Electronic Busy Board is Fun for Kids and Hackers
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/02/electronic-busy-board-is-fun-for-kids-and-hackers/

While you may not be familiar with the term “busy board”, you’ve almost certainly seen one. It’s the sort of toy with a bunch of buttons, switches, and of course …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/02/electronic-busy-board-is-fun-for-kids-and-hackers/)

2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Lunar Lander on the PDP-1
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/02/2026-retrocomputing-challenge-lunar-lander-on-the-pdp-1/

A lot of the retrocomputing world is focused on the 1980s, and for good reason– the home computer revolution was in full swing in that decade, and there is a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/02/2026-retrocomputing-challenge-lunar-lander-on-the-pdp-1/)

Is This The Smallest Internet Radio?
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/02/is-this-the-smallest-internet-radio/

Internet radios have been a thing in some form for the last quarter century, and the advent of cheap networked microcontrollers has made them easier than ever to build. But …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/02/is-this-the-smallest-internet-radio/)

That’s No Moon… That’s an Exoplanet!
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/03/thats-no-moon-thats-an-exoplanet/

It wasn’t that long ago that a science teacher would have told students that there was no evidence of planets around other star systems. Even more recently, they might have …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/03/thats-no-moon-thats-an-exoplanet/)

Own The OSD Chip In Your Cheap Composite Monitor
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/03/own-the-osd-chip-in-your-cheap-composite-monitor/

[Ogrinz Labs] has built a Robbie the Robot suit, which is super-cool, but has a huge flaw. When inside the suit, he’s too tall to do what the original Robbie …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/03/own-the-osd-chip-in-your-cheap-composite-monitor/)

Fixing a Power Grid That Loses Over Half Its Power to Inefficiency and Theft
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/03/fixing-a-power-grid-that-loses-over-half-its-power-to-inefficiency-and-theft/

[Mini Shaji Thomas] has a deeply interesting article on IEEE Spectrum detailing how the power distribution system for a city of over twenty million people went from failing to first-class. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/03/fixing-a-power-grid-that-loses-over-half-its-power-to-inefficiency-and-theft/)

The ESP32, An SDR In Itself
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/03/the-esp32-an-sdr-in-itself/

Perhaps the most famous of all the software-defined radio (SDR) receivers is the RTL-SDR, a digital TV receiver on which an undocumented feature was found. Perhaps other radio-enabled chips also …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/03/the-esp32-an-sdr-in-itself/)