This week, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams had a lot to talk about. From advice for a young hacker to using a laser to break into a microcontroller, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/hackaday-podcast-episode-388-ram-swapping-on-raspberry-pi-raindrops-on-radar-and-a-fine-mesh/)

Investigating a Rare Burnout 3 Beta Disc
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/investigating-a-rare-burnout-3-beta-disc/

These days, it’s pretty easy to buy old retail console games just by hunting online auction sites. It’s much rarer to come across a disc holding a beta version that …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/investigating-a-rare-burnout-3-beta-disc/)

Pi Pico Recreates The Heathkit Pocket Packet
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/pi-pico-recreates-the-heathkit-pocket-packet/

Packet radio is a particularly fun part of the ham radio hobby. Once upon a time, you might have squirted data about the airwaves using something like the Heathkit HK-21 …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/pi-pico-recreates-the-heathkit-pocket-packet/)

Reviving the PoE++ Feature on a Ubiquiti Switch
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/reviving-the-poe-feature-on-a-ubiquiti-switch/

Recently [The Parallel Port] was asked to take a look at repairing the PoE++ feature on a Ubiquiti switch that otherwise worked fine. This is a pretty nice 24-port rackmounted …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/reviving-the-poe-feature-on-a-ubiquiti-switch/)

The Low-Level Waste Dumps in The Atlantic Have Become Ecosystems
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/the-low-level-waste-dumps-in-the-atlantic-have-become-ecosystems/

Recently French and international researchers took a look at the state of the thousands of barrels of radioactive waste that were dumped into the Atlantic Ocean between 1950 and 1990, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/the-low-level-waste-dumps-in-the-atlantic-have-become-ecosystems/)

Abusing SQL to Play DOOM
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/abusing-sql-to-play-doom/

Most laypeople who encounter SQL think of it purely as a tool for managing large datasets. While that is certainly what it was designed for, SQL is still a programming …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/abusing-sql-to-play-doom/)

Easy Ways Sink a Hardware Startup
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/26/easy-ways-sink-a-hardware-startup/

[Ryan Walker] may have written up his observations a few years ago, but the lessons are just as relevant today as they were back then. He shares five easy ways …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/26/easy-ways-sink-a-hardware-startup/)

You Can Make a Microprocessor That’s All Your Own
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/26/you-can-make-a-microprocessor-thats-all-your-own/