Game companies might not like physical media much anymore, but gamers sure do. There’s nothing like pawing over your collection to find what to play, and inserting a cartridge with …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/old-ssds-find-new-life-as-game-cartridges/)

Hackaday Europe 2026: Project Gigapixel
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/hackaday-europe-2026-project-gigapixel/

There was once a race to put out cameras with ever higher numbers of megapixels to snare customers eager to take the highest quality digital photos. These days, we know …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/hackaday-europe-2026-project-gigapixel/)

A Feature-Rich Drum Machine
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/a-feature-rich-drum-machine/

A little over a month ago, we featured a project from [Igor] who built 64 bits of DRAM from scratch using discrete components. Jokes about memory pricing aside, he did …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/a-feature-rich-drum-machine/)

Echolocation for Drones
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/echolocation-for-drones/

Bats are remarkable creatures, able to fly at night or inside the confines of caves without light to guide their way. A team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/echolocation-for-drones/)

Sail Virtually Aboard the “Itanic” with IA-64 Emulator
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/sail-virtually-aboard-the-itanic-with-ia-64-emulator/

Intel’s Itanium architecture was an interesting experiment, but it has gone down in history as one of the chip giant’s bigger flops, so much so that it earned the name …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/sail-virtually-aboard-the-itanic-with-ia-64-emulator/)

Detection of a Four-Carbon Sugar in Interstellar Space
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/detection-of-a-four-carbon-sugar-in-interstellar-space/

Although life tends to find a way, something first has to kickstart said lifeforms. Exactly how the first biological cells formed on Earth – and potentially on other worlds – …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/detection-of-a-four-carbon-sugar-in-interstellar-space/)

Google Maps Killed the Restaurant Star
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/google-maps-killed-the-restaurant-star/

We all know that Google and other big players pick and choose what information people see, but we sometimes overlook it outside of the search and social media space. [Lauren …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/google-maps-killed-the-restaurant-star/)

20 FPS on E-Paper Display Without Help
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/21/20-fps-on-e-paper-display-without-help/