Tech In Plain Sight: Projection Clocks
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/23/tech-in-plain-sight-projection-clocks/

You wake up in the middle of the night. Is it time to get up? Well, you can look at the nightstand clock. Unless your partner is in the way. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/23/tech-in-plain-sight-projection-clocks/)

ATABoy is an Open Source USB Bridge For Old IDE Drives
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/23/ataboy-is-an-open-source-usb-bridge-for-old-ide-drives/

You can get an IDE to USB bridge from all the usual sources, but you may find those fail on the older drives in your collection– apparently they require drives …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/23/ataboy-is-an-open-source-usb-bridge-for-old-ide-drives/)

X-Ray a PCB Virtually
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/23/x-ray-a-pcb-virtually/

If you want to reverse engineer a PC board, you could do worse than X-ray it.  But thanks to [Philip Giacalone], you could just take a photo, load it into …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/23/x-ray-a-pcb-virtually/)

How to Restore your 19th-Century Lancashire Boiler to Hold 120 PSI
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/23/how-to-restore-your-19th-century-lancashire-boiler-to-hold-120-psi/

The Industrial Revolution was powered by steam, with boilers being a crucial part of each steam engine, yet also one of the most dangerous elements due to the high pressures …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/23/how-to-restore-your-19th-century-lancashire-boiler-to-hold-120-psi/)

QUOD is a Quake-Like in only 64kB
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/23/quod-is-a-quake-like-in-only-64kb/

The demoscene is still alive and well, and the proof is in this truly awe-inspiring game demo by [daivuk] : a Quake-like “boomer shooter” squeezed into a Windows executable of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/23/quod-is-a-quake-like-in-only-64kb/)