Programmers hold to a wide spectrum of positions on software complexity, from the rare command-line purists to the much more common web app developers, and the two extremes rarely meet. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/01/terminal-based-web-browsing-with-modern-conveniences/)

Making the Fastest LEGO Technic Air-Powered Engine
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/01/making-the-fastest-lego-technic-air-powered-engine/

Just because LEGO Technic is technically a toy doesn’t mean that you cannot do solid engineering with it, like building air-powered engines. After first building a simple air-powered piston engine, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/01/making-the-fastest-lego-technic-air-powered-engine/)

Print Your Own Standardized Wire Spool Storage
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/02/print-your-own-standardized-wire-spool-storage/

Hardware hackers tend to have loads of hookup wire, and that led [firstgizmo] to design a 3D printable wire and cable spool storage system. As a bonus, it’s Gridfinity-compatible! There …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/02/print-your-own-standardized-wire-spool-storage/)

Liquid CO2 For Grid Scale Energy Storage Isn’t Just Hot Air
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/02/liquid-co2-for-grid-scale-energy-storage-isnt-just-hot-air/

There’s folk wisdom in just about every culture that teaches about renewable energy — things like “make hay while the sun shines”. But as an industrial culture, we want to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/02/liquid-co2-for-grid-scale-energy-storage-isnt-just-hot-air/)

Low-Cost, Portable Streaming Server
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/02/low-cost-portable-streaming-server/

Thanks to the Raspberry Pi, we have easy access to extremely inexpensive machines running Linux that have all kinds of GPIO as well as various networking protocols. And as the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/02/low-cost-portable-streaming-server/)

Jailbreaking the Amazon Echo Show
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/02/jailbreaking-the-amazon-echo-show/

As locked-down as the Amazon Echo Show line of devices are, they’re still just ARM-based Android devices, which makes repurposing it somewhat straightforward as long as what you want is …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/02/jailbreaking-the-amazon-echo-show/)