Cyberdecks are great projects, and [Salim Benbouziyane]’s scratch-built CM Deck is a fantastic specimen. It’s a clamshell-style cyberdeck with custom split keyboard, trackpad, optional external WiFi antenna, and some slick …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/13/custom-clamshell-cyberdeck-shows-off-underlighting/)

Inside Raiders of the Lost Ark (Atari Style)
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/13/inside-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-atari-style/

It’s a bit ironic that an Atari 2600 game based on Raiders of the Lost Ark — a movie about archaeology — is now the subject of its own archaeological …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/13/inside-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-atari-style/)

R2D2 Gets New Brains
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/13/r2d2-gets-new-brains/

While it is fun to get toys that look like your favorite science fiction props, it is less fun when the electronics in them don’t measure up to the physical …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/13/r2d2-gets-new-brains/)

Why Diamond Transistors Are So Hard To Make
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/13/why-diamond-transistors-are-so-hard-to-make/

Many things about diamonds seem eternal, including the many engineering problems related to making them work as a silicon replacement in semiconductor technology. Yet much like a diamond exposed to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/13/why-diamond-transistors-are-so-hard-to-make/)

Rock Sphere Machine Produces Off the Charts Satisfaction
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/13/rock-sphere-machine-produces-off-the-charts-satisfaction/

[Michigan Rocks] says he avoided making rock spheres for a long time on account of the time and cost he imagined was involved. Well, all that is in the past …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/13/rock-sphere-machine-produces-off-the-charts-satisfaction/)