Personal Reflections On Immutable Linux

Immutable distributions are slowly spreading across the Linux world– but should you care? Are they hacker friendly? What does “immutable” mean, anyway? Immutable means “not subject or susceptible to change” …read more

Ask Hackaday: Are You Wearing 3D Printed Shoes?

We love 3D printing. We’ll print brackets, brackets for brackets, and brackets to hold other brackets in place. Perhaps even a guilty-pleasure Benchy. But 3D printed shoes? That’s where we …read more

Dithering With Quantization To Smooth Things Over

It should probably come as no surprise to anyone that the images which we look at every day – whether printed or on a display – are simply illusions. That …read more

Crunching The News For Fun And Little Profit

Do you ever look at the news, and wonder about the process behind the news cycle? I did, and for the last couple of decades it’s been the subject of …read more

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Taking delivery of a new vehicle from a dealership is an emotional mixed bag. On the one hand, you’ve had to endure the sales rep’s hunger to close the deal, …read more

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The 555 Writ Large

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By Al Williams | July 12, 2025

Few electronic ICs can claim to be as famous as the 555 timer. Maybe part of the reason is that the IC doesn’t have a specific function. It has a …read more
Get Roped Into Magnetic Core Memory With This 512 Bit Module

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By Tyler August | July 11, 2025

Magnetic Core memory was the RAM at the heart of many computer systems through the 1970s, and is undergoing something of a resurgence today since it is easiest form of …read more
Measuring The Impact Of LLMs On Experienced Developer Productivity

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By Maya Posch | July 11, 2025

Recently AI risk and benefit evaluation company METR ran a randomized control test (RCT) on a gaggle of experienced open source developers to gain objective data on how the use …read more
DIY X-Rays Made Easy

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By Al Williams | July 11, 2025

Who doesn’t want an X-ray machine? But you need a special tube and super high voltage, right? [Project 326] says no, and produces a USB-powered device that uses a tube …read more
Designing A CPU With Only Memory Chips

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By Aaron Beckendorf | July 11, 2025

Building a simple 8-bit computer is a great way to understand computing fundamentals, but there’s only so much you can learn by building a system around an existing processor. If …read more
An Induction Lamp Made On The Same Principle As Ordinary Fluorescent Lamp

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By John Elliot V | July 11, 2025

Over on YouTube, [Technology Connections] has a new video: Induction lamps: fluorescent lighting’s final form. This video is about a wireless fluorescent light which uses induction to transfer power from …read more
Dearest C++, Let Me Count The Ways I Love/Hate Thee

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By Maya Posch | July 11, 2025

My first encounter with C++ was way back in the 1990s, when it was one of the Real Programming Languages™ that I sometimes heard about as I was still splashing …read more

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