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/

Unless you’re into circuit sculptures, generally speaking, a working circuit isn’t the end-point of a lot of electronics projects. To protect your new creation from grabby hands, curious paws, and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/clean-enclosures-no-printing-necessary/)

Laser Ranging Makes GPS Satellites More Accurate
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/laser-ranging-makes-gps-satellites-more-accurate/

Although GNSS systems like GPS have made pin-pointing locations on Earth’s sphere-approximating surface significantly easier and more precise, it’s always possible to go a bit further. The latest innovation involves …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/laser-ranging-makes-gps-satellites-more-accurate/)

Hackaday Links: March 29, 2026
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/hackaday-links-march-29-2026/

Whether it’s a new couch or a rare piece of hardware picked up on eBay, we all know what it feels like to eagerly await a delivery truck. But the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/hackaday-links-march-29-2026/)

Training a Transformer with 1970s-era Technology
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/training-a-transformer-with-1970s-era-technology/

Although generative language models have found little widespread, profitable adoption outside of putting artists out of work and giving tech companies an easy scapegoat for cutting staff, their their underlying …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/training-a-transformer-with-1970s-era-technology/)

Writing an Open-World Engine for the Nintendo 64
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/writing-an-open-world-engine-for-the-nintendo-64/