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TDR For Auto Diagnostics Done On The Cheap ift.tt/iVrTRBX

True-Spectrum Photography with Structural Color ift.tt/lKPR8eA

ReactOS Gets Unified Installer Image and a New Storage Stack ift.tt/9WQOcd8

Hackaday Links: May 3, 2026 ift.tt/sJ19ImK

iPod Nano Gets Three Monitors ift.tt/QbSZTwv

Three-Axis Camera Slider From 3D Printer Parts ift.tt/rP5n7GW

Photographing The ISS With A Thrift Store Lens Is Challenging ift.tt/0xw8YEM

Squeezing Fluids With the Right Peristaltic Pump for the Task ift.tt/MnT9yi7

A Tool For Testing CANopen Networks ift.tt/XIjQM5J

Building a C-3PO You Can Really Talk To ift.tt/HCmNR9d

Matching Transistors ift.tt/IrBAmt5

Let Twitch Chat Control Your LED Strings ift.tt/msgThFu

Pushing as Many Pixels as Possible to a CRT: Interlaced 4K ift.tt/VLKo5Ra

IR Device Control That Lives Off The Cloud ift.tt/JoFjRqH

Peripherals Hacks ift.tt/yLxpWZw

As computers grew more powerful and gained colorful displays, somehow they felt less arcane...

@el_don_prospero @esrtweet Yes, color didn't take long to come by!

@esrtweet @hackaday I still got to use monochrome CRTs in the 80s in my first computing steps, and the first one I had was green. The first amber CRTs I saw on IBM PCs, but it was a brief period before CGA and VGA took over.

We'd love to see a PhD thesis on why green-on-black terminals are more "cinematic" or "hacker" than amber, which was well represented in the actual technology used in past eras.

Numbers stations are often thought of as a tool of old-school spycraft. And yet... they continue to broadcast, with a new station recently raising eyebrows during a modern conflict. Al Williams investigates. hackaday.com/2026/03/30/spy…

This Handy Synth Packs An ESP32 ift.tt/ykDpqBo

Debugging a Stopped Foucault Pendulum’s Electronics ift.tt/ZpUOzVJ