Tamura Lumitime Clock
A player piano for neon, and I want one... The Tamura Lumitime looks like a digital clock: a red 7-segment display, glowing. Mark Furneaux took one apart, and Hackaday covered…
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Splash-Free Urinals Beat Cockroach Milk
Splash-free urinals take the only A+ on this year's Ig Nobel list, and a snake-stepping study takes the F. Kissing, defined as lip movement with no food changing hands: exact…
Hindenburg: The Gas Nobody Would Sell
In 1937 the largest aircraft ever to fly, with its sister ship, crossed the Atlantic with a dining room, a promenade, and a smoking lounge. It had been planned around helium, the gas that lifts and cannot burn. It flew on hydrogen.
Honest Hardware in Pine and Iron Pipe
Pine boards and black iron pipe, and I'd still call it the most honest PC I've seen this year. Dante Mutti spent two years on Hydropower, and three decisions earn…
Iraq’s Militias Find a New Reason to Keep the Guns
These goalposts have legs, and they run. On September 22, Iraq's prime minister Ali al-Zaidi pushed the deadline for disarming the militias from September 30 to June 2027. The two…
Meridian Orrery: One Motor, Eight Planets
I'll take one stepper over eight motors every time. That's the Meridian Orrery by illusionmanager, as Hackaday reported on May 1. All eight planets, the Sun and the Moon are…
Sky Captain 4K
"Slim on plot and characterization, but the visuals more than make up for it." That's the Rotten Tomatoes critics consensus, and I'd tattoo it on the film if I could…
Goulburn Waterworks
October is crowded. Maker Faire Rome runs October 23 to 25 in Rome, Italy. Amberley Museum in West Sussex holds its steampunk days on October 10 and 11, with airship…
Nuvistor 555 Timer
Glorious, and absurd... I'm saying that as a compliment. Eric Schlaepfer, who posts as TubeTimeUS, built a 555 timer out of eight tetrode nuvistors, and Hackaday covered it this month…
The Careful Mistake
In November 1988 a graduate student wrote a program to answer a simple question: how big is this internet we have built? It stole nothing. It deleted nothing. Its entire purpose was to exist, spread, and count.