Removing Microplastics from Soil with Tumbling Magnetic Flakes
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/13/removing-microplastics-from-soil-with-tumbling-magnetic-flakes/

While in aquatic environments microplastics can be filtered out relatively easily, in soil it’s much harder to get to these microscopic particles. While you can certainly strip mine an entire …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/13/removing-microplastics-from-soil-with-tumbling-magnetic-flakes/)

Rare IBM PC Brought Back To Life
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/13/rare-ibm-pc-brought-back-to-life/

[Epictronics] happens to have a rather special machine in his possession. It’s a rare IBM PC prototype or concept machine from the late 1980s known as the IBM 7496 Executive …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/13/rare-ibm-pc-brought-back-to-life/)

Mauchly and Eckert’s Other Computers
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/14/mauchly-and-eckerts-other-computers/

If you ask a random person who [John Mauchly] or [J. Presper Eckert] were, you’d probably get a blank stare. Ask a Hackaday reader, and you have a better shot. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/14/mauchly-and-eckerts-other-computers/)

ShieldFont: Bludgeoning AI Scrapers that Disrespect Robots.txt
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/14/shieldfont-bludgeoning-ai-scrapers-that-disrespect-robots-txt/

In the more innocent days of the World Wide Web you could simply put a robots.txt file in the root of your website that search engine indexing bots and similar …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/14/shieldfont-bludgeoning-ai-scrapers-that-disrespect-robots-txt/)

This Week in Security: BugTraq, AI Hacks, and Being Dumb On Planes
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/14/this-week-in-security-bugtraq-ai-hacks-and-being-dumb-on-planes/

After a multi-year hiatus, the venerable BugTraq mailing list is back! For decades, BugTraq was the place where vulnerabilities were disclosed, from the early days when nearly all vendors viewed …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/14/this-week-in-security-bugtraq-ai-hacks-and-being-dumb-on-planes/)

Snooping Flume Water Monitor Data On The Wire
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/14/snooping-flume-water-monitor-data-on-the-wire/

[Stephen] had an interesting piece of hardware at home—namely, a Flume water monitor. It’s a smart device which reports usage data to Flume’s servers, and the water utility in turn. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/14/snooping-flume-water-monitor-data-on-the-wire/)

Hackaday Podcast Episode 382: Glueballs, Borg Cubes, and Supersonic Trebuchets
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/14/hackaday-podcast-episode-382-glueballs-borg-cubes-and-supersonic-trebuchets/