Hackaday | Fresh Hacks Every Day Skip to content Hackaday Primary Menu Home Blog Hackaday.io Contests Submit About Search for: August 8, 2026 Calculus-Free PID (Almost) In A Spreadsheet PID controllers are everywhere. They regulate temperature, motor speed, power supplies, positioning systems, process equipment, and probably a dozen things within arm’s reach of you right now. They’re also frequently …read more FitzRoy’s Glass: Victorian Weather Marvel Or Glorified Thermometer? Everyone talks about the weather. This is doubly true for sailors, where bad weather could mean a very bad day. So it isn’t surprising that navies around the world have …read more FLOSS Weekly Episode 878: A Tool With Opinions This week Jonathan chats with Jonathan Pallant about embedded Rust! Learn about the growing Rust driver library, the different ways to build a Rust stack on an embedded device, and …read more Know Your Food: Our Daily Bread It’s time to return to our no-punches-pulled look at food manufacture, and this time we’re looking at the humble loaf of bread. As before, we’re approaching the subject with a …read more Cell Broadcast: The Modern Emergency Alert System Once upon a time, telephones were primarily point-to-point communications systems. There were options for three-way and conference calls out there, but by and large the plain old telephone system was …read more From The Blog See all blog entries Junkbin, A Way To Efficiently Reuse Your Old Electronics No comments By Ian Bos | August 8, 2026 We all have that bin in the corner of our shops — the one with all the circuit boards or broken electronics that we are totally gonna do something with. …read more Tim Hunkin’s History Of Arcade Machines 3 Comments By Jenny List | August 8, 2026 There was a particular treat at the recent Electromagnetic Field event in the UK, as [Tim Hunkin] delivered a talk on the history of arcade machines. Given that he’s something …read more Want Energy Efficiency? Dude, You’re Getting A Dell! 11 Comments By Tyler August | August 8, 2026 With a title like “Intel Just Matched Apple Silicon. Seriously.“, the latest video from [Jeff Geerling] makes some pretty bold claims. But as we’d expect from [Jeff], he’s got the …read more The BBC Tetris Companion No comments By Al Williams | August 7, 2026 [Leaded Solder] took on an interesting challenge. The BBC, apparently, produced a game console known as the BBC Bridge Companion that connected to your TV and helped you learn to …read more Block, Shmock — Just Pump Water Over The Chip 13 Comments By Tyler August | August 7, 2026 If you’re water cooling a PC, it’s generally accepted that you need some interface between the coolant and the chips — a water block of copper or aluminum that carries …read more This Filesystem Is Born To Fail 17 Comments By Al Williams | August 7, 2026 Sandboxing a Linux process usually means spending a lot of effort deciding what it isn’t allowed to see. You might put it in a mount namespace, bind-mount a few directories …read more Hacking A $6000 Cotton Candy Machine To Fully Control It 6 Comments By Maya Posch | August 7, 2026 Having a fully automated cotton candy vending machine in your possession is a great thing, but not if you do not have full access to its software. 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