This should count as a hack: making music from a thing that should not sing. In this case, [SIROJU] is tickling the ivories with a Brushless DC motor, or BLDC.  …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/12/musical-motors-bldc-edition/)

Design Scanimations In a Snap With The Right Math
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/13/design-scanimations-in-a-snap-with-the-right-math/

Barrier-grid animations (also called scanimations) are a thing most people would recognize on sight, even if they didn’t know what they were called. Move a set of opaque strips over …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/13/design-scanimations-in-a-snap-with-the-right-math/)

Turning a Milling Machine into a Lathe
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/13/turning-a-milling-machine-into-a-lathe/

If you’re planning to make a metalworking lathe out of a CNC milling machine, you probably don’t expect getting a position sensor to work to be your biggest challenge. Nevertheless, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/13/turning-a-milling-machine-into-a-lathe/)

Keep Reading, Keep Watching
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/13/keep-reading-keep-watching/

I’ve been flying quadcopters a fair bit lately, and trying to learn some new tricks also means crashing them, which inevitably means repairing them. Last weekend, I was working on …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/13/keep-reading-keep-watching/)

ESP32 Hosts Functional Minecraft Server
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/13/esp32-hosts-functional-minecraft-server/

If you haven’t heard of Minecraft, well, we hope you enjoyed your rip-van-winkle nap this past decade or so. For everyone else, you probably at least know that this is …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/13/esp32-hosts-functional-minecraft-server/)

Send Images to Your Terminal With Rich Pixels
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/13/send-images-to-your-terminal-with-rich-pixels/

[darrenburns]’ Rich Pixels is a library for sending colorful images to a terminal. Give it an image, and it’ll dump it to your terminal in full color. While it also …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/13/send-images-to-your-terminal-with-rich-pixels/)

How to Make a Simple MOSFET Tester
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/13/how-to-make-a-simple-mosfet-tester/

Over on YouTube our hacker [VIP Love Secretary] shows us how to make a simple MOSFET tester. This is a really neat, useful, elegant, and simple hack, but the video …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/13/how-to-make-a-simple-mosfet-tester/)

Aussie Researchers Say They Can Bring The Iron Age to Mars
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/13/aussie-researchers-say-they-can-bring-the-iron-age-to-mars/