The Helicopter with Radioactive Blades
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/07/the-helicopter-with-radioactive-blades/

Sometimes you find gold in unexpected places. In this case, it’s from a video about the CH-53 helicopter. The CH-53 Sea Stallion first entered service in 1966. It’s a huge …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/07/the-helicopter-with-radioactive-blades/)

A Vacuum Tube Computer For The Home
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/07/a-vacuum-tube-computer-for-the-home/

The earliest all-electronic computers used vacuum tubes, and most of us will know about machines such as ENIAC or Colossus. Vast machines that required the budget of a country at …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/07/a-vacuum-tube-computer-for-the-home/)

ESP32-P4 Powers Video Alarm Clock
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/07/esp32-p4-powers-video-alarm-clock/

Once upon a time, you had the option of waking up to a bell, a harsh buzzer, or whatever happened to be on the radio that morning. Now that it’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/07/esp32-p4-powers-video-alarm-clock/)

Kelvin–Helmholtz Instabilities Found to Drive Plasma Mixing on the Sun
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/07/kelvin-helmholtz-instabilities-found-to-drive-plasma-mixing-on-the-sun/

As easy as the Sun is to observe, it’s simultaneously very hard to study due to how extreme the conditions are, even on the surface of a rather unassuming star. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/07/kelvin-helmholtz-instabilities-found-to-drive-plasma-mixing-on-the-sun/)

How Bats Prevent Doppler Acoustic Interference
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/07/how-bats-prevent-doppler-acoustic-interference/

As great as echolocation is, things can get rather messy once it’s not just you chirping away, but also hundreds of your buddies in roughly the same area. This is …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/07/how-bats-prevent-doppler-acoustic-interference/)

Old iPad Keyboard Makes For a Modern Netbook
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/08/old-ipad-keyboard-makes-for-a-modern-netbook/

Netbooks were a class of tiny laptops which hit their peak over a decade ago, with the idea being that you could use the Internet and do your computing on …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/08/old-ipad-keyboard-makes-for-a-modern-netbook/)

A 1024 Byte Python Interpreter
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/08/a-1024-byte-python-interpreter/

Like many of us, [Austin] finds writing code satisfying — especially if it is challenging. His latest challenge: shoehorn something that looks like Python into 512 bytes. Ok, that didn’t …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/08/a-1024-byte-python-interpreter/)