The common narrative around device design is that you can have repairability or a low price, but that they are inversely proportional to each other. Apple’s new budget MacBook Neo …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/28/apples-most-repairable-laptop-is-thanks-to-right-to-repair/)

Playful ‘Space Dice’ Kit Shows Off Clever Design
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/28/playful-space-dice-kit-shows-off-clever-design/

[Tommy] at Oskitone has been making hardware synth kits for years, and his designs are always worth checking out. His newest offering Space Dice is an educational kit that is …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/28/playful-space-dice-kit-shows-off-clever-design/)

Watch Electricity Slosh: Visualizing Impedance Matching
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/28/watch-electricity-slosh-visualizing-impedance-matching/

It’s one thing to learn about transmission lines in theory, and quite another to watch a voltage pulse bounce off an open connector. [Alpha Phoenix] bridges the gap between knowledge …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/28/watch-electricity-slosh-visualizing-impedance-matching/)

Play a .WAV Instead of Typing Line After Line Into Vintage Microcomputer
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/28/play-a-wav-instead-of-typing-line-after-line-into-vintage-microcomputer/

[Casey Bralla] got his hands on a Rockwell AIM 65 microcomputer, a fantastic example of vintage computing from the late 70s. It sports a full QWERTY keyboard, and a twenty …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/28/play-a-wav-instead-of-typing-line-after-line-into-vintage-microcomputer/)

Soviet CDs And CD Players Existed, And They Were Strange
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/soviet-cds-and-cd-players-existed-and-they-were-strange/

Until the fall of the Soviet Union around 1990 you’d be forgiven as a proud Soviet citizen for thinking that the USSR’s technology was on par with the decadent West. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/soviet-cds-and-cd-players-existed-and-they-were-strange/)

Multicolor 5-Axis 3D Printing
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/multicolor-5-axis-3d-printing/

Usually, when we see non-planar 3D printers, they’re rather rudimentary prototypes, intended more as development frames than as workhorse machines. [multipoleguy]’s Archer five-axis printer, on the other hand, breaks this …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/multicolor-5-axis-3d-printing/)

Self-healing CMOS Imager to Withstand Jupiter’s Radiation Belt
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/self-healing-cmos-imager-to-withstand-jupiters-radiation-belt/

Ionizing radiation damage from electrons, protons and gamma rays will over time damage a CMOS circuit, through e.g. degrading the oxide layer and damaging the lattice structure. For a space-based …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/self-healing-cmos-imager-to-withstand-jupiters-radiation-belt/)

Clean Enclosures, No Printing Necessary
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/clean-enclosures-no-printing-necessary/