The Unusual Pi Boot Process Explained
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/21/the-unusual-pi-boot-process-explained/

If you’ve ever experimented with a microprocessor at the bare metal level, you’ll know that when it starts up, it will look at its program memory for something to do. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/21/the-unusual-pi-boot-process-explained/)

Origami on another Level with 3D Printing
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/21/origami-on-another-level-with-3d-printing/

Origami has become known as a miracle technique for designers. Elegant compliant mechanisms can leverage the material properties of a single geometry in ways that are sometimes stronger than those …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/21/origami-on-another-level-with-3d-printing/)

Lichtenberg Lightning in a Bottle, Thanks To The Magic of Particle Accelerators
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/22/lichtenberg-lightning-in-a-bottle-thanks-to-the-magic-of-particle-accelerators/

You’ve probably seen Lichtenberg figures before, those lightning-like traces left by high-voltage discharge. The safe way to create them is using an electron beam to embed charge inside an acrylic …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/22/lichtenberg-lightning-in-a-bottle-thanks-to-the-magic-of-particle-accelerators/)

How To Build Good Contact Mics
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/22/how-to-build-good-contact-mics/

We’re most familiar with sound as vibrations that travel through the atmosphere around us. However, sound can also travel through objects, too! If you want to pick it up, you’d …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/22/how-to-build-good-contact-mics/)

Internet-Connected Consoles Are Retro Now, And That Means Problems
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/22/internet-connected-consoles-are-retro-now-and-that-means-problems/

A long time ago, there was a big difference between PC and console gaming. The former often came with headaches. You’d fight with drivers, struggle with crashes, and grow ever …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/22/internet-connected-consoles-are-retro-now-and-that-means-problems/)

The Music of the Sea
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/22/the-music-of-the-sea/

For how crucial whales have been for humanity, from their harvest for meat and oil to their future use of saving the world from a space probe, humans knew very …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/22/the-music-of-the-sea/)

Ask Hackaday: What Goes Into A Legible Font, And Why Does It Matter?
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/22/just-what-goes-into-a-legible-font-and-why-does-it-matter/

There’s an interesting cultural observation to be made as a writer based in Europe, that we like our sans-serif fonts, while our American friends seem to prefer a font with …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/22/just-what-goes-into-a-legible-font-and-why-does-it-matter/)