Although hobbyists these days most often seem to use thermoplastics as a print-and-done material in FDM printers, there’s absolutely nothing stopping you from taking things further with thermoforming. Much like …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/thermoforming-shaping-curvy-grilles-with-no-supports/)

DIY Wall-Plotter Does Generative Art, But Not As We Know It
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/diy-wall-plotter-does-generative-art-but-not-as-we-know-it/

[Teddy Warner]’s GPenT (Generative Pen-trained Transformer) project is a wall-mounted polargraph that makes plotter art, but there’s a whole lot more going on than one might think. This project was …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/diy-wall-plotter-does-generative-art-but-not-as-we-know-it/)

Implementing 3D Graphics Basics
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/implementing-3d-graphics-basics/

Plenty of our childhoods had at least one math teacher who made the (ultimately erroneous) claim that we needed to learn to do math because we wouldn’t always have a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/implementing-3d-graphics-basics/)

Making a Functional Control Panel of the Chernobyl RBMK Reactor
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/making-a-functional-control-panel-of-the-chernobyl-rbmk-reactor/

Control panels of a pre-digitalization nuclear plant look quite daunting, with countless dials, buttons and switches that all make perfect sense to a trained operator, but seem as random as …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/making-a-functional-control-panel-of-the-chernobyl-rbmk-reactor/)

Making Effective, Affordable Water Level Monitors
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/12/making-effective-affordable-water-level-monitors/

Water wells are simple things, but that doesn’t mean they are maintenance-free. It can be important to monitor water levels in a well, and that gets complicated when the well …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/12/making-effective-affordable-water-level-monitors/)

Correlating Electric Cars With Better Air Quality
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/12/correlating-electric-cars-with-better-air-quality/

Although at its face the results seem obvious, a recent study by [Sandrah Eckel] et al. on the impact of electric cars in California is interesting from a quantitative perspective. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/12/correlating-electric-cars-with-better-air-quality/)