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/)

Three-Monitor Ridge Racer Machine Emulated in MAME
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/18/three-monitor-ridge-racer-machine-emulated-in-mame/

When Ridge Racer hit the arcades in the early 1990s, it came in a few different versions. The last variant used three large CRTs to create a wraparound display for the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/04/18/three-monitor-ridge-racer-machine-emulated-in-mame/)

How One Line of TF2 Code Ruined This Simple Feature
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/18/how-one-line-of-tf2-code-ruined-this-simple-feature/