Although modern-day silvered glass mirrors have pretty much destroyed the market for bronze mirrors, these highly polished pieces of metal once were the pinnacle of mirror technology. Due to the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/04/17/making-a-bronze-mirror-from-scratch/)

FRED Comes to Hobby Operating Systems (and Linux)
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/17/fred-comes-to-hobby-operating-systems-and-linux/

Those who have worked on a hobby operating system for x86 will have interacted with its rather complex and confusing interrupt model. [Evalyn] shows us why and how to use …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/04/17/fred-comes-to-hobby-operating-systems-and-linux/)

Fixing a GameCube’s Dodgy Optical Drive With Fresh Capacitors
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/17/fixing-a-gamecubes-dodgy-optical-drive-with-fresh-capacitors/

Generally when a game console with an optical drive stops reading discs the first thing that people do is crank on the potentiometer that controls the power to the laser …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/04/17/fixing-a-gamecubes-dodgy-optical-drive-with-fresh-capacitors/)

Electric Wind-Up Plane Uses Supercapacitors For Free Flight Fun
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/18/electric-wind-up-plane-uses-supercapacitors-for-free-flight-fun/

There’s something to be said for a simple wind-up, free flight model airplane. With no controls, it must be built very well to fly well, and with only the limited …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/04/18/electric-wind-up-plane-uses-supercapacitors-for-free-flight-fun/)

DJ Controller Modded For Better Scratching
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/18/dj-controller-modded-for-better-scratching/

[Jeremy Bell] loves scratching, but he had a problem. His Hercules DJ controller wasn’t really doing a great job at emulating the kind of action one would get with a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/04/18/dj-controller-modded-for-better-scratching/)

Tool Embodiment and the Dead Trackball
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/18/tool-embodiment-and-the-dead-trackball/

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What Can You Run on a 1960s Univac? Anything You’re Willing To Wait For!
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/18/what-can-you-run-on-a-1960s-univac-anything-youre-willing-to-wait-for/

There are two UNIVAC 1219B computers that have survived since the 1960s and one of them is even operational. [Nathan Farlow] wanted to run a Minecraft server on it, so …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/04/18/what-can-you-run-on-a-1960s-univac-anything-youre-willing-to-wait-for/)