Last year, we brought you a story about the BhangmeterV2, an internet-of-things nuclear war monitor. With a cold-war-era HSN-1000 nuclear event detector at its heart, it had one job: announce …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/12/replicating-a-nuclear-event-detector-for-fun-and-probably-not-profit/)

Nintendo’s Family BASIC Keyboard Gets USB Upgrade
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/12/nintendos-family-basic-keyboard-gets-usb-upgrade/

America knew it as the Nintendo Entertainment System, but in Japan, it was the Family Computer (Famicom). It was more than just a home console—it was intended to actually do …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/12/nintendos-family-basic-keyboard-gets-usb-upgrade/)

Perfecting the Shape-Changing Fruit Bowl
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/perfecting-the-shape-changing-fruit-bowl/

Fruit bowls have an unavoidable annoyance– not flies and rotten fruit, those would be avoidable if your diet was better. No, it’s that the bowl is never the right size. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/perfecting-the-shape-changing-fruit-bowl/)

OS/2 Never Went Away. Its Successor Has Received An Update
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/os-2-never-went-away-its-successor-has-received-an-update/

ArcaOS is an operating system you might not have heard of, but you will recognize it when we tell you that it’s the direct descendant of IBM’s OS/2. It’s just …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/os-2-never-went-away-its-successor-has-received-an-update/)