No More Paperweight: This Vintage Brick Phone Is Back Online
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/no-more-paperweight-this-vintage-brick-phone-is-back-online/

Remember those brick cellphones in the 1990s? They were comically large by today’s standards. These phones used the 1G network to communicate and, as such, have been unusable for decades …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/no-more-paperweight-this-vintage-brick-phone-is-back-online/)

Making a Bladeless Tesla Turbine Generator in Lego
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/making-a-bladeless-tesla-turbine-generator-in-lego/

The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal-flow turbine invented by Nikola Tesla in 1913, using the boundary-layer effect rather than having a stream of gases or a fluid impinge on …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/making-a-bladeless-tesla-turbine-generator-in-lego/)

Ford, Take Note: Classic Pickup Becomes the EV We Want
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/ford-take-note-classic-pickup-becomes-the-ev-we-want/

Ford does sell an electric pickup, but not very many of them. We can’t say for sure, but it’s possible that if the F150 Lightning had the classic cool of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/ford-take-note-classic-pickup-becomes-the-ev-we-want/)