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Gene Therapy Aims To Slow Huntington’s Disease To A Crawl

Despite the best efforts of modern medicine, Huntington’s disease is a condition that still comes with a tragic prognosis. Primarily an inherited disease, its main symptoms concern degeneration of the …read more

Moving From Windows To FreeBSD As The Linux Chaos Alternative

Back in the innocent days of Windows 98 SE, I nearly switched to Linux on account of how satisfied I was with my Windows experience. This started with the Year …read more

The Strange Depression Switch Discovered Deep Inside The Brain

As humans, we tend to consider our emotional states as a direct response to the experiences of our lives. Traffic may make us frustrated, betrayal may make us angry, or …read more

“AI, Make Me A Degree Certificate”

One of the fun things about writing for Hackaday is that it takes you to the places where our community hang out. I was in a hackerspace in a university …read more

Hackaday Links: November 9, 2025

We’re always a wee bit suspicious about articles that announce some sort of “World’s first” accomplishment. With a couple of hundred thousand years of history, most of which wasn’t recorded, …read more

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  • 3D Printing A Piano Action

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    By Bryan Cockfield | November 13, 2025

    Part of the reason there are always free pianos on your digital classifieds listing of choice is that, at least economically speaking, a piano is less of a musical instrument …read more

  • 2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Relay Used As Guitar Pickup

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    By Bryan Cockfield | November 13, 2025

    We’ve all built projects that are a rats’ nest of wiring and feature creep, but the best projects in the end are usually those that use a simple solution to …read more

  • The Pi 500 Turned Overkill Bluetooth Keyboard

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    By Jenny List | November 13, 2025

    Perhaps we’ve all found ourselves at one time or another with more computers in use than keyboards and other peripherals at hand to use them with. With a single user …read more

  • If IRobot Falls, Hackers Are Ready To Wrangle Roombas

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    By Tom Nardi | November 13, 2025

    Things are not looking good for iRobot. Although their robotic Roomba vacuums are basically a household name, the company has been faltering financially for some time now. In 2024 there …read more

  • Running A Minecraft Server On A WiFi Light Bulb

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    By Maya Posch | November 13, 2025

    WiFi-enabled ‘smart’ light bulbs are everywhere these days, and each one of them has a microcontroller inside that’s capable enough to run all sorts of interesting software. For example, [vimpo] …read more

  • 3D Printed Mail Is A Modern Solution To An Ancient Problem

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    By Tyler August | November 13, 2025

    The human body and sharp objects don’t get along very well, especially when they are being wielded with ill-intent. Since antiquity there have been various forms of armor designed to …read more

  • Installing An 84MB Hard Drive Into A PDP-11/44

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    By John Elliot V | November 12, 2025

    Over on YouTube [Usagi Electric] shows us how he installed an 84MB hard drive into his PDP-11/44. In the beginning he purchased a bunch of RA70 and RA72 drives and …read more

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