A mosquito has a very finely tuned proboscis that is excellent at slipping through your skin to suck out the blood beneath. Researchers at McGill University recently figured that the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/01/necroprinting-isnt-as-bad-as-it-sounds/)

Converting a 1980s Broadcast Camera to HDMI
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/01/converting-a-1980s-broadcast-camera-to-hdmi/

Although it might seem like there was a sudden step change from analog to digital sometime in the late 1900s, it was actually a slow, gradual change from things like …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/01/converting-a-1980s-broadcast-camera-to-hdmi/)

Little Lie Detector is Probably No Worse Than The Big Ones
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/02/little-lie-detector-is-probably-no-worse-than-the-big-ones/

Want to know if somebody is lying? It’s always so hard to tell. [dbmaking] has whipped up a fun little polygraph, otherwise known as a lie detector. It’s nowhere near …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/02/little-lie-detector-is-probably-no-worse-than-the-big-ones/)

Build Your Own Glasshole Detector
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/02/build-your-own-glasshole-detector/

Connected devices are ubiquitous in our era of wireless chips heavily relying on streaming data to someone else’s servers. This sentence might already start to sound dodgy, and it doesn’t …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/02/build-your-own-glasshole-detector/)

Give Us One Manual For Normies, Another For Hackers
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/02/give-us-one-manual-for-normies-another-for-hackers/

We’ve all been there. You’ve found a beautiful piece of older hardware at the thrift store, and bought it for a song. You rush it home, eager to tinker, but …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/02/give-us-one-manual-for-normies-another-for-hackers/)

A Stylish Moon And Tide Clock For The Mantlepiece
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/02/a-stylish-moon-and-tide-clock-for-the-mantlepiece/

Assuming you’re not stuck in a prison cell without windows, you could feasibly keep track of the moon and tides by walking outside and jotting things down in your notebook. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/02/a-stylish-moon-and-tide-clock-for-the-mantlepiece/)

How Cross-Channel Plumbing Fuelled The Allied March On Berlin
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/02/how-cross-channel-plumbing-fuelled-the-allied-march-on-berlin/

During World War II, as the Allies planned the invasion of Normandy, there was one major hurdle to overcome—logistics. In particular, planners needed to guarantee a solid supply of fuel …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/02/how-cross-channel-plumbing-fuelled-the-allied-march-on-berlin/)