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FLOSS Weekly Episode 882 With OSADL: Better Together

This week Jonathan chats with Jan Altenberg of the Open Source Automation Development Lab, a cooperative of nerds that care about Linux and Open Source! Jan and OSADL helped push …read more

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One of the nice things about the weather is that even if it’s bad right now, it’ll definitely be changing soon and maybe even for the better. There is one …read more

Hackaday Europe 2026: Bare Metal Made Easy

When we talk about programming in “bare metal,” it basically means writing software that runs right on the hardware with no operating system or abstraction layers in between. This gives …read more

Linux Fu: Speak Up!

Apparently, people hate typing. As every movie and TV show suggests, the future is talking to computers. There was a time when speech recognition was complex and not very good. …read more

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Making A Copper-Oxide Photodetector From Scratch

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By Maya Posch | September 20, 2026

Photodetectors come in a wide variety of constructions and materials, with the Cu2O-based photodetector that [Mad Scientist Creations] demonstrates in a recent video being a good example of a photodetector …read more
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By Tom Nardi | September 20, 2026

Some sad news to start this week off — after 52 years in business, Sherline has announced they are winding down their manufacturing operations. By the end of October they …read more
Reviving TEMPEST Attacks With An Injected Signal

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By Aaron Beckendorf | September 20, 2026

TEMPEST attacks are often the most effective way to break air-gapped security: rather than directly accessing a computer, the attacker records the system’s unintended radio emissions and uses them to …read more
Ski Lift Removes Mice From Chicken Coop

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By Bryan Cockfield | September 20, 2026

Getting rid of rodents like squirrels, mice, or groundhogs is a lot like digging a hole on the beach. No matter how much you remove, it’ll always fill back in. …read more
World War I Coded Message Appears Cracked, Finally

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By Al Williams | September 20, 2026

When you think of wartime cryptography, you probably think of World War II and Enigma, although there were other famous codes used during that war. But in fact, there have …read more
Reverse Engineering A Sony Car Stereo LCD

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By Tyler August | September 20, 2026

For his own reasons, [Jose Luis Monteiro] (aka [emsyscode]) decided he needed to drive the LCD on a Sony CDX-A250 car stereo’s front panel using an Arduino. There’s probably a …read more
A Bandpass Filter Pulls In The Signals

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By Jenny List | September 20, 2026

It’s an unfortunate side effect of proximity to a large transmitter that the received signal can overload a receiver’s front end even when tuned to other frequencies. [Rfrht]’s had this …read more

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