[Baptiste Marx] shares his take on designing emergency structures using PVC pipe in a way that requires an absolute minimum of added parts. CINTRE (French, English coverage article here) is …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/12/pvc-pipe-structure-design-that-skips-additional-hardware/)

DIY 35mm Film Scanning
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/12/diy-35mm-film-scanning/

If you are sitting on a horde of negatives, waiting for the digital photography fad to die off, it may be time to think about digitizing your old film. [Kinpro1024] …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/12/diy-35mm-film-scanning/)

Hackaday Links: October 12, 2025
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/12/hackaday-links-october-12-2025/

We’ve probably all seen some old newsreel or documentary from The Before Times where the narrator, using his best Mid-Atlantic accent, described those newfangled computers as “thinking machines,” or better …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/12/hackaday-links-october-12-2025/)

The Singing Dentures Of Manchester And Other Places
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/12/the-singing-dentures-of-manchester-and-other-places/

Any radio amateur will tell you about the spectre of TVI, of their transmissions being inadvertently demodulated by the smallest of non-linearity in the neighbouring antenna systems, and spewing forth …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/12/the-singing-dentures-of-manchester-and-other-places/)

Making a 2-Transistor AM Radio with a Philips Electronic Engineer EE8 Kit from 1966
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/12/making-a-2-transistor-am-radio-with-a-philips-electronic-engineer-ee8-kit-from-1966/

Back in 1966, a suitable toy for a geeky kid was a radio kit. You could find simple crystal radio sets or some more advanced ones. But some lucky kids …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/12/making-a-2-transistor-am-radio-with-a-philips-electronic-engineer-ee8-kit-from-1966/)

SLM Co-extruding Hotend Makes Poopless Prints
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/13/slm-co-extruding-hotend-makes-poopless-prints/

Everyone loves colourful 3D prints, but nobody loves prime towers, “printer poop” and all the plastic waste associated with most multi-material setups. Over the years, there’s been no shortage of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/13/slm-co-extruding-hotend-makes-poopless-prints/)

Deforming a Mirror for Adaptive Optics
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/13/deforming-a-mirror-for-adaptive-optics/

As frustrating as having an atmosphere can be for physicists, it’s just as bad for astronomers, who have to deal with clouds, atmospheric absorption of certain wavelengths, and other irritations. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/13/deforming-a-mirror-for-adaptive-optics/)

Give Your Microscope Polarized $5 Shades to Fight Glare
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/13/give-your-microscope-polarized-5-shades-to-fight-glare/

Who doesn’t know the problem of glare when trying to ogle a PCB underneath a microscope of some description? Even with a ring light, you find yourself struggling to make …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/13/give-your-microscope-polarized-5-shades-to-fight-glare/)