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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 ...

Raspberry Pi clusters have been a favorite project of homelabbers and distributed computing enthusiasts since the platform ...

Juan] describes himself as a software engineer, a lover of absurd humor, and, among other things, a player of Nethack. We ...

A while back [Clint Basinger] of Lazy Game Reviews fame purchased a rare 1980s Halikan laptop. When he received the parcel, ...

Over the decades we have seen a lot of methods for powering LEGO-based contraptions, ranging from LEGO Technic pneumatics to ...

Video games, movies, and modern militaries are all full of robotic gun turrets that allow for remotely-controlled carnage.

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In theory, Wankel-style rotary internal combustion engines have many advantages: they ditch the cumbersome crankcase and ...

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The Hackaday 2025 Component Abuse Challenge is all about abusing electronic components in the service of making them do ...

Miroslav Hancar] wasn’t satisfied with abusing just a single component for our Component Abuse Challenge. He decided to abuse ...