Creating a Supersonic Trebuchet
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/09/creating-a-supersonic-trebuchet/

As awesome as trebuchets are, the fact that medieval engineers didn’t create versions capable of launching supersonic projectiles is a bit of a bummer. Fortunately it’s possible to correct this …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/09/creating-a-supersonic-trebuchet/)

Even on the Red Planet, Hexagons are the Bestagons
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/even-on-the-red-planet-hexagons-are-the-bestagons/

Though their pure Platonic Forms may only exist in the world of ideas, certain regular shapes can’t help but keep falling out of natural processes– case in point, the six-sided …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/even-on-the-red-planet-hexagons-are-the-bestagons/)

Triggering Lightning with a Rocket
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/triggering-lightning-with-a-rocket/

Lightning, despite being a common and readily-detected phenomenon, is nevertheless difficult to study. One reason is the difficulty of predicting when and where lightning will strike; tall structures do attract …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/triggering-lightning-with-a-rocket/)

The Physics of Keeping Thermal Power Stations Cool
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/the-physics-of-keeping-thermal-power-stations-cool/

Recently thermal power stations have been in the news quite a bit, mostly in the context of them being throttled back or shut down due to the river water used …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/the-physics-of-keeping-thermal-power-stations-cool/)

Functional Jumping Pokéball from an Ancient Pokémon World
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/functional-jumping-pokeball-from-an-ancient-pokemon-world/

When playing a game about Pocket Monsters, there’s one thing you can’t avoid using no matter what you do, and that’s a pokeball. Whether it’s a new or old game, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/functional-jumping-pokeball-from-an-ancient-pokemon-world/)

Linux Fu: Heads or Tails for VPN
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/linux-fu-heads-or-tails-for-vpn/

If you’ve done much networking, you surely know the frustration of trying to connect to something, say a Raspberry Pi, that lives behind your consumer router. There are a number …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/linux-fu-heads-or-tails-for-vpn/)

Teardown of an Oxford Nanopore MinION DNA Sequencer
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/teardown-of-an-oxford-nanopore-minion-dna-sequencer/