The first video from [3DPrintedLife] attempting to make a liquid piston engine was… well… the operative word is attempting. The latest video, though, which you can see below gets it …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/15/liquid-piston-engine-finally-works/)

Got a Cardboard Box? Get Into Food Smoking!
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/15/got-a-cardboard-box-get-into-food-smoking/

We appreciate a good kitchen hack, and we have always liked TV personality and chef [Alton Brown]’s McGuyver-ish approach to these things. So for anyone who hasn’t seen it, let’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/15/got-a-cardboard-box-get-into-food-smoking/)

Looking at Fortran in 100 Seconds
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/looking-at-fortran-in-100-seconds/

Usually, when we are talking about old computers, we are thinking of BASIC interpreters. But [Fireship] reminds us that it was originally Fortran and promises to give you the essentials …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/looking-at-fortran-in-100-seconds/)

Impatience is a Virtue When Testing This Old Maritime Teleprinter
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/impatience-is-a-virtue-when-testing-this-old-maritime-teleprinter/

[Larry Wall], inventor of Perl, once famously said that programmers have three key virtues: sloth, hubris, and impatience. It’s safe to say that these personality quirks are also present in …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/impatience-is-a-virtue-when-testing-this-old-maritime-teleprinter/)

Fighting the Good Fight
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/fighting-the-good-fight/

We here at Hackaday are super-duper proponents of open source. Software, hardware, or firmware, we like to be able to see it, learn from it, modify it, and make it …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/fighting-the-good-fight/)

A Look Back at the USSR Computer Industry
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/a-look-back-at-the-ussr-computer-industry/

According to [Asianometry], in 1986 the Soviet Union had about 10,000 computers. At the same time, the United States had 1.3 million! The USSR was hardly a backward country — …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/a-look-back-at-the-ussr-computer-industry/)

Riding The Rails, In A Literal Sense
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/riding-the-rails-in-a-literal-sense/

Hundreds of miles of railroad tracks are scattered across the US and other countries. Despite how they look, many aren’t abandoned. But in the case of a genuinely abandoned track, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/16/riding-the-rails-in-a-literal-sense/)