A good rule of thumb is that everything that can interact with electromagnetic (EM) radiation is an antenna, which includes our mostly-salty-water-containing bodies and also raindrops and moisture in the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/22/why-raindrops-make-for-pretty-good-antennae/)

Myst on the Atari 2600
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/22/myst-on-the-atari-2600/

Although the Atari 2600 was a hugely popular game console in the late 70s, its hardware specs were limited, to say the least. For a dedicated game console of the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/22/myst-on-the-atari-2600/)

Smelting Bog Ore As It Should Be Done
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/23/smelting-bog-ore-as-it-should-be-done/

Sometimes along comes a hack with a personal angle, and in a video showing Irish bog ore smelting, we find an appropriate follow up to a Hackaday expedition back in …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/23/smelting-bog-ore-as-it-should-be-done/)

Modern USB Controllers On Win98 (and up)
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/23/modern-usb-controllers-on-win98-and-up/

[Yeo Kheng Meng] has a problem: he likes Windows 98, but he also likes his 2020 ThinkPad, which only has an xHCI USB controller– you know, the kind needed for …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/23/modern-usb-controllers-on-win98-and-up/)

A Tiny Toy Synth For Smaller Computers
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/23/a-tiny-toy-synth-for-smaller-computers/

Even for the non-musical among us there is a lot of fun to be had with a simple synthesiser and sequencer, as the different controls can be manipulated to show …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/23/a-tiny-toy-synth-for-smaller-computers/)

Audio Spectrum Analyzer on an ESP32 Display Board
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/23/audio-spectrum-analyzer-on-an-esp32-display-board/

A slick spectrum analyzer used to be the kind of thing that would have been tricky to include in a DIY project, but as [Mirko “mircemk” Pavleski] demonstrates, a modern …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/23/audio-spectrum-analyzer-on-an-esp32-display-board/)

Reconstructing Device Firmware from SPI Reads
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/24/reconstructing-device-firmware-from-spi-reads/

If you wanted to extract the firmware from a mystery device, you might pull the flash chip out of it and toss it into a reader. But if you only …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/24/reconstructing-device-firmware-from-spi-reads/)

Solar Powered Traffic Monitoring
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/24/solar-powered-traffic-monitoring/