Yesterday Has Never Looked This Good: Feast Your Eyes On The 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge Winners!
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If there’s one category among those we see here at Hackaday that has something for everyone, it’s retrocomputing. Spanning everything from relay-based machines that fill a wall through to modern …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/11/04/yesterday-has-never-looked-this-good-feast-your-eyes-on-the-2026-retrocomputing-challenge-winners/)

Using a Cheap DC Motor to Make a Go-Kart Go
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Where Archimedes said that he could move the Earth given a large enough lever and a suitable fulcrum, [Current Concept] decided that he could give his own spin on this …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/11/04/using-a-cheap-dc-motor-to-make-a-go-kart-go/)

From Germanium to Diamond: the Many Shapes of Semiconductors
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Germanium diode. By Morcheeba [CC BY-SA 2.5], via Wikimedia Commons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Diode-closeup.jpg)
' data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/germanium_diode_800px-diode-closeup.jpg?w=800">It seems fair to say that semiconductor technology has been one of the most influential inventions in human history. Practically overnight it turned human technology from being large, cumbersome and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/11/04/from-germanium-to-diamond-the-many-shapes-of-semiconductors/)

Making a Wax Motor for Micrometer-Level Control
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Although not very glamorous, wax motors are a fairly common type of linear actuator. They use the thermal response of waxes and the resulting volumetric expansion or reduction to create …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/11/04/making-a-wax-motor-for-micrometer-level-control/)

It’s DOOM
https://hackaday.com/2026/11/04/its-doom-on-a-toy-camera/

Dirt cheap toy cameras have long been a target for the curious camera hacker, and we’ve seen plenty of lens swaps and other hardware hacks. Until now their internals have …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/11/04/its-doom-on-a-toy-camera/)