like text-to-speech technology, automation, …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/04/adding-assistive-technology-to-a-doorbell/

FLOSS Weekly Episode 835: Board Member B

This week Jonathan and Rob chat with Nate Graham about KDE! Why did Nate walk away from Apple, and how did he find Linux and KDE? And what does he …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/04/floss-weekly-episode-835-board-member-b/