If you didn’t live through it, it is hard to understand how excited the general public was about the race for the moon. You can capture some of it by …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/09/retrotechtacular-a-view-of-the-moon-from-1964/)

Creating a Supersonic Trebuchet
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/09/creating-a-supersonic-trebuchet/

As awesome as trebuchets are, the fact that medieval engineers didn’t create versions capable of launching supersonic projectiles is a bit of a bummer. Fortunately it’s possible to correct this …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/09/creating-a-supersonic-trebuchet/)

Even on the Red Planet, Hexagons are the Bestagons
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/even-on-the-red-planet-hexagons-are-the-bestagons/

Though their pure Platonic Forms may only exist in the world of ideas, certain regular shapes can’t help but keep falling out of natural processes– case in point, the six-sided …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/even-on-the-red-planet-hexagons-are-the-bestagons/)

Triggering Lightning with a Rocket
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Lightning, despite being a common and readily-detected phenomenon, is nevertheless difficult to study. One reason is the difficulty of predicting when and where lightning will strike; tall structures do attract …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/triggering-lightning-with-a-rocket/)

The Physics of Keeping Thermal Power Stations Cool
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/the-physics-of-keeping-thermal-power-stations-cool/

Recently thermal power stations have been in the news quite a bit, mostly in the context of them being throttled back or shut down due to the river water used …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/the-physics-of-keeping-thermal-power-stations-cool/)

Functional Jumping Pokéball from an Ancient Pokémon World
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/functional-jumping-pokeball-from-an-ancient-pokemon-world/

When playing a game about Pocket Monsters, there’s one thing you can’t avoid using no matter what you do, and that’s a pokeball. Whether it’s a new or old game, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/functional-jumping-pokeball-from-an-ancient-pokemon-world/)

Linux Fu: Heads or Tails for VPN
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/linux-fu-heads-or-tails-for-vpn/

If you’ve done much networking, you surely know the frustration of trying to connect to something, say a Raspberry Pi, that lives behind your consumer router. There are a number …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/linux-fu-heads-or-tails-for-vpn/)