Although the term ‘Iron Curtain’ from the Cold War brings to mind something like the Berlin Wall and its forbidding No Man’s Land, there was still active trade between the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/17/testing-a-soviet-1000-volt-insulation-tester-from-1985/)

Zip-Drive Emulator Puts Big Disks Back on LPT
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Iomega’s Zip drives filled an interesting niche back in the 1990s. A magnetic disk that was physically floppy-sized, but much larger in capacity– starting at 100 MB, and reaching 750 …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/17/zip-drive-emulator-puts-big-disks-back-on-lpt/)

How to Grow Large Sugar Crystals
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Many substances display crystallization, allowing them to keep adding to a basic shape to reach pretty humongous proportions. Although we usually tend to think of pretty stones that get fashioned …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/17/how-to-grow-large-sugar-crystals/)

Testing Whether Heated Chambers Help Brittle Filaments
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/17/testing-whether-heated-chambers-help-brittle-filaments/

Some FDM filaments are pretty brittle even if properly dried and stored, especially those which contain carbon fiber (CF) or similar additives like glass fiber (GF). This poses a problem …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/17/testing-whether-heated-chambers-help-brittle-filaments/)

Building an LC Meter with a Franklin Oscillator
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/18/building-an-lc-meter-with-a-franklin-oscillator/

Although it dates back to the early days of the Marconi Company in the 1920s, the Franklin oscillator has remained a relatively obscure circuit, its memory mostly kept alive by …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/18/building-an-lc-meter-with-a-franklin-oscillator/)

CorridorKey is What You Get When Artists Make AI Tools
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/18/corridorkey-is-what-you-get-when-artists-make-ai-tools/

You may not have noticed, but so-called “artificial intelligence” is slightly controversial in the arts world. Illustrators, graphics artists, visual effects (VFX) professionals — anybody who pushes pixels around are …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/18/corridorkey-is-what-you-get-when-artists-make-ai-tools/)

The Rise and Fall of Free Dial Up Internet
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/18/the-rise-and-fall-of-free-dial-up-internet/

In the early days of the Internet, having a high-speed IP connection in your home or even a small business was, if not impossible, certainly a rarity. Connecting to a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/18/the-rise-and-fall-of-free-dial-up-internet/)