01SERIESBen Eater
Build an 8-bit computer from scratch
A gloriously patient tour through logic gates, memory, and the joy of seeing a machine boot because you made every part of it.
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01SERIES
02SHORT FORMLockPickingLawyer
A lock picking lesson in tiny movements
A focused look at tension, feedback, and the surprising amount of information hidden inside one little click.
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03BUILDSimone Giertz
The most over-engineered desk lamp
A playful build with enough mechanism, personality, and questionable decisions to make the whole room want to try something.
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04DEEP DIVELook Mum No Computer
How to make a tiny synthesizer
Circuits, sound, and a beautiful amount of experimentation. Queue this one when the room starts making its own noises.
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05PROJECTMaker search
Make a game with an LED matrix
A bright, approachable project that turns a grid of pixels into something immediately playable.
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06BAR LABThe Educated Barfly
The satisfying science of cocktail ice
A small detour into clarity, dilution, and why the humble ice cube deserves its own close-up.
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07TALKDeviant Ollam
Why the door, not the lock, is the weak spot
Doors, hinges, and latches get the spotlight in a talk that shows the lock is rarely the weakest part of the door.
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08SHORT FORMWhat Dennis Does
Making your own lock picks from street sweeper bristles
A grinder, a file, and some patience turn scrap spring steel into a pick set that works surprisingly well.
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09LAB TESTCNC Kitchen
Which layer height gives the strongest 3D prints
Layer height gets torture-tested until the numbers settle one of the oldest arguments in 3D printing.
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10DESIGNMaker's Muse
Designing 3D printed hinges and moving parts
Small design tricks that let printed parts swing, flex, and click together without a single screw.
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11DEEP DIVEThomas Sanladerer
Printer calibration and why you might be doing it wrong
Pressure advance, input shaping, and flow rate explained by someone who has clearly printed a few thousand cubes.
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12BUILDJoshua Bardwell
Building an FPV drone from a box of parts
Soldering the stack, flashing Betaflight, and the nervous first hover of a quad you put together yourself.
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13PROJECTTom Stanton
Designing a 3D printed plane that actually flies
Prototype, crash, reprint, repeat, until a printed airframe finally holds the air.
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14DEEP DIVEAndreas Spiess
LoRa, Meshtastic, and talking without the internet
How tiny radios can pass messages for kilometres, and what happens when you set up your own off-grid mesh.
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15TUTORIALNetworkChuck
Hacking public Wi-Fi with a Raspberry Pi
An energetic walk through monitor mode, handshakes, and why your own network deserves a stronger password.
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16SHORT FORMHak5
Rubber Ducky payloads: a USB stick that types for you
A keystroke-injection demo that will make the whole room lock their laptop before leaving for a drink.
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17WALKTHROUGHJohn Hammond
Reverse engineering doesn't have to be hard
A friendly walkthrough that shows how a disassembler turns a mystery binary into a readable puzzle.
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18EXPLAINERLiveOverflow
How a buffer overflow really works
Stacks, return addresses, and the moment a program runs code it was never meant to see.
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19EXPLAINERAndreas Spiess
Cloning RFID badges with a Proxmark3
Low-frequency tags, readers, and a Proxmark later, the office access card looks a lot less secure.
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20TALKSamy Kamkar · DEF CON
Hacking a car key fob with a cheap radio
Rolling codes, replay attacks, and a pocket-sized gadget that shows how wireless keys can go wrong.
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21SHORT FORMTalking Sasquach
Flipper Zero myths, busted
Sub-GHz, NFC, infrared, and a reality check on the most hyped hacker toy of the decade.
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22TALKMohit Bhoite · Hackaday
Building free-formed circuit sculptures
Bare brass wire, tiny LEDs, and exposed components soldered into glowing sculptures where the circuit is the art.
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23PROJECTbitluni
A DIY LED video wall in 24 hours
Hundreds of addressable pixels, one tiny microcontroller, and a lot of power-supply maths to make it all light up.
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24BUILDDIY Perks
The brightest DIY daylight lamp
A clever optical build that fakes a sunny window using LEDs, a lens, and plenty of thermal planning.
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25DEEP DIVEStuff Made Here
A chainsaw on a robot arm
Enormous engineering effort, honest failures, and a finished machine that is equal parts ridiculous and brilliant.
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26SHORT FORMoneTesla
Soldering for beginners in five easy steps
Iron temperature, flux, and tinning explained so the first workshop kit comes out shiny instead of lumpy.
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