Some breaking news from geostationary orbit, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced that its newest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) satellite unexpectedly went offline last night, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/goes-19-goes-down-noaa-investigating/)

Even Chemical Bonds Obey Einstein’s Relativity
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/even-chemical-bonds-obey-einsteins-relativity/

Although Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is typically associated with really large and really heavy things like planets in solar systems and big things in universes in general, it turns out …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/even-chemical-bonds-obey-einsteins-relativity/)

Bad Apple on a Karaoke Machine
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/bad-apple-on-a-karaoke-machine/

CD+Graphics was a format that never really caught on. It let music discs pack some graphics, maybe liner notes, and mostly song lyrics into the otherwise empty space on a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/bad-apple-on-a-karaoke-machine/)

A USB Port by Any Other Color…
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/a-usb-port-by-any-other-color/

[Dr. Gough] bought a generic USB 3.0 hub on an Asian website. Surely, USB 3 is mature enough that even the cheapest hub will have some IC in it that …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/a-usb-port-by-any-other-color/)

White Rails are the Infrastructure Hack We Didn’t Know We Needed
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/white-rails-are-the-infrastructure-hack-we-didnt-know-we-needed/

Railroads might be a nineteenth century technology, but they’re still the backbone of cargo transportation in the 21st century. They’ve also far from run out of innovation, including this one …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/white-rails-are-the-infrastructure-hack-we-didnt-know-we-needed/)

A Sloshing-Mercury-Powered Neon Light
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/a-sloshing-mercury-powered-neon-light/

In 1675, while transporting a barometer by night, the astronomer Jean Picard noticed a glow inside its glass tube, just above the mercury. As the mercury sloshed and splashed across …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/a-sloshing-mercury-powered-neon-light/)

Wireless LCD Streaming for the ANENG AN870 Multimeter
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/17/wireless-lcd-streaming-for-the-aneng-an870-multimeter/

Having the information shown on the display of a digital multimeter also recorded off-screen can be incredibly useful, but unless the device exposes something like SCPI on a network interface, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/17/wireless-lcd-streaming-for-the-aneng-an870-multimeter/)

EU Adds Exemptions to User-Serviceable Batteries Rules
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/17/eu-adds-exemptions-to-user-serviceable-batteries-rules/