This week Jonathan chats with Tristan Sherliker about the Craig Wright case, Open Source and the law, and Tristan’s own Open Source project, BunTool. How did Open Source help win …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/24/floss-weekly-episode-872-im-not-satoshi/)
Laser Scanning A Cave With Homebrew Gear
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/24/laser-scanning-a-cave-with-homebrew-gear/
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/24/laser-scanning-a-cave-with-homebrew-gear/
How do you measure the inside of a cave? You could do a bunch of hard work with classic surveying gear… or you could just use a laser scanner. [9nl] …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/24/laser-scanning-a-cave-with-homebrew-gear/)
All The Different Lasers, And How Well They Mark 3D Prints
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/24/all-the-different-lasers-and-how-well-they-mark-3d-prints/
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/24/all-the-different-lasers-and-how-well-they-mark-3d-prints/
[Stefan] of CNC Kitchen has an informative video describing his experiences with trying to cleanly laser-mark 3D printed plastics using different methods, and it also happens to be a fantastic …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/24/all-the-different-lasers-and-how-well-they-mark-3d-prints/)
LineShine Is Fastest Supercomputer at Over 2 Exaflops
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/24/lineshine-is-fastest-supercomputer-at-over-2-exaflops/
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/24/lineshine-is-fastest-supercomputer-at-over-2-exaflops/
There is a phenomenon where as you get older, your sense of scale becomes somewhat fixed in the earlier era that shaped you– things like expecting the Dollar Store to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/24/lineshine-is-fastest-supercomputer-at-over-2-exaflops/)
A More Convenient iButton Reader
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/24/a-more-convenient-ibutton-reader/
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/24/a-more-convenient-ibutton-reader/
iButtons are microchips housed in small, round, metal containers, and are similar to coin cell batteries in appearance. Among other things, they’re used for logging data in industrial contexts, particularly …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/24/a-more-convenient-ibutton-reader/)
A Look at a Gaggle of Transputer Boards
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/25/a-look-at-a-gaggle-of-transputer-boards/
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/25/a-look-at-a-gaggle-of-transputer-boards/
A long time before Beowulf clusters wired up with commodity Ethernet hardware became a hobbyist thing and a running joke, the transputer took a swing at a very similar architecture. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/25/a-look-at-a-gaggle-of-transputer-boards/)
New Record Resurrects Long-Dead CD Graphics Format
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/25/new-record-resurrects-long-dead-cd-graphics-format/
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/25/new-record-resurrects-long-dead-cd-graphics-format/
Audio CDs were the ubiquitous audio format of the 1990s. Lesser known were the extensions to the format that packaged all kinds of interesting additional data into a musical release. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/25/new-record-resurrects-long-dead-cd-graphics-format/)
Flying Cell Towers Are A Thing
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/25/flying-cell-towers-are-a-thing/
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/25/flying-cell-towers-are-a-thing/
Typically, when you’re sitting on a plane on the tarmac, you switch your phone to flight mode while you’re sitting through yet another “quirky” (boring) safety video. You’ll watch some …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/25/flying-cell-towers-are-a-thing/)
Increasing Local GPS Accuracy for a Small Robot
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/25/increasing-local-gps-accuracy-for-a-small-robot/
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/25/increasing-local-gps-accuracy-for-a-small-robot/