Economists have this idea that we live in an efficient market, but it’s hard to fathom that when disposable vapes are equipped with rechargeable lithium cells. Still, just as market …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/06/diy-powerwall-blows-clouds-competition-out-of-the-water/)

Share Your Projects: Imperfectionism
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/06/share-your-projects-imperfectionism/

Everyone has a standard for publishing projects, and they can get pretty controversial. We see a lot of people complain about hacks embedded in YouTube videos, social media threads, Discord …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/06/share-your-projects-imperfectionism/)

2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Overdriven LEDs Outshine the Sun
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/06/2025-component-abuse-challenge-overdriven-leds-outshine-the-sun/

Tagging wildlife is never straightforward in the best of times, but it becomes a great deal more complicated when you’re trying to track flying insects. Instead of trying to use …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/06/2025-component-abuse-challenge-overdriven-leds-outshine-the-sun/)

Making Steam-Powered LEGO Machines
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/06/making-steam-powered-lego-machines/

Over the decades we have seen a lot of methods for powering LEGO-based contraptions, ranging from LEGO Technic pneumatics to electric motors, but what about steam power? We have all …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/06/making-steam-powered-lego-machines/)

2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Reverse Biasing an NPN BJT
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/06/2025-component-abuse-challenge-reverse-biasing-an-npn-bjt/

For the Component Abuse Challenge our hacker [Tim Williams] observes that N-P-N reads the same way forwards and backwards, so… what happens if we reverse bias one? (Note: this remark …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/06/2025-component-abuse-challenge-reverse-biasing-an-npn-bjt/)

ABCCAD is Voxels Meets Legos in AR
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/06/abccad-is-voxels-meets-legos-in-ar/

We get it, CAD software can be daunting to learn. Somehow [Boaztheostrich] found it so daunting he procrastinated his way into a AR voxel-based CAD app he calls “ABCCAD”, written …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/06/abccad-is-voxels-meets-legos-in-ar/)

The Water-Cooled PS3 Sony Never Made
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/06/the-water-cooled-ps3-sony-never-made/

The Playstation 3 had a dizzying number of variants from its first launch in 2006 to when they stopped selling the slim models over a decade later in 2017. Of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/06/the-water-cooled-ps3-sony-never-made/)

Artsy and Durable Recycling from a Heat Press
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/07/artsy-and-durable-recycling-from-a-heat-press/