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Using the SNES Super FX Chip to Run Super Mario 64 ift.tt/NbQ1Vi9

Using The SNES Super FX Chip To Run Super Mario 64

Although the Nintendo 64 was the first to bring real 3D graphics to the table in 1996, the Super Nintendo had an ace up its sleeve in the form of the Super FX chip. One major advantage of using car…

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An IR Blaster Project, in a Nutshell ift.tt/5tAj9Te

An IR Blaster Project, In A Nutshell

The speed that computers have gotten smaller is a bit mind-bending. Most of us now walk around with computers in our pockets that would have rivaled the supercomputers from a few decades ago. And, …

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Hackaday Links: September 27, 2026 ift.tt/uME9IeH

Hackaday Links: September 27, 2026

It isn’t quite hailing frequencies open, but researchers from Harvard claim they’ve picked up a radio signal directly from a nearby exoplanet. Before you get too excited, planets in our…

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Replying to @ShaikhRobotics
Yes, work cycles would be very interesting to note. All about mean time between failures.
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Our writers do love to pun it up!
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Whatever happened to carbon sequestration as a service? Zoe Skyforest took a look at the problem... hackaday.com/2021/10/15/carb…

Carbon Sequestration As A Service Doesn’t Quite Add Up

Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. While most attempts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions focus on reducing the amount of CO2 output, there are other alternatives. Ca…

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Funny to think how Palm and Handspring so nearly had the smartphone revolution in the palm of their hands... ...pun not even intended.
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Center-Pivot System Modified to Mow Lawn ift.tt/zN7DtVw

Center-Pivot System Modified To Mow Lawn

When flying over the United States, Australia, and a few other vast and relatively empty parts of the world, strange circular formations can be spotted. These are typically center-pivot irrigation …

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Going on a Tangent with the Intel 8087’s Hybrid CORDIC Algorithm ift.tt/bt8xDig

Going On A Tangent With The Intel 8087’s Hybrid CORDIC Algorithm

Continuing their reverse-engineering of Intel’s 8087 FPU, [Ken Shirriff] and friends took a look at one of the trigonometric functions, specifically FPTAN.  The most exciting part with such r…

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Defeating Satellite Spoofing with Galileo’s Encryption ift.tt/NMqURnE

Defeating Satellite Spoofing With Galileo’s Encryption

Considering how important it is for everything from navigation to keeping clocks in sync, satellite navigation systems are surprisingly vulnerable to a variety of attacks, ranging from simple jammi…

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Ways To Empirically Identify a Magnet’s Polarity ift.tt/EUZmbG0

Ways To Empirically Identify A Magnet’s Polarity

Every magnet has a north and a south pole, but which is which? Sometimes it matters. If a product one builds features a magnetic closure or other part, the polarity of those magnets should be consi…

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Enormous Fluid Simulation on Flip Dots is also Enormous Amount of Work ift.tt/OrDtZBw

Enormous Fluid Simulation On Flip Dots Is Also Enormous Amount Of Work

Flip dot displays are cool, and more people realize that after [mixela]’s fluid simulation on flip dots installation was on display at EMF 2026. As glorious as the result is, it was also an a…

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Reverse Engineering Apple’s Mikey Chip ift.tt/RD84z6i

Reverse Engineering Apple’s Mikey Chip

On the old iPods, generally referred to here in the future as iPod Classic, there lives a tiny, undocumented chip called Mikey. It sits at the headphone output and performs only two functions: powe…

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When the Debugger Lies With Stale Cache Values ift.tt/fw8TF2g

When The Debugger Lies With Stale Cache Values

In a recent blog post by [Daniel Mangum] he goes over a scenario observed while debugging the Cortex-M33-based nRF54LM20, reading and writing values while running through a few scenarios. After ini…

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Basically, Galvanizing Metal Without Acid ift.tt/UCoS5a9

Basically, Galvanizing Metal Without Acid

As useful as steel and iron are to the modern world, their tendency to rust is a major downside. There’s a spectrum of ways to prevent it, from quickly slapping on a coat of paint on the easy…

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A Modular Macro Keypad ift.tt/rf2nAac

A Modular Macro Keypad

The introduction of the ATmega32U4 microcontroller, with its integrated USB controller, made a lot of hardware tasks much simpler than they were before. One of the arenas it revolutionized was cust…

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Cheap Yellow Display Dreams of PDA ift.tt/HALWI5V

Cheap Yellow Display Dreams Of PDA

Everybody loves the Cheap Yellow Display (CYD) ESP32 dev boards, so why not treat yours to a little PDA? That’s right: turn it into a Portable Digital Assistant and relive the glory days of P…

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Self-Repairing Conductive Material from Liquid Metal ift.tt/H4SQhjM

Self-Repairing Conductive Material From Liquid Metal

PCB circuits are cool, but you know what is cooler? Terminator circuits that’s what! And what if the same material that makes Terminator circuits could also be used for smart heat sinks, flexible c…

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A Pocket-Sized Digital Fish Tank ift.tt/bGN72IH

A Pocket-Sized Digital Fish Tank

The problem with trying to make a fish tank fit in your pocket is that you’ll either end up with water everywhere or a bunch of dead fish. Perhaps that’s why [StratoBuilds] pursued a di…

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The Least Annoying of All Evils ift.tt/JzvSKxE

The Least Annoying Of All Evils

If you missed the hubbub this week, it was discovered that the Raspberry Pi Foundation added code in the firmware that locks the boot process up if non-original RAM chips are detected onboard. Hot-…

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