2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Custom RISC-V Processor For Retro System
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/28/2026-retrocomputing-challenge-custom-risc-v-processor-for-retro-system/

Although once little more than an academic endeavor, the RISC-V architecture is slowly supplanting applications that would have normally gone to ARM. Even a few microcontrollers have chips running this …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/28/2026-retrocomputing-challenge-custom-risc-v-processor-for-retro-system/)

Magnetic Lock Opens By Magic
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/29/magnetic-lock-opens-by-magic/

Over on IEEE Spectrum, [Stephen Cass] has a project that would probably have seemed like a magic a few centuries ago. Imagine a box that uses a magnetic device to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/29/magnetic-lock-opens-by-magic/)

An AI Chatbot for the Apocalypse
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/29/an-ai-chatbot-for-the-apocalypse/

You don’t have to be a full-on “prepper” to at least occasionally wonder what would happen if civilization collapsed. One thing you probably couldn’t do is go on the Internet …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/29/an-ai-chatbot-for-the-apocalypse/)

Exploring What’s Left of Google’s VR Dreams
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/29/exploring-whats-left-of-googles-vr-dreams/

You’re likely familiar with Google’s Cardboard, and the legions of cheap virtual reality headsets it spawned. By sticking a smartphone to the wearer’s head, all these headsets needed were some …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/29/exploring-whats-left-of-googles-vr-dreams/)

Robot Picks up Othello
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/29/robot-picks-up-othello/

Experience is a great teacher. Ask [Jeneus], who, in high school, tried to make a program that played Othello. It didn’t go well. But years later, the idea produced an impressive …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/29/robot-picks-up-othello/)

2026 Hackaday Supercon: All the Speakers!
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/29/2026-hackaday-supercon-all-the-speakers/

We announced our first round of speakers, and then the workshops, and we were going to dribble out updates on the rest of the speakers as they came in, but …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/29/2026-hackaday-supercon-all-the-speakers/)

An Attempt at a Useful Desktop OS For Microcontrollers
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/29/an-attempt-at-a-useful-desktop-os-for-microcontrollers/