Retrotechtacular: The Free Piston Engine
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/retrotechtacular-the-free-piston-engine/

We all know how a conventional internal combustion engine works, with a piston and a crankshaft. But that’s by no means the only way to make an engine, and one …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/retrotechtacular-the-free-piston-engine/)

Pager Lives Again Thanks to Python And Mastodon
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/pager-lives-again-thanks-to-python-and-mastodon/

Pagers were a big deal for a while there, even if they never quite made it into the pantheon of excellent sitcom plot devices like answering machines did. Anyway, [Finnley …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/pager-lives-again-thanks-to-python-and-mastodon/)

Optical Guitar Pickup Works With Nylon Strings
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/optical-guitar-pickup-works-with-nylon-strings/

Electric guitar pickups rely on steel strings interfering with a magnetic field, the changes in which are picked up with coils of wire. That doesn’t work with nylon strings, because …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/optical-guitar-pickup-works-with-nylon-strings/)

Design Tips to Hide Layer Lines in 3D Printed Parts
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/design-tips-to-hide-layer-lines-in-3d-printed-parts/

[Slant 3D] knows a lot about optimizing 3D prints so that they can be cranked out reliably with minimal need for post-processing, and in this short video he uses a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/design-tips-to-hide-layer-lines-in-3d-printed-parts/)

Accelerate your large builds locally with distcc
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/oc-accelerate-your-large-builds-locally-with-distcc/

https://www.distcc.org/
" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/distccmon-gnome-2003-09-23-01.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/distccmon-gnome-2003-09-23-01.png?w=515">The motto of Sun Microsystems back in the day was “The Network Is The Computer” which might be kind of relevant when CPUs were slower and single-core affairs, but lately …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/oc-accelerate-your-large-builds-locally-with-distcc/)

Goatee Pasta Maker Makes Us Hunger for Hair
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/goatee-pasta-maker-makes-us-hunger-for-hair/

Some hacks are pure acts of whimsy, and [Simone Giertz] is back to her roots with this Goatee Pasta Maker. If violence to mannequin heads is upsetting, the video may …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/04/goatee-pasta-maker-makes-us-hunger-for-hair/)

Reverse Engineering the Behringer Ultranet Protocol
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/05/reverse-engineering-the-behringer-ultranet-protocol/