A Defrag Simulator In Your Browser
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/01/a-defrag-simulator-in-your-browser/

Disk Defragmenter was a wonderful utility that Microsoft included with Windows back in the day. Back then, you’d use it to theoretically speed up disk access. Today, you can run …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/01/a-defrag-simulator-in-your-browser/)

Creating the Greenest Possible Clothing with Living Fungi
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/02/creating-the-greenest-possible-clothing-with-living-fungi/

Despite the wide variety of fabrics used for our clothing, they all share the property of not being living tissues. This could be due to them never having been part …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/02/creating-the-greenest-possible-clothing-with-living-fungi/)

HDMI For the Color Computer 2
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/02/hdmi-for-the-color-computer-2/

[Scott Baker] bought a TRS-80 Color Computer off eBay some five years ago. He’d always intended to add a CoCoVGA or CoCoDV upgrade to hook it up to a monitor, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/02/hdmi-for-the-color-computer-2/)

“I’m Not Dead Yet!” Reverse Polish Notation Calculators You Can Still Buy
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/02/im-not-dead-yet-reverse-polish-notation-calculators-you-can-still-buy/

If you used a scientific calculator in the 1970s or 1980s, there was a fair chance that it worked differently from almost every calculator you see today. Instead of typing: …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/02/im-not-dead-yet-reverse-polish-notation-calculators-you-can-still-buy/)

How a 1981 RAM Expansion Worked
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/02/how-a-1981-ram-expansion-worked/

Sir Clive Sinclair and his company were notorious for pushing the limits of electronic parts in search of a low price, and his ZX series 8-bit computers were fine examples …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/02/how-a-1981-ram-expansion-worked/)

FLOSS Weekly Episode 880: The Two Wolves
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/02/floss-weekly-episode-880-the-two-wolves/

This week Jonathan chats with Benjamin Samuels of Trail of Bits! The conversation focuses on Patch the Planet, a new initiative to help Open Source projects deal with the fallout …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/02/floss-weekly-episode-880-the-two-wolves/)

Harvesting Namib Desert Fog with High Voltage
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/02/harvesting-namib-desert-fog-with-high-voltage/