3D Printering: That New Color Printer
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/3d-printering-that-new-color-printer/
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/3d-printering-that-new-color-printer/
Color 3D printing has gone mainstream, and we expect more than one hacker will be unpacking one over the holidays. If you have, say, a color inkjet printer, the process …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/3d-printering-that-new-color-printer/)
FLOSS Weekly Episode 857: SOCification
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/floss-weekly-episode-857-socification/
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/floss-weekly-episode-857-socification/
This week Jonathan chats with Konstantinos Margaritis about SIMD programming. Why do these wide data instructions matter? What’s the state of Hyperscan, the project from Intel to power regex with …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/floss-weekly-episode-857-socification/)
Franken-engine Plays Its Own Swan Song at 15k RPM
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/franken-engine-plays-its-own-swan-song-at-15k-rpm/
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/franken-engine-plays-its-own-swan-song-at-15k-rpm/
Back during WWII, Chrysler bodged five inline-6 engines together to create the powerful A57 multibank tank engine. [Maisteer] has some high-revving inline-4 motorcycle engines he’s trying to put together too, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/franken-engine-plays-its-own-swan-song-at-15k-rpm/)
Ride On with FOSS and GoldenCheetah
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/ride-on-with-foss-and-goldencheetah/
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/ride-on-with-foss-and-goldencheetah/
If you exclude certain companies like Peloton, the world of cycling technology is surprisingly open. It’s not perfect by any means, but there are enough open or open-ish standards for …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/ride-on-with-foss-and-goldencheetah/)
The Database Powering America’s Hospitals May Not be What You Expect
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/the-database-powering-americas-hospitals-may-not-be-what-you-expect/
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/the-database-powering-americas-hospitals-may-not-be-what-you-expect/
Ever heard of MUMPS? Both programming language and database, it was developed in the 1960s for the Massachusetts General Hospital. The goal was to streamline the increasingly enormous timesink that …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/the-database-powering-americas-hospitals-may-not-be-what-you-expect/)
What Happens When You Pump 30,000 Watts Into a Tungsten Incandescent Light Bulb?
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/what-happens-when-you-pump-30000-watts-into-a-tungsten-incandescent-light-bulb/
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/what-happens-when-you-pump-30000-watts-into-a-tungsten-incandescent-light-bulb/
Over on YouTube [Drake] from the [styropyro] channel investigates what happens when you take an enormous tungsten incandescent light bulb and pump 30,000 watts through it. The answer: it burns …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/what-happens-when-you-pump-30000-watts-into-a-tungsten-incandescent-light-bulb/)
New Browser-based CAD System is Best Friends With Triangle Meshes
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/new-browser-based-cad-system-is-best-friends-with-triangle-meshes/
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/new-browser-based-cad-system-is-best-friends-with-triangle-meshes/
Who’s interested in a brand new, from-scratch boundary representation (BREP) kernel? How about one that has no topological naming problem, a web-native parametric CAD front end to play with, and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/new-browser-based-cad-system-is-best-friends-with-triangle-meshes/)