Given the technical specs of the FPGAs available to hobbyists these days, it really shouldn’t be a shock that you can implement a 486 core on one. In spite of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/08/m8sbc-86-is-an-fpga-based-kinda-pc-compatible-486/)

The Staggering Complexity and Subtlety of Concurrency
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/08/the-staggering-complexity-and-subtlety-of-concurrency/

If you’re gonna be a hacker eventually you’re gonna have to write code. And if you write code eventually you’re gonna have to deal with concurrency. Concurrency is what we …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/08/the-staggering-complexity-and-subtlety-of-concurrency/)

Repairing Brittle Plastic Retro Computer Cases
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/08/repairing-brittle-plastic-retro-computer-cases/

As computers like the venerable breadbox Commodore 64 age, their plastic doesn’t just turn increasing shades of yellow and brown, the ABS plastic also tends to get brittle. This is …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/08/repairing-brittle-plastic-retro-computer-cases/)

HORUS Framework: A Rust Robotics Library
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/horus-framework-a-rust-robotics-library/

[neos-builder] wrote in to let us know about their innovation: the HORUS Framework — Hybrid Optimized Robotics Unified System — a production-grade robotics framework built in Rust for real-time performance …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/horus-framework-a-rust-robotics-library/)

Play Games in UEFI…to Access Your Computer
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/play-games-in-uefi-to-access-your-computer/

These days, bootstrapping a computer is a pretty straight forward process, at least as far as the user is concerned. But in the olden days, one would have to manually …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/play-games-in-uefi-to-access-your-computer/)

NPAPI and the Hot-Pluggable World Wide Web
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/npapi-and-the-hot-pluggable-world-wide-web/

In today’s Chromed-up world it can be hard to remember an era where browsers could be extended with not just extensions, but also with plugins. Although for those of us …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/npapi-and-the-hot-pluggable-world-wide-web/)

Hackaday Podcast Episode 352: Visualizing Sound, and Windows 11 Is a Dog
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/hackaday-podcast-episode-352-visualizing-sound-and-windows-11-is-a-dog/

This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over coffee to bring you the latest news, mystery sound results show, and of course, a big bunch of hacks …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/hackaday-podcast-episode-352-visualizing-sound-and-windows-11-is-a-dog/)

Fighting Food Poisoning With A Patch
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/fighting-food-poisoning-with-a-patch/