FLOSS Weekly Episode 864: Work Hard, Save Money, Retire Early
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/floss-weekly-episode-864-work-hard-save-money-retire-early/

This week Jonathan chats with Bill Shotts about The Linux Command Line! That’s Bill’s book published by No Starch Press, all about how to make your way around the Linux …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/floss-weekly-episode-864-work-hard-save-money-retire-early/)

Thermoforming: Shaping Curvy Grilles With No Supports
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/thermoforming-shaping-curvy-grilles-with-no-supports/

Although hobbyists these days most often seem to use thermoplastics as a print-and-done material in FDM printers, there’s absolutely nothing stopping you from taking things further with thermoforming. Much like …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/thermoforming-shaping-curvy-grilles-with-no-supports/)

DIY Wall-Plotter Does Generative Art, But Not As We Know It
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/diy-wall-plotter-does-generative-art-but-not-as-we-know-it/

[Teddy Warner]’s GPenT (Generative Pen-trained Transformer) project is a wall-mounted polargraph that makes plotter art, but there’s a whole lot more going on than one might think. This project was …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/diy-wall-plotter-does-generative-art-but-not-as-we-know-it/)

Implementing 3D Graphics Basics
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/implementing-3d-graphics-basics/

Plenty of our childhoods had at least one math teacher who made the (ultimately erroneous) claim that we needed to learn to do math because we wouldn’t always have a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/implementing-3d-graphics-basics/)

Making a Functional Control Panel of the Chernobyl RBMK Reactor
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/making-a-functional-control-panel-of-the-chernobyl-rbmk-reactor/

Control panels of a pre-digitalization nuclear plant look quite daunting, with countless dials, buttons and switches that all make perfect sense to a trained operator, but seem as random as …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/making-a-functional-control-panel-of-the-chernobyl-rbmk-reactor/)

Making Effective, Affordable Water Level Monitors
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/12/making-effective-affordable-water-level-monitors/

Water wells are simple things, but that doesn’t mean they are maintenance-free. It can be important to monitor water levels in a well, and that gets complicated when the well …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/12/making-effective-affordable-water-level-monitors/)

Correlating Electric Cars With Better Air Quality
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/12/correlating-electric-cars-with-better-air-quality/

Although at its face the results seem obvious, a recent study by [Sandrah Eckel] et al. on the impact of electric cars in California is interesting from a quantitative perspective. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/12/correlating-electric-cars-with-better-air-quality/)