On Hackaday last week, and on the podcast, we were talking about one of the educational toys of yesteryear that launched a thousand careers, at least if the comment section …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/22/you-gotta-want-it/)

555 Makes a Useful Beat Frequency Oscillator
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/22/555-makes-a-useful-beat-frequency-oscillator/

If you’ve got a cheap ham rig, it might not be very practical for you to receive certain transmissions out of the box. However, if you were to hack in …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/22/555-makes-a-useful-beat-frequency-oscillator/)

The Shutter Makes This 3D Printed Camera Special
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/22/the-shutter-makes-this-3d-printed-camera-special/

Making a film camera is a project within the reach of almost anyone, from the experimenter with cardboard and sticky tape, to the machinist with an aluminium billet. But 3D …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/22/the-shutter-makes-this-3d-printed-camera-special/)

Open-Source ExpressLRS Receiver Reaches for Range
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/22/open-source-expresslrs-receiver-reaches-for-range/

Drone control links are, from a radio signals perspective, nothing short of amazing: using a transmitter capable of transmitting, at most, one watt, a protocol such as ExpressLRS (ELRS) can …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/22/open-source-expresslrs-receiver-reaches-for-range/)

An Atari Desktop On A Sega
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/22/an-atari-desktop-on-a-sega/

Over recent years there have been a range of classic 16-bit consoles coaxed into running familiar operating systems, with -nommu Linux being a favourite. But the 16-bit era had its …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/22/an-atari-desktop-on-a-sega/)

Turning Corroded, Bug-Loving WiiMotes into a Working One
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/22/turning-corroded-bug-loving-wiimotes-into-a-working-one/

A time-honored tradition in the electronics repair business is to make many into one, specifically a stack of broken devices into one that works. So too with a triplet of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/22/turning-corroded-bug-loving-wiimotes-into-a-working-one/)

So, You Found a Foden Steam Lorry in a Field. What Next?
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/23/so-you-found-a-foden-steam-lorry-in-a-field-what-next/

It’s quite likely that many readers will have harbored dreams of owning, or at least driving, a steam engine of some kind. [James Hervey-Bathurst] was lucky enough to do so …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/23/so-you-found-a-foden-steam-lorry-in-a-field-what-next/)