The basic principles of a motion picture film camera should be well understood by most readers — after all, it’s been well over a hundred years since the Lumière brothers …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/27/a-3d-printed-16mm-movie-camera/)

The Supercon 2025 Badge is Built to be Customized
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/27/the-supercon-2025-badge-is-built-to-be-customized/

For anyone who’s joined us for previous years, you’ll know that badge hacking and modification are core to the Hackaday Supercon experience. While you’re of course free to leave the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/27/the-supercon-2025-badge-is-built-to-be-customized/)

Building a Hydraulic Gear Pump Isn’t So Easy
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/27/building-a-hydraulic-gear-pump-isnt-so-easy/

Hydraulic gear pumps are deceptively simple: just two gears rotating together, forcing the hydraulic oil from one side to the other where the teeth don’t meet, and thus providing the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/27/building-a-hydraulic-gear-pump-isnt-so-easy/)

Making a Virtual Machine Look like Real Hardware to Malware
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/27/making-a-virtual-machine-look-like-real-hardware-to-malware/

Running suspicious software in a virtual machine seems like a basic precaution to figure out whether said software contains naughty code. Unfortunately it’s generally rather easy to detect whether or …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/27/making-a-virtual-machine-look-like-real-hardware-to-malware/)

Remembering Better Mono Graphics
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/27/remembering-better-mono-graphics/

No matter what kind of computer or phone you are reading this on, it probably has a graphics system that would have been a powerful computer on its own back …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/27/remembering-better-mono-graphics/)

Cooking Up Plastics in the Kitchen
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/28/cooking-up-plastics-in-the-kitchen/

The earliest useful plastics were made out of natural materials like cellulose and casein, but since the Bakelite revolution, their use has dwindled away and left them mostly as curiosities …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/28/cooking-up-plastics-in-the-kitchen/)

Mushrooms As Computer Memory
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/28/mushrooms-as-computer-memory/

Fungi make up a massive, interconnected part of Earth’s ecosystems, yet they’re vastly underrepresented in research and public consciousness compared to plants and animals. That may change in the future …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/28/mushrooms-as-computer-memory/)