A Flexible Light Inspired by IKEA
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alt=""/>The IKEA SMÅSNÖRE is a flexible silicone rod with an embedded LED strip, attached at each end to a base. It’s eye-catching enough, and it has the useful property of 
alt=""/>The IKEA SMÅSNÖRE is a flexible silicone rod with an embedded LED strip, attached at each end to a base. It’s eye-catching enough, and it has the useful property of Hackaday
A Flexible Light Inspired By IKEA
The IKEA SMÅSNÖRE is a flexible silicone rod with an embedded LED strip, attached at each end to a base. It’s eye-catching enough, and it h...
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A Flexible Light Inspired By IKEA
The IKEA SMÅSNÖRE is a flexible silicone rod with an embedded LED strip, attached at each end to a base. It’s eye-catching enough, and it h...
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alt=""/>The usual input device for playing a synthesizer is the good old piano keyboard. However, you don’t have to stick to such pedestrian interfaces when making music. [Daisy] has a 
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alt=""/>It’s that time of year when we eat perhaps a little too much food, and have maybe just a few too many sips of red wine. But it’s also when 
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alt=""/>PETG filament can be had in a variety of colors, just like any other. You can even get translucent or transparent forms if you want to print something vaguely see-through. 
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alt=""/>[Metal Massacre Fab Shop] has a review of a portable plasma cutter that ends up being a very good demonstration of exactly what these tools are capable of. If you’re unfamiliar 
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alt=""/>These days, everyone’s got a million different devices that can take a passable photo. That’s not special anymore. A camera that draws what it sees, though? That’s kind of fun. That’s 
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alt="3D printed jaw with fake muscle attached"/>Surgery is hard, there is a reason why school is so long for the profession. Making the job easier and smoother for both patients and surgeons is valuable for all 
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alt=""/>Sometimes you need to know what temperature something is, but you don’t quite want to touch it. At times like these, you might want a temp gun on hand to ![image](https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/peq1s_1fbad0-e1764130673480.jpg?w=800")
alt=""/>[shiura] had a problem — they wanted a nice high-quality audio output for their computer, but they didn’t fancy any of the DACs that were readily available on the market. 
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alt=""/>In the desktop 3D printing world, we’re fortunate to have multiple online repositories of models that anyone can load up on their machine. Looking to create a similar experience but 
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alt=""/>The Sharp PC-G801 was an impressive little pocket computer when it debuted in 1988. However, in the year 2025, a Z80-compatible machine with just 8 kB of RAM is hardly ![image](https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Putting-Rigid-Bodies-to-Rest-SIGGRAPH-2025-9-15-screenshot.png?w=800")
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alt=""/>If you’ve got an old black and white TV, it’s probably not useful for much. There are precious few analog broadcasters left in the world and black and white isn’t 
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alt="Image of paten office's official statement of IPR change"/>When someone creates a US patent, they go through a review process to stop the most blatant copies from previous patents or pre-existing work. After this, you may still have 
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alt="Snapshot of topology analysis"/>There’s never been such a thing as being “too competitive” when it comes to competition. This is something that [Tom Stanton] from Tim Stanton (wait, what now), [Tom]’s 2nd channel, 
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alt=""/>Hydrofoils are perhaps best known for their application on boring ferries and scary boats that go too fast. However, as [RCLifeOn] demonstrates, you can also use them to build fun 
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alt=""/>If you want to protect a system from being hacked, a great way to do that is with an airgap. This term specifically refers to keeping a system off any 
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alt=""/>Things are cooler when rack-mounted, and [KellerLab] aims to make that all far more accessible with the HomeRacker, a modular and 3D-printable rack building system designed to let you rack-mount 
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alt=""/>Windows, macOS, and Linux are the three major desktop OSs in today’s world. However, there could soon be a new contender, with Google stepping up to the plate (via The 
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alt="Phone-grabbing robot"/>[Will Dana] is engineering his way to better sleep hygiene. Not satisfied with a simple bedtime reminder notification — such things are easily dismissed, after all — [Will] is offloading 