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As great and streamlined as the Windows desktop experience is, one area where it’s at best disappointing and at worst rage-inducing is when it comes to its command line interface …read more

What Happens If Russia Shuts The Door On Their Leaky ISS Module?

There was a particularly tense moment aboard the International Space Station earlier this month, with NASA directing their astronauts to secure themselves in the Dragon capsule and prepare for a …read more

Ask Hackaday: What Ever Happened To The Hero Nerd?

Knowing absolutely nothing about you other than the fact that you’re currently reading Hackaday, I can predict with a high degree of certainty that we’re both fond of at least …read more

A Brief History Of Unix Commands On Windows: CoreUtils (Again)

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For …read more

Picking A CRC

You send a file, but how do you know it arrived intact? In other words, how do you know that it didn’t get cut off, garbled, or changed somehow? Simplistically, …read more

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Cheap 80s Keyboard Gets Modern Brain Upgrade

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By Zoe Skyforest | June 25, 2026

The 1981 Casio VL-1 was a fine cheap keyboard. It had a robust build, though an admittedly limited sound palette. [Max Vega] had one of these charming instruments, and decided …read more
CSS On The ESP32

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By Zoe Skyforest | June 25, 2026

There are lots of graphics libraries available for the ESP32, and lots of ways to program one to boot. Even still, most of us wouldn’t immediately think to CSS when …read more
Increasing Local GPS Accuracy For A Small Robot

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By Bryan Cockfield | June 25, 2026

Even though GPS makes it possible for us to easily navigate around the planet in almost any vehicle we’d like, whether that’s a passenger vehicle, airplane, or cargo ship, it’s …read more
Flying Cell Towers Are A Thing

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By Zoe Skyforest | June 25, 2026

Typically, when you’re sitting on a plane on the tarmac, you switch your phone to flight mode while you’re sitting through yet another “quirky” (boring) safety video. You’ll watch some …read more
New Record Resurrects Long-Dead CD Graphics Format

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By Zoe Skyforest | June 25, 2026

Audio CDs were the ubiquitous audio format of the 1990s. Lesser known were the extensions to the format that packaged all kinds of interesting additional data into a musical release. …read more
A Look At A Gaggle Of Transputer Boards

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By Maya Posch | June 25, 2026

A long time before Beowulf clusters wired up with commodity Ethernet hardware became a hobbyist thing and a running joke, the transputer took a swing at a very similar architecture. …read more
A More Convenient IButton Reader

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By Zoe Skyforest | June 24, 2026

iButtons are microchips housed in small, round, metal containers, and are similar to coin cell batteries in appearance. Among other things, they’re used for logging data in industrial contexts, particularly …read more

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