Making nylon plastic from raw chemicals used to be a very common demo; depending where and when you grew up, you may well have done it in high school or …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/20/fail-of-the-week-beaker-to-benchy-more-bothersome-than-believed/)

Blinking An LED With a Single Transistor
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/20/blinking-an-led-with-a-single-transistor/

Let’s say you want to blink an LED. You might grab an Arduino and run the Blink sketch, or you might lace up a few components to a 555. But …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/20/blinking-an-led-with-a-single-transistor/)

High Performance Motor Control With FOC From the Ground Up
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/20/high-performance-motor-control-with-foc-from-the-ground-up/

Vector Control, also known as Field Oriented Control or FOC is an AC motor control scheme that enables fine-grained control over a connected motor, through the precise control of its …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/20/high-performance-motor-control-with-foc-from-the-ground-up/)

The Lambda Papers: When LISP Got Turned Into a Microprocessor
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/20/the-lambda-papers-when-lisp-got-turned-into-a-microprocessor/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lisp_machines_in_Computer_History_Museum.jpg
" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Lisp_machines_in_Computer_History_Museum.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Lisp_machines_in_Computer_History_Museum.jpg?w=795">During the AI research boom of the 1970s, the LISP language – from LISt Processor – saw a major surge in use and development, including many dialects being developed. One …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/20/the-lambda-papers-when-lisp-got-turned-into-a-microprocessor/)

Putting a Teensy to Task as a Transputer Link
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/20/putting-a-teensy-to-task-as-a-transputer-link/

https://www.8bitforce.com/blog/2025/10/02/teensy-4.1-speaks-transputer-link
" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/retroshield_transputer_revA_take2-featured.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/retroshield_transputer_revA_take2-featured.png?w=800">One downside of working with the old Inmos Transputer devices is the rarity and cost of the original silicon. Obviously, you can’t sidestep the acquisition of the processor—unless you emulate—but …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/20/putting-a-teensy-to-task-as-a-transputer-link/)

Reverse Engineering STL Files with FreeCAD
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/21/reverse-engineering-stl-files-with-freecad/

If you think about it, STL files are like PDF files. You usually create them using some other program, export them, and then expect them to print. But you rarely …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/21/reverse-engineering-stl-files-with-freecad/)

Budget Stream Deck Clone is Ripe for Hacking
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/21/budget-stream-deck-clone-is-ripe-for-hacking/

The original Stream Deck was a purpose-built device to make it easier to manage a live video stream on the fly. Since its release, many other similar products have hit …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/21/budget-stream-deck-clone-is-ripe-for-hacking/)

Ore Formation: Return of the Revenge of the Fluids
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/21/ore-formation-return-of-the-revenge-of-the-fluids/