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  C64 Hardware Simulator Isn’t (Just) For Playing Around

  If you want to play old Commodore games, there are C-64 emulators available for just about any platform– but most of them are so high level, they’re really meant for just that: playing games. [antirez] has a different goal with his c64-hw-sim project— it’s a lower-level emulation that simulates every chip and every connection on an ASSY 250407 motherboard, and all the chips on it, too. Ever wondered what happens when a specific chip is missin

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  Hand-Machined Stake Sharpener Just In Time For Dracula Season

  Vampires aren’t as common as they once were, but in most places they aren’t fully protected and it’s still possible to get a tag for legal hunting come October — at least if

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  So You Want To Make Your SDR Work On Other Frequencies

  Perhaps the most exciting news of the past few weeks in the world of hardware hacking has been the unlocking of hidden SDR functionality in the Wi-Fi radios found on Espressif ESP32 microcontroller

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  A Thermal Camera That Uses WebUSB

  When creating a peripheral for a mobile phone, an obvious path is to create a companion app with which to talk to it. But as we all know today’s app is tomorrow’s non-functional abandon

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  Building An M7 Pan Tilt Head Controller

  The Soonpho M7 Pan Tilt Head is a useful photography tool for remotely aiming a decently-sized camera. Only, [Kyle Housley] wanted a little more control than was available out of the box. Hence, he

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  Pager Converted To Meshtastic Node

  Text messaging has been around on cellular networks en masse for around three decades now. It’s so common that it’s difficult to remember a time without it. Its two-way quick messaging

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  AI Controls IPhone Via ESP32

  Do you want to get an AI agent to do something to an iPhone? You could try and jailbreak the device and do some heavy software hacking, or… you could grab a microcontroller off the shelf and

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• HHackaday2026-10-14✓ Read

  Single Button, Handheld Gaming Console

  Those of us who grew up in the 70s and 80s might be familiar with the Atari 2600 console and its now relatively unrecognizable (by modern standards) controller with only a single button and stiff w

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  Using An ESP32-C3’s RF Hardware For DVB-S2 Video Transmission

  Generally the DVB-S and -S2 standards require a satellite somewhere in Earth orbit to provide a signal to receive, but you can also transmit your own DVB-S2 stream with any RF transmitter if you

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  Tiny E-Paper Display Delivers 30 FPS Of Game Boy Fun

  Slow refresh, ghosting and low-contrast — wait, are we talking about passive matrix LCDs, or e-paper displays? That might be why e-paper Game Boy emulators are a thing: the limitations of the

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  2026 Hackaday Supercon: Workshops Are Open!

  Supercon is Hackaday’s annual gathering, and you absolutely need to be there. Today, we’re pleased to announce our lineup of workshops, and it’s more than we’ve ever offered

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  DIY Force Sensing Joysticks Are A Cheap Way To Go

  Traditional joysticks typically use potentiometers or hall effect sensors to determine the displacement of the stick itself when moved by the operator. Force-sensing joysticks are considered more d

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  What’s A Nonius?

  If you already know what a nonius is, you can probably skip this post. But, if like us, you would have to look it up, we’ll tell you what we found out. It turns out, a translation mistake tau

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  Testing Oneself For AI Slop

  The feed of a Hackaday writer brings many surprises, some rubbish, and the occasional diamond which of course we bring to you. Sometimes a page catches the eye that’s not a Hackaday piece per

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  Rendering 3D Prints From G-Code

  Your CAD software generally has some rudimentary tools for rending images of your parts, from simply-textured models to more photo-realistic options. However, those renders are of the geometry you

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  2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: USBSID-Pico Has Two SIDs, Many Inputs

  We’ll give you three guesses what the most important bits of silicon in [LouD]’s USBSID-Pico are, and two don’t count. Yes, there’s a Raspberry Pi Pico, and a pair of the un

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• HHackaday2026-10-13✓ Read

  JawnCon 0x3 Kicks Off In Philadelphia This Friday

  Philadelphia’s homegrown hacker con returns this weekend, and this time it’s starting a day early to pack in even more talks, demos, and activities. Tickets are still available for anyo

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  ESP-SDR Can Now Transmit

  Well, that was fast! Last week, we reported on two apparently simultaneous hacks using the 2.4 GHz radio inside many ESP32 variants that enabled raw access to the radio samples, turning it into a l

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