Discovering SDRs Everywhere
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/17/discovering-sdrs-everywhere/

To quote commenter [douyarou], “It’s like our little version of a Precambrian explosion”. A bunch of hackers have discovered, independently and building on each other’s work, software-defined radio (SDR) capabilities …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/17/discovering-sdrs-everywhere/)

2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Oldputer Gives Old Eyes Relief with E-ink Display
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/17/2026-retrocomputing-challenge-oldputer-gives-old-eyes-relief-with-e-ink-display/

Modern computers are towers of glass and metal with very few large deviations from one to another. Monitor A will go against B, except you can’t tell them apart unless …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/17/2026-retrocomputing-challenge-oldputer-gives-old-eyes-relief-with-e-ink-display/)

Building a Flying Drone With a Single Propeller
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/17/building-a-flying-drone-with-a-single-propeller/

Technically all that you need in order to make a drone fly is a single motor and single propeller, but realistically it becomes basically impossible to fly it at that …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/17/building-a-flying-drone-with-a-single-propeller/)

2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Dollhouse Arcade Cabinet Runs Remote DOS Games
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/17/2026-retrocomputing-challenge-dollhouse-arcade-cabinet-runs-remote-dos-games/

Classic DOS games never ran from within stand-up arcade cabinets in dollhouses, but [Juha Lilja] imagines a world in which they did. His Micro DOS arcade cabinet is described as …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/17/2026-retrocomputing-challenge-dollhouse-arcade-cabinet-runs-remote-dos-games/)