One of the perennial challenges of building robots is minimizing the size and weight of drive systems while preserving power. One established way to do this, at least on robots …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/05/tying-up-loose-ends-on-a-rope-based-robot-actuator/)

Close-Up Look Reveals that Raindrops Are More Erosive than Assumed
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/05/close-up-look-reveals-that-raindrops-are-more-erosive-than-assumed/

Whenever it rains, people generally don’t look too closely at what the drops do exactly when they hit a surface. We generally assume that stuff will get wet and depending …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/05/close-up-look-reveals-that-raindrops-are-more-erosive-than-assumed/)

Messing With JPEGs in a Text Editor is Fun and Glitchy
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/05/messing-with-jpegs-in-a-text-editor-is-fun-and-glitchy/

If you’re looking to edit an image, you might open it in Photoshop, GIMP, or even Paint Shop Pro if you’re stuck in 2005. But who needs it — [Patrick …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/05/messing-with-jpegs-in-a-text-editor-is-fun-and-glitchy/)

Powering on a 1985 Photophone CP220 Videoconference System
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/powering-on-a-1985-photophone-cp220-videoconference-system/

The concept of remote video calls has been worked on since Bell’s phone company began pitching upgrading from telegrams to real-time voice calls. It wasn’t until the era of digital …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/powering-on-a-1985-photophone-cp220-videoconference-system/)

Super Mario 64, Now With Microtransactions
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/super-mario-64-now-with-microtransactions/

Besides being a fun way to pass time, video gaming is a surprisingly affordable hobby per unit time. A console or budget PC might only cost a few hundred dollars, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/super-mario-64-now-with-microtransactions/)

How Advanced Autopilots Make Airplanes Safer When Humans go AWOL
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/how-advanced-autopilots-make-airplanes-safer-when-humans-go-awol/

It’s a cliché in movies that whenever an airplane’s pilots are incapacitated, some distraught crew member queries the self-loading freight if any of them know how to fly a plane. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/how-advanced-autopilots-make-airplanes-safer-when-humans-go-awol/)

The use of Ultrasound to take on Cancerous Tumors
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/the-use-of-ultrasound-to-take-on-cancerous-tumors/

As areas of uncontrolled cell growth, cancerous growth form a major problem for a multi-celled organism like us humans. Thus before they can begin to affect our long-term prospects of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/the-use-of-ultrasound-to-take-on-cancerous-tumors/)

Linux Fu: Yet Another Shell Script Trick
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/linux-fu-yet-another-shell-script-trick/