FLOSS Weekly Episode 854: The Big Daddy Core
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/floss-weekly-episode-854-the-big-daddy-core/
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/floss-weekly-episode-854-the-big-daddy-core/
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FLOSS Weekly Episode 854: The Big Daddy Core
This week Jonathan and Ben chat with Jason Shepherd about Ocre and Atym.io! That’s the lightweight WebAssembly VM that lets you run the same containers on Linux and a host of embedded platfor…
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Light an LED With Nothing
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/2025-component-abuse-challenge-light-an-led-with-nothing/
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/2025-component-abuse-challenge-light-an-led-with-nothing/
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2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Light An LED With Nothing
Should you spend some time around the less scientifically informed parts of the internet, it’s easy to find “Free power” stories. Usually they’re some form of perpetual moti…
Cheap Multimeter Gets Webified
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/cheap-multimeter-gets-webified/
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/cheap-multimeter-gets-webified/
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Cheap Multimeter Gets Webified
[Mellow Labs] wanted to grab a multimeter that could do Bluetooth. Those are cheap and plentiful, but the Bluetooth software was, unsurprisingly, somewhat lacking. A teardown shows a stock Bluetoot…
There’s no Rust on this Ironclad Kernel
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/theres-no-rust-on-this-ironclad-kernel/
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/theres-no-rust-on-this-ironclad-kernel/
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There’s No Rust On This Ironclad Kernel
Rust is the new hotness in programming languages because of how solid its memory protections are. Race conditions and memory leaks are hardly new issues however, and as greybeards are wont to point…
Installing an 84MB Hard Drive Into a PDP-11/44
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/installing-an-84mb-hard-drive-into-a-pdp-11-44/
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/installing-an-84mb-hard-drive-into-a-pdp-11-44/
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Installing An 84MB Hard Drive Into A PDP-11/44
Over on YouTube [Usagi Electric] shows us how he installed an 84MB hard drive into his PDP-11/44. In the beginning he purchased a bunch of RA70 and RA72 drives and board sets but none of them worke…
3D Printed Mail is a Modern Solution to an Ancient Problem
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/13/3d-printed-mail-is-a-modern-solution-to-an-ancient-problem/
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/13/3d-printed-mail-is-a-modern-solution-to-an-ancient-problem/
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3D Printed Mail Is A Modern Solution To An Ancient Problem
The human body and sharp objects don’t get along very well, especially when they are being wielded with ill-intent. Since antiquity there have been various forms of armor designed to protect …