[My Engines] has been doing some sterling work on Stirling engines for some years now. Their thermoacoustic engine is now finally far enough along to open-source, so the magic of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/14/if-you-like-the-sound-of-a-thermoacoustic-stirling-engine-check-out-these-plans/)
On the podcast, [Tom] and I were talking about the new generation of smartphones which are, at least in terms of RAM and CPU speed, on par with a decent …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/14/what-is-a-computer/)
Off-Grid Electricity and Hot Water from Scrap Wood
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/14/off-grid-electricity-and-hot-water-from-scrap-wood/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/14/off-grid-electricity-and-hot-water-from-scrap-wood/
Cooking with charcoal is a fairly common human activity, as much as others have come to prefer fuels like propane and propane accessories for their outdoor, summertime grilling. Although it’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/14/off-grid-electricity-and-hot-water-from-scrap-wood/)
Take Pi for a Spin in this Orbital Simulator
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/14/take-pi-for-a-spin-in-this-orbital-simulator/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/14/take-pi-for-a-spin-in-this-orbital-simulator/
It’s Pi Day, and while we know that many of you celebrate privately, those that take a moment to put aside their contemplation of all things circular and join us …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/14/take-pi-for-a-spin-in-this-orbital-simulator/)
DR-DOS Is Back, But Not Quite as We Knew It
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/15/dr-dos-is-back-but-not-quite-as-we-knew-it/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/15/dr-dos-is-back-but-not-quite-as-we-knew-it/
If you weren’t around for the early PC era, or were a little more casual about operating systems, you could perhaps be forgiven for not knowing that DOS is not …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/15/dr-dos-is-back-but-not-quite-as-we-knew-it/)
Disassembling Opcodes with a Font
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/15/disassembling-opcodes-with-a-font/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/15/disassembling-opcodes-with-a-font/
Those who stay into the forbidden realm of font rendering quickly learn how convoluted and arcane it can be – LaTeX is a fully Turing-complete programming language, Unicode has over …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/15/disassembling-opcodes-with-a-font/)
New Aluminum-Based Catalyst Could De-Throne Platinum Group
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/15/new-aluminum-based-catalyst-could-de-throne-platinum-group/
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/15/new-aluminum-based-catalyst-could-de-throne-platinum-group/
Platinum-group metals (PGMs) are great catalysts, but they’re also great investments — in the sense that they are very, very expensive. Just ask the guy nicking car exhausts in the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/15/new-aluminum-based-catalyst-could-de-throne-platinum-group/)