Remember those brick cellphones in the 1990s? They were comically large by today’s standards. These phones used the 1G network to communicate and, as such, have been unusable for decades …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/no-more-paperweight-this-vintage-brick-phone-is-back-online/)

Making a Bladeless Tesla Turbine Generator in Lego
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/making-a-bladeless-tesla-turbine-generator-in-lego/

The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal-flow turbine invented by Nikola Tesla in 1913, using the boundary-layer effect rather than having a stream of gases or a fluid impinge on …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/making-a-bladeless-tesla-turbine-generator-in-lego/)

Ford, Take Note: Classic Pickup Becomes the EV We Want
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/ford-take-note-classic-pickup-becomes-the-ev-we-want/

Ford does sell an electric pickup, but not very many of them. We can’t say for sure, but it’s possible that if the F150 Lightning had the classic cool of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/ford-take-note-classic-pickup-becomes-the-ev-we-want/)

Porting MS-DOS 2.0 to the Apple IIe
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/porting-ms-dos-2-0-to-the-apple-iie/

Although the Apple II range of computers were based around the 6502 processor, they could still run x86 software using expansion cards that were effectively self-contained computers. This way an …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/porting-ms-dos-2-0-to-the-apple-iie/)

The Shockley 4-Layer Diode In 2026
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/14/the-shockley-4-layer-diode-in-2026/

The physicist William Shockley is perhaps today best known for three things: his role in the invention of the transistor, his calamitous management of Shockley Semiconductor which led to a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/14/the-shockley-4-layer-diode-in-2026/)

If You Like The Sound of a Thermoacoustic Stirling Engine, Check Out These Plans
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/14/if-you-like-the-sound-of-a-thermoacoustic-stirling-engine-check-out-these-plans/

[My Engines] has been doing some sterling work on Stirling engines for some years now. Their thermoacoustic engine is now finally far enough along to open-source, so the magic of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/14/if-you-like-the-sound-of-a-thermoacoustic-stirling-engine-check-out-these-plans/)