Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams met to review the week in Hackaday. Turns out, it was a week for tiny things, cybersecurity, nostalgia, and projects that would have …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/23/hackaday-podcast-episode-392-microscopes-drones-and-other-diy-things/)

Running a Philips CD-i Off USB-C
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/23/running-a-philips-cd-i-off-usb-c/

The Philips CD-i is a console with many shortcomings, and those include the power supply. For whatever reason, the engineering team decided it should use an 8P8C connector just like …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/23/running-a-philips-cd-i-off-usb-c/)

Reconstructing the Ancient Chinese Storm of Crows Weapon
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/23/reconstructing-the-ancient-chinese-storm-of-crows-weapon/

The Chinese had been using large crossbows – akin to Greek and Roman ballistae – for warfare for many of the same reasons that European armies loved them. Their single, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/23/reconstructing-the-ancient-chinese-storm-of-crows-weapon/)

Automatic Coil Winder Takes the Tedium out of Actuators
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/23/automatic-coil-winder-takes-the-tedium-out-of-actuators/

Anyone who’s ever built their own motors knows how tedious winding the coils soon becomes; in [Larry]’s case, the issue was even worse. He’s building his own flip-dot matrix display, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/23/automatic-coil-winder-takes-the-tedium-out-of-actuators/)

RepRapMicron Uses Fibre Optics To Print Tiny Benchy in Resin
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/23/reprapmicron-uses-fibre-optics-to-print-tiny-benchy-in-resin/

The RepRapMicron (also µRepRap) is pretty much the microscopic take on what RepRap did for more macroscale manufacturing, with the most recent innovation being a UV print head, called the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/23/reprapmicron-uses-fibre-optics-to-print-tiny-benchy-in-resin/)

Using an Unmodded GBA as a Music Synth
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/23/using-an-unmodded-gba-as-a-music-synth/

The style and sound of older video games is unique enough that they’re still copied in relatively modern games like Undertale, Celeste, or Shovel Knight. There’s also a vibrant chiptune community making music …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/23/using-an-unmodded-gba-as-a-music-synth/)

A Walkie Talkie Interface For Claude
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/24/a-walkie-talkie-interface-for-claude/

[Bookmari] had a problem — working as a delivery driver, they wanted to work on various projects with Claude Code while out and about. Unfortunately, it simply wasn’t practical to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/24/a-walkie-talkie-interface-for-claude/)