In the last few installments, we looked at using the Tang Nano 20K with both the GOWIN tools and some open-source tools. The open-source tools certainly had the advantage of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/13/the-fpga-chronicles-ready-to-probe/)

Counting the PET Bottles Needed to Make 1 Kg of Printer Filament
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/13/counting-the-pet-bottles-needed-to-make-1-kg-of-printer-filament/

In countries where PET bottles do not get slapped with an additional fee that induces you to return it for recycling and said fee back, the resulting piles of discarded …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/13/counting-the-pet-bottles-needed-to-make-1-kg-of-printer-filament/)

Using a Waffle to Check the Health of your Wii U’s NAND Flash
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/13/using-a-waffle-to-check-the-health-of-your-wii-us-nand-flash/

Game consoles tend to have a weak spot or two that will take certain units out sooner than they would due to normal parts aging. In the case of the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/13/using-a-waffle-to-check-the-health-of-your-wii-us-nand-flash/)

ESP-SDR Can Now Transmit
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/13/esp-sdr-can-now-transmit/

Well, that was fast! Last week, we reported on two apparently simultaneous hacks using the 2.4 GHz radio inside many ESP32 variants that enabled raw access to the radio samples, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/13/esp-sdr-can-now-transmit/)

JawnCon 0x3 Kicks off in Philadelphia this Friday
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/13/jawncon-0x3-kicks-off-in-philadelphia-this-friday/

Philadelphia’s homegrown hacker con returns this weekend, and this time it’s starting a day early to pack in even more talks, demos, and activities. Tickets are still available for anyone …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/13/jawncon-0x3-kicks-off-in-philadelphia-this-friday/)

2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: USBSID-Pico has Two SIDs, Many Inputs
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/13/2026-retrocomputing-challenge-usbsid-pico-has-two-sids-many-inputs/

We’ll give you three guesses what the most important bits of silicon in [LouD]’s USBSID-Pico are, and two don’t count. Yes, there’s a Raspberry Pi Pico, and a pair of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/13/2026-retrocomputing-challenge-usbsid-pico-has-two-sids-many-inputs/)

Does It Run… Duke Nukem 3D?
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/13/does-it-run-duke-nukem-3d/

When id Software released DOOM back in 1993 it helped define the genre, but it was hardly the only hit first-person shooter of that decade. There was also 3D Realms’ 1996 Duke …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/13/does-it-run-duke-nukem-3d/)

Rendering 3D Prints From G-Code
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/14/rendering-3d-prints-from-g-code/