Here’s a historical hack for you: you have a big, rolling pressurized kettle, also known as a steam locomotive. It needs water to make up for the steam constantly chuff-chuff-chuffing …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/19/historical-hack-henri-griffards-steam-injectors/)

Mini Blinking Barrels Keep Desktop Traffic in Check
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/19/mini-blinking-barrels-keep-desktop-traffic-in-check/

Your desk or bench is a work area, so why not make it look the part? That’s the idea behind the miniature blinking traffic barrels that [Glen Akins] recently put …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/19/mini-blinking-barrels-keep-desktop-traffic-in-check/)

HYDR8 Will Lead You to Water, But Will You Drink?
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/19/hydr8-will-lead-you-to-water-but-will-you-drink/

[Ayushmaan] states up front that most of his free time is spent “building things that probably didn’t need to exist”. Well, this one might be an anomaly, because it seems …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/19/hydr8-will-lead-you-to-water-but-will-you-drink/)

NASA Tests Featherweight Radar Antenna for SkyFall Mars Helicopters
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/19/nasa-tests-featherweight-radar-antenna-for-skyfall-mars-helicopters/

Credit: NASA
" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/SkyFall_showing_GPR_stowed_and_deployed.jpg?w=800">After the little Mars helicopter Ingenuity blew everyone away with its performance, it was clear that a future Mars mission should involve more helicopters like it, with even more capabilities. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/19/nasa-tests-featherweight-radar-antenna-for-skyfall-mars-helicopters/)

Quick Share Implemented On A Kindle
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/19/quick-share-implemented-on-a-kindle/

Quick Share is a useful tool for flipping files between Android smart phones in a fuss-free wireless manner. [unrealJune] has now implemented the feature on Kindle devices. You’ll need a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/19/quick-share-implemented-on-a-kindle/)

Reading isn’t Rocket Science… But In This Case…
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/20/reading-isnt-rocket-science-but-in-this-case/

While Hackaday’s bread and butter is, of course, hacks, we sometimes cover things that most of us are interested in that are probably out of reach for the typical hacker. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/20/reading-isnt-rocket-science-but-in-this-case/)

Teardown Shows Low-Fi Microphone is Surprisingly Sophisticated
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/20/teardown-shows-low-fi-microphone-is-surprisingly-sophisticated/

The Ting FX EP-2350 by Teenage Engineering is a standalone microphone with a few extras, including samples and built-in effect presets that can be modified by the user. It also …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/20/teardown-shows-low-fi-microphone-is-surprisingly-sophisticated/)